that night. Troy moved to Loup City, Nebraska and on occasion visited Battle Creek in later years. A few old timers around today, remember him.

Charlie Hale, the youngest of the Hale Brothers, married Carrie Tiedgen, daughter of J. F. Tiedgen.

There came from Virginia also the aforementioned Joe Dufphey and his brothers, Frank and Lawrence and two sisters who became Mrs. Joe C. Osborn and Mrs. John A. Wright.

Joe Dufphey acquired land but before that, as a young man worked for John D. Hale on his famous trips to the Black Hills with hogs and made several trips with Hale into Indian country to, through charm and persuasion, subdue the Indians and return them to the reservations. Joe later bought out Troy Hale's livery barn business and built the home now owned and occupied by the Irven Tegeler family. He was a story teller, gentle and kind. One story might be retold — or maybe not. They were not always parlor type. As to his being gentle with folks, an incident is remembered when he called on a very sick friend who had a few moments earlier been upset by one who for sympathy and comfort had told the sick man how bad he looked. Then Joe went in and told the man how well he looked — "not like Pete Zimmerman used to look" but not so bad, told a funny story and left the sick man laughing and felling much better. But he could also be kind and friendly to young folks giving sound advice when necessary. One time a young man had acquired a tough little bronco to use on the mail route. The horse had been trained as a rough bucking horse in a wild west show and therefore it took considerable effort to subdue and train the animal to be a good driving horse. One Sunday afternoon a bragging old time cow puncher came to town who claimed he could "ride anything on four legs." A bunch of men made up a sizeable bet with him and then tried to get the young man to let them use his one-time bucking horse for the event. The young man was reluctant to let them abuse his horse after all the painstaking effort to train him to be trustworthy in harness. The stakes went to $20.00 for the privilege to let them use the horse for a few minutes. Twenty dollars at that time was about as much as $100.00 would be now and he was about to give in when he saw Joe Dufphey in the background shaking his head — "don't do it." Joe loved horses and knew how much trouble it would be to retrain the animal. The Dufphey's, Joe and "Mele" had two children — Belle, who became Mrs. Phil Thomas and lives in Kansas, and John B. "Jack," who is retired and lives in Battle Creek.

Frank Dufphey, who homesteaded in Section 8, Schoolcraft Precinct, married Ellen Casey. They had one daughter, who became Mrs. Stover Mink. Aunt Ellen, an Irish woman, acquired the famed Virginian hospitality and she was a gracious and jolly hostess.

Another brother, Lawrence, came in later years. He farmed for a number of years, then was in business for a while in Tilden. He later came to Battle Creek where he was in business. He and his wife had two children, Leonard, a barber in Battle Creek,

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