Domestic Life/Family
Showing
1 - 6
of 6
, query time: 0.01s
Format:
Image
Monica Barnes holding baby Boyd in the sunshine.
"The homestead cabin was built on a hill. ... Water for the cabin came from a spring located up a hill from the cabin. Water for drinking, household use, baths and doing laundry was carried by bucket from the spring. Clothes were washed on a wash board. Water for doing laundry was heated on the wood burning stove and then carried to the tubs used for washing as needed. There was no electircity...
Format:
Image
Monica Heeren Barnes holding son, Boyd Barnes, born July 5, 1920. They are in the cabin door on Castle, the original homestead.
She was born in 1899 in Whiting, Iowa. She was helping her cousin on a ranch in South Dakota when she met Guy T. Barnes, working as a herdsman. They married and moved to Eagle, Colorado, where Mr. Barnes was employed by Andrew Christiansen.
"While living in a cabin owned by Mr. Christainsen, Guy and Monica Barnes began...
3) Helen Hart
Format:
Image
Helen Hart (Allen) was born in 1901. She became the wife of Joseph Dewey "Joe" Allen. The photograph is dated 1920, making her approximately 19-20 years old here.
Format:
Image
Leah Blotiaux (Allen) sits with her three boys. Joseph Dewey "Joe Dick" Allen is pictured standing on the left.
Format:
Image
The Yost boys, George & Freddie, are pictured on a Yost family Christmas card. George was 2 years old at the time.
Format:
Image
George "Doc" and Frances Yost (Bucar) stand with their son, a small George Nelson "Nels" Yost off the edge of the sidewalk. There is a building and fenceline in the background.
