Claude North, and residing at El Paso, Illinois.

Samuel and Mrs. Oliver are now residing at Readley, California, where the youngest daughter Vera resides, and looks after them. Mrs. Oliver has been helpless for sometime with creeping paralysis and Mr. Oliver is quite feeble. The children are scattered in many states. One of .'the daughters is, at Bridgeport where her husband, Bruce Wilcox -- with her assistance -- ably chronicles through the Nezvs-Blade the story of active life and community development.

Over the hill north of Freeport is a corner of Banner county somewhat isolated from the rest of the county by the "Wildcat range" of mountains. William's Gap was the somewhat rough and tumbled thoroughfare by which the people of Horseshoe Bend and lower Pump-

HISTORY OF WESTERN NEBRASKA

kin creek mingled and visited. The gap was so named because of a unique character, George Williams who lived near there. In this country lived the Rayburns, the Hubbards, the McNetts, the Shobars, the Williams, the Roberts, the Franklins, "Johnny" Logan, "Mike" Jeffords, the Darnells, and others. I believe the Williams are all dead except H. V. (Vollie) who resides at Sidney. "Grandmother" Williams died at Caldwell, Kansas ; Quincy, at Sidney; James R. (the father of Vollie), at Sidney; George at Cassville, Perry county, Missouri (in the Ozarks). Mrs. Williams remarried at Caldwell, Kansas, to an old soldier. Both are now dead, Mrs. Williams dying in Texas.

John E. Logan went to Missouri to do some work for the Kilpatricks, and is reported to have died there.