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Mosty Family History
FROM KANSAS TO TEXAS
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I dug the post holes & set the poles for the rst telephone line out of Kerrville down the RR to our farm. July 16, 1900 a 16 inch rain fell here & Quinlin Creek washed out the RR bridge in town. The river came up under our house & we moved out that nite & went to the hills. We set up our tent again this time on the hill near the present windmill. The river washed out the RR bridge below Comfort that nite also.
We bought a small ...
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... house from Mr. Bragg Harris. It was located where Mr. MF Weston now lives. We made a deal with Mr. Will Council to move it & also our house on the river to the present location of the Mosty old home.
On August 2, 1902 Mr. Council brought Mr. Williford a freighter out with his team of about 16 horses to move the house. He moved the Harris house before noon & after noon moved our house over. He stuck on the RR late that afternoon & ...
