The Morrills and reminiscences . Jflp :« smmmmmtMm. llliiil. THE MORRILLS AND REMINISCENCES among them several times, driving them about to keepthem from getting covered with snow, drifting under,and freezing. In this way I saved my entire of cattle drifted under and froze. Manypeople perished during this storm. School childrenfroze to death on their way home. After the storm we proceeded on our journey,arriving in due time at our future home. Prior toleaving Iowa I had contracted for the erection of ahouse on my Nebraska claim. The house was sixteenfeet square. It was enclosed
The Morrills and reminiscences . Jflp :« smmmmmtMm. llliiil. THE MORRILLS AND REMINISCENCES among them several times, driving them about to keepthem from getting covered with snow, drifting under,and freezing. In this way I saved my entire of cattle drifted under and froze. Manypeople perished during this storm. School childrenfroze to death on their way home. After the storm we proceeded on our journey,arriving in due time at our future home. Prior toleaving Iowa I had contracted for the erection of ahouse on my Nebraska claim. The house was sixteenfeet square. It was enclosed when we arrived. Myfamily then consisted of five persons. The house wassmall, but we managed to get on very well. All thehouses in that vicinity, with one exception, were madeof sod. Nearly all the early settlers in the westernpart of Polk County were Swedes. Nearly half ofthem had come without horses or oxen. They tookhomesteads and exchanged work with their neighborsfor team work to break a few acres and to haul sodfor their houses and stables. These Swe
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