Yellowstone County MT Archives Obituaries.....Story, Margaret Ann March 29, 1940
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The Billings Gazette, March 3, 1940
Billings Gazette, Sunday Mar 31, 1940. page 3.
Mrs. Story, 74, Came West in '80.
  Mrs. Margaret Ann Story, 74, who came to the Billings region on a steamboat 
in 1880, died at midnight Friday at the home established by her family on 
Canyon creek west of Billings 60 years ago.
  Mrs. Story had been in ill health since last September when she suffered a 
heart attack.  She had been taken seriously ill last Saturday when she suffered 
a paralytic stroke.
  She was born in Freedom, Ohio, March 2, 1866, and was a daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. Joseph L. Danford.  At the age of 14 she came to the Yellowstone valley 
with her family.  They traveled by train to Bismarck, N.D., then the end of the 
rails and by steamboat to Custer.  The boat on which they came also carried the 
monument raised at the site of the battle of the Little Big Horn river, which 
had taken place just four years before.
  They came overland from Custer to Billings, making the trip in two days.
  At the time the family settled on Canyon creek, near it mouth, there were two 
other families of settlers along the creek and there was a stage coach station 
near by.  Other than that and the trading post and saloon at Coulson, near the 
present site of Billings, there were no permanent inhabitants in this immediate 
area.  Surveyors who were mapping this area were camped in tents where the 
business district of Billings now stands.
  Mrs. Story's first husband was Jack Guy, to whom she was married at the 
family home on Feb. 22, 1886.  The couple resided at a ranch on Fattig creek, 
near Musselshell.  Mr. Guy was foreman of the HX cattle outfit of the 
Musselshell country.  He was drowned while attempting to cross the Yellowstone 
river with a herd of cattle at Custer in September 1892.
  The couple had four children, two of whom, Alonzo Guy and Mrs. Ethel Connick, 
preceded their mother in death.  The other two, Jack Guy of Billings and Mrs. 
W. W. Hubbard of Minitare, Neb., are twins.  They were nine days old at the 
time of their father's death.
  Mrs. Story was married to Joseph Story at the Canyon creek home April 29, 
1902.
  Mr. Story died of injuries received when he accidentally fell at the ranch 
home in February 1926.
  Surviving Mrs. Story besides the two children by her first marriage is 
Willard F. Story of Billings, president of the Mountain States Beet Growers 
Marketing association, and a prominent figure in Yellowstone county 
agricultural activities, and a brother, George L. Danford of Canyon creek.  
Also surviving are five granchildren, Joseph W. Story of Billings, Raymond 
Connick of Santa Ana, Cal., Mrs. Betty Griggs of Oxnard, Cal., Mrs. Eddy Miller 
of Ventura, Cal., and Mrs. Myron Marquand of Santa Ana, Cal.  One great-
grandaughter survives. [Picture is included with the obituary]



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