Author: larry

Like I said dad needed all the help he could get on the ol’ Nicholson place; I remember he borrowed my uncle Ports Old 8N Ford tractor to put in a crop on some of the land SE of the barn and I helped him Read More …

      Some time at the end of a hot summer around1948 on the Nicholson place I was fast asleep in bed with my brother J.D.on the old farm near Ash Grove Mo. (I was about 8 or 9 he was about 13). When Ol’ Major Read More …

Louis and Ava – The Early Years For Their Sixtieth Wedding Anniversary – July 6, 1995 by Julie Inman Louis ‘Red’ Inman was working for Lester Bolin in Battlefield, Missouri when he first laid eyes on Lester’s little sister, Ava. She was a shy young Read More …

The old farm house like I said stood just below the crest of a hill. Next to the house was a cellar were mom kept potatoes and some can fruit . West to the corner across a fence was the orchard south of the orchard Read More …

The Nicholson Place was on the corner of a gravel Rd. back then( now blacktop). If you use Google earth it was off of W highway T out of Bois’Darc Mo. on to Farm Rd. 17 at the curve that swung due north to Ash Read More …