Nina set up a homesteading/building, a sod house, in 1910 with the help of a few area neighbors. She rode her horse to teach school at several country schools in the area: Hoyt, Antelope Valley, Old Trail and Long Meadow. In 1912 at a Box Social in Hoyt, CO she met Harry Norman Thomas who by trade was a miner. He had worked in the silver and gold mines in Victor, Leadville and other areas. He then started mining in the Hoyt area which provided coal for the local citizens.  Harry and Nina got married in 1912, and she received the patent on her ground on June 16th 1916. They had two children, Harry Van Dyke and LulaBelle. Harry Van Dyke stayed on the farm and worked with his dad.  In May of 1942 he met and married Maxine L. Hinshaw from Denver, CO. Van enlisted in the United States Navy in September 1942 and fought in World War II. Van was discharged from the Navy in October 1945 and he and Maxine returned to the farm. They had two children, Tommie Van Thomas and Bonnie Louise Thomas. They farmed dryland until 1950 when they drilled an irrigation well. They raised cattle, sheep, corn, wheat, pinto beans and sugar beets.

Tommie and his wife Janet had two sons, Shane and Lonnie, who is now deceased. Tom, Janet and Shane still live and farm on the original 320 acres Tommie's grandmother homesteaded. The farm now produces corn wheat and millet and has more than 350 pine and shade trees. Tom, Janet and Shane are so proud to be third and fourth generation Thomas's on the Thomas Farm.