Migration To Ohio: A Short Story

My husband and I just decided together that we are going to take the long journey to Oregon. i'm really excited to move to Oregon from Ohio. Also I'll be sad when I have to leave all of the graves of my family, but I'll be happy to start all over. I've been so lonely here in Ohio ever since my mother died, I a, hoping to make new friends along the way. My loneliness is the biggest reason we are leaving. I've been scrambling to gather all of the things we need for the things that we could sell, so that I've been scrambling to gather all of the things we need or the things that we could sell so that we could buy a gently used prairie schooner. I'm just glad that Kenneth and I only have to bring enough food for us and a little for our two oxen …show more content…
It smells horrible out here, so many people and animals. Kenneth and I still need to stop at Jorgensen’s General Store. Kenneth met some ladies who needed help hauling the groceries back to their wagon. Once he had helped them, they then asked if we would like to be in their train since we had helped them. Later that night we met up with the husbands and figured out who would do what, they decided that Mr. and Mrs. Gary Weaver would be in the lead. And then in second would be Mr. and Mrs. Fred James, then in third would be Kenneth and I. In fourth would be Mike Smith, and in the back would be Clarence Jones. The ladies and I went to Jorgensen's General Store while the men were talking. Kenneth gave me about four hundred and fifty dollars so that I could buy the rest of the supplies, that I had forgotten at home. When I got there I decided to buy an extra 7 oxen for two hundred and forty dollars. I also bought two packhorses and two pack saddles for fifty-five dollars, and two saddle and saddlebags for five dollars. Since I love animals and want them to be warm I also bought the horses four blankets for eight dollars. The other ladies who were with me all were buying some milk cows, and they seemed important so I also bought one for seventy dollars. After all of that it left me with only seventy-two dollars left. I had forgotten to pack some extra clothes for along the trip so I also had to buy them at the general store, along with a flour grinder. I had remembered to bring along the candle stick molds but had forgotten to bring the candlesticks with me so I bought some candles.thr ladies were all buying the lanterns because I guess it was a steal down in the general store.once again I had remembered my coffee grinder but had forgotten my coffee pot, so I bought two. I bought some extra stools since they were made of wood and in case there wasn't enough trees wood for fire. After I had decided to buy the blankets for the horses