Mom just said it was her grandmother Gurr, who lived in Hayden, who had the large orchard and raised the pottawattamie plums. Their dog was named Spud. Farm Creek was where the family lived when mom was born. This is also where her mom saw a group of painted warriors riding up over Red Hill. Grandma watched them as they rode up over the hill and disappeared. When grandpa got home she told him what had happened. He believed her and rode up to check it out. He could not find any hoofprints. The Indians at that time were very peaceful and did not wear war paint. Grandma and grandpa both felt it was the spirits of the native Americans who had lived there before. The Indians her mother saw that day also had painted horses, and the warriors were dressed in their native war dress.
Shirley says one of her fondest memories with her Grandpa Gurr was playing a game called "Touchy Last", it was quite a bit like tag. He was a big man but he had no problem chasing after the kids. Whenever they went down to their home, they had a beautiful garden with cosmos and hollyhocks. Shirley says she loved to take the flowers from the hollyhocks and pretend that they were dolls, she would turn them upside down, the green part would be their faces and the flower part would be their beautiful skirts. They had an amazing vegetable garden. They grew just about everything. With the pump out in front of their home, her grandpa built his own system to get the water from that pump down the furrows in the garden, and the kids loved to work the pump to send the water down the furrows.
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