Tom & Edna Sampson

After I took an hour to write that other letter, I see that you got a letter from Dallas. He remembered the Tom Samsons living there on the corner in Haigler. I didn't know the location of their farm. I am guessing and pretty sure that Raymond and Ethel started farming it and that this is when the parents (Tom and Edna) moved to town.

About Frank Tiff. The Frank Tiff that I know is brother to Ethel and twin of Frances Tiff that married Lawrence Schauer. Maybe the father's name was Frank, I don't know. He was not around at all while the Tiff children were growing up. They were raised by George and Lillie Zuege while their mother worked. I faintly remember seeing her once but can't remember where or how. They George Zuege's, lived in the south part of W-10 district (in Kansas).

The mother was a sister of Lillie who had no children of her own. The first I knew the family was in high school. Buelah Tiff, the oldest of the six (or was it nine???) was in high school in some of my classes. She was a close friend of Mona Northrup, too.

I think Northrups helped her get started to high school. Later she married Floyd Stull and they lived in Wheeler. The youngest of the Tiffs were the twins Frank and Frances. Frank married Mercel Van Horn. Frances married Lawrence Schauer and they farmed south of Haigler.

Wayne Tiff married Esther Schauer. George Zuege treated them all as his own. Later George and Lillie moved to Haigler. The Tiff boys farmed the place. One of the places that they farmed was the land between our land and the Louisa Rose land that Manuel Biers farmed.

One rainy day they had been working there and a sudden rain storm came and drenched them. The boys slogged to our house with their lunch. I guess that the vehicle came along from another of their farms and picked them up. Later we bought that land at their land sale.

Ethel was next in age to Buelah. I am trying to remember when she started to high school. But I do remember knowing her before she married Raymond. She was pretty too. Her twins looked like her and were dolls.

The Dalles is the place that Raymond and Ethel moved to from Haigler. We got letters from them for awhile. I am glad for news about Jerry. I hadn't heard about them for years. I wonder if he would remember us from back when he lived in Haigler.

-- Submitted by Alice (Crabtree) Gregory