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 | Crossed the plains in 1853
Account of Teophiel Graff working as a teamster, scout and mail man for various trading companies, driving wagons and mail along the route from Kansas City to Laramie WY to Bridger UT. He's describes several encounters with Indians including a Massacre of US Army troops at Fort Laramie in the fall of 1854 in a dispute over a single sickly cow - "The Indians soon surrounded the soldiers and not one of them escaped. Mr. Graff witnessed the killing and scalping of thirty four people." He also tells of walking 108 miles on foot in winter to deliver mail from Fort Laramie to Fort Vaskett - "He traveled alone and on foot and made one trip a month. Besides the mail, he carried food and bedding, as there were no settlements between the forts. He saw thousands of buffalos in one herd. The animals were on every side of him as far as he could see at times." |
 | Early Days in the West
"T. Graff Tells More of His Experiences on the frontier in the 50s." In this installment, Theophiel Graff tells of being caught in quicksand moving logs across the Platte river near the Bordo trading post; of being caught in a snowstorm near Fort Laramie, forced to survive in five feet of snow for over a week on the meat from a old dead mule; and encountering a large bear while picking cherries, his gun not to hand to defend himself. He also relates a humorous story he was told about how the Sweetwater River in Wyoming got its name - "...a freighter (wagon pulled by oxen) was approaching the stream with a load of sugar when his thristy oxen, smelling the water, ran to the river, going over the bank and upsetting the sugar into the water." |
 | Mr. and Mrs. T. Graff ill 1913
"Mr. and Mrs. T. Graff, who have been having a severe attack of the grip for several weeks, are improving in health. Mr. Graff was able to be out on the streets Tuesday for the first time in three weeks." |
 | T. Graff buys windmill 1913
"T. Graff has purchased a new Perkins windmill which will be erected at his residence on Cedar street." |
 | Visit to F T Graff bakery 1911
Mr. Graff is doing a good business there and is well equipped for the work. He bakes bread every day and almost the entire output of the bakery is used by his patrons in and around Turon. Mr. Graff prides himself on the quality of the products of his bakery and well he may, for a nicer lot of pies, cakes, buns, bread, etc. than may be had at his bakery would be hard to find. |
 | F. T. Graff farm sale 1911
"F. T. Graff of Turon was in town Monday and had this shop print sale bills for him. The sale is to be held at the T. Graff farm, two miles east of town, on Thursday, August 3, 1911. He will sell two mules, three horses, thirteen head of cattle and farming machinery." Presumably related of the family's move to Turon, KS where Franks starts a bakery. |
 | Frank Graff buys Turon Bakery 1910
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 | Teophiel Graff ill 1914
"Frank Graff was here Saturday on account of the serious illness of his father. The old gentleman came near bleeding to death from a bursted blood vessel in his nose." |
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