Histories

He questioned whether there was life after death. He got very sick and he told his wife that when he got on the other side and if there WAS another side, he would take one of his daughters. Shortly after he died, both Thelma and her sister, Cecil got sick. Thelma was the sickest, so Lena went to be with her thinking she would be the one to die. Cecil got sicker and died fairly quickly.

There is another story of him being a rodeo star. He quit the rodeo after he had tipped his hat to a young lady in the audience, but then he came in second on the bucking bronco. He rode horses in the Pendleton Round up. In Pendleton, OR