What Do They Heard From the Sherman's?

The Myers family lived there from the early 1900s all the way up into the 90s. They moved onto that land to create a homestead in 1905, almost 30 years prior. And other sources seem to indicate that they didn't purchase this property until 34, which is interesting. So I'm inclined to think that when they moved here, that it was federal land, just the frontier, essentially and having been there for almost 20 years by a certain point, they were like, well, let's put our name on it. Let's actually buy this.