GARRETT, CLINTON R. AND ESTHER (BRYANT)

by Robert B. Garrett

Entry F155 from the History of Hooker County Nebraska
with permission of the Hooker County Historical Society

Clint and Esther Garrett 1956. Vacation at Coeurd'Alene, Idaho.

Clint was the sixth of eleven children born
to James and Alice (Hamm) Garrett on New
Years Day 1891 and the first child to be born
in Nebraska. He started life in a sod house
South of Mullen.

Mullen did not have a high school so Clint
attended the Normal School at Fremont,
Nebraska. He taught school in Mullen area
for one year before going into ranching. Clint
never missed an opportunity to participate in
a rodeo as a young man.

Esther Bryant was one of nine children
born to Frank and Ellen (Boyce) Bryant on
March 1, 1893 in Spearfish, South Dakota.
Her father was a pioneer in the early gold
mining days of the Black Hills. Esther came
to Nebraska and homesteaded on property
Southwest of Mullen. She later sold the
property to her uncle John Boyce, a prom-
inent rancher in the area.

Clint and Esther were married in 1917 and
continued to ranch. Four children were born
to them: James (who died in infancy as a
result of a horse and buggy accident), Robert,
Paul and Beverly (Tomberlin).

Clint and Esther moved to Vale, Oregon in
1937 where they purchased sagebrush prop-
erty and converted it into irrigated farm.
They moved the following year onto an
irrigated farm near Wilder, Idaho. They were
active in community activities including the
Masonic Lodge, the Eastern Star and Farm
Grange. They have nine grandchildren and
thirteen great grandchildren.