Source:
Photo courtesy of Gary Crandall
Family History
Tilda & Otto Skjelver Jr. Picture
This photo is of Otto Skjelver, Jr. with his eldest sister, Tilda.
Ed Payne Homestead
Francis “Ed” Payne came in 1877 and entered a homestead and timberclaim in section 34, eventually owning all of that section. Ed Payne’s parents, Richard T. Payne, came in 1883, along with daughters Carrie and Pinkney, and son, Bruce Payne.
Source:
Webster County: Visions of the Past
By Mabel Cooper Skjelver
Published 1980
Page 63
Photograph courtesy of John Wilson, grandson of F.E. Payne
Ed Payne is holding his daughter, Wilella, with his mother, Mrs. Richard T. Payne in the background. His sister, Carrie, later Mrs. Noah Harvey, is in the foreground with her hand on a post. Two neighbor friends, Daisy Wilson, later Duval, and Della Wilson, later Bean, are in the foreground.
Source:
Webster County: Visions of the Past
By Mabel Cooper Skjelver
Published 1980
Page 69
Current location of Payne homestead pictured above. Also location of the original Otto Post Office, of which F.E. Payne was the first Postmaster.
CM Wilson & Siblings Photos 1942
These photos were taken in June of 1942, the day of Mary (Wisecarver) Wilson’s funeral. John and Mary had eleven children in all.
Russell’s H
This past weekend when we were at the farm Rob got out Russell’s old McCormick Farmall H. When Lee saw him pull it out of the shed he exclaimed, “New tractor!” because he had never seen it before. Amber had to correct him and say, “No, very old tractor!”
This tractor belongs to Russell Krichau, Lee’s great-grandfather. Russell still tells the story of how he acquired this tractor. During World War II machinery was hard to come by due to government imposed price fixing, but Russell said that if you were willing to pay a little more there were people who could find it for you. He said that when this tractor came in it was immediately shuttled to a farm east of Blue Hill where he had to later pick it up under the guise of darkness. Russell and his father, Maurice, farmed over 500 acres with a pair of Farmall H’s using two-row equipment. Needless to say they spent a lot of hours in the seats of those H’s.
