Last Clue! Reveal will be tomorrow early afternoon. Only have two correct answers so far. Remember to send answers as personal messages so others can continue to play. Clue Ten: In 1921, fourteen years after this locale lost its post office, Sedan RFD #3 ran through the area. Today the house at the location of the post office in 1903 has a Moline address, and the cemetery has a Sedan address. All Previous Clues - Clue One: Except for a five month lapse, this locale had a post office for 35 years, the first three of which the area was still Howard County. In 1878 A. P. Brewster was operating a saw mill here. Clue Two: In 1884 L. Campbell was postmaster and received the mail at his general store three times a week via stage from Sedan. He was also constable. L.C. Brand was the locales blacksmith and Rev A.P. Branston looked after the Baptists here. W.H. Henson was justice of the peace, A.C. Hughes did the doctoring, Lennon Charles was the barber, A.C. Niles a carpenter and Thomas Turner sold meats. Clue Three: The following surnames are among landowners in the immediate area in 1903: Chapman, Fowler, Bingman, Tower, Dryden, Smith, Vanlein, Hutton, Dodd, Binks, Fowler, Depley. Landowners in 1921 include: Barrington, Green, Jeen, McLaughlin, Walker. (I left out Eggen and Tucker & Floyd) Clue Four: Diefendorf and Mitchell, under contract to the government, surveyed the section lines in this area in Dec 1870 and Jan 1871. On January 5th, they ran their line straight through the window and door of a 16’ by 18’ log house belonging to G. M. Ross along what they called Cana River, but the surveyor general’s office labeled Middle Cana Creek on the official GLO map of the township. This was just over a half mile from where the cemetery for this locale would later be. If the house had been 25 feet further north, the surveyors would have had to set a quarter section stone in the middle of it. Clue Five: In 1894 the Reverend J.B. Hunter is postmaster, W.T. Hobson is a carpenter, E.C. Simmons handles the blacksmithing in the vicinity, and Charles Ortman runs a four and saw mill. In 1904 Mr. Hobson is still doing carpentry, William M. Dryden is the postmaster and sells livestock, as does P.D. Briggs. They may buy their breeding stock from Frank Barrington, and if they raise any grain James Wells will thresh it for them. When G. Herman Guy read the cemetery here in 1984, Mr. Hobson’s son was the newest grave, having been interred in 1974. Clue Six: The earliest land patents issued in the immediate area were dated July 15, 1873 and went to William O. Miller, Thomas L. Campbell, Lafayette Campbell and George M. Ross. Others who received their patents later in 1873 or the first half of 1874 were Dennis Thompson, Samuel Bruner, Jacob G. Lumby, John C. Poucher, Henry M. Permenter, Jasper N. Mathew, Doctor F. Morrow and George L. Bruner. Clue Seven: Surnames that appear as landowners here in both 1903 and 1921: Wells, Cardin, Chamberlain, Webb, Shukers, Straight, Hobson, Gray, Rinker, Briggs, Holroyd. Two names I left out of a previous clue are Eggen and Tucker & Floyd, who were landowners near here in 1921. Clue Eight: If the Elk & Chautauqua Railroad Co. had continued building south to Elgin, rather than ending at Moline, this place may have become a station on it as it passed through School Districts 42 and 43. Instead the nearest rail station to this area was established at Rogers when the Denver, Memphis & Atlantic was built. Bonus Clue: The cemetery here has 45 markers that could be read in 1984. The earliest dated in 1879 and the newest in 1974. Of the 45, over half carry one of the following six surnames: Bingaman, Hobson, Kimzey, Straight, Wilkes, Williams. Clue Nine: The stream this locale is named for still carries the name the surveyors wrote in their field notes in 1871. It passes under K-99, flowing in a SSW direction, about half way between the Old Sedan City Lake and Moline. Large portions of the Oliver, Oliver South, and Landon-Floyd oil fields lie within this streams watershed basin. Middle Caney Watershed Dam 9-1 impounds this stream on land currently owned by Kenneth and Ruth Walker.
Posted on: Sat, 06 Dec 2014 22:23:16 +0000
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