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How long have you or your family owned your farm?

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Hi all,

I was just curious how long have you or your family owned your farm. Also, how many generations?

We have owned our farm since the 1860"s, and I am the fifth generation.

Thanks
 
Great Granfather immigrated from Norway in 1879.
Homesteded a quarter in SD in 1885. Bought the adjoining quarter after it was proved up in 1887.

Gordo
 
the farm we live on was started by great uncle in 1872, We have one field that has been in the family since 1640 something.
 
I own the quarter section that my maternal grandfather filed to homestead on in either 1886 or 1887. I'd have to look at the patent to see which year it is dated. Anyway, around 124 years. I, too, am third generation for ownership of it.

My sister-in-law owns the homestead of the aunt and uncle that raised my dad after his parents died, which we tend to think of as grandparents although they never adopted him. That would make it 124 years as it was filed on in 1886.

My sister-in-law and I both cash rent our properties to the great grandson of the family that hosted our family until a dug out home could be readied, about two weeks. Hence the two families having associated with each other for 124 years as friends and neighbors. This fellow purchased my great grandfathers homestead quarter when it was sold off by other relatives.

This aforementioned land is all in Ness County, Kansas.
 
My sister and I are third generation of 40 acres in Kalkaska co. Mi. We are the only generation that doesn t farm it. I spent a lot of time on this farm as a lad. The farm used to be 640 acres. Everett
 

My wife and I have owned this farm for 40 years
my mother & Dad had there farm for 50 years but there farm was his, MOM & DADS farm, I am not sure how my years my gradparents had it.
A lot of jumbo jumbo.
JR.FRYE
 
Guys, Land on both sides of my family. Mothers people settled here in Central Texas in about 1850.
Dads people settled about 25 miles away also in about 1850. I am 5th generation Texan and that makes my Son a 6th! Both ranches are listed in the Family Land Heritage Program! My 2 sisters and I still own it, though it is divided.
Later,
John A,
 
Good Question - Gonna have to ask Dad and Mom.

Folks are in their late 80's and grandparent's long gone - Mom's still got the original 80/160 over by Beason but Dad sold out to my uncle many years ago. Paid in cash - $1000 bills (remember them?)

Never thought about it - but that's Centuary (sp) farm.
 
My Grandfather bought the 80 acres in 1914. We've had it since 2002. Sold 5 acres of it to our son, so it's all still in the family.
 
Good old Dad bought his first 1/4 section on lakefront in 1947 for 2500 bucks according to info I have. Between my brother and I we still have most of that property, Dad passed on in 1968 when I was still a kid. There are 2 generations from ours so hopefully they will appreciate it and keep it for their children.
 
I've owned mine (160a) since 1990. My direct ancestor bought it in 1824. I think that is seven generations including me.
 
My grandad bought 3000 acres in 1908 and I still have 300 acres, I have a cousin that has 240 acres. The rest was sold of during the depression.

My mother has 113 acres of the cotton farm that her grandfather homesteaded in 1879, there has never been a lein on it.
 
Grandad Rector bought 78 acres in 1945 after his only son was killed in the war. When Grandparents passed away, it went to my Mom and 2 Aunts. They sold house and 8 acres off. I bought the 70 from them in 2000. Guess that makes me 3rd generation. Chris
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My aunt still lives on part of mom's folks farm. They were there in 1820, when they did the 1st census in Michigan. Most all subdivisions now.
 
My ancestors bought this place in 1804, I believe from someone whose family got it as land grant from King of England.
 
My wife"s great grandfather purchased the 80 acre farm we live on in 1900. He then built a set of buildings on it for his oldest son (her grandfather)in 1916 and he raised his family here. In 1950 her father purchased it from his mother after his father passed away and raised his family here. Now we have raised our family here also. Most of the original buildings are still here.
 
I'm the 5th generation, been in the family since 1901. One of the first farms in the area. My Grandpa Woodbury's grandpa came here from somewhere near the Twin Cities after two dry years left him without enough feed for his cows. (Suppose there could be some connection to the suburb named "Woodbury"?) Started with 80 a. bought from lumber company, now I own 560 acres, plus farm the crop acres on my parents' 140 acres and an aunt and uncle's 40 acres that was part of the farm.
 
I think it's 111 years now, I'm 3rd generation, other side of the county. :) Seems like I'm still using some of the same machinery....

--->Paul
 
Bought My Place in 1984 , Paid for All My LAND with my Own HARD EARNED $$$$$$$$.. added to the farm 1987 , 1989 , Now a total of 209 acres. . WOULD be 243 acres , But in 1997 , Gave up New 3 yr old House and 34 acres because of divorce .. the 1st Wife got the
STUPIDS real bad . And Guess WHO IS STILL PAYING ??? me.!!!...... Dad bought his 123 farm in 1947 for 7 Grand .. then sold 53 Ac.back in 64 for 34K . SHOULD Had bought the next door 265 Ac.in 1967 for 35 K , coulda put it in soil Bank Until we got old enuff to help farm ... But Didnt ,,. Such Is LIFE .. . And i should sold All My corn at 4 bucks in Jan
 
44 years here now, almost 20 at the other place, I've got one small field here that has been kept in crops for over 100 years, the place was a farm back to the mid 1800's, the old victorian farm house I grew up in was completed around 1919, it was once attached to hundreds of acres, was around 98 acres when my parents bought it in '66. 3rd owner I believe.

The farmer I help on the side, I think is including his family 4 generations, they have worked every field in this area, including all of our place at one time or another, last year we still covered close to 500 acres. He can't do it anymore, 120 acres will not be rented, not sure how much more will be downsized, not getting out, but time to "thin the herd" kind of sad, I'm glad he's doing well healthwise and I think has an ideal retirement job to stay busy, + the smaller amount of crops, no auction either !
 
Hi.
My wife's great great grandfather bought our farm in Jan. 1887. It is in Polk County Ia., between Polk City and Madrid. The farm was given to one of his daughters to live on when she got married. My wife's grandmother was born there. Her dad bought it in the 1950's. My wife and her brother were born there. The farm was 100 acres. The government took over 62 acres of it for Saylorville Lake. The inlaws sold the acreage and buildings when they moved to town, Madrid. I bought my brother-in-laws half. I sold 3 acres to a friend and have 45 acres left, bare ground. It is cash rented out.

The farm is 1/4 of a mile west of the Highway up from Des Moines, thru Polk City to Madrid. Bonnie and Clyde stopped at the neighbors on day and stole his car. At one time some Chicago gangsters had a house back off the road near the Des Moines river 2 miles from our place, but nobody knew what they did, stayed away from them.

Charley Hellickson.
 
Hi super99. My mother's dad's name was Rector also. They were both born near Oak Hill Mo. My Rectors were Irish. The Rectors go way back in North Carolina. My great grandpa, Alfred C, was born in Buncombe County NC. in 1859. His dad, Alfred B, moved the family to Mo. My grandpa moved his family to Iowa in 1929 after his wife died.
Charley Hellickson.
 
My great, great, great grandfather Horton was one of the first to settle in this area/wilderness and bought land here in Southern Ohio in the 1820's. I don't own the first piece he bought, but own several of the others. I have original deeds signed by Presidents James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, and Andrew Jackson(for which my county was named).
 

The farm has been in the family for about the same length of time. I'm not sure whether my great grandfather or great great grandfather was the original owner. That would make me either 4th or 5th generation, and I'm over 70! As near as we can tell, the house was built 100 years before that, or circa 1760!
Unfortunately, the acreage has been split up, but the various parcels are all still owned by direct descendants!
 
Our farm has been in the family since 1848. hopefully in a few years I'll be the 6th generation. Was just an 80 when they bought it and now we own 360 acres and rent another 200 here in elkhart co. Indiana.
 
Bought my 80 acres in 1990. Did with out of lots of things until it was paid off. 2 years ago they hit natural gas and the first check I got was for more than I paid for the whole place.
 
I bought here in 1993. My uncle is on the 100 acre homestead that's been in Dad's family since 1839 and another uncle is on the homestead thats been in Mum's family since 1784. It's a loyalist farm. Have a good one.
 
Guess I have all of you beat........I bought the 40 I live on in 2006.......but ya have to start somewhere and like some others........it was all bought with my OWN money and not given to me........
 
I"m the 1st generation. Bought the 1st piece in 1998 and have added pieces of other families" 3rd generation farms since.

I didn"t have any of my own money, so I used the bank"s money to do it. :>)

Tim
 
(quoted from post at 17:27:56 03/16/10) Hi all,

I was just curious how long have you or your family owned your farm. Also, how many generations?

We have owned our farm since the 1860"s, and I am the fifth generation.

Thanks
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Directly,five generations if you count my sons.Earlier ancestors had bought the land from the Crown, sold some off then my Great Grand Father bought the rest back back in the 1880's.
 
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