John A. Lydick was born in a log cabin in Illinois. His father, John Sr, died in 1853 when John was six years old and his little brother Will was just a baby. Their mother, Elizabeth, was now twice widowed, and altho Lydick had been considered well-to-do, there was no money left in the estate. John's father had been married before and had seven children by his first marriage.
John Jr's mother, Elizabeth Williams Stribling Lydick, still had four chldren under age 13 from her first marriage and now the two little ones from her second. It must have been a rough beginning.
In 1874 Marion County Illinois, John A. Lydick married Adelaide Brown. and they had three daughters, Eva May, Bernice and a girl baby who died as an infant, and six sons, Jesse, Lotus, Olof, Fred, Chester, and Charles.
1893 John A. LYDICK registered at Cameron KS for the run into the Cherokee Strip. The lines were long and the weather was extremely hot and dry. He bribed people with watermelons to hold his place in the line. He staked a claim in Pond Creek for a town lot but never went back to it.
After the run, it was a common practice to allow farmers 2 or 3 crops from the land to break out their prairie. John A. Lydick rented the Mary Kirkwood quarter two miles north of GIBBON, and the Doc Ham farm 3 miles west of Manchester.
In 1901 he sold the farm and moved into Anthony. One of his sons by his first wife, Lotus N. Lydick, wrote and published a book about the Lydick family.
The J. A. Lydick farmland is about six miles straight south of Anthony, close to Burchfiel Methodist Church, almost at the state line. The church, organized in 1883 but active before that, is still going.
John Jr's mother, Elizabeth Williams Stribling Lydick, still had four chldren under age 13 from her first marriage and now the two little ones from her second. It must have been a rough beginning.
In 1874 Marion County Illinois, John A. Lydick married Adelaide Brown. and they had three daughters, Eva May, Bernice and a girl baby who died as an infant, and six sons, Jesse, Lotus, Olof, Fred, Chester, and Charles.
1893 John A. LYDICK registered at Cameron KS for the run into the Cherokee Strip. The lines were long and the weather was extremely hot and dry. He bribed people with watermelons to hold his place in the line. He staked a claim in Pond Creek for a town lot but never went back to it.
After the run, it was a common practice to allow farmers 2 or 3 crops from the land to break out their prairie. John A. Lydick rented the Mary Kirkwood quarter two miles north of GIBBON, and the Doc Ham farm 3 miles west of Manchester.
In 1901 he sold the farm and moved into Anthony. One of his sons by his first wife, Lotus N. Lydick, wrote and published a book about the Lydick family.
The J. A. Lydick farmland is about six miles straight south of Anthony, close to Burchfiel Methodist Church, almost at the state line. The church, organized in 1883 but active before that, is still going.
John A. Lydick was born in a log cabin in Illinois. His father, John Sr, died in 1853 when John was six years old and his little brother Will was just a baby. Their mother, Elizabeth, was now twice widowed, and altho Lydick had been considered well-to-do, there was no money left in the estate. John's father had been married before and had seven children by his first marriage.
John Jr's mother, Elizabeth Williams Stribling Lydick, still had four chldren under age 13 from her first marriage and now the two little ones from her second. It must have been a rough beginning.
In 1874 Marion County Illinois, John A. Lydick married Adelaide Brown. and they had three daughters, Eva May, Bernice and a girl baby who died as an infant, and six sons, Jesse, Lotus, Olof, Fred, Chester, and Charles.
1893 John A. LYDICK registered at Cameron KS for the run into the Cherokee Strip. The lines were long and the weather was extremely hot and dry. He bribed people with watermelons to hold his place in the line. He staked a claim in Pond Creek for a town lot but never went back to it.
After the run, it was a common practice to allow farmers 2 or 3 crops from the land to break out their prairie. John A. Lydick rented the Mary Kirkwood quarter two miles north of GIBBON, and the Doc Ham farm 3 miles west of Manchester.
In 1901 he sold the farm and moved into Anthony. One of his sons by his first wife, Lotus N. Lydick, wrote and published a book about the Lydick family.
The J. A. Lydick farmland is about six miles straight south of Anthony, close to Burchfiel Methodist Church, almost at the state line. The church, organized in 1883 but active before that, is still going.
John Jr's mother, Elizabeth Williams Stribling Lydick, still had four chldren under age 13 from her first marriage and now the two little ones from her second. It must have been a rough beginning.
In 1874 Marion County Illinois, John A. Lydick married Adelaide Brown. and they had three daughters, Eva May, Bernice and a girl baby who died as an infant, and six sons, Jesse, Lotus, Olof, Fred, Chester, and Charles.
1893 John A. LYDICK registered at Cameron KS for the run into the Cherokee Strip. The lines were long and the weather was extremely hot and dry. He bribed people with watermelons to hold his place in the line. He staked a claim in Pond Creek for a town lot but never went back to it.
After the run, it was a common practice to allow farmers 2 or 3 crops from the land to break out their prairie. John A. Lydick rented the Mary Kirkwood quarter two miles north of GIBBON, and the Doc Ham farm 3 miles west of Manchester.
In 1901 he sold the farm and moved into Anthony. One of his sons by his first wife, Lotus N. Lydick, wrote and published a book about the Lydick family.
The J. A. Lydick farmland is about six miles straight south of Anthony, close to Burchfiel Methodist Church, almost at the state line. The church, organized in 1883 but active before that, is still going.
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