Star - Clipper Supplement Traer, Iowa, April 15, 1886 History of North Tama By Daniel Connell JOHN GAULT was born in Ayrshire, Scotland, was a blacksmith and farmer in that country. Mrs. Gault was a Wilson and they fund their way with three children to Buckingham in 1856 in company with the McDowell family. He purchased the land of Fred Church and began to improve it. While waiting to make the farm productive they opened a blacksmith shop in the village, which some years later they removed to the farm. Mr. Gault was a good man in all the name implies, was held in high repute, was eminently successful. He died in 1885, Mrs. Gault is living in Traer. David, the son, went in 1861 to Manchester, Iowa, and engaged in his trade. He married and in 1874 returned, purchased 400 acres in southwest corner of Buckingham section thirty-two, and settled down to farming, has been successful. The eldest daughter is Mrs. Peter McCornack, the other Mrs. Robert Provan. ROBERT PROVAN came from Scotland when but a young man, purchased a quarter section on twenty-nine, Buckingham, well watered by Twelve Mile creek, for $2.50 an acre and paid for it. He also had near him an extensive range for cattle. With such a beginning to fail would have been criminal, so he succeeded. This is the true story of many others in this settlement, and we presume throughout the West. His brother William came with him, began with him. A bee buzzed in his bonnet, he chased the bee, he did not catch it.