Dear Renea,
Just found your query. Allen and Flora Issacs lived on Pumpkin Creek, Powder River Co. MT across from the Sonnette Store/Post Office (no longer exists as such). I knew them when I was a child. The following was written by them for Echoing Footsteps a Powder River County History written in 1967. " I was born in Minnisota in 1922, but have spent many summers in Montana working for my grandfather, L. N. Isaacs, and my uncle Gaius Isaacs and also for Pete LeVeque of Sonnette and Dan Kelly of Otter Creek.
During the winter of 1941 I went to Hawaii as a construction worker. In August, 1942, I married an Island girl, Flora Yoshiko Nakata. In 1943 I was drafted in Hawaii, but was stationed mostly in the U.S.A., and returned to Hawaii in 1945.
In 1948 we left Hawaii for Montana, and that began our "pioneering" trip to Montana. We, my wife and I and two small daughters, stayed in California one month to prepare our trucks for the trip to Montana. While in a hotel there, Jeanette, our one year old, fell backward down a long flight of curved stairs. We ran after her, around and around, but didn't catch up with her until she reached the next floor. Amazingly she wasn't hurt.
While in California we got our trucks in running shape. I drove one truck and towed the second, which my wife drove; the third was loaded on her truck. She didn't know a thing about driving. It was a tedious, slow, and tiresome trip.
Most fellows weren't able to pass us on the hills of California, but when they did, many would toot their horns and wave with a smile--other waved fists instead. My wife said she returned the fists with a grin. I was too busy watching the road. When we started down grade I usually took advantage of it and went 60 to 65 miles an hour. I knew my wife would be scared stiff, and sure enough.
In Yellowstone Park we all slept in one truck cab, all four of us. We almost froze although it was the middle of May.
In Bozeman we had a slight accident. The trucks jackknifed on a curve and went off the road, but no one was hurt and we went on.
At the Custer Battlefield junction we got confused because of many road changes and landed on top of Custer Battlefield Cemetery. When we reached Busby we were pretty short of cash, so left two trucks there and went on to Camps Pass in one truck. We reached Uncle Gaius's place tired and dusty. My wife started washing the girls just as soon as most of the visiting was done, and couldn't imagine what had happened to their hair because the water seemed to have turned it stiff and dull--she had never heard of hard water.
In the fall of 1948, we bought Mrs. Schepper's place at Sonnette and this is where we are now raising cattle, oats, and wheat. We are also leasing a part of the Mrs. Ray Wilson place and the Leonard Lanphear place.
My wife has been appointed Acting Postmaster of Sonnette.
We have seven children: June (Mrs. George Lix, Jr.), Jeanette, Jeannie, Nicholas, Jacqueline, Frederic, and Jessica.
Hawaii was nice, but it is good to be in Montana again."
I know Flora lived in Miles City in later years and possibly died there but I don't know when. Hope this helps.
Roberta Schulz