Charlotte Clark, October 25, 1882. Members of their family were Anna May, who married Will Craig; George W. married Lizzie Busteed; Hayes married Vern Wright.
Mr. and Mrs. Giles Craig lived one-half mile south of Meadow Grove. Some of their children lived around Battle Creek. Olive married Jerry Warner who in the early nineteen hundreds owned and lived on the farm now occupied by the Clarence Bierman family. The buildings then stood at the southwest corner of the quarter section. Carrie became Mrs. Harry Niles, Leila married Rev. James DeMerritt, pastor of the Baptist Church here at the time of this marriage. Rhoda married William Decker, supervisor of the County Poor Farm for a long time; Mr. Decker's father, Thomas Decker, homesteaded on land northwest of Battle Creek now owned by the Dittrick family. William was one of the first students to attend the Hughes School District 23 along with Mike Hughes and Johnny Hughes. William Craig married Anna May Miller. The sons, Walter and George, daughters, Ellice and Jean, lived at Page as did also the Will Craig family. Mr. and Mrs. Will Craig however, retired to Battle Creek in later years and lived in the southeast part of town where the Frank Kubes family now live. His sister Jean married John Gallagher, a member of a quite prominent family of Holt County ranchers.
In Deer Creek Precinct we have not fully referred to the Joseph Shipley family. Mr. Shipley homesteaded in Section fourteen. When the old folks retired they came to town to live in the house where the Marvin James family now live, buying the property from Billie Venable, early day mason.
When the Shipleys retired the farm was taken over by the son John who as previously stated married Maude Carr. Daughter Mabel married Will Jackson, they lived in what is now the Louis Batty home; Anna married Ferdinand Crowley, when they retired they lived where Mr. and Mrs. Leo Bierman now live; another daughter, Ella, married a Mr. Cummins; the youngest son, Joe Shipley, Jr., died as a young man when he froze his feet so badly that gangrene set in.
Oh how cold we would get if we had to ride in a wagon or buggy a few miles or ride a horse in zero weather. People would often walk along side of their wagon in order to keep warm.
In gathering this history we have found a number of instances where people had their hands or feet frozen so badly to require amputation. For example, the case of the Gray brothers who lived west of Battle Creek as related by Mrs. Haight. One lost only his toes, the other a portion of both feet so that he had to walk on his heels.
It seems this danger is still with us when the comforts of a nice, warm car fail us; now, even worse, when people will let their auto motor run to be asphyxiated.
The Neuwerk family came from Missouri in 1885. Of the three brothers and their parents, Fred homesteaded in Deer Creek Precinct but as has been previously stated, sold this farm to Conrad Werner, Sr., and bought the larger farm in High-
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