I found this on another list. Maybe it will help someone.
Rosemary
From:
Suzanne Leonard <sleonard(a)wyoming.com>
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Source: GC- Sheridan Co. Wy Biographies
URL:
http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Wy/SheridanBios/3
Subject: James and Anna Cable
Surname:
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JAMES E. and ANNA CABLE
by Anna Louise Gazur
from Sheridan County Heritage
Published 1983
My father, James E. Cable, was born in Sugar Grove, North
Carolina, April
27, 1893. The Cables came from England as soldiers during the
Revolutionary
War. His mother's family (Love) was from Scotland and Ireland.
Since the
South had been badly hurt during the Civil War, the West, with
all the
cowboys, seemed like a "Good Life." James Cable came West in
1915. He was
a cowboy in Sunlight Basin out of Cody, Wyoming, but it was
not too long
and he knew cowboy life was not as good as he had read it to
be. He then
went to work on the CB and Q Railroad. In 1917, he went to
World War I
from Ranchester, Wyoming, and served 21 months in France. He
met the girl
who was to be his bride at an ice skating party. She was Anna
Katherine
Schilireff at Dunmore, Montana.
Anna Schilireff s father, Jacob Schillreff, and mother, Anna
Ehoff, were
German-Russians who came from Russia to America in 1902. My
mother, Anna
Katherine, was born December 21, 1901, and was less than six
months old
when they arrived on this side of the ocean. Jacob ran a
livery barn and
farmed. I can still remember the Rivel Kuchen my grandmother
always seemed
to have in abundance when we went to Hardin, where they
retired; also,
the sausages my grandfather made.
On January 21, 1921, James E. Cable and Anna Katherine
Schillreff were
married. Due to a time element, the minister requested they be
married
in Billings and then to Dunmore for the celebration. The
bridal couple
traveled by train, but most of the guests came by horse and
buggy. The
wedding festivities lasted more than three days. My mother
baked for more
than three days preparing food before the wedding. The couple
lived at
Aberdeen, Montana. My grandfather gave them a milk cow, a pig
and some
chickens and ducks. To Aberdeen, Doc Taggart was brought on
the railroad
motorcar at the birth of the couple's first daughter, Helen
Irene.
In 1923, the Cables moved to Ranchester, Wyoming. They both
loved the outdoors,
and Anna had a "green thumb" growing beautiful dahlias, glads
and garden.
James loved to hunt and fish. It was in Ranchester they had
two more daughters:
Anna Louise and Julia Mae, both delivered by Dr. J. E. Carr.
In 1940, they purchased part of the John Olson homestead in
the Ranchester
area. The location: all that portion of the north half of the
south half
and of the south half of the southeast quarter of Section 18,
Township
57 North, Range 85 West, of the 6th P.M., Sheridan County,
Wyoming, lying
north of State Highway 87. Today the property can easily be
found. The
property lies south of the blue water tank on the hilt north
of the town
of Ranchester. There were approximately II more acres west of
the old town
of Ranchester. On this land today is the Ranchester State
Bank, shopping
center, and many homes over to Railway Street. This piece of
land was sold
in 1972.
When the Cables purchased the farm in 1940, there were hardly
any trees,
but Mrs. Cable planted many trees and shelterbelts. They had
milk cows
and sheep. You took your cream cans over to the depot to go to
the Sani-Dairy
or Jersey Creamery by train to Sheridan. Box socials and home
gatherings
provided some entertainment in those days, and Mr. Cable loved
to play
his violin and fiddle so people had music to dance to. When I
was a very
small child, I can remember people coming over to our house to
listen to
our radio, since they were not common then. It was a big day
when a car
of company came! You got ice out of the icehouse and started a
freezer
of ice cream, had fresh fryers dressed to have fried chicken,
and the~
table was soon set with a feast. We had many overnight guests,
since travel
was not as fast as nowadays. Mrs. Cable died in 1972, and her
husband died
in 1974. In 1954, Mr. Cable had retired from the CB and Q
Railroad. They
were active in the Community Church, VFW and community.
Helen Irene Cable MacConnell, their oldest daughter, had three
children:
Karen Martin, wife of Don Martin, now living in Laramie,
Wyoming. She has
a degree in German and is active in spinning, dyeing, and
weaving, and
the mother of Kathy, Dawn, Kimberly and David; Sheila Cherni,
wife of Michael
Cherni, of Sheridan. Sheila has a Bachelors in French, and is
active in
pottery, painting, and is the mother of two daughters, Bonnie
and Laurie;
Benjamin MacConnell is married to his wife, Sharon. He
attended Sheridan
College, and is a salesman for Cook Ford. Helen worked in
Civil Service
in Utah and is now at the V.A. Hospital in Sheridan.
Anna Louise Gazur, their second daughter, married Michael
Gazur. Today
he is a retired firefighter from the V.A. Hospital in
Sheridan. They have
two sons: Roger, an electrical engineer at the Coyote Power
Plant in Beulah,
North Dakota; and Wayne Gazur, an Attorney in Denver. Anna
Louise taught
in Acme, Ohiman and Parkman Schools, no longer in existence,
and music
in the Ranchester School.
Julia Mae Toperzer, their third daughter, married Henry
Toperzer and lives
in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Their son, Stephen, is a designing
engineer with
IBM in Poughkeepsie, New York, and their daughter, Ann Marie,
is pursuing
a degree in Music Education at the University of Wisconsin and
teaching
flute in the Milwaukee system. Julia is Supervisor at St.
Francis Hospital
in Milwaukee, and is active on the National Diabetes Board.
James and Anna Cable were enthusiastic and loyal supporters of
education,
and would be yet proud of their family. Their daughter, Anna
Louise, is
continuing to raise sheep on the farm.
--
Rosemary Miller
Johnstown, PA