"May" was the daughter of Jesse Lee Linn and Catherine Virginia "Jennie" Murray. At the time of her birth, her parents were living in Eureka Twp. Mitchell Co., KS. However, early on (by 1885), she was living with her maternal grandparents, John & Elizabeth Murray, in Iowa. She might have been left with her grandparents when her mother, Jennie, spent the winter with them at the time of her fourth child's birth in 7 years. As a result of being raised by her grandparents, May got full schooling. Being the only Linn child to be so schooled, she was the envy of her siblings. When she was 5, she and her grandparents went to visit her father in Wyoming. She attended normal school in IA to get her teaching certificate. She was a straight A student. She then taught school several years. After graduating from school, she moved to Hilgard, MT to teach and was the first teacher of her cousin Estella's oldest daughter. She left Hilger to return to Chariton and taught school there in May 1907. She was back in Kendall, MT by Nov 20, 1907,teaching school and living with her sister Maud and Lee Hilliard in 1908. By Sept 1908, May was in Greybull, WY. She received a temporary license to teach on September 24th, 1908; it was valid until Nov.30, 1908.
On 1 June 1909 in Basin, Big Horn, Wyoming, she married Corte Hamilton Cropsey; she became a hardworking farm wife. In 1916, while living and working on the Carter Ranch, she was struck by lightening and it caused her hair to turn gray overnight. Buying their own place in 1917, she sold milk and cream from their herd of shorthorns. Her niece, Lola Ruble helped her one summer separating milk and cream and sterilizing bottles. She said May had a great sense of humor and was a lot of fun to be around.
They have 5 children: Jesse Budd, Linn Bracke, Thelma Virginia, Harry Hamilton and a Living Daughter. May died from complications of child birth, she bled to death.
On 1 June 1909 in Basin, Big Horn, Wyoming, she married Corte Hamilton Cropsey; she became a hardworking farm wife. In 1916, while living and working on the Carter Ranch, she was struck by lightening and it caused her hair to turn gray overnight. Buying their own place in 1917, she sold milk and cream from their herd of shorthorns. Her niece, Lola Ruble helped her one summer separating milk and cream and sterilizing bottles. She said May had a great sense of humor and was a lot of fun to be around.
They have 5 children: Jesse Budd, Linn Bracke, Thelma Virginia, Harry Hamilton and a Living Daughter. May died from complications of child birth, she bled to death.
"May" was the daughter of Jesse Lee Linn and Catherine Virginia "Jennie" Murray. At the time of her birth, her parents were living in Eureka Twp. Mitchell Co., KS. However, early on (by 1885), she was living with her maternal grandparents, John & Elizabeth Murray, in Iowa. She might have been left with her grandparents when her mother, Jennie, spent the winter with them at the time of her fourth child's birth in 7 years. As a result of being raised by her grandparents, May got full schooling. Being the only Linn child to be so schooled, she was the envy of her siblings. When she was 5, she and her grandparents went to visit her father in Wyoming. She attended normal school in IA to get her teaching certificate. She was a straight A student. She then taught school several years. After graduating from school, she moved to Hilgard, MT to teach and was the first teacher of her cousin Estella's oldest daughter. She left Hilger to return to Chariton and taught school there in May 1907. She was back in Kendall, MT by Nov 20, 1907,teaching school and living with her sister Maud and Lee Hilliard in 1908. By Sept 1908, May was in Greybull, WY. She received a temporary license to teach on September 24th, 1908; it was valid until Nov.30, 1908.
On 1 June 1909 in Basin, Big Horn, Wyoming, she married Corte Hamilton Cropsey; she became a hardworking farm wife. In 1916, while living and working on the Carter Ranch, she was struck by lightening and it caused her hair to turn gray overnight. Buying their own place in 1917, she sold milk and cream from their herd of shorthorns. Her niece, Lola Ruble helped her one summer separating milk and cream and sterilizing bottles. She said May had a great sense of humor and was a lot of fun to be around.
They have 5 children: Jesse Budd, Linn Bracke, Thelma Virginia, Harry Hamilton and a Living Daughter. May died from complications of child birth, she bled to death.
On 1 June 1909 in Basin, Big Horn, Wyoming, she married Corte Hamilton Cropsey; she became a hardworking farm wife. In 1916, while living and working on the Carter Ranch, she was struck by lightening and it caused her hair to turn gray overnight. Buying their own place in 1917, she sold milk and cream from their herd of shorthorns. Her niece, Lola Ruble helped her one summer separating milk and cream and sterilizing bottles. She said May had a great sense of humor and was a lot of fun to be around.
They have 5 children: Jesse Budd, Linn Bracke, Thelma Virginia, Harry Hamilton and a Living Daughter. May died from complications of child birth, she bled to death.
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