Westley Webster Reeve and Sarah (Brown) Reeve grew up in LeSueur County, Minnesota, and were married there in December, 1875. In the spring of 1878, they loaded farm machinery, household goods, and a good supply of food into a covered wagon and started west to homestead in Dakota Territory.
Their homestead was in Kilborn Township, and like all pioneers they worked hard and the children learned to work at an early age. Sometimes they were rewarded with good crops and fair prices, but other years the rain didn't come or grasshoppers destroyed part of the crop.
Wes, as he was called, had immediately set out windbreaks and planted berry bushes and other plants for food. He built up a herd of Herefords. He bought and shipped stock, and in 1899 he bought property along the Whetstone on the north side of town and built barns and fences and a feeding lot where he could fatten cattle for market. The family moved to Milbank and he remained in the cattle business until his accidental death in 1908.
There were ten children in the family: Mae (Daniel) Conright, Amos (Ida) Reeve, Howard (Vina) Reeve, Anna (Alfred) Schafer, Edmund, Susie (Frank) Port, twins Lawrence (Amelia) Reeve and Florence (Irvin) Maier, Myron (Maude) Reeve, and Elmer (Maude) Reeve.
(Information from death certificate. Westley's parents were Amos and Lydia Reeve.)
Their homestead was in Kilborn Township, and like all pioneers they worked hard and the children learned to work at an early age. Sometimes they were rewarded with good crops and fair prices, but other years the rain didn't come or grasshoppers destroyed part of the crop.
Wes, as he was called, had immediately set out windbreaks and planted berry bushes and other plants for food. He built up a herd of Herefords. He bought and shipped stock, and in 1899 he bought property along the Whetstone on the north side of town and built barns and fences and a feeding lot where he could fatten cattle for market. The family moved to Milbank and he remained in the cattle business until his accidental death in 1908.
There were ten children in the family: Mae (Daniel) Conright, Amos (Ida) Reeve, Howard (Vina) Reeve, Anna (Alfred) Schafer, Edmund, Susie (Frank) Port, twins Lawrence (Amelia) Reeve and Florence (Irvin) Maier, Myron (Maude) Reeve, and Elmer (Maude) Reeve.
(Information from death certificate. Westley's parents were Amos and Lydia Reeve.)
Westley Webster Reeve and Sarah (Brown) Reeve grew up in LeSueur County, Minnesota, and were married there in December, 1875. In the spring of 1878, they loaded farm machinery, household goods, and a good supply of food into a covered wagon and started west to homestead in Dakota Territory.
Their homestead was in Kilborn Township, and like all pioneers they worked hard and the children learned to work at an early age. Sometimes they were rewarded with good crops and fair prices, but other years the rain didn't come or grasshoppers destroyed part of the crop.
Wes, as he was called, had immediately set out windbreaks and planted berry bushes and other plants for food. He built up a herd of Herefords. He bought and shipped stock, and in 1899 he bought property along the Whetstone on the north side of town and built barns and fences and a feeding lot where he could fatten cattle for market. The family moved to Milbank and he remained in the cattle business until his accidental death in 1908.
There were ten children in the family: Mae (Daniel) Conright, Amos (Ida) Reeve, Howard (Vina) Reeve, Anna (Alfred) Schafer, Edmund, Susie (Frank) Port, twins Lawrence (Amelia) Reeve and Florence (Irvin) Maier, Myron (Maude) Reeve, and Elmer (Maude) Reeve.
(Information from death certificate. Westley's parents were Amos and Lydia Reeve.)
Their homestead was in Kilborn Township, and like all pioneers they worked hard and the children learned to work at an early age. Sometimes they were rewarded with good crops and fair prices, but other years the rain didn't come or grasshoppers destroyed part of the crop.
Wes, as he was called, had immediately set out windbreaks and planted berry bushes and other plants for food. He built up a herd of Herefords. He bought and shipped stock, and in 1899 he bought property along the Whetstone on the north side of town and built barns and fences and a feeding lot where he could fatten cattle for market. The family moved to Milbank and he remained in the cattle business until his accidental death in 1908.
There were ten children in the family: Mae (Daniel) Conright, Amos (Ida) Reeve, Howard (Vina) Reeve, Anna (Alfred) Schafer, Edmund, Susie (Frank) Port, twins Lawrence (Amelia) Reeve and Florence (Irvin) Maier, Myron (Maude) Reeve, and Elmer (Maude) Reeve.
(Information from death certificate. Westley's parents were Amos and Lydia Reeve.)
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Pioneered in Grant County 1879
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with Sarah, near Amos
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