History Items from Loyd Call (these remarks have been slightly edited by me, DFCox)
A family was camping on Cedar Creek at the SW corner of Cedar Vale. A torrential rain fell and caused a flash flood which carried off and drowned the whole family except one, an infant boy. Eli Hayhurst adopted him.
The Hayhurst farm was across the road from the Cloverdale School House. Arch Bird married Mabel, Eli's daughter. The Bird place was around the corner toward the river (Big Caney). Arch and Mabel Bird's son was Ben Bird. (most bloggers will remember Ben and Edna Bird. dfc)
I think Ed Meyer married a daughter (of Arch and Mabel Bird). Ed always called her "The Old Heifer". Ed owned a five acre strip just east of the Cloverdale town site, and a blacksmith shop at the NW corner of the town site. (Ed Meyer, who walked with a pronounced limp, was known by all as "Peter Wrenchwater. dfc) Ben Bird inherited all of this.
There was a water wheel and Mill House down on the river on the Bird farm. Ed Meyer had the mill shop and people brought wheat and corn to be milled into corn meal and flour. I think the Millstones at the corner of the CV Museum are these stones.
The mail box you see in front of the house that was Ben and Edna's came from in front of the Cloverdale Store. It was used by CV and Grenola mail carriers to exchange mail. Also there was a gas pump--the kind you pump the gas up into a globe before you ran it into your car
Loyd
5 comments:
Thank you, Loyd. It would be interesting for me to know more about Cloverdale. What businesses did it attract in it's prime? Were there 50 people ... 100?
Don, Loyd: Where was Stuart McCoy's farm from the Hayhurst land?? We use to drive out to McCoys every Sunday evening for dinner and gossip.
Don, This article brings back memories for me. My dad owned a place just up on top of the hill above the river he had bought from my Grandfather W. F. Myers. I think my Grandfather did some blacksmith work in Cloverdale at various time. Mother and Daddy was living on this place when I was born in 1939 in the orignal Hays Hospital.
We use to move our cattle up there each year in spring and back to the place east of CV every fall.
Quite alot of work,because it took about 4 days to move the cattle each way.
Hey Tom, good to get you stirred up and blogging again. Tell me about how it took 4 days to get the cattle to the Cloverdale pasture. Were you driving them two at a time by foot? or maybe a 2 cow pickup with stockracks? Was Meyers your mother's name?
Wayne the Stu McCoy place is about one mile N. and 1 1/2 miles W. of the school site. Neil McCoy went to Cloverdale school and probably a lot of other McCoys.
Don, If you remember you only get about 4 miles a day driving 200 - 300 cows.
Yes Meyers was my mom's maiden name.
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