Part 3 At a very early date there was a family by the name of Whitecar living where the bank now stands. Also one by the name of Waldons just south of the hotel, and Granddad Murray, an old bear hunter, lived where B. A. Hall now resides. There also seems to have been two families by the name of Wroth living on the west side of the street and one by the same name where Ira Rogers now lives. Among the early merchants of our town no one name stands out with greater prominence than that of John Gemmill, who was for many years the leading merchant of the town. He built the house where Bill Fry now resides and lived there several years before he left of other parts. Next came Epp Stone, a bustling merchant for those times, followed by John Tallman and still later by W. F. Blair, then a very young man, who operated his first independent store on the corner, where the Tiedje garage now stands, forty odd years ago. Since that time wh have had many enterprising merchants, but they are of too recent date to need mention here. Very earl in the town's history there camped by the side of the road one night of Dr. Powell. The next morning the neighbors were shocked to learn that during the night his little baby had died. This raised the question of suitable place to bury not only this baby, but all other that death was sure to claim as time went on. At this time Mr. Irving ever in the fore front, gave one acre of land located in the southwest corner of his quarter section to be used as a public burying ground. Since that time literally hundreds of bodies including the body of an Indian woman have been laid away.