Rinker Family
The Rinker Family came from Germany to America in the late 18th c. and descendants migrated west over the next century, with brothers Jim and Dave Rinker arriving in Wyoming in 1880. By 1900 the rest of the family came west and took up several homesteads on Red Fork and Middle Fork of the Powder River. They participated in the building of the community, were good neighbors, married, raised kids, and survived good times and bad. Members of the family served in both World Wars. The boys and girls grew up and moved away, and the ranch was sold when Dennis and Mary Ann Rinker passed away in 1946. However, the large irrigation ditch they built, known as the Rinker ditch, and one of their homesteads still remain in use today. One Rinker family was where the Harlan Ranch is now. Another was on what is today the Renkert place.
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