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the couple’s new hom e and they
m oved in just before w in ter set in.
S ince there was no w a te r for ir
rig atio n and they had only three
head of cattle he trapped some of
the wildlife th at abounded on the
hom estead w hile they began to
build up th eir herd.
A bundance of Coyotes
In addition to the ab u n d an t
coyotes (at one tim e th a t first
sum m er the young Mrs. K nott-
ingham counted as m any as seven
of them running across the clea r
ing less than 30 feet from th eir
tent.) his trap s took th eir toll of
Bob Cats, Lynx and Badger.
T here was still no w ell on the
dryland hom estead th at first w in
te r and the fam ily m elted snow
for their own usp and for th eir
stock. N ext spring they had a
w e'l-drilling rig down from W ash
ington that put dow n a w ell a l
leviating this problem , at least.
For over 11 years the K notting-
ham.s worked and lived on th eir
hom estead. He trapped all this
tim e to supnlem ent the grow ing
h erd of cattle. They raised rye
h ay on the u n-irrigated land to
feed the stock.
T heir nearest neighbor, “except
w hen the sheepm en w ere dow n,”
was 12 miles aw ay. D uring the
long w in ter m onths th ere was
“q u ite a bit of snow ” w ith the
fam ily being snowed in several
tim es. Mrs. Counsil recalls th at
30 degrees below was com m on
and 40 below happened “every
once in a w hile."
S u rv iv e Flu of 1918
D uring these 11 years the Knot-
tingham fam ily grew . Bon John
w as born in A ugust of 1916, F rank
in D ecem ber of 1918 and G lenn in
N ovem ber of 1923. Eleven days
a fte r F rank was born, “the y ear
th e flu w as so bad,” Mr. K not- :
tingham cam e hom e w ith the
flu and pneum onia.
A lthough no doctor cam e to the
rem ote hom estead, the new born
baby did n ’t catch the flu and, in
tim e, Mr. K nottingham recovered
from both diseases.
T here was, of course, no school
n e a r the K nottingham s and as j
the children grew up it was nec
essary to send them to W ashing
ton to an a u n t’s hom e so they
could attend school.
In 1925 the K nottingham s m ov
ed nearby to the O w yhee riv e r
on one of the “shoestring ra n
ches.” Tile cattle herd was grow
ing and they kept some of th eir
cattle on the hom estead. The new
ranch was irrigated by w ater
w heels from the O w yhee and they
raised hay and turkeys in ad d i
tion to the cattle. T he tu rk ey s
w ere slaughtered on the ranch
and trucked in to Nyssa for sale
and shipm ent.
Move to S unset Valley
T hey lived on the O w yhee for
11 years but by th at tim e the dam
had gone in and the b ackw ater
from it flooded out the K n o ttin g
h am ranch. T hey then m oved to
S u n set V alley, still doing the
sam e kind of farm ing, but w ith
Jer.-ey cows by now, and they
w ere m ilking the good ones.
In O ctober of 1939 the K not-
tingham 's fourth an d youngest
son, Paul, was born. In the fall
of 1945 Mr. K nottingham died.
In Ja n u a ry of 1948 Mrs. Lois
K nottingham
m arried
Owen
Counsil and the couple still live
in the S unset Valley com m unity.
Mrs. C ounsil’s description of
Nyssa some 44 years ago w hen
she first arriv ed in this area was
sum m ed up in the w ords “not
very good.” It has, she says,
changed a great deal in this time.
N yssa’s changes for the b e tte r
d u rin g the past half a century
can largely be traced to hom e- |
steaders and pioneers like Mrs.
Counsil who overcam e the h a rd
ships of those early days to build
the area into a prosperous com
m unity.
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