[or-roots] Priairie City

[Harguess, Dale]

I found out a few years ago (when I sent for my grandmothers original
Social Security Application) that she was born in "rural Grant County".
Once I started really doing genealogy and was working on her Howell
family I came across Dixie Town.  I couldn't help but wonder if that
wasn't where she was born since her father's family came originally from
Arkansas.  She had an uncle who settled in Grant County but the rest of
the clan moved to Morrow County to Hardman.

I sure wish I could prove her exact birth place but I guess it will just
have to be a speculation on my part.

Thanks,

Dale

 

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Yes Dale - it's still called Prairie City, but was originally called
Dixie Town. Roxanne Smith has created a marvelous website for Grant
County at:  http://gesswhoto.com/grant.htm.  Prairie City is covered
quite well there - I just went there to check it out & the names bring
back such wonderful memories of our years there. You can find the Grant
County Genealogical Society's president's name & email address at the
bottom of that website. (I was a member when we started that society.)

 

Years ago we visited my dentist, Virgil Belknap in Idaho, before we
moved to Prairie City.  He told me he was born there & indeed his father
was a prominent Prairie City doctor.  My little granddaughter used to
call it "Pretty City" and that's very appropriate!  Grant County people
are wonderful & I miss them.

 

~Gerrie

 

In a message dated 11/20/2009 12:44:18 P.M. Mountain Standard Time,
dharguess at coastline.edu writes:

	I have a question.  Is Prairie City still called that and has
that always been its name?

	Dale

	 

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