From "The Pierre Gerardy Family in America," by Evelyn Potter Park, with Vera Gerardy Shepherd and Dale Gerardy, 1979, pp. 7, 15-16, 71-72
Frank Charles Gerardy, son of Peter and Caroline (Christel), Gerardy was born April 10, 1877, on the family farm near Fact, Kansas, fifteen miles northeast of Clay Center, Kansas. He died August 12, 1951, age 74, at Clay Center, Kansas, and was buried at Greenwood Cemetery, Clay Center. He was married on November 29, 1906, to Susie Maude Richard, the daughter of Thomas Alexander Richard and Susanna Melissa "Lissa" Hamilton. Maude was born January 31, 1883, near Welda, Anderson County, Kansas, and died Sept. 7, 1973, age 90, at Clay Center, Kansas. She, too, was buried at Greenwood Cemetery.
When Frank and Maude established their home on the Gerardy farm in 1906, Fact had a few houses, a United Brethren Church, a blacksmith shop, and a general store that sold a variety of necessities and also housed the community post office. The school was about one-half mile south. All this was on the same section of land just west of the farm. Although the store and post office are no longer there, the community name remains. The location still has the blacksmith shop that was converted to a welding shop. The old limestone church building is in regular use by the 15 united Methodist congregation. The Goshen Congregational Church which was located one mile east and one mile south of Fact is no longer there.
Farming practices have changed over the years. During the years Frank lived there he emphasized hog production in conjunction with beef cattle. He liked to have hogs in the same feed lot with cattle on feed. His hogs were fed lots of tankage, shorts, bran, and wheat middlings. These were considered more or less waste and/or of inferior quality, but now we know them to be high in protein, minerals and vitamins. He was very fond of caring for the animals. He enjoyed looking after his own stock and also inspecting the stock of friends and neighbors. He delighted in weight-guessing contests, though in his case it wasn't so much of a guess as he had a good farm scale so fenced that he could easily and often weigh his own stock. Therefore he knew what a 213# hog or a 900# steer looked like. Frank liked good horses and mules, and his work stock, while not fancy, was of good quality. He took excellent care of them; only the best oats and hay was good enough for them. During hot weather it was customary to give the teams water at mid-morning and mid-afternoon, and after a hard day's work in the fields it was routine to wash the horses' shoulders with salt water. Frank also liked to "break" or train young work animals and he was quite successful at it. He could get lots out of a team. A major disaster near the end of this period was the loss of a newly purchased span of fine spirited mules. They managed to hang themselves in their halter ropes the first night they were tied in their stall in the barn. Another disaster of the period was a hog cholera epidemic that discouraged hog production for many years.
Frank and Maude provided a loving home for his father, Peter, in the late years of his life. However, at the time of his final illness he was cared for by his daughter, Anna Faivre, in her home in Clay Center. Charles, the first son in the family, was about 2½ years old at that time and remembers Grandpa's long white beard. Dale was born about ten days before his grandfather died.
Frank and Maude Gerardy, with whom Peter lived his last years, said Peter would sit on the west porch in the evening and chant in Latin. They believed it was the Catholic mass.
In 1913 Frank moved his family closer to town to a farm known as the "Lamb Place" in the Hayes community, five miles northeast of Clay Center. Vera was born there. In 1924 they again moved to within three miles of Clay Center to the "Watts Place." Here they farmed until they retired and moved to 503 Crawford Street, Clay Center, Kansas.
Being a man of strong physique, Frank thoroughly enjoyed activity. He was six feet tall and in his prime weighed 225 pounds, none of it fat. This was a fortunate characteristic for a farmer in the early 20th century. Most of the work was done by manpower or two-horsepower. Frank marveled in the changes in our country that occurred in the last fifty years of his life, such as: from horse and buggy to cars and airplanes, from wagons to trucks of ever larger sizes, from horse drawn reapers and threshers to steam powered threshers to giant combines. Telephones and radios came into use and television was just beginning to change entertainment ways. Peaceful use of atomic power was only being hinted at by the dreadful atomic bomb. Of course, space exploration was still in the future.
Although he was not very articulate about such things, he had a strong belief in the spiritual and moral values of the church. He and his family participated in all phases of church life. At an early age Frank united with the Goshen Congregational Church, which was then located near Fact. He later transferred his membership to the Hayes Methodist Church and then to the First Methodist Church in Clay Center where he was an active member at the time of his death.
Although Frank lived on rented farms most of his adult life, he maintained ownership of the Gerardy farm near Fact and was actively concerned with the farming operations there. His sons or grandsons have operated it from 1933 to the present [1979].
From the obituary of Frank C. Gerardy: "Through his love for people, Mr. Gerardy had a wonderful ability for making friends, but his greatest interest was in his home and his family. He also was interested in a wide circle of friends, relatives, and neighbors and the memory of his cheerful personality will linger long with them (as will the memory of his extraordinary broad handclasp). It may well be said that Frank Gerardy was an outstanding man in his community, and he never went back on a promise or an agreement. His word was as good as his bond. Integrity was a keystone of his personality."
Mr. Gerardy died at the Clay Center Municipal Hospital after a heart attack and brief illness.
Most of it was written by his children Dale and Vera.
Note: I got this information from Dr. Darrell Brown
Frank Charles Gerardy, son of Peter and Caroline (Christel), Gerardy was born April 10, 1877, on the family farm near Fact, Kansas, fifteen miles northeast of Clay Center, Kansas. He died August 12, 1951, age 74, at Clay Center, Kansas, and was buried at Greenwood Cemetery, Clay Center. He was married on November 29, 1906, to Susie Maude Richard, the daughter of Thomas Alexander Richard and Susanna Melissa "Lissa" Hamilton. Maude was born January 31, 1883, near Welda, Anderson County, Kansas, and died Sept. 7, 1973, age 90, at Clay Center, Kansas. She, too, was buried at Greenwood Cemetery.
When Frank and Maude established their home on the Gerardy farm in 1906, Fact had a few houses, a United Brethren Church, a blacksmith shop, and a general store that sold a variety of necessities and also housed the community post office. The school was about one-half mile south. All this was on the same section of land just west of the farm. Although the store and post office are no longer there, the community name remains. The location still has the blacksmith shop that was converted to a welding shop. The old limestone church building is in regular use by the 15 united Methodist congregation. The Goshen Congregational Church which was located one mile east and one mile south of Fact is no longer there.
Farming practices have changed over the years. During the years Frank lived there he emphasized hog production in conjunction with beef cattle. He liked to have hogs in the same feed lot with cattle on feed. His hogs were fed lots of tankage, shorts, bran, and wheat middlings. These were considered more or less waste and/or of inferior quality, but now we know them to be high in protein, minerals and vitamins. He was very fond of caring for the animals. He enjoyed looking after his own stock and also inspecting the stock of friends and neighbors. He delighted in weight-guessing contests, though in his case it wasn't so much of a guess as he had a good farm scale so fenced that he could easily and often weigh his own stock. Therefore he knew what a 213# hog or a 900# steer looked like. Frank liked good horses and mules, and his work stock, while not fancy, was of good quality. He took excellent care of them; only the best oats and hay was good enough for them. During hot weather it was customary to give the teams water at mid-morning and mid-afternoon, and after a hard day's work in the fields it was routine to wash the horses' shoulders with salt water. Frank also liked to "break" or train young work animals and he was quite successful at it. He could get lots out of a team. A major disaster near the end of this period was the loss of a newly purchased span of fine spirited mules. They managed to hang themselves in their halter ropes the first night they were tied in their stall in the barn. Another disaster of the period was a hog cholera epidemic that discouraged hog production for many years.
Frank and Maude provided a loving home for his father, Peter, in the late years of his life. However, at the time of his final illness he was cared for by his daughter, Anna Faivre, in her home in Clay Center. Charles, the first son in the family, was about 2½ years old at that time and remembers Grandpa's long white beard. Dale was born about ten days before his grandfather died.
Frank and Maude Gerardy, with whom Peter lived his last years, said Peter would sit on the west porch in the evening and chant in Latin. They believed it was the Catholic mass.
In 1913 Frank moved his family closer to town to a farm known as the "Lamb Place" in the Hayes community, five miles northeast of Clay Center. Vera was born there. In 1924 they again moved to within three miles of Clay Center to the "Watts Place." Here they farmed until they retired and moved to 503 Crawford Street, Clay Center, Kansas.
Being a man of strong physique, Frank thoroughly enjoyed activity. He was six feet tall and in his prime weighed 225 pounds, none of it fat. This was a fortunate characteristic for a farmer in the early 20th century. Most of the work was done by manpower or two-horsepower. Frank marveled in the changes in our country that occurred in the last fifty years of his life, such as: from horse and buggy to cars and airplanes, from wagons to trucks of ever larger sizes, from horse drawn reapers and threshers to steam powered threshers to giant combines. Telephones and radios came into use and television was just beginning to change entertainment ways. Peaceful use of atomic power was only being hinted at by the dreadful atomic bomb. Of course, space exploration was still in the future.
Although he was not very articulate about such things, he had a strong belief in the spiritual and moral values of the church. He and his family participated in all phases of church life. At an early age Frank united with the Goshen Congregational Church, which was then located near Fact. He later transferred his membership to the Hayes Methodist Church and then to the First Methodist Church in Clay Center where he was an active member at the time of his death.
Although Frank lived on rented farms most of his adult life, he maintained ownership of the Gerardy farm near Fact and was actively concerned with the farming operations there. His sons or grandsons have operated it from 1933 to the present [1979].
From the obituary of Frank C. Gerardy: "Through his love for people, Mr. Gerardy had a wonderful ability for making friends, but his greatest interest was in his home and his family. He also was interested in a wide circle of friends, relatives, and neighbors and the memory of his cheerful personality will linger long with them (as will the memory of his extraordinary broad handclasp). It may well be said that Frank Gerardy was an outstanding man in his community, and he never went back on a promise or an agreement. His word was as good as his bond. Integrity was a keystone of his personality."
Mr. Gerardy died at the Clay Center Municipal Hospital after a heart attack and brief illness.
Most of it was written by his children Dale and Vera.
Note: I got this information from Dr. Darrell Brown
From "The Pierre Gerardy Family in America," by Evelyn Potter Park, with Vera Gerardy Shepherd and Dale Gerardy, 1979, pp. 7, 15-16, 71-72
Frank Charles Gerardy, son of Peter and Caroline (Christel), Gerardy was born April 10, 1877, on the family farm near Fact, Kansas, fifteen miles northeast of Clay Center, Kansas. He died August 12, 1951, age 74, at Clay Center, Kansas, and was buried at Greenwood Cemetery, Clay Center. He was married on November 29, 1906, to Susie Maude Richard, the daughter of Thomas Alexander Richard and Susanna Melissa "Lissa" Hamilton. Maude was born January 31, 1883, near Welda, Anderson County, Kansas, and died Sept. 7, 1973, age 90, at Clay Center, Kansas. She, too, was buried at Greenwood Cemetery.
When Frank and Maude established their home on the Gerardy farm in 1906, Fact had a few houses, a United Brethren Church, a blacksmith shop, and a general store that sold a variety of necessities and also housed the community post office. The school was about one-half mile south. All this was on the same section of land just west of the farm. Although the store and post office are no longer there, the community name remains. The location still has the blacksmith shop that was converted to a welding shop. The old limestone church building is in regular use by the 15 united Methodist congregation. The Goshen Congregational Church which was located one mile east and one mile south of Fact is no longer there.
Farming practices have changed over the years. During the years Frank lived there he emphasized hog production in conjunction with beef cattle. He liked to have hogs in the same feed lot with cattle on feed. His hogs were fed lots of tankage, shorts, bran, and wheat middlings. These were considered more or less waste and/or of inferior quality, but now we know them to be high in protein, minerals and vitamins. He was very fond of caring for the animals. He enjoyed looking after his own stock and also inspecting the stock of friends and neighbors. He delighted in weight-guessing contests, though in his case it wasn't so much of a guess as he had a good farm scale so fenced that he could easily and often weigh his own stock. Therefore he knew what a 213# hog or a 900# steer looked like. Frank liked good horses and mules, and his work stock, while not fancy, was of good quality. He took excellent care of them; only the best oats and hay was good enough for them. During hot weather it was customary to give the teams water at mid-morning and mid-afternoon, and after a hard day's work in the fields it was routine to wash the horses' shoulders with salt water. Frank also liked to "break" or train young work animals and he was quite successful at it. He could get lots out of a team. A major disaster near the end of this period was the loss of a newly purchased span of fine spirited mules. They managed to hang themselves in their halter ropes the first night they were tied in their stall in the barn. Another disaster of the period was a hog cholera epidemic that discouraged hog production for many years.
Frank and Maude provided a loving home for his father, Peter, in the late years of his life. However, at the time of his final illness he was cared for by his daughter, Anna Faivre, in her home in Clay Center. Charles, the first son in the family, was about 2½ years old at that time and remembers Grandpa's long white beard. Dale was born about ten days before his grandfather died.
Frank and Maude Gerardy, with whom Peter lived his last years, said Peter would sit on the west porch in the evening and chant in Latin. They believed it was the Catholic mass.
In 1913 Frank moved his family closer to town to a farm known as the "Lamb Place" in the Hayes community, five miles northeast of Clay Center. Vera was born there. In 1924 they again moved to within three miles of Clay Center to the "Watts Place." Here they farmed until they retired and moved to 503 Crawford Street, Clay Center, Kansas.
Being a man of strong physique, Frank thoroughly enjoyed activity. He was six feet tall and in his prime weighed 225 pounds, none of it fat. This was a fortunate characteristic for a farmer in the early 20th century. Most of the work was done by manpower or two-horsepower. Frank marveled in the changes in our country that occurred in the last fifty years of his life, such as: from horse and buggy to cars and airplanes, from wagons to trucks of ever larger sizes, from horse drawn reapers and threshers to steam powered threshers to giant combines. Telephones and radios came into use and television was just beginning to change entertainment ways. Peaceful use of atomic power was only being hinted at by the dreadful atomic bomb. Of course, space exploration was still in the future.
Although he was not very articulate about such things, he had a strong belief in the spiritual and moral values of the church. He and his family participated in all phases of church life. At an early age Frank united with the Goshen Congregational Church, which was then located near Fact. He later transferred his membership to the Hayes Methodist Church and then to the First Methodist Church in Clay Center where he was an active member at the time of his death.
Although Frank lived on rented farms most of his adult life, he maintained ownership of the Gerardy farm near Fact and was actively concerned with the farming operations there. His sons or grandsons have operated it from 1933 to the present [1979].
From the obituary of Frank C. Gerardy: "Through his love for people, Mr. Gerardy had a wonderful ability for making friends, but his greatest interest was in his home and his family. He also was interested in a wide circle of friends, relatives, and neighbors and the memory of his cheerful personality will linger long with them (as will the memory of his extraordinary broad handclasp). It may well be said that Frank Gerardy was an outstanding man in his community, and he never went back on a promise or an agreement. His word was as good as his bond. Integrity was a keystone of his personality."
Mr. Gerardy died at the Clay Center Municipal Hospital after a heart attack and brief illness.
Most of it was written by his children Dale and Vera.
Note: I got this information from Dr. Darrell Brown
Frank Charles Gerardy, son of Peter and Caroline (Christel), Gerardy was born April 10, 1877, on the family farm near Fact, Kansas, fifteen miles northeast of Clay Center, Kansas. He died August 12, 1951, age 74, at Clay Center, Kansas, and was buried at Greenwood Cemetery, Clay Center. He was married on November 29, 1906, to Susie Maude Richard, the daughter of Thomas Alexander Richard and Susanna Melissa "Lissa" Hamilton. Maude was born January 31, 1883, near Welda, Anderson County, Kansas, and died Sept. 7, 1973, age 90, at Clay Center, Kansas. She, too, was buried at Greenwood Cemetery.
When Frank and Maude established their home on the Gerardy farm in 1906, Fact had a few houses, a United Brethren Church, a blacksmith shop, and a general store that sold a variety of necessities and also housed the community post office. The school was about one-half mile south. All this was on the same section of land just west of the farm. Although the store and post office are no longer there, the community name remains. The location still has the blacksmith shop that was converted to a welding shop. The old limestone church building is in regular use by the 15 united Methodist congregation. The Goshen Congregational Church which was located one mile east and one mile south of Fact is no longer there.
Farming practices have changed over the years. During the years Frank lived there he emphasized hog production in conjunction with beef cattle. He liked to have hogs in the same feed lot with cattle on feed. His hogs were fed lots of tankage, shorts, bran, and wheat middlings. These were considered more or less waste and/or of inferior quality, but now we know them to be high in protein, minerals and vitamins. He was very fond of caring for the animals. He enjoyed looking after his own stock and also inspecting the stock of friends and neighbors. He delighted in weight-guessing contests, though in his case it wasn't so much of a guess as he had a good farm scale so fenced that he could easily and often weigh his own stock. Therefore he knew what a 213# hog or a 900# steer looked like. Frank liked good horses and mules, and his work stock, while not fancy, was of good quality. He took excellent care of them; only the best oats and hay was good enough for them. During hot weather it was customary to give the teams water at mid-morning and mid-afternoon, and after a hard day's work in the fields it was routine to wash the horses' shoulders with salt water. Frank also liked to "break" or train young work animals and he was quite successful at it. He could get lots out of a team. A major disaster near the end of this period was the loss of a newly purchased span of fine spirited mules. They managed to hang themselves in their halter ropes the first night they were tied in their stall in the barn. Another disaster of the period was a hog cholera epidemic that discouraged hog production for many years.
Frank and Maude provided a loving home for his father, Peter, in the late years of his life. However, at the time of his final illness he was cared for by his daughter, Anna Faivre, in her home in Clay Center. Charles, the first son in the family, was about 2½ years old at that time and remembers Grandpa's long white beard. Dale was born about ten days before his grandfather died.
Frank and Maude Gerardy, with whom Peter lived his last years, said Peter would sit on the west porch in the evening and chant in Latin. They believed it was the Catholic mass.
In 1913 Frank moved his family closer to town to a farm known as the "Lamb Place" in the Hayes community, five miles northeast of Clay Center. Vera was born there. In 1924 they again moved to within three miles of Clay Center to the "Watts Place." Here they farmed until they retired and moved to 503 Crawford Street, Clay Center, Kansas.
Being a man of strong physique, Frank thoroughly enjoyed activity. He was six feet tall and in his prime weighed 225 pounds, none of it fat. This was a fortunate characteristic for a farmer in the early 20th century. Most of the work was done by manpower or two-horsepower. Frank marveled in the changes in our country that occurred in the last fifty years of his life, such as: from horse and buggy to cars and airplanes, from wagons to trucks of ever larger sizes, from horse drawn reapers and threshers to steam powered threshers to giant combines. Telephones and radios came into use and television was just beginning to change entertainment ways. Peaceful use of atomic power was only being hinted at by the dreadful atomic bomb. Of course, space exploration was still in the future.
Although he was not very articulate about such things, he had a strong belief in the spiritual and moral values of the church. He and his family participated in all phases of church life. At an early age Frank united with the Goshen Congregational Church, which was then located near Fact. He later transferred his membership to the Hayes Methodist Church and then to the First Methodist Church in Clay Center where he was an active member at the time of his death.
Although Frank lived on rented farms most of his adult life, he maintained ownership of the Gerardy farm near Fact and was actively concerned with the farming operations there. His sons or grandsons have operated it from 1933 to the present [1979].
From the obituary of Frank C. Gerardy: "Through his love for people, Mr. Gerardy had a wonderful ability for making friends, but his greatest interest was in his home and his family. He also was interested in a wide circle of friends, relatives, and neighbors and the memory of his cheerful personality will linger long with them (as will the memory of his extraordinary broad handclasp). It may well be said that Frank Gerardy was an outstanding man in his community, and he never went back on a promise or an agreement. His word was as good as his bond. Integrity was a keystone of his personality."
Mr. Gerardy died at the Clay Center Municipal Hospital after a heart attack and brief illness.
Most of it was written by his children Dale and Vera.
Note: I got this information from Dr. Darrell Brown
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