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I have always felt this man was something special. He used to walk the neighborhood in Decatur when I was a kid. Lived with his daughter, Norma Roland. Frank Sheldon Peterson (uncle to my grandfather,  Cal Fuller Peterson. Frank Sheldon Peterson was born in Decatur, Adams Co., Indiana on April 2, 1876. He served in the Spanish-American War as a member of company B, 4th Regiment, Indiana National Guard, which had been organized in Decatur on June 7, 1889. In April, 1898 Peterson was serving as corporal. The company mustered at Camp Mount, IN on April 26, 1898. After a rigid examination, and the addition of 25 men to the company’s rolls, the regiment was put on active duty May 12, 1898, and left by rail May 16, for Camp Thomas, at Chicamauga park, GA, arriving there May 18. On July 28 the regiment left Camp Thomas under orders to proceed to Puerto Rico. On July 30, at Newport News, VA the orders were countermanded, and on August 21 the company proceede...

Linda's mother had a sister, Jessie. Jessie married George Moe in 1928. They were both born and raised in North Dakota. Moe was short for Kragmo. George's parents immigrated to America from Norway in 1881 and George's father died when George, the oldest of four children......was six years old...1910. To say George had a rough life was an understatement. His mother gave all four children (ages 6,5,3,1) over to a Norwegian farmer to raise and do farm labor when George's father died. As soon as George could get a job away from the farm, he took all his siblings and raised them on his own. He was a young teen when he did this. George put himself through college and law school, was an officer in the Civilian Conservation Corps after WW2. His main life occupation was an attorney for the state of California. Linda's favorite uncle.  

 

I have been carrying this rooster around for almost 54 years. In 1969, Dad bought an 80 acre farm in Hoagland, Indiana. It was always his dream. One of the first things Dad wanted done was moving a small (30x40) barn about 100'. Dad, Chuck and myself used a Case pay loader and lots of telephone poles to  lift and move the building. I rescued the weather van on top the barn and always dreamed of  seeing that rooster flying in my back yard. I finished the rehabilitation and now, in 2023, the rooster is flying again.   In my back yard. Dad is smiling.