- Arthur’s older brothers, William, and Albert came to America a month before Arthur with their wives and children. They settled in downtown Denver, Colorado.
- Milo B Kellogg was postmaster of Wichita in 1874.
- Anna and her mother were trained lace makers. Anna had lived with her uncle while she worked in a lace factory in Budleigh, Devonshire as a young woman. Her mother was a widow working as a maid in a large manor on Isle of Wight. She and Anna’s sister won some awards in pillow lace and embroidery according to the Ryde newspaper of the time.
- The Kansas census for 1875 listed the crops Arthur named in this chapter.
- According to the 1875 Kansas census, they had some chickens.
- Ryde has a large sand beach on the west side of the dock. Ocean birds gather at the water’s edge.
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.
11 April 2022
5.4 Chapter 5 Author's Notes and Justification
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