
Ina Pursel (Gary West's grandmother) taught school for over 50 years in the Applegate area. For many years she rode to the one-room schoolhouse on horseback, and then chopped wood to build a fire in the tiny wood stove before the children arrived. In this photo (circa 1906) she had to pull the children across the Applegate River in a trolley to get to school. She was truly a Pioneer "Lady." We never heard her say a bad word, and she always wore a dress.
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Gary's Grandpa, Nelson Pursel, was born in Jacksonville in 1883. Here he is in the designer baby buggy of the day.
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