Sarah Cathyrn JAMES

   General Notes:

!Sade's grandaughter, Vashti tells the story about how Richard Schooler, after loosing his first wife Mary Carter Schooler, went to Iowa for a vist and to find a new wife. Just how he and Sarah Catherine James (Aunt Sade) met is unknown. She had been married before, to Curtis Hill, who was a druggist in Iowa and they had two girls, Nellie Grace and Mary Ann (Mollie) before he died of tuberculosis. Richard told her he had a large cattle ranch out West in Idaho, which wasn't exactly the complete truth. He did have a large place, but it was not very profitable at the time, but she evidently thought she was marrying a well to do rancher. After Richard and Sade married, he must have gone back to Idaho first, without his new wife. When she came West, she rented a railroad car and brought a cow and other livestock with her and the two girls. They were met in Topanis (now Gooding) by Richard, his children, all their friends and neighbors. Sarah and her two daughters were dressed in lace and had lots of carpet bags, hats and all the frills of the Mid West. They all loaded into the buck boards, etc. leading the cow and other animals Sarah brought with her. The neighbors laughed at Sarah and her well dressed girls saying they will return to Iowa before the month is up. Sarah was a small lady about 5 ft. 4, and never weighed over 135-140 pounds. Within a few days after arriving at the Wood River Ranch (now the Fales Ranch) she had cleaned the house, had a lace table cloth on the old wooden table, rugs that she had made in Iowa on the floors and window curtains up. But she also would go outside and cut wood. Then the neighbors decided she was a great lady and probably would stick it out. To Richard and Sarah Catherine three children were born. They suffered lots of hardships. Their house burned to the ground and all that was saved was the old Schooler bible, that is now in the possession of Vashti Perkins. May Sedonia was so afraid of the fire she ran and hid down over the edge of the river bank. After the fire was out, they were afraid she had been in the house and had burned to death. But she was soon found. If Sade was going to spank her, May would run into the bedroom with her sick father and he would hide her in or under his bed. Shortly after the fire, Richard died of cancer on his lip caused by his pipe. After Richard passed away, Mary Ann married Thomas Alley. He was a telegrapher on the railroad and they lived in Bliss, Idaho after they first married. They then moved to Emmett, Idaho where Nellie Grace married John Johnston and where Sade and the rest of her family lived. Mary Ann (Molly and Tom) sold their Ranch in Emmett and built the old Hagerman Hotel. Then Sarah Catherine and her children moved to Hagerman and did washing at the Hotel for Molly and Tom. Later Sarah C. bought a home and paid for it by taking in washing, baking bread for the Hagerman, Idaho people and stores. After she paid for her home she also cooked at the Sand Spring Ranch where Albert Stanton Clark worked. She cooked for 20 - 30 men during hay season, harvest, and round up time. She lived alone until she was in her 80's, then after Tom Alley died, she lived with her daughter Mary Ann (Molly) till her death in 1956. If she had lived 5 more months she would have been 100 years old. She used to say to Richard your kids and my kids are fighting with our kids. !CENSUS:1900 Jefferson Co., Iowa, Batavia living with her step father. !CENSUS:1920 Gooding Co., Idaho, Hagerman pg 41

   Marriage Information:

Sarah married Richard SCHOOLER, son of Harrison SCHOOLER and Mary Elizabeth DILLON, on 1 Aug 1886 in , Wapello, Iowa. (Richard SCHOOLER was born on 16 Apr 1836 in , Logan Co., Ohio, died on 2 Apr 1903 in Nr Gooding, Gooding, Idaho and was buried in Apr 1903 in Old Gooding Cem., N.E. Gooding, Gooding, Idaho.)