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| Notes for William Ellis ANDREWS | ||||||||||||||
| He homesteaded in Nebraska in 1868 as a nineteen year old.. As an eight year old he helped drive a covered wagon with 8 head of oxen from Barnsville, Ohio to Center Point, Iowa. His father died when he was thirteen, his mother remarried and evidently he didn't get along with his stepfather that well, so he left home early. He homesteaded between Newcastle and Ponca, Nebraska. He lived on the ranch-raised his family there-and Ellis wanted to buy it for $65 an acre after he died, but his brothers and sisters thought he should pay more since W.E. had lived with him for about 12 years. He had lived with Ellis Andrews's family from middle 1920's until he died. He was very musical and bought instruments for each of his grandkids to play at school. At least three nights a week after eating supper, W.E. would say" get the Instreements out and we'll have some music." Wilma had a clarinet, Willie a saxophone, Merle a trumpet, and Elden an altohorn. Ellis played the mouth organ- harmonica-strummed a guitar or could chord on the piano. They played mostly church hymns, Bye Bye blackbirds- popular music from the 30's. At Uncle Will Conrad's house, they were up there for supper in 1928. The kids were playing with water at the sink and WE slipped on wet lynolium and broke his hip. He still drove the 1924 Maxwell touring car with Izenglas curtains-canvas curtains with plastic windows sewn into them - soft top. Goats jumped up on top of the car and fell right through the top. WE was upset. They had a picnic at Ponca state park and he polevaulted across a ditch and broke his hip again. Became bedridden rest of life. Chewed Red Man and smoked a corncob pipe with Prince Albert tobacco. He broke his hip three times. The first time when he was out sheering sheep. The second time he broke it at 'Uncle' Will Conrads by slipping on a puddle of water on an old linoleum floor but he still got in and drove his old maxwell all around. The third time everyone was down at the Ponca state park for a family reunion and he put his crutches down in a ditch and vaulted himself out into the middle of the road, breaking his hip. He never got up from that one. -Elden '91 reunion W.E. used to sheer sheep with some local indians form Oaklahoma with hand sheers. He remembers that the indians used to ride through and break the stalks of indian hemp off and let them hang. Latter in the fall they would come through and harvest it as dried hemp. This stuff filled their pipes which wasn't exactly tobacco...more like marijhuana. -Elden '91 reunion There was an Austin - Miller - Andrews Family Reunion held every summer in Elkpoint or Sioux City starting in the early 1920's until late 1940's. Check with Joe Austin in Elkpoint? -Willie and Elsie 1993 | ||||||||||||||
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