The Homesteaders Memorial is located in Medford, OK in front of the Grant
County Courthouse. |
I nscribed on the
Monument: |
"To the homesteaders and
early settlers of Grant County this monument is gratefully dedicated. In recognition of their courage in the face of untold hardships and the descendants sincerely acknowledge their sense of obligation. |
These early Grant County
settlers were among some 100,000 who lined up September 16, 1893 to race for a 160 acre claim. The homesteads scattered throughout an area comprising six million acres. The award went to the first person arriving, planting their stake, and duly registering their location at the land office. |
Others while not actually
making the run aquired land at an early date, either by purchase or barter, lived on it and raised their families together with the homesteaders became the early pioneer settlers of Grant County, laying the foundation for our modern society." |
Names Inscribed on the Monument
Abbott,
HenryAdams,
John
QuincyAhearn, Patrick
Atkins, Daniel
L.Albert, Barbara
D.Aldrich, Frank B.
Aldrich, Julia
E.Aldrich, Kildroy
P.Aldridge, Allie
Alge, George
H.Alge, Jennie
L.Allday,
Frederick W.
Allday,
HenryAllday,
JohnAllison,
Ralph B.
Amick,
LydiaAmick,
PeterAmick,
Walter F.
Anderson,
JohnAnderson,
William
E.Anthony, James W.
Anthony,
NelsonArmstrong, John
B.Arnold, Ike S.
Afterburn,
ArchieAsher, James
M.Asher, J. H.
Asher, Rose
HackAtkinson, John
H.Auldridge, Allen C.
Austbo, Daniel
O.Ayres, George
W.Ayres, Melissa T.
Baber, Ella
H.Bachman,
Edmund
E.Bailey, Essie A.
Baird,
WilliamBalderston,
EliBalderston,
Ellsworth
Ballard, John
S.Barkley, Dr.
AlexanderBarclay, James
T.
Barnhill,
EbenezerBarr, Frank
E.Bartlett,
Jefferson D.
Bartlett, John
W.Bassett, Louis
C.Batchelor, Albert J.
Bateman,
HenryBates, Keller
J.Baty, Walter
Bauer, Alice
BeatyBauer, Rickert
D.Beal, Alfred B.
Beal, Oliver
V.Beall, Eva
M.Beaumont,
Felicia S. W.
Beaumont, Hiram
S.Beck,
FrancesBeck,
Theodore E.
Beggs,
GeorgeBeham,
Elmer
E.Belcher, George H.
Belmear, James
H.Bennett, Charles
E.Bennett, Lanmon
Benson,
ZaccheusBergman, Barney
B.Berline, Henry
Best, George
A.Bickerdike, Charles
A.Bishop, John K.
Black, Arthur
E.Black, George
L.Blake, Harrison T.
Blakesley,
BailyBlakely, James
M.Blubaugh, George B.
Blubaugh, James
L.Blubaugh, Mary
AnnBluhm, Frederick W.
Blumenshine, Edward
B.Bobbitt, John
W.Boster, Philip M.
Bothwell, Charles
A.Bowles,
LewisBowles,
Walter W.
Bowles, Wm.
BillieBoyer, Oliver
MikeBradfield, Orlando J.
Branson, Thomas
J.Brattain, Charles
F.Breckenridge, Samuel
Brennan, Lizzie
C.Brewer, Henry
M.Broetz, David L.
Brooke, Sameul
H.Brown, Daniel
F.Brown, John Robert
Brown, William
A.Bruce, Leroy
A.Bryant, Simeon J.
Bryson, Oliver
P.Bullinger, Harvey
E.Bunch, David E.
Bunch, Napoleon
B.Burchfiel, William
C.Burk, William C.
Burle,
VaclavBushnell,
Andrew
H.Bushnell, Lyman S.
Butts, Jetadiah D.
Carpenter, Laura A.Carpenter, Robert V.Carr, James C.
Casford, Arthur
A.Casford, Jefferson
D.Castleman, Auguston
Centgraf,
LeopoldChilds, John
HenryChristmas, Alfred A.
Ciskowski Sr, John
Cissell, Thomas
J.Clark, James F.
Clinesmith,
WelseyClover,
PhillipCochran,
Frank H.
Cole, Daniel
P.Collins, Judah
C.Cook, Edward J.
Colson, Albert
M.Combs, Pleasant
M.Compton, Charles M.
Comstock, James
M.Conrady, Karl
JosephConway, Addison T.
Cormack,
JamesCormack, Mary
AnnCorn, John M.
Coulter, Charles
S.Coulter, Mary
EllenCourtright, Andrew J.
Covey, Jonas
R.Covey, Leonard
H.Cowen, George R.
Cowen, John
B.Cowherd, Zachary
T.Cox, John Lewis
Craig, Homer
F.Cravens,
KatieCrawford,
Charles C.
Crisman, John
H.Crosby, Theodore
D.Crosslin, Emanuel B.
Crouse,
EzraCummins,
AlexanderCummins, Arthur
Currier, William
T.Czapansky, Herman
Dahlem, Charles
F.Dahlem,
FredDahlem,
Frederick W.
Dailey, Charles
C.Danford, Charles
S.Danford, John F.
Dark, James
W.Darland,
VanlooDavenport, George E.
Davis, Charles
W.Davis, James
H.Davis, Samuel F.
Deere, Adolph
E.Deere, Anna
RadkeDelay, David D.
Dell, Andrew
J.Depue, Richard
T.Dervage, Benedict H.
Dester, Jacob
S.DeVore, William
A.DeWitt, Samuel E.
Dial, Walter
W.Dick,
AdelbertDick,
Aljern
Dick, Granville
M.Diller, Aaron
B.Diller, Jacob
Dillman, Oliver
P.Dolson, Charles
H.Dombaugh, Mary Ann
Dorman, William
W.Dorney,
ThomasDowell, Stephen M.
Downing,
ThomasDunkin, John
H.Dunn, Emeline M.
Duvall, Preston
V.Dvoracek,
JamesDvoracek, John
Dvoracek,
JosephDyer, Charles H.
Early, Mary
E.Eberle, Christian
F.Ebson, Lucius C.
Elling, Henry
J.Elliott,
BelleElliott,
Montague B.
Elmore, Isaac
M.Elmore, James
R.Elsenrath, Henry
Elson, Charles
W.Enterline,
GeorgeErnest, Charles N.
Erwin, J.
P.Estes,
JessieEvans,
Curtis D.
Evans, Hugh
Falkenberg,
LouisaFalkenberg, Peter
A.Farr, Frank
Farris, James
F.Fauchier, George
W.Fauchier, James J.
Feagan, John
J.Feist,
FrankFink,
Emory L.
Fisk, Frank
B.Fisk,
John
R.Flint,
Allen W.
Flood, Joseph
A.Flood,
WilliamFolger,
Everett
Forrester, Ida
StetlerForrester,
RobertFortune, Charles D.
Foust, George
B.Foust, William
L.Fox, Samuel
Franz, Johannes
P.Frazier, Robert
P.Fredrick, Ernest R.
Freeman, Abraham
L.Freeman, William
S.Frieouf, Josef