ARTHUR ROBERT DIBBENS known also as Arthur Dibbens Sr. in the Cheney, Kansas area because ARJ also went my Arthur in the community.
When ARTHUR ROBERT DIBBENS was born on September 25, 1846, his father, WILLIAM, was 31 and his mother, ANN, was 30. He married ANNA RUTH JARMAN on November 4, 1865. They had nine children in 14 years. He died on February 17, 1932, in Cheney, Kansas, at the age of 85, and was buried in Vinita, Kansas.
In Ryde, he worked as a carter.
Arthur, Anna, and the family landed in America, Boston, Massachusetts on 7 March 1872 according to JW Dibbens' naturalization record. They settled near Peoria, Illinois and tried farming there. Arthur hated the mud so they moved on to Kansas, arriving in Wichita in October 1873.
They claimed the SW quarter of section 31 of Payne Township, Sedgwick County, Kansas in 1873. They appear on the 1875 Kansas census on this land. By August 1876, they had relinquished that claim and Robert Williams claimed it.
Current Google Map of Section 31 Link:
The land Arthur and Anna first settled is now part of Wichita. It's the 1/2 mile east of Woodlawn and 1/2 mile north of 29th Street.
Their seventh child (4th living child), Viola, was born in Wichita the first of December 1876.
Land records telling exactly when the land SW of Cheney in Vinita Township, Kingman County, Kansas became theirs are unavailable.
Anna and the children may have stayed in Wichita as borders until a dwelling was ready in Vinita.
He is listed as a witness for another land owner in Vinita in October 1879. Arthur and Anna are listed in the Cheney papers with Arthur holding an office on the Sunday School board by 1880.
Arthur and Anna owned the north half of section 35 and the NW quarter of section 36, and the west 2/3 of section 25 (everything west of the Ninnescah River), of Vinita Township. Their house was on the quarter section of 36.
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