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Note: 1875 Agriculture Census; KS, Osage Co., Ridgeway Twp., Roll #15, pg.9 (150): 40 acres, fenced, 40 not fenced; present cash value of farm is $460 and of farm machinery is $9. Was paid $100 wages during the year. Number of rods of fence: 20 stone and 40 board. Number of acres sown or planted in 1875: corn, 25, oats, 4, Irish potatoes, 3. --------------------------- 1885 Agriculture Census; KS, Ridgeway, Osage Co., Roll 101: 80 acres, fenced; present cash value of farm is $3,000 and of farm machinery is $100. Rods of fence: 30 stone, 40 board, 250 wire. Number of acres sown or planted in 1884: winter wheat, 8, corn, 30, oats, 10, Irish potatoes, 10, sweet potatoes, 2. Acres sown or to be by spring 1885: Millet & Hungarian, 3. Bushels of corn on hand, 500. Acres of fenced grass: Clover, 2, Prairie, 25. Tons of Prairie cut in 1884, 10. Value of poultry & eggs, $55. Made 300 lbs. of butter. Livestock: 4 horses, 2 milch cows, 2 other cattle, 1 swine, 1 milch cow died of disease in last year. Value of animals fatten & sold for slaughter in yr., $75. Number of bearing trees: 225 apples, 3 pear, 250 peach, 15 plum, 25 cherry. Number of trees not bearing: 40 apple, 5 pear, 50 peach, 12 plum, 20 cherry. ------------------------------ James & Avis bought his Uncle John Green's farm, near Carbondale cir. 1870. They sold this farm in 1890 and bought a farm 8 mi. W. of Mammoth Springs, AR. Their address was Fryett, Fulton Co., AR. This was sold in 1906 by James H. (This John Green may be the connection to the relation to Gen. Nathaniel Greene.)
James was an early schoolmaster in District #112, Osage Co., KS, 1/2 mi. S. and 1 mi. W. of Overbrook. --------------------------------------------- Avis Blakeman: Robert and Virginia Tregemba were the last persons to have a diary that James kept. He served as a drummer boy in the Civil War. (see note below) James was a schoolmaster Avis Blakeman gave Ruth Stude a small new testament and a leather coin purse that Avis thought was his. ------------------------------- Michele Tregemba, daughter of Bob: My dad had his Great-grandpa Holden's diary. They weren't very informative, but what struck us most was that the years were 1862 and 1863. James was in New York state teaching school, Dad said to avoid the draft, and the Civil War was never mentioned!! --------------------------------- Amasa Holden's daughter Julia Holden married James Huntington. So James Huntington was William Holden's brother in law and that is probably how James Huntington Holden got his name.
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