Pan Cratius, Nationalized as John Warmerdam Went west to Oklahoma and joined the 101 Ranch Cowboy and Indian show

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Nellie’s Life Story, highlights as told to Grandson Tim Rovenstine, 1 year before you passed away, stories told in San Antonio, 4334 Vespero St. 1891- Born in Bracken, Berlin Kentucky, Possibly a general store later moved to Falmouth, lived on a rented farm neat Purdy, Kentucky. 1892 – no post. 1893 Gladys her sister was born, the grandmother was rich, but still had an outhouse built in the garden. We did our bathroom needs out behind the henhouse. We knew the chickens cleaned itup. 1894 Remembered her father, sitting on a stump, speaking and said; Take that little girl (Gladys!) to her mother, she is dirty!” They lived 3 miles south of Falmouth, Kentucky. 1895 Jaley sold eggs from a side saddle for 20cents a dozen and butter for 15cents a lb. She got her over skirt stolen, and mounted the horse on a style.. She galloped with 12-15 lbs. Of produce to town to see to the doctors and lawyers. (This Nellie remembers probably after she was a widow!) Father John Marshall died, she saw the casket and heard the weeping beside the fireplace. Gladys was 2 years old and they all walked to the cementery with Sara (Fryer) Maddox Hand, stopped on return from cementery to see Grandma Fryer. She was paralyzed from a stroke, was always in a wheel chair. After John Marshall died, Mr. Purdy didn’t charge my mother for ‘rent’ for the house. 1896 Walked along the Licking River to go to school, Doel School teacher was Tom Houston. Brothers of mine would hide from her going to school to scare me, we walked l mile, hung stockings up for Christmas. 1897-1901 Blank. 1902 Came to Oklahoma, On the B and O all night from Cinncinnati, to St. Louis, and Santa Fe to take the Katy to Oklahoma. Got off at Caney, Oklahoma. It wasn’t yet a state, and called Indian Territory. Last thing Grandma Fryer said before we got on a wagon to catch the train was Oh Shoot. 1903-1905 blank. 1906 Old nigger Gabe caught 4 wild horse on the Boggy Creek, and broke them in. This is a fact. They got all mares, bred them to donkeys, (jacks) and raised a team of mules. Possibly they were Indian ponies that had escaped, these horses were broken in and were good. One was called Nigger Mane, the Nigger was the only one that Nigger Gabe was the only one that could stay on him. Hog Back was what we called one horse because he was sway back, something like a hog. 1907 We left Caddo Went to New Mexico in a covered wagon, following the Red River. Red River Land Rush it was sometimes called. Three families, John Harvey and my sister Lula, Ray and all that was old enough filed a claim in New Mexico, Ft. Sumner. 1908 I never was allowed to go to school in New Mexico. Because Mexicans were going with American children so my education stopped, from school I was all broke up I wanted to go so bad. The Mexican family was the Gonzalez family. 1909 I walked my horse on a hot day into a pond for a drink of water. When he got halfway into the pond, he layed down in the water with me on him, saddle and all. Emmit and Howard was riding him a day later and he laid down in the river with Howard or Emmit on him too. 1910 Nothing 1911 Nothing 1912 Gladys and I worked a puzzle sent it in to Warren, Pa, and would give us $100 off on a piano. All we had to pay was $8.00 a month. Howard said get it, I’ll make the payments. The piano came via rail and wagon. We kept the piano but never had lessons. Gladys kept it, left it to Howard. He had paid for it. Tim saw it in 1983 on the old homestead at Huberts in New Mexico, Ft. Sumner. 1913 Nothing’ 1914 Nothing (editors comment: She was sent away to get her away from Dutchman John Warmerdam, and John went and got her, and they ran off and got married in La Estancia. She would have been 22 or 23 at the time. The Denver Post ran their story of “Having a Dam good time” with Warmerdam…something. Jaley didn’t like the Dutchman because he was a foreigner.) 1915 Aleda was born, May 19th and only daughter in a mansion that belonged to Pardue, they rented the front room. Dr. Bernet or Bent delivered Aleda, they sent for Lula to come from Pecos Valley, she came in a buggy. John Warmerdam laid his head on the table and wept for joy. A Bent or Bernet was the lst governor of New Mexico territory murdered in 1857. 1916 Nellie says she was unhappy. 1917 Living at Lula’s house in Pecos Valley, and prairie dog town, about 3 blocks away, Nellie stood in the door with a 12 gauge shotgun and shot and killed two prarie dogs with one shot. 1918 The year the barn burned down. Some smoldering sparks whipped up at night and Aleda would always say as I told the story how the cow and calf burned, and Aleda would add, AND MY PIG. This was Pecos Valley, New Mexico. They worked for a George Drybread, John Warmerdam made trips to St. Louis and to Phoenix to take a load of cows, or to sale horses. 1919 Left Ft. Sumner to go to Hutchinson WWI was over, lived at West 2nd for $20 a month. Aleda sat on a trunk insistent to go see her daddy. Nellie was deciding to NOT go, as the marriage was not really that happy. Warmerdam was in seasonal work, wheat harvesting. 1920 Eden and Emitt died the same year, within 6 months. Nellie went with Aleda for her lst day of school. This was the 4th Avenue School. Jaley Marshall undoubtedly visited Hutchinson, she had passes on the Santa Fe Railway, as her boys were section foremen. 1921 Was saved about this time. They just got back from proving up the claim in New Mexico had to be there 6 months, and then went back to Hutchison, there was a tent meeting on Cochran, a white man, and a black man Allen Pollard. John was in wheat harvest. I wrote and told him he said, “I told my boss, my wife has got mixed up with niggers-when I get home I’ll stop it” But John Warmerdam never interfered with her experience. 1922 Nothing 1923 Nothing 1924 John Warmerdam got saved about summer time at the Church of God. He didn’t want to go to the Nazarene. Because Nellie kept preaching at him, he decided to go to another church, near Carey Salt company where he worked. Some of the workers there had been going, a McAlister. Beatrice Harrel Nellies best friend would pick her up and go to the Nazarene. For Aleda’s sake, John joined Nellie and attended the Nazarene. But after the meeting, he would go across the street to the Church of God meeting. We caught him testifying one night at the other church! Nellie asked him if he felt different. He said NO, but I know what I’m going to do. He took off swinging the dinner bucket and got some kind of anointing, he was real demonstrative, dancing and making a show of himself in the street. When he started with me to the Nazarene, his worker buddies at Carey Salt begged him to come back to the Church of God. He said, NO, my family needs me at the Nazarene. 1925 Nothing 1926 Nothing 1927 We purchased a piano for Aleda this year. Snooky we use to call her. She was 12 years old. W.D. Dunivan was there when Nellie asked him to put the piano here, and then here., and it was on all 4 walls until she had it back where she started. Paid $80 for the piano, and it was her birthday gift. Beatriz Harrel helped me pick it out. We rode the bus to the music store. 1928 Sister Gladys died, a telephone operator in Ft. Sumner, she refused to listen to John Warmerdam’s conversion testimony, and told him never again to mention it to her. She had some real harsh words to say, probably an embittered middle age girl that ‘momma’ never let get married- 1929 Stock market crashed, we didn’t loose anything. 1930 Aleda dropped out of public school, we put her in Breese a Christian Nazarene school. 1931 Nothing 1932 Husband John lost his job during the depression at the Salt Plant, and took the last check and bought a milk cow, to get us through the depression. 1933 Aleda graduated from Breese high school. 1934 Jaley Marshall died, in Ft. Sumner, Aleda was 18 she stayed at Ray Pritchards. John Warmerdam and Walt worked at Zooks. Aleda helped as a kitchen worker during harvest. After the funeral, we lived in an apartment on 3rd with otie and Viola Drapers. 1935 Aleda met John Rovenstine, John Warmerdam had a pig hiddine in the Brush Pile, it was against city ordinance to have a pig in city limits, the cow got loose, ate alfalfa and died. 1936 John Warmerdam was operated on for a large tumor. John Rovenstine visited. 1937 Aleda got married, May lst, at 5th and Baker she had seen Johnny Rovenstien 3X married after the church service. 1938 Nellie rode a train to Colorado Springs to see her first grand baby,Wendell at 617 N. Cooper. 1939 Nothing 1940 Loren Rovenstine born, Nellie went to the hospital to see him soon 1941 Lived at Nickerson during Pearl Harbor, a lot of damage. 1942 Nothing 1943 Nothing 1944 Tim born in Hutchinson 1945 Nothing 1946 Nothing 1947 Nothing 1948 Lived in sandhills, north of Hutchinson 25 acres here we grew a nice garden killed a few snakes, lots of sandhill plums 1949 Mark Rovenstine was born, Hutchinson. 1950 Nothing 1951 Chistmas eve at 100E. 7h Rovenstine 4 boys, Big Tree got a pair of slipper and Timmy got a spelling game. Korea war was on full strength. 1952 Charles Joseph born, Eva, Walts wife buried this year. 1953 Nothing 1954 Nothing 1955 Married to WD Dunivan, at Vera Closes house on Aug 5th Ray Jellison performed the wedding Timmy didn’t go, he was jealous. Walt had a 1951 Ford black pickup that Johnny Rovenstine bought and Tim cracked the block, putting cold water in a a hot motor. 1956 Nothing 1957 Blizzard of march, worst in modern history. Married to Wal, snow was level with top of garages. Higher than the eaves. Living in Sublete, taking care of Sam Snavely, Attended Nazarene church in Sublette. 1958 Nothing 1959 Nothing 1960 Nothing 1961 Nothing 1962 May of that year Mom and Walt went to Bartlesville, senior day with Tim and JuLee Wahlborg. We stayed at Wendell and Esthers place. Tim drove carelessly and drove into a ditch. Walt kept telling tim to slow down. 1963 Nothing 1964 Nothing 1965 Nothing 1966 Nohing 1967 Lula died in Sudan, Nellies sister. 1968 Nothing 1969 Lived in a house next to the walnut grove, McFarland street. Sold it to Willard Riggs for $1,500 dollars The family was living in Augusta, Ks. 1970 Moved to Ft. Dodge, Ks, soldiers home, lived in a cottage. 1971

After John Warmeerdam died in 1953, Nellie married a very dear family friend, a widower Walter D. Dunivan.

W.D. Dunivan Life Story.