"[My] husband and I took up this land, and enough trees to build the cabin, stable, and outbuildings are about all we ever cut. Of course, if he had lived, I suppose we should have kept with our neighbors. I hear considerable about the value of the land, the trees which are on it and the oil which is supposed to be under it, but as yet I haven’t bought myself to change anything. So we stand for one of the few remaining homes of first settlers in this region.” (271)