Soldiers' Widows Off To Wyoming To Homestead

ASHMEAD, ASKREN, BAILEY, DAGGETT, EVANS, GODBY, HUNT, JAMES, JAQUES, KNAUSE, POTTS, ROYCE, SMITH, STEPHENSON, TILSON

Posted By: Deborah Brownfield - Stanley (email)
Date: 1/21/2005 at 16:59:16

Fairfield Ledger
July 8, 1903
Page 7 col. 1

A. W. JAQUES left yesterday afternoon for Wyoming. He was acting as escort for a party of soldiers’ widows whose members have gone to that state for the purpose of taking up homesteads. Mesdames MARY E. DAGGETT, ORPHA EVANS, SARAH J. BAILEY, JANE ASHMEAD, LUCINDA GODBY, SARAH STEPHENSON, and MARGARET POTTS go to Gillett; MARY ROYCE, MARIA TILSON, BARBARA SMITH, M. F. JAMES, RHODA KNAUSE and JERUSH HUNT to Douglas; ANN E. ASKREN to Sheridan.