From Tales & Trails of Bailey County, the First 70 Years, Taylor Publishing Co, Dallas, TX 1988

Harry Edward Wilterding and Leota Clara Grant came to Texas in 1908.
Harry Edward Wilterding was born to John and Emma Lorton Wilterding, October 7, 1885, in Princeton, Nebraska. He lived on the same farm one mile west of Princeton until he moved with his folks to Hurley, Texas, in February, 1908.
Dad brought the livestock down by railroad to Bovina, Texas. Other members of his family who moved were Dottie, Ashton, and a married brother, Will, and his wife Laura and their two children, Mervin and Mildred.
Leota Clara Grant was born to Andrew J. and Lillie May (Gainton) Grant, November 29, 1891, In Dorchester, Nebraska. Mother came to Texas in the summer of 1908. Her folks, the Hiram Beardens, had come in March, but Mother stayed to finish school. Grandad Hi had been hired to run the hotel in Hurley for the land company.
In the fall of 1908, Mother was hired to teach in a one-room school in what is now Bailey County. She was seventeen and some of her pupils were older and much larger than she was. Before the school year had gone on very long, Mother got scarlet fever and was very ill. She did not get to finish the school year.
Dad worked for Grandad Hi Bearden in 1912, hauling freight and building grade on the railroad between Lubbock and Clovis.
Mother and Dad met at church at old Hurley and were married April 27, 1913.
Dad built a home on wheels, a forerunner of the new mobile homes. They lived in it while they followed their well-drilling livelihood. Oleta was born in this home. There were six of us kids: Hazel Oleta, born March 30, 1914, in Muleshoe and passed away August 30, 1938; Alice Emma born November 2, 1915 in Muleshoe, Texas; Evelyn May born October 16, 1917 in Muleshoe; Elmer Alton born March 21, 1920 in Amarillo, Texas; Jack Eldon born April 24, 1930 in Muleshoe; Jim Arnold born February 18, 1933 in Muleshoe.
Dad had many skills which he used to make a living for us. Around 1913-14, he ran the Janes Ranch and helped build the ranch house.
By this time he was doing carpentry work all over the country. He learned carpentry from his father. Dad helped build the first courthouse in Bailey County. In the summer of 1926 our family moved to Hall County while Dad built cotton gins.
We moved north of Muleshoe where Dad farmed for about two yeears. We relocated at YL and he worked for several years for the E.R. Hart Company in Muleshoe.
In 1942, Dad, Mom, Jack and Jim moved to Omak, Washington, to do carpentry work. They moved back to their homeplace and stayed there until Dad's death, August 12, 1945.
Mother, Jack, and Jim moved back to Omak and stayed there until 1943. They then returned to Muleshoe where she lived until her death on June 29, 1973. (Story submitted by Evelyn Wilterding Harmon)