South Phillips County Ranch Celebrates 125 years through five generations

Our story begins when Elinor Spihowa was born in Poland in February 1874. She then ventured to Montana with her aunt when she was just fourteen. She stayed with her brother Stanley in Zurich for awhile.

Elinor later went to work at the St. Paul's Mission in Hays assisting the Sisters at the boarding school. Elinor married Julius Wysoski who was also working .at the Mission, he had came there from Germany. They established a homestead on the south side of the Little Rocky Mountains, near Landusky.

Elinor and Julius had two children, a boy who died of whooping cough at only a few months old, and...