History of Westchester County, New York, Vol. II
Over on the southwest table are the McKinnons, the Cox family, the VanPelts, Cvrus, William, and Mrs. T. U. All old timers remember Tom VanPelt for the good citizen that he was. Others prominent in the neighborhood for the material and civic progress of the high tableland are: John Patton, Geo. Schindler, and the Thomases, the Zorns, John V. Broadhead. Over in the Gabe Rock country J. W. Hoke formerly resided, and while he went to Colorado, one of his sons resides in the vicinity of Sixty-six mountain. Rolland Bigsby carries on the family name, and Johnn'e Wynne, Rolla Alanbaugh, Gust Pearson Wilson Mitchell, Earl Harvey, and Roy D. Wilson each carries forward the spirit of enterprise that brought their ancestry into the west. Shedrick Peterson, Klaus E. Peterson, and Frank Peterson are among the well known Banner county people, while no less distinguished we find many other names. Ed Heintz, Felix Wilkinson, Mrs. L. A. Green, Mrs. S. N. Larson, Geo. W. Leafdale, Lars J. Hendrickson, Mrs. John Jensen, H. I. Miller, F. W. Schumaker, Charles V. Webber, L. M. Hopkins, W. H. McComber, Ewing Barrett, Thos. C. Barkell and A. H. Heiman, each have contributed their part in the upbuilding of community and its spirit in the parts of the county in which they respectively abide. In the northwest portion Jesse O. Ammerman and Edward J. Whipple retain the names of olden times as beacons of what can be done by young people. On Wildcat W. W. Henderson has come at a later date. The editor well remembers the Bolin Spear for the high moral standard he never failed to hold aloft and the name of Sarah M. Spear is one I notice in the later chronicles.