INA ZOE PRUETT & "Spot" from Richland County, North Dakota

Richland County, North Dakota, is located in the southeast corner of the state. Ina and her family probably lived near the town of Wyndmere (population 429) where a railroad station was located.  

Railroad Map of North Dakota With the Arrow Pointing to the Town of Wyndmere 

Ina Zoe Pruett was born in North Dakota in the year 1908. She was the oldest child of Charles Austin Pruett, born in 1877 in Illinois, and Faye D. Pruett, born in 1882 in Iowa.

Ina had one brother, William Eugene (b. 1910) and two sisters, Myrna (b. 1914) and Lucille (b. 1917.)

In Ina's letter she mentioned a funny incident involving "Spot" and a Mr. and Mrs. King.

"Another time while I was at Mr. King's on 'Spot' Mrs. King came in from the garden with a head of cabbage in her hand. She came up to pet 'Spot.' He did not wait to be asked to have some cabbage, but reached out his head and began to help himself."

I wasn't trying to discover who they were, but I happened to notice two King couples on the census records, so they must have been very near neighbors to the Pruetts. For what it's worth, Mr. and Mrs. King were either named George and Clara, or Orren and Nellie.

"Spot" and Ina

Unfortunately, in my quest to find descendents of Ina, I have come up short since I cannot trace her or her siblings very far. 

In the 1940 census (the last census on record) her brother William was married to Marguerite, but no children had been born yet.

Her sister, Myrna married a man with the last name of Haan, and she died in 1987 in Indiana.

The youngest child, Lucille, married Howard Cofell and they had a daugher named Patricia, who was born in 1935. Lucille died in June of 2011 at the age of 94. (Only last year! I'm sorry that I missed her.)

I cannot be sure, but it is possible that Ina never married. The only Ina Pruett that I could find was born May 13, 1908 and died May 10, 1984 in Odessa, Texas.