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young man, just entering manhood. A man with a reputation of being able to take care of himself under any circumstances and a man whose word could be depended upon. He was of a roving disposition at that time and Mis- souri was becoming too well settled. He want- ed to get out into the world as his brothers had done before the war. Striking out for him- self he came to Kansas, hunted buffalo all over this section of the state, wandering over the mountains through Colorado and down into New Mexico. Then he returned to Colorado
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and met John Tilton of this city in the Gunni- son country, stayed there awhile and they re- turned to Kansas and were working near Sa- lina when a man came cut from Salina to get G. N. to guide them to a fit place in this part of the country for the location of a townsite, it being known that he had hunted all over this section and down through the Medicine Lodge and Texas cattle country. A company ot Quincy, Ill., citizens had determined to locate a town on the Santa Fe railroad which was building through Kansas and wanted to beat the railroad company to it. G. N. guided them to this section and they located the town as it stands. Fort Zarah at that time had two or three stores and a general colony and the railroad company resenting the efforts of outsiders to start a town instead of their ob- taining the townsite attempted to break Great Bend but Great Bend outlasted them all.
He was the first sheriff of the county and did much to keep this a lawabiding communi- ty. The "gun men" of the West knew him and that there would be little chance of their in- timidating him. For the average "gun man" is not a man who is a killer because he is quick- er than others on the draw but because he is trickier and because he intimidates officers of the law. G. N. had been in the camps of the pioneers all over the West. He had met the bad men of Dodge City, of Sargent and of the mining camps of Colorado and always he had been on the side of decency and right. He was never known to be afraid and the bad men were afraid of him because they knew he was not afraid of them.
None of the Moses boys have ever been apologetic or timid. They have been truc to their convictions but they have done what they believed to be right regardless of the opinion of others.
An instance of G. N.'s boyhood will show considerably the trend of his character. As a boy ot 7 or 8 he was out getting nuts with a couple of his sisters when a woman who was a terror of the neighborhood when it came to demanding what she called her rights came upon them and attempted to frighten the chil- dren and did succeed in scaring the little girls pretty badly. G. N.'s anger blazed forth and he dared the woman to come any nearer to attempt to take the sack of nuts which she claimed. He drove her back and took the booty home for booty it was. And throughout his life the dominant trait has been to help others and to take the side of the oppresscd. Hun- dreds of stories might be written about this side of the man't nature.
He was a born leader and though not seek- ing leadership was naturally selected for this in most enterprises in which he engaged. If he believed a cause was worthy he followed it strong in the assurance of its success somc- times to his financial disadvantage. Naturally he made opponents as all strong men do but never did opponent question his integrity or honesty.
With his marriage in 1873 to Miss Ida Mitchell, step-daughter of Squire Odell, one of the locaters of the town and member of the town company and went into business in Great bend in the firm of Burton, Odell & Moses. When the Gunnison country in Colorado was opened up Burton withdrew from the firm and went to Gunnison where he opened a store in which G. N. was also interested. A few years later E. R. Moses, then only a young man came here and went to clerking in the Great Bend store and in a short time Mr. Odell re- tired, the firm becoming G. N. & E. R. Moscs, which it remained until about ten years ago when G. N retired, E. R. buying his interest and naming the firm the E. R. Moses Mercan- tile Co., which it remains to this day. The firm saw many a bad year in the early days when settlers were few and crops were bad but it went ahead and carried many a man who is rich today but who would have been unable to have farmed at all but for this firm.
He served as mayor of the city three different times, in the 80's, and two terms in the nine- ties. During the Populists days he was the Re- publican nominee at one time for the legis- lature, but was defeated. He served as sheriff of the county several terms, principally in the early days and was the first sheriff of the county.
During the time the cattle trade was com- ing from Texas to Great Bend and before it shifted to Dodge City a Texas gun fighter be- came abusive and chased most of the citizens off the street while he ran the town. The marshal and assitant considered discretion the better part of valor and hid out to find G. N. while the gun fighter amused himself while sitting on his pony by shooting at the occas- ional citizen who showed in sight. G. N. was informed of the circumstance and telling the marshal to stay where he could come into the fight in case he was shot walked down the street and up to the Old Rome where the tough man was viewing the country. The man start- ed swinging his gun hand towards G. N. when the latter spoke to him pleasantly enough and he stopped to see what was coming next. G. N. wasn't trying to pull a gun and still kept com- ing. It puzzled him. As the sheriff got near enough he reached up his hand as thought to shake hands and the next minute the gun man was off his pony and G. N.'s grip on his shoul- der made him forget all his belligerency. G. N. turned him over to the marshal after a lec- ture on the matter of getting drunk and mak- ing a fool of himself and the gun man when turned loose made a bee line back to Texas where they didn't have sheriffs who were fool- ish enough to go around without drawing a gun ou sight.
The town of Sargent, now Coolidge, was for a few months the toughest placc in the west. It was when the Santa Fe construction camp was located there and the gamblers, painted women and thugs were robbing the several hundred
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railroad laborers. One of the gamblers had some months before borrowed two hundred dollars from G. N. who pitied his condition and thought him a man of his word. G. N. while prospecting in the west heard of the town of Sargent and stopped there finding his man running a saloon. He broached the sub- ject of being paid and the man who had joined the gang of ruffians running the town repudi- ated the debt and said he didn't intend to pay it. It made G. N. mad and he kicked him out of the place and took charge of the saloon him- self. We believe that Jim Gainsford was with him at the time. The saloon man went out and gathered his gang and went back to fix G. N. The latter was ready and had Gainsford sta- tioned behind the door. When the gang filed in G. N. trained two guns on them and invited them to get out and stay out. Gainsford was also there and they got. He ran the saloon for two days, took in $68 and then turned it back to the owner and said that he had collected the interest due at least. While in Sargeant he heard the story of an old man who had been robbed of his team by the gamblers. G. N.'s sympathy was aroused for the old man and going with the latter to the camp corral had the old man point out the team. They hitched it up and the old man started to drive out of the town. One of the gang saw the man on the front seat of the wagon and notified others of the gang and they started to take the team away from the old fellow. As they got up to the rig they found G. N. sitting on the back end of the wagon load, his needle gun across his knees and after expostulating a little gave up the claim to ownership of the rig and the old man drove out of town. G. N. accompanied him a little ways and then came back. They didn't care to tackle him. D. N. Heizer, then a surveyor for the Santa Fe related this story.
E. R. Moses tells a story of the time he went to Gunnison to visit his brother George. The town was really two towns divided by a vacant area and in this section there was a large lumber yard. G. N. lived across on the other side from the store. The first night of E. R.'s visit he waited until late at night to accom- pany G. N. home. The latter was counting up the money and placing it in a sack in his pocket when E. R. noticed a man peering in the window. He spoke to G. N. about the matter but he said he guessed it didn't amount to much. They started home and as they got to the lumber yard G. N. started on through his accustomed way instead of going around. He had given E. R. a gun to carry from the store and as they got in the lumber yard they noticed the two men standing back in the shadows. G. N. walked straight towards them with his gun ready for action and E. R. fol- lowing with some trepidation. The man back- ed to one side and they passed on and were not molested. But that was enough of the wild Gunnison country for E. R. and he returned home in a day or two.
Early day sheriffs had their own concep-
tions of the forms of law and one of the re- turns made by G. N. as first sheriff of the county is held as a treasure by a prominent state official into whose possession it passed some years ago. A horse thcit came to Bar- ton county and committed some depredations which resulted in a warrant being sworn out for his arrest. G. N. took the warrant and started north after the thief. Seventy-two hours later he returned to Great Bend late at night, without any rest from the time he had started, making the whole trip in the saddle. Getting in late at night, tired and worn out from the trip and nearly dead for want of sleep he went into the justice of the peace of- tice and left the warrant writing across the same, "Received this warrant blank date and served same by shooting the. " The facts of the story were that G. N. went to Hays City where he induced a comrade of the man wanted to confess that the man was in that part of the country and then taking his deputy rode out to cow camp where he found the man. As they rode over the hill and down to- wards the wagons the man they were after jumped up and grabbing a gun commenced shooting at them. A minute later he died suddenly and the trip home was begun. The cowboys heard the firing and started to inves- tigate and threatened to kill the sheriff and his deputy. Thoroughly aroused now the sheriff sent the deputy back a little way, rode up to the cowboys and invited them to start the pro- ceedings at once if they felt it necessary. They decided that monkeying with the law would be unpopular and the sheriff and deputy rode home.
From the trend of these stories it might ap- pear that G. N. was of a tough order but his history is different. Men were men in those days and had hard work to perform but the testimony of his old comrades has always been that G. N. stood for the moral things and was himself a moral man.
The first time Ed Tyler, W. W. Hartshorn, Louis and Jerry Frey ever met G. N. Moses was on October 16th, 1871. They drove from Quincy, Ill, to this point. G. N. Moses, Hy and Jim Bickerdyke and John Tilton were camped on the ground where the Fair Building now stands. They had hauled a load of lumber from Russell on the U. P. railroad and built a shack by putting up some posts and built the shack like a tight board fence there being a room about the size square of the length of the board and had been added to until there were several rooms about, four. The Moses party were glad to meet them and allowed them the use of half the shack until they could do bet- ter. At that time there was no railroad and little money. There were plenty of buffalo and other game for meat, but there was little else to eat. The Hubbard store on the Walnut was the only one for miles, the next nearest being on the U. P. north, 45 miles, and nothing south or west. When the Quincy crowd arrived here G. N. Moses wore an army hat, shirt and coat
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and buckskin pants and the others were clad something like G. N.
Up to that time there had been no buffalos killed about here for the hides only, as it would not pay to haul them to the U. P. for the price offered and there were very few horses to do the hauling. Later a good many cat- tle were used. However, buffalo hides were used for partitions in the shack and many other places for which they had no lumber. One day in the fall of 1871 G. N. Moses and Ed Tyler were sitting in a window of the old Southern hotel, situated where the Brinkman Bank is now situated. The hotel had not been finished at that time and even the frames in. They were looking down the trail toward Fort Zarah and they noticed something coming west. It was decided that it was not a man, a buffalo or a horse, but finally it developed that it was a man carrying an umbrella and when he ar- rived they found that it was Judge Tom Mor- ton of Illinois. He was dressed in broadcloth, white shirt, collar and cuffs, blackened boots, in fact was in regular town style. He had come to Fort Zarah with a bunch of soldiers from the east. He stopped here with the camp and in a few days he had bought Ed Tyler's team, also another team for one of the Quincy party and suggested to G. N. Moses that they
go out on a regular buffalo hunt. They left this point in December, 1871 and went to the southwest where the buffalo were plentiful and they got as far as the Medicine Lodge country before returning. From that time they made buffalo hunting a regular business and hundreds of hides were ready to ship from here when the Santa Fe railroad arrived. The first hunting party was composed of G. N. Moses, John Tilton, Hy Bickerdyke and Judge Morton. Messrs. Moses and Tilton continued it for a few days. Bickerdyke went west after a year or two and Judge Morton was a resident of Great Bend until the late seventies.
Moses and Tilton in those days had traveled over many miles of the west and before com- ing here they had first met in Colorado and traveled a foot over most of the country that has developed so well. From Colorado they came to about where Salina is and from there here. From the time they met in Colorado they have been bosom friends at all times. Prior to the time of the meeting of Moses and Tilton in Colorado Mr. Moses had gone from Sedalia, Mo., where he had been a peace offi- cer after the war part of the time and was also a deputy United States marshal to Ari- zona and New Mexico where he spent some years looking over that country.
FIRST CENSUS OF BARTON COUNTY 1872
The names included in this list are those of people who resided in this county in the spring of 1872. The work of securing this in- formation was done by D. N. Heizer who now resides at Colorado Springs, Colorado. It was compulsory to get these names before the county could be organized. The following gives the name, age and a description of the land owned by each individual settler. Some of the names in this list are of people who have long since left this part of the county, but will be remembered by those who were here when the county was organized :
John Hartley, 38.
Henry Cogle, 20.
John W. Meltor, 27.
Myron S. VanPelt, 25.
David E. Benedict, 23.
Elvin R. Benedict, 22.
Arsula M. Benedict, 1.
Jul. P. Bissel, 24, sec. 10, se qr 19-13w.
Ella M. Bissel, 24.
Hattie A. Dewey, 20.
Anna Bissel, 2.
Cora Bissel, 1.
David A. Greever, 23. sec 34, nw qr 19 sr, 12w.
Samuel Davis, 21.
E. J. Dodge, 50, sec. 10, w. hf sw qr 19, s: 15w. Elizabeth Dodge, 43.
W. Dodge, 24, se qr s 4.
Don Dodge, 22, sec. 10, e hf sw qr w hf se qr.
Jennie Dodge 17.
Lizzie Dodge, 15.
John Dodge, 13.
Maggie Dodge, 8.
Mary Dodge, 2.
Dave Dobson, 22.
Charles E. Dodge, 26, sec. 9, s qr (the writ- ing at this point in the list is obliterated.)
T. Scherzmyer, 22. Ira Lake, 47.
A. C. Moses, 45, sec. 10 nw qr 19, sr 13 w.
Naomi A. Moses, 32, sec. 9, ne. qr 19 sr. 13 w. Arthur Moses, 21, sec. 10, ne qr 19, sr. 13 w.
Clayton L. Moses, 19, sec. 9, nw qr 19 sr. 13 w.
Edward W. Moses, 16.
William A. Moses, 14.
Lincoln E. Moses, 11.
Cassius M. Moses, 7.
Seward E. Moses, 4.
Edward W. Dewey, 22 sec. 4, sw qr.
Minnie Bissel, 4.
Frank H. Dewey, 2.
William Dewey, 74.
Evan Thornburg, 44, sec. 4, 20-14 w.
Julia A. Thornburg, 32.
John S. Thornburg, 10.
William Thornburg, 1.
John McMullen, 35.
Lizzie McMullen, 32.
John McMullen, Jr., 13.
James McMullen, 4. Benjamin McMullen, 3.
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U. S. Hutchinson, 23.
H. C. Fox, 55, sec. 26, nw qr 20-15.
U. C. Bryant, 27. J. F. Carter, 33, sec 26, sw qr 20-15. Sandy Brown, 21.
Thomas Sublett, 22.
Lester Horn, 29.
J. D. Carpenter, 39, scc. 26, ne qr 20-15.
John W. Smith, 30, sec. 26, se qr 20-15.
F. C. Pclk, 26.
L. M. Carter, 28.
A. C. Hunter, 22. R. C. Graves, Jr., 21.
E. W. Hoch, 23, (afterwards became gov- ernor of the the State of Kansas.)
C. H. Milton, 24. C. H. Bates, 22. J. A. Arnold, 21. W. F. Hoch, 27.
Geo. M. Jackson, 31.
Bland Searce, 21.
Henry Lytle, 25. Wm. M. Smith, 32.
M. L. Burks, 22.
Robert Heckle, 23. Wm. Bahler, 24, sec. 14, ne qr 19-14. John Reinecke, 30, sec. 10, se qr 19-14. Mary Reinecke, 28.
Anna Reinecke, 4.
Louisa Reinecke, 2.
Mary Reinecke, 1. Henry Schultz, 30, sec. 10 ne qr 19-14. Wilhelmina Schultz, 28.
Louisa Schultz, 3.
Levi H. Lusk, 39, sec. 3 sw qr and ne qr sec. 9 and sec. 10, nw qr 19-14.
Orson Howard, 43, sec 6, nw qr 19-13. B. F. Putman, 40, sec 4, sw qr, all of sec. 5 but ne qr.
O. Buckner, 35, sec. se 14.
M. Falkner, 30, sec 9, nw qr r 14. Thomas McCoughan, 22. James, Holland, 35. Sarah Holland, 26.
Wm. H. Odell, 39, sec. 30, ne qr 10-3. Melda Odell, 37. George H. Odell, 17. Charles S. Odell, 15. Edward Odell, 11. Thomas Mitchell, 14.
Ida A. Mitchell. Mary B. Mitchell, 14. Jessie Odell, 4. John Typer, 40. L. C. Zollairs, 22.
Charlotte Zollairs, 22. Ellsworth Zollairs, 10.
J. H. Taylor, 35. S. H. Hedrick, 24, sec. 6, ne qr 19-14. Lucy A. Hedrick, 22. Wm. L. Hedrick, 1. James Hart, 23. Charles Roudebush, 22, sec. 28, se qr 18-15. George Reynolds, 25. M. Brining, 21, sec. 30, se qr 18-15. Charles B. Worden, 28, sec. 34, n hf nw qr s. hf sw qr, sec 27.
C. F. Brining, 48, sec. 30, ne. qr 18-15. Christina Brining, 44. Fred Brining, 8. Henry Brining, 5. Rosa Brining, 11. Christina Brining, 14.
Wm. W. Graham, 22, sec. 26 s. hf, sw qr and 11. hf nw qr sec 35.
Mary J. Graham, 18. Marsene Graves, 35, sec. 28, n hf sw qr and s hf nw qr. Julia Graves, 34. Louisa Graves, 6. Aster Graves, 2. Henry Cyr, 22.
Andrew Albright, 46, sec. 29, nw. qr 18-15. Wilhelmina Albright, 51.
Champ Mayfield. Wm. Mayfield.
James Smith, Sol. Basham. Prudence Eller, 33.
Alex Keller, 33.
Margurite Keller, 12.
Margurite Keller, 12.
Catherine Keller, 8.
Charles H. Keller, 2.
James S. Hill, 35.
George Brandagee, 26.
Henry Thatcher, 23.
W. Stotts, 23.
E. C. Campbell, 33. P. Q. Myers, 35.
George Lane, 22.
Hiram Collan, 25.
Henry Collan, 35. A. L. Choat, 36. L. T. Hedrick, 22.
W. G. Allen, 32.
Richard Sutton, 23. Andrew Proctor, 22.
Nathan Field, 24, sec. 31, se qr 8-14.
George H. Barry, 24, sec. 33, sw 14.
Thomas Gibson 22, sec. 5, ne qr 19-14.
Henry Myers, 35, sec. 4, nw. qr 19-14.
William Yontz, 30, sec. 4, 1 e. qr 19-14.
F. Warring, sec. 34, s hf, sw qr 18-14. Ed Mecklem 22, sec. 3, nw. qr 19-14.
George F. Mecklem, 45, sec. 3, ne qr 19-14.
Antone Wilke, 25, sec. 3, se qr.
A. H. Annis, 49, sec. 3, sw, 19-14.
Sylvia A. Annis, 48.
E. N. Swan, 23, sec. 11, s hf sw qr 19-14. Ellen Swan, 19.
J. Moffat, 34, sec. 2, nw. qr 19-14.
R. Moffat, 37, sec. 2, ne qr 19-14. Jessie, Swan, 1.
N. Douglass, 49, sec. 14, s hf, sw qr and s hf of e qr.
William L. Cotton, 27, sec. 14, n hf sw qr and n hf se qr 19-14. William C. Gibson, 47 scc. 14, ne qr.
Mary A. Gibson, 47. Joseph Gibson, 12. James Gibson, 8.
Charles F. Kinney, 30, sec. 12, nw qr 19-14 w. Marguerite J. Kinney, 18.
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Charles N. Kinney, 1.
Nate Mckown, 35, sec. 12, sw qr.
Martha Mckown, 3. Nancy Mckown, 3. Hiram Mckown, 1. James McRoberts, 23, sec. 12, e. hf of ne qr. Samantha McRoberts, 20.
Florence McRoberts, 1. John Gruber, 33, sec. 12, se. qr 19-14. Catherine Gruber, 32. Antone Gruber, 12.
Mar Gruber, 4. Julius Both, 26, sec. 20, n. hf sw, qr and s. hf nw qr 19-15 w.
Anna Both, 24. Matilda Both, 2. Henry Gien, 45, sec, 8, nw. qr 19-13.
Elizabeth Gien, 40. Harry Gien, 12.
Lizzie Gien, 9. John Gien, 5. Laura Gien, 18.
August Myers, 24, sec. 12, w. hf ne. qr 19-14.
Fred Strohmyer, 30, sec. 4, ne qr e. hf.
Frank Shyher, 27, sec, 4, nw. qr e. hf. Nick Raefler, 24, sec. 4, ne. qr w. hf.
John Cook, 33, sec. 8, e. hf nw. qr w. hf ne qr.
William Cook, 23, sec. 8, sw qr.
Louisa Cook, 26. John Cook, 5.
George Cook, 4. William Cook, 3. Henry Cook, 1.
Jewel Lusher, 29, sec. 4, w. hf nw. qr.
James Moreland, 30, sec. 7, se. qr.
William Gilpin, 30, sec. 6, e. hf se. qr.
John Gilpin, 28, sec. 6, w. hf se. qr and e. hf sw. qr.
John Dennis, 36, sec. 5, se. qr 19-13. Nancy Dennis, 33.
Zura Cunningham, 11. James Cunningham, 10.
Andrew Godsien, 33.
Clayton Zunzalos, 37. John W. Light, 24.
Zack Light, 19.
James Edwards, 19.
Clem Jones, 33. Isaac Barry, 25, sec. 32, nc. qr 19-12.
Nettie Buckbee, 20.
Titus Buckbee, 24.
Michael Stanto, 27, sec. 26, s. hf se qr sec 35, n. hf ne. qr 18-15 w.
A. W. Strong, 51, sec. 28, sc qr 19-12.
Sarah C. Strong, 48. Anna C. Strong, 17. Wilkins A. Strong, 10.
R. A. Avery, 57. Henry Beal, 28, sec. 14, sw. qr 19-15.
Sydney Sterling, 22, colored. Charles Williams, 30, colored. Frank Day, 26, scc. 34, ne. qr 19-13 w. Percy Preston, 23.
John Roberts, 28. Harland B. Truesdell, 23, scc. 28, sw. qr 19-13.
J. P. Brady, 26.
H. Davis, 27.
Trueman Foster, 30. Phillip Matthews, 35. John Morris, 24. John Proctor, 25, sec. 34, n. hf sw, qr and n. hf se. qr 19-12.
John Williams, 23. James Mulligan, 38. E. Shaffer, 23. James McWilliams, 40.
S. G. Cram, 23, sec. 26, nw. qr 19-12. Cain Davis, 22. J. T. Walker, 22, sec. 24, ne. qr 19-12. Dave Grever, 23, sec. 32 nw qr 19-12.
M. S. Strew, 33. Sudan Strew, 23.
James Howard, 28, sec. 34, s. hf and n. hf 19-12.
Thomas Towers, 21, sec. 20. Edward Reynolds, 36, sec. 14.
Mary Reynolds, 5. Francis Reynolds, 24.
J. L. Reynolds, 41, sec. 23, w. hf.
Lydia M. Reynolds, 28. Ada B. Reynolds, 12.
J. W. Mahan, 22. James Cornwall, 57. Jessie Morgan, 37. John Riley, 24, sec. 24, se. qr 19-12.
A. J. Jamison, 36.
John L. Roberts, 34, sec. 24, sw. 19-12.
J. A. Moore, 24, sec. 24, nw. qr 19-12. Ed Martz, 37.
J. P. Farrow.
E. Waring, 32, sec. 34, sw. ffr 18-14 w. Frank Phillips, 22, sec. 26, ne. qr 19-14. Dave T. Spines, 27, sec. 26, sw. qr 19-14. John A. Harbour, 22, sc. 6, ne. qr 19-13. S. S. Dennis, 46, sec. 22, se. qr 19-13.
Bettie Dennis, 38.
Belle Dennis, 17.
Allen Dennis, 13.
Susan Dennis, 15.
Mcclellan Dennis, 9.
Prudence Dennis, 8.
Bettie Dennis, 7. Emma Dennis, 6.
Nathaniel Dennis, 5, nw. qr sec. 20-19-14.
Nancy J. Dennis, 4.
Sheridan Dennis, 3.
Logan Dennis, 2.
James A. Mcclellan, 29, sec. 20, ne. qr 19-13.
Lue A. Mcclellan, 27.
Fred A. McClellan, 3.
Edgar A. McClellan, 1.
Alfred Bellfield, 55.
Mrs. Bellfield, 50.
Laura Bellfield, 12.
Edward Bellfield, 10.
John Bellfield, 7. Robert Bellfield, 1.
Charles Bellfield, 14. James R. Bickerdyke, 22, sec. 18, se. qr. 19-13 Hiram Bickerdyke, sec. 32, sw. qr. George Moses, 27, sec. 32, nw. qr. John Tilton, 28, sec. 32, ne. qr. Warren Peck, 24, sec. 20, nw. qr.
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Nicholas Hauser, 25, sec. 20 se. qr. Mrs. Addie Haouser, 23. George Hauser, 1. Nelson Carpenter, 35. Mary E. Carpenter, 28. Merrill Carpenter, 3.
John W. Pascoe, 38, sec. 18, nw. qr 19-13. Grace Pascoe. Rebekah Pascoe, 18. Paul J. Pascoe, 11. Libby Pascoe, 9. Worth J. Pascoe, 5. Maria L. Pascoe, 3.
Clara Pascoe, 1.
E. L. Morphy, 31, sec. 30, nw. qr 19-13 A. B. Robinson, 28, sec. 2, sw. qr 20-14. Albert Sloan, 31, sec. 26, se. qr 19-14.
R. Taylor, 25, (the first lumberman in the country.)
C. A. Houston, 31. S. S. Heath, 42. William Ditts, 24. George Yorksall, 22, sec. 18, ne. qr 19-13, Alva Stanton, 23.
John Shepard, 22. Simon Rilter, 42. Erastus Propper, 22. Caroline Rilter, 26.
Dona Rilter, 11. Aliie Propper, 22. Limon Wilsey, 20. Frank Emery, 24. Thomas Decker, 26.
Flora Propper, 5. John D. Glenn, 45, sec. 20, sw. qr 19-13.
Clara M. Glenn, 45. Mack B. Glenn, 18. Mary E. Glenn, 15.
Leliah Glenn, 13. Wm. T. Glenn, 11. Byron O. Glenn, 8. Kittie Glenn, 5. Wm. J. Morgan. Morgan Morgan. John M. Williams.
Ivan Jones. Wm. James. Elias Davis. Eleanor Burnsides, 21. Wm. Bell. Richard E. Jones. Daniel Gammon. Charles Zeiber, 22, sec. 18, sw. qr 19-13. Henry Shaffer, 38, sec. 30, se. qr. Mina Shaffer, 35. August Shaffer, 13.
Martha Shaffer, 2. Henry Shridde, 35, sec. 6, n. hf n. qr and n. hf ne. qr 20-13. Mary Shridde, 30. Anna Shridde, 13. Sophia, Shridde, 7. Henry Shridde, 4. William Shridde, 1. William H. Lette, 25. A. A. Hurd, 25. Theo. Hurd, 50.
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