USA > Kansas > Butler County > History of Butler County Kansas > Part 2
Note: The text from this book was generated using artificial intelligence so there may be some errors. The full pages can be found on Archive.org (link on the Part 1 page).
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9 | Part 10 | Part 11 | Part 12 | Part 13 | Part 14 | Part 15 | Part 16 | Part 17 | Part 18 | Part 19 | Part 20 | Part 21 | Part 22 | Part 23 | Part 24 | Part 25 | Part 26 | Part 27 | Part 28 | Part 29 | Part 30 | Part 31 | Part 32 | Part 33 | Part 34 | Part 35 | Part 36 | Part 37 | Part 38 | Part 39 | Part 40 | Part 41 | Part 42 | Part 43 | Part 44 | Part 45 | Part 46 | Part 47 | Part 48 | Part 49 | Part 50 | Part 51 | Part 52 | Part 53 | Part 54 | Part 55 | Part 56 | Part 57 | Part 58 | Part 59 | Part 60 | Part 61 | Part 62 | Part 63 | Part 64 | Part 65 | Part 66 | Part 67 | Part 68 | Part 69 | Part 70 | Part 71 | Part 72 | Part 73 | Part 74 | Part 75 | Part 76 | Part 77 | Part 78 | Part 79 | Part 80 | Part 81 | Part 82 | Part 83 | Part 84 | Part 85 | Part 86 | Part 87 | Part 88 | Part 89 | Part 90 | Part 91 | Part 92 | Part 93 | Part 94 | Part 95 | Part 96
MARION
GHAST
GO
R III
R. IV
R. V
R. VI
R VII
R VIII
Nellans ; Ovo
+
Wind Grist
Di
+
T.23 ! FAIRMOUNTI
A Amador
+
0
CLIFFORD
Sycamore Springes
:+
S
YHCTAV
MORE
0
Plum Grover
M+T
LONIY
Water Bower
De Graff He
ELLS.
+ PLUM GROVE
SAN.
I+
Morp
wPotwin
e
Dixon
K.
+ 10
Cariboo
(Chelsea
H
E IL
S
A
OD
T 25
MURDOCK R
Steam Sai Min
C
IT
Palmyra
Greek
+
+
Sorghum Mill
Worker \ Flour Mill
86+
Towanda
Beninon
FC
IST. L.
Sorghum Min EL DORADO !O
K
Br
White
Turkey
Il
Andover Indianolas
Water Flouring MAIl
TITLE
IST
TLOU
Loren AUGUSTA
SPRING
T 27
BRUNO+WICHES
WEISTIN
Steand Saw Mill
Steam' Flour Mill
iWA
NUT
|Keighley
R.
R
+
Walnut
HG
PLEASANT
Water Tower
Hickory
LOGAN
+
HICKORY
O
+
Cr.
0
Rose Hill"
DO AGLASSMAROC
1
Latham
T 29.
gh Douglass
¡CLACEY
0
.
+
IGREE
K
€
+
Water FMour
Steam Saw Mill.
Tolle
Water Power
Cedar Ford
Wingate
SUMNER
C
0
W
L
E
Y
C
0
co.
+ School Houses
Rand, MeNally & Co., Engr's, Chicago.
GREEN WV
T.26
BENTON
TOWANDAİ
+
Water Power
+
C
VEdgecomb +
+
C.T.
+
enetes
+
+
Or.
.
+
Sorghum
OFTHE
.Walnut-
"SteamSau/Mhild Durechon
TH AHR VE YH
+
neary
Worth
0
+
tery.
WEW
+FAIRVIEW
0
ET.EL DORADO
Water Flour Mul
+ qntlacl + WICH AusMin
Bird
ROSALIA
Broom Factory R
P
Sorghum Mill+
Creek
3
The Water Power
Watey Grist Mill
Beaumont
Freedom
+
T.28
Aralo
WALNUT!
Gordon 9
+
FBLOOMINGTON
Eight
0 SHE D
o Pine Grove
+
RICHLAND
Crée
KAN
EL K
Providence
...
RJ
R
+
Cassody
Brainerd
Bemt
+
Steam
Haverhill,
A MAP OF BUTLER COUNTY
EARLY DAY TRANSPORTATION
History of Butler County
CHAPTER I.
ORGANIZATION.
NAMED IN HONOR OF ANDREW P. BUTLER-EARLY INFLUENCE INDICATED IN NAME-ONE OF THE ORIGINAL THIRTY-THREE COUNTIES-FIRST AND LATER BOUNDARIES-FIRST COUNTY SEAT-TOWNSHIP BOUND- ARIES - ORGANIZATION OF TOWNSIHIPS - DISTRICTS - TOPOGRAPHY -PRODUCTS-HERD LAW-FENCES.
Butler county was named in honor of Andrew P. Butler, for twelve years United States Senator from South Carolina.
Andrew Pickens Butler lived from 1796 to 1857. He was prominent in politics and an active worker for the cause of the South. He served in the Legislature in 1824, and was appointed judge of the circuit and supreme courts in 1833. In 1846, he was appointed United States Senator and served until his death. Senator Butler was attacked with great severity by Senator Sumner in his speech, "The Crime Against Kansas." Butler was absent from the Senate at the time, but Preston S. Brooks, a relative who was present, later mortally assaulted Sumner.
Senator Butler was a zealous advocate of the right of the South to introduce slavery into the Territory of Kansas. The naming of this county after an ardent southern sympathizer is an echo of the spirit of the times. Many of the counties of the original organization were simi- larly named. this being the Missouri influence working itself out in the "Bogus Legislature." Thus were named Davis, Wise, Lykins, Doug- lass, Jefferson, Calhoun, Bourbon, Breckinridge. Franklin, Weller, Anderson, Dorn, McGee and Godfrey counties. The names of some of these counties were changed in later years, while others still retain the original name, as does Butler county.
Butler, the largest county in area in Kansas, is located in the south- ern part of the State, east of the center, it being in the second tier of counties from the south line, and in the fifth tier west from the cast line of the State.
Butler county was established in 1855, by the first territorial legis- lature, which met at Pawnee, on the Kansas River, 145 miles west of
(3)
34
HISTORY OF BUTLER COUNTY
Westport, Mo. After its organization the legislative body removed to the Shawnee Manual Labor School in Johnson county-this school was established in 1831. This legislature was known as the "Bogus Legis- lature" on account of its being convened and run by men from the State of Missouri.
At this session the territory was divided into thirty-three counties. Thus Butler county is one of the original counties created by the first legislature of the Territory of Kansas.
The boundaries of Butler county as defined in the creative act as follows: "Beginning at the southeast corner of Wise county (the present Morris county) ; thence running south thirty miles ; thence west thirty miles ; thence north thirty miles ; thence east thirty miles to the place of beginning." This giving the county an original area of 900 square miles.
The county at that time was attached to Madison county for civil
BUTLER COUNTY COURT HOUSE, EL DORADO, KANS.
and military purposes-(see map No. I.) The same legislative act of 1855 designated the region immediately south of the original Butler, a tract thirty miles east and west, and about seventy-eight miles north and south, to the southern boundary line of the territory, as Hunter county.
In 1857 the boundaries were changed by legislative act. This act
35
HISTORY OF BUTLER COUNTY
made Butler county consist of a tract thirty miles wide, directly south of Wise (Morris) county, extending southward thirty-eight miles. Hunter was made to consist of the section south of Butler to the territorial line.
On February II, 1859, Butler county was organized. The legislature was then in session at Lecompton, Samuel Medary being governor. Governor Medary from Ohio was the ninth, or next to the last territorial governor.
This act included the organization of Wise and Chase counties. Chase was made of the region south of Wise, twenty-four miles by thirty miles east and west. The fifth standard parallel, near the west branch bridge on North Main street, El Dorado, was the south boundary line of Butler county.
Chelsea was then the county seat of Butler, while old El Dorado was in Hunter county. This first location of El Dorado was south and west of the present El Dorado. The original site included what is now known as the Royce farm, the C. C. Jamieson farm, the West cemetery, and a portion of the land now owned by Mrs. Mary White, mother of William Allen White. The land was platted but not filed, there being no filing office near at that time.
February 27, 1860, Irving county was made out of the region com- mencing where the fifth standard parallel and guide meridian cross, between ranges 8 and 9, west thirty-six and north twenty-four miles. El Dorado was the temporary county seat.
On February 24, 1864, the boundaries were once more changed. It was said an early settler had either to be a surveyor, or employ one permanently in order to keep informed of the changes in the boundaries. The boundary lines as described by the act of 1864 were as follows: Commencing at a point twelve miles west of the present northeast corner of Harvey county ; thence south to the south line of the State; thence east to a point nine miles east of the present southwest corner of Chau- tauqua county ; thence north to the southeast corner of Chase county; thence west twenty-four miles; then north six miles; thence west to the place of beginning.
This description covered a strip twelve miles wide on the east side of Harvey, Sedgewick and Sumner counties, all of Cowley county, and a strip nine iniles wide on the west side of Chautauqua, Elk and Green- wood counties, and three townships in the southwest corner of Marion county. Thus including the territory now occupied by Newton. Wichita, Belle Plaine, Oxford, Winfield, Arkansas City, Cedarvale, Grenola, Reece, Burns and Peabody.
During this period Chelsea was the county seat. Thomas Carney was then governor. Governor Carney was the second governor after the State was admitted to the Union.
The act providing that Butler county should include all this territory was repealed in 1867. On February 26, of that year, by legislative act Butler county was given its present form.
36
HISTORY OF BUTLER COUNTY
Jerry D. Connor, prominent early settler, was a member of the legis- lature at that time. (See maps 2, 3, 4, 5, 6).
So that today the county is bounded on the north by Marion and Chase counties; on the east by Greenwood and Elk counties; on the south by Cowley county, and on the west by Edgwick and Harvey counties. A description of its location is as follows :
Beginning at the northeast corner of section 4, township 23, range 8, east of the sixth principal meridian ; thence running west to the north- west corner of section 6, township 23, range 3, east ; thence south to the southwest corner of section 31, township 29, range 3, east ; thence east to the southeast corner section 33, township 29, range 8, east ; thence north to the place of beginning.
From north to south it stretches forty-two miles, and from east to west thirty-four and a half miles ; making a total area of nearly 1,000,000 acres, or 1,440 square miles.
Butler county is larger than the State of Rhode Island, while its arable land amounts to nearly as much as that of two of the smaller eastern states. Thus it may well claim its name, the "State of Butler."
August 23, 1867, Butler county was divided into the townhips of Chelsea, El Dorado, Walnut and Towanda. The boundaries given to these townships are described as follows :
Chelsea township: Commencing at the northwest corner of section 19, township 25, range 5; thence east to county line; thence north to northeast corner of the county ; thence west to range line between ranges 4 and 5 ; thence south to the beginning.
El Dorado township: Commencing at the northwest corner of sec- tion 19, township 25, range 5; thence south nine miles; thence east six miles ; thence south two miles ; thence east fifteen miles to the east line of the county ; thence north eleven miles; thence west twenty-one miles to the place of beginning.
Walnut township: Commencing at the southeast corner of El Dorado township; thence west to the west line of the county (thence east to point south of the beginning, omitted from the records) ; thence north to the beginning.
Towanda township: Commencing at the southeast corner of section 12, township 27, range 4; thence west to the county line; thence north to the north line of the county; thence east to the range line between ranges 4 and 5; thence south to the place of beginning.
From these four original townships were drawn the remaining townships of the county, they having been divided and subdivided, parts added and detached to finally form the twenty-nine townships which now comprise the county.
The names of the townships of Butler county, with the date of organization, are given below:
Augusta township: Organized in 1870 from parts of El Dorado and Walnut. In 1872, part detached to form Spring. In 1873, parts de-
37
HISTORY OF BUTLER COUNTY
tached to form Bruno and Pleasant. In 1874, parts detached to form Bloomington.
Benton Township: Organized in 1872 from part of Towanda.
Bloomington township: Organized in 1874 from parts of Augusta and Walnut.
Bruno township: Organized in 1873 from part of Augusta.
Chelsea township: Organized in 1876 in the original division of the county into townships. In 1876, part detached to form Clifford. In 1878, part detached to form Sycamore. In 1879, parts detached to form El Dorado and Lincoln.
Clav township : Organized in 1879 from part of Walnut.
Clifford township: Organized in 1876 from parts of Chelsea and Towanda.
Douglass township : Organized in 1874 from part of Walnut.
El Dorado township: Organized in 1867, in the original division of the county into townships. Parts detached in 1877 to form Glencoe, Little Walnut, Prospect and Rosalia. In 1879, part of Chelsea attached.
Fairmount township : Organized in 1873 from part of Towanda.
Fairview township : Organized in 1873 from part of Towanda.
Glencoe township: Organized in 1877 from parts of El Dorado and Walnut.
Hickory township: Organized in 1875 from part of Walnut.
Lincoln township: Organized in 1879 from part of Chelsea.
Little Walnut township : Organized in 1877 from parts of El Dorado and Walnut.
Logan township: Organized in 1874 from part of Walnut.
Milton township : Organized in 1873 from part of Towanda.
Murdock township: Organized in 1873 from part of Towanda.
Pleasant township: Organized in 1873 from parts of Augusta and Walnut.
Plum Grove township: Organized in 1873 from part of Towanda. Prospect township : Organized in 1877 from part of El Dorado.
Richland township : Organized in 1874 from part of Walnut.
Rock Creek township: Organized in 1879 from part of Walnut. Rosalia township: Organized in 1874 from part of El Dorado. Spring township : Organized in 1872 from part of Augusta.
Sycamore township: Organized in 1867 in the original division of the county into townships. Part detached in 1870 to form Augusta. Part detached in 1872 to form Benton. Part detached in 1873 to form Fairmount, Fairview, Milton, Murdock and Plum Grove. Part detached in 1867 to form Clifford.
Union township: Organized in 1879 from part of Walnut.
Walnut township: Organized in 1867 in the original division of the county into townships. In 1870, part detached to form Augusta. In 1873, part detached to form Pleasant. In 1874, part detached to form Bloomington, Douglass and Richland. In 1875, part detached to form
38
HISTORY OF BUTLER COUNTY
Hickory. In 1877. parts detached to form Glencoe and Little Walnut. In 1879, parts detached to form Clay, Rock Creek and Union.
March 21. 1860, the county was divided into three commissioners districts.
These districts were to include the territory described in the records as follows :
District No. 1: Township 22, of ranges 5, 6, 7, 8. 9 and Io; town- ship 23. of ranges 6 and 7, and one mile off of the north side of town- ship 25, of ranges 6 and 7.
District No. 2: Townships 23, 24 and 25. of range 5. and five miles off of the south side of township 25, of ranges 6 and 7.
District No. 3: Townships 23, 24 and 25, of range 8; townships 23, 24 and 25. of range 9. and townships 23, 24 and 25, of range 10.
September 4, 1871, the first division of the county into commis- sioners districts by townships was made. According to this division the districts were thus designated :
First district : The townships of Augusta. Towanda and Plum Grove.
Second district : The townships of El Dorado, Chelsea and Rosalia.
Third district : The townships of Little Walnut, Union, Walnut and Spring.
As now constructed the commissioners districts of Butler county include the townships as given in the following :
First district : Union, Hickory, Logan, Clay, Rock Creek, Bloom- ington, Spring, Augusta, Walnut, Douglass, Richland and Pleasant.
Second district : Glencoe, Rosalia, Prospect. El Dorado and Little Walnut.
Third district: Chelsea, Sycamore, Lincoln, Fairmount, Clifford, Milton. Plum Grove, Fairview, Murdock, Benton, Bruno and Towanda.
Butler county is a confine of almost a million acres of prairie land. a considerable portion of which is of rolling character. It has an eleva- tion of from 600 to 1,200 feet. The surface ranges from the broad level or rolling lands in the western part to broken and rough places in the eastern part, with a line of rugged hills on the extreme east border. These belong to the range known as the Flint Hills, an irregular. picturesque, line of hills, that a man standing on their limestone capped summit, inhaling Kansas ozone, and surveying the peace and wealth of the valleys, holds his head a little higher and breathes a little deeper in pride of home and possessions in Butler county.
There is very little waste land as the soil is fertile and productive. heavier or deeper on the bottom lands and is adapted to the growth of almost every variety of grain and fruit. The river and creek bottoms comprise about one-fifth of the area and range from a mile to two miles in width.
The timber is confined to the bottom lands along the streams, vary- ing from a few rods to a mile in width. The trees native to the county are the oak, cottonwood, walnut, hackberry. white hickory, sycamore, elm, mulberry and some scattering varieties.
39
THISTORY OF BUTLER COUNTY
The principal streams are the Walnut and the Whitewater. The Walnut rises in the northeast corner of the county. The Whitewater traverses the county from the northwest, flowing into the Walnut at Augusta. These streams have many smaller tributaries. The principal ones are the West Branch, Little Walnut, Bemis, Bird, Cole, Dureckon. Eight-Mile. Muddy, Satchel and Turkey creeks, tributaries to the Wal- nut ; and the West Branch, Elm. Dry, Diamond, Four-Mile, Rock, Went-
WHITEWATER FALLS.
worth and Bakers creeks, tributaries to the Whitewater. These streams and tributaries make Butler one of the finest watered counties in Kansas.
Corn, oats, rye, winter wheat, feterita, kafir corn, sorghum, alfalfa and prairie hay are the crops grown. The county ranks first in acreage and value of the four latter named.
The large pastures in the eastern part of the county make live stock raising of importance. These pastures contain some of the finest cattle in the world. Also at the present time. Butler county leads the State in numbers and value of animals sold for slaughter.
40
HISTORY OF . BUTLER COUNTY
Fruit growing receives more or less attention over the county, there being now planted several hundred thousand trees of fruit-bearing age. An abundance of limestone is found in the soil of this county. This has been quarried extensively and large quantities of stone have been shipped to various places.
At first, fences, usually rail, laid without nails, were placed around crops in small fields.
In 1871, what is known as the "Herd" law was enacted. This was adopted in this county at an election in April, 1871. The election resulted in 569 in favor of the adoption of the law, and 504 against. Martin Vaught, B. T. Rice and Neil Wilkie were the county commissioners at that time.
The law was designed to cause cattle men to fence or herd their stock-this instead of the farmer fencing his crops.
The law met with considerable opposition, especially from those who had some fencing on their farms and who had been turning their stock out to graze, letting them go until wanted.
By this time there were quite a number of settlers on the uplands. These had no fencing material and no means of securing any. They could look after their stock more easily than they could fence their crops. And so came the need for the "Herd" law.
This law has never been repealed. It is, of course, without resistence in the present day.
After the law was enacted hedges began to be planted and fences were started in that manner. The selling of hedge plants, with wonder- ful guarantees of growth, became a popular industry at this time.
While the hedges were growing into lawful fences recourse was had to rope. Stock of all kinds was "lariated," that is, tied to the end of about fifty feet of rope, the other end being fastened to a picket pin which was driven into the ground. Picket pins in those days were a staple article of trade in all stores. They were made with a swivel, to which was attached the rope, and so prevent twisting. Rope was pur- chased by the carload by the merchant, and bought by the coil by the farmer.
It was not an uncommon thing to see children, chickens, pigs, cows and horses attached, each to one end of a lariat, with a picket pin holding securely the other end. Sometimes a picket pin would disappear-and also a horse likewise.
As time passed on the hedges grew to serve the purpose of their planting. These hedge fences were undoubtedly of some benefit to the early Kansas farmer. They served not only as pasture enclosures, but were a protection to the treeless, wind-swept prairies. Later the hedge fence came to be regarded as more or less undesirable, and in late years has been largely cut down.
After the hedge fence came the barbed wire, which is now in uni- versal use, and on which the farmer of today depends in the management of his broad pastures and many cattle.
CHAPTER II.
ARCHAEOLOGY.
By Bill J. Martin.
PRE-HISTORIC RED MAN-CORONADO'S VISIT IN 1541-NATIVE INDIAN TRIBES-INDIAN CHARACTER-EARLY TRAILS-EVIDENCES OF PRE- HISTORIC OCCUPATION OF BUTLER COUNTY-INDIAN RELICS-VIL- LAGE AND CAMP SITES-INDIAN TRADITIONS-INDIAN IMPLEMENTS.
My friend, Judge V. P. Mooney, has asked me to write a little ar- ticle on the archaeology of Butler county, Kansas, for his forthcoming "History of Butler County." All I can do is to tell a little of prehistoric man in this territory, by the footprints he has left in and on the soil of this noble country. These ancient men were the ancestors of those found in this land at the dawn of historic time. What kind of men were here when Coronado made his memorable advance into Kansas in the year 1541, in search of gold? He met the Indians of the provinces of Quivira and Harahey, but found no gold. The Indians had represented Quivira to be a land of fabulous wealth, and when the Spaniards found no gold or silver forthcoming they strangled the poor "Turk," the Indian guide. They had made mistakes all around. The Spaniards came to Kansas too soon, and the Indans should have brought them to the region now known as Butler county, which is the real "land of gold," for the gold can be had through the medium of corn, alfalfa and wheat, cattle, horses and hogs, poultry and kafir, fruit and eggs, and gas and oil. The State of Butler is as grand and productive a country as the sun ever shown upon. A writer has said that "God could have made a better country, but that he never did." The Quivirans, whom Coronado met in 1541, were the ancestors of the modern Pawnee Indians, and the History of Kansas by Clara H. Hazelrigg says that there were three other native tribes, the Kansa, Osage and Padoucas. George P. Morehouse, of To- peka, said: "The earliest recorded accounts represent the Kansa tribe as owner of that imperial pasture now called Kansas. Here the Kansa were born, had lived, acted, and passed on for many generations. Here they had hunted, fished, and fought; here was their home. What an empire, to these first native sons of Kansas? Its ample sustaining resources were on every hand, the secrets of nature, from the wooded
4I
42
HISTORY OF BUTLER COUNTY
streams and rich bottom lands of the Missouri border, to the vast tree- less areas of the great plains, all teeming with game of every character, were to them revealed as an inspiration and an open book."
What caused the Indian to leave Butler county and other parts of Kansas? Was he essentially a bad man? No. The whites have always wanted his good lands, and he was compelled to step down and out. Here is what Frederick S. Dellenbaugh said of Indian character: "He (the Indian) loved his home, his family, as constituted by his social regulations, and his children. As to honesty and dishonesty, the balance was certainly not far from even, average for average, if anything, the Indian had more respect for the ideals of his race than was the case of the white man with reference to his."
A PIONEER HOME.
Washington Irving said of the Indians' fall: "Civilized society has advanced upon them like one of those withering airs that will some- times breathe desolation over a whole region of fertility. it has enervated their strength, multiplied their diseases, and superinduced upon their original barbarity the low vices of artificial life.'
From what I know of the demoralization of the historic Indian, I think the prehistoric Red Man of Butler county was probably a man of as good character as the average white man. In the literature pertaining to Kansas I find very little mention made of Butler county. The travel from east to west was north and south of this county. In a map in Vol. 9, Kansas Historical Collections. I find two trails marked, the California trail from southeast corner, to the northwest corner of the county, and the Osage trail to the Arkansas river across the center of
43
HISTORY OF BUTLER COUNTY
the county from east to west. Bellin's map of Louisiana of 1744 says the country of the Kansa Indians extended from the Missouri river al- most to the mountains. Some have said that Butler county was never inhabited by sedentary tribes of Indians, but I think otherwise, as I have explored a good deal of the southern half of the county, and have found much evidence of settled prehistoric occupation, in the valleys of Big Walnut, Little Walnut, Hickory, Picayune, Mephitis Americana and other creeks. I have in my collection of ancient Indian relics numbers of the following implements and weapons: Metates, mano stones, whet- stones, rubbing stones, grinding stones, boiling stones, hammer stones, cup stones, anvil stones, stone mauls, arrow shaft rubbers, stone axes, fiint spades and hoes, celts, spears, arrows, perforators, drills, whole pipes, pieces of pipes, blocks of catlinite (pipe material), flint flakes of many colors, flint knives, discs and pieces of broken pottery of many different kinds. William Bass, who lives near Pontiac, has perhaps as varied an assortment as mine, including flint fish hooks, something I have never found. All of the artifacts mentioned, with the manufactures of wood, bark, reeds, fibers, sinews, hides, bones, shell, horn, hair, feathers and other perishable materials, prove that the ancient man of Butler county was a very industrious person indeed. His wife also was always at work, tanning hides, moulding pottery, working in her garden, cooking and manufacturing the first breakfast foods, hominy and suc- cotash. There are village and camp sites on Hickory creek, on the Steb- bins ranch, Wellington Sowers ranch, J. C. Getter ranch, Mrs. Benning- hoff's farm, H. M. Cotton farm, Pattison ranch, Brown ranch, Mrs. Noe's farm, J. Ellis farm, William Morti ranch and others. On Little Walnut creek, B. F. Yates' farm, Hon. F. Leidy's farm, L. Boelner's farm, Nunes' ranch, F. M. Tabing's farm, Bear ranch, the Marshall Bros. farms, the Dilts and Discon farms, and Joel Parker's farm. On Picayune creek. on the B. F. Rickey farm, and on Mephitis Americana creek, on farm of F. M. Tabing. I presume there are many more places where our red
Need help finding more records? Try our genealogical records directory which has more than 1 million sources to help you more easily locate the available records.