“It was pretty tough in those times,” Mrs. Bell Mattison recalled about her years in Fillmore County, Nebraska, after she moved there with her family in 1868. “My mother had died, and my father had re-married. We had an awful hard time. We had corn meal one year, corn meal gravy, corn meal porridge, corn meal mixed with soda and water, and baked corn meal roasted and boiled for coffee, and it was that way about a year. There just wasn’t a speck of anything to eat unless it was a big
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