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| RANNEY EDWARD L b. 1858 d. 1935 Year Arrived: Not Available Patent Year: 1895 Rng & Twn: 33N 100W Sections: 2 Acres: SCE-80 Map # 9 | Edward Ranney was born November 11, 1858, in Elbridge, New York. He was married October 4, 1882, to Mary Jane Van Wie in Rockford Illinois. They were parents to five children: William V., Edward Alden, Charles Haver, Ada May, and Vera Rebecca. The family came to the Lander Valley in 1887 and filed a cash sale entry of 80 acres receiving the patent in 1892. In 1894 Edward built one of the finest houses in the valley constructed of native red rock sandstone. Edward died in May 1935 in San Bernardino, California. |  |
| REBIDEUX ABRAM b. 1842 d. 1932 Year Arrived: 1879 Patent Year: 1891 Rng & Twn: 34N 98W Sections: 31 Acres: HE-172 Map # 11 | Abraham (Rebidu, Rebideaux) was born in July 1842 in Canada. He married Agnes Jenett Rogers at Morris Junction , New York, on January 1, 1870. Three children were born to them while in New York: James. F.; Anna Elizabeth; and Haton. The 1880 census listed them in Mooers, New York, and in that year the family departed to the Lander Valley where they joined Agnes's brothers John, Robert, William and George A Rogers, all of whom had homesteaded on the North Fork Popo Agie River in the vicinity of Hudson. The homestead entry was for 172 acres on which they received patent in 1891. Two more sons, Charles H., 1883, and John, 1886, and two more daughters, Phalinda and Sadie D., were born on the homestead. They lived there for more than 25 years before moving to a new home at Nowood, Wyoming. Agnes died there on March 8, 1918, at age 75. Abram lived to age 89 when he died February 16, 1932, at Reno, Nevada, where he resided with his daughter, Mrs. Sadie Cross. His oldest daughter, Anna Elizabeth, married Charles Elmer Doane of Lander in 1893. |  |
| REID JOHN M. Year Arrived: 1869 Patent Year: 1890 Rng & Twn: 32N 99W Sections: 15 Acres: SCE-120 Map # 5 | See Other Entry | |
| REID JOHN M b. 1843 d. 1909 Year Arrived: 1869 Patent Year: 1882 Rng & Twn: 32N 99W Sections: 15 Acres: SCE-120 Map # 5 | John Reid was born on March 29, 1843, in Indiana. John was the eldest of a family of five children. He enlisted as a member of Company F, 87th Infantry, on August 11, 1862. He served actively for one year and was engaged in several skirmishes and battles and saw much of the hard side of active army life. After leaving the army he remained at home for a short time until he had recuperated his health. On February 20, 1864, he set out to seek his fortune in the far west. He worked as the driver of an ox team for the overland train to Denver and then on to mine in Montana for about two years. At the end of that time he gave up mining and began to work at blacksmithing which he continued until 1868. He then left Montana and went to South Pass. John married Lucy A. Dawson on December 27, 1888. John died on the Willow Creek Ranch on May 15, 1909. He is buried at Mount Hope Cemetery in Lander. |  |
| ROBINSON BENJAMIN b. 1840 d. 1919 Year Arrived: Not Available Patent Year: 1893 Rng & Twn: 33N 99W Sections: 28, 29 Acres: HE-160 Map # 8 | Benjamin Robinson was born in Georgia on August 6, 1840. He was a Civil War veteran, who after settling in Texas for several years, came to the Lander Valley in 1883. He married Margaret Ann Hoover on October 10, 1886, and to this marriage was born seven children. They established a good ranch homestead on 160 acres. Margaret preceded him in death in May 1898 and he died April 8, 1919, aged 78. Both are buried in the Mount Hope Cemetery in Lander. | |
| ROGERS SAMUEL E. Year Arrived: Not Available Patent Year: 1883 Rng & Twn: 32N 99W Sections: 12, 13, 24 Acres: MPP-560 Map # 5 | Not available | |
| ROGERS GEORGE A b. 1860 d. 1896 Year Arrived: Not Available Patent Year: 1892 Rng & Twn: 34N 98W Sections: 20 Acres: HE-156 Map # 11 | George A. Rogers was born in Quebec Canada, on July 17, 1861. George became a naturalized American citizen in Fremont County at Lander on June 8, 1885. In 1890 George received a patent for his homestead on the Big Popo Agie River just above his father's homestead on the Little Popo Agie River. He married Emma Francis in Hudson on June 22, 1891 in Fremont County, Wyoming. They had three sons: Keith, Harold and Vere. George and Emma filed on another homestead at the confluence of the Big and Little Popo Agie Rivers. He died unexpectedly on August 21, 1896, and Emma proved up on their second homestead in 1906. Her brothers, Dan and Fred Hudson, had moved to the ranch to help in its operation. With the coming of the railroad to the Lander Valley and nearby coal mines, the Lander Valley Townsite Company was prompted to purchase her ranch for a new townsite in 1905. They proposed to name the town and its new post office "Rogerville," but because such a post office already existed in Wyoming the town was named "Hudson" instead. |  |
| ROGERS JOHN (JACK) b. 1837 d. 1920 Year Arrived: 1875 Patent Year: 1890 Rng & Twn: 34N 98W Sections: 29 Acres: HE-157 Map # 11 | John Rogers was born on March 23, 1837, in Quebec, Canada, to James William and Anna Dryden Rogers. He married Philinda (Philamene) Brunel on March 10, 1860, in Quebec, Canada. They had twelve children. By 1880 he was recorded living on the Little Popo Agie River with his family and brother, George Dryden Rogers, and his family. The two brothers took up homesteads on the Little Popo Agie River as did his sons, George Andrew and James H. Rogers. Another brother, Robert Rogers, who was widowed, joined John and Philinda in 1910. John's parents, James William and Anna, who had also come with his sons, homesteaded on reservation land located on Trout Creek. He was one of those ranchers the government tried to move out of reservation lands in 1876. However, the family was allowed to remain there for the rest of their lives. John and Anna died at Fort Washakie, he in 1889 and Anna in 1896. They are buried at Mount Hope Cemetery in Lander. |  |
| ROGERS GEORGE D b. 1853 d. 1925 Year Arrived: Not Available Patent Year: 1890 Rng & Twn: 34N 98W Sections: 29 Acres: HE-139 Map # 11 | George D. Rogers, brother of John, was born in Canada on October 14, 1853 to James William and Anna Dryden Rogers. He married Ellen J. Calgan on August 6, 1872, and nine children resulted from their marriage. The family moved to the Lander Valley and homesteaded on the Little Popo Agie River. They sold their ranch and by the 1900 Census they had settled in the Big Horn Basin. George D. died December 5, 1925, at Thermopolis and is buried in the Greybull, Wyoming cemetery. | |
| SCHLICHTING ANNA b. 1838 d. 1922 Year Arrived: 1869 Patent Year: 1893 Rng & Twn: 30N 98W Sections: 1 Acres: HE-160 Map # 1 | Anna Schlichting was born at Hamburg, Germany, in 1838 and came to America in 1868. She lived in Illinois for two years before moving to Davenport, Iowa. It was there she married John Schlichting in 1868. While enlisted in the Civil War John contracted a incurable disease and shortly after his discharge he died After John's death in 1885 Anna came with her only son, William, to the mines at Atlantic City, Wyoming Territory In 1887 she homesteaded 160 acres of land on Twin Creek in the Lander Valley. She lived with William's family until the time of her death on April 16, 1922, at age 83. | |
| SCHNEIDER WILHELM b. 1852 d. 1899 Year Arrived: Not Available Patent Year: 1892 Rng & Twn: 34N 100W Sections: 34 Acres: HE-160 Map # 13 | Wilhelm Schneider was born in 1852. He and John Kimpel, friends and both of German descent, filed on adjacent homesteads on the North Fork of the Popo Agie near the small settlement of Milford in 1889. Where their property lines adjoined each other, they built a single large house constructed of locally quarried sandstone. In addition, to farming they formed a joint investment company, of Kimpel, Nikolas, and Schneider. Kimple had business interests in Virginia which he attended during the winters. Neither Wilhelm Schneider nor John Kimpel married and when Wilhelm fell ill and died in late 1899, partner John Niklos bought the house. John Kimpel, after settlement of the estate, moved back to Virginia. Wilhelm died in December of 1899 and is buried in the Masonic Cemetery near Milford, Wyoming. | |
| SHARP WILLIAM F. b. 1832 d. 1908 Year Arrived: Not Available Patent Year: 1898 Rng & Twn: 31,32N 98W Sections: 5, 32 Acres: HE-161 Map # 3 | William H. Sharp was born in 1832. He was a Civil War veteran and a resident of the Lander Valley since arriving there in 1873. He homesteaded 160 acres on lower Twin Creek near its junction with the Little Popo Agie River. He was a bachelor and spent the last 15 years of his life living in Lander. He died on June 28, 1908 and is buried in the Mount Hope Cemetery in Lander. | |
| SHEDD JOSEPH FRANK b. 1840 d. 1923 Year Arrived: Not Available Patent Year: 1890 Rng & Twn: 33N 99W Sections: 24 Acres: SCE-160 Map # 8 | Joseph Franklin Shedd was born on May 21, 1840, at Plymouth, Vermont. He had three brothers and one sister. Frank married Loretta Phoebe Earle. Apparently they had no children. He came to the Lander Valley around 1878 and made a cash sale homestead entry of 160 acres patent in 1890, and a homestead entry of 160 acres patent in 1891. Following the death of his wife, he moved to Wisconsin but died in Washington, Indiana on June 16, 1923 | |
| SHEDD JOSEPH FRANK Year Arrived: Not Available Patent Year: 1891 Rng & Twn: 33N 99W Sections: 13 Acres: HE-160 Map # 8 | See Other Entry | |
| SHIELDS HENRY b. 1863 d. c. 1920 Year Arrived: Not Available Patent Year: 1898 Rng & Twn: 34N 98W Sections: 33 Acres: SCL-40 Map # 11 | Henry Shields was born in January 1863 in Wisconsin to unknown parents. In 1898 he obtained a patent for coal land located near his residence in Lyons Valley near Hudson, Wyoming. Only one record regarding his participation in social and political affairs of Lander has been found; that of his membership on the District Court jury that acquitted Dr. Julius Schuelke of the murder of the town pharmacist, Mr. Isaac Sullivan. Mr. Shields is recorded as a Lyons Valley stockman in the 1900 census. He died from pneumonia at the age of 57 in Neihart, Montana. | |
| SHOCKLEY THOMAS Year Arrived: 1882 Patent Year: 1890 Rng & Twn: 33N 99W Sections: 1, 2 Acres: HE-160 Map # 8 | See Other Entry | |
| SHOCKLEY THOMAS b. 1838 d. 1913 Year Arrived: Not Available Patent Year: 1890 Rng & Twn: 33N 100W Sections: 1 Acres: SCE-120 Map # 9 | Thomas Shockley was born October 13, 1838 in Tennessee to Samuel and Lucinda Shockley. He served for three years in the American Civil War on the side of the Union. He married Sidney Dorcus Goss in 1897 while living in Missouri and moved to Pueblo, Colorado in 1880. Mr. Shockley was employed at Fort Washakie in 1884 when his third daughter was born. The family moved to Lander and Thomas took up a homestead and purchased adjacent land for which he received a patent in 1890. His son Thomas Sidney was born that year. Mr. Shockley died August 7, 1913 and is buried in the Mount Hope Cemetery in Lander. | |
| SNAVELY ANDREW JACKSON b. 1833 d. 1910 Year Arrived: Not Available Patent Year: 1890 Rng & Twn: 33N 99W Sections: 1 Acres: SCE-160 Map # 8 | Andrew was born 26 April 1833 at Richland Ohio to Andrew John and Eliza McManus Snavely. He had seven siblings. When he was nineteen years old he moved westward and settled in Martinsville, Illinois, at that time on the western frontier. It was there that he married Elizabeth Cook on 26 October 1851. Eleven children blessed their marriage. Sickness removed four of the children and caused the family to seek a healthier climate in the Colorado Territory. Their last child, Frank Leslie Snavely was born there in 1882 and soon after that the family came to the Lander Valley. Andrew and two of his sons, Solomon C. and Thomas J. filed on separate but adjacent homesteads located on the Popo Agie River a few miles northeast of Lander. The death of Eliza in 1898 broke Andrew's ambition to continue farming. He came to Lander and made his home with his daughter, Rosa Snavely Feiser where he died on 3 August 1910 at age 77. Solomon and Thomas J. Snavely were no longer in the valley having deeded their homesteads to their brother, William Monty Snavely in 1900. William and Frank continued the Snavely ranching tradition, raising their families in the Lander Valley. |  |
| SNAVELY SOLOMON C Year Arrived: Not Available Patent Year: 1892 Rng & Twn: 33,34N 99W Sections: 2, 34, 35 Acres: HE-168 Map # 8 | See Snavely, Andrew J. | |
| SNAVELY THOMAS J Year Arrived: Not Available Patent Year: 1893 Rng & Twn: 33N 99W Sections: 1 Acres: HE-161 Map # 8 | See Snavely, Andrew J. | |
| ST JOHN EDWARD b. 1844 d. 1923 Year Arrived: 1868 Patent Year: 1893 Rng & Twn: 33N 99W Sections: 6 Acres: SCE-80 Map # 8 | Edward "Ed" St. John was born to Edward T. and Persis (Sampson) St. John in Marshall County, Indiana, on January 12, 1844. He enlisted in the 10th Illinois Cavalry, served in the Civil War, and was mustered out in 1864. After leaving Laramie City, which had but one log house at the time of his residence, he reached the South Pass mining district on August 1, 1869. He moved to Lander City in 1872 and began a successful career as a stockman and farmer, establishing two ranches on separate homesteads. He was married at Lander on July 16, 1877, to Mrs. Elizabeth Bowman. She had two children by her former husband, one of these, John Bowman, tragically died from complications inflicted by severe frostbite while on a hunting trip. Of their six known children, four remained in the Lander Valley and became important contributors to that community. In addition to his ranching interests, Mr. St. John conducted a thriving mercantile and saloon business on Main Street in Lander. Mr. St. John died February 27, 1923, in Lander at the age of 79. |  |
| ST. JOHN EDWARD Year Arrived: 1868 Patent Year: 1890 Rng & Twn: 33N 99W Sections: 5, 6, 7 Acres: HE-160 Map # 8 | See Other Entry | |
| STANDISH RILEY b. 1831 d. 1910 Year Arrived: Not Available Patent Year: 1892 Rng & Twn: 33N 100W Sections: 6 Acres: HE-154 Map # 9 | Riley Standish was born in Livingston County, New York, on November 16, 1831. He enlisted on September 4, 1861, in Company D, 2nd Michigan Cavalry. He served in the Army of the Cumberland and was wounded in the leg in a skirmish in Tennessee on January 27, 1864. He mustered out on October 2 with the rank of sergeant. He was married August 2, 1856, to Lucy Church, born in Ohio on November 26, 1840. They had four children: Mary, Carrie, Luther, and Martha. The family came to the Lander Valley about 1889 and took up two homesteads: Riley a homestead entry of 159 acres and Lucy a cash entry of 202 acres. Riley and his son, Luther, acquired homesteads near Meeteetse in Park County in 1893 and 1896. Riley died January 19, 1910 and is buried in Meeteetse, Wyoming. Lucy died December 6, 1920 in Los Angeles County, California. | |
| STANDISH LUCY E Year Arrived: Not Available Patent Year: 1898 Rng & Twn: 33N 101W Sections: 1 Acres: SCE-209 Map # 10 | See Standish, Riley | |
| STELZNER EDWARD b. 1866 d. 1939 Year Arrived: Not Available Patent Year: 1897 Rng & Twn: 31N 98W Sections: 23 Acres: SCE-160 Map # 3 | Edward Charles Stelzner Sr. was born July 19, 1866 in Germany. At age 27 he married Elizabeth Estella Moore age 17 on October 15, 1893, in Lander. Two children were born to them, Edward Charles Jr. on March 10, 1895, and Nova Josephine Stelzner on June 4, 1896. Edward died on May 6, 1939, and is buried in the Mount Hope Cemetery in Lander. |  |
| STEPHENSON MARION F b. 1858 d. 1951 Year Arrived: Not Available Patent Year: 1891 Rng & Twn: 33N 100W Sections: 13 Acres: SCE- Map # 9 | Marion Stephenson was born on March 21, 1858, in Missouri. On September 25, 1883, he married Avah Alretia Derrett in Missouri. They came to the Lander Valley around 1889 and homesteaded on the outskirts of Lander City. He homesteaded with his brother, William C. Stephenson, and his wife, Hannah Gertrude Irwin. It is not known if Marion came with his wife and children, William, Guy, and Vidah. There is no record of him in the valley beyond that of his homestead in 1891 and he was back in Missouri in 1900. William, on the other hand, was employed on the Shoshone Reservation by his father-in-law, James Irwin, spending most of his time there as a stockman in partnership with other white "squatters" on Indian lands. Marion died on July 15, 1951, in Glendale, California. |  |
| STEPHENSON MARION F Year Arrived: Not Available Patent Year: 1891 Rng & Twn: 33N 99W Sections: 18 Acres: SCE-159 Map # 8 | See Other Entry | |
| STREET ALBERT b. 1853 d. 1890 Year Arrived: Not Available Patent Year: 1891 Rng & Twn: 34N 100W Sections: 35 Acres: SCE-120 Map # 13 | Albert Street was born on May 30, 1853, at Lenawee Junction, Minnesota, to Robert John and Almira Clarke Street. Albert received a patent on 120 acres in 1891. At age 32 Albert married Charlotte Evangeline Hinckley, also age 32, in Lander on November 26, 1885. They had three children born to them: Robert Edwin in 1886, Leland Clarke in 1888, and Albert Nathan Street (Jr.) in 1890. Albert died young at age 36 on March 1, 1890 in Lander. He is buried in the North Fork (Masonic) Cemetery near Milford, Wyoming. | |