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Growing up in Baca County – Chapter 10 – John Havens

April 12, 2020

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Tags: Baca County History, guest writer, Homsher, John Havens, Vilas

On Saturday afternoons and evenings there was usually a little more activity in Vilas than other times, unless there was a ball game going on out of town. Farmers would come to town and bring their cans of cream to leave at Tony’s Market and to stock up on groceries for the coming…
Growing up in Baca County – Chapter 9 Part 2 – John Havens

April 4, 2020

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Tags: guest writer, John Havens, Vilas

Dad and Uncle Tony always looked forward to a reunion at the Boise City Cemetery of the Havens and Snodgrass clan. Then we went from Boise city to Guymon to place flowers on the grave of the 13 year old sister of my Dad’s and Uncle Tony. She had died during the year the…
“Hand Dug Wells” by George Chatham

January 31, 2015

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Tags: Chatham, guest writer, springfield, water, well, well house, windmill

By George Chatham In the area where my granddad Chatham and Great Uncle Elmer homesteaded there were no live springs or natural water holes to obtain water for household use or for the livestock to drink. So it meant that one of the first priorities of homesteading was digging a well. The two homestead wells…
FAMILY WELL DISPUTE: by George Chatham

January 30, 2015

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Tags: 1914, Chatham, Chenoweth, dispute, dug-out, dugout, guest writer, springfield, well

By George Chatham After my grandparents, Fred and Ethel Chatham, were married April 14, 1914, there was a “dug-out” build on Fred’s homestead; but exactly when it was built is in question. Apparently there was a well dispute and the couple lived for a time with her Father, Daniel Chenoweth, who was a widower. According…
How My Grandparents Met: by George Chatham

January 30, 2015

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Tags: Bible, Chenoweth, George Chatham, guest writer, Horse Creek, springfield

By George Chatham My Great-Uncle Elmer Chatham filed a “homestead” claim to 320 acres on South Horse Creek, located 7 1/2 miles north and 2 miles west of Springfield. That claim was proved January 12, 1917. It was on this homestead that I grew-up. Because Fred Chatham, my grand-father, wasn’t old enough to file a…

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Growing up in Baca County – Chapter 10 – John Havens

Growing up in Baca County – Chapter 9 Part 2 – John Havens

“Hand Dug Wells” by George Chatham

FAMILY WELL DISPUTE: by George Chatham

How My Grandparents Met: by George Chatham

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