Individual Details

Her birth place may be Watertown, Jefferson County, Wisconsin.
From information in her dairies of 1877, 1879, 1881, and 1882 (held by Lurena Colwell), she attended a normal school in Nebraska and Lurena has an original Public Schools of Nebraska, Teacher's Second Grade Certificate, issued for Saline County, Nebraska, dated August 1, 1881, which states: "This Certifies, that I believe Miss Olive Bartlett to be a person of good moral character, and that she has passed a satisfactory examination in all the branches required by law and the regulations of the State Superintendent to entitle her to a Second Grade Certificate. She is therefore deemed qualified to teach in any District in this County, for one year from this date, unless this Certificate be sooner revoked." The signature looks like T. L. Dixon, County Superintendent Public Instruction.
Lurena also holds an original letter written by Olvier to Olive. It has no date on it although from reading it she knows it was written after they were married and after some if not all of their children were born.
Olive and Oliver bought 120 acres of land 3 1/2 miles east of the town of Tobias. They built a little one room house and plowed up the original prairie sod with a team of oxen.
They lived on that farm the rest of their lives, never making more than a poor living and sometimes, for instance, during 1890 to 1893 when there were three crop failures in succession due to lack of rain, they were often hungry.
Oliver had about a 6th grade education and Olive had about a 9th grade education. They insisted that their children should have a better education. The children were sent to school even when they were needed to work on the farm. School was a one room country school 1/2 mile from their home for the first through eighth grades. Then the children went to high school in Tobias for the ninth through eleventh grades. This high school had two rooms and two teachers. The nearest high school with a 12th grade was in Friend, about 16 miles away.
Olive taught in similar country schools before she married Oliver and did not believe in sending the children to school until she had taught them to read 3 letter words. Lurena's grandfather started school the spring he turned seven years old. His teacher was Sylvia Miller and she was 19 at the time.

Birth	12 Nov 1854	Waterloo, Jefferson County, Wisconsin
Marriage	17 Feb 1882	Friend, Saline County, Nebraska - Oliver Thomas BAUGHN
Burial	Jul 1910	Tobias Cemetery, Tobias, Saline County, Nebraska
Death	10 Jul 1910	Tobias, Saline County, Nebraska

Spouse	Oliver Thomas BAUGHN (1860 - 1933)
Child	Glen BAUGHN ( - 1970)
Child	Rush BAUGHN ( - 1942)
Child	Eck BAUGHN (1886 - 1932)
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Child	Earl BAUGHN (1893 - 1968)
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Father	Amos BARTLETT (1824 - 1896)
Mother	Mary Ann EDWARDS (1835 - 1926)
Sibling	Albert A. BARTLETT (1857 - )
Sibling	Walter BARTLETT (1862 - )
Sibling	Norman BARTLETT (1864 - 1895)