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Subject: They lived on outlot 5 in west Sidney.
Date: 14 Mar 2004 13:47:29 -0700

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Surnames: Lybe, Gillogly, Bryant, Culley, Trewet, Engelke, Wilson, Wyatt, Woodlands, Snyder, Reed
Classification: Biography

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http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/3215

Message Board Post:

SIDNEY ARGUS - HERALD. February 17, 1938. "SALE OF LYBE PROPERTY RECALLS MEMORIES OF DAYS GONE BY. Some of Early Notables Had Called the Place Home."--The sale Monday of the property in west Sidney formerly owned by the late Mrs. Anna S Lybe, and left by her to her daughter, Mrs. Leona Gillogly, is of special interest to older residents of Sidney, who will recall that nearly 60 years ago, Dr. D. I. Lybe, first dentist in Sidney, bought the entire plot of ground known as outlot 5 of the town of Sidney.

Holly Bryant, early Sidney barber, became the owner of the northeast corner, now occupied by the home of Cliff Culley and Early Trewet and their families. Dr. and Mrs. Lybe built their own home on the northwest corner, where they lived until the doctor's death in 1898. The south section leading back to the alley was sold to Ed Engelke, who built his home and took his bride, Lou Wilson there to live.

The lots between the Lybe home on the north and the Engleke home on the south, which is now owned by Ray Wyatt, was the pasture where Mrs.Lybe at milking time dealt out warm milk to the Engelke children, who would lean on the fence with their cups for the fresh milk.

After Dr. Lybe's death, the old home became the property of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Woodlands, and Mrs. Lybe built the house in the old pasture, which for more than 35 years provided a home for her and her daughter. When Mrs. Lybe died four years ago, the property was deeded to the daughter, now Mrs. W. H. Gillogly.

Strangely enough, the new owners of the property is Hilburn Reed, who was born within a few miles of where Mrs. Lybe, daughter of Mrs. and Mrs. Henry Snyder, was born, close to Montrose, Iowa. The Snyder and Reed families came to southwest Iowa in an early day, all settling on the Missouri bottoms where they were near neighbors.

Since that time there have always been Reeds and Synders living along the baseline road.

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