Lois Call Knapp
1926-1997
I was born January 11, 1926, at Burley, Cassia County, Idaho to Aaron Willey Call and Lydia McMurray. I was the sixth of eight children and the first daughter.
My older brothers were Dean, Merrill, Wayne, DeVerl, and Ray. Maxine, my only sister, and Jay, my youngest brother, were born after me.
When I was very young, our family moved to a farm located on the edge of the desert at Declo, Idaho, a very small farming community east of Burley.
The first home I remember was a big stone house on this farm. My sister Maxine was born there as well as my youngest brother Jay. I remember the day Jay was born. All of us kids had to stay out on the front porch while the event was taking place. Mrs. Helen Weeks came to help and she was wearing a red checkered housedress. I didn’t have to go to school that day, which was almost as exciting as getting a new baby in the family.
I remember lots of experiences the family had while living on the farm at Declo. I wasn’t very old, but I can remember Maxine falling to the bottom of the basement stairs in her walker. I will never forget the old goose that used to chase me to get my bread and butter, succeeding in his efforts and then pecking me on the rear end while I was down. We did not have drinking water. I used to go with the boys to haul water on the old ‘stone-boat’. The stone-boat was a heavy piece of iron, approximately 6 x 6 with a single tree that was pulled by horses. We would fill our big milk cans with water and haul them home on the stone boat.
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My older brothers were Dean, Merrill, Wayne, DeVerl, and Ray. Maxine, my only sister, and Jay, my youngest brother, were born after me.
When I was very young, our family moved to a farm located on the edge of the desert at Declo, Idaho, a very small farming community east of Burley.
The first home I remember was a big stone house on this farm. My sister Maxine was born there as well as my youngest brother Jay. I remember the day Jay was born. All of us kids had to stay out on the front porch while the event was taking place. Mrs. Helen Weeks came to help and she was wearing a red checkered housedress. I didn’t have to go to school that day, which was almost as exciting as getting a new baby in the family.
I remember lots of experiences the family had while living on the farm at Declo. I wasn’t very old, but I can remember Maxine falling to the bottom of the basement stairs in her walker. I will never forget the old goose that used to chase me to get my bread and butter, succeeding in his efforts and then pecking me on the rear end while I was down. We did not have drinking water. I used to go with the boys to haul water on the old ‘stone-boat’. The stone-boat was a heavy piece of iron, approximately 6 x 6 with a single tree that was pulled by horses. We would fill our big milk cans with water and haul them home on the stone boat.
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