Ed Morgan was 11 years old in 1895 when his family left their farm east of Washington IN and traveled to Nebraska . "It was easier to get on out there," he said. "More room and good farmland."
They went by train with their household goods and horses and milk cows loaded in a box car. They rented a farm for seven years, came back to Indiana and promptly went west again. "It was quite a change back here. Our fields out there were half a mile long, and here they were 40 rods."
After 1902 the young Ed worked for his uncle (Kim Morgan) a while and on a ranch and in 1911 homesteaded in the sand hills of Nebraska. His house there was part wood and part sod, but he had built and lived in several sod houses. The only trees in that country were ones the farmers set out in a grove, he explained. Sod houses were not only easier to come by, but were cool in summer and warm in winter with walls two feet thick.
The Morgan photograph album has a picture of Ed -plowing with a six house span and he remembers the first late model threshing machine he used threshing 1,000 bushels in half a day.
In 1916 he traded a pair of horses for a model T Ford, but when his children by his first marriage went to school he remembers that they drove the three-and-a-half miles in a buggy.
"The Old West wasn't like the picture shows," he said" They show cowboys out chasing cattle on the run. I've worked with men but I never saw them running. And in all my time there I only saw two fellows carrying guns. They just had rifles on their saddles in case of coyotes going after the calves."
In 1937 Ed came back and married Ethel Prosser, a childhood neighbor. The two of them had gone to school together in the Wathen school north of Billings crossroad, the neighborhood where Ethel grew up. She had been a member of Bethany Church.
They farmed here until 20 years ago when they sold the place and moved to town. Their furnishings include an elaborately carved settee and other pieces from Mrs. Morgan's family that are over 100 years old.
Both of the Morgans are more interested in the thing they have planned for the coming months than in the way thing were long ago, but the memories are there.
Thomas "Ed" Morgan and Sadie Hendrix Morgan were the parents of 4 children:
Nathaniel "Jack" 1905
Lewis Valentine 1908 -twin
Lucille Adeline 1908 - twin
Glen Howard. 1910
They went by train with their household goods and horses and milk cows loaded in a box car. They rented a farm for seven years, came back to Indiana and promptly went west again. "It was quite a change back here. Our fields out there were half a mile long, and here they were 40 rods."
After 1902 the young Ed worked for his uncle (Kim Morgan) a while and on a ranch and in 1911 homesteaded in the sand hills of Nebraska. His house there was part wood and part sod, but he had built and lived in several sod houses. The only trees in that country were ones the farmers set out in a grove, he explained. Sod houses were not only easier to come by, but were cool in summer and warm in winter with walls two feet thick.
The Morgan photograph album has a picture of Ed -plowing with a six house span and he remembers the first late model threshing machine he used threshing 1,000 bushels in half a day.
In 1916 he traded a pair of horses for a model T Ford, but when his children by his first marriage went to school he remembers that they drove the three-and-a-half miles in a buggy.
"The Old West wasn't like the picture shows," he said" They show cowboys out chasing cattle on the run. I've worked with men but I never saw them running. And in all my time there I only saw two fellows carrying guns. They just had rifles on their saddles in case of coyotes going after the calves."
In 1937 Ed came back and married Ethel Prosser, a childhood neighbor. The two of them had gone to school together in the Wathen school north of Billings crossroad, the neighborhood where Ethel grew up. She had been a member of Bethany Church.
They farmed here until 20 years ago when they sold the place and moved to town. Their furnishings include an elaborately carved settee and other pieces from Mrs. Morgan's family that are over 100 years old.
Both of the Morgans are more interested in the thing they have planned for the coming months than in the way thing were long ago, but the memories are there.
Thomas "Ed" Morgan and Sadie Hendrix Morgan were the parents of 4 children:
Nathaniel "Jack" 1905
Lewis Valentine 1908 -twin
Lucille Adeline 1908 - twin
Glen Howard. 1910
Ed Morgan was 11 years old in 1895 when his family left their farm east of Washington IN and traveled to Nebraska . "It was easier to get on out there," he said. "More room and good farmland."
They went by train with their household goods and horses and milk cows loaded in a box car. They rented a farm for seven years, came back to Indiana and promptly went west again. "It was quite a change back here. Our fields out there were half a mile long, and here they were 40 rods."
After 1902 the young Ed worked for his uncle (Kim Morgan) a while and on a ranch and in 1911 homesteaded in the sand hills of Nebraska. His house there was part wood and part sod, but he had built and lived in several sod houses. The only trees in that country were ones the farmers set out in a grove, he explained. Sod houses were not only easier to come by, but were cool in summer and warm in winter with walls two feet thick.
The Morgan photograph album has a picture of Ed -plowing with a six house span and he remembers the first late model threshing machine he used threshing 1,000 bushels in half a day.
In 1916 he traded a pair of horses for a model T Ford, but when his children by his first marriage went to school he remembers that they drove the three-and-a-half miles in a buggy.
"The Old West wasn't like the picture shows," he said" They show cowboys out chasing cattle on the run. I've worked with men but I never saw them running. And in all my time there I only saw two fellows carrying guns. They just had rifles on their saddles in case of coyotes going after the calves."
In 1937 Ed came back and married Ethel Prosser, a childhood neighbor. The two of them had gone to school together in the Wathen school north of Billings crossroad, the neighborhood where Ethel grew up. She had been a member of Bethany Church.
They farmed here until 20 years ago when they sold the place and moved to town. Their furnishings include an elaborately carved settee and other pieces from Mrs. Morgan's family that are over 100 years old.
Both of the Morgans are more interested in the thing they have planned for the coming months than in the way thing were long ago, but the memories are there.
Thomas "Ed" Morgan and Sadie Hendrix Morgan were the parents of 4 children:
Nathaniel "Jack" 1905
Lewis Valentine 1908 -twin
Lucille Adeline 1908 - twin
Glen Howard. 1910
They went by train with their household goods and horses and milk cows loaded in a box car. They rented a farm for seven years, came back to Indiana and promptly went west again. "It was quite a change back here. Our fields out there were half a mile long, and here they were 40 rods."
After 1902 the young Ed worked for his uncle (Kim Morgan) a while and on a ranch and in 1911 homesteaded in the sand hills of Nebraska. His house there was part wood and part sod, but he had built and lived in several sod houses. The only trees in that country were ones the farmers set out in a grove, he explained. Sod houses were not only easier to come by, but were cool in summer and warm in winter with walls two feet thick.
The Morgan photograph album has a picture of Ed -plowing with a six house span and he remembers the first late model threshing machine he used threshing 1,000 bushels in half a day.
In 1916 he traded a pair of horses for a model T Ford, but when his children by his first marriage went to school he remembers that they drove the three-and-a-half miles in a buggy.
"The Old West wasn't like the picture shows," he said" They show cowboys out chasing cattle on the run. I've worked with men but I never saw them running. And in all my time there I only saw two fellows carrying guns. They just had rifles on their saddles in case of coyotes going after the calves."
In 1937 Ed came back and married Ethel Prosser, a childhood neighbor. The two of them had gone to school together in the Wathen school north of Billings crossroad, the neighborhood where Ethel grew up. She had been a member of Bethany Church.
They farmed here until 20 years ago when they sold the place and moved to town. Their furnishings include an elaborately carved settee and other pieces from Mrs. Morgan's family that are over 100 years old.
Both of the Morgans are more interested in the thing they have planned for the coming months than in the way thing were long ago, but the memories are there.
Thomas "Ed" Morgan and Sadie Hendrix Morgan were the parents of 4 children:
Nathaniel "Jack" 1905
Lewis Valentine 1908 -twin
Lucille Adeline 1908 - twin
Glen Howard. 1910
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