In July of 1954 Floyd married Bev (Hailstone) McNulty. For the next few months he worked on construction and then he entered the U.S. Army for a two year stint.
  While in the service the couple lived at Tacoma and at Seattle, Washington. Their first child, Bruce, was born in October of 1955 at the Madigan Military Hospital. Roger was born the next year in October at Ft. Lawton.
  They moved back to Roy in 1957 and lived in Roy from 1967 until 1969, when they bought the place of Cliff and Maude Clark just south of Roy.
  All three of their daughters were born in Lewistown; Anita in September of 1957, Patti in March of 1959 and Kim in September of 1962.
  Floyd worked shearing sheep and in construction for a couple of years before becoming employed by the Federal Fish and Wildlife on the CMR as a maintenance man, a job he has held for almost 30 years.
  Bev was employed at the Roy school as a cook's helper for a few years, until Floyd was elected to the Roy school board. She then clerked at the Roy Grocery for Lois Woodard. Presently she has quite a successful home business called, "Bev's Creations". Skilled in the art of needlework, her handmade items are popular items at holiday craft shows.
  Bruce lives in Hobson where he is employed at a sawmill.
  Roger resides in Bozeman, where he has a successful cleaning business. He has two sons Grant and Greg.
  Anita is married to Dave Peters. Dave is employed by the Montana Highway Department in Roy. They have three children: Holly, Misty and Nathan.
  Patti married Carson Rife. They now reside at Clancy, Montana where he is chief mining engineer for a mining company. They also have three children: Nicolas, Kale, and Chelsi
  Kim is employed at Big Sky Data Systems in Billings and is married to Darrin Miller.
 Larry Emery lives at Hobson and continues in the sheep shearing business. During the off season he works for Federal Crop Insurance. Larry also served in the U.S. Army at the same time as his brother Floyd. Both of his sons, Randal and Charles, graduated from RHS. Randy now lives in Sparks, Nevada and Charles is attending college in Billings after serving a three year stint in the Marines.
  Wanda (Kolstad) returned to Roy in November of 1981 after several years absence. Her daughter, Monika, graduated from RHS and her other daughter, Dyma, lives in Portland, Oregon. Monika and her son, Jeremiah, reside in Lewistown.

  Both Fred and Nettie Fadrhonc migrated to the United States from the village of Doubrava, Czechoslovakia  to Timkin, Kansas and from there to Roy, Montana, where they eventually married on January 26, 1915.
  Nettie (Horachek) came to the United States with her parents in 1903 when she was seven years old. As it was in those early days, letters hack to the families and friends in the old country encouraged others to follow.
 

  Fred was one of those to follow and by 1906 he also was in Timkin, working with a threshing crew.
  In 1913 he moved to Montana and homesteaded about five miles east of Roy. While building living quarters on his place he stayed with John Hartman.
  Nettie along with her father, Anton Horachek, came to Roy in 1916. Her mother, an invalid for several years, had passed away in Kansas. Her father homesteaded and she worked in Roy in the Sturdy and Nicholson cafes before her marriage
  During the next ten years four children were born to this marriage Marie (Mrs. John Siroky) arrived on November 21, 1915, followed by Fred Jr. on May 19 1917, George on January 3, 1919 and Alice on August 20, 1925.
  The Fadrhonc children attended many of the little country schools, "whichever one was operating", Marie said. Among them were the Coal Hill, Bear Creek and Madison Boulevard schools as well as in Roy.
  Fred Sr. was quite a musician and played his cornet in the 60-member Roy band. He also was a member of the Bohemian Orchestra that played for many dances around the area. They often played for dances held at the Brooks Hall.
  He lived and ranched on his place for forty years before turning it over to his son, George.
  Nettie worked in the shipyards in Vancouver, Washington for a stint during World War II and then later, after returning to Roy, was a cook in the Roy school for several years.
  In 1948 Fred and Nettie made a three month long trip to Czechoslovakia, their first since leaving that country, to visit family and friends.
  Fred passed away at his ranch home on October 29, 1963 at the age of 89. Nettie later moved to Lewistown and on May 16, 1981 she passed away at the age of 85.
 Their son, George married Dorothea Folda on the 7th of June, 1940. They raised four children: Dennis, Sharon, Jim and Pam, all of whom graduated from Roy High School. In 1974 they sold the ranch to Artie and Berna Jean Niemi and moved to Lewistown.
  Marie lives on the Siroky family ranch east of Roy. Fred left when he joined the Army during World War II and never returned. He passed away in 1964 in Tempe, Arizona. Alice married Charles "Buzz" Taylor in 1940 and they moved to Lewistown. Buzz passed away in April of 1988.

  Harvey E. Fogle was born in Belgrade on April 21, 1900 and moved with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Fogle to the Moore area where he grew up.
  Myrtle was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs Chris Larsen and came to the Roy area with her parents, when they homesteaded in 1918.
  Harvey and Myrtle were married in Puyallup, Washington on June 17, 1928. After their marriage they moved to Roy and Harvey was employed by the county on road maintenance and was school janitor for a couple of years. During the tough times of the thirties they moved to Washington where he worked for WPA. In Washington there were always jobs for the kids to pick up; in the berry fields and orchards, etc. Their daughter, Dorothy, recalls that several times they would go back to Washington in the summer to work.
  In the early forties the Roy school board wrote and asked if Harvey would come back and take the janitor job again and so they returned for a few years. In 1943 they again returned to Washington where Fogle worked in the shipyards.
  The Fogles raised five children, all of whom graduated from Roy High School; Dorothy (Kalina) was born in 1924, Katherine (Marsh) in 1925, George in 1927 and Verge in 1929, all in Roy. Elaine was born in 1946 in  Lewistown.
 Dorothy remembers her growing up years and her parents in the following:
  My dad was a fiddle player and played for dances all the years I can remember, I remember dances in an the country school houses. People would come from far and wide and they always went home in the daylight. I can remember sleeping under a bench in the winter or in the car in the summer. The women always brought cake and sandwiches for the midnight lunch. Coffee was made in a big copper wash boiler and drank out of tin cups.
  In the winter people would go out and bring in the car seat so they had a place to sit in the middle of the floor.
  I can remember going home in the daylight and
 

 the mourning doves were always sitting on the fences along the road.
  Dad, Herb and Wilbert Zahn and my uncle Chet Larsen played together for a number of years in the 30s. They were usually paid $10; that was split between them. Sometimes it was pass the hat and they got paid that way.
  Everyone always had a good time and looked forward to the next Saturday because there was usually a dance somewhere.
  Dad was also janitor in the Roy school for a number of years when I was growing up. It was probably about 1930 when he started.
  In those days the heating system consisted of a pot-bellied stove in every classroom. It took a lot of wood and coal in the winter to keep them all going. We always helped pack the wood up to the stove Sunday afternoon so they could be started on Monday. When it was real cold he would go back to the school at night and check the stove and add more coal and then go back early in the morning to get the stove going for school. Sometimes that wasn't enough and we would have classes up by the stove Sometimes the paste and the ink bottles would freeze"
  Myrtle was employed by the school at one time as a cook.
  Upon their return to Roy after the war they bought the Divine place from Frank and Eva Spoon, east of Roy and farmed until they retired and moved to Lewistown.
  Harvey passed away in 1971. Myrtle celebrated her 86th birthday in December of 1987.
  Dorothy married Milton Kalina in 1948. (See M. Kalina)
  Katherine married Bill Marsh in April 1946, in Roy. Theirs was probably the first wedding held in the Presbyterian Church in Roy.
  Bill took over the Wilder mail route from his grandfather (he also had the route south of Roy) and carried the mail for several years sometimes on horseback, until the family moved to Harlowton in the late 50's. From there they moved to Gardiner where they still live. They had three children: Gary, Sheila and Audie. (Bill passed away in October of 1988)
  George married Vivian Mathison after a stint in the U.S. Air Corps and they settled in Billings where he has worked for Original Equipment Co. for many years George and Vivian had three children; Lyle "Skip", Kim and Christine. Vivian passed away several years ago and George has since remarried.
  Verge remained in the Roy area until his passing in 1966 He married Rosalie Charbonneau of Forest Grove in 1961. (See Fogle-English).
  Elaine married Lee Drennen in August of 1966 and they moved away from this area. They have three sons: Sidney, Darrell and Trinity.

  Felix Gaine had the Past Time Pool Here in Roy in 1917 and 1918. He then was employed by Deaton for a couple of years before going to work on the railroad. He left the railroad in 1925.
  Cleve Gaine son of Felix, attended school in Roy through the 8th grade He married Adeline Cimrhakl. They now live in Couer D'Alene, Idaho.

  Frank Gradl was born August 31, 1886 at Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, the son of Mr. and Mrs. John Gradl. He came to Montana in 1907 with a railroad construction crew.
  In Lewistown he met and married Eva "Ivy" Morgan, the daughter of Mr and Mrs George Morgan, on November 14 1912. Eva was born in Lewistown on September 13, 1895. Eva's father was an early day freighter. After his death her mother married a man by the name of McCarty, of the Lewistown area. Both passed on in the 30's. Eva had a half sister, Emma, who married Joe Koliha and also a half brother, Gene McCarty.
  Gradl homesteaded 6 miles northeast of Roy in 1913, on what later became part of the Milford "Buffalo" Rellick place They left the homestead in the 20's and
 

 moved to the Brush Creek ranch, now part of the Louie Rindal estate. From there they moved to the Verg Clegg place southwest of Roy, which is now owned by Delores Puckett.
  Frank and Eva had 3 sons George born August 1 1914 in Roy; Walter, born March 29, 1918 in Lewistown and Jim, born January 14, 1920 in Fergus.
  Besides farming and ranching Frank was very active in the house moving business. He ran haying crews and was always ready to lend a helping hand with any kind of work, and was especially handy with machinery.
  The Gradls moved in 1942 to the Moulton area. Frank passed away there on November 6, 1963 at age 77; Eva passed away on January 12, 1974. Both are buried in Sunset Memorial Gardens 
  All three of their sons served in WWII.
  George graduated from RHS in 1933. He attended Coyne Electrical School in Chicago and was shop foreman at the Lewistown Motors for many years. He married Marion J. Knouse daughter of Frank and Jessie Knouse (of Roy and Winifred) on October 20, 1936. They had 2 sons George Franklin Jr. and Timothy Allen. George died July 26, 1963. His wife and sons all reside in Butte.
  Walter, class of 1936, married Josephine Miller on April 20, 1944 in Dallas, Texas. They had 5 children: Sandra, Brenda, Jack, Randal and Ronald. Walter now resides in Billings; Josephine in Texas.
  Jim, class of 1938, married Evelyn Strausburg, sister of Lavinni Bowser, in September of 1945. They have two children, Danny and Carol. They live in Roundup.
 Jim was a mechanic for the Ford garage at Roundup for many years. When they quit he went to work for Boeing and traveled all over the western U.S. working on the missile projects.

  S. W. (Severin) came from North Dakota in 1916 and bought a relinquishment.
  Anna came in 1916, also from North Dakota, and bought a relinquishment near Roy.
 The couple was married in 1917. Grinde served in the Marines during WWI. They were very active in the community taking part in civic affairs, in the Legion, and in the Lutheran Church of which they were
members. He worked as a clerk and was manager for the Montana Lumber Company store in Roy.
  They left in 1927 and moved to Buffalo; They had one son, Bob.
  Anna passed away in 1962 in Polson. Grinde remarried following her death. In his later years he spent summers at Flathead Lake; winters were spent in Florida.

  H. Lee Halbert was born 5 December, 1880 in Fredricksburg, Iowa. He married Mae Thompson in Agra, Kansas, the 24th of November, 1903. Their son, Alfred, was born 28 January, 1910 in Agra. On 7 November, 1912 (election day) their daughter, Fern, was born also in Agra.
  They moved to Montana in 1914 and homesteaded at the above location, six miles east of Roy, Montana. They left the homestead, moving into Roy, where he ran the Green Livery Stable. Later he bought the garage from Emery L. Arney.
  In 1922 Lee and family moved to Lewistown where their youngest daughter, Jean, was born on the 6th of October, 1926. Alfred graduated from Fergus County High School in 1927.
  Lee returned to Roy in 1925 where he established the Chevrolet dealership. Mae operated a rooming house and telephone service (the only one in town) in their home.
  On 3 October, 1928, their oldest daughter, Fern, married E. Laurel Dotson, another local resident Jean, the youngest child, graduated from Roy High School class of 1942.
  The Halberts moved to Washington in 1942. Lee worked at the shipyards at Bremerton, during WWII. Mae passed away August 29, 1957 at Tacoma. Lee continued to live in Tacoma until he died at age 90 on November 12, 1971. Alfred A. passed away July 13, 1972 at the age of 62. Lee, Mae and Alfred are interred at Puyallup, Washington. They are survived by Fern H. Funk, Neihart, Montana and Jean M. Bednash, Oak Harbor, Washington.
 

  George was the nephew of Mrs. Jane (Thurlo) McCain. George and Emma came to Roy in 1927 to close the estate of McCain, which meant gathering the T-M horses. Roy Hanson had been running them on Crooked Creek since McCain's death in 1926.
  Mr. W.E. Jones hired George to carry the mail on the Wilder route the  fall and winter of 1927-28. George had a new Durant car which he used when the roads were dry, however many times it took a team and wagon or sled and sometimes George used a saddle horse and pack horse. A news excerpt dated 80 March 1929 reads:
  George Hamilton, who had been driving the Wilder Stage for the past few months, left Roy Monday morning with a team and bob-sled expecting to make the round trip Tuesday. Instead he came in on horseback, leading the other horse as the chinook Monday and Tuesday took off the snow -- no sledding! The Friday trip he took the team and spring wagon. By Monday he hopes to be able to use the car.
  He ran the Kalal Meat Market in Roy and he and Emma lived in Ed Kalal's house.
  They went to Sprague, Washington when they left Roy. They were a popular couple and had many friends.

  Elizabeth Viola Moseman was born at Hamilton City, Iowa on June 8, 1869 in Dubuque, County. Her parents were Walter and Elizabeth Moseman. There were five other children in the family: John and Henry E. who went to Roy school in 1918-20; Dick of Fort Peck, Bill and Mary.
  Franklin George Hamilton was born Feb. 2, 1864 and he died July 30, 1937. Elizabeth and Frank G. married and had three children: Genevive (Nierstheimer) March 23, 1894 to December 28, 1958; Hiram, May 23, 1897 to January 19, 1982 and Elmer (Dutch), October 7, 1904 to August 8, 1958.
  The Hamiltons lived on the homestead until 1923 and then moved to Lewistown where Frank and son, Hiram, did road and dirt work for the state, county and Milwaukee Railroad, excavating bridge and fills. Elmer died in Lewistown at the age of 53. Hiram and family lived in Lewistown until he retired and moved to Great Falls in 1962.
  Hiram F. was born at Jefferson, Iowa. He died in Great Falls. He and Anna Montang of Roy were married on November 16, 1916. The Hiram Hamiltons had four sons John J. (Jack), Earl L, Tom who died in 1978 and George Phillips who died in 1941 at the age of 21 in Lewistown. Hiram worked for the Fergus County Road Department for 26 years and the city of Lewistown 10 years. Burials are at Mt. Olive Cemetery in Great Falls.

  Peder born October 1, 1880, and Nels Hanson were born in Norway, the sons of Hans P. Uglene and Kristi J. Olness farmers near Bergen. An older sister, Carrie, came to the United States three years before Peder and took the name of Hanson.

  Nels and Emma were married in Benedict, ND in 1910.  They moved to Roy about 1914 and he was associated in business with Peder until 1929 when they moved to Fromberg where he managed a lumber hardware business.
  Nels was tall, lean, handsome with a glint in his eyes and a smiles on his lips most of the time.  He was very "brainy", particularly in figuring estimates and costs.  He ran the store and was postmaster at Fergus before moving to Roy.  Nels and Emma had four children. Inez born in 1915 at Fergus, died from appendicitis and Arthur, born in Roy in 1918, died of whooping cough.  Both are buried in Lewistown.  Two daughters, Peggy (Evelyn) and Judy reside in Seattle Washington.
  The family moved to Washington and settled in
 

 Seattle in 1943 where Nels worked in a cabinet shop and later owned a small grocery store He passed away in 1968 and Emma in 1978.

  Peder Hanson, who became one of Fergus County's best known and popular merchants and stockmen, came to the United States as a young man and worked for several years at his trade as a carpenter in Fargo, North Dakota. Later he homesteaded at Ryder, ND. He sold the homestead as farming was not particularly to his liking and went into the merchandising business at Ryder and later at Benedict.
  Peder and Ida Olsen were married on October 31, 1906 at Ryder. She was the daughter of J.S. and Bertina Olsen of Berthold, North Dakota.
  In 1914 they came to Roy and purchased the interests of J.E. Cox in the Roy Mercantile Co. Peder's partner was H.F. Hunter, of Chicago; general agent for the Chicago, Milwaukee St. Paul & Pacific Railway. Later he bought out W Hunter. He continued in sole charge of the business until fire destroyed the store, after which he became actively interested in stock raising. He purchased a ranch in the Armell's section.
  Hanson became president of the First National Bank of Roy, after serving as vice president for a number of years He was president during the recession that followed WWI.
  As a merchant and business man, he encouraged and promoted development of diversified agriculture and stock raising. Hanson was an active community leader and was very interested in politics
  Ida also worked in the store and entertained often, sometimes as many as 80 or more and still had time and energy to raise six children.
  The Hansons moved to Missoula in 1933 where their children attended Montana University. All except Harold graduated from Roy High School. The Hanson children all had outstanding scholastic records. The eldest Helen Corine was born January 27, 1908. She attended St. Olaf College in Minnesota and Central College in Ellensburg, Washington. She has life teaching certificates in Montana and Washington and worked in Child Welfare in Washington. She has been married to George Hartman for over 60 years. They raised four sons
  Janet Bernice born May 18, 1911 was the only member of the 1929 graduating class of Roy. She attended Dillon Normal school after which she taught in Montana for nine years two in the Roy area. She married Robert Stoudt in 1939. They ran a grocery store at Polson for five years and later they moved to South Dakota where she taught for sixteen years at Watertown and he had the Stoudt Insurance Agency which is now run by their son, James. Now a widow, she lives in Missoula with a daughter.
  Pearl Irene, born December 12, 1919 also attended
 

 Normal State College. She taught for two years at the Black Butte School. She married Bjorn Garnaas and they moved to Omaha, Nebraska. She taught in Omaha for 17 years The Garnaas had four daughters. He passed away in 1983.
  The twins Norman Edison and Norma Eleanor, were born in Roy on February 12 1916. They were delivered by Dr. W.S. Faulds. 
  After beginning a law practice in Billings Norman was a special agent for the FBI in 1941-42. He served in the Air Force in the Mediterranean and European Theaters during WWII. He was a special assistant to the Attorney General of the United States in 1954-55. He is very active in community affairs in Billings where he practices law. Norman and his wife, Constance raised three children: David, Margaret and Sally.
  Norma attended MU for two years, then finished her college education in Dillon after her father passed away. She taught schools in Western Montana. She married Lewis Bates in 1939, The Bates live in Toppenish, Washington where they own the Bates Furniture Co. Harold Arthur was born in Roy on May 30, 1918. Mrs R.S. Barbee cared for him when he was a baby to save him from being exposed to whooping cough which all his siblings had.
  He attended school in Roy through the 9th grade He graduated from UM with a degree in Business Administration. During WWII he was a Major in the Corps of Engineers. After the war he lived and worked in Missoula before moving to Portland, Oregon where he was a stock and commodity broker and in real estate. He is now retired. Harold and his wife, Ethyl raised three sons. All live in the Portland area.
  Peder Hanson passed away in Missoula on January 29, 1935. His death came unexpectedly although he had been ill for some time with diabetes. His funeral was held in Lewistown.
  Ida remained in Missoula until she entered the Coeur d'Alene Idaho Lutheran Home where she passed away in 1959.

  My father, John Hartman, was born March 29, 1884 in Austria. When he was two years old, he and his foster parents moved to Prague, Czechoslovakia. While in Czechoslovakia he learned the brick laying trade and the art of carpentry. He also acquired his musical foundation at this time which became useful later.
  At the age of nineteen he moved to Germany to work in a glass factory. From there he sailed on the ship, St. Marys, to Staten Island, New York. This was in 1910. He stayed about a year with two half-sisters and a half-brother, who taught him to speak English. Later he moved to Timken, Kansas with some of his Czech. Friends. In Kansas he worked for one year before buying two horses which enabled him and Fred Fadrhonc to move on to Lewistown, Montana.
  Dad worked for one year for Mr. Salamoun; bought two more horses, then moved on to Roy. Here, six miles east of Roy, he managed to prove up on a homestead while nothing out. He first worked for Bill Schultz herding sheep. When it became apparent that he could not tolerate the sight of sheep, he decided to run a freight line from Roy to Hilger. This was in 1913. With the railroad terminal at Hilger the demand for lumber and other merchandise to supply the homesteaders was great.
  With the help of two of his friends who stayed with
 

 him until they found a homestead, a two-room house was built on the homestead.
  On August 6, 1914 Dad was united in marriage to Olga Pospisil. Two children were born while they lived on the Roy homestead.
  In 1919 the family moved to the Brooks area where my father purchased the Dave Wheeler place, then being sold through the Yankton College, South Dakota. Five more children were born at Brooks
  We all worked hard as a family. I remember clearly as a child when my father would leave very early in the morning for Lewistown. He would hitch four horses to a wagon to haul home our supplies, lumber, and groceries. He would visit his friends and would start home late At night and not until night did we expect him home. We would listen for the creaking wagon wheels and the clanking of the harness. He was always happy and we could hear him singing; his voice carrying through the darkness.
  In 1930 our dad bought a baby grand Chevy; we would all go to dances as Dad played in Bohemian bands in Brooks and Danvers He also played for weddings and birthday parties
  In 1958 he retired and moved to Lewistown. His brother, Joe owns the place, while the homestead at Roy is owned by Gene Horyna.

  Glenn Holmes was a telegraph operator and station agent in Roy for the Milwaukee Railroad. He first came to Montana in 1912 as an employee of the Great Northern Railroad.
  Holmes was born in September of 1889 in Lushton, Nebraska; he died April 2, 1965. Burial in Lewistown.
  Holmes' wife's name was Alice (Galusha). They were married in Great Fails July 13, 1916 They had a son, Capt. J. A. Holmes USN (1965).

  Anton Horachek came to the United States with his family in 1903 or 1904 from Prague, Czechoslovakia. The family settled in Timkin, Kansas where they lived until 1912 and 1913 when family members began to head west for Montana; homesteading in the Roy area. Mrs Anton Horachek passed away while they lived in Timkin. Those who eventually settled in the area were Anton and his daughters, Katie Horyna and Nettie, and his son, Frank.
  Frank's wife was Rose Dolezal whose father was Alois Dolezal.
  The children of Frank and Rose were: Anna and Rose, who were born in Czechoslovakia, Ralph, Stanley, Jerry, John, Frank Jr., and Stella.
  Coming first, in 1912 was Frank and Rose with their family along with Katie and John Horyna and their two boys. The families traveled together on the train, arriving in Lewistown. There they unloaded their emigrant car of belongings and with team and wagon headed for the homesteads.
  The next year, Anton and his unmarried daughter, Nettie (Fadrhonc) arrived.
  At one time; during the homestead days they leased a place west of Roy to put up hay and to feed their cattle. Anna was there, mostly by herself, doing the work. She and Rose were great friends of Mona Moltzau (Mrs. Dick Thomas) during this time, and they spent many happy hours together
  The house that they lived in had no windows, just a door and a partition in the middle to separate it into two rooms. Anna use to tell of a time when three very drunken men came into the house late at night, and of how scared they were. There was no way out, except to
go past the drunken men, so they all hid in the other room scarcely breathing, knowing for sure that if they were discovered they would be murdered.
  Cook and Reynolds got that place; the windowless house stood about where Myrtie Beatty's house now stands.
  Rose and Anna, both now deceased, used to also tell of the "Bootlegger Run", a trail the bootleggers used to run whiskey down out of Canada, which passed what is now the Bohemian Corners, go by Braisers and on down south.
  Ralph remembers the bank robbery. About 10 days after the robbery, John found what they believed to be "the rifle" under a bridge, Those were exciting times!
  Anton Horachek passed away in March of 1932 at the age of 84. Frank passed away in July of 1921 at the age of 40, and Rose passed away in February of 1937 at the age of 56. All are buried in the Roy Cemetery.

Stan married Lucille Skjelstad on October 24, 1942. The first home they had after their marriage was the little log house (Dunn's) that stands on the north side of the highway 3 miles west of Roy. Stan did not get much schooling his wife helped him to develop his reading and writing skills.
  He recalls that when he worked for Joe Murphy, where he learned his mechanical skills, Model T's were shipped in, in crates and then were assembled in Murphy's garage. He earned 30 cents a day. If he stayed all night to watch the place, he earned another 5 cents. They farmed southeast of Roy. They bought the old homestead back when it went for taxes.
 

They left the area in 1954 and worked on various ranches throughout the state as well as at MSU and at the State Orphanage at Twin Bridges. They returned to Central Montana in 1981 and now live in Lewistown.
  Ralph resides a few miles south of Grass Range. He left Roy in 1935 "when the dust was blowing" and spent moat of his years in Washington and Idaho. He accompanied Jess Bilgrien when Bilgrien was helping Ed Stoffield and Jim LaFountain move west. 
  He worked in the mines at Kellogg, Idaho and later went to Springfield, Oregon where he worked in the forests. He was a navy man in World War II. When he joined they told him he needed his birth certificate. He said he didn't have one. "Wait 10 days and we'll get you one." Ten days later, "I found out that the Navy knew more about me than I did!", he said.
  Jerry, now deceased, went into the service and after his discharge he along with his brother John and Louie Martenic had a sawmill in the Snowies.
  John lives in Lewistown. He married Stephanie Huculak and five of their children attended school in Roy and graduated from RHS. They are: twins, Dan and Don, Linda, David and Dale. Don was killed in an auto accident in 1986. Dan is the county road maintenance man at Roy. Linda is married to Gary Blakemore DVM and they have the Paul Bischoff ranch. David and Dale are both living in San Francisco, California.
  Frank Jr., now deceased, married Bessie Lunda of Hilger. They had a place near Hilger and also had a coal mine in the Judiths. Frank adopted Bessie's son, Richard. Richard married Ruth Fink, daughter of Alvah Fink. They live in California.
  Rose left home when she was 12 years old and went to Lewistown where she was a maid for a well-to-do-family until she was 15. She received $12 a month, which was collected monthly by her father. When she left this job she went to Canada where she married Galixte Amyot. They had a son, Clarence, who was born in April of 1921 in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.
  She returned to Roy, with her son, and stayed for a short time. Then she left and moved to Great Falls. Later she married Milton Gallages.
  Clarence remained in Roy and was raised by his grandparents. After graduating from RHS in 1940 he worked in the Niehart mines and was in the Army during World War II. He returned to Roy in 1945 and worked on farms in the area. Clarence passed away in December of 1983.
  Anna married Paul Bischoff.
  Stella married Russell Messenger and they lived and farmed in the Valentine area. Three of their children, Francis, Floyd and Alice were born in Valentine. They left the area in the mid 1930's and moved to Elma, Washington. Both are now deceased.

  John Horyna came to the United States from Czechoslovakia and farmed near his parents in Timkin, Kansas where he got acquainted with, and married to Katie Horachek, who had also immigrated to the United States with her parents. John Horyna was a cabinet maker; he studied for his trade in Vienna.
 John and Katie's two sons, James and Raymond, were both born in Timkin.
  In 1912, when Jim was four years old and Raymond six weeks old, the family came to Montana to homestead.
  John came in an immigrant car, loaded with their possessions, horses, chickens, and machinery. Katie and their sons, along with her brother, Frank Horachek and his family, came via train in the fall, as far as Lewistown. There were no homes for either family, but
 

 through an acquaintance they got to Roy by wagon, where a dear man brought them to John Hartman's residence. There they lived until John was able to bring home lumber, which Joe Swoboda had brought from Hilger, and could proceed to build a home. On New Year's Day, a day still vivid in Jim's memory, they moved into their two room home.
  The winter was tough; food scarce, John took a shotgun and with son, James they went to hunt food. Jackrabbits were plentiful so John killed rabbits, and James carried them. When they got home; it was too cold to dress all of the rabbits so they threw them on the roof of the homestead shanty and they froze solid. When food was needed, one was brought in to thaw and skin, and then the meat was ready to cook.
  For firewood there were posts set in for a fence. John took them down to keep the stove going for food and warmth. In those days you burned sagebrush for fuel too.
  The Horynas had to go to Hilger for groceries and supplies, before there was a Roy.
  In 1914 the Horyna's daughter, Ann, was born.
  John's first crop of wheat on his homestead in Montana was one that was broadcast by hand by Mrs. Vondracek.
  John passed away in 1950 and Katie in 1960. Both are buried in Lewistown. Jim, Ray and Annie still live on the homestead.
  Jim married Marcella Swoboda on November 2, 1938. They raised two sons, Howard and Gene. Jim and Marcella have been active members of the ZCBJ Lodge for many years.
  Ray and Annie never married. Ray was in the Army in WWII serving in India. He has always been very active in the community; in the Legion, as an election judge, Democratic committeeman and wherever else he can lend a helping hand.
  Gene now operates the ranch as the "elders" have "semi" retired and he and his wife, Sherrie, live on the old Jim and Ann Pleskac place which they now own. Sherrie Morrison was teaching in Roy when she and Gene first met. She now teaches in the Grass Range school system.
  Howard, his wife Millie, and their daughter, Patricia, reside in Great Falls.

Joe and Mary Hrouda, Roy homesteaders, were married in Prague, Czechoslovakia. He was a cobbler by trade. In 1907 he came to Kansas to homestead. In 1910 he sent for his wife and son, Frank, to join him.
  In 1913 they journeyed to homestead in Roy. Their home was on the south Valentine road, southeast of Roy. John Siroky now leases part of the land from the government.
  Mr Hrouda and Mr Fadrhonc walked many miles for many days to the timber to cut down trees to build a log house. They then borrowed horses and a wagon to haul the logs home.
  For transportation Mrs. Hrouda bought a horse and buggy to get to Roy for supplies.  Mr. Hrouda had been told by a gypsy in Czechoslovakia that harm would come to him by horse and so he feared horses.
  In 1922, during the dry years, Mr. Hrouda continued to live on the homestead, with their two children Frank and Mary to prove up the land.
  The family moved to Kolin when they left here, and he continued to work for the railroad.  Joe & Mary both passed away in Kolin.

• The Emerys on the occasion of Cliff and Lily's 50th wedding anniversary. Front row from left to right: Grant, Cliff, and Lily. Backrow, left to right: Larry, Wanda and Floyd.
   

• Dora Emery, mother of Grant and Cliff.
   

• The Emery sheep shearing crew hard at work.
   

• Fred Sr. and Nettie Fadrhonc.
   

• The Harvey Fogle family--back row: George, Dorothy, Katherine, Verge. Front row: Harvey, Elaine and Myrtle. 
   

• H. Lee and Mae Halbert--24 November 1953. Golden Wedding Anniversary. 
   

• George Hamilton, with his horses, Tim and Cody, at the Roy Post Office, getting ready to leave for Wilder in the winter of 1928-29.
   

• One of the many picnics the family enjoyed. The man in the black hat on the left is Peder Hanson. His wife, Ida, is second from the right in the dress with the white collar. Seated to her right is Nels wife, Emma.
   

• Peder Hanson's General Merchandise Store stood where the post office now stands.
   

• The Hanson's: Taken in front of the home they grew up in front of the home they grew up in, in Roy. L. to R. Harold, Norma, Norman, Pearl, Janet Bernice and Helen. Taken in 1988.
   

• Leona Bare, Marie Barbee (in the middle) and Helen Hanson.
   

• Nels Hanson.
   

• A four generation picture. From L. to R. : Libby (Hartman) Newburg, Frank Pospisil, Barbara Pospisil, John Hartman, Olga (Pospisil) Hartman, and Libbies daughter, Dorothy Ille (Blackhall) and her son Bob Ille.
   

• The Horachek Family--back row L. to R.: Stella, Mother Rose, Dad Frank, Grandfather Anton, Frank Jr. nd cousin Anton "Tony" Dolezal. Front row: Stan, John, Jerry, Ralph.
   

• Arnold Zahn holding Dan Horachek. Dan's twin, Don, holding their sister Linda and their uncle, Stan Horachek.
   

• Jim and Marcy Horyna on the occasion of their 50th wedding anniversary in 1988. 
   

• The Horyna home in homestead days.

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