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This is left side of double lo. I actually did this page last year and then when my cousin, Ron, saw it he sent a write up about how the family actually lived in a boxcar when they first got out to the desert. I didn't want to re-do the lo, so I just added his journalling up above mine, the only place it would fit. Then it looked a bit lopsided, so I added a few flowers on the rh side of page! That is my great-grandfather sitting on the box car steps, with his crew. Here is what it says in the journalling box that Ron sent:
“One Boxcar for cold food supplies, one for crew quarters, one for cooking and non-cold storage and one for my grandfather (your great-grandfather) and his children. Also flatcars for the railroad ties and tracks. As the crew was primarily Mexican some of his children spoke fluent Spanish, especially Kenneth and my mother Frances. The Crew would lay 5 miles of track, then move the Boxcars up the tracks. The Boxcars were always on a side track, not the primary track.” -
Written by Ron Smith (son of Frances Watson Smith) - 2010
Thanks for spreading positivity!
September 11, 2011