Mrs. Mary Hritz walking to the house built in 1929
teacher was Miss Albena Plante. She was a very
good teacher.
My father had a chance to buy a car. He traded
a springing heifer for a used 1917 model-T Ford;
my sister learned to drive it. One day she and I
drove to town, and on our way home right by the
Fountain-Campbell saw mill, the car brakes failed.
The man driving a team and wagon would not give
us road, so my sister turned to the ditch and we
landed in the old cemetery there by the bridge. We
were so frightened. The men from the shingle mill
saw this happen and came over and made the man
pull the car out on the road. Years later to my
sister's surprise, this same man became her
father-in-law.
Over many years father built a new big barn and
house and developed a good farm. I lost my mother
in 1952 and father in 1957. Written by Daughter
Leona L. Shimko nee Hritz
ROBERT AND EMILY HRUBY
In March of 1926 Mr. and Mrs. Robert E.
Hruby Sr. and three children came to live on their
80 acre farm in South Forks. They built a log
house from the trees on their land. They came
from Berwyn, Ill., leaving a new modern home.
They lived for many years in their log house with
no running water, electricity or telephone. They
cleared the land and made it into a modern dairy
farm.
Emily Kristine Hruby was born in Chicago, Ill.,
July 11th, 1896. Robert Ernest Hruby, Sr., was
born in Chicago, Ill., Jan. 1st, 1894. They were
married Nov. 7th, 1914. To them were born
Robert Jr. 1916, Lorence, 1919 (died at 15
months), Clarence, 1922 and Shirley in 1924.
I can remember money being very short, but
always enough food on the table.
One of the highlights in my memories is our
Saturday evenings. The Sunday paper came in the
mail on Saturday. Sat. evening when the house was

the special parents we had.
Another of my memories that is funny to me
now, Clarence, who was only 27 months older than
I, used to carry me across a room with a dirt floor
to another room in an old house where we used to
play because I was afraid of snakes. Many years
later I found that he's afraid of snakes as I am.
Bob Hruby Jr., of Colorado, married Mary
Neidil of Richland Aug. 17, 1940. They have 10
children; Joyce Uhren - Hawkins, Wis., Roger -
Colorado, Paul -  Colorado, Dale -  Colorado,
Larry -   Hawkins, David -    Canada, Rita
Rohwedder -  N.D., Dean -   Colorado, Jim -
Colorado and Mary Lou Pfannenstiel - Colorado.
Clarence Hruby of Hawkins married Marilyn
Baker of Hawkins June 26, 1954. They have no
children. Shirley Hruby married George Neidil of
Richland Oct. 14, 1944. They settled on the former
John and Victoria Rosiak farm in South Forks in
1945. They have three daughters, Lynn Beihl of
Delano, Minn., Kris Guenther of Edgai, Wis. and
Paty Brayton of Spooner, Wis.
Emily Hruby passed away July 19, 1948 at age
52. Robert Hruby, Sr. passed away Aug. 1, 1950
at age 55. Shirley Hruby Neidel
JOHN AND RUBY HUGHES
We came to Rusk County on Nov. 16, 1966,
from Waukesha, Wis. where Ruby and I were both
born and married in Aug. 1944. We bought a farm
south of Bruce from Ray DeBuck in Sept. 1966 for
our 3 horses and 2 colts. We followed Ruby's folks,
Harvey and Marie Brockway, who moved to Bruce
from Waukesha in March of 1966 and settled
down by the Chippewa River in the Town of
Thornapple. They put a basement under the house
and were content until they got flooded out every
spring and fall. They got disgusted and moved to
Palmdale, Calif., Aug. of 1974.
We still live on the farm. Our daughter Suzanne
married Robert Hause and lives outside of Exe-
land, Town of Murry with 3 girls Robyn, Tina and
Jacky. We gave her the horses and we dairy
farmed for 10 years until our retirement in 1977.
John Hughes

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Robert and Emily Hruby
nice and clean, chores and supper done, and the
house still smelling from the good Bohenian baking
that was baked that day my Dad would read the
comics to us - till we learned to read them
ourselves.
There is still the feeling of togetherness that will
stay with us all our lives. Maybe because there was
so little money and no cars or mainly because of

WILLIAM AND MARY
HURLEY
William Hurley was born November 18, 1859 in
Greene County, Iowa. On March 12, 1889 he mar-
ried Mary Elizabeth Goforth, who was born on Oc-
tober 16, 1860 in Peoria, Illinois, the daughter of
Jonathon and Cecilia Webster Goforth. (Cecilia
Webster is a direct descendant of John Webster,
the first governor of Connecticut). William and
Mary had four children;
Mabel Estella married George Kendall - spent
most of their married life in Jefferson, Iowa. Hazel
Jeanette (my mother) married Ezra Buswell and
lived in Iowa and Wisconsin. Libbie Lavina mar-
ried Leroy Burns and lived in Iowa and Missouri.
William married Victoria Lien and lived in Rusk
County.
In 1916 William and Mary moved to Ladysmith
and bought 80 acres of land located 3 miles south
of town on "G" and 1/2 mile east on the old airport
road. Their daughter Hazel and son William mov-
ed with them. Hazel was married to Ezra Buswell
on June 8, 1921 at her parents' farm. Rev. Grant

V. Clark of Ladysmith Church of Christ
officiated.
Their son William married Victoria Lien of
Black River Falls on January 13, 1926 and con-
tinued farming with his father until his death. My
grandfather died on June 24, 1953. Grandmother
preceded him in death on April 21, 1937. Both
were active members of the Ladysmith Church of
Christ. They are both buried in Riverside cemetery
at Ladysmith. Submitted by Nellie Buswell
Rhoades, Granddaughter

William and Mary Hurley - 1916

THE WILLIAM HURLEY
FAMILY
William Hurley came to Rusk County with his
parents at the age of 16, farming until his death in
1967.
He was born January 10, 1900, and was united
in marriage to Victoria Lien, of Black River Falls,
Wisconsin on January 13, 1926. They had a family
of six children, three boys and three girls. All six
attended the rural Maple Center Grade School for
eight years. Gerald and Wendall, the two oldest,
graduated from Tony High School. The other four
graduated from Ladysmith. Merle and I served in
the United States Army, and Wendall in the Navy
during World War I1.
I married the former Darlene Smith and now
reside in Elgin, Illinois.
Wendall married Elnora Davis and also lives in
Elgin. Merle married Pauline Hansen and lives in
Evansville, Wisconsin. Betty married Keith Butler
and lives in Yakima, Washington. Loretta married
Arvin Lenz and resides in Anoka, Minnesota.
Rosemary married Ronald Morehouse and lives in
Minnetonka, Minnesota.
The whole family were active members of the
Church of Christ in Ladysmith. My father passed
away on February 24, 1967, and mother on June
12, 1983. Both are buried in Riverside Cemetery,
Ladysmith, Wisconsin. Submitted by Gerald
Hurley
LUCIELLE JACOBS
At the end of the nineteenth century, it was not
uncommon for an expectant mother to go to her
parents' home for the delivery of her child. Thus it
was that although my parents had lived in Gates
County for some years, I was born at the home of
my maternal grandparents, James Franklyn and
Sarah Jane Bethel Andrus, in Chetek, Wisconsin,
in April, 1898. My mother's grandfather, Ben-
jamin Bethel, had come to this area from Oregon,
Wisconsin; my father's grandfather had come
from Illinois and his grandmother from Conhoc-
ton, New York.
In 1863, my mother's father, James Andrus,
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