For Descendants of Christopher (Doc) Cranston & Bess Melby
It was sometime in the fall of 1947 or thereabouts. I was six years old and at the Battle Mountain Auto Camp, alone in the office. My grandfather, Ole Melby, was outside tending the gas pumps. My grandmother, Bess, was somewhere in the house. All of a sudden a man walked into the office. He […]
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The Place Bess and Ole Melby Bought when they Sold the Ranch This is a mini-history of what the parents of Marion, Helen, Bill and Tip did when they sold their ranch and left for the Black Hills to enter the tourist business. The Battle Mountain Auto Camp (BMAC) sat on the north side of […]
Read More…Here are the obituaries of Giles and Nellie Campbell – Bess’s parents. They are buried in the cemetery at Camp Crook, South Dakota.
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