THIRD GENERATION

15. William Byron III MCDONALD was born on DEC 18 1917 in Iron Mountain, Laramie County, Wyoming. He died on AUG 10 1998 in San Bernardino, California. Bill in his youth was quite a rascal and one time he bought a Watch with credit and was late paying for it, well the store came looking for him and what they found was his Grandfather instead with the same name William McDonald, and he had a great deal of trouble convincing them it was not his but his grandson with the same name, it was not him !

Here is a small bit of grandpa. Dear Margie: you asked me to tell you some tales about Grandpa it will be quite hard because as far as I was concerned He was John Wayne and Supper Man all rolled into one. The happiest days of my youth were when I was spending my summers with Grandpa on his ranch He was quite, strict at times other times he was all love and you could feel it. To this day when I think of him I can see him riding over the hill behind the barn on Patches his favorite horse with a shovel over his shoulder going up to the upper meadows to irrigate when I was about 10 he showed me how to drive a team on the stacker, he used a over head stacker you would drive the team so
far out and it would dump the hay and then back them up to where the sweep could load it up and repeated the process. I got ambitious and drove the team to fast and made the head jump the rail. I felt so bad about fouling up I started to cry and grandpa put his arm around me and told not to worry If I had not tried to go faster He would never know that the Head was week and it mite of hurt some one. My next job as I got a little older was to grind cycle bars for the mower I hated that job with a passion till grandpa told me I did the best job he had ever seen on the cycles after that no one could of got
that job from me. He taught me how to hunt, fish, and to enjoy life. One summer I rode a motor cycle up to see him I thought I could go and bring the horses in with it He made me ship it Home he did like cars or automobiles. But Uncle Gordon was working for a Bus co. in Cheyenne Made a generator out of a huge generator off of a Bus and run by a horse power brig and Stratton engine which charged up a lot of batteries and run elect. To12 volt bulbs in the house no one was to touch or start it but
Grandpa he really liked it was so much better than kerosene lamps..I don't think there was any thing he could not do.

W. B. McDonald

He was married to Marjorie STICKLEY in 1937 in Denver, Colorado. William Byron III MCDONALD and Marjorie STICKLEY had the following children:

+45 i. Beverly Mae MCDONALD.
+46 ii. Patty Lou MCDONALD.

He was married to Sylvia Potter BROWN on AUG 16 1952. Sylvia Potter BROWN was born on SEP 20 1926 in La Forge, Winsconson. William Byron III MCDONALD and Sylvia Potter BROWN had the following children:

+47 i. Rodney Jeronme Brown MCDONALD.
+48 ii. William Byron IV MCDONALD.
+49 iii. Kirk Louis MCDONALD.