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| Ancestor's Histories | A Short Life History by Randolph Edwin Smith | |
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I was born in a log house on the North Dakota prairie not too far from Fort Rice and near a horseshoe bend in the Missouri River. Seems as tho we moved on the average of once every year, but not always to a different school district. However, I remember going to Colwell, Riverside, Fairview, and Snyder in Morgan county and one in Washington county in Eastern Colorado; also Arleta in S.E. Portland, Lincoln in South Portland near the Ross Island Bridge and a log school house west of Castle Rock Washington. All of this and still failed to make it thru the grades. Much of my life was spent of farms and ranches, with little or no success from a financial stand-point. However, we did manage to keep our heads above water part of the time. Spent a short hitch in the Army in WWI and shortly after I was discharged Uncle Sam opened up a huge tract of land in Southern Utah next to the Colorado Line, and my oldest brother, Walt and his family decided to go take up a homestead, 320 acres each so I went along. Most of the families had children so a schoolhouse was built and a nice Mormon girl was sent out there to teach and she changed her name to Smith. |
