Land Purchased in 1867

  According to Pottowatomie County records, Leonard C. Prunty purchased a plot of land on September 23, 1867 for $1. On that site, Mr. Prunty build a modest, but sturdy four room house for his growing family. Those original four rooms are still part of the house. He had come west from Virginia, through Missouri and Platte County, Kansas. 

  The first settlement at Pruntytown, West Virginia, (the earliest known white settlement in what is now Taylor County) was made circa 1798 with pioneers (Captain) John Prunty, Sr (1745-1823) and his son David (1768-1841). It was initially known as Cross Roads, from the intersection there of the old Clarksburg Pike and the old Beverly and Fairmont Road. On January 1, 1801 Cross Roads was renamed Williamsport in honor of Abraham Williams, a local resident. The name was changed again on January 23, 1845 to honor the Pruntys. This town served as the county seat from the county's founding in 1844 until a county election in 1878 moved it approximately three miles away, to Grafton. Source: Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pruntytown,_West_Virginia

 He was the son of David Prunty and grandson of Captain John Prunty. 

Leonard Carroll Prunty, born on 8 October 1817, in Harrison, Virginia to David Prunty and Anne (Carroll) Prunty, the youngest of 13 children. 

Leonard C. Prunty died on 23 April 1895, in Sonoma, Sonoma, California, United States, in a tragic farming accident at the age of 77, and was buried in Wamego City Cemetery, Wamego, Pottawatomie, Kansas, United States. (see photo below, newspaper clipping)

Leonard C. Prunty married Sarah Polan on April 24, 1836 in Carroll Township, Platte County, Missouri. They were the parents of 5 sons and 2 daughters. Jesse Gertrude Prunty (1837-1837); Drucilla Prunty (1838-1905); David R. Atchison Prunty (1844-1921) David served in the military from 1861-1865, Union Army, Missouri; James Leonard Prunty (1847-1920); John Prunty (1849-1926), Sara Isabelle Prunty (1852-1854), Charles Prunty (1858). 

Records show that Leonard remarried on September 8, 1865 to D. Adeline Lebow. They had 6 children, Anna (1866-1942), Mary Mollie (1868-1953), Clara (1869-1952), Eva (1873-1906), Colonel Leonard William (1875-1939), and Sanford Carroll Prunty (1878-1910). 

Documentation found at the Wamego Historical Society states that Leonard and Adeline Prunty ‘lived in the back of their store building and it was here that the first white girl was born.' This was their oldest daughter Anna born in 1866. It also states that Leonard was in the State Legislature at one time, owned many sections of land in the Pottawatomie County, ‘engaged in the lumber business'. 

Leonard and Sarah’s son James L. Prunty married Narcissa Elizabeth Clary (1850-1928) on June 18, 1868. - (See photos below) - They were the first couple to be married in Wamego. They had 9 children. James bought out the interests of George Trout and L. B. Leach in the Iron Clad Lumber Company changing the name to Prunty Lumber Company. After his death his son William Leonard Prunty (see photo below) bought out the interests of his brothers Wesley and Lloyd and became the sole proprietor.

 In 1892 Adeline and Leonard's daughter Anna married Frank Rowles. Anna and Frank lived with Adeline in the house and in 1901 the house was more than doubled in size. The living room, three bedrooms upstairs and the suite downstairs were added, along with the home's distinctive wrap around porch 

 In 1907 Anna and Frank purchased the home from Adeline. In 1912 another addition was added to the home, the present day kitchen and office 

Anna Prunty Rowles passed in 1943 and the home was purchased in 1944 by the Lyle Stewart family. The Stewarts lived in the home for twenty seven years. They sold it to Mark and RoseMary Hainline in 1971. In addition to raising their family in the home, they rented two of the upstairs bedrooms to school teachers and manager trainees of the Nickerson Farms Restaurant in Paxico. In the mid 70's, Mark Hainline constructed a detached garage (now incorporated into the family's private suite) from lumber salvaged from an old barn that stood on the property. Many of those salvaged boards and the old sliding barn door have been incorporated in to the addition. 

The Hainline family lived in the house until 1986 when the home was purchased by Gary and Cindy Wurtz. Cindy was a real estate agent who ran The Little Apple Realty from the office in the home. In December of 2002, Tony and Tracy Humphreys became the 6th owners of the house. 

 Margaret and Francis Feyh purchased the bed and breakfast in 2012. They have entertained guests from many different countries and every state in the USA. Before purchasing the bed and breakfast, they owned and operated a bakery in Wamego.