Dave
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Last year the daughter of a former owner stopped in. She had spent a lot of time here when her parents owned this place. The wife and her exchanged information. So today a package arrived from that lady. A note in it said her mother had passed away and in going through her mom's papers she found a bundle of papers on this place. She sent them to us. The first page is a patent on the homestead for this property dated in 1884. The last document is from 1924. I looked very briefly at the nearly half an inch thick of old documents. I saw one where a 22 year old woman who inherited the place was declared insane and was in a state hospital. Several pages of someone being placed in guardianship of this place as an asset of the insane lady. Another where the owner died and who and how they went about appraising his assets, the ranch and 150 head of cattle. This is going to be some interesting reading of a little piece of the history of our property.