Post by Pat (Friend) Thompson on Apr 18, 2008 10:42:50 GMT -5
Friendship News Oct. 1999- Serendipity by Ina Hicks
Let me tell you the stories of two real cowboys, Adolph Friend in California and William Freeman Friend (Billy) Friend in Oklahoma, who never knew each other. Adolph’s parents, Jonathan Andrew and Sonoma Boyer Friend, and their first children (Effie Adelia and Henry Ellsworth) left Friendsville for the hills of Anaheim, CA in 1890. Adolph was born 5 December 1894 in Soquel Canyon, Chino, California.
William Freeman’s parents, Jehu Hanse and Catherine Colwell Friend, moved to Vinita, Okalahoma from Bethany, Missouri, but Jehu’s parents, Freeman and Rebekay Smalley Friend, had headed west from Sang Run in 1850. First they went to Keoduk County, Iowa, then to Decatur and Ringgold Counties before moving to Missouri where Freeman served in the Missouri State Calvary during the Civil War.
Captured by Rebels, Freeman and two other prisoners were shot, firing squad fashion. Blinded but alive, he survived forth-four (?forty-four)more years. William Freeman, or Billy, started trailing cattle at the age of nine. He rode the Honeywell Trail at the age of fifteen. His ranch was on land leased from the Indians in Osage country.
Adolph’s father, Jonathan Andrew, finally settled at the head of Telegraph Canyon and established a hay and cattle business along the old Butterfield Stage Lines and into Carbon County. Adolph extended his ranching activities into Santa Ana Canyon. Billy was 3X great grandson of “Old John” and Adolph was 3 X great grandson of “Old John” through different sons of John and Kerrenhappuck Friend…John Jr. and Joseph.
Let me tell you the stories of two real cowboys, Adolph Friend in California and William Freeman Friend (Billy) Friend in Oklahoma, who never knew each other. Adolph’s parents, Jonathan Andrew and Sonoma Boyer Friend, and their first children (Effie Adelia and Henry Ellsworth) left Friendsville for the hills of Anaheim, CA in 1890. Adolph was born 5 December 1894 in Soquel Canyon, Chino, California.
William Freeman’s parents, Jehu Hanse and Catherine Colwell Friend, moved to Vinita, Okalahoma from Bethany, Missouri, but Jehu’s parents, Freeman and Rebekay Smalley Friend, had headed west from Sang Run in 1850. First they went to Keoduk County, Iowa, then to Decatur and Ringgold Counties before moving to Missouri where Freeman served in the Missouri State Calvary during the Civil War.
Captured by Rebels, Freeman and two other prisoners were shot, firing squad fashion. Blinded but alive, he survived forth-four (?forty-four)more years. William Freeman, or Billy, started trailing cattle at the age of nine. He rode the Honeywell Trail at the age of fifteen. His ranch was on land leased from the Indians in Osage country.
Adolph’s father, Jonathan Andrew, finally settled at the head of Telegraph Canyon and established a hay and cattle business along the old Butterfield Stage Lines and into Carbon County. Adolph extended his ranching activities into Santa Ana Canyon. Billy was 3X great grandson of “Old John” and Adolph was 3 X great grandson of “Old John” through different sons of John and Kerrenhappuck Friend…John Jr. and Joseph.
