History of Westchester County, New York, Vol. II
In eighteen eighty-eight she was married to W. E. Fiddler whose wife died the year before. Together they went on westward to Oregon. Miss Hunt had followed Miss Delahunty as teacher in District number one. The latter had removed to Antelopeville (now Kimball). Jennie Hunt was the first teacher in Harrison, then called Bowen, in 1886. The school in Harrison was in the second story of YVernecke's furniture store, just north of the present Commercial hotel. The top story of the store has since been removed.
As stated, the first permanent settler in the White river valley was L. E. Belden, who located on what is now known as Lake ranch, about eighteen eighty-one. Billy Belden, who resides at Harrison, is a son of the first settler.
Before the building of the railroad, the people over on Hat creek dreamed of a city to be. John W. Hunter lived over there, and he and C. F. Slingerland ran a store. They wanted a post-office, and it needed a name. Hunter's little daughter was named "Oressa," which was suggested as the name for the post-office. Down in Texas, there is a shrub called "Bodarc." The people of a Texas community were asking for a postoffice and that it be named "Bodarc."
In some inexplicable way, the department at Washington crossed the names, and gave the Texas post-office the name of Oressa, and the Sioux county post-office the name Bodarc. It was quite a long time before the people of Hat creek knew how it happened.