Eldoret - I saw Mrs Hoey recently at her lovely home at Sageru Farm close to the Cherangani Hills - a gracious, dignified lady in a beautiful setting. She told me that she came to Kenya with her father in 1913 and became engaged to Cecil Hoey who had bought land for her father at the Government sales. They had come to have a safari and look at everything. She returned to Kenya as war broke out and was married to Cecil in 1914. The Wrights were a large family, and in 1915 her sister came for a visit. In 1919 another sister came here and she married Cecil's brother Will. 'A.C.' was a white hunter whose original headquarters were at Ravine. When he married, he and his wife lived in a little cedar house and the timber for this was supplied by Arnesen and his partner, Whitehead, from the Burnt Forest Saw Mills. Of course there was no running water and they used oil lamps.

Mrs Hoey remembered Micky Eywaz and Ross who were partners, and below Barclays Bank was an ironmongery and hardware shop named Jacobs, known as the "Dustpan". Ullman's was about the only store.

The Hoeys travelled in a buckboard with four mules; it had a wide base almost impossible to overturn, and a number of times Mrs Hoey travelled to and from Londiani with the mail bags. Hoey owned Karuna in the early days but after WW1 he sold the farm to another Mr Wright, father of Mr Alec Wright. Mrs Hoey mentioned the Algeyo Saw Mills where Major George Styles lived with his attractive wife. Mrs Hoey remembered one year 7,000 zebra were shot by settlers as they were such a menace; Government supplied the ammunition. An amusing incident was when a Governor came up and the settlers didn't like his policy, so they got under the ramshackle floor of the building and kept banging the floor from underneath and pushed it up while he was there!

Gazette - 29/10/1919 - Register of Voters - Plateau North - Gladys M.A. Hoey - Maji Mageru, Eldoret

Nicholson - Gladys Hoey stayed in the Trans Nzoia for the rest of her life and died at their farm 'Sageru' in 1969.

Hut has G.A. Hoey, 1919, Maji Mzuri

Gazette - 26/9/1923 - Voters Register - Plateau North - Gladys M A Hoey, Farmer, PO Eldoret