- There was an incident documented by an article found in the Wichita paper in June 1874. It describes a mob that showed up at Arthur and Anna’s cabin in Payne Township, Sedgwick County, Kansas. This chapter was written using the details from that article.
- Arthur and Anna immigrated to America about 1872-3 with their three children, Arthur Robert Jarman (ARJ), John William (JW), and Eva Anna. Edmund Walter was born in June 1874.
- Arthur and Anna came to Kansas in a covered wagon in October 1873 according to Arthur’s obituary. They had a team of horses according to the farm records on the Kansas census of 1875.
- Robert Williams is one of the leaders of the mob that was a part of the lawsuit.
- The Isle of Wight is famous for its tall chalk cliffs.
Waves of Wheat is a creative historical nonfiction novel being written by me, Shari Edwards, to tell the story of the Arthur Dibbens family, who came to America in March of 1872. The Dibbens family had been on the Isle of Wight, a small island just south of mainland England, for centuries. There are many Dibbens/Jarman cousins still living on the island. While I have to invent scenes and dialogue for this story, I attempt to stay close to the facts. ARJ was my great grandpa, my mother's grandpa.
17 March 2022
1.4 Chapter 1 Author's Notes and Justification
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