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Submitted: 8/31/13 • Approved: 9/26/16 • Last Updated: 3/12/18 • R4883-G0-S3
April 23, 1914 - May 25, 1981
Died Burden, Cowley Co kS
Married Ava Medearis, April 23, 1936, Burden, Cowley Co KS
Biography:
Cowley County Heritage Book
Pages 251 - 255
Robert L Ore
On November 1, 1893 in Cowley County, Kansas, a land patent signed by President U S Grant was issued to a twenty-two year-old man from Sangamon County, Illinois named Milburn Peter. This land was located one mile north and three and one-half miles west of Burden, Kansas, In 1882, Milburn sold this land to his father, John Nelson Peter, who had also migrated from Illinois, and then moved south to Indian Territory on land near, what is now, Perkins, Oklahoma.
Eight months later, John Peter sold the land to Calvin Ore from Morgan County, Illinois, In 1916 Calvin Ore gave the land to his only daughter, Margaret Ore Gilmore and her children.
The land was farmed during the next thirty years by William T Gilmore, John Calvin Ore, John Raymond (Ray) Ore and Robert(Bob) Ore. In 1946 Robert L (Bob) Ore and Ava Medearis Ore bought this land. Robert's mother, Ada Peter Ore, was the niece of Milburn Peter, the granddaughter of John Nelson Peter, and became the daughter-in-law of Calvin Ore when she married his son, John Calvin Ore. It is evident that this farm has been in the family of Robert L Ore since it was Osage Indian Territory.
Bob left college at Oklahoma Baptist University after two years to farm because he loved this land. He improved the land with waterways and terraces, clearing old building sites and drilling wells. The Ores built new buildings and the burn, with a rock foundation and walls, used rock from the land that his father and grandfather had chiseled their names on many years before. Bob added to the farm size by buying adjoining acreage, some of which also goes back to relatives as its original owners.
For over forty years, Bob practiced his reverence for the land loaned to him for a short time by God. He made decisions which conserved and nurtured the soil. Working the land was his passion, and he was never too tired to enjoy doing it. He was plowing in his garden when he died on May 25, 1981.
In 1983 Ava Medearis Ore established the Robert L Ore Farm Partnership which included their daughters, Janna Ore Young and Mary Ore Cornett. Bob's son-in-law, Frank E Young, now farms some of the land and the Robert L Ore Farm Partnership strives to care for, and love the land, in the long tradition passed on to them.
By Mary Ore Cornett, submitted by Ava M Ore
Contributed on 8/31/13 by wfields55
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