Sylvester Flick and his wife, Martha, came to Griggs County and bought the south half of Section 26 in Clearfield Township. They lived at the Fenner place (Section 2145-60) while building the barn and garage. Milton Flick, brother of Sylvester, built the barn and garage. They lived in the garage until the house was built in 1908. Mr. Hoffman, father of Dr. Hoffman from Hannaford built the house.

Sylvester bought one of the larger steam threshing machines in 1912. This rig used 12 bundle haulers, two spike pitchers, one waterman, one fireman besides the separator man and engineer. Walter Flick ran the engine, which was fired with straw.

Sylvester Flick was director of the school board and his son, Walter, attended the school on the SW of Section 27, which was 1 ½ miles west of his home. When young Walter was small and turned up missing he was always found outside sleeping by a foxhole or a gopher hole.

Frances Procknow, the youngest of 7 children, came to Cooperstown in 1912. Her parents, August and Augusta Procknow came to Hutchinson, Minnesota from Germany. Frances worked for a number of different people in Cooperstown, including Gilbert Johnson, George Adams, John Johnson, I. D. Allen and MacDonald's restaurant. She also cooked in cook-cars for the threshers.

WALTER AND FRANCES were married in 1916. They farmed all their lives until Walter retired in 1956. Walter also owned a threshing machine and done threshing for several neighbors.

They were the parents of three children:

Berniece, Evelyn and Donald.

Source: Griggs County History 1879 - 1976 page 258