Page "Grandfield, Oklahoma" Paragraph 12

To try to settle the differences, Reverend Andrew J. Tant, a Baptist Minister and homesteader, went into partnership with Frank Kell and offered free lots to businesses if they would relocate to the Tant farm, which would eventually become Grandfield.

Since the Tant farm was only about a mile from Kell City, people willingly moved.

Free lots were also promised to all churches and schools.

Observers at that time wrote they could look through their windows and see lines of houses being moved.

According to Mrs. Lawrence Hooks, an early settler, she once cooked breakfast in Eschiti and dinner in Grandfield, without leaving her house.