Martha & Laura Glover

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Posted By: Connie Swearingen (email)
Date: 8/26/2010 at 22:40:51

History of Woodbury County, Iowa 1984

Martha and Laura May Glover
By Leona Glover Davis

Martha Ann Glover, daughter of William and Emily (Rains) Glover, was born February 5, 1878 in Fremont County, Iowa. She came with her parents at the age of four years to Lakekport Township, Woodbury County, Iowa in 1882. She grew up there on December 11, 1895, married Fred Richards of Sloan. They lived in Lakeport Township and various places around Sloan and their later years in the town of Sloan. To this union were born six children: Verda, Lloyd, Norna, Clifford, Lyla and Aletha.

Verda Richards, born September 22, 1896, married Claude Arthur ‘Tommy’ Montgomery, July 8, 1915. They farmed west of Sloan and had one daughter, Mildred. Tommy was injured by a horse which kicked him in June 1931 and passed away. Verda married Elmer Williams, February 5, 1934. Elmer was born April 5, 1890, and died April 15, 1947; burial was in Sloan Cemetery. He had lived in Woodbury County all his life.

Lloyd Richards was born September 5, 1898, and passed away November 3, 1963. He never married.

Norma Richards, born July 10, 1901, married Lloyd Shupe. They had no chidlren. They lived in Sloan and the Sioux City area; both have passed away.

Clifford Richards, born May 25, 1902, near Sloan, grew up thre and joined theNavy. He fell in love with a girl in New Zealand, where he was stationed, and married her. He lived thre the rest of his life.

Lyla Richards, born January 24, 1914, has always lived in Woodbury County. She now lives in Siux City. She was married to Lloyd Walker, and divorced. She married Darrel Smith and had a daughter, Donna Lou Smith, who married Myron Anderson. They have two children, Myron Scott and Andera Jolene Anderson. Lyla and Darrel separated. Later she married Charles Bisbee of Onawa; he has passed away.

Aletha Richards, born Novembe 19, 1917, married Wayne Richardson. Wayne passed away in 1969. They had one son, Max Richardson, who married Martha Black and they had one daughter.

In March 1911, Martha and Fred Richards, of Sloan, crossed the frozen Missouri River west of Sloan, and went to visit her brother, Charley and family in Winnebago, Nebraska. When they started back home, Charley and his two sons, Herman and Frank, went with them down to the river to watch them cross them cross the ice. As they neared the center of the river, the ice gave away, due to the falling of the river which left an air pocket under the ice, so the team broke through. Martha and Fred jumped from the buggy and unhooked the tugs and pulled the buggy back to the Nebraska shore. They could do nothing for the team, but just watch them float around, then disappear from signt under the ice.

Fred and Martha had to return to Winnebago, and the next day they came home by train. Fred walked across the river later, from the Iowa side and pulled the buggy back across the ice by hand to the Iowa side. He made sure to walk on solid ice that time.

Another daughter of William and Emily (Rains) Glover, was Laura May Glover, born July 24, 1884, in Lakeport Township, where she grew up and attended the Glover School. She married Howard James Miller on May (---- informationmissing) and later to Ogden, Utah. Both have passed away now. Laura lived to be 95 years old. They had six children: Everett, born at Sloan; Walter, Marjorie, William, Howard, and Robert, all born at Evanston, Wyoming.

Contributed by Leona Glover Davis