Delbur married Lettie Dexter in Guilford, Maine on 24 December 1889. They had four children: Orman, Verna, Neal, and Merton.
The family moved to Southern California in 1906, where Delver could find year-round work as a carpenter. He also farmed, and later took a 160-acre homestead in the Mojave Desert, using irrigated water from a well. "My father seemed to have been always a farmer at heart. He had always had a desire to exercise his homestead rights. ('Uncle Sam is rich enough to give us all a farm').... The well was put down by hand, horse power, and lots of physical labor in the hot desert sun the summer of 1911." (From the memoirs of his daughter, Verna.)
Appearing in the gravesite photo is his great-great-grandson Alex Burden. Delbur is buried next to Lettie.
The family moved to Southern California in 1906, where Delver could find year-round work as a carpenter. He also farmed, and later took a 160-acre homestead in the Mojave Desert, using irrigated water from a well. "My father seemed to have been always a farmer at heart. He had always had a desire to exercise his homestead rights. ('Uncle Sam is rich enough to give us all a farm').... The well was put down by hand, horse power, and lots of physical labor in the hot desert sun the summer of 1911." (From the memoirs of his daughter, Verna.)
Appearing in the gravesite photo is his great-great-grandson Alex Burden. Delbur is buried next to Lettie.
Delbur married Lettie Dexter in Guilford, Maine on 24 December 1889. They had four children: Orman, Verna, Neal, and Merton.
The family moved to Southern California in 1906, where Delver could find year-round work as a carpenter. He also farmed, and later took a 160-acre homestead in the Mojave Desert, using irrigated water from a well. "My father seemed to have been always a farmer at heart. He had always had a desire to exercise his homestead rights. ('Uncle Sam is rich enough to give us all a farm').... The well was put down by hand, horse power, and lots of physical labor in the hot desert sun the summer of 1911." (From the memoirs of his daughter, Verna.)
Appearing in the gravesite photo is his great-great-grandson Alex Burden. Delbur is buried next to Lettie.
The family moved to Southern California in 1906, where Delver could find year-round work as a carpenter. He also farmed, and later took a 160-acre homestead in the Mojave Desert, using irrigated water from a well. "My father seemed to have been always a farmer at heart. He had always had a desire to exercise his homestead rights. ('Uncle Sam is rich enough to give us all a farm').... The well was put down by hand, horse power, and lots of physical labor in the hot desert sun the summer of 1911." (From the memoirs of his daughter, Verna.)
Appearing in the gravesite photo is his great-great-grandson Alex Burden. Delbur is buried next to Lettie.
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