The book( "The History of Stevens County and it's People"; an earlier smaller book by Edith Thompson is sometimes called ‘The Stevens County History Book’ too) shows a John B. Patrick as having filed on a piece of ground at NW ¼ Sec. 35, Twp. 32, R. 37 in 1891. This is at the top of page 649 in the section entitled First Filings. This means the first people to ever file on that land after it was opened up to homesteaders.

The graves from Woodsdale were mostly moved to Moscow (I understand some were moved to Hugoton). In the directory at the Moscow Cemetery is a plat of the Woodsdale Cemetery showing lots with name written in. The text explains that this was prepared when the graves were moved. I have a close-up photo of this I will try to locate. I remember that the first four were the men killed in the Hay Meadow Massacre. I seem to remember Mrs. Ed Short too who committed suicide not long before the massacre. I don’t remember a Patrick but if I can’t find the photo I’ll check at the cemetery tomorrow. The graves are all together in a special section along with graves moved from the Old Moscow Cemetery. All are unmarked except for a stone near the road saying “In Memory of Woodsdale Cemetery”.