Volume 10 , Issue 2

Stout-Caywood 1893 Grant County Claim

"Identification of pioneers in the photo on the left: Jim Stout, Forest Timberlake, Bob Moore John Reuben Caywood and Captain Edd Armstrong.

Jim, Forest, Bob and John Reuben, were land owners proving claims for land acquired in the September 1893 land run. Captain Edd Armstrong on the far right was the officer in charge.

John "Reuben" Caywood was proving his Grant County land that was staked near Gibbon, Oklahoma. He later traded it for a School land lease near Sand Creek which was Southwest of the Gibbon site. John R Caywood and wife Emma moved to the Sand Creek area in 1905. James Lindsay Stout to the far left was a relative of John's mother. James was a son of Shipman Craig and Sarah (Caywood) Williams Stout. Orville D. Caywood, son of John Reuben Caywood, told his daughter Lois Caywood Guffy that this photo was taken where the old Sears store once sat in Enid, Oklahoma. Other tents and some wood structures can be seen in the background." -- Lois Guffy
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