Re: Stockett & Helena, Montana & Family name Maxim
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Stockett & Helena, Montana & Family name Maxim
Deborah Yates 10/19/01
Helena is in Lewis & Clark County, MT, and it is the Capitol of Montana.
According to the book Place Names on the Face of Montana by Roberta Carkeek Cheney, she has this to say about Stockett:
"STOCKETT (Cascade County), about fifteen miles south of Great Falls, had a post office in 1898 with Frank W. Bishop in charge.This coal mining town was named for Lewis Stockett, manager of the Cottonwood Coal Company.When the major mining operations were moved from Sand Coulee to Cottonwood Coulee, the name of the company was changed from the Sand Coulee Company to the Cottonwood Coal Company.Mines later opened at Giffin and Lehigh.The company not only owned the mines, but also ran a company store and meat market where the miners were required to do most of their trading; they were issued coupons for the company store on pay day.There was also a miners' boarding house for bachelors.Elizabeth McGiffin Cheney, who was the first white girl born in this area, said that when she was a child there were only about a hundred English-speaking people out of more than a thousand miners, who were mostly of Italian, Polish, or other Slavic descent.The three Homan brothers and their large families made up much of the English-speaking population."
As you can see Stockett no longer exists.The following is a link to Montana Counties.Click on Cascade and Lewis & Clark Counties and perhaps post queries regarding your ancestors on both sites, and check out the research resources.
http://www.rootsweb.com/~mtgenweb/countytbl.htmlhttp://www.rootsweb.com/~mtgenweb/countytbl.html
Great Falls, the County Seat of Cascade County, is 89 miles northeast of Helena.Try to find someone with a road Atlas.
Hope this helps.