| Note | Soloman Sipe and Caroline came from Oil City, Butler County, Pennsylvaniawith a family of seven children to Crofton, Knox County, Nebraska, bytrain, where the railroad ended. This must have been in 1879. They thenwent by wagon to Cherry County, Nebraska. They did some farming in thatcountry, used cow chips and corn ears for fuel. Then they went to thewest of Valentine, Cherry County, Nebraska near the Niobrara river wherethe father hauled wood to Valentine which was a two or three day drive.Indians were abundant in this area, and the children were frightened manytimes by the Indians though they were friendly. At one time some Indianscame; the one Indian kept crossing his throat with his hand and thechildren thought that he meant to cut their throats. The mother, who wasnot afraid of them, understood that they wanted a chicken, which she gavethem. One so, Thomas, seventeen years old, died there of spinal meningitis. In about 1889 the family came to Tilford, South Dakota, later toSpearfish, South Dakota. Now they had eleven children. They lived inSpearfish a short time, and spent one summer in Missoula, Montana. Backthey came to Spearfish where several of the sons worked also. Four morechildren were born in this time from 1889 to 1898. The family now hafourteen living children. One son died at seventeen and one stillborndaughter. There were seven living sons and seven living daughters. Amarried daughter died leaving two children which Soloman and Carolineraised. In 1910 they took a grandson to raise also. In 1905 the family moved to Farrell, Wyoming where the sons that camewith them worked in sawmills and on farms. The father, Soloman, hadfought in the Civil War for more than four years, and being wounded wasnot able to work much as he grew older. He passed away at seventy-eightyears. Manuel who married Agnes Locke had filed on a homestead on Dry Creek,of 320 acres near Beula, Crook County, Wyoming. Their neighbors wereEvans, Vopats, and Snow. They were divorced in 1917 or 1918 and soldtheir homestead. In 1922, Manuel married Marie Talley, a sister of his brother Orn'swife. They had four sons and two daughters. Hulda Marie, born 4 February,1924: Frank L. born 12 July, 1925; Lynn M. born 3 August, 1927, died in acar wreck 30 September, 1948; Lester, born 18 May, 1929, Joyce, born 3September, 1933, married Glen Stambaugh April 1954 and died at Big horn,Wyoming 20 January, 1976; and Howard Wesley, born 23 April, 1938. The family had lived in the Farrall and Aladdin, Crook County,Wyoming vicinity when Manuel contracted timber and sawmill work until1934 or 1935 they moved to Moorcroft, Wyoming, where they bought theCornell farm near Moorcroft. They later sold this and moved to Big Horn,retiring to their home there until Manuel passed away February 1968. |