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Parkin-Cail Family
by: Eleanor Cail Penny

The John Cail and John Parkin families were among the early pioneers of Loup County. Mr. Cail settled in eastern Nebraska in 1879 with his wife and child and when Loup County was opened for settlement he filed on a homestead. They were English immigrants and by correspondence, the friends, the Parkins learned of the country, its freedom and possiblities of progress and in 1888 the Parkin's came to their homestead where he had filed on the previous year. In 1891 they had the typhoid fever and Mr. Parkin died and the next Mrs. Cail died. Later Mrs. Parkin and Mr. Cail were married.

The sod houses were warm and comfortable, but they built a frame house later. The family prospered and the parkin boys, Joseph, William, Robert and John filed on homesteads. Hannah married a native and lived on his homestead. Frank and James bought deeded land.

The Cails retired and moved to Taylor and Mr. Cail was president of the Bank of Taylor when he died in 1930 and Mrs. Cail lived in her home several years where she died and both couples are buried in the Taylor cemetery in Loup County.

They endured the good or poor crops or hail, whatever it pleased God to bless them with, they said.

source: Loup County Centennial 1883-1983
transcribed by: Melody Beery

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