Lynch's took a claim about seven miles west of town and held it until they proved up. On account of sickness and ill health, Mrs. Lynch had to give up the hotel. After that she had an operation in Omaha, then she came back and made her home with her sonin-law. Mr. Bushee wanted to go in the hotel, so she took a house in as part payment which she later sold to her son-in-law, and then moved to her present home where she has lived for about ten years.

Mrs. Lynch was born in Ireland. She came to Boston when eleven years old with her parents, Tom Connors and Mary Connors. She lived in Massachusetts until her marriage at the age of seventeen to John Lynch, and remained there after her marriage until after the birth of her second child. They then went to Prairie Du Chien, Wisconsin, and from there to McGregor, Iowa. Her husband was a railroad contractor. She came first to Colton. when she moved to Nebraska. Her first husband died in Texas while engaged in railroad work.

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She married her second husband, James Lynch, in Ackley, Iowa. She has thirteen grandchildren living aroun'd Kimball, her son Frank has six children, and a daughter, Mrs. C. A. Forsling, has seven children. She has one son, Dennis, in Iowa Falls, and two sons by her second husband now living in Wyoming: James in Casper, and Mike elsewhere in the state.

In the cow-boy days, Mother Lynch had to take care of the cow-boys as well as the railroad beys. Familiar figaires in those days included the McShanes, especially Tom, a cousin of John McShane. Jim Shaw was another figure. One of her sons, Mike, was a cow-boy for the Bay-State Company. Merrell Wyman was another well known cow-boy.