PUTNEY

NAME: PUTNEY COUNTY: SANDOVAL ROADS: 2WD GRID: 2 CLIMATE: hot summers, cold winters. BEST TIME TO VISIT: any time

COMMENTS: PUTNEY. Post office 1907/1908. REMAINS: inquire locally

PUTNEY. Formerly JEMES. Changed to JEMEZ PUEBLO.PUTNEY MESA. Valencia County. 10 mi SW of Acoma Pueblo. The Putney family were nineteenth-century traders and wholesalers with headquarters in Albuquerque. Before the purchase by Acoma Indian Tribe, Putney Mesa was ranched by M. S. Major and his family. Wife Lilly;and children; Alice, Helen, Brother, Sister, Sonny, Baby Boy, Baby Girl, and Joan. The children were finally given names and are now known as Alice, Helen, Malcolm 'Buddy', Kenneth, Duncan, Ida Marie, and Joan. Submitted by: Samuel W McWhorter

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