One Nation, Under God

A tale of two sisters

In 1916, a hundred years ago, two sisters, Anna Obach and Polly Wachula, came south from Canada to start a new life with their families and their Ukrainian heritage. They stopped the ox cart 40 miles north of Hinsdale, Mont., and started up their own town with six adults including BaBa, the mother of Anna and Polly and Grandma Obach, mother of Tom Obach with 18 children between them , mostly girls,15 girls and three boys to be exact. My Grandpa John Ivanovitch was ahead of his time being part of a blended family being a step-son of Mike Wachula, as his father in the old country of Ukraine had...

 

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