The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-11-05
BUILT uss OWN HOUSE.
PIucky Woman Has Amassed Competency
Fighting Against Many Misfortunes.

Fighting Against Many Misfortunes.
Mrs. Nellie ]. Campbell, who
owns and works a 32) acre ranch
within three miles of the village
of Elizabeth, in the State of Colo.
RADIO, on the Colorado & Southern
Railroad, on which stands a com.
fortable seven roomed house,
with barns and sheds, all the
work of her own hands, is made
of the stuff that knows no failure.
Twelve years ago Mrs. Camp
bell started with capital of $5.
To day she has a clear title to
her hundreds of acres, with
stock and machinery to run the
place. Her bank account is not
an enormously large one, to be
sure, but she has means sufficient
to pay as she goes. And what
is more, she owes no man a farth-
ing. Her 320 acres alone are
worth the neat little sum of
$4,000.
AS soon as this energetic, am
bilious little woman, who weighs
less than lis pounds. homestead.
ed 100 acres of rich Colorado land
she moved onto it with her son,
who was only boy in his teens
They had just s. between them.
She obtained enough dry goods
boxes to fix up a home, which
they occupied for a whole year.
Then they managed to procure
lum ber enough to build a small
room, which they moved into.
But her first years work went
for nothing. For the crop they
planted was entirely destroyed
by hail. So Mrs. Campbell and
her son both went out to work by
the month, thus earning enough
to carry them along.
For three years they kept at
this kind of employment, becom-
ing at the end of that time so
prosperous that it was thought
best for her son, who, having by
this time grown considerably
larger, to buy a REIMBURSEMENT,
with small house on it, adjoln-
his mothers land.
The young man was delighted
with his prospects. To fulfill
the requirements of the law he
lived in his own house and work
ed on both places. There came
a morning, however, when the
son, who was always prompt,
was late to breakfast. His moth
er waited and finally, becoming
uneasy, went over to see what
was keeping him so late. She
found him in bed, shot through
the heart while he slept.
After that her neighbors all
said she must not live there alone.
Something might happen to her,
as 1t had to her son. But what
was she to do? She had strlven
too hard to go away and leave it
all, so she tolled on all by her.
self, sowing and reaping and do.
ing whatever there was to be
done about the place.
1t was just seven years since
she and her only boy had come
there, when, one night while she
was at milking, her house took
fire and burned to the ground.
Was she cast down? Naturally.
But she was not discouraged,
which is as different as can be.
There is no telling what some
men might have done under
these circumstances. What
Mrs. Campbell actually did dc
was to sell some of her cows and
get herself into shape to build
her new seven-room house and
the rest of the buildings on her
place.
The barns and sheds are all the
work of her own hands. She
also did practically all the work
on the house, too, having only
some little assistance IN carrying
out the more minute details.
Notwithstanding all she has gone
through, Mrs. Campbell keeps
herself fresh and young.