My grandparents
Randine Nelson and Hans Shellum

The 4th and 5th generations Isaac Haycraft family

Front, l>r: Harriet (Hattie) Haycraft Rhoads, Sarah Jolly Haycraft (widow of Isaac Haycraft b. in 1829), Emery Ledyard Haycraft (grandfather of Beryl Haycraft)
Back, l>r: Julius E. Haycraft, Livabelle Haycraft Dodge, Eugenia Haycraft Rhoads, Isaac Grant Haycraft
The 5th and 6th generations Isaac Haycraft family

Front, l>r: Jolly, Isaac Grant Haycraft,  Glenn, Daisy (Sylvester) Haycraft (wife of Isaac), Ken
Back, l>r: Everett, Charles

Isaac Grant Haycraft was the author of "Thirty Yeats on a Farm in Southern Minnesota: 1865-1895," which explores his family's struggles with grasshopers and Sioux Indians and its love for a horse named Doll.
Isaac Haycraft family at farm near Madelia about 1885

Julius on Old Doll, Isaac, Livabelle, Isaac Grant, Sarah Jolly, and Emery

Photo from Thirty Yeats on a Farm in Southern Minnesota
The Nelson/Haycraft Gallery
John Nelson, my great-grandfather
Mina Nelson and Andrew B. Anderson
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