Will DeSilva was born at Dodgeville, Wisconsin 12 May 1861. The family moved from Wisconsin to Allerton, Iowa and Will grew to manhood there. He married Ada Stiles in 1885. They farmed there for a number of years, then went to Enid, Oklahoma. In 1912, the family came to Montana by covered wagon. They homesteaded south and east of Roy and the Flehartys were their neighbors. They had two sons: Burl and Joe; four daughters, Olive and LaVera of Enid, Oklahoma; Grace Knight Jones and Ella Nickeson of Cut Bank, Montana.
  Grace recalled gathering buffalo chips for fuel for the fire on the long treck to Montana. They would stop over to do the washing and bake their bread. Mr. DeSilva was a devout Bible student.
  They left in 1933 and moved to Whitefish, Montana. Will DeSilva died at Enid, Oklahoma 10 October 1941. Ada DeSilva died the last of 1959.
  The Joe DeSilvas left Whitefish and moved to Dundee, Oregon.

  Grace homesteaded the above location. She was married to Albert Knight. They had one son, Lincoln. Mr. Knight died in a fire when their home burned. Grace was born at Allerton, Iowa.
  Grace married Earl H. Jones, son of W.E. Jones of Roy, 30 March 1921. They lived in the Roy, Fergus and Grass Range communities until 1942 when they moved to Billings. Earl was employed by an Oil Company and worked for them for 20 years. Besides Lincoln there were three Jones boys: Robert, Oliver and Buddie D.; and three girls: LaVera Jones Hoffman, Jane Jones Wildman and Joy Woodard of Billings.
  Grace moved to Arizona where her sons live in 1983. She was visiting in Billings when she died at St. Vincent's Hospital 22 June 1987. She is buried at Mountain View Cemetery at Billings.

  William Jonathan (called W.J. or Will) Rowland came to the Moore area in 1910 on the recommendation of his brother-in-law, George F. Fogle, who was farming there. W.J. came and was followed in a September snow by his four children. They were: Gracia, 20, who later married Elmer Grinde; Kathleen, 14, who later married Theodore Anderson; William, 12, who died in 1913 and Ruth, 10, who married George Hansen (who had come to Montana from Minnesota) then Fritz Meisser of Moore.
  W.J. operated the Grass Range creamery and Gracia taught school at several Central Montana locations Trout Creek, out of Moore; the Minnesota Bench; Blakeslee, Grass Range, Christensen and Black Butte. Both W.J. and Gracia (my mother) filed homestead claims as did my father, Elmer Grinde, who had come to Montana from Brooten, Minnesota about 1910. They were married in 1918. Elmer's father, John Grinde, and brother, Henry, also homesteaded in the Valentine (Blakeslee) area, now part of Petroleum County.
  John Grinde died of pneumonia in 1921. Elmer Grinde farmed the W.J. Rowland land until 1929, when he and Gracia sold out and moved to Sauk Centre, Minnesota along with their four children. The children are: Ruth Grinde Viertel, born in Valley City, ND., now in Lewistown, Montana; Jean Grinde Halverson, born on the Montana homestead, who died in 1960 in Tujunga, California; Donna Grinde Sorenson, born in 1936 in Sauk Centre, Minnesota, now in San Jose, California; John William Grinde, retired school administrator in Sutter, California.
  William J. Rowland was a loving father and grandfather who managed to keep his family together especially with daughter Gracia's help as a school teacher. He cooked for the Cat Creek oil well crew in the 1920's and was always a favorite visitor at the homes of his children. He died in 1941 and is buried at the Lewistown Cemetery as are Gracia and Elmer Grinde, Ruth and Fritz Meisser, and Ruth Messier's son, Col. William Rowland Hansen.
  Gracia Rowland Grinde returned to Montana to teach in 1943 in rural schools while Elmer worked for the Navy at Pearl Harbor. After Elmer's death in 1957 in Atwater, California, she again returned to Central Montana and taught at King Colony and other rural schools until 1960. She died in 1974 in Lewistown ^{P. 92}

  William E. (Bill) Rowland, born in Minnesota in 1863, was a first cousin to William Jonathan Rowland and lived in the Roy area with his wife, Martha. They had two daughters: Mildred, who married Pat Rowand; Eve, married Bert Cummings; and a son, Horace Clark, who married Ada Thomas. Both Horace and Bill filed on homesteads. Horace and Ada had one child, Dolores Klopp, now (1989) residing in Bellevue, Washington.
  Their's was a musical family. They played for area dances and occasionally at the W.J. Rowland ranch, there adding daughters Gracia at the piano and Ruth on the ukulele. In later years, Horace directed a dance band heard on several radio stations in Spokane, Washington.