| Summary: | by a goat. He remembers that "Papa" could hardly wait for the weekly Cando paper and a serial story named "The Bat". Albert Taylor lived where the Harold Leas home is now and he peddled fish in the winter. His daughter, Maude, later married Ora Arnold and their children are Harold and Darlyne. Roy and Ivan started school at Mount Pleasant in the fall of 1914. The winter of 1915- 1916 brought nearly 100 inches of snow (but didn't break the 1907 record) and in the spring, most of it melted within three days. There were no real roads, and O'Briens moved to the "Green Place", 4Vi miles north of Rocklake in 1916. On one of the trips, with a team and doubleseated buggy, they drove in water most of the way. A visitor from Devils Lake came all the way by boat. The "Big" Island was a popular place for picnics, horseshoe games and ferry rides. People came from many miles around for the well-advertised picnics. Roy was on the east bank of the lake the day the ferry sank. That event brought the project to an end. Between the site of the ferry landing and the town there were three round snakepits, five or six feet across and each a crawling mass of garter snakes. ley's parents came from Indiana on an immigrant train — bringing everything from livestock to teakettle in a box car. They built a sod house on the southwest Quarter of Section 30 in Rocklake Township (see picture). This area was called "The Indiana Community". Icy and her father played violin and guitar and often traveled as far as fifteen miles to play for parties and dances. Eddy Arnold is a relative. JOHN D. BONSACK FAMILY Ruth Bonsack's parents were Mr. and Mrs. John D. Bonsack. They homesteaded on the east side of Rocklake about 1897. They later built one-half mile east of Rocklake. People from Rocklake hauled water from the well for many years. The first school she attended was a short distance from town, on the east side. Myrtle Meade was the teacher of this one-room school, but she ran away to be married at Christmas vacation time and didn't return. The next school was upstairs over the Lichty Bros. Grocery Store. A canvas curtain hung between the two school rooms. In 1907 school was held in the basement of the new school. In 1908 the building was completed. Mr. Bonsack butchered beef and peddled fresh meat to the railroad construction camps. Of the large family, there are four living now, Wayne, Warren, Charles and Ruth. She was born at Cando in 1899 before the family moved to the homestead. They moved to California in 1913. Ruth (Goodman) is a graduate of the University of Fresno and has her Life Diploma in teaching. BERTHA AND FRANK RHAM Frank Rham came to North Dakota in 1899 from Renville County in Minnesota. He homesteaded the land presently owned by Ernest Rham. He returned to Minnesota and maried Bertha Bucholz on March 30, 1903. They lived all their married life on the same farm. They were parents of seven children. Francis died in 1976. Edna is married to Ambrose (Red) Steffer and they reside at Tamarack, Minnesota. Alice married Charley Clouse, who died in 1973. She lives in Rocklake. Ted lives at Bird Island, Minnesota and Bill married Louise Fazekes and farms northeast of Rocklake. Ernest married Lucille Gravelle and farms his father's homestead. Lynn married Florence Mosolf and is presently living and working at Devils Lake. There are now 16 grandchildren, 18 great grandchildren and 10 great-great grandchildren living. Frank died in 1957 and Bertha in 1959. Mr. Frederick Bucholz and his wife, Augusta (Mrs. Frank Rham's parents) also came to this area about 1911. Their son, Albert Bucholz, purchased the land now owned by 49 Scanned with a Zeutschel Zeta book scanner at 300 dpi. Edited with Multi-Page TIFF Editor.
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