ROY PART 6

  Clarance LeRoy Mann and Dolores Fink Mann owned land north of Roy, about one-half mile from Charlie Bishop's place. They moved there from Canada in 1938
  They raised, from birth, a niece Mary Clarice Mann, born on February 3, 1927 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Mary Clarice was a granddaughter of Richard and Mary Fink.  She married Fred Haney.
  The Mann's went to Fort Peck when they left here for a couple of years, then on to Oklahoma and finally settled in California. Clarance died on January 12, 1970 in San Bernardino. Dolores died in Grants Pass, Oregon in 1980.

  Clifford S. Marsh was born on June 26, 1894 in Braymer, Missouri. In 1913 he came to Montana with his father, Sam, who homesteaded in the Valentine area. Cliff's two brothers Otto and Ray, also homesteaded. Cliff was too young at the time to homestead, but he later bought a relinquishment of another homesteader in the same area.
His mother had died when he was 2 years old.
  He attended an Agriculture College in Fargo, North Dakota for a year.
  Opal Irene Jones, the daughter of W.E. and Edith Jones was born in Missouri Valley, Iowa on July 5, 1899. She received her early education there and in 1913 along with her parents and siblings came to Montana in an immigrant railroad car from York, Nebraska where the family had lived for several years. Her parents homesteaded 22 miles southeast of Roy. After her general schooling she attended Edwards School of Business in Lewistown.
  It was at a dance at the Valley View School house on the 4th of July, the day before Opal's 16th birthday, that Cliff first laid eyes on his future bride. There were so many young men at the dance, that Opal did not remember seeing him, but that fall he came with a crew to help harvest at their place and they began to "keep company" On July 30, 1917 they were married in Lewistown.
  After their marriage they lived at Holter Dam where Cliff was working and then later in Great Falls when he worked in the smelter. Their first child, Adeline; was born in April of 1918 in Great Falls.
  In June of 1918 the family moved back to Roy and bought the homestead relinquishment of Maude Daughty and rented Harry Johnson's homestead. Their first real home was a sod house on the upper part of Sage Creek. They helped Opal's parents and his father with their farm work and farmed their own place too.
  Their daughter Irene was born in July of 1920 and in August of 1922 their son, William S. (Bill), was born.
  In May of 1923 the Harry Johnson house burned down and they lost everything. Cliff then moved some homestead shacks together and made a house on his own homestead.
  Adeline attended the Sage Creek school about 3 miles away. For her first 2 years of grade school she boarded with the Ray Marshes during the week. School was held in the Clifford Clark living room with Mrs. Clark as the teacher.
  In 1927 they sold their homestead for $1100 and moved onto Opal's father's homestead. The bank had closed in Roy in 1922 and had taken all of their money. Then in 1929 after they'd saved a little more, the bank closed again, and again their money was gone, Cliff never again trusted a bank!
  During their stay on W.E. Jones' place they lived in the Valley View school district. Adeline, Irene and Bill rode to school 3 miles away on horseback. In really cold times in the dead of winter they would stay with the teacher.
  Adeline finished 8th grade in this school and then
 

 went to Roy to high school, staying with her Granddad Jones. Later she and Irene batched in a one room house near the school.
  Their second son, Robert W, was born in March of 1933.
  In 1937 they moved to Roy, and Cliff worked for WPA and the SCS and later helped build the Roy school after the fire in 1942. He then went to work for the county on road maintenance in the area, a job he held until his retirement in 1964.
  The couple's fifth child, son Merle, was born in December 1939. Merle became quite ill with a throat infection of some sort in April of 1941 and passed away. His funeral was held in the Presbyterian Church in Roy and he was buried in the Roy cemetery.
  Opal was very active in community affairs and was known for her wonderful sense of humor. She was a president of the Roy woman's Club for many years and they were both very active members and leaders of the Roy Presbyterian Church. Opal was, for several years, the Roy correspondent for the Lewistown paper.
  In 1972 they moved to Lewistown. Cliff passed away on August 23, 1977 and is buried in Roy.
  A few years after Cliff's death Opal moved to Livingston to be near her daughter, Adeline, and family. She passed away there on April 14 1987 after a lengthy bout with cancer. She is buried beside her husband and son.
  Adeline married Si Dotson on June 1, 1936. 
  Irene married Webb Stephens on December 19, 1940.
 Bill was married to the former Katherine Fogle. Bob married Diann Nealy in October, 1976. Bill is deceased.

  In 1913 William L. Marsh traveled to Montana from Ottawa, Kansas and filed on a homestead claim in Fergus County, about 6 miles north of Roy. He then went back to Kansas to pack up his family and belongings and headed back to Montana by train. His wife, Maude and their five children, Wilma, Leah, Vernon, Lyle and baby Glenn, traveled in one train while Will came on the "Immigrant" train, which hauled animals and household belongings. They lived in a tent part of that year (1914) until a home could be built. They proved up on the homestead in 1919. It was pretty tough to make a living and William L. found a summer job teaching school in Moore to supplement the family income until 1917 when he was offered a job in the Roy post office assisting "Doc" Barney. In April 1919 he was commissioned as Postmaster of Roy, a job he held until retirement in 1946. Maude Marsh became a postal clerk in 1918 and continued in that position until 1947.
  Another son, Howard, was born on the homestead. Five of these six children have been teachers. Lyle was in the creamery business for 20 years and then became Postmaster of Valier, Montana. All have fond memories of their friends and neighbors during those early years in Roy.
  William L. and Maude Marsh celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary in Roy in 1951. In 1952 they moved to Corvallis, Montana to be closer to some of their family. William, Maude and Wilma are an now deceased.
 

  George Martin Jr and Harold Martin, brothers (and sons of George Martin Sr.), married Helen Larsen and Amy Larsen, sisters. The Larsen girls were the daughters of Chris and Sena Larsen, early homesteaders. The two couples, after their marriages stayed in the area for many years and raised their families here.

 George and Helen were married in 1931. They had a family of five children; Leaon H, Hazel Ben, Doris and Marie.
  Leaon was born in Roy in September of 1931. Hazel was born in November of 1934 and Ben on March 4 1939, both in Lewistown. Doris was born in Great Falls in June of 1945 while the family lived there and George worked at the smelter. Marie was born in Lewistown in October of 1946.
  George worked for the government during the early 1940's seeding crested wheat on government land in the area and then he was employed by Walter Braiser for many years,
  They left Roy and moved to Stanford and after several more moves they finally settled in Billings where he was employed as a janitor at the college. George passed away October 6, 1980. Helen now resides in Lewistown.

  Harold and Amy were married on October 26, 1940, in Winnett. They lived at Moore for a time when Harold worked for the railroad and in 1972 they moved to Lewistown, but during most of their married life they resided in Roy and Harold was employed by Jim Bowser for many years.
  They had a large family of eleven children. Eight of them graduated from Roy High School
  Leslie the eldest, was born in Lewistown in 1942. After graduation he left the area. In 1980 he and his wife, Mary, and their children moved to Roy for a year and he was employed as the school custodian during that time. They then moved back to Tacoma, Washington. He is a CPA and has a family of six children.
  Kenneth married Vivian Pospisil, daughter of Willie and Lillian Pospisil. They live at Belgrade and have 3 children. He works on oil rigs throughout the western part of the United States.
  Clyde and Carolyn, the twins, were born on September 22, 1945. They both left the area. Clyde joined the Army and is now retired. He and his family now live in Lancaster, California. Carol (Heppner) and her three children reside in Buffalo, Montana.
  David was born in April of 1948 and married Carol Wright, the daughter of Harry and Ruth (Kauth) Wright. They live in Roundup where he teaches school and they have one daughter.
  Terry Dean was born on April 18, 1950. He is retired from the army and lives in Florida. He is married and has two children.
  Jack resides in Lewistown and is the father of three children.
  Earl was born November of 1953 and also lives in Lewistown with his wife, the former Pauline Pospisil, daughter of Willie and Lillian Pospisil, and works for Cenex Propane in Lewistown. They have three children.
  Bill was born in February of 1957. His wife is the former Kim Hartman. They have 2 children. Bill is manager of the Con Agra Elevator in Lewistown.
  Robert was born in August of 1958 and is presently living in Scotland with his wife, Charlotte, and their two daughters. He is a computer technologist for I.T.T.
  The youngest child, Sheryl, died in infancy.
  Harold passed away in August of 1975. Amy lives in Lewistown.

  Sophia Martinson was an early homesteader at the above location. She later married Emil Thompson from the Denton area. They operated the cafe in the European Hotel when Nickolsons owned it in the twenties. They moved to Ambrose North Dakota.
 

  John Mayberry was born June 23, 1889 in Lewistown, Montana, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Bill Mayberry, who lived at that time on the place that Dorman Jackson, Sr. owned.
  The family moved to Malta where John attended school. He was an early-day cowboy and well acquainted on the Phillips County ranges as well as Fergus County where he resided.
  It was along about 1916 that a Western movie production was made in the Zortman and Coburn Buttes area. Silent pictures of course. John had a horse shot out from under him in one scene and rescued a damsel in distress when the coach overturned in a creek and she came up under the wheel with her head through the spokes. It was never released due to inhumane use of animals.
  Mayberry had a good reputation and worked on ranches throughout this area, being a trusted employee of the Ben Manning Ranch at the mouth of Rock Creek. He told of helping to build the big ranch house of logs which were pegged together. They required drilling holes by hand through the thick logs, and driving pegs to secure them in place.
  Ben Manning was desperately ill the winter of 1926-27 and roads were choked with deep snow. John traveled many tough miles by horse, stage and train to Lewistown to secure a doctor's help for his friend. It was too late but John did his best to save his friend's life.
 John ranched on the south side of the river for a number of years. He bought out the Athearn ZA horses. John operated a ferry at the Towns bottom for awhile. In 1940 he bought the Roy pool hall from R. S. Barbee. He and Mike Machler operated it until 1947; then Pernell Montang ran it for one year, Mecham the next year, and Jack Baucke for one year. John and Mike took it over and ran it for the next eleven years.
  When John came to Roy he became brand inspector, and replaced veteran Walter Haney. He purchased several town lots and bought the Byford school house and moved it to Roy, north of Joe Murphy's garage, and made his home in it. He bought the Sam Copeland place by Armells Creek, north of Roy, which was his last ranch enterprise. His brand was a four hanging cross.
  John died of a self-inflicted gun-shot wound, at his Roy home August 14, 1963. He had been depressed due to ill health. He never married. He was survived by two brothers, Tom in California and Art of Cody, Wyoming; three sisters Lillian Westerman of Miles City; Mrs. C. E. Slade of Billings and Mabel Mayberry in California.
  Don Slade his nephew, spent much time with John when he was on the river and was a well-known cowboy in this area.
  John Mayberry was buried at the Lewistown City Cemetery..

Charles McArty and Katherine "Kate' Kliegel were married in 1907 in Huron, South Dakota. They along with their sons, Emmett and Casper, came to this area in 1916, approximately at the same time as the Darrahs. Kate and Sophronia (Veronica) Darrah were sisters.
  The McArtys took up a homestead close to the Red Barn. They soon sold their homestead and opened up a restaurant in Roy, which they ran for 12 years. They then moved to Grass Range, in 1928, and operated a restaurant there.
  Katherine, who was born in Cylinder, Iowa in October of 1883, died on September 3, 1942, at the age of 58. Charles moved to Billings where his sons lived about 1946 and he resided there until his passing on October 12, 1949 at age of 72.
 

  Allison Lynn McCain was born in June of 1880 in Nodaway, Iowa, the son of Anson Jay and Louisiana (Aunt Louie) Dougherty McCain. He came to Roy in 1914 with his wife, Winifred Nichols His mother and youngest brother, Roscoe, also came at the same time. His brother, Thurlow, came to Roy at a later date.
  Louisiana died in 1920, a victim of the flu epidemic, and was buried in Rapid City, South Dakota.
  Allison was associated with William Johnson in lumber, hardware, real estate and insurance businesses. Winifred became a Fergus County Deputy Sheriff. She was appointed to the office by Sheriff Guy Tullock in May of 1923. It was mostly secretarial work that she did. They built and lived in the house now occupied by Casey Jones; the lumber company was across the street.
  McCain was a large man; weighed over 200 pounds, He was a very popular man, liked by all.
  Allison McCain was the only casualty of the June 13, 1922 Roy bank robbery. He died on August 3, 1922. The death was unexpected as it was believed he would survive.
  McCain was one of eight brothers. Three survived him: Thurlow of Roy, Fred of Rapid City and another brother of Rapid City, probably Roscoe. McCain was buried in Rapid City.
  Winifred moved to Detroit, Michigan where she passed away in the 60's.

  In the spring of 1916, Thurlow McCain and his young bride of just a few months, Jane Hamilton McCain, homesteaded on Armells Creek, north of Roy. McCain became a well-known stockman and merchant during the ten years that he lived in the area. In addition to the ranch, and in partnership with his brother, Allison, they owned the McCain & McCain Lumber yard and had an interest in the McCain & Johnson Hardware, the livery stables; the Red Barn and Green Barn, all in Roy.
  The McCains had three children: Ted (Thurlow) born November 11 1916 and twins, Helen and Hazel born on February 2, 1918. All were born in Roy.
  The following story of the McCain family was written by Helen and Hazel. 

These are just bits and pieces from our memories:
  Home in Roy: the first home was a log cabin in the canyon at Armells. Later Jane McCain took out homestead papers on the lot in Roy township, where they built a house. The house is still standing. Our neighbors on one aide were Bill and Stella Johnson and their children. On the other side were the Luchts.
  On the same street was the house where Grandmother McCain lived for a short time; she died in the flu epidemic. Next to Grandmother McCain was a large house where Allison (Ally) and Winifred McCain lived. A man named Mitten lived with them; in a tent in the back yard. He was gassed in World War I
  Most of the furnishings for our home came from auctions. Mother insisted we have a phonograph so that we could listen to good music. We had no running water; It was carried from an outdoor pump. The lighting was kerosene or gas lanterns. The bathroom was a two-holer out back, but in winter we had a chemical toilet that fit in our parent's bedroom. Washing was done by hand; the big copper boiler on the stove heated the water.
   Daddy shipped cattle to South Dakota Sioux Reservation for feeding because of the extreme cold and lack of feed. He lost a lot of cattle and money in the drought and freeze,
  We owned a touring car and later bought a Ford Model T. Johnsons drove a Buick, they had bragging rights; but their car was so heavy it kept getting bogged down in mud and Daddy had to pull them out with the Ford.
  There was a church between our house and the school where we had programs, especially at Christmas when they handed out sacks with oranges and nuts and candy to the children. Fruit was a wonderful treat, hard to get. Many people believed at that time that bananas were unhealthy, but Mother had lived in Hawaii and knew that babies thrived on them, so every time that Daddy went to Lewistown he brought back apples, oranges and bananas. Nice girls, as we were, we traded our peelings and cores to other kids.

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  Every Fourth of July the whole town went out to Romundstads where they had a grove of trees and we picnicked and played games and shot off fireworks after dark.
  The stockyards were at the end of our street; across the street was the Blue Barn and the Marsh family's home We saw Lindberg in his flying Jenny perform in the field across the road from our house. Lindberg came to our house and needed water for his engine. Mother gave him a teakettle.
  The biggest event was the bank robbery. I remember Mr. Livermore jumping the fence between Johnsons and our home to get a gun.
  We saw parts of the trial in Lewistown and Allie's wife, Winifred, was a Deputy Sheriff for Fergus County at the that time. Uncle Ally died about 2 months after he was shot, from blood poisoning.
  We remember going out to Doc White's horse camp for the spring roundup; the horses evidently foraged on the range all winter. We played outside the cabin until we heard the thunder and felt the ground shake from running hooves, then we dashed inside and watched the horses coming right at the cabin; they would split and go around either side and into the corrals. They branded the colts and did whatever else you do -- probably separated them out for shipment or selling or gelding. Mother and Daddy both rode in the roundup along with Daddy's foreman, Roy Hanson. Our brand was T Bar M. After Daddy died Mother kept it registered for a good many years. Roy Hanson was given permission to use the brand and now we no longer have it registered.
  Another thought; No one knew that Mother was having twins when we were born and most doctors were involved with WWI. An old German doctor from Lewistown was in Roy, because of the flu epidemic on the day we arrived. Daddy wanted a girl and had the name all picked--Helen. Twenty minutes later another girl arrived, so Daddy named her Hazel after Freddy Haney's mother.
  Dad told us that his friend, the famous artist Charlie Russell, once  said to him, "Thurlow, you and I have got to be the two ugliest men in Montana."
  We remember watching our father decorate his saddle and boots. He used to entertain us by putting his lariat out in a big circle he would hold one end and we were to run through before he pulled on it and caught us It was very exciting and we always won!
  After Daddy died, Mother's brother came to Roy from Calgary to handle all our affairs and sell off the horses and cattle while we took off for Pullman, Washington. They lived in our house and had our car; later they took over the butcher shop. They lived in Roy for four to five years. They later moved to Sprague, Washington. Their names were George and Emma Hamilton.

  Thurlow passed away quite suddenly at his home in Roy of a heart attack on July 23, 1926 at the age of 44. He is buried in his old home town of Rapid City, South Dakota.
  Jane and the three children moved to Washington. She taught high school and was appointed Superintendent of Schools in Rockford in 1930. She left Rockford in 1937 and moved to Entiat, Washington where she continued to teach until her retirement. She passed away in April of 1973 at the age of 91. She is buried in Spokane.
  Ted served in WWII in the Coast Artillery. He later worked in the Census Bureau in Washington DC and attended George Washington University. He passed away in 1950 and is buried in Washington, DC.
  Both Hazel and Helen became teachers. Hazel taught classes in Child Development and in Art at the University of Idaho, developing the Child Development Program (Early Childhood) at Northern Idaho College. She taught college classes until her retirement in 1986.
  During Helen's teaching career she helped to develop a program for children with dyslexia. She was named "Teacher of the Year" for Washington state in 1971.

  My first memory of Roy is a cold day in February, 1925, when I was eleven years old. Dragging a sled loaded with bundles and with my kitty on top, in a gunny sack, with just her head sticking out, I followed Mother and Dad with their suitcases over snowdrifts and along the snowy street from the Depot. Roads were impassable due to the snow. We moved all our worldly goods on the train from Lewistown to our new Roy home. (I think it was called "The Barbee House" then.) Mother renamed it "The House of Sixteen Doors" after weeks of cold winds that drove the heat out and made every door and window rattle. In May we moved to the "Vickery House" and settled in to enjoy life in Roy.
  Newton Orville Miller and Sada Helen Nichols both homesteaded in the Stanford/Moore area; were married in Great Falls in 1909 and lived in Denton, where I was born in 1913. After World War I the drought and the first great depression took their home, crops and livestock, as well as Dad's job. We moved often while Dad worked for Minnesota banks holding loans on Central Montana farms. His new job as Vice President and Cashier of the First National Bank in Roy gave promise of a salaried job and a permanent home after years of insecurity. I think Dad was a farmer at heart-he soon had a large garden in the vacant lot by the house and built a shed for chickens and a cow. He enjoyed his job, involvement in community life, and especially the wonderful people. Mother was happy too, with her own home and yard for flowers and vegetables, She traveled a lot with Dad to visit the farm families.
  I was sublimely happy. Dad got a lovely little brown mare for me from Joe LaFountain, and I loved riding with other kids who had horses. I had lots of friends. There were exciting summer events like rodeos, a circus, and the Chautauqua tent shows.
  In winter the hills near the school were great for sledding, especially on moonlit nights. Standing on top of the hill we felt close to the stars. The northern lights danced around in an ethereal manner, and the town below sparkled in the snow, with glowing lights from lighted windows. There was ice skating by Pratt's farm, with cat-tail torches and a bonfire to warm wieners and fingers and toes. And there were always the dances--at The American Legion Hall, the Bohemian Hall, at Fergus and Valentine. We certainly never lacked for good times!!
  It wasn't all easy. There was no electricity or running water, I loved to go with Dad to the big ice-house near Sargeant's Ranch to climb up the mountain of sawdust to find good chunks of ice for our ice box. The pump by our back door pumped water white with alkali, good only for washing the porch and wooden sidewalk to the outhouse and for putting out a fire. For drinking and household water; Dad carried large pails of water from Marsh's farm on the east side of town. No washing machines - clothes were washed on the washboard, boiled in a large copper boiler, and hung on the line to dry. I can remember taking in frozen clothes that could stand alone - I used to dance on the snow with Dad's frozen long underwear.
  I remember the excitement of our first radio, in 1927, just in time to listen to the suspenseful reports of Lindberg's flight to Paris. To be able to hear music, comedy skits and news from everywhere was very exciting, and brought the world much closer without intruding on the freedom of the wide open spaces.
  Dad worked hard to get Roy High School started in 1928. It was only a two-year high school that continued to add classes and students until 1930, when I was graduated with my good friends Pearl Hanson and Ruby Strausburg. I remember our fun and hard work creating our first high school annual, the Rattler, and putting on our musicals and plays in Fergus and Valentine as well as the high school gym. School in Roy was fun!
  After Dad was elected Representative from Fergus County he worked for the farmer's benefits, for improved roads, for the bridge across the Missouri River, for better education. He wrote a column for the Democrat News in Lewistown about activities in the Legislature as well as a column headed "Roy News". He was very unhappy about the bank closure in 1930. He ached to help all his friends in the community who were hurt by crop failures, hard times, and over-extended credit. I cried when I left for college in Dillon, knowing we had to move away and I would not return to live in Roy again.
  For a short time Mother and Dad lived in Winnett, then moved to Bozeman where he was in charge of the Production Credit Association. My Mother passed away in Bozeman in 1935. Dad moved to Lubbock, Texas and passed away December 29, 1938.
  I married Jack Woodson in Bozeman in 1939; we moved to Lubbock, Texas for a year, then to California where Jack worked in Aircraft during World War II, then built Minute-Man Missiles for Firestone. We have two daughters, both living in California. My husband passed away in 1983.
 

  Phillip John Montang and Regina Caine were married on April 22, 1896. They had 6 children: Anna (Hamilton) 1896-1973; Phillip "Ike" 1900-1967; Elmer "Al" 1901-1973; Pernell "Cook" 1905-1989; Clyda (Goettel) 1910 and Irene (Haley) 1912-1984.
  They came to Roy from Anthon, Iowa and homesteaded northeast of Roy (T19 R22 Sec 20) in 1913. About 1915-16 they moved into Roy where Clyda and Irene attended school. Montang became a contractor and built roads in Fergus Co. Later they moved to Billings where he worked in the sugar beet refinery.
  Phillip was born August 13, 1873 in Jefferson, S.D. the son of Issac Montang. He died January 4, 1935. Regina was born August 19, 1874 in Jefferson. She died December 13, 1962.
  Anna married Hiram Hamilton.
  Ike worked for his father on road construction during the 20's and 30's. Later he lived in Billings for several years then in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. He married Lillian Awbery in 1931, she died in 1980. They had two sons; Darrell and Jerry.
  Al married Dorothy Armintrout of Roy. He worked for the Montana Highway Dept. for 30 years. Dorothy passed away in 1978 and was survived by a brother Clayton Armintrout of Yuma, Arizona.
  Cook married Lola Reid Ellis in 1935. She had two daughters, Virginia and Betty (Toomey) and they had one daughter, Sharon (Boyes). Cook was owner of the Golden West Bar in Roy. Lola passed away in 1970. Cook and Lola are buried in Superior.
  Virginia graduated from RHS in 1948. She attended St. Joseph School of Nursing in Lewistown and became a RN. She married Lester Heller in 1951 and resided in Winifred until her death in 1971 in an auto accident. She had 5 sons, 2 daughters and 3 stepdaughters.
  Clyda married Clarence Goettel in 1988. She lives in Billings.
  Irene married John Haley. She passed away in Polson.

  Harry Millington Moyer was born March 14, 1884 in Spring City, Tennessee. He came to Montana and homesteaded at Roy in 1910. He resided in Roy until he became ill. Moyer passed away on September 19, 1946. 
  Harry and Ida Bertha Gerry were married on March 1 1918. Ida was born on November 11 1882 in Orono, Ontario, Canada; the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Gerry.
  After Harrv's death she continued to reside in Roy until 1955 when she moved to Lewistown. She died June 1, 1965. There were no children.

  Joe Murphy was born in Gutherie, Oklahoma on May 7 1900. He was raised and went to school in Burrton, Kansas, the youngest of 13 children. He left Kansas at the young age of 13 after witnessing his mother's death. A team of horses she was driving spooked and bolted onto the track in front of a moving train, killing his mother and seriously injuring an older sister and infant nephew. Joe caught one of the trains through town by jumping into a box car and headed for parts unknown with only a few cents in his pocket and the clothes on his back. He never looked back or returned to his home town in Kansas.
  He arrived in Laurel Montana in the middle of a blizzard and was washed off the boxcar with a high pressure hose, After drying his clothes over a hobo's fire he walked to Billings where he caught another train to Lewistown. He then went to work at the King Ranch at Ross Fork, Montana, passing for a boy of 16. Upon leaving there he went to Valentine, Montana where his sister, Ella McLaughlin, lived and went to work for the Horseshoe Bar Ranch. For the next few years he worked for ranches throughout Montana and Wyoming and became a wheelturner for the railroad at Cheyenne, Wyoming.
  Returning to Valentine a few years later, Joe homesteaded with his brother, Buddy, next to his sister and brother-in-law, Ella and Harry McLaughlin. Joe later became employed by Mr. Lewis, who owned and operated the Roy Garage. The garage was later bought by Joe and he ran it for approximately 53 years. While in operation he sold whippits, Fords, Chevrolets, International Harvester products and McCormick-Deering products.
 

 During this period Joe also served as the town constable for many years. In later years he also farmed and ranched in conjunction with the garage. 
  Eva Town Murphy was born in Malta, Montana on November 14, 1903. She was  raised on the Town Ranch on the Missouri River.
  Eva attended school in Malta, graduating in 1922. She attended college in Monmouth, Oregon and Dillon, Montana. Eva taught school in several places in Montana and Wyoming before coming to Roy. In 1926 she arrived in Roy to teach school and met and married Joe three months later on November 13. They lived in the same house for the next 53 years.
  During that time Eva taught for about 20 years taking some years off to raise her family of two children. In the late 1920's. she was the representative for the Roy News, an early day newspaper, published in Billings. In later years she served as the news correspondent for the Lewistown Democrat News. In 1938 she organized the Republican Woman's Club of Fergus County. The early 50's found her working as a plane spotter for the Ground Observer Corps. During her years in Roy she also served on the school board, was active in the PTA, the Ladies Aid, the Women's Club and took an active part in the County Fair in Lewistown each year. The Roy produce booth won many awards, trophies and cash prizes over the years because of her dedicated help. For approximately 50 years she also served as a Public Notary and a tax consultant, making out income taxes for people in the Roy area.
  To sum up the lives of Joe and Eva Murphy you would have to say they were very hard working, conservative people. They survived the 30's, but never forgot them. They continued to live their conservative life style until they both died. Eva passed away on August 1, 1979 and Joe on July 31, 1982. They were both buried on the 4th of August. They left behind one daughter, Betty Jo Barnes of Jackson Hole, Wyoming and one son, James Murphy, of Roy.

  Jim Murphy, was born on August 4, 1940 in Lewistown. Joyce Murphy, the daughter of Louie and Grace Rindal, was born on August 27, 1941. They were united in marriage on September 10, 1960.
  After graduation from Roy High School in 1958, Jim worked for two years for Roth Construction in Montana and Wyoming. When Jim and Joyce were married in 1960, Jim took over management of his father's ranch. He left the ranch in the Spring of 1963 and went to work as maintenance man for Fergus County in the Roy area, a job he held until 1972 when he returned to take over his dad's ranch permanently.
  Jim started performing in high school rodeos in 1957, then continued in the Northern Rodeo Association after graduation through 1981. During those years he won four saddles, three of them as champion saddle bronc rider, and one as champion bull rider. He won numerous other trophies awards, and buckles during his rodeo career
  Joyce graduated from Roy High School in 1959. She attended college in Bozeman and at Eastern in Billings until her marriage. She taught at the Indian Butte School in the spring of 1961, then worked in the Roy Grocery for her brother, Glen Rindal, for a year. After that, Joyce taught at the Indian Butte School during the 1962-63 school year and then did some substitute teaching in Roy and was a teacher's aide in 1967. She clerked at the school from 1970 until 1972.
  The Murphys are members of the Roy Presbyterian Church where Joyce taught Sunday School and was Church treasurer for several years.
  Deborah Rae was the Murphy's first child, born June 18, 1961. After graduation from high school at Roy, she was employed at the First National Bank in Lewistown for several years. She is married to Mike Phillips and resides in Lewistown.
  Daniel Ray Murphy was born on the Fourth of July in 1963 and was killed in a pickup rollover in April of 1980. P. 346 Danny was a born cowboy, with rodeoing and ranching his main loves. The highlight of his life was winning the bull riding at the annual Roy Rodeo in 1979, an event in which his dad also competed. Danny was bareback champion twice in the YRA, and won many other trophies, buckles and awards.
  The Murphy's youngest sons, Justin and Dustin are currently in elementary school Justin was born on July 15, 1975 and Dusty on October 2, 1978. 

  Anthony Muschbacher and his wife, Anna, and their two sons, Anthony W. and Emil P. Muschbacher, arrived in the Roy area in March of 1920. The boys were 8 and 3 years respectively.
  Their first home was a house called "elevator shack". It was very tall and square with 9 ft. ceilings. They resided there approximately 2 year. The first year Anthony didn't attend school but then he attended school in the Little Crooked, Wilder area. One year Anthony boarded with his teacher, Miss B. A. Hickey, and went to school
  Mr. Muschbacher worked for various people in the Wilder area and for about 3 years he operated the ferry across the Missouri River for E. W. Turner. His work on the ferry was exciting at times, as this was prohibition days.
  One time in particular the authorities were on the bank of the river shouting for him to bring the "bootleggers" back, but it was not possible to turn the ferry around in mid-river so the 'bad guys' got away.
  The family moved to a farm 1 mile west of Roy in 1927. They resided in that area until retirement when they moved to Roy. As their health failed they moved to Lewistown and eventually spent the rest of their days in a rest home there. As I remember they were laid to rest in the Catholic Cemetery in Lewistown; he in November of 1960 and she in January of 1966, at the age of 81 and 76 respectively.
  Both of their sons finished school and graduated from Roy High School classes of 1931 and 1935.
  Anthony attended Coyne Electric School in Chicago, Illinois. After completing the course on radio repair; he opened a shop in Roy, but due to the poor economy he closed it and decided to work for awhile. He joined the Civilian Conservation Corps. (CCC) for 6 months to help save money to re-open his radio shop which he did later and also a service station. 
  Anthony and Mary Alice Satterfield were married July of 1937 and lived in Roy until the spring of 1942.  Anthony worked at various jobs, including managing the Farmers Union Oil Company one year.
  He attended an electronics school in Helena in the winter of 1941-42.  In September of 1942 the couple and their son, Charles, traveled to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania where Anthony attended Naval Aircraft Factory School of Inspections.
  The highlight of their 6-month's stay in Philadelphia was the birth of their daughter, Alice, on March 1, 1943.  Also they were able to visit many of their country's historic sites and reunited with Emil, who, by this time was enlisted in the Navy and was awaiting the commissioning of his ship a light cruiser, the USS Sante Fe. These years were during World War II and both brothers were happy to spend some time together.
  In April of 1943 Anthony and family traveled by car from Pennsylvania to South Dakota where he had a job inspecting aircraft for the government.  They arrived in San Diego, California on May 2, 1943.  It would be their home for 31 years.  Anthony was given a job as aircraft inspector under the Navy department at Consolidated Vultic Aircraft Corp. (Convair)
  At the end of World War II he applied for, and received a position under the Navy department of the Sound Laboratory (Point Loma) Fort Rosecross Military Reservation.  Here he was employed for 29 years until retirement in 1970.  Anthony and Mary moved to Canyon Co.,

PHOTO-DESCRIPTIONS
 

• The W. L Marsh family in front of the tent they lived in, in 1914 while building their log house on the homestead. From L. to R. Leah, Lyle, Vernon, Wilma, Glenn and Wm. L., father.
   
• The family in Roy in 1922. Back row: Vernon, Leah, mother Maude, and father William L. Front row: Glenn, Howard Wilma and Lyle.
   
• Sophia Martinson.
   
• John Mayberry
   
• George Kliegel and Katy McArty.
   
• In the office of McCain and Johnson's second store. On the left is William B. Johnson. On the right is Allison McCain, Roy's only casualty in the 1922 bank robbery.
   
• Hazel and Helen with their brother, Ted, in front of the McCain house in Roy.
   
• A group of Roy youngsters in 1924. From L. to R. Fred Haney, Ted McCain and Ethel Romundstad.
   
• Newton Orville Miller-1929
   
• The Moyer place south of Roy, now the home of Floyd and Bev Emery. Winter of 1949-50.
   
• Joe Murphy's Garage in Roy.
   
• Joe and Eva T. Murphy with Betty Jo and Jim.
   
• Joyce Murphy and her students at the Indian Butte School, Christmas 1963. Back row: Joyce holding her daughter, Debbie Jo Komarek, Dean Komarek holding Ralph Willmore, and Ken Willmore. Front row: Jeff Willmore, Wanda Sharbono, Yvonne Sharbono, Larry Hostattler and Dawn Marie Willmore. The parents of the Sharbono girls and the Hostattler boy were working on construction and were living in a trailer park at the KX Bar at Mobridge. The Indian Butte School set at the turn-off to the Speed Komarek Ranch.

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