Luther Castleman, the last or youngest of John & Nicia's children was born at the homestead in Oklahoma Territory just four months before his father's death. His mother was left alone with eight children the oldest of whom was barely sixteen years of age, to try and survive on the "hardscrabble" farm.
I met Uncle Luther only once. In 1942, when I was about eight years old, Luther and his family came to work a few weeks in the harvest where we lived at Lomo, California. I remember when he died because I was at my parents house when another of dad's brothers, John Jr., came from Texas to go to his funeral up in Oregon with my Dad. I know very little of Luther's life other than whom he married and that he was in the army during WW I and was wounded in France. He married Elsie Storey the younger sister of his older brother's wife and they had four children before Elsie died. He then married Emma Duncan-Fisher, a widow with four children and they moved to Oregon in 1942, these are my only memories of Luther.
Like all the dustbowl families Luther and his brood worked their way west picking cotton and what ever else presented itself. After the family stopped for a time near our store at Lomo in the Sacramento Valley, California, where they picked fruit, they went on North following the harvest, stopping for good near Medford, Oregon. That is where both Luther and his second wife Emma are buried.
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