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Scout's Daddy
This is Nonna’s maternal grandfather, ninos; Taylor William Deeds born in Kansas in 1890. One of eleven children, he migrated west to Idaho and worked in the Fruitland orchards. There he was smitten by Golden Violet, one of three attractive, spoiled daughters of the Young family who owned a dairy farm and vast apple orchards. Here he is holding your Nonna when she was about eighteen months. Behind him, just home from WWII is your great grandfather Max. The other picture is Grandpa with his son Art and their hunting dogs. Grandpa always had a dog or two to help him hunt.
Grandpa and Grandma Deeds married in 1912 and raised five children. Your GG is one of them. They named her Dorothy Marguerite but Grandpa always called her Scout. I don't know a lot about him, but was told he didn't talk much, played the fiddle and could call a square dance. During the depression, he cut timber and poached game to feed his family. When the sawmills closed and times got really tough, he took Grandma and the girls home to the Young farm and he and Art went on the road. Grandpa was a democrat but he didn't hold with the New Deal make-work programs and he wouldn't take charity. Eventually he pulled his family through to better times, but the depression years left harsh memories for Uncle Art and GG. She never complains but she still remembers going to bed with an empty belly, crying herself to sleep on many occasions. Their lives were very different from ours, ninos.
Grandpa and Grandma Deeds eventually settled in Council, Idaho, where Grandpa farmed and could hunt and fish year round. In 1948 he was struck by lightning while driving his tractor. Grandpa was tough as a boot heel, he climbed back on that tractor but was struck again. He survived but suffered damage to his internal organs and eventually died from hepatitis in his late fifties. I was six or seven when he died. Here we see him (notice he is not wearing his hat and he has some hair) with his wife Golden, daughter Marguerite (your GG), son Art and daughter Helen their youngest child. Your GG was around eighteen when this was taken. Grandpa Deeds was liked and respected by the men who knew him. I saw as a child the esteem in which he was held by the men who came to his place in Council. He spoke rarely and when he did, they listened. He had great strength of character, integrity and stamina, qualities he passed along to your GG and quite possibly to you.
This is Nonna’s maternal grandfather, ninos; Taylor William Deeds born in Kansas in 1890. One of eleven children, he migrated west to Idaho and worked in the Fruitland orchards. There he was smitten by Golden Violet, one of three attractive, spoiled daughters of the Young family who owned a dairy farm and vast apple orchards. Here he is holding your Nonna when she was about eighteen months. Behind him, just home from WWII is your great grandfather Max. The other picture is Grandpa with his son Art and their hunting dogs. Grandpa always had a dog or two to help him hunt.
Grandpa and Grandma Deeds married in 1912 and raised five children. Your GG is one of them. They named her Dorothy Marguerite but Grandpa always called her Scout. I don't know a lot about him, but was told he didn't talk much, played the fiddle and could call a square dance. During the depression, he cut timber and poached game to feed his family. When the sawmills closed and times got really tough, he took Grandma and the girls home to the Young farm and he and Art went on the road. Grandpa was a democrat but he didn't hold with the New Deal make-work programs and he wouldn't take charity. Eventually he pulled his family through to better times, but the depression years left harsh memories for Uncle Art and GG. She never complains but she still remembers going to bed with an empty belly, crying herself to sleep on many occasions. Their lives were very different from ours, ninos.
Grandpa and Grandma Deeds eventually settled in Council, Idaho, where Grandpa farmed and could hunt and fish year round. In 1948 he was struck by lightning while driving his tractor. Grandpa was tough as a boot heel, he climbed back on that tractor but was struck again. He survived but suffered damage to his internal organs and eventually died from hepatitis in his late fifties. I was six or seven when he died. Here we see him (notice he is not wearing his hat and he has some hair) with his wife Golden, daughter Marguerite (your GG), son Art and daughter Helen their youngest child. Your GG was around eighteen when this was taken. Grandpa Deeds was liked and respected by the men who knew him. I saw as a child the esteem in which he was held by the men who came to his place in Council. He spoke rarely and when he did, they listened. He had great strength of character, integrity and stamina, qualities he passed along to your GG and quite possibly to you.
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