My father was Frederick Robert Lewis. He was born August 26th, 1882 at Great Pale, Wales.

Fred Lewis married Mary Wilhelmina Danielson on Nov. 1, 1904. They lived in Evanston for over a year were Fred had a barber shop. Then he moved to a little cabin near his mother and father. Fred became interested in trapping and hunting. In those days, a trapper made good money. He killed coyotes, beaver, muskrats, mink, and wildcats. Hunting and fishing were in his blood from his childhood days. Fred was a big man, 6 feet tall, who weighed about 225 pounds most of his life. He was good-looking, well-liked by everyone, honest and loyal. He had blue eyes and dark brown hair. He was always thoughtful and very kind of people in trouble. In 1927 he was asked to become the City Marshal or the Chief of Police of Evanston. He served in this capacity for 14 years. Then he took the job as Street Supervisor, which he kept for four years until the city administration was changed. Later he started his own taxi business and was very much in demand. His wife died in 1951. He died when he was 76 years old.

The six children of Fred and Mary Lewis are: Robert, George, Alfred, Gladys, June, and Kathryn.

Robert Frederick, the oldest, had a serious accident with a horse when he was 19 and lost one leg just below the knee. He went to Chicago and was educated by his Uncle Mortie. Bob has six children. He has been dead about ten years.

George LeRoy spent many years living in Chicago before coming to live in Wyoming. He died about five years ago.

Alfred Lloyd died as a child from pneumonia.

I am Gladys Adelaide who taught school in the country until I was married. I married rancher, Glenn Robert Hutchinson. He has worked in a natural gas company for 30 years and is now retired. We have four children, and 17 grandchildren, and five great-grandchildren.

June Florence is next to me. She married a railroader and has lived in Laramie, Wyoming, for many years. She has been a widow for 20 years and has worked for the University of Wyoming for 25 years. She is a semi-invalid now and spends most of her time chained to an oxygen tank.

Kathryn Rose, or Kate, is the youngest. She also married rancher, Glen Leonard Martin, and lives just south of Evanston, Wyoming. She has four children and six grandchildren.

My father, Frederick Robert Lewis, died in Evanston, Wyoming on March 9th, 1959.

The father of Fred Lewis was John Lort Lewis and his mother was Catherine Mary Lewis. John Lort Lewis was a gentleman farmer who lived on a farm called Great Pale. His wife was known as Kate Lewis.

Kate's father was William Mortimer Lewis and her mother was Anne Lewis. William and Ann were the second generation of the Lewis family to live at Great Pale. Kate was not related to her husband so Fred is from two different lines of Lewis'.

The third generation of Lewis' to live at Great Pale were John Lort Lewis and his wife Kate. The children born at Great Pale to this family were William Lort, Frederick Robert, Lewis Mortimer, Adelaide Ann, Florence Matilda, Catherine Margaretta, and Rose Veletta.

As a child Fred Lewis went to school in a little town named Whitland which was located on the railroad a few miles from their farm at Great Pale. Fred and his brother Bill lived in town and walked home on weekends.

When Fred was nine years old, a brother of his mother, Uncle Tom Lewis who had gone to America and taken up ranching in Wyoming, came to visit with his new American wife, Rose Clifton Lewis. When they returned to America Uncle Tom had talked his sister into letting her son, Fred, return with him. Uncle Tom gave glowing accounts of the opportunities in America. It was always strange to me that a mother would give up her son when only nine years old, never expecting to see him again.

Fred Lewis arrived in Wyoming in 1891 to make his home with Uncle Tom and Aunt Rose. Tom and Robert were brothers to Kate who had purchased a huge ranch which was named the Crown Ranch in honor of the King of England. Uncle Tom lived on part of this land which later was bought by Charlie Myers. Uncle Robert lived where the Spencer Ranch and the Jamison Ranch now stand.

Life in this frontier settlement was very hard. Fred scrubbed floors, washed dishes, and tended Uncle Tom's children. These children were Florence, Jessie and Norman. Fred always thought Aunt Rose (Clifton) was the meanest woman on earth and this he maintained until his death.

When Fred was about twelve years old, he was put out in the bunk house with the hired man, whose name was Charlie Clifton. Charlie looked out for Fred and often took his part. Fred's life was hard with wrangling horses, herding sheep, breaking broncos, clearing ground, putting up fences, digging ditches, plowing, haying and doing everything that goes with settling a new country. Fred often said he wondered how he lived through some of the injuries he received with the horses he rode. His school days were over when he arrived in America.

John Lort Lewis, and his son William arrived in Wyoming in 1896. As I have been told, it seems that Grandpa John Lort was a gambler and dearly loved to play the horses. As it turned out he was not very good at it. By the time little Rose was a toddler, the farm was lost and the family were in bankruptcy. This was the reason for John Lort and Bill to come to America. John Lort worked for Robert Lewis for several years. Then he took up a homestead of 160 acres. Kate and her children, Mortimer, Addie, Florence, Margaretta, and Rose arrived at Knight, Wyoming on June 7th, 1898. This was the nearest railroad stop to the Crown Ranch. It was snowing when they arrived. The family lived at the Crown Ranch for about two years. Then they moved to the homestead where a house had been built.

The steamship that Kate and her children sailed on was "The City of Rome." Aunt Rose tells us that Kate Lewis studied music with Videon Harding. She had a beautiful soprano voice which was well-trained. Kate's voice was as clear as a bell and she could reach High A without any effort. This teacher, Videon Harding, composed a beautiful song, "The Step Upon the Stair." Kate Lewis sang it the first time is was sung. She sang in many concerts in Wales and also on the ship coming to America. Kate presented a concert for the first class passengers. The family traveled second class. Copies of two programs where she sang are found here.

When Fred was older, his Uncle Tom bought a large herd of sheep. Fred was sent out onto the desert with a herder. The herder's name was James Horvoka who was a Bohemian who had come to America with just a bedroll on his back. Jim had a violent temper. Fred had difficulty getting along with him. Fred became worried that in a fit of temper he would either kill Jim or he would be killed himself.

Fred quit working for his uncle and decided to go to a barber college to become a barber. When Fred finished barber college in Salt City, he was married to Mary Danielson who had grown up on a neighboring ranch. The first year of their married life was spent in Evanston where Fred had his barber shop. Fred and Mary often tended the children of Uncle Robert and Aunt Sadie. Uncle Robert had bought a home in Evanston so his children could attend school there. The children were Mortimer, Claudia, and Frances. Frances died as a child.

Fred wasn't entirely happy with barbering. He loved the outdoors and hunting and fishing were in his blood.

Uncle Robert Mortimer Lewis was a merchant by trade and opened up a store at Hilliard, Wyoming. When the Union Pacific Railroad came through the western United States, small camps were built up about every ten miles to take care of the railway workers. And each of these little towns, there is usually a store, a hotel, they can fade, and the post office. The store at Hilliard was probably about 10 or 12 miles from the crown ranch. Robert could travel back and forth almost daily to his ranch. Many men worked for the crown ranch. Jonathan Jones from Wales was the foreman.

The move to Wyoming brought drastic changes to lives of the John Lort Lewis family. They had always had servants to do the work at Great Pale. The boys were all horsemen from a very young age and love to hunt and fish. Grandma Kate and her girls had spent time studying music, playing the piano, taking singing lessons, and doing embroidery work. Now, in Wyoming, they had to carry water, chop wood, wash all the clothing in a small tub with a washboard. It became Kate' s chore To milk the cow night and morning. But Aunt Rose told her she never heard her mother complained.

Bill, the oldest son, loved horses. When he was a young man, he started a horse ranch out of Rock Springs in desert country. He also had cattle. He left his horses so much that he wouldn't allow anyone to abuse them and would never sell one. He never married and became a hermit living on the desert alone. He somehow didn't get around to keep his cattle branded and rosters eventually sold all of his cattle.

(Editor's note: Fred is the next son, but his early life has already been discussed above.)

Mortie, the third boy, hearded sheep in the boondocks. He had the philosophy that to become successful, you had to leave the farms and ranches and go to the cities. He spent his time in the sheep-camp studying and taking correspondence courses. When he had enough money he went to Salt Lake City and entered the University. He worked his way through school by selling different items and became a very good salesman. After graduation he went into business. When the opportunity roles, he bought a business college in Wenatchee, Washington. His uncle Robert helped him by putting a part of the money. Several years later he married one of his students, whose name was Edith O'Dell. Uncle Mortie was very successful and lured his sisters Margretta and Rose to come to Wenatchee and attend his college. His Mother and Dad also went to Wenatchee to live.

Morty and Edith lost their first baby daughter while very young with a tumor on her heart. They had named her Guinevere. They had to other girls, Gwendolyn and Vivian. Gwendolyn died several years ago. Vivian lives just out of Portland, Oregon. She recently lost her husband. She has two children, a boy and the girl.

(Editor's note: Gladys wrote this about 1987 or 88, thus the references to "several years ago" need to be taken in that context."

Later, Uncle Morty bought a business college in Chicago. He taught some of the classes. I remember his beautiful penmanship. He educated my brothers Robert and George and treated them like his own sons.

Mortie always loved to hunt and fish. Every year for many years he made an annual pilgrimage to Yellowstone National Park to fish. He loved Yellowstone so much that he bought a lot just outside of West Yellowstone on Lake Hebgen.

Later, Mortie started a business of giving movie dances. His plan was to organize with the officials of a prominent city and set up a benefit dance. His crew set up the contacts and sold tickets to practically everyone in the city. The dance was given in the largest dance hall in the city. They would have a promenade of all important people and their pictures were taken. About a week or two later, when the pictures of all been developed, the promenade was shown at the local theater. Mortie took the pictures and got a commission from the theater.

Mortie and Edith have traveled in all parts of the world and Mortie has taken pictures everywhere they went. Mortie often gave lectures and showed moving pictures of places he had visited.

Adelaide was the oldest daughter. She became interested in nursing and went to Salt Lake City to study. She was always rather frail and caught typhoid fever from the patient. She had to quit her nursing career.

She married Fred Myers, who was a prominent rancher who owned a lot of land and cattle. He and his brother Charlie had consolidated. Fred's father, John Myers, had come with the Mormon pioneers across planes and mountains and stopped on the Bear River to make his home.

Aunt Addie was always frail. Living on a ranch with much work to do was difficult. They had a large home and often housed ranchers and took care of their teams of horses when they made a two-day trip to Evanston. Addie got tuberculosis. Often she was very ill. A doctor would be called from Evanston to come with a team of horses to administer oxygen to her.

Fred and Addie had two children, Jack and Grace. When Grace was ten years old and Jack was about 14, the hired girl came down with scarlet fever. Jack caught the scarlet fever and Grace came down with the measles. Aunt Addie was kept busy nursing them all and came down with the measles. In her frail condition, she got pneumonia, which killed her.

Both Jack and Grace attended school of Evanston. Grace made her home with Aunt Florrie, who was very good to her. Jack came to stay at our house. He returned to the ranch every weekend. Both Jack and Grace graduated from the University of Wyoming. Jack is now 75 years old (Editor's Note: remember that Grace wrote this in 1987) and still owns the Myers ranch. He has two children, Ken and Laurie. Ken now runs the ranch and lives there. Several years ago, oil was discovered on their ranch. They became very wealthy. Unfortunately, with poor management of their investments, they have lost almost everything.

Jack has been a widower for many years, and several years ago remarried a widow, Bernita Elizabeth Smith.

Grace married a military man, Harold Meyers, and has lived in Japan, in Germany, and all over the United States. He is retired now and they lived in Colorado Springs were Grace does social work. Grace and Harold also have two children, a boy. Jeffrey Burt and a girl, Marian Adele who are both married.

Florence was the second daughter. As an adult, she was 5 feet 10 inches tall. She was ten years old when they came to United States. And she got a little older, she went to Evanston where she became a telephone operator. This is a job made especially for her, and she had very long arms which were needed in reaching to plug in the lines in the early days of the telephone.

Florrie married Reuel Walton and who was a young lawyer. His home was Woodruff, Utah. His father had been a judge in Maine. I believe he had ten brothers and sisters who are all that now. Reuel became very successful in his profession and became the prosecuting attorney, and later, a judge of the Third Judicial District in Wyoming. In his old age, he became a Justice of Peace.

Florrie and Reuel had two daughters, Rose and Dorothy. One attended the University of Utah, and the other attended the University of Wyoming. Then they both went to live in California. Rose was a career girl until she was about 40 years old. Then she married Arnold Bryram, who was a druggist. They now live in Carson City, Nevada, and have one daughter and two grandchildren.

Dorothy married Charles Bishop worked for the Douglas Aircraft Corporation in California. He is retired now. They have traveled in many parts of the world. Dorothy and Chuck have two daughters, Pamela and Barbara. Pam is not married. Barbara married Daniel Statnekov and has a baby son who just turned a year old.

Rose and Dorothy are very near my age and we grew up with very close friends and cousins who shared many family activities.

Margretta was considered the beauty of the family. She had beautiful dark hair and brown eyes. She attended business school in Wenatchee and then married Henry M.Smith, who was a horticulturist and who had graduated from the University of Idaho. They owned the large apple orchard in Wenatchee and built a beautiful home in Cashmere, Washington.

Margretta and Henry had no children. Later, they moved to Seattle where they invested money in storage buildings for apples. They were always well-to-do. Aunt Margretta died when she was 83 years old.

Rose was a very lovable, sweet person always. As a girl she attended business college in Wenatchee. Then she went to work for the Great Northern Railway System as a stenographer. She married George Helgeson in a military wedding near the end of World War I. George became a Methodist minister. They served in Minnesota for many years. When George was almost ready to retire, he moved to Seattle, WA, where he invested his savings in a business which sold Airstream trailers.

Aunt Rose had four boys: Lewis, Robert, John, and Paul. Lewis has three children. He has become very well known as a physicist and has traveled all over the world with a machine he invented mounted on a truck with which he treats people who have suffered from radiation. (Editor's note: remember, the editor is Lewis, so, although Gladys' description of my work is not completely accurate, I shall leave it as she wrote it. For more accurate information you may click on my web address.)

Bob also has three boys. However, his wife, Martha, left him and he married a girl, Dorothy Ellen Gibson, with four children who is also raising two children of her sisters. Bob has visited Wales many times and you may have met him.

John has three children and lives in Spokane.

Paul has never married and is very interested in his Doberman Pinschers.