Joseph Levi Scribner

The family, living in Natoma Kansas, lost the farm during the very early beginnings of the Great Depression. Grandpa Joseph Levi Scribner, moved his family into an abandoned railroad boxcar, other displaced families were living there in other boxcars too. Grandpa and his brother went to Colorado to see if they could find work. Grandpa found work at Woodman’s of America TB Sanatorium outside of Colorado Springs, CO., running the Farm that supplied food for the patients. Grandpa moved the family into the company supplied farmhouse in 1927. Grandparents Joseph Levi “Lee” and Lucy Ellen “Ellen” Scribner raised their family there until the Sanatorium closed when the discovery of antibiotics made sanitariums obsolete and tuberculosis was treatable.

John Buntin