Entry from Journal #1: September 20, 1930
Chas. Lehman died and Mrs. Jim Simpson died last wk. August Summers got hurt, Rick O’Connell is ill from the effects of a hurt hand.
- Chas. Lehman. A simple search in Ancestry shows there was a “Charles F. Lehman” who died in Lewis and Clark County, Montana on September 29, 1930. I assume this is the same gentleman.
- Mrs. Jim Simpson. I was unable to locate anything definitive on “Mrs. Jim Simpson”.
- August Summers. Also unable to locate anything on “August Summers”.
- Rick O’Connell. Well, this one was a surprise! According to an Ancestry Family Tree, there was a “Richard J. O’Connell” who lived in Marysville in 1920, in Helena in 1930, and who died on February 2, 1931. The surprise is that it appears he may have been born in the same part of Michigan where George Schenk was born. George came to Montana from Michigan with his mother and siblings around 1887. Rick O’Connell did not come until some time after 1900, as he is shown still living in Michigan at that time. But I wonder if the Schenk family knew the O’Connell family back in Michigan? Perhaps the Schenk family stayed in touch with the O’Connell family and at some point encouraged them to make the move to Montana? I guess I have another research project!
