Mr and Mrs Lenox: Newt and Josie Perry
This is the only house left standing from the town that was once Lenox, Lenox still exists today, there is a post office located about a mile away from the original town, and the area where Lenox-the town was located is now farmland.
Through the years, business at Lenox began to slow and the company was reduced to bankruptcy. Houses and buildings were soon emptied and most were sold to individual who had them moved to privately owned land. Today on the spots where neat little houses had stood there is not a board or a stone left. The only indication that there was once a town there is a little cemetery with a lone pine tree, set on the brow of a hill, overlooking the broad valley.
July 4, 1939 started like any other day for the only residents left, Newt and Josie Perry.  Newt and Josie had loved the land and bought the lands of the former lumber companies and settled down to live out the rest of their days there in the place they both loved. However fate intervened.
With dark clouds forming overhead, the Perrys went to bed on this fateful day, to be awakened a few hours later by a deafening roar.
The water of  Elkfork and Straight Creek were already lapping at their windows.
Crossing eddies and debris, they reached the safety of the hill and turned in the faint light to see the outline of their home as it left it's foundation.
Even then Newt and Josie did not give up but moved further up the hill, but things were not the same.
The flood had cleared the valley and robbed the Perry's of their health, and so it was that they finally gave up and moved to West Liberty.
Today there is a post office called Lenox, a mile or so down the road from the original one and the people are scattered about.
But they still remember the good old days  and most of all they remember Mr. and Mrs. Lenox, Newt and Josie Perry.


6/20/03
I recently had a phone conversation with Jimmy Perry of West Liberty. He was with his grandparents on the day the flood occurred. He states even though he was only 5 years old that he remember it vividly, and it was not a good experience.
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