George Edward Nelson married Edna May Johnston on March 4, 1917. They lived for some time in Colorado near Walsh. After his parents moved to Goodwell, he returned to Texas County, Okla. to farm.
During the depression and dust bowl days of Oklahoma, they found farming a very hard business, especially, since he had also assumed the farm debts which had incurred as a result of dry weather and hard times. He worked long and hard and in spite of the hardships and seemingly impossible odds, they stayed. Many neighbors had given up and left to escape the choking dust and depressing hard times that seemed to never end.
Edna had come to the Panhandle with her family, when they were enroute to Colorado. Her father, Andrew Clem Johnston, and mother, Julia Adeline Harris, soon moved to Cortez, Colorado. Edna was born in Neosho, Newton County, Missouri. She arrived in the Panhandle area in a wagon.
George and Edna had three sons, Shirley Frederick, born July 12, 1918, Raymond, born September 30, 1919, and Donald Orren, born June 26, 1934.
He used to sit on his front porch and remark of the changes he had seen take place since he first came to this county in 1909. He said when he first came they harvested by hand and used 15 to 20 men to help. Now he watches his son crawl on the combine and cut more wheat in an hour than he could cut all day. One day he said, "I have lived to see wagons and railroads cross this country and men fly to the moon. That is more progress than had occurred since the beginning of time, and it happened in my llfetime. When I was a child and until a few years ago, I could sit out in the yard and see few lights and hear very little noise, except, for the night sounds of insects, now light beam from every direction and motors hum all night.
Published in the Guymon Daily Herald, Guymon, Okla., Monday, July 2, 1990, p. 2.
During the depression and dust bowl days of Oklahoma, they found farming a very hard business, especially, since he had also assumed the farm debts which had incurred as a result of dry weather and hard times. He worked long and hard and in spite of the hardships and seemingly impossible odds, they stayed. Many neighbors had given up and left to escape the choking dust and depressing hard times that seemed to never end.
Edna had come to the Panhandle with her family, when they were enroute to Colorado. Her father, Andrew Clem Johnston, and mother, Julia Adeline Harris, soon moved to Cortez, Colorado. Edna was born in Neosho, Newton County, Missouri. She arrived in the Panhandle area in a wagon.
George and Edna had three sons, Shirley Frederick, born July 12, 1918, Raymond, born September 30, 1919, and Donald Orren, born June 26, 1934.
He used to sit on his front porch and remark of the changes he had seen take place since he first came to this county in 1909. He said when he first came they harvested by hand and used 15 to 20 men to help. Now he watches his son crawl on the combine and cut more wheat in an hour than he could cut all day. One day he said, "I have lived to see wagons and railroads cross this country and men fly to the moon. That is more progress than had occurred since the beginning of time, and it happened in my llfetime. When I was a child and until a few years ago, I could sit out in the yard and see few lights and hear very little noise, except, for the night sounds of insects, now light beam from every direction and motors hum all night.
Published in the Guymon Daily Herald, Guymon, Okla., Monday, July 2, 1990, p. 2.
George Edward Nelson married Edna May Johnston on March 4, 1917. They lived for some time in Colorado near Walsh. After his parents moved to Goodwell, he returned to Texas County, Okla. to farm.
During the depression and dust bowl days of Oklahoma, they found farming a very hard business, especially, since he had also assumed the farm debts which had incurred as a result of dry weather and hard times. He worked long and hard and in spite of the hardships and seemingly impossible odds, they stayed. Many neighbors had given up and left to escape the choking dust and depressing hard times that seemed to never end.
Edna had come to the Panhandle with her family, when they were enroute to Colorado. Her father, Andrew Clem Johnston, and mother, Julia Adeline Harris, soon moved to Cortez, Colorado. Edna was born in Neosho, Newton County, Missouri. She arrived in the Panhandle area in a wagon.
George and Edna had three sons, Shirley Frederick, born July 12, 1918, Raymond, born September 30, 1919, and Donald Orren, born June 26, 1934.
He used to sit on his front porch and remark of the changes he had seen take place since he first came to this county in 1909. He said when he first came they harvested by hand and used 15 to 20 men to help. Now he watches his son crawl on the combine and cut more wheat in an hour than he could cut all day. One day he said, "I have lived to see wagons and railroads cross this country and men fly to the moon. That is more progress than had occurred since the beginning of time, and it happened in my llfetime. When I was a child and until a few years ago, I could sit out in the yard and see few lights and hear very little noise, except, for the night sounds of insects, now light beam from every direction and motors hum all night.
Published in the Guymon Daily Herald, Guymon, Okla., Monday, July 2, 1990, p. 2.
During the depression and dust bowl days of Oklahoma, they found farming a very hard business, especially, since he had also assumed the farm debts which had incurred as a result of dry weather and hard times. He worked long and hard and in spite of the hardships and seemingly impossible odds, they stayed. Many neighbors had given up and left to escape the choking dust and depressing hard times that seemed to never end.
Edna had come to the Panhandle with her family, when they were enroute to Colorado. Her father, Andrew Clem Johnston, and mother, Julia Adeline Harris, soon moved to Cortez, Colorado. Edna was born in Neosho, Newton County, Missouri. She arrived in the Panhandle area in a wagon.
George and Edna had three sons, Shirley Frederick, born July 12, 1918, Raymond, born September 30, 1919, and Donald Orren, born June 26, 1934.
He used to sit on his front porch and remark of the changes he had seen take place since he first came to this county in 1909. He said when he first came they harvested by hand and used 15 to 20 men to help. Now he watches his son crawl on the combine and cut more wheat in an hour than he could cut all day. One day he said, "I have lived to see wagons and railroads cross this country and men fly to the moon. That is more progress than had occurred since the beginning of time, and it happened in my llfetime. When I was a child and until a few years ago, I could sit out in the yard and see few lights and hear very little noise, except, for the night sounds of insects, now light beam from every direction and motors hum all night.
Published in the Guymon Daily Herald, Guymon, Okla., Monday, July 2, 1990, p. 2.
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