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Hermena Irene A Carbines

1903-1988
Born: Cardinham, Cornwall, England
Died: Lloydminster, Alberta, Canada

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  • Residence: 1911 Uk Census

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  • Story: From "North Of The Gully" History Book

    <p>In March 1928, Frank and Irene Cox and family came from England , arriving in Paynton, Saskatchewan. Their two children, Orlando and Hazel, were age six and two years. From there they moved to the Hanncock Farm in the Sewton school district, Northeast of Maidstone. After two crop failures they moved North of the Gully to NE-23-49-23-W3. This was a raw quarter and they built their first house of logs plastered with `cow dung`and straw, then whitewashed inside. The barn was built with two sets of rail walls packed with straw. They broke the land and fenced it, finding life very hard. </p><p>A milk cow was traded to get a well dug. Cream at two dollars per five gallon can and eggs at seven cents a dozen were traded at Allen`s store for groceries. Frank traded some horses and in return received a little cash and three sheep. At this time Irene purchased a spinning wheel and learned to spin yarn. She spun wool and knitted knee-high socks which sold for seventy-five cents per pair. Knitted siwash sweaters sold for nine dollars each. In order to make some extra money she washed clothes for ten people and scrubbed floors once a week for seventy-five cents, for a long days work.</p><p>Irene found time to make Frank and Orlando`s undershorts and shorts, Hazel and her own drawers and dresses out of dyed one hundred pound flour sacks. A list of necessary winter clothing was made out and then it was gone over and some items had to deducted, as there was not enough money to cover the order.</p><p>After a crew of neighbors had helped saw a pile of wood, Irene split it and hauled a three-deck sleigh box full to town, hoping to sell it for two dollars. It was often sold to the RCMP There was no money to put the team in the livery barn. She fed then oat bundles brought from home and ate a bowl of soup at the cafe. It was a cold ride home.</p><p>Orlando and Hazel attended Eldon School and at the time most of the pupils were Negro. The annual school meetings sometimes ended in heated discussion.</p><p>Irene remembers they had good times too. Visiting neighbors like``Gran Miller`for a good feed of Sauercraut and pork. In the summer there was always the ball games at Tebo Corner and fishing trips. They visited back and forth with neighbors gus and Martha Behrens, the Swartz family, Mahoneys, and Strawsons, also Dodds across the Gully.</p><p>In March 1940 they received word that a baby girl was waiting for them in Edmonton in answer to their adoption application. They travelled to Edmonton by train to pick her up. On their return to Maidstone, WalterRhinehart met the train with a team and cutter as it had snowed so much in their absence. The snowbanks were so high they had a rough ride home, but finally arrived at Gan Millers, where they had a hot meal, then the short journey home with their `cute little bundle`whom they named Yvonne.</p><p>Irene recalls that Orlando and Freda (Rhinehart) were married and lived across the road in a little log house on what was known as the Art Spence Quarter. Both families were in Maidstone one Saturday when they noticed a red glow in the sky. Thinking it might be one of their houses, they rushed home as fast as the horses could travel to find Orlando and Freda`s gone up in smoke. The only thing saved was a washtub hanging on the outside wall. To add to the tragedy, it happened one month before their first child, Ronald, was born. Later that same fall, Frank and Irene lost their barn by fire and later still lost another barn and straw stack in the same manner. </p><p>Three fires was enough to make them decide to move to the Kampton District, north of Marshall, to another farm. From here they moved closer to lloydminster where they farmed for three years. Their next move was when they purchased the Dave Eaves Auction business and second-hand store in Lloydminster. This was following the seond world war and business was good. In 1947 the business was sold at a good price and Irene and Frank took a trip to England, staying eight months. While in England they were engaged in Evangelical work and before returning home adopted another daughter, Marion. A home was purchased in Lloydminster and Frank secured a job in the post office for the next year and a half. Their next move, in conjunction with their evangelic work, was to Hanley, BC.</p><p>They lived at and helped out with a fellowship home for missionaries. The property consisted of a large house and two cabins situated in five acres of land. Later on they purchased this property after the owners retired and Frank once again opened an auction business. After a few more ventures in the Vancouver area, Frank and Irene decided to `Take life easy`. They moved to a mobile home in the King George Trailer Park at Surrey. One more move was made by Frank to White Rock, where he went to ``be with the Lord`. Irene spent the next years living in Lloydminster, Paradise Valley, Kitscoty, and then she went back to White Rock, BC, where she met and married George Grasby and they moved to the King George Trailer park. </p>

 
 
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