I am the only one left in the Richard Hoagland family and am the youngest and only girl. I have taken from my mother's diary she kept when they went to Logan County in the year of 1884 in the spring on May 6th. Leslie was 5 weeks old. Dad went about March 3lst before Mother and built the sod house and she came on May 6th.My father died on September 10, 1916 and Mother on August 26, 1922. Since I am the youngest in the family and I am 65 and we left Gandy and moved to Minatare, Nebraska, I think either in 1907 or 1908; I don't remember too much about Gandy, only the school and my teacher--Mrs. Clarinda Kirby. On the school board in the year 1903-1904 was W.A. Mansfield, Director, A.A. Harvey, Moderator, R. Hoagland. Treasurer, and Harry E. Morrison, Co. Superintendent. Harry Morrison lives in Walla Walla, Washington and his sister, Mabel, in Seattle, Washington. I do remember that my father was Judge and that I would go to the courthouse with him while Mother ran the store, The postoffice was also in the store, The Judge used to marry some of the Homesteaders that came out here, The men would come first and then send for the girls. Some of the girls wouldn't want to be married in the courthouse and he would bring them to our house to marry them. I always liked to get in on that. One time he had to ride horseback out to the man's homestead to marry them in their own home. I don't remember any of the names and it could be that my father didn't tell me.
