My maternal great grandmother was Luroncy Louisa (Grandy) Lemon. She came to Maple Hill, Kansas at an advanced age after the death of her husband, Stewart Montgomery Lemon, passed away in 1895. She and Stewart Lemon were married at Lake Geneva, Wisconsin in 1837 and moved every westward. They lived at Winona, Minnesota when Stewart volunteered for the Union Army. He came home permanently disabled and Grandma Lemon and the children had to pretty much support themselves. They next moved the extended family to Eldora, Iowa where my great grandmother, Lucy (Lemon) McCauley was born. Shortly they moved to Norton County, Kansas where they built a sod home and suffered the terrible Grasshopper Plague in 1874. The extended family then heard about the buliding of the Union Pacific Railroad and moved to Concordia, Kansas where the boys worked on building track while the mother and girls worked as laundresses and seamstresses for the huge work crews. They came to Maple Hill, Kansas when they learned abou the building of the Rock Island Railroad through Wabaunsee County. Several of them stayed in Wabaunsee County while Stewart and Luroncy Lemon moved to Perry, Kansas where he supervised the construction of two stone store buildings, had a disabling stroke, and died in 1895.

My great grandmother, Lucy (Lemon) McCauley was the youngest of their children and met her future husband, Samuel McCauley, while working as a laundress for the Union Pacific. His family had a large farm 10 miles east of Beloit, Kansas in Mitchell County. He had older brothers who were already working on the farm so he married Lucy and they moved to Vera, Kansas where they worked for the Frederick L. Raymond Family. After saving money, they bought a 160-acre farm just two miles south of the Snokomo Stone School House. Stewart died there of brain cancer in 1911 and Lucy continued to operate the farm into the 1920s while also having a general store and cafe in Maple Hill.

So here are my Lemon ancestors:

Photo One: Stewart M. Lemon, at about age 50.
Photo Two: Stewart M. and Luroncy (Grandy) Lemon about 1880.
Photo Three: L-R George Lemon, Vernie V. Miller, Margaret (Lemon) Miller, Lucy (Lemon) McCauley, and Charles Montgomery Lemon. All of these people lived at Maple Hill, some longer than others.
Photo Four: Wedding Photo of Samuel and Lucy (Lemon) McCauley
Photo Five: Baby photo of Mildred M. (McCauley) Corbin 1902, daughter of Samuel and Lucy (Lemon) McCauley.
Photo Six: Mildred M. (McCauley) and Robert Corbin taken on their farm 1.5 miles south of Maple Hill, Kansas about 1950.
Photo Seven: Children of Mildred (McCauley) and Robert Corbin: L-R Joan (Corbin) Andrews-Frazier, Vivian (Corbin) Wild, Sarah Emma (Corbin) Justice, George Corbin and Lucille (Corbin) Clark
Photo Eight: Lucy (Lemon) McCauley, Mildred (McCauley) Corbin, Robert Corbin. In front L-R: Nick Clark, Gary Clark and Sheila Corbin, daughter of George and Frieda (Kitt) Corbin.