South Phillips county Ranch celebrates over 125 years through five generations of the family

linor Spihowa was born in Poland in February 1874. She then ventured to Montana with her aunt when she was just fourteen. She stayed with her brother Stanley in Zurich for a while.

Elinor later went to work at the St. Pauls Mission in Hays assisting the Sisters at the boarding school. Elinor married Julius Wysoski who was also working at the Mission; he had come there from Germany. They established a homestead on the south side of the Little Rocky Mountains, near Landusky. Elinor and Juilus had two children, a boy who died of whooping cough at only a few months old, and Frances, a daughter bor...