Rev. Jared Fox preached some time for the Presbyterian Church at Lyndon. His son Elliott H. Fox in his duties as a deputy county officer along about 1872 seems to have been married there May 1, 1872 by his father to Leida Saylor, who, while a resident of Lyndon, was one of the county teachers Elliott H. Fox and wife's name are on the Lyndon Presby. Church Roll. Some years later they removed to Des Moines, Iowa, where Mr. Fox has lived since, engaged in the commercial work. When preparing my history of the Sac Fox Indians and their days at Quenemo I learned that Miss Leida Saylor taught the first public school in Quenemo. I wrote to her for her nar rative of that early day - 1869 and '70-before the Indians had all been re moved. While the story has but little to do with Ridgeway, yet not having been printed yet, I introduce it here to show the reader a history of that sec tion then. (c. R. G.)

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