In 1918, Christian Seufer and his family left Manhattan, Kansas, to homestead 320 acres northeast of Holly on the Colorado-Kansas border. Seufer came to Colorado seeking land that he could farm from sun-up to sun-down without having to stop to dig up a rock or plow around a tree. The family established a dugout home on the land and planted wheat and feed milo. Christian’s son Fred took over the farm in the early 1920s after Christian returned to Kansas for health reasons. Fred and wife Lelia raised their three sons and persevered through hard times, holding onto the family homestead by raising and selling hogs to help pay off their mortgage. On March 26, 1931, the day of the storm that caused the Pleasant Hill (Towner) School Bus Tragedy, their twin sons Jewell and Darrell were on a Holly school bus in the midst of the blizzard. Luckily their bus driver was able to find shelter at a nearby house and the boys survived. As young men, both sons would see combat in the South Pacific during World War II and Jewell received a Purple Heart. After Fred and Lelia retired, their youngest son, Jerry, farmed the homestead growing wheat and feed. Today, Jewell’s son Dale and daughter-in-law Denice own the family homestead, which is currently enrolled in the USDA’s Conservation Reserve Program.