1886 - 1971

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• Birth	8 May 1886	Blunt,Dakota Territory   [1]
  Gender	Female
  Died	6 Jul 1971	Bozeman Deaconees Hospiatl,Bozeman,Mt   [2]
  Buried	Forest Hill,Madison,Wisconson
  Person ID	I87859	Brainard (Brainerd) / Foster / Fish
  Last Modified	16 Jan 2003 00:00:00
  Father	Charles Wesley SEELYE, b. 24 Apr 1840, Westmoreland,Oneida County,New York
  Mother	Sarah Frances PARSONS, b. 13 Apr 1846, Portsmouth,Norfolk Co. Va.
  Family ID	F38279	Group Sheet
  Family	Fredrick M RIEHM, b. 26 Jul 1878, Pennsylvania
  Married	21 Jul 1910
  Family ID	F38380	Group Sheet

• Notes

  May Hundley Seelye, daughter of Charles Wesley and Sarah Frances (Parsons) Seelye, was born May. 8, 1886 in Blunt, Dakota territory. In 1905 I left Washington High at Pierre for Sioux Falls where I got a certificate to teach school. My first year of teaching was in room two of the Lincoln building in the fall of 1907 where Raymond Tarbell, a nephew was in the fourth grade at Pierre. All ready a teacher of the 7th and 8th grade (Jr. Hi>) in the Forsyth Public school system I made a visit to Pierre and gained a man-friend and a marriage license. The man-friend turned out to be Fredick M Riehm whom I married July 21, 1910 at the Methodist church at Forsyth, MT. Reverend Tho Wise read the sentence. Fred was born in Allegheny, PA. July 26, 1878. At the age of 13 hewas in school in Toledo, OH. He conducted a tin shop and followed carpenter work in the city and state since his residence in 1910. He later became a pioneer carpenter and sheet medalist who pioneered the Forsyth air conditioning, now of Billings, MT. I attended the 1928-34 summer sessions at the Universityof Wisconsin where a sister of mine lived on 545 south Randall Ave. in Madison, Wisconsin. After Fred's war of being a bill collector he managed to get enough money together so we could go to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester MN. where Fred could get some medical advice before it was to late in August of 1936. After the death of Fred on the 5th day of Jan. 1937 at our home after several years ailments I sold the small ranch one mile north of Forsyth and for many summers I divided my time remodeling the old tin shop of Fred's into a rooming house and traveling to and from the family relation and the Dude ranches. One ranch was the Custer Trail operated by William McCarty five miles south of Medora, North Dakota until about 1940 when the National Bank of Dickinson took it over. Howard Eaton, who started the Custer Trail in 1882 was operating a duderanch at Wolf, Wyo. west by northwest of Sheridan, but it was like old home.He died there April 5, 1922. In the year of 1942 I became very involved around the Sheridan, Parkman. Dayton, Ranchester and some times Buffalo area of Wyo. as a member of the dude clan. I helped with many of the chores as I liketo ride. I really don't believe I had a favorite horse to ride but there nameswere Boots, Rocket and Bones and I loved them all as well as the people I metthere: Dego, Vieva, Dorothy, Raymond and Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Jeffers. The Bearclaw, Jack Rabbit and Elkhorn were the ranches of those days as I rode Bootsto Poss Creek for a picnic. In march of 1944 Ott Hofmeister took and estimate of Fred's old tin shop to remodel it into a rooming house. The work of remodeling was started in April and by June it was finished. I sold the rooming house in 1953. In June of 1944 I left by train for San Deigo to Raymond Tarbells. Ginnia and Grant met me there the last part of June from Ohio. Bought a lot of weddding things before Ginnia, Grant and I got back to Dayton, Ohio. Thebig day, August 4, 1944; Ginnia had gotten her cowboy! I left Dayton Aug. 7th and it was time for school when I got home. In June of 1947 a reception for me was held in the home economies rooms at the Forsyth High school by 300 Forsyth residents in consideration of 47 years teaching in the Forsyth Public schools. I had planned when I retired that I would live with a sister FrancesWardle in Madison, Wisconsin but she turned out to be a real gold-digger so Ireturned to Forsyth. I had a apartment for years with the Wakefields and others after the passing of my husband and now I took up residency with the Eastsin an apartment. Since my residence at the Vic East residents I find that theproperty has been mortaged to the gills so I decided I'd better find anotherplace to live as I might be out on the street! In 1964 Hill Crest apartment(apartments for retried teachers only) had been

• Sources

  [S1359] #1478. [S1385] #1504.