Soap Creek Valley · Place

Amity

Everything the Soap Creek narrators said about Amity: 4 transcript mentions across 1 record, grouped by who was speaking.

town Coordinate: derived — matched by name against a public place-name list

Index references (printed indexes): 0
Transcript mentions: 4

These two numbers count different things and rarely match. The first is how often the back-of-book indexes the books themselves print point at this place; an indexer chose those. The second is how often the name occurs in the transcript text, counted by machine. More on the difference.

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Provenance

Coordinates: 45.11567, -123.20733
How they were found: coordinate from USGS GNIS; name match verified
How far to trust it: derived — matched by name against a public place-name list
Built from: The printed transcripts and back-of-book indexes of the fifteen monographs
Accessioned: From Bob Zybach’s upload, 23 August 2026

Who speaks of it

Bessie Murphy in #11 Bessie Murphy p. 34, p. 39, p. 52, p. 100

In their words

Quoted character for character from the printed page, with the page it is on.

Because when grandpa [Gragg] came he rented a farm down by Amity, near his daughter, she'd come in '64.

Bessie Murphy, #11 Bessie Murphy , p. 32

oh, first they went to Amity where my aunt lived who had come ten years before.

Bessie Murphy, #11 Bessie Murphy , p. 38

Dated statements about this place

1864 — She's the one that came with an ox team, wagons and ox team, in 1864. And settled down by Amity And she was lots . . . she was the oldest one in the family She was quite a bit older than my father. And her kids were all grown and married and moved, and we didn't move to where Bessie Murphy · source · 1860–1890

How to cite this item

The first line is the citation as it is printed in the original. Use it when you cite the work itself. Use the second when you cite this page.

As printed: The Zybach Collection, Soap Creek Valley series: Amity (place record).
This page: Soap Creek Valley: Amity. America's School Trust Library, The Zybach Collection. https://schooltrusts.org/collections/zybach/soap-creek/places/amity/
Permalink: https://schooltrusts.org/collections/zybach/soap-creek/places/amity/

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