This is the final home in Ellsworth, where the family lived from 1941 until 1956, when they relocated to Greeley.

My Grandfather Stonebraker worked here when it was the Patterson Brothers Garage, now it is a museum.

This is one of the first houses the family lived in when they moved to Ellsworth, in 1936-37. Mind you, there were 8 boys and two parents.

The family moved to Ellsworth in the Depression, and had a great struggle. Uncle Earl said the family almost never had bought meat - it was rabbits and fish from the river and the like. They moved from home to home, seeking a place large enough for the eight children, but safe. He said one of the homes they had to leave because of the rats!

When we went through downtown, he said my father sold men's clothing as a high school job, and he was quite the dresser. I do remember my dad telling me that when they moved to town, he realized that only the country kids had overalls, and he saved up to by a pair of courdory pants.

Uncle Earl is the youngest, and my father is the oldest. My dad was gone in college when Earl was young, and then he went off to be an Army Ranger in WWII. Earl said he was home from school for lunch when he was about 10, and his dad, my grandfather, was walking with a stranger in an Army uniform, and he was pretty nervous about who it could be. Of course, it turned out to be my dad. Then, he said, it was so cool to hang out with a real soldier, and he said my dad took him everywhere.