Boone County Democrat
September 2, 1910
The writer of these notes had the great privilege of talking lately with Aunt Katy Hull, who came to this county in 1846, the 14th of May, the day being Friday.
The party who came at this time consisted of four men and two women and three children. Their names were Mr. and Mrs. James Hull, Mr. and Mrs. John Crooks, (Mr. Crooks was a brother of Mrs. Hull), Samuel Bowers and Johnny Pea.
The Hull’s settled on what is now known as the Mike Myers place. They started the first fire with punk and toe and flint with a penknife to whittle shavings. The men went to work to get the ground ready for some kind of crops, James Hull and Sam Bowers to breaking prairie and the other two to making rails to build fence.
The crop consisted of sod corn planted as the plowing was down. Aunt Katy did the dropping of the corn, the first that was planted in county. She says that Honey Creek got its name from the number of bee trees found along its bank.
It was some time after these settlers came, perhaps two years, when a missionary who had been sent from the east to the then Fort Des Moines, Hearing of this little settlement they came and preached at 11:00 o’clock to an appreciative audience of fourteen. She says all the road the men had from Des Moines to this place was a dim trail made by the soldiers traveling with some kind of a wide tired wagon from the Fort to here.
The first school was taught in about two years after their coming, by a man named Sabe Jewett in a log house on the Johnny Pea claim, about four miles south of Boone, near where the Henry Payne house now is.
The first marriage was that of Henry W. Holcomb and Mary J.Hull, daughter of Levi Hull.
The honor of being the first white child born in the county belongs to Mrs. Jane Hull Hoyer, by the matter of a few days she being born August 1, 1847, and Henry W. Hull the 8th of the same month.
Aunt Katy says this is authentic as near as she can tell it and there are none left to dispute its authenticity for she is the last one of this party. She is sorry that these early settlers did not keep a record of all dates but they were too busy building homes for themselves and families to think of what these records would mean to those who have come after them.
The Sunday after they came to this county the men of the party except Mr. Sam Bowers, who stayed with the women and children went out hunting and found a great quantity of honey in a fallen log, she says they had more honey than soap in those days.
At one time in 1847 he settlers were nearly out of bread stuff and James Hull started with his oxen to Ottumwa to get a supply but was hindered by the swollen streams from reaching his destination and was gone some eighteen days. In the meantime the settlers had made hominy of what seed corn they had left and were about through with that, and one woman, Mrs. Pea, said to Mrs. Hull “Well Katy we are going to starve this time.” “Oh no aunt Katy says, my Bible tells me that he that works will have bread,” the other replied she would like to know where the bread was coming from, now. About this moment Mr. Crook’s father of Aunt Katy, came in sight with a covered wagon and an ox team with plenty of meal they had gotten some twenty miles blow and were distributing the same to the settlers along the route.
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September 2, 1910
The writer of these notes had the great privilege of talking lately with Aunt Katy Hull, who came to this county in 1846, the 14th of May, the day being Friday.
The party who came at this time consisted of four men and two women and three children. Their names were Mr. and Mrs. James Hull, Mr. and Mrs. John Crooks, (Mr. Crooks was a brother of Mrs. Hull), Samuel Bowers and Johnny Pea.
The Hull’s settled on what is now known as the Mike Myers place. They started the first fire with punk and toe and flint with a penknife to whittle shavings. The men went to work to get the ground ready for some kind of crops, James Hull and Sam Bowers to breaking prairie and the other two to making rails to build fence.
The crop consisted of sod corn planted as the plowing was down. Aunt Katy did the dropping of the corn, the first that was planted in county. She says that Honey Creek got its name from the number of bee trees found along its bank.
It was some time after these settlers came, perhaps two years, when a missionary who had been sent from the east to the then Fort Des Moines, Hearing of this little settlement they came and preached at 11:00 o’clock to an appreciative audience of fourteen. She says all the road the men had from Des Moines to this place was a dim trail made by the soldiers traveling with some kind of a wide tired wagon from the Fort to here.
The first school was taught in about two years after their coming, by a man named Sabe Jewett in a log house on the Johnny Pea claim, about four miles south of Boone, near where the Henry Payne house now is.
The first marriage was that of Henry W. Holcomb and Mary J.Hull, daughter of Levi Hull.
The honor of being the first white child born in the county belongs to Mrs. Jane Hull Hoyer, by the matter of a few days she being born August 1, 1847, and Henry W. Hull the 8th of the same month.
Aunt Katy says this is authentic as near as she can tell it and there are none left to dispute its authenticity for she is the last one of this party. She is sorry that these early settlers did not keep a record of all dates but they were too busy building homes for themselves and families to think of what these records would mean to those who have come after them.
The Sunday after they came to this county the men of the party except Mr. Sam Bowers, who stayed with the women and children went out hunting and found a great quantity of honey in a fallen log, she says they had more honey than soap in those days.
At one time in 1847 he settlers were nearly out of bread stuff and James Hull started with his oxen to Ottumwa to get a supply but was hindered by the swollen streams from reaching his destination and was gone some eighteen days. In the meantime the settlers had made hominy of what seed corn they had left and were about through with that, and one woman, Mrs. Pea, said to Mrs. Hull “Well Katy we are going to starve this time.” “Oh no aunt Katy says, my Bible tells me that he that works will have bread,” the other replied she would like to know where the bread was coming from, now. About this moment Mr. Crook’s father of Aunt Katy, came in sight with a covered wagon and an ox team with plenty of meal they had gotten some twenty miles blow and were distributing the same to the settlers along the route.
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Boone County Democrat
September 2, 1910
The writer of these notes had the great privilege of talking lately with Aunt Katy Hull, who came to this county in 1846, the 14th of May, the day being Friday.
The party who came at this time consisted of four men and two women and three children. Their names were Mr. and Mrs. James Hull, Mr. and Mrs. John Crooks, (Mr. Crooks was a brother of Mrs. Hull), Samuel Bowers and Johnny Pea.
The Hull’s settled on what is now known as the Mike Myers place. They started the first fire with punk and toe and flint with a penknife to whittle shavings. The men went to work to get the ground ready for some kind of crops, James Hull and Sam Bowers to breaking prairie and the other two to making rails to build fence.
The crop consisted of sod corn planted as the plowing was down. Aunt Katy did the dropping of the corn, the first that was planted in county. She says that Honey Creek got its name from the number of bee trees found along its bank.
It was some time after these settlers came, perhaps two years, when a missionary who had been sent from the east to the then Fort Des Moines, Hearing of this little settlement they came and preached at 11:00 o’clock to an appreciative audience of fourteen. She says all the road the men had from Des Moines to this place was a dim trail made by the soldiers traveling with some kind of a wide tired wagon from the Fort to here.
The first school was taught in about two years after their coming, by a man named Sabe Jewett in a log house on the Johnny Pea claim, about four miles south of Boone, near where the Henry Payne house now is.
The first marriage was that of Henry W. Holcomb and Mary J.Hull, daughter of Levi Hull.
The honor of being the first white child born in the county belongs to Mrs. Jane Hull Hoyer, by the matter of a few days she being born August 1, 1847, and Henry W. Hull the 8th of the same month.
Aunt Katy says this is authentic as near as she can tell it and there are none left to dispute its authenticity for she is the last one of this party. She is sorry that these early settlers did not keep a record of all dates but they were too busy building homes for themselves and families to think of what these records would mean to those who have come after them.
The Sunday after they came to this county the men of the party except Mr. Sam Bowers, who stayed with the women and children went out hunting and found a great quantity of honey in a fallen log, she says they had more honey than soap in those days.
At one time in 1847 he settlers were nearly out of bread stuff and James Hull started with his oxen to Ottumwa to get a supply but was hindered by the swollen streams from reaching his destination and was gone some eighteen days. In the meantime the settlers had made hominy of what seed corn they had left and were about through with that, and one woman, Mrs. Pea, said to Mrs. Hull “Well Katy we are going to starve this time.” “Oh no aunt Katy says, my Bible tells me that he that works will have bread,” the other replied she would like to know where the bread was coming from, now. About this moment Mr. Crook’s father of Aunt Katy, came in sight with a covered wagon and an ox team with plenty of meal they had gotten some twenty miles blow and were distributing the same to the settlers along the route.
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September 2, 1910
The writer of these notes had the great privilege of talking lately with Aunt Katy Hull, who came to this county in 1846, the 14th of May, the day being Friday.
The party who came at this time consisted of four men and two women and three children. Their names were Mr. and Mrs. James Hull, Mr. and Mrs. John Crooks, (Mr. Crooks was a brother of Mrs. Hull), Samuel Bowers and Johnny Pea.
The Hull’s settled on what is now known as the Mike Myers place. They started the first fire with punk and toe and flint with a penknife to whittle shavings. The men went to work to get the ground ready for some kind of crops, James Hull and Sam Bowers to breaking prairie and the other two to making rails to build fence.
The crop consisted of sod corn planted as the plowing was down. Aunt Katy did the dropping of the corn, the first that was planted in county. She says that Honey Creek got its name from the number of bee trees found along its bank.
It was some time after these settlers came, perhaps two years, when a missionary who had been sent from the east to the then Fort Des Moines, Hearing of this little settlement they came and preached at 11:00 o’clock to an appreciative audience of fourteen. She says all the road the men had from Des Moines to this place was a dim trail made by the soldiers traveling with some kind of a wide tired wagon from the Fort to here.
The first school was taught in about two years after their coming, by a man named Sabe Jewett in a log house on the Johnny Pea claim, about four miles south of Boone, near where the Henry Payne house now is.
The first marriage was that of Henry W. Holcomb and Mary J.Hull, daughter of Levi Hull.
The honor of being the first white child born in the county belongs to Mrs. Jane Hull Hoyer, by the matter of a few days she being born August 1, 1847, and Henry W. Hull the 8th of the same month.
Aunt Katy says this is authentic as near as she can tell it and there are none left to dispute its authenticity for she is the last one of this party. She is sorry that these early settlers did not keep a record of all dates but they were too busy building homes for themselves and families to think of what these records would mean to those who have come after them.
The Sunday after they came to this county the men of the party except Mr. Sam Bowers, who stayed with the women and children went out hunting and found a great quantity of honey in a fallen log, she says they had more honey than soap in those days.
At one time in 1847 he settlers were nearly out of bread stuff and James Hull started with his oxen to Ottumwa to get a supply but was hindered by the swollen streams from reaching his destination and was gone some eighteen days. In the meantime the settlers had made hominy of what seed corn they had left and were about through with that, and one woman, Mrs. Pea, said to Mrs. Hull “Well Katy we are going to starve this time.” “Oh no aunt Katy says, my Bible tells me that he that works will have bread,” the other replied she would like to know where the bread was coming from, now. About this moment Mr. Crook’s father of Aunt Katy, came in sight with a covered wagon and an ox team with plenty of meal they had gotten some twenty miles blow and were distributing the same to the settlers along the route.
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