Montana to Boston and Back

Charlie Davis married his childhood sweetheart, Jeannie Henderson in 1931. The year is now 1935 and Charlie had a good farming year on his Montana ranch. They have a son, Chuck, who was born in January two years before, and twins, Jennifer and James born in June this year. Joe Goodman joined him in 1931 as his partner on the ranch. They have developed a very good working rapport and feel very much like brothers. His wife, Kate, is a lovely, generous woman with a big heart. They now have four children. Andrew is six and started school last month. Julie is the same age as Chuck, and their twins were born a couple of days before Charlie's twins. Jim and Sarah Robertson live in the original ranch house and fit in well with the Goodmans and Davis's. They lost their ranch to the dust bowl of the prairies and happened to stop at Charlie's place looking for work. Kate took them in and fed them, Joe and Charlie invited them to stay, and they are a great addition to the enterprise. They have four children ranging in ages from eleven to five, David, Timothy, Sandra, and Susie. Sandra and John Paul MacDonald purchased the Davis family home in Detroit. Joe and Kate met them when Kate was researching for her first book on Charlie Davis' family. The McDonalds have become like another set of parents to Kate and Joe. A friendship has developed between them, Peter and Paula Goodman, and Paul and Elizabeth Torrenson, Joe and Kate's parents. The three couples make a yearly trip out to see those on the Montana ranch. The book begins with Charlie and Jeannie heading on a trip to Boston to see her relatives whom she had not seen for years. They took a bus tour of Boston and a harbor cruise in between visiting. She interviewed many relatives, had questionnaires completed, and gathered pictures and other family documents to take back with her to Montana to share with Kate. Kate will take all the information and turn it into a book. Jeannie wants to be involved with the preparation of this book and works side-by-side with Kate five days a week to get the book written. Kate has been working on her family book on the Torrensons but has run into a snag with it. She has also finished the book on Joe's ancestors and it is ready to pick up from the printer during the time of their parents' visit. She also has a book almost complete on the MacDonalds. Paul, Elizabeth and Kate go into town and visit with Tommy Torrenson who installed the furnace in Joe and Kate's new home the previous year. The aim was to see if there was a connection between the Torrensons in the east and those in the west. Elizabeth had studied the documents they had and felt that she had found the connection. Thus begins a further adventure meeting more Torrenson relatives. Come with me and see what surprises are in store for Kate. Visit Barbara's website to view all of her books http: //barbararaue.ca