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Chase County Sketches
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SAUBLE RANCH
David Sauble built the stone house on the
ranch and than married Susan Ferris in 1875. Six
children were raised on the homestead. John C.
deceased, Theodore 0. deceased, Maude Rogler
deceased, Mattie Ford deceased, Mayme Tarbet,
Raton, New Mexico, and Frank E., Springer, New
Mexico.
The fifth generation now live on the Sauble
Ranch.
Early pictures of show a log cabin on the Sauble ranch,
Cedar Point, Kansas. This cabin was built before
1850 by early trapers.
David Sauble used the cabin for shelter in
1857 while herding cattle for Mr. Wilcox, a big
cattleman in the Kansas, Oklahoma territory.
George Coble, the first sheriff of Marion Co.,
Kansas, when it extended as far west as Pikes
Peak, said he had spent many a night in this cabin.
In 1856, at the age of nineteen, David Sauble
left Maryland on his Morgan horse for the west. In
1857 the wagon train wintered with the Wichita
Indians, at the present site of Wichita, Kansas.
While there he met Mr. Wilcox and went to work for
him and located the present ranch.
The cabin originally had a dirt roof so it could
not be burned by hostil Indians. There was no door
open to the outside, but had a basement with an
underground tunnel, which had a right angle turn
in it for entry.
There was a dug well on the one side. They
could get water without going outside, but by going
to the basement and dropping a bucket on a rope
through the wall into the well.
This cabin had a lot of primitive ingenuity
built into it for survival.
Beside being used for shelter and survival it
has been used for a saddle room and later for a
smoke house to smoke lots of hams, shoulders and
bacon for the ranch.
David Sauble married Susan Ferris in 1875 and
six children were raised on this ranch. The third,
fourth, and fifth generation now lives on the ranch.
John Sauble, son of David and Susan told the
story about being in night camp with his father, and
at breakfast a man rode up on horseback and told
about the fine courthouse they had built in Cottonwood Falls. John was only seven years old but he
decided to ride his horse to Cottonwood Falls rather
than home that morning. He said that on his trip
across the prairie he went to sleep and fell off his
horse three different times. The courthouse must
have impressed John because when he was twenty-
one he was elected a Chase County Commissioner
with office in the Courthouse.
Pat H. Sauble
Chase County Centennial, 1872 - 1972
by your Chase County Host, Lorna Marvin.
Please submit your historical sketches.
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