Carl L. Christensen was born June 5, 1906 in Bridgewater, Iowa, the youngest of Paul and Marie's seven sons.
  Dad started school in Iowa, then missed 3 years after the family moved to Montana because of no schools. Later a school was built and Carl received an 8th grade education. He continued a life-long love of learning through reading and was an amateur violinist and painted in pastels
  On October 9, 1928 he married Verna Della Olsen, in Harlowtown. She was the daughter of Willie and Inga Olsen, Roy homesteaders. She was born January 30, 1910 in Litchville, North Dakota.
  Dad worked for Reed West ("a very honest man") at the Roy grain elevator. In the 30's he worked as a steelworker on Ft Peck Dam. Returning to Roy he worked in surveying and combining until moving to Lewistown for a few years where he was employed at the Heath Gypsum plant. Returning again to Roy, which Dad called "God's Country" he worked as a carpenter. In 1959 Mother and Dad became the managers of the Farmers Union On Co., a job they had for 17 years. They expanded the business and saw a new structure built. Dad incorporated into the company the sale and repair of television sets. Being a new medium he volunteered to find a location so that a transmitter would  ^{P. 307} allow residents to receive television.
  Mother was the sister of Grace Rindal. She loved her vegetable garden and was interested in nutrition and was ahead of her time. She liked working with her husband in business and handling the bookkeeping. She saw only the good in people and treated everyone the same.
  Verna became ill with cancer and passed away in 1969. Carl retired from the FU in 1970 and retired a mile from Roy where he lived until in the 1980s. He lived to be 83. He died on November 21 1988.
  There were five children in the family. Catherine married Stan Phillips. She was widowed early and raised two children, obtained a college degree and lives in Billings.
  Lorraine married Laurence Dernbach and lives in the Denver area. She has five children and is a professional artist. Joanne married Ronald Love and lives in Billings. She is the mother of three and is a banking representative. 
  Ronald lives in Phoenix. He is unmarried and has traveled widely. He received a college degree; is a truck driver and has enjoyed success with photography.
  Alan married Carol and has two children. They live in Blaine, Washington where he is an immigration Bureau supervisor and also does some farming.

  Chris Christensen was born in Iowa and married Emma Eggerstad who was born in Nebraska. They came to the Roy area with his parents. They brought with them two small sons, Lawrence born in 1909, and Clarence born in 1911. Harley was born shortly after they arrived in the area at the Smith-Laraway Ranch in 1918. 
  Chris and Emma filed on a homestead southeast of Roy. Besides working his homestead Chris had a draying business and a delivery barn in Roy. He was also a deputy sheriff during the years of 1916 to 1918. In his dray business he hauled ice, coal and lumber and also freighted from Hilger.
  Chris was a good teamster, good at breaking and working horses. He probably made more money matching up and selling teams than he ever made homesteading.
  The year their fourth son, Earl was born, in 1919, was a financial disaster for the Christensens. The summer was hot and dry and was followed by a bitter cold winter with lots of snow. The only hay available was marsh hay from South Dakota and Minnesota and shipped in to Roy at the price of $40 a ton. Most of their cattle lived through the winter only to die when green grass came
  Their only daughter, Irene was born in 1922, the year they lost their homestead and moved into Roy briefly.
  They rented a place through the Cook Reynolds CO. It came to be known as the Wilson place over the years Chris farmed many acres there then moved to the Stephens ranch (where the Dorman Jackson family now live). He continued farming there and bought the first combine sold in Fergus County in l927. It had a 20-foot sickle bar and in order to get to the farms where he custom-combined from Fergus to Valentine it was necessary to take down fences and remove bridge rails. The combine didn't have a grain hopper, so it was necessary to run a wagon along side the combine to catch the grain. Chris had a Hart-Parr tractor to pull the combine. Earl remembers spreading the wheat in the wagon to keep it from running over as it piled up in the center of the wagon.
  Chris moved his family to the Judith River west of Winifred in 1931 and ranched there for some years. They returned to the Roy area in 1937 and lived on the Stephens place until it was sold in 1941. He then bought the Gibson place and lived there until he sold it to Louie Rindal in 1948.
  Chris and Emma then moved to Lewistown where he was sheriff from 1946 to 1950. They continued to live in Lewistown until their deaths; Chris in 1962 and Emma in 1968
  Lawrence now resides in Helena, retired from the State Liquor Commission. Clarence was killed in a sea battle in the South Pacific during World War II. Harley lived in Lewistown, working as an electrician and later as a bartender. He died in 1972. Earl was a patent attorney, retired in 1984 and lives in Delaware. Irene married Walt Coleman in Lewistown. Walt operated the Snowy Lanes Bowling Alley until his death in 1981. Irene worked in the Fergus County Welfare office for some years and she continues to reside in Lewistown.

  Rosie was originally from Zbraslov, Bohemia.  She was born March 26, 1876, the daughter of Frank Dvorak and Josephine Lecktra.  She settled in New York for a few years.
  Bert was a native of Vesely, Moravia, the son of Frank Cejka and Antonia Pafka. 
  They came to the Roy area from Texas in 1913 with his four sons Emil, Louis, Jerry and Paul and Rosie's foster child, Mary Novak (Barta).
  They homesteaded a few miles east of Roy (John Siroky now has their place) and farmed until he passed away in April of 1935 at the age of 66. Rosie passed away in March 1931 at the age of 56.
  After Rosie's death Bert was married to Julia Moravac a native of Nepomerice,  Bohemia. She was the daughter of Bohumil Miskovsky and Anna Apaski. Julia had a daughter, Julia (Maravec Dahl), who graduated from RHS; class of 1936
  Bert was also a blacksmith in Roy as well as for the Fergus Ranch where he was listed as being a repairman. ^{P. 308}

  The only information on Marion Cooley concerns an altercation between him and Julius Karau and his sons. From a May 1927 issue of the Lewistown Democrat News:

 Mr. Karau (Julius) was assaulted and shot both in the arm and leg last Tuesday by Marion Cooley, who gave himself up to Officer Oquist right after the shooting and was taken to Hilger on the railroad speeder and turned over to Sheriff Tullock who tried to get through to Roy but was forced to turn back on account of the heavy roads. Mr. Karau was also taken to Hilger in the same manner and driven on into Lewistown for medical treatment. During the days when these people were homesteading, this Mr. Cooley also shot one of Mr. Karau's sons who later lost his leg on account of the accident but Cooley escaped punishment at that time, as it was alleged that Karau was the aggressor and it appears that there is still some ill feeling between these parties.

  Lily Margaret Cooley was born on January 1, 1883 in Dawson, Illinois, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Cooley. She received her education in Illinois and Indiana, and taught school before moving to Montana and homesteading in 1918. She taught in Montana until 1920 when she returned to Illinois where she was married to Guy Allen in Riverton, Illinois, on February 21 1928.
  They returned to Montana and lived and farmed in the Everson community, near Stanford, where Allen had homesteaded, until their retirement when they moved into Denton. He died in 1965.
  Lily passed away on September 12, 1967. she was survived by a son, Arthur and three step-children: Donald, Helen (Bosche) and Irene (Regli).
  Lily and Guy are buried in the Denton Cemetery.

 Frank was born on October 11, 1861. Minnie Johnke was born November 28, 1868. Both were born in Germany and were married on February 14, 1880. Their first child John was born January 5, 1889 in Germany. He died in 1925. Their other children were William, September 1892-0ctober 1917; Henry, January 1894 November 1968; Minnie October 1896, all born in Turley, S.D.; Frank, March 1897-July 1979; Fred, December 1898-0ctober 1971 Clara (Pribyl) July 1902 Metta (Boggers) March 1903; Tillie (Wells) August 1904-1944 Bertha (Schaeffer) July 1906 and Lizzie August 1907, all born in Parker, South Dakota.
  Frank and Minnie homesteaded southeast of Roy in 1918. They left in 1924 and moved to Lewistown where Frank died in 1941 and Minnie in 1948. They and John, William, Frank Jr., Fred and Tillie are all buried in Lewistown. Henry is buried in Menno, South Dakota.

  Frank and Ada Ruth Christine were married in 1923. She came to Roy from Pennsylvania in 1921 and taught in Roy and Grass Range for 10 years.
  Frank farmed south of Roy and Ada clerked for W.C. Buechner's General Store for several years. In 1941 they moved to Drummond where they became co-owners with L.M.A. Wass of the Red & White Store which they ran for 17 years until retirement. Frank died in 1979 and Ada passed away in August of 1984.

  Fred "Fritz" and Leona Bare were married on September 16 1928. Fritz ran a dray outfit in Roy; hauling coal to various businesses and homes. He was a 'jack of all trades' and did many odd jobs to earn a living, but he was mainly a carpenter and painter by trade. Leona worked in the post office for many years. She and Winnie Rife started working at the post office on the same day in June of 1948 and they retired on the same day, 25 years later, on May 31 1971.
  Leona and Fritz raised three daughters and a son. All graduated from RHS. Shirley was born in June of 1927, Betty in August of 1928, Pauline in December of 1929 and Clayton in October of 1930.
  Shirley recalls an incident that happened to her as a child. She had very black curly hair. One wash day as her mother was lifting a boiler of hot water off of the stove the handle broke splashing the hot water and burning Shirley quite severely. Shirley lost all of her hair from the fever that followed and when it came back in it was a medium brown color. Mrs. Barbee a Roy midwife, attended and nursed her during the time following the accident. Shirley is Mrs. Bud Grindheim.
  Betty began working for the telephone company in 1948, later transferring to Billings where now retired, she still lives. She never married.
  Pauline was married to Mervin Tate and later to Bob Knight. She had four children; John and Karen Tate ^P.309 and Kathy and Kim Knight.  Kathy attended the first grade in Roy when she and Kim lived with Bud and Shirley for a year.  Pauline passed away in June of 1977 and is buried in Lewistown. 
  Clayton was in the Navy after graduation.  After his discharge, he and Roy Mathison, were employed on a seismograph crew.  On December 10, 1958 he lost his life in an accident on the job in Cortes, Colorado.  He, too, is buried in Lewistown.  He was married and had one daughter, Janet.
  Leona resides at Eagles Manor in Lewistown.

  Roy and Charlotte Coulter moved to the Don Siedel place south of Roy, on March 19, 1945, shortly after Roy received his discharge after serving nearly four years in Uncle Sam's Army Air Corps.
  Roy was born December 3, 1917 in Denton, Montana, the first son of Sam and Mary Duffy Coulter who homesteaded in the Bear Springs area.
  They moved to the Ft Maginnis area in 1928, where Roy made his home until he entered the Army, April 17, 1942.
  He spent some time working on various ranches in Central Montana including the "Stoddard" Ranch and for the Bair Sheep Company near Two Dot. Also he spent one year in a CCC camp in Western Montana and in Washington.
  Charlotte was born in Lewistown on April 26, 1916. At that time her parents, LuElla and Clarke Belden, lived near Novary. Beldens homesteaded near Grass Range and lived on various ranches near there until they moved to a ranch east of Buffalo on April Fool's Day, 1920.
  Roy has worked at a lot of jobs during our life at Roy, but he is always happiest making truck wheels go around!
  We have three children; Clarke LeRoy born July 30, 1946, Mary Luella born December 11, 1948 and Leona Kay born January 30, 1950. All graduated from Roy high school and attended Eastern Montana College. Clarke now lives with his family in Billings and is parts manager for Peterbuilt Trucking. He and his wife, Lee have four children and four stepchildren.
  Mickey married Ken Gilbertson of Glendive. They live near Bozeman where Ken works at Northwest Plant Breeders as a laboratory technician. Mickey makes custom made drapes for Decorators Walk.
  Kay married Rod Hien of Sidney, Montana. After a stay in California they moved back to Billings. Rod owns and manages Select Realty and Kay is a computer operator at Cenex.
  In the years we've spent at Roy we have seen many changes. The coming of electricity and the telephone; a new school building; TV and so many more.
  I'm so glad to have been a part of Montana from a lumber wagon and 8-horse hitches to modern $100,000 tractors. Don't tell me there weren't 8-horse hitches. I saw 14 head pulling a load of lumber once. 
We often wonder what it will be like 41 years from now. But am not sure I want to know.

Elsie Miller Coulter was born on the ranch south of Roy, the daughter of Clyde T. and Dema Miller. She went through grade school at Black Butte and graduated from Roy High School in 1939. She worked at the SCS office in Roy for a year, then went to Lewistown and worked for Fergus County.
  On September 29, 1941 she and Richard were married.
  Richard Coulter was born 16 miles northeast of Denton in the Coffee Creek breaks the son of Sam and Mary (Duffy) Coulter. His family moved to the Fort Maginnis area in 1928 where he attended summer school He graduated from RHS in 1941. He worked on ^{P. 310} several ranches in the Roy area. In 1945 he joined the Navy and spent all his time on Okinawa as a SeaBee.
  After his discharge in May of 1946 he and Elsie went back on the ranch for several years He and Ernest Harrell had a well-drilling rig for awhile. He was manager of the Farmers Union at Roy for 2 years 1952-1953 and from 1959 to 1966 he was custodian at the Roy schools
  In June of 1965 the family moved to Lewistown where he worked at the Husky Truck Stop for 10 years He then worked for the Fergus County Sheriffs Department and in July of 1985 he retired.
  Elsie worked for Woolworths for 15 years and retired in February of 1980. Since then she has worked part time at the Bon Ton in Lewistown.
  The couple had four children: Clyde born in May of 1943; Richard born July 4th, 1947; Robert born February 14, 1960 and Susan born August 12, 1952. Clyde lives in Lewistown, Dick in Washington, D.C, and Robert and Susan both live in Colstrip. Clyde and Richard are both RHS graduates Robert and Susan graduated from high school in Lewistown.

  Joseph C. Darrah, his wife Sophronia (Kliegl), and their children, George C., Clarence Evert and Helena Alma, came from Iowa and arrived in Roy in February of 1916. They moved to a homestead close to Rattlesnake Butte which Sophronia had inherited from her uncle, George Kliegl.
  The family lived there in a 10 x 12 foot house until they moved to the Chamberlain place, where they were living when Helena met and married Anton Rindal. In 1927 they moved to the Frank Dengel place (presently owned by Jim Rife) and then to the Mitten place about 1936.
  The Darrahs had a large flock of turkeys and won many blue ribbons for them at the Lewistown fair. An article, in a May 1927 issue of the Lewistown News, reads as follows:

  Darrah, a famous breeder of bronze turkeys, moved onto the place (Dengel) with the intentions of enlarging his business and to enlarge an extensive program of dairying. 1927-This year the Darrahs are figuring on raising one thousand purebred Mommoth bronze turkeys for breeding purposes. Birds have been shipped to Texas, Oklahoma and in fact nearly every state in the union as well as some to Canada. Recently they have been shipping out many turkey eggs at a dollar apiece........ 

  Antoinette Stransky Edwards Darrah was born in Rimini Montana. After the death of her father, her mother having died several years before,  Antoinette and her brother, Henry, were adopted by Charlie and Matilda Edwards. Antoinette was 13 at that time.
  The Edwards lived south of the Landru place. Antoinette went to high school in Lewistown, boarding with families there then returned to the ranch each summer.
  Antoinette was working at a bank in Roy after graduation at the time she met and married George C. Darrah. They first lived on the Jim Rife ranch with George's parents where they raised large flocks of turkeys.
  The Campains who lived nearby, also raised turkeys ^P.311 and they got together to butcher the turkeys for market in Lewistown.
  After losing their place in the depression the Darrahs moved to the Chamberlain place on the Anton Rindal ranch and George worked for Anton. George's folks accompanied them on the move to the Chamberlain and on their subsequent move to a house on the Romundstad Ranch in 1935. The Romundstad's offered them the house so the older boys, Henry and Larry, could go to the Romundstad school thereby having enough children in the school to keep it open. Others attending the school were Alma Rindal and Bruce, Bob and Bill Landru.  Teachers were Miss Rogers, Mrs. Smith and Mrs. Britzius.
  While on the Romundstad Ranch, George continued to work for Anton part time and also worked for the Romundstads.  He was also interested in mining and had claims that he did assessment work on.  He continued to hold the claims after they moved to Lewistown when Henry started high school about 1945.  The boys still hold their father's claims.
  Antoinette had sisters, Frances and Erica and a brother Edward, who were adopted at the death of their father by families elsewhere.

  Phillips Deranleau was an early day freighter in the Central Montana and Roy areas. He was born on January 21 1876 in Jefferson, South Dakota and came to Montana as a small child. He and his wife, Laura, were married in Lewistown in 1904.
  After his freighting days he farmed at Broadus before moving to Polson where he was employed until his retirement in 1945.  Hen then moved to Kalispell where he died in November of 1966 at the age of 90.  Laura proceeded him in death in 1960.
  His list of survivors included two daughters; a Mrs. McLaughlin and a Mrs. Martin Johnson of Seattle; a brother Archie, of Polson and a Mrs. Clara Sharp, a sister of Lewistown. 

  Louis Devereaux was a French man who came "down out of Canada."  He had been a professional ball play with the St. Louis Browns. 
  An actor, when he played on the Roy baseball team, people would come to the games just watch him perform.  It was more interesting than the game was, often times!
  Devereaux married Margaret Hansen, the daughter of Mr. And Mrs. Anton Hansen who settled in the Black Butte area.  Her sister was Teena Mathison.
  The Devereaux's went to Minnesota in October of 1935 and remained to make their home there. 

  James and Katie Dobeus came to the Roy area in 1913 and homesteaded north of Roy. Later they moved to a place west of Roy. This place was later owned by Nate McDonald. They were farmers.
  There were seven children in the family. They were Marie; born March 25, 1892 in Beaver Falls, Minnesota. Died June 18, 1958 buried at Stevensville, Montana.
  Emma; born February 1896 Died February 8, 1978 in Lewistown.
  Twins, Helen and Hattie born June 3, 1899 in Redwood Falls, Minnesota. Helen died October 6, 1976 and Hattie on January 15, 1984, both died in Lewistown.
  Vender born October 29, 1902 in Montevideis, Minnesota. Died April 8, 1952 in Chicago.
  Eva who died on August 3, 1954 and Joe who died on March 10, 1962 and is buried in Chicago, Illinois.
  The children received their schooling in Minnesota and at Roy.
  James Dobeus passed away on November 11 1946 at the age of 81.  He is buried in Lewistown.  Katie died on February 14, 1928 at the age of 62.
  Their daughter, Hattie married Ernest Bowser.  ^{P. 312}

  Alois Dolezal was originally from Czechoslovakia. He and his son, Tony, came to Roy from Timkin, Kansas about 1913. Alois was a brother to Rose Horachek, Emma Washek and Frances Yecha.
  Father and son did not get along real well, as neighbors remember.
  Alois died in May of 1931 and is buried in the Roy Cemetery. Tony was in his fifties when he passed away from pneumonia. He is buried in Lewistown. Their place is now owned by Marty Siroky.

  Simon Launtz and Ida May Dotson came to Montana in 1912 from Ceylon, Minnesota. They came to Moore where he became manager of the Moore, Straw and Buffalo elevators. Their son, Enos and two of his four children, Ida and Laurel also came. Two other children stayed in Iowa and were raised by their grandmother Riley. Enos wife had died shortly before the Dotsons came to Montana.
  Simon ran the Moore elevator and Enos the Straw elevator.
  On February 7, 1913, Enos married Edna Jones, who had come from Missouri to teach at Straw.
  The Enos Dotsons left the Moore area in 1916 and went to the Suffolk-Christina area. In 1923 the family moved to Roy where they owned and operated the Dotson Company Elevator.
  Enos and Edna had two boys of their own; Simon "Si" who was born May 13, 1915 and David "Steve" who was born October 23, 1918. Enos and Edna separated when the boys were about 8 and 6; about the time of their move to Roy. The boys lived and went to school in Roy, at various times from 1925 on. Edna later married Bert Pierce and in 1971 she passed away at the age of 80 and is buried at Wesley Church Cemetery near Kingsville, Missouri.
  The Dotsons operated the elevator, which was next to the stockyards, until 1929. From then until 1936 they farmed southeast of Roy.
  Simon (Sr.) passed away on September 14 1982 and his wife, Ida, passed away March 14 1936 Enos passed away in Silverton, Oregon in April of
1970 at the age of 85.
  Young Si graduated from RHS. After graduation he was acting postmaster for a year and a half until Winnie Rife took over. He then ran the Montana Elevator in Roy until 1956 when he was transferred to Clyde Park.
  Si married Adeline Marsh, daughter of Cliff and Opal Marsh. They had three children; Daniel C, Rosalie and Carol. All three attended grade school in Roy and graduated from high school in Clyde Park. Dan is now the Chief Deputy Marshall for Utah and lives in Salt Lake City; Rosalie lives in Livingston and Carol in Denver. Si retired in 1980 and he and Adeline live in Livingston.
  Steve graduated from RHS and now lives in Great Falls.
  Ida Dotson, Enos daughter, married Ole Vodall on December24,1925.
  Laurel was killed in December of 1944 in the Pig Seven Mine at Niehart. He left a wife, the former Fern Halbert of Roy, and five small children.
  Paul Dotson, born 3 January 1935, to Enos Dotson and his 3rd wife, Alberta Dotson, in Lewistown resided for several years at Grass Range and then moved to Billings, Montana with his mother, Mrs. Loyd (Alberta) Wilson.
  Paul was a senior at Billings High when he succumbed to cancer 22 April 1953, at the age of 18, after losing one leg the previous year and a malignancy of the lungs which proved fatal.

  William Dundom Sr. was born in Amsterdam, Holland in the year 1837. He was a giant in physique. His wife Katie was small, wiry and full of energy. She was born in 1832 in Holland. (nee Katie VanderValk). They migrated to America in 1868; going first to St. Louis where Mr. Dundom worked on railroad construction. Their children were Elsy, Katie Ira, Willie and a young girl who died not long after arrival in America.
  Later they boarded a wagon train and headed west. In what is now Wyoming, twin girls were born. On September 16, 1864 ^{P. 313} a girl, Mary was born in Washington.
  About 1887, the family moved east into Montana. The parents brought their household belongings in a wagon over the mountains before there were any roads. The sons, Ira and Willie and a son-in-law Charlie Pintler, brought the livestock, while the girls, Penny and Mary rode along on horseback.
  The Dundoms bought a ranch on Spring Creek, near Lewistown where they raised horses and cattle.
  When Mr. Dundom sold his ranch, he was considered quite wealthy for his time. Since the country was being homesteaded and divided into farms, it meant the end of the open range, and it was time to quit.
  He became a stockholder in the Bank of Moore, Montana.
  Katie Dundom died in November of 1920 and William Dundom Sr. died in January of 1925. They are buried in the cemetery at Moore.
  Fred W. Sherman was an adventurer, born in 1858 The Sherman family lived in Chicago where they had a teaming (trucking) business. Supposedly, Fred left home as a lad and enlisted in the U.S. Navy after the Civil War. In 1883 he married Elsy Dundom and the young couple tried to build their home in a little town called Anatone, in southeastern Washington. A frame house was built and fruit trees were planted. William P. was born October 10, 1884; Fred W. Jr. was born April, 1886; Mary Jane was born January 6, 1888 and Henry James was born in February of 1890.
  In 1891 the Sherman family packed up and had their belongings freighted to Montana and followed the Dundom family. They first lived near Great Falls where Fred Sr. worked on railroad construction. They were staying in Sun River Crossing when Samuel Tekumseh was born. The family moved to Gilt Edge. Fred Sherman hauled gold ore from the mines to a processing site, opened a coal mine, took up a homestead and cultivated a garden. The family lived in a log and frame cabin at the edge of the mountain, about a mile west of town. They had a barn with horses, milk cows, chickens and turkeys and grew as much of their own food as possible. Between hauling around the mines, supplying coal and fresh vegetables to miners a fair living was enjoyed. Henry James died in the fall of 1895 and Rose Nell was born December 18, 1895. Nell was born January 31, 1898. In the winter of 1900, James was born and died two weeks later. He was buried nearby and the gave was marked. John was born February 20, 1902 and Tommy was born December 25, 1906.
  Fred W. Jr. left home in 1906 to seek his education and fortune.
  Fred W. Sherman Sr., died March 15, 1907. William P, age 22 years took over the responsibility for the family welfare.
  Elsy Sherman died February 9, 1941. She is buried beside her husband in the Gilt Edge cemetery.
  Katie Dundom II married Charlie Pintler while they lived near Spokane Washington. Their children were: Bill, Ottie and Winnie. Katie died in Coeur D'Alene Idaho at the age of 102 years.
  Ira Dundom went to Kalamazoo, Michigan where he married Mary Vandorn in about 1898. They had three children. Ira died of cancer about 1918 and his wife Mary, died about 1948.
  Willie Dundom married Pearl Davies in 1904 and they built a ranch near Melstone, Montana. They had seven children, when in 1914 Willie died of pneumonia and other respiratory complications. The children of Willie and Pearl Dundom were: Edna, William Harry, Nora, Dorothy, Lucille James and Ellen. Harry and James were prominent horsemen. Both lived in the Roy area. Harry married Pearl Beal.
  Pearl married Sam Sherman soon after and they had eleven more children. (See Sam T. Sherman) The Shermans lived in Roy several years
  Fannie Dundom married William Barney in 1892 and they had five children.
  Mary Dundom married John Clark in about 1898 They built a ranch near Moore, Montana and had two children. Their daughter, Ellen married August Ihde and moved to Cat Creek, Montana and built a ranch there.
  Mary Jane Sherman, the oldest of Fred W. and Elsy, married Robert Rumsey in 1908. They had four children. They moved to Missoula, Montana where Rob died in 1916. Mary remarried to Marvin Young and one more child was born. After Marvin died, Mary married Thomas Wood, a prominent citizen of Coeur D'Alene. William P. Sherman married Kathleen Williams, September 23, 1918 They had six children.
  Fred W. Sherman II, married Bertha Morris in 1917 and they had three children. Bertha died Dec 18, 1957 ^{P. 314} and Fred W. died Sept. 1965.
  Rose Nell married Robert McWirk in 1915 and later she married Ed Head, she had several children.
  Nelle was married to Sievert Nielsen in 1918. They had thirteen children.
  John married Alma Greenslit at Heath, Montana in 1926. They have two surviving children, Luella and Ruth. John and Alma lived in San Diego, California and managed an apartment complex.
  Thomas moved to Chicago in 1926, married Rose Leitermann in 1936. They had two daughters, Ruth Trischan and Mary Sherman.

  Edward, the son of W.R. Dunn of Roy, Montana, married Alice Brown, from Gilt Edge, Montana on May 16th, 1935. They made their home in a house rented from Christensen on what at that time, was called "Silk Stocking Street": Ed was working at the Wass Mercantile store at this time. They later bought a house in 1936 next to Bill Lane's home where Ed's brother, Leonard and his wife, Helen, lived.
  They sold the house to Clifford and Opal Marsh and moved up to the log cabin that Ed and his dad built. Ed continued to work at Wass's store.
  When Ed left the store they moved up to the Louie Mitten place at the head of Armells Creel. Besides helping with the farm work, Ed made trips to Lewistown with Louie, helping him with his paint and paper hanging jobs.
  They moved to Lewistown in 1938. They had two children, Richard and Dolores. After Dolores was 7 years old, Alice started working. She worked 7 years at the Power Store and one year at Sears Roebuck store then worked 14 years for the Fergus County Road Department.
  Ed worked for a few years at the Heath plant, 14 years at a bakery and 10 years at the Fergus High School, where he retired.
  Ed and Alice both retired in 1970. They celebrated their 53rd wedding anniversary on the 16th of May, 1988.

  James Wesley Dunnington was born on September 18, 1872 on a small farm south of Greencastle, Indiana. In 1909 he and his mother, moved to Greencastle where he operated a blacksmith shop.
  I was born February 24 1886 in Indianapolis, Indiana. I moved to Greencastle in 1909 where my father built a greenhouse and went into business there.
  I met Jim in 1911 and on May 16, 1912 we were married. By this time father had a large greenhouse and Jim went to work for him. That is how he became a florist. He loved the growing of flowering plants.
  We read so much about land being opened for homesteading in Montana so we wrote the Milwaukee Railroad in Chicago and received all the information concerning opportunities in Montana. The more we read and talked about it, the more we wanted to go to Montana.
  In the spring of 1915 we packed a few pieces of furniture, bedding and clothing and went to Chicago on the Big 4 Railroad. From there we embarked on the Milwaukee Immigration Train for Montana.
  In the back of each coach there was a big stove where the women cooked their meals. There were table hinges on the side of the coach which we would let down at our seats. Several on the coach had never been out of their respective states and many had never been on a train. There were many exclamations such as "Oh, look at that," and "Did you see that?" all day long. We had many conversations with our companions on the coach and lots of fun was had during the four days we traveled until we reached our destination; Lewistown, Montana.
  We thought we might stay in Lewistown and purchase some land, however, there were some on the train who thought that we ought to go to Roy first, so we agreed. We finally located 4 1/2 miles north of Roy on 160 acres.
  We built a tar paper shack, 12 x 14 ft, and this was our home. One day, shortly after we had gotten settled, we walked into Roy, and on the way home it rained. We could only take one step at a time because the gumbo was so thick that with every step we had to kick the gumbo off of our shoes before we could take another step.
  We broke up the land and plowed and planted wheat for two years. We never even got our seed back for our efforts. Jim would go out and work for other ranches, in order for us to survive. One night I woke up and found Jim sitting on the edge of the bed. He said that he was taking me down to the cellar because the shack was moving. I talked him out of it, but the next morning we discovered that the shack had moved four feet. Jim got two poles and buried them about eighteen inches in the ground and nailed the shack to the poles. So much for the gumbo.
  In 1916 our son, Russell, was born. I would pack eggs and when I went to town I would take a few dozen to trade for groceries. I would also take what butter I could trade and we would do without. When Jim was away working and I needed to go to town I would walk across ^P.315 a section of land and carry my son and wait for a ride to town.
  One cold winter day when we were driving to town one of our horses who was always going wild when he saw something white; jumped and broke the single tree. I had to walk about a mile to Roy while carrying Russell. I froze both of my hands, but Russell was as warm as toast in the bunting which I had made and lined with wool that I had gotten from a neighbor and had carded myself. The lady at the store went out and got a shoe-box-full of snow with which to draw the frost out of my hands Jim got the wagon fixed so we could drive home.
  At one time during our homesteading days in Roy, I wrote a letter to my folks in Indiana, but I had no money with which to buy a 2 cent stamp to mail it. I borrowed 50 cents from my store lady and put it on our charge account because I did not want my folks to know just how poor we were. We would pay our bills when Jim got paid for harvesting. We were poor, but very happy.
  We finally went broke and abandoned our homestead and returned to Indiana. My father said that he needed Jim to help with the greenhouse but we stayed only a year because we longed to come back to Montana. We returned to Lewistown in 1919 and ran a greenhouse on the fairgrounds road. It burned out in 1923. We then bought the acreage south of the City Park where the greenhouse still stands today.
  In 1924 we opened our first flower shop. We had only been in it for six months when a fire started in the basement of the City Billiards, and considerable smoke damage was done to our flower shop. Later in 1924 we opened up the first Riverside Flower Shop in conjunction with the Fanny B Tea Shop. It was located at the vacant lot which is the present parking lot for the Federal Savings and Loan building. A fire on December 22, 1927 burned out everything to the corner. All was lost in the fire and we had no insurance coverage to offset our losses. We continued to carry on our business at the greenhouse.
  My husband, James, passed away in November of 1933. With my son, Russell's, help, we ran the greenhouse until 1942, when he joined the Air Force. I carried on along with just the help from school boys, until Russell returned home from the service
  Russell married Helena M. Reiche during his service in the Air Force and upon their return to Lewistown we carried on the business until they bought me out. I continued to work at the greenhouse for several years after that because I could just not give it up entirely.
  In 1953 Russell and his wife opened up the Riverside Flower Shop at its present location on West Main Street.
Note:  Barbara passed away in April of 1985 at the age of 99 years.

  Mr., and Mrs. Miller Edgemont lived in Roy from 1942 to 1947. He was in charge of the SCS office in Roy. At that time the SCS was cleaning up fences and old buildings and seeding grass on homestead places that were
repurchased under the Jones-Bankhead Act. The SCS office was in the back of the Montana Lumber & Hardware building in a small building.
  The Edgemonts left Roy in March of 1947 and moved to Roundup.

  Cliff originally came to Montana when he was about 13 or 14 years old from Minnesota.  He attended schools in Battlelake, Minnesota and in Antelope, Montana.
  Returning to Minnesota for a few years he worked for the Milwaukee Railroad roundhouse until in  the early 20s when he came back to Montana, to the Plentywood area, where he learned the sheep shearing trade, a business he continued in until his retirement in 1980.
  He again returned to Minnesota, this time to Saum  where he and his brother, Grant, farmed.
  In December of 1932 he married Lily Moore in Moorhead, Minnesota and the family Grant, Cliff, Lily and the men's mother, Dora Emery, all moved to Montana. They lived on what is the "old Dengel ranch", near Grass Range, where the men were employed.
  Cliff was getting $20 a month because he was feeding himself; Grant was getting $15. This was at the time eggs were 8 cents a dozen. ^{P. 316}
  "Cliff and I lived in the wagon, Grandma must have been living in the cabin.
  At shearing time I was so sick, awfully sick. Floyd was on the way. In fact I'd been to the doctor, I was so sick. A hand crew came in to shear and about this time Cliff and Earl Fleharty decided to go shear, so they rigged up and we left Forgy's and they sheared small bunches mainly around Grass Range"
  Cliff knew how to shear, having learned years before He was using hand operated shears at that time and his hands would really swell up and hurt. He sheared for two or three years with hand blades and then he and Edgar Cripps rigged up an outfit so they could hook up to a machine and advanced from there until he had a shearing crew of about seven or eight men.
  With electric shears which came in 1939, came a different problem. The shears heated up and burnt the hands!
  Shearing is an art which takes some practice in order to become proficient. A good shearer can sheer a sheep in 2 1/2 minutes
  Emery's crew usually consisted of a sacker or bagger; which was usually Grant, four shearers and a tier.
  In the early days the crew would move from job to job via train and sometimes by a horsedrawn buckboard wagon. They packed bed rolls and gear and bunked down wherever they could. They felt lucky if they were put in a warm dry bunk house there were times they slept in sheds In later years thanks to trucks and campers a shearer's life became more bearable As the years rolled along the size of the herds became smaller. The largest herd the Emery's ever sheared was between 45,000 and 50,000 head. They had a crew of between 20 and 25 people on that job. As the herds became smaller; the sheep became larger. The advent of the chute system eased the job of getting sheep to the shearer; no longer did the shearer have to run down the next sheep in a pen for it's annual defleecing and then drag it back to the pen, he could just grab a single sheep out of the chute shear it and release it. By 1980 the largest herds were around 3000 head.
  The Emery's sheared sheep all over the northern part of Montana, from Wolf Point to Glacier Park and on up into Canada. They were well-known nomads during the shearing season, which ran from February through July. The crew could pack their equipment, which included electrical motors and gearing for shearing rigs a hydraulic bagger, (in later years a portable chute system and their other belongings and be on the road in half an hour.
  The Emery's ran their sheep shearing business for 57 years
  They also did other jobs in and around Roy during the off seasons as well as run a small flock of their own sheep. They put in the water system on the old Jess Warren place. It is still being used today. They worked on ranches and Cliff also worked as a mechanic for Joe Murphy from 1943 to 1947. Wages they were paid back in the early 40s were from 75 cents to $1.00 a day!
  They always enjoyed hunting and fishing, a favorite form of relaxation.
  The family moved to the Roy area about 1933 and into Roy in 1942. Lily had decided that "somebody else had my kids more'n I did, so we moved to Roy for school and never moved again." Floyd had boarded for a couple of years.
  Cliff and Lily's three children; Floyd born in 1935, Larry in 1937 and Wanda in 1940, attended Roy schools all through their school years and all graduated from RHS.
  Larry's first grade teacher was Bridgie Hickey, who was in her seventies, or nearing them, when she taught Larry.
  During the children's early school years, school was held in many different buildings around town because the school had burned down. Lily became clerk of the school board in April of 1945 and it was she who wrote the checks for the new school buildings
  Lily had no idea of what she was getting into, she had no bookkeeping or background experience in that field, but as a teacher she had some knowledge of how a school was run.
  She wasn't qualified for teaching in Montana. Her certificate was for Minnesota. She graduated from Bemidji Teachers College in 1932. She taught some semesters. Teaching jobs were hard to get. This was during the depression and "every man and his wife" was trying to teach. She solved the teaching dilemma by getting married and moving to Montana! She acted as a substitute teacher for many years in Roy.
  Lily resigned her clerk job in 1970. "I resigned, I wasn't fired" she exclaimed. "After twenty-five years and eight months, I resigned." Actually Lily resigned twice The first time was the night of the big teachers strike in the 50s, but the board all quit too, and would only go back if Lily did. She did and the problems got ironed out
  Grant worked for Floyd Hill at Winnett for many years during the lambing season. He is best remembered as being an outstanding baseball player for the early Roy team. Before coming to Roy he was a talented player for different teams in Minnesota. Cliff played some baseball for the Roy team, but Grant was the ball player.
  Cliff did ride a few broncs in his younger days. One memorable ride was at a rodeo in Winnett. The bronc got loose with Cliff aboard and went down main street and through a cafe window!
  Grandma Dora passed away in 1949. She had returned to Minnesota and was living with a daughter at the time of her death. She is buried in Minneapolis. In February of 1985 Cliff passed away at Valle Vista Manor in Lewistown where he'd been a resident for a few months. Grant passed away in September of 1987. Lily now lives with her daughter in Roy.

• Leona Bare and Fritz Corth--Courting Days!
• Roy and Charlotte with their children Clarke, "Mickey" and Kay.
• Joseph and Sophronia (Veronica) Darrah 1912.
• Dorothy, Henry, Larry, Bobbie and Marie Darrah, children of George and Antionette.
• James and Katie Dobeus
• Tony Dolezal
• Dundom Family Reunion 1988--L. to R. Edna Kizer, Mrs. Bill Dundom and daughter, Marg Sherman, Bill Dundom, Lucile Hay, Clara and James Sherman, Martha and Fred Sherman, Tom Sherman in the back and Ellen Gardner. 
• James Wesley Dunnington with his young son, Russell, in 1918 at their homestead north of Roy.