Sunday, November 25, 2012

Coyville Kansas.

Wilson County.
Verdigris Township, Map, 1881.
 
On the county map Coyville can be found in Township 27-South and range 13 & 14-East.  On the township map Coyville can be found in section 22.
 
Coyville Post Office.
 
Coyville post office open May 2, 1866 and ran to ?, first post master was Oscar Coy.
 
Business men who used Coyville as their P. O. address as of 1881.
 
Edward Caley, Farmer and Sol. of 9th., Ka, Cav. Co. E., from Isle Man., came to county 1870.
M. J. Caley, Farmer, from Canada, came to county 1870.
James Marr, Farmer and Stock Raiser, from Scotland, came to county 1867.
O. Marr, Farmer and Stock Raiser, from Ohio, came to county 1874.
Charles Gidley, Farmer and Stock Raiser and Blacksmith, from New York, came to county 1873.
Myra Gidley, Farmer and Stock Raiser, from England, came to county 1873.
Adam Teter, Farmer and Stock Raiser, from Virginia, came to county 1877.
William A. Nelson, Farmer and Stock Raiser and Trader, from West Virginia, came to county 1874.
Margaret Nelson, Farmer and Stock Raiser, from West Virginia, came to county 1874.
D. B. & S. F. Ludwick, Farmer and Stock Raiser, from Illinois, came to county 1869.
Mathew M. Craig, Farmer and Stock Raiser, from Illinois, came to county 1862.
W. Graig, Farmer and Stock Raiser, from Ohio, came to county 1862.
P. A. & J. R. Greathouse, Farmer and Stock Raiser, from Illinois, came to county 1859.
Thomas R. Carlisle, Farmer and Stock Raiser, from Virginia, came to county 1857.
William Bramhall, Merchant and Postmaster, from Ohio, came  to county 1870.
John V. Simpson M. D., Physician and Surgeon, from Pennsylvania, came to county 1875.
R. B. Whetmore, Physician and Surgeon, from Ohio, came to county 1866.
Thomas W. Large, Blacksmith, from Tennessee, came to county 1880.
Elisha Tinker, Farmer and Stock Raiser, from Indiana, came to county 1870.
Margaret Tinker, Farmer and Stock Raiser, from Indiana, came to county 1870.
Doddridge Cartwright, Attorney of Law, from --. Came to county 1870.
Thomas Sylyester, Farmer and Stock and Fruit Raiser, from Ohio, came to county 1864.
P. W. Coy, Farmer and Stock and Fruit Raiser, from New York, came to county  1872.
J. Coy, Farmer and Stock and Fruit Raiser, from Ohio, came to county 1875.
Allen Blackman, Merchant and Real Estate Dealer, from New York, came to county 1865.
John Foreman, Farmer and Stock Raiser, from Indiana, came to county 1858.
M. Foreman, Farmer and Stock Raiser, from Tennessee, came to county 1868.
F. F. Hickcox, Farmer, from Vermont, came to county 1871.
F. J. Hickcox, Farmer, from New H., came to county 1871.
Jno. W. Butts Farmer and Hedge Grower, from ----, Came to county 1869.
E. Butts, Farmer, from Pennsylvania, came to county 1869.
Jno. Hancock, Farmer, from England, came to county 1858.
S. Hancock, Farmer, from Missouri, came to county 1860.
Joseph Smith, Farmer and Stock Raiser and Dealer, from Ohio, came to county 1860.
 
Civil War Pensioners of Coyville 1883.
 
James Blackman, Gun shot right ankle, $6., per month, pension started December 1877.
Rachell Dewalt, Dep. Mother, $8. per month, pension started October 1874.
Nancy Lee, Widow, $8. per month, pension started May, 1879.
Robert Quinn, Inj. to left hip, $10. per month.
William A. Joy, Gun shot left leg, $2., per month pension started May, 1879.
Jno. Foreman, Gun shot to right arm, $8, per month.
James W. Ross, loss of right eye and Dis. of left eye, $6., per month.
Jonas Worten, Gun shot right leg, $6., per month.
Elisha Coy, Gun shot left arm, $4, per month, pension started May, 1881.
Jon. Jones, Gun shot Left arm $8., per month.
Shell William, Disease of throat, $6., per month.
Elisha Tinker, loss left leg, $10., per month pension started March, 1871.
Howard Pangborn, loss middle finger let hand, $2., per month.
 
J. W. SIMPSON, M. D., 1883. 
 
Was born in Somerset County, Pa., in 1839, and came to Kansas in 1875, locating in Coyville, where he has since been engaged in the practice of his profession, he being a graduate of the Pennsylvania Medical College. In 1874 the doctor married Miss Lena Bemis, of Chester, Pa. Dr. S. is considered one of the first physicians of Southern Kansas and enjoys a large practice.
 
Coyville Kansas, 1912.
 
Coyville, an incorporated city of Wilson county, is located on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe R. R. and on the Verdigris river, in Verdigris township, 12 miles north of Fredonia, the county seat. It  has all the main lines of business, including banking facilities. There are telegraph and express offices and a mone}^ order postoffice with
one rural route. The population in 1910 was 227.

The first store was opened at this point in 1859 by Albert Hagen, a Polish Jew, whose principal customers were Osage Indians. The first church was organized at the home of Rachel Conner by T. B. Woodward. The place was named for Oscar Coy, who, with P. P. Steele, bought out Hagen's store in 1864. In May. 1866. the post office was established with Coy as postmaster. In August of the next year R. S. Futhey located a sawmill a mile below the town, which was the first one in the county. The next year he was grinding corn and making flour in the same mill. The mill was later moved to Coyville. A bridge was erected over the Verdigris in 1873, and in 1886 the railroad was built. -

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

thank you for the information on the town of Coyville. I live in Kentucky; my husband's family has ancestors who lived in Coyville in the 1860's.