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1863 - 2003





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




Chase County Submitted Historical Sketches
compiled and abstracted from the Chase County Courant, Chase County Leader, other sources and newspapers
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