Both Gust Rosene and William Jones worked for the railroad in Waubay, S.D. They met and married 2 sisters Sophia and Anna B. Randall in Waubay. When the railroad moved into Montana they moved also and Gust went into his own dray business. William Jones continued to work for the Milwaukee railroad. They decided to homestead near Lavinia, MT but they both kept their jobs. The families lived on the homestead until William Jones died by drowning in 1915. Dorothy B. Jones was born July 28, 1911.
