Oscar, Zelia and their four children started west from Kankakee, Il in 1914. Late November 1923 found them in Teigen, MT. Leah was born in Clar S.D. Oscar and family lived on the McClullem farm in Clark. Some towns Amos remember in SD where Oscar worked were Kavor, Clark, and Huron. They had left S.D. in the fall of 1923 and traveled through these towns along the old dirt roads, leaving Huron then to Red Field, Aberdeen, Mobridge and Lemmon. All in S. D. They went through the southwest corner of N. Dakota to Baker, MT and then on to Miles City, JORDAN and Teigan. Amos remembers the 1922 Chevy truck Oscar bought. It had no top. Oscar built a camper can for the truck that they would crank up when they stopped and down where they started out on the road. Part of the mechanism was a "bull wheel and gear assembly from an old binder."
Oscar ranched at Teigen. In 1926 Oscar and son, Emmitt worked on the "Going to the Sun" highway at Glacier National Park. Oscar was a gravel dump foreman. That fall he went to work as a fur buyer for the "Jews" in Missoula. After he came back from Missoula, he helped build roads in the Kolan, Moccasin and the Grass Range area and also bought and sold furs. He went to work on the Big Earth Dam on the Missouri River know as Fort Peck Dam in 1933 and stayed until it was complete in 1936. Oscar and family, except for Amos, left for Washington in 1937 where he worked in the timber industry.
Amos, stayed in the Grass Range/Forest Grove, Montana area where he met and married May Agnes Lundin, daughter of Neil William Lundin and Elva Marian Whirley Lundin on July 12, 1934. Amos and May lived on the Joe Ryan place southwest of Grass Range. In the winter of 1935-1936 they moved to the Lundin place southeast of Lewistown near the state fish hatchery. In late December 1942 they moved to the ranch one mile south of Forest Grove, MT where they ranched. |