. Butcher's pioneer history of Custer County : and short sketches of early days in Nebraska . MISS MADGE H. BUTCHER. LYNN J. BUTCHER. AND SHORT SKETCHES OF EARLY DAYS IN NEBRASKA. 163 and had some breaking done. Some time after this the town of Walworthwas started. I joined the boomers of the new town, which was like the mush-rooms that come up in the night. I built a sod house 12 by 14 feet and movedmy wife and two babies to the new home. By this time a little girl had cometo bless us and to add joy to our hearts. A. W. Darling and myself soon hada frame gallery np on borrowed capital, h
. Butcher's pioneer history of Custer County : and short sketches of early days in Nebraska . MISS MADGE H. BUTCHER. LYNN J. BUTCHER. AND SHORT SKETCHES OF EARLY DAYS IN NEBRASKA. 163 and had some breaking done. Some time after this the town of Walworthwas started. I joined the boomers of the new town, which was like the mush-rooms that come up in the night. I built a sod house 12 by 14 feet and movedmy wife and two babies to the new home. By this time a little girl had cometo bless us and to add joy to our hearts. A. W. Darling and myself soon hada frame gallery np on borrowed capital, he furnishing the security and me theexperience, and it proved a dear experience to me. I had lived in our newhouse just six weeks when the buildings of Walworth began to be movedaway, some to West Union, two and one-half miles east, and to Sargent, sixmiles down the river. We sold the gallery and followed the building we hadonce hoped to own, and rented it for five years. The country was new andpeople were not overburdened with money, but from this time on we hadnothing to complain of for a nu
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