On February 19, 1926, the property listed as Allotment 88, on the Lott Road, was deeded to William S. Pickenpaugh, et ux, by Mary Bahmeier as recorded in Book 18, Page 448, on July 29, 1925. William S. and Nannie E., "husband and wife", agreed to all financial obligations to the State Land Settlement Board, per Book 220, Page 280.
Per correspondence and telephone interview with Virginia Lownsdale Blackmore, June 19, 1995: "William Sherman, (known as Sherman) and Nancy `Nannie' Eleanor (Sutton) Pickenpaugh were my grandparents. They were retirement age when they sold their home and lemon grove in Whittier and moved to Durham. They were originally from Ohio, and their only expectation from the land in the Colony was for it to be sufficiently self-supporting to pay the property taxes -- with the walnut trees already planted providing that income. They had English walnut and pecan trees and the rest was planted to row crops, such as beans.
My parents, Charles and Ruth (Pickenpaugh) Lownsdale, and I (an infant at the time) moved from southern California to the Lott Road Allotment No. 88 property following my grandfather's death in 1931, in order that my grandmother would not have to live alone and could have the farm maintained. The property became part of my mother's inheritance following my grandmother's death in 1937. It remained in row crops, walnuts and pecans to 1940 ... " History of the Durham Land Colony, 1917-1931, With Additional Land Use History through 1995, c: 1996 by Marilyn Corley and Adriana Farley.∼Only child of Jacob & Lydia Eliza (Matson) Pickenpaugh. Husband to Nancy Eleanor (Sutton) Pickenpaugh, and father to six children: Denver Sutton, Chester Roland, Myrtle Louise, Eleanor E., Richard Harold, and Mary Ruth Pickenpaugh.
William & Nancy homesteaded at Dodge City in western Kansas in the late 1880s. A couple years later they moved to Emporia, KS where they lived for the next 25 years. In 1916, they sold their farm and moved to Butte Co., California.
Per correspondence and telephone interview with Virginia Lownsdale Blackmore, June 19, 1995: "William Sherman, (known as Sherman) and Nancy `Nannie' Eleanor (Sutton) Pickenpaugh were my grandparents. They were retirement age when they sold their home and lemon grove in Whittier and moved to Durham. They were originally from Ohio, and their only expectation from the land in the Colony was for it to be sufficiently self-supporting to pay the property taxes -- with the walnut trees already planted providing that income. They had English walnut and pecan trees and the rest was planted to row crops, such as beans.
My parents, Charles and Ruth (Pickenpaugh) Lownsdale, and I (an infant at the time) moved from southern California to the Lott Road Allotment No. 88 property following my grandfather's death in 1931, in order that my grandmother would not have to live alone and could have the farm maintained. The property became part of my mother's inheritance following my grandmother's death in 1937. It remained in row crops, walnuts and pecans to 1940 ... " History of the Durham Land Colony, 1917-1931, With Additional Land Use History through 1995, c: 1996 by Marilyn Corley and Adriana Farley.∼Only child of Jacob & Lydia Eliza (Matson) Pickenpaugh. Husband to Nancy Eleanor (Sutton) Pickenpaugh, and father to six children: Denver Sutton, Chester Roland, Myrtle Louise, Eleanor E., Richard Harold, and Mary Ruth Pickenpaugh.
William & Nancy homesteaded at Dodge City in western Kansas in the late 1880s. A couple years later they moved to Emporia, KS where they lived for the next 25 years. In 1916, they sold their farm and moved to Butte Co., California.
On February 19, 1926, the property listed as Allotment 88, on the Lott Road, was deeded to William S. Pickenpaugh, et ux, by Mary Bahmeier as recorded in Book 18, Page 448, on July 29, 1925. William S. and Nannie E., "husband and wife", agreed to all financial obligations to the State Land Settlement Board, per Book 220, Page 280.
Per correspondence and telephone interview with Virginia Lownsdale Blackmore, June 19, 1995: "William Sherman, (known as Sherman) and Nancy `Nannie' Eleanor (Sutton) Pickenpaugh were my grandparents. They were retirement age when they sold their home and lemon grove in Whittier and moved to Durham. They were originally from Ohio, and their only expectation from the land in the Colony was for it to be sufficiently self-supporting to pay the property taxes -- with the walnut trees already planted providing that income. They had English walnut and pecan trees and the rest was planted to row crops, such as beans.
My parents, Charles and Ruth (Pickenpaugh) Lownsdale, and I (an infant at the time) moved from southern California to the Lott Road Allotment No. 88 property following my grandfather's death in 1931, in order that my grandmother would not have to live alone and could have the farm maintained. The property became part of my mother's inheritance following my grandmother's death in 1937. It remained in row crops, walnuts and pecans to 1940 ... " History of the Durham Land Colony, 1917-1931, With Additional Land Use History through 1995, c: 1996 by Marilyn Corley and Adriana Farley.∼Only child of Jacob & Lydia Eliza (Matson) Pickenpaugh. Husband to Nancy Eleanor (Sutton) Pickenpaugh, and father to six children: Denver Sutton, Chester Roland, Myrtle Louise, Eleanor E., Richard Harold, and Mary Ruth Pickenpaugh.
William & Nancy homesteaded at Dodge City in western Kansas in the late 1880s. A couple years later they moved to Emporia, KS where they lived for the next 25 years. In 1916, they sold their farm and moved to Butte Co., California.
Per correspondence and telephone interview with Virginia Lownsdale Blackmore, June 19, 1995: "William Sherman, (known as Sherman) and Nancy `Nannie' Eleanor (Sutton) Pickenpaugh were my grandparents. They were retirement age when they sold their home and lemon grove in Whittier and moved to Durham. They were originally from Ohio, and their only expectation from the land in the Colony was for it to be sufficiently self-supporting to pay the property taxes -- with the walnut trees already planted providing that income. They had English walnut and pecan trees and the rest was planted to row crops, such as beans.
My parents, Charles and Ruth (Pickenpaugh) Lownsdale, and I (an infant at the time) moved from southern California to the Lott Road Allotment No. 88 property following my grandfather's death in 1931, in order that my grandmother would not have to live alone and could have the farm maintained. The property became part of my mother's inheritance following my grandmother's death in 1937. It remained in row crops, walnuts and pecans to 1940 ... " History of the Durham Land Colony, 1917-1931, With Additional Land Use History through 1995, c: 1996 by Marilyn Corley and Adriana Farley.∼Only child of Jacob & Lydia Eliza (Matson) Pickenpaugh. Husband to Nancy Eleanor (Sutton) Pickenpaugh, and father to six children: Denver Sutton, Chester Roland, Myrtle Louise, Eleanor E., Richard Harold, and Mary Ruth Pickenpaugh.
William & Nancy homesteaded at Dodge City in western Kansas in the late 1880s. A couple years later they moved to Emporia, KS where they lived for the next 25 years. In 1916, they sold their farm and moved to Butte Co., California.
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