my proposals

jim swartz
I met Jim Swartz who was a friend of Chicks. We would go horseback riding. One night we set out on the hill and watch them put out an oil well fire. Jim could play the violin. I think thats what attracted me to him. He was redhead.

When I went to work at the café, I had to take the children back to Vernal to mama.

herman cole
I met Herman Cole while I was working at the café. He was a sheepherder, and would come to town to get supplies for his camp and he would come to the café to eat. He wanted me to marry him; he brought me a ring. We could not get married until my divorce from Frank was final. Herman moved to Rifle and he fell in love with a woman there. He wrote me a letter and asked for the ring back. I never did give the ring back to him.

The Oil wells open up again and I went back to work for them, until they closed down again. I went back to Don and Maggie on the Brick Ranch. I was thinking about going to Vernal to find work, but Vernal was a hard place to find a job at.

3 proposals in a day
I got three letters in one day and all of them were asking me to marry them. One was from Guss Duncan, and I had not seen him in three years.

“I showed the letters to Don and Maggie. And so they decided that Guss Duncan would be the one that I would marry”. (molly’s note: Maggie is Bud's sister)

Guss Duncan was living with his sister Martha Workman, in Toole, Utah when he wrote me the letter. I answered the letter and said I would marry him.

Bud and Martha came to Rangely, Colo. and the next day papa drive us to Vernal, Utah where we were married by the Justice of the Peace on Oct 27, 1927. I had three days to go before my divorce from Frank was finale. We came back to Rangely that night.