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Other Early Settlers In The Wood River Valley
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Other Early Settlers In The Wood River Valley
After the Moores came Edmond O'Brien and John Maher. A few years later Mrs. Keefe, with her family of three children, located on a claim just south of Richard Moore. Ted Oliver, his wife, brother, and sisters, and mother, and a family by the name of Owens, who were enroute to the Great Utah Valley stopped here. They believed in the Morman religion but had not joined the church and were making the trip independently. They located on Wood River, two miles east of Wood River Center, now known as Shelton, and located in Wood River in the spring of 1861. Jim Jackson at
this time kept a grocery store on his farm and he was appointed post master of the community, which was then known as White Cloud. The post office remained in this store until the railroad came through, when he built a new store on the new town site and a post office established there was called Wood River. A man by the name of Berry located on the claim now owned by Paddy Francis, who in 1861 sold or traded his claim to Mike and James Crane.
Cited Source:
A. F. Buechler and R. J. Barr, editors. "Reminiscences and Narratives of Pioneers: Other Early Settlers In The Wood River Valley," History of Hall County Nebraska (Lincoln, NE: Western Publishing and Engraving Company, 1920): 82. Provided by the Prairie Pioneer Genealogical Society, Grand Island, Nebraska.
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