Kate C. "Fletcher" Edwards
Birth: 1860
Death: 1942
As a child, Kate migrated west with her family to Kansas in the
early 1880s. The drought conditions and grasshopper plagues discouraged
the family and they returned to Iowa. Undaunted, Kate returned to the
west with friends in a covered wagon.
Settling in Phillips
County, Kate homesteaded on the land that would become the site of
Haxtun. She later sold her land for a fancy price to the Lincoln Land
Company, when the railroad was building toward Haxtun. She bought a
homestead about six miles northeast of town, and built a fine ranch.
Albert Edwards arrived in the Haxtun area in 1891. He homesteaded
some seven miles northeast of Haxtun. He supplemented his income by
logging in the Colorado mountains.
In January 1894, Albert
Edwards and Kate Fletcher were married. The two joined their homesteads
which became one of the foremost ranching operations in the area.
Thank you Leslie Hollander McVay for allowing me to use this
information!
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