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Lilla Day Monroe Pioneer Women essay subjects Thursday, January 18, 2018

9:50:56 AM

Lastname Firstname Maiden Birth Subjects

- Aunt Sallie Slave, Cooked at Tavern Operated by S.M. Hays, Brought to Council Grove as Slave, Buried in Hays Lot

Abrahams 1852 Poor Roads, Wagon, Ducks, Chickens, Dugout, Born 1852 in Germany, Grasshoppers Ate Everything That Grew, Sod House with Board Floor, Knitting & Sewing was an Art, April 1873 Blizzard, Alone

on Homestead

Adair Mary E. 1851 John Brown, Miami County, Traveled by train from Ontario to Leavenworth, Traveled by Wagon to Osawatomie, Beautiful Spring Flowers, Women's Club

Adams Adaline Spencer Active in Woman's Christian Temperance Union

Adams Dr. Harriet

Elizabeth

Adams Harriet

Elizabeth

Clark 1837 Christmas Tree, Tin Candle Holders, Drying Fruit, Pro-Slavery Horsemen, Franklin Adams was Indian Agent for the Kickapoos, Native Flowers "May to September", Territorial Days

Agrelius Inga 1810 Natives of Sweden, Lost son in Civil War, Andersonville Prison, Youngsville Pennsylvania, Train Trip to Salina, Built 3rd House in Lindsborg

Aich Anna

Gertrude

Brubaker 1879

Akin Margaret 1831 Clay County Missouri, Olathe Home, Indian Trail passed near to Akin Home, Few Public Roads in Johnson Co.

Aldrich Hattie

Eugenia

Bassett 1869 Medicine & Surgery, Railroad Travel, Native of Shawnee Co., Partnership Practice of Wife & Husband, Civic Worker

Alexander Hester Ann Scott 1854 Husband's Illnesses

Alexander Viola

Catherine

Downing 1853 Animals, Train to Milford, Snakes, A.B. Whiting Ranch, Indians took chickens calves & hogs from Home in Clay Co., Tall Blue Grasses, Terrible Prairie Fire, Price of Oats & Corn, Education at Home,

Alone on Homestead, Working on Farms

Allee Fannie Johnston 1852

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Allen

Allen Anna

Maria

Ellis 1843 Husband & Wife both Teachers, son was Ks. State Superintendent of Public Instruction in 1920s

Allen Electa Rathbun Two Covered Wagons, Cawker City Saw Mill, Stable along Freighting Route, Homesteaded in Glen Elder Twp., Shelter for Travelers at Allen Ranch, Bought Flour at $8/sack & Baked Bread

Allen Elizabeth Morgan 1821 Friends Church, Refugees from South, Toledo Chase County, Postmistress of Toledo, Lifetime Member of Society of Friends, Care of Others

Allen Ella Muck Helping Mother Raise Children, Went to School in Dugout 3 months/year, Blizzard on Wedding Day, Married at Allen Ranch

Allen Frances

Annette

Gude 1860 Husband & wife both filed on Homesteads before Marriage, First Bride in Morton Co. 1886

Allerton Ellen Palmer 1835

Almon Hannah L. Woman Preacher

Alrich Emma B. Eldridge 1845 Organizer of Woman's Relief Corps & Delegate to National Convention 1893

Alrich Emma B. Eldridge 1845 Girls Industrial School Beloit, Daughters helping in Home, Edited Cawker City Public Record, Founder of Kansas Women's Press Association, Taught in Cawker City Schools, Superintendent of Schools

Cawker City, Golden Wedding Anniversary 1916

Alstatt Sarah Assistance in Childbirth, Came from Sweden to Marquette, Sickness

Altemas Susan Jane Baker 1839 Covered Wagon, Mules, Cattle, Death of Baby, 1874 Grasshopper Invasion, Homestead Relinquishment in Glen Elder Twp. On Limestone Creek, Built Shelter with Poles & Wagon Covers, Prairie Fires,

Water Barrels

Anderson Ann

Elizabeth

Wright 1847 Supply Trips, Golden Wedding Anniversary at Seneca 1915, Wolves

Anderson Ann

Elizabeth

Wright 1847 Train to Centralia, Stage to Seneca, Born in Shropshire England, Burning Piles of Grasshoppers, 3 Room House Lumber Hauled 60 Miles from Atchison, Prairie Fire 1871, Building Railroads, Ranched

960 Acres, Roads & Trails from Seneca, Sickness

Anderson Helen Nelson 1848 Rag Carpets, Tallow Candles, Snakes, Train to KC, Covered Wagon to Clay County, Born in Norway, Emigrated at age of 1, Homesteading Clay Co., Prices of Eggs & Butter, Killed Snakes to Protect

Children, Supply Trips, Constant SW Winds

Anderson Mariah

Dorothea

Phipps 1836 Grasshoppers, Covered Wagon, Fort Recovery Ohio, Wilson County, Lumber Wagons, Work on Farm, Homesteaded North of Chapman Dickinson Co., Stone House 14 x 40, Oxen, Dickinson Co.

Schools, Remedies-Catnip Tea-Horehound Hogs Lard, Sickness

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Anderson Mariah

Dorothea

Phipps 1836 Warnocks & Prairie Hill School, Literary Society, Shooting Matches, Snow Storms, Women's Work

Anderson Sarah Mooney Lived on Glen Elder Homestead after Death of Husband

Andrews Susanna Critchfield 1824 Presbyterian Church, Family Pioneers Homesteaded in Ohio 1825, Widowed, With Children Farmed the Land

Anthony Sarah M. Lindsley 1847 Establishing Church & Sunday School, Nurse & Undertaker, Fear of Indians & Windstorms, Fleas in Buffalo Grass, Homesickness, Boarded & Battened Shanty, Fled to Russell when Indians were on the

Warpath, Ravine Well, Alone on the Homestead

Aplington Kate Adele Smith 1859 Charter Member of Council Grove TPM Club, Kansas Social Science Foundation, State Federation of Women's Clubs

Aplington Kate Adele Smith 1859 Novel, Pilgrims of the Plains, Applington Traveling Art Gallery, Kept Cayenne Pepper & Corn Knife for Self Defense, Homesteading near Council Grove, Half Blood Indian & Negro had Adjoining Claim,

No Water on claim

Armsby Mrd. L. Congregational Church, Council Grove,

Armstrong Mary C. Strieby

Arnold Sally Ann Pierson 1832 1860 Drouth, Homesteaded near White Cloud, Subscription School in Doniphan Co.

Atkinson Fannie Cooper 1866 Teacher-Assistant Principal of Parsons High School in 1892, Atheneum Club of Parsons, President of Parson Federation of Clubs, President of Woman's Kansas Day Club in 1916, Lawyer

Atkinson Sarah

Frances

Parsons 1861 Virginia, Washington County, Jewell County, Lost Homestead due to Grasshoppers, Oxen Wagon Trains

Avery Eliza G. Edwards 1819 Congregational Church, Husband Civil War Veteran, First Homesteading in Exeter Twp.,Clay Co., Sod House, Few Doctors, Sickness

Axline Almira Stever 1837 Presbyterian Church, Home Missionary, 1st Church in Pratt County, Husband Postmaster & Hotel Keeper In Iuka, Iowa Colony, Cow Chips

Ayres May Wadswort

h

1874 Children, Herding Cattle, Getting Mail, Coyotes, Lost All Crops in 1874 to Grasshoppers, Riding Horses, Prairie Fires, Teacher Salary of $28.50/month, Walking 2 Miles to School

Bailey Minnie Kieth 1869 Poet

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Baish Mrs.

Frederick

Baker Catherine

E.

McClain Trip to church via wagon, Spun Wool into Yarn, Hewed Benches & Tables, Homesteading, Log Cabin, Quantrill's Men Tried to Burn House, Scarlet Fever, Stagecoach

Baker Clara R. Prohibition, Railroad Land Agent, Moved from London England because of letter from Gov. St. John, Topeka Central WCTU

Baker Fanny

Agnes

Housekeeper at the Kaw Indian Mission in Council Grove

Baker Lydia

Balcomb Lydia Emily Goodno 1838 Sunday School, Church Services, Russell County, Coyote Raid on Hen roost, Indian Scares, Kept Success Post Office, Prairie Fires, Carried Skunk Out of Milk Room, Balcomb Farm had Water

Banta Martha Baird Baptist Church, Homesteaded East of Oberlin, Lived in Dugout then Sod House, Cheyenne Indian Raid in Decatur Co. 1878, Decatur Co. WCTU

Barker Lucene Allen 1844 Charter Member of Order of Eastern Star in Lawrence, Member of Social Science Club of Kansas, Founder of Lawrence round Table Literary Club

Barr Mollie E. Boenitz 1849 Month Long Trip to Leavenworth for Supplies, 1860 Drouth, Living on Corn Bread & Molasses, Native of Germany, Andrew Drummond Farm Chase Co., Kaw Indians feared in Chase Co., Log Cabin,

Alone on Homestead

Bassett Kidnapped by Indians with 2 Week Old Baby, Left Naked on Prairie

Baxter Alzada Lamb Table made of Dry Goods Box, Grasshopper Invasion, Homesteading on Clark's Creek, Sheltering Travelers, Helped Bury Pottawatomie Chief in Coffin with No Nails, Indians Stealing & Begging, Indians

Kept Horse in House & They Slept in Wigwams, Log Cabin

Baxter Alzada Lamb Didn't Mention Slavery on trip from Illinois, Antelope, Buffalo Meat, Births with no Doctor, Buffalo Hide Shoes & Moccasins, Trading Trinkets, Grain Sack, Trousers, Canvas Shirts, Straw Hats, Leland

Illinois, No Bridges, Corn Bread, Buffalo Meat

Baxter Alzada Lamb Post Office & School in Log Cabin on Farm, Fighting Prairie Fires, Wild Turkeys, Wagon Train from Illinois, Water from Hansen Creek, Sweeping Winds, Quail

Baxter Mrs. Edson Shreve Men took turns getting Mail & Supplies, Planted Walnut Trees in Marion, 1861 Blizzard, Snow Drifter

Baxter Mrs. Edson Shreve Trip to Atchison, Marion County, New Paris Indiana, Covered Wagons, Homesteading, Kaw Indian Hunting Trip near Marion, Indians Traded Meat for Other Provisions, Log House, Prairie Fire Fall 1860

Marion Co., Taught in Log School in Marion Co. 1864

Bayless Elizabeth Glenn 1838

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Bayly Cornelia Buck 1841 Grease Lamp, Dugout in Mitchell Co., One Room Sandstone House, Mail Service, Poverty, Prairie Fires, Building School House, Blindness

Beam Jennie Palmer 1845 Buffalo Herd, Jewell County, Snakes, Snow Delay, Homesteading, Roof of Brush & Straw, Stone Laid Without Mortar, Indians

Beardsley Decima Antelope, Deer, Buffalo, Schools, Teachers, Cistern in Russell, One well in Russell

Beck Mary

Hamilton

Scott Member of Topeka DAR, Husband was Editor of the Holton Recorder, Started Avon Circle Study Club of Holton, Member of Social Science Club of Topeka

Becker Catherine

E.

Stryker 1849 Presbyterian Church, Ft. Harker Cemetery, Ague, Death in 1881 from Typhoid Malaria, Dugout with Leaky Roof, Mr. Faris adopted 2 Becker Children, 1874 Grasshopper Invasion, Bought Land 10 Miles

SE of Ellsworth on Clear Creek, Infare Parties, Debating

Becker Catherine

E.

Stryker 1849 Dr. Levi Sternberg, Sunday School

Beedle Sarah First Threshing Machine, Homesteaded South of Glen Elder. Operated Beedle House Tavern in Glen Elder

Bennett Mary J. Martin Her & Her Husband were Death Mutes

Benton Lula

Blanche

Lines 1888

Berg Anna Pearson 1850 Friendly Spirit, Lindsborg Churches, Dugouts with Snakes, Menu, Father Emigrated in 1870 Family Later, Women Homesteading, Matron of Old Peoples Home Lindsborg 1911, Housekeeper for Dr.

Olsson for 4 years, Took Charge of Maria Dahl's Orphans Home

Berryman Sarah Cessna 1808 Husband was Methodist Missionary to the Indians, Built Kickapoo Mission in 1841, Assigned to found Mission in 1833, Led the Shawnee Mission, Reverend moved to Missouri after death of Wife in

1847

Best Catherine

Margaret

Hettler 1821 German Evangelical Church, Born in Wurttemberg Germany, Came to America circa 1849 on a French Sailing Ship

Biays Henrietta Miller 1844

Bickerton William Leader of Mormons in Stafford Co., Opened first Hotel in St. John, Zion Valley & Kenilworth Post Offices

Biggs Emily Jane Cornell 1845 Hospitality During Blizzard, Sold Frozen Turkeys in Ellsworth, One Room Log House, Passed Teachers Exam at Age 13, Schools in Lincoln Co., Fine Sewing, UP Railroad

Biggs Emily Jane Cornell 1845 Dry Goods Box made into Table, Supplies from the East, Buffalo Clothing & Skins, Husband Civil War Veteran, Westport Landing, Union Pacific to Ellsworth, Sold Water Rights on Twin Creek, Boarded

Cowboys, Grasshoppers, Soldier's Homestead

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Biglin Lou Whitsett Hermit Priest

Bingham Anna

Elizabeth

Northrop 1840 General Custer, Cousin of the Custers

Bingham Florence Case Abilene Churches, Cowboys & Shooting, Cattle Roundup, Crime & Justice, General Custer, Cousin of the Custers, DAR Member, Grandfather a Revolutionary War Veteran, Bill Hickock living in Drovers'

Hotel Abilene, Hickock left Abilene in 1871, Indians

Bingham Florence Case Used Skirt to Fight Prairie Fires, Early Days of Abilene 1871, T.C. Henry

Bissing Sara Magrane Dancing, Parties with Fort Soldiers, Sleigh Rides, January 1886 Blizzard

Bissing Sara Magrane Sorghum Molasses, Married a Soldier, Experiences in Hays City, Taught at Munjor Ellis Co., Billie King's Hotel in Hays, Mr. Magrane died 4 Months after Coming to Ellis Co., Bought Preemption 5 miles

S of Hays, Hays Land Office, Hays Post Office

Blair Salome A. Negroes coming to Kansas, Social Affairs, Early Days of Wakeeney, the story of Wakeeney and Her People, Typhoid because of Bad Water in Wakeeney

Bliss Mrs. C. F. 1849 Bedbug, Cataract Hotel, Grasshopper Falls Jefferson County, Spring Wagon, Buggies, Early Citizens & Businesses of Valley Falls/Grasshopper Falls

Bogardus Hester Asherville Mitchell County, Covered Wagons, Bracken Bell, John Farrow, Stilley, Child Died in Mitchell County for lack of Medical Care, Dugout, David Bogardus, Log House North of Solomon River,

Husband Killed by Indians 1868, Wagon Trains

Bollman Theresa Lammers 1830 Born in Germany

Bowen Anderson County Seat Dispute, Nursing, Dr. Preston Bowen built 1 room Log House, Shannon was County Seat of Anderson Co., Early Days of Shannon

Bowen Amelia Fosket 1836 Sheltered Railroad Hands at her Home during the Cheyenne Indian Raid of 1878, Graduate of Seminary, Taught School in Home & Later in Public Schools

Boyd Eliza Jane Husband Civil War Veteran from Ohio, Sheared Sheep, Made Yarn & Stockings, Covered Wagon, Transplanted Sorghum, Made Molasses

Boyd Ines Fallon 1855 Dugout near Kensington

Boyd Mary E. Attwater 1852 Buffalo Wallows & Chips, 6 Relatives Served in Civil War, Son Served in WWI

Boylan Castella

Florence

Walter 1852 Schools, County Superintendent

Bradford Cornelia Pollard

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Brandley Elizabeth Romigh 1843 Flowers, Fruit Trees, Captain 9th KS Cavalry, Wounded, Trading Patterns, Steamboat, Tecumseh, Early Cottonwood Falls Residents, 1860 Drouth, Butchering Meat, Grasshoppers, Riding Horse Alone

on Trips, Buffalo Hunt, Jerk & Dry Buffalo Meat

Brandley Elizabeth Romigh 1873 Trading Supplies with Indians for Moccasins & Buffalo Hides, 6 room Log Cabin, Early Graduate of Emporia Normal, No Doctors, Soap Making, Home was Stagecoach Station, Prairie Schooner, Wild

Flowers in May, Women's Work

Bratley Mary E. Hastings 1842 Wagon Train Birth, Claim near Dodge City, Bought School Land 6 Miles NE of Wichita, Prairie Fire Put Out by Rain, Walked to Sister in Blizzard

Breese Margaret

M.

Irwin 1838 Mail Service, Social Affairs

Breese Margaret

M.

Irwin 1838 Mahogany Table, Dried Apples, Side Meat, Johnny Appleseed, Jonathan Chapman, Husband Captain of 6th Missouri Cavalry, Cottonwood Falls, Chase County Organizer, Malaria & Ague, Kaw Indians

in Chase Co., Log House with 2nd Story with Walnut walls

Brigham Lalla Maloy History of Council Grove, Author, Becknell Pack Trail, Birth of Santa Fe Trail Centennial, DAR Member

Brigham Mary E. Hutchinso

n

1825

Brigham Sarah K. Mabie 1848 Presbyterian Church

Broadbent Sarah E. Glaze Mitchell Co. WCTU, Girls Industrial School

Brokaw Lucy Van Fosen Grinding Meal, Coffee, Pigs, Chickens, Cows, Buffalo Hunt, Dugout for 10 People, Texas Cattle, Gentry County Missouri, Selling Butter & Milk, Claim Near Glen Elder, Husband Quarried Stone & Built

House in 1873, Traded Horses for Oxen, Prairie Fires

Brokaw Lucy Van Fosen Winter 1871-1872 Blizzard

Brooks Mary

Angeline

Boughton 1837 Banker, Paul Brooks, First Teacher in Lawrence-Other Teachers: Sarah Brown-Miss Oakley-Lucy Wilder, Free State Settler, Absent from Lawrence during Quantrill's Raid, 1st Lawrence Store Keeper,

1st Church Wedding in Lawrence

Bross Frances Taylor 1900

Bross Marie A. Bross 1905

Brown Elizabeth Stalker 1822

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Brown Elmira Spencer 1840 Widow Homesteading in Seward Co., Student at Kansas State Normal in 1865, Taught in Lyon & Seward Counties, Start of Town of Altoona, Husband had Flour Mill

Brown Emma

Cornelia

Sargent 1844 Grasshoppers Eating Peaches, Gardening, Dried Buffalo Meat, Buffalo Steak & Potatoes, Flooding, Fleas, Solomon, Solomon Valley, Husband Mitchell County Commissioner, Abilene Cattle Drive,

Grasshoppers, Strips 1 mile long x 1/4 mile, Hospitality

Brown Emma

Cornelia

Sargent 1844 First Stone House in Mitchell Co., In 1870 Built Stone House with Mortar, Indians, First School in District Mitchell Co., Railroad to Mitchell Co. 1869

Brown Mrs.

Charles

Cranston

Rev. Pickens, Circuit Rider, Chicken Dinner, Social Affairs

Brown Olympia Woman Preacher, The Woman Suffrage Campaign of 1867

Buffington Eliza

Frances

Paschal 1839 Wagon Trains

Buriss Nancy Kiger 1840 Council Oak, Centennial Celebration of 1825 Treaty

Burlingham Gertrude

E.

Robertson 1839 Fear of Quantrill Coming to Topeka, Santa Fe Railroad, Colonel Holliday, First to Receive Teacher's Certificate in Leavenworth, Snake in Topeka Boarding House, Social Affairs, Stagecoach Travel,

Grocery Store Products, Eugene Ware-Classmate in Iowa

Burlingham Gertrude

E.

Robertson 1839 Anti-Slavery, Dutch Crossing, John Brown, Covered Wagons, Iowa, Cooking Recipes, Buying Apples from Passing Wagon, Menus, Duck Hunting at Silver Lake, Indians remarked she had Heap Big Scalp

because of Long Hair, Pottawatomie Indian Dance, Quantrill

Burlingham Gertrude

E.

Robertson 1839 Wild Flowers, Wild Strawberries

Burnett Anna Mary Fisk 1833 Free State Settler, Border Ruffians, Sacking of Humboldt, Register of Land Office, Steamboat, Westport Landing, Bourbon County, 1860 Drouth, Husband Member of Wyandotte Convention, Travel by

Ox Team, Suffrage Campaign of 1869 with Susan B. Anthony

Burnett Margaret Denny 1843

Burton Hettie

Burton Rachel Barber 1862 Animals, Turkey Creek, Covered Wagon, Corn as Fuel, School House Uses, Chicken Coop made of Sunflower Stalks

Bush Clara Newlon Collecting Jars of Grasshoppers, Woodson County Seat Dispute, Crime & Justice, Ague & Fever, July 4th in Labette Co., Husband Built Frame House in Oswego 1868, Osage Indians Burial Grounds near

Oswego, Log Cabin, Negro Immigration 1879

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Bush Clara Newlon Quantrill's Bullet, First School in Oswego, First Chetopa School was Log House, Father was Doctor, Doctor J.F. Newlon, Provisions from Ft. Scott

Caddick Thomas Operated General Store in Wakeeney, Safe, Gold, Land Dealer, Land Sharks, Picnics held in grove on the Saline River, Water

Caldwell Maggie White Wellington Hotel, Bed Tick of Buffalo Grass, Grasshopper, Church Services in Wellington, Different Denominations, Buffalo Meat, Potatoes a Luxury, Wood Hauled 75 miles, 1874 Grasshopper

Invasion, Wellington Lawyer, House Built in Center of Street

Caldwell Maggie White Indian Scares, Wellington in 1872, Traveled by train to Wichita then Covered Wagon to Wellington, Nearest well 4 miles away

Campbell Christina Phillips 1831 Born in Paisley Scotland, Grasshoppers, Operated General Store in Salina, Traded with Indians, Known as "White Sister" by Indian Squaws, "Mother of Salina", Travel by River, Wild Flowers

Campbell Martha

Ann

Church Services in Homes, Raising Fruit, Plentiful Food, Riding Horses, Prairie Chickens, Quail, Ducks, Antelope, Homesteading Dickinson Co., Oxen, Rolling Prairie, First School in House, Singing

School, Spelling Bees

Campbell Sarah E. Cornwell 1844 First Funeral in Rice Co., Mound berries, Cooperation between Campbell & Boyer Families, 1871 Emigrant Train, Wes Boyers, Cooking for Railroad Construction Gangs, First Child Death Charles

Campbell in Rice County 1872, Two Family Dugout, Buffalo Meat

Campbell Sarah E. Cornwell 1844 Bedstead made of Tree Trunks, Homesteading near Lyons, Rider Carrying Warning of Indians, Indian Traded Baby Moccasins for "Hoggie Tallow", Mail Deposited in Cracker Box, 2 Family Yoke of

Oxen, Building Railroads to Lakin in 1872, "Bif Snowstorm"

Campdoras Eliza Reader Husband Surgeon 2nd Regiment of KS Home Guard, Educated in France, 1860 Drouth, Bought Land as Single Woman $2/acre Near Indianola, Indians entered Homestead Unannounced, Price of Corn

& Calico 1860

Capper Isabelle McGrew 1841 Border Ruffians, John Brown, Father Simon McGrew was a Free State Settler, First Ingrain Carpet, Log Cabin Built on Elk Creek Linn Co., McGrews Ancestors were Quakers, Taught School in Log Cabin

Linn Co.

Carleton Anna E. Evans Walnut River, Bridge, Town of Douglas, July 4th, Herb Teas & Mustard Plasters

Carpenter Agnes Elder 1856 Ironing Dresses, Making Jelly from Cactus, Homemade Rag Dolls & Other Toys

Carpenter Elizabeth Fenner 1840 Congregational Church, Texas Cattle

Caton Mrs. W. B. Covered Wagon, Indians in Winfield were Friendly, Railroad Workers in Winfield, Winfield in 1879

Cave Virginia Sims 1860 Boarding House, Students, Hays, College Education for 4 Children

Cavender Catherine

K.

1863 Hays Church Services, Cowboys & Shooting, Dugout near Hays, Fort Hays, Early Hays City, Riding Horses to School, "Fox" Hunting by Victoria, Dull Knife Cheyenne Raid, 2 Newspapers Hays City

Sentinel & Ellis County Star, Prairie Wildflowers

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Cavender Catherine

K.

1863 Social Affairs, Beauty of the Sunflower, Fort Hays Ambulance, Wild Flowers

Champion Smith 1835

Chapman Lavinia Gates 1835 Substantial Farm House, Prairie Fire Set by Indians 1863, Lane's Escape from Lawrence in Aug 1863, Ayersburgh Post Office, Husband An Orderly Sergeant Pursued Quantrill

Chapman Lavinia Gates 1835 Solomon Valley, Indian Scare, Church Services Ottawa Co., Dr. Osborn of Ottawa Co., Grasshopper Invasion of 1865 & 1874, Pursuit of Quantrill, Story of Hugh D. Fisher, Escape of Jim Lane, Slaves in

Missouri

Chapman Sara A. 1843 English Colony, Wakefield, Born in England, Sweeping Path Through Grasshoppers, Homesteading near Wakefield, Water, Cistern

Charles Lydia Evans 1835 Born in Glamorganshire South Wales, Indians enter House & stole Bread & Horse, Settler killed in Indian Raid Others Fled to future Site of Concordia

Chenoweth Mary Janes Baptist Church, Furniture & Undertaking Business, Born in England, Seamstress, Owned Sewing Machine

Childers Ruth Furgeson 1853

Clark

Clark Allena Ann Clevenger Neck Tie Party (lynching), Cooked Dinners for Grave Diggers, Social Affairs, Cutting Corn to Save From Grasshoppers, Log Cabin with Walnut Woodwork, Sheep, Wedding in School House

Clark Bell Gates 1857 Dugout, Indian Raid 1868, Settler took Refuge in Stockade in Asherville, Encountered Raid on Trip to Delphos

Clark Edward F. Buffalo Bill, White Buffalo, Surveyors for KS Pacific RR, Hunting Buffalo, Accidentally shot in Foot, Doctor used Poultice of Buffalo Dung, Working in Fields, Colonel Greenwood's Death in New Mexico,

Hays as Tent City

Clark Edward F. 3 Indians Killed in Battle with Surveyors of Kansas Pacific RR, Indian Burial Customs, Spent time with Chief Gurney Kake of the Sac & Fox

Clark Ellen Davis 1856 Fuel consisted of Corn Stalks Prairie Hay Coal Corn, Pratt Co. Homesteading, Water, Spring 3 Miles Away

Clark Marovia Still 1884 Baker University, Dr. Abraham Still, Osteopathy, Methodist Mission, Free State Settler

Clemson Edith A. 1875

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Clemson Edith A. Hockenbar

ger

1876 Bean Suppers, Taffy Pulls, Dancing, Sod House with Dirt Floor, Slat Bonnets, Supply Trips in blizzard, Railroad, Blizzard of 1886, Hockenbarger Place, Driving Cattle in Blizzard, Working for 50 cents/day

Clemson Edith A. Hockenbar

ger

1876 Bedsteads, Antelope, Herding Cattle, Slat Sunbonnets, Sod House, Homesteading in Ness County, Pony & Heifer Team, Sled, Coyote Hunts, Cow Chips & Sunflower Stalk as Fuel, Children Rode Ponies

to School, Rode to Church on Sled Drawn by Oxen

Clemson Martha Butler 1835

Cline Minerva Husband Lt. In Co. E, 13th KS Volunteers, Unsifted Corn Meal, Snow Birds, Hid Children in Corn Fields from Indians, Alone during Civil War

Coburn Lou Jenkins 1848 Baker University, Student, Wagon Train, Franklin County, Free State Settlers, Sickness, Women Alone

Cochran Margaret

Ann

Hyman 1852 12 x 16 Dugout, House with two sod rooms, July 4th in Mitchell Co., Homesteading Section 35 Walnut Creek Twp., Husband Worked in Town

Cochran Mary Ann

McConnell

Piper 1838 Milk Cows, Texas Steers, Raising Chickens, Claim Jumpers, Dugout on Brown's Creek, Raising Peaches, School in a Dugout, School House Built in Solomon Rapids in 1872, Social Affairs, Supply Trips,

Planting Walnut Trees, 1871 cold Winter

Cochran Mary Ann

McConnell

Piper 1838 Born in Canada, Gardening, Grasshoppers as Chicken Feed, Kept Gun in Dugout, Hospitality During Storm, Log House without Fireplace, Rattlesnakes, Wild Flowers

Cockrell Mrs.

Hamilton

Opened Boarding House for Students of Blake College, Snake in Drawer

Coffin Lillie B. Marcks 1862 Grasshoppers under Wheel of Train, Grasshoppers ate everything but Buckwheat & Sorghum

Colaw Mollie

Rebecca

Powell 1871

Cole Eliza James After coming to Indianola built Log Cabin, Beds made by driving stakes in ground

Cole Frances E. 1846 Band of Delawares passed Cole Home after Having Corn Ground at Grasshopper Falls, Taught at Indianola School

Cole Joseph

Mortimer

Claim Jumpers, Indianola Squatters Association, Homesteading, Indians, Indianola was located on Military Road between Ft. Leavenworth & Ft. Riley

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Cole Sarah A. 1855 Taught School in Lincoln Co., Studied Medicine at Homeopathic Medical School of the University of Iowa

Collier

Collier Elizabeth Frank 1848 Morris Co. Woman's Christian Temperance Union, President of Woman's Relief Corps

Collins Jeanette Coffman 1855 Women Help Farm, Freighting of Goods, Husband Freighted Goods between Chanute & Fredonia, Indians

Collins Leora M. Filmore 1850 Collins House Fire 1873, Flood of 1882 near White Cloud

Collinson Amanda

Evelyn

Heaton 1858

Colman Mary Jane Wendell 1817 Free State Settler, To Lawrence in 1854, Defense of Lawrence, Sharp rifle cartridges, Scarce Provisions, Rabbits, Quail, Prairie Chickens, Stone House Laid Without Mortar, Straw Houses in Lawrence

1854

Columbia First White Child born in Morris County 1852, Husband Representative in Legislature

Combs Millie Fielder 1855

Comstock Harriet Woodin 1819 Crossing Streams, Neosho River, Church Services in Home, DAR Member, Malaria, Railroad came to Urbana, House built with Lumber Hauled from Kansas City, Canville Trading Post, Log House with

Blanket for Window & Door

Conn Sarah Stevenson

Conrad Wilma Flora 1860 Husband County Clerk & State Senator

Converse Nathan P. Fruit Store & Meat market in Salina

Cook Martha Brown 1844 Married John Cook in 1862, Husband associated with Chase Hotel, Taught in Log House in Eugene, Charles Curtis one of her Students, Husband worked at Chase Hotel

Copeland John

Marshall

Short Horn Cattle, Glasco, First Federal Cavalry of Missouri, Ill Cavalry Company H

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Copeland Josephine Ackerman 1856 Indians in Russell Co., Early Days & Founding of Russell

Copeland Mary A. Rutledge

Cordry Almira S. Peckham 1863 DAR Member, First State Historian of the DAR, Compiled World War Records of Veterans, Dugout with Log Front Wall, 1882 Kansas State Graduate, Teaching of Art, Santa Fe Trail Marked by DAR

Cordry Eliza Jane Lindley 1832 25th Indiana Volunteers, School Teacher, Dugout with Log Wall Front, Moving near College, Oxen Taken in to Dugout in Blizzard

Corning Eva L.

Coudy Eliza Breen 1838 Born in Carlow County Ireland, Emigrated to New York at 18

Courtney Alice Patterson 1863 Baptist Church

Cowle Mary Tatman 1855 Wandering Indians, Husband Hauled Supplies from Hebron NE, Alone on Homestead

Cowley Nancy Johnson 1828 Fort Larned, Cowley County Namesake, Small Pox among Indians, 1860 Drouth, Homesteading, Disagreement between Indians & Whites at Fort Larned, 9th Kansas Cavalry, Supply Trips, Territorial

Days, Travel by Oxen

Craig Mrs.

George R.

1839 Hauling Wood to Fort Hays, George Craig, Banker, Natoma, Lack of Fruits & Vegetables, Born in Scotland, Emigrated in 1860

Cramer Lucy P. Hodge 1865 Sunday School in Sod House, Railroad to Salina 1873, Lack of Trees, Wagon Trains, Snow Bound Dugout, Wedding in Sod House Church

Cramer Lucy P. Hodge 1865 Clouds of Grasshoppers, Homemade Bedsteads, Sunbonnets, Calico, No Cemetery, Mother & Child Buried in Garden, Dugout, Friendly Spirit, Homesteading, Hospitality, Pioneer Houses, Barnes

Family Stayed in Dugout, Roads & Trails, 1st School House 1874

Crary Sabra A. Teats

Crowley

Crumb Emiline Woods Dyeing, Hominy Recipe, Soap Making Recipe

Culp Elizabeth

Artist

Wagner 1843 Buffalo Hunt, Flooding of Solomon River, Husband Freighted between Beloit & Waterville 1873, Hogs Ruined Feather Beds, Homesteaded in Asherville & Lulu Twps., House Flooded by Solomon River,

Husband was Postmaster in Lulu, Lucy Waggel, Callie Scott

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Currie Elizabeth Harding Illinois, CB&Q Railroad, Woodson County Seat Wars, Tea made from Leaves, Oxen moved buildings when County seat moved in Woodson Co., Railroad to Chanute 1871, Water, SW Kansas Wind,

Work was Scarce

Curtis Permelia Hubbard 1807 Husband bought land & platted Eugene, Eugene name for town where they were Married

Custer Elizabeth

Cuthbertson Mrs. F. T. Buffalo, Covered Wagon, Homesteaded in West Republic County, Frequent Indian Visits, Husband only Lawyer in Western Republic Co., Husband taught Children until Eldest became Teacher

Dallas Nancy B. Baker University, Methodist Preachers

Daratt Ida R. Bastain 1851 Preempted a Claim in Sedgwick Co., Sunday Schools in School Houses

Darling Katherine Hyman 1842 Born in Scotland, Emigrated to US from Canada via RR to Waterville, Widowed, Mitchell Co., Naturalization Papers, Lucky Ford, Homesteaded Timber Claim with Son

Darrah Hannah Nelson 1863 Santa Fe Trail Freighting, Calico, Jeans, Swedish Colony, Lindsborg, Eight Year Old Baking Bread, Died October 1868, Leaky Dugout on Smoky River, Log House, Fish Plentiful in Smoky River, Wild

Grapes Plums Gooseberries, Indians, Big Log House

Darrah Hannah Nelson 1863 Mosquitoes, Lindsborg School was Over Store, Making Toys out of Clay, Traveled by Train to Salina 1868

Darrah Mary Furguson 1851 Drivers of Freight Paid Well, Free State Settler, Wild Fruits, Fish, Alfalfa, Antelope, Bank Failure, Border Ruffians, Prisoner, Studebaker Buggy, 1871 Blizzard, Silk Dress, Butterick Pattern, McPherson

County Seat Dispute, Grasshopper, Riding Horses

Darrah Mary Furguson 1851 Bryan Ranch, Mail Service, Prices During WWI, Brother Killed in Price Raid, Teacher was Elvira Groves, Lack of Trees, Wore Pink Silk Dress at Wedding

Darrow Mary E. McCracken Antelope, Buffalo Chips, Travelers Dugout, Horses, Cattle, Brother was Teamster, 1874 Grasshopper Invasion, Sister Rode Horse & Carried 2 Guns, McCracken Ranch only Stopping Place between

Concordia & Cawker City, Gave Indians Corn Bread

Darrow Mary E. McCracken Railroad Came to Mitchell Co. in 1876, Wolves, Husband Worked for $5 a Week

Daugherty Lucy T. Longfellow 1837 Home Guards, Charles Longfellow, Enlistment of Brothers, Homesteading Near Eudora, Brother returning from Leavenworth Saw Aftermath of Quantrill, Territorial Days

Daugherty Rosalie V. Cunningha

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1840 Diphtheria in Children, Begging Indians from Council Grove Agency

Davis Catherine

A. S.

Hudson 1825 Free State Settler, Boarding Tent, Leavenworth, Churches in Atchison Co., Earned Money by Sewing, Union Service, Contractor Husband Helped Build Fort Leavenworth, Boarding Tent, Homesteading

in Jackson Co., Indian Visits, Temperance & Prohibition

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Davis Elizabeth

Caroline

Rich 1850 Inexperienced Cattle Raisers, Chicago Colony, Lindsborg, Wild Grapes & Plums, Riding Over the Prairie, Mail Service, Organization of McPherson Co., Fuller's Ranch on Turkey Creek was Santa Fe Trail

Station 1855, Prohibition in McPherson

Davis Harriet Pearce 1845 Burlington Grocery Store, Remembrances of Early Burlington

Davis Jane Hale 1812

Davis Margaret

G.

Brown 1844 United Brethren Church

Day Mary

Florence

Pinkham 1851 Methodist Church, Wagon Train from Iowa, Mitchell County Dugout, Born in Stanstead Canada, Indians Friendly but Always Begging, Log House

De Wald Anna

Elizabeth

Streck 1856 Russell was Treeless, Large Hail Stones, Married in Otis Kansas by Lutheran Minister, Husband Worked for RR at 50 cents/day

De Wald Anna

Elizabeth

Streck 1856 Lutheran, Candles, Bender Colony, Russell County Schools, Russia, Hastings NE, No Roads, Hotel Work, Buying a Cow, Robbery of Men after Selling Wheat, Leavenworth Escapee, Dugout, Help with

Harvest, Trading Produce for Credit, Wheat 35 cent, Indians

De Wald Anna

Elizabeth

Streck 1856 Emigrated from Russia, Beds with Bed Cords, Father was District Judge in Russia, Homestead near Milberger, Hiding from Indians at Bender Colony, Traded Farm Produce for Credit at Stores, Prairie

Fires, Owned 1st Sewing Machine in Bender Colony

De Wald Kathrine Lohman 1864 German Colony, Russell, Emigrated from Russia, Grasshoppers Rush Co., Many Indian Scares, Price of Oxen, Attended Bunker Hill School, Father was Teacher in Russia, Sod House, Triple Wedding at

Bender

Dean Martha M. Shipley 1854 Dugout, Trundle Bed, Homesteading in Morton Co., Traveled to Morton Co. by Covered Wagon 1886, Afraid to show a Light when Alone

Dearborn Sarah Ann Briggs 1825 Preacher's Wife, Baldwin Methodist Church, Lumber Wagon, Abraham Lincoln's Death, Born in England

Deardorff Ophelia Ingalls 1844 Husband 118th Indiana, Indian Raid in Ottawa Co. 1869, Supply Trips from Ingalls to Solomon City, Traveled by RR to Salina 1870, Women Alone

Decker Margaret 1873 Served as Kansas State Chaplain of the American Legion Women's Auxiliary

DePoy Rachel Harshburg

er

1837 Homesteading in Mitchell Co.

Dever Louisa Meek Soldier's Homestead in Dickinson Co.

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Dexter Aaron Clay County, Chicago, Covered Wagon, First Child Born in Clay Center, Log House, Established Saw Mill in Clay Center later converted to Grist & Flour Mill

Dexter Alfonzo Established Saw Mill in Clay Center later converted to Grist & Flour Mill, Founders of Clay Center

Dexter John Established Saw Mill in Clay Center later converted to Grist & Flour Mill, Founders of Clay Center

Dickson Lydia Ann Penncock Border Ruffians, Pennsylvania, Steamboats, Brother Wm Penncock Legislator at Shawnee Mission, Kickapoo Cannon used in Sacking of Lawrence, Cannon Captured in Mexican War by Gen. Kearny,

Larger Log House upon Arrival of Family, Tall Prairie Grasses

Dix Susan Mendenha

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1841 Pratt Public Library, Husband Dr. Isaac Dix, Lifetime Quaker, Active in Local & State WCTU, Member of "The Coterie"

Dixon Anna Holmes 1830 Preacher's Wife, Indians in Russell Co., Dull Knife Cheyenne Raid

Donovan Mary Jane Turner 1848 Bought Preemption rights 13 Miles SW of Olathe, Age 13 at Time of Quantrill's Raid, Lawrence Residents stole Property from Missouri

Donovan Mary Jane Turner 1848 Buffalo, Deer, Wild Turkey. Drought of 1860, Gold, Banks, Border Troubles, Children Planting Corn by Hand, William Thompson, Aid Supplies at Westport, Grasshoppers Near Humboldt 1883, Rode to

Olathe Alone to Pay Taxes, Indians on Trip to Olathe 1858

Dornblaser Sarah M. Foster 1832 Husband Brigadier General, Farm near Fredonia, Husband Surveyor for Frisco Railroad, J.A. Burge

Downing Ella West Hays Boot Hill, Cholera, Removal of bodies to Ft. Leavenworth, Frame House in Hays, Cheyenne Raid of 1878, Husband was Postmaster & Editor of Ellis County Star

Drake Marrietta Barker 1847 Helped with Births, Line Caskets made by Husband, Neighbors mistook Mrs. Drake for an Indian, Put Lantern on top of House for help with Directions, Driving ox team, Patriotic Orders, National

Convention of Woman's Relief Corps

Duncan Sarah Johns 1839 Family buried under Oak Tree by Blue River, Baby Girl's Death, Bushwackers, Chills, Fever, Cholera, Death without Medical Care, Homemade Bed & Table, Buffalo Hide Rug, Used Gun Once, $50 Quit

Claim, Husband Henry Miller killed by Indians in Oregon

Duncan Sarah Johns 1839 Squaws tried to Kidnap David Miller, Log Cabin with Hewn Logs, Wood Rats as Big as Cats, Driving ox Team, Bluestem Grass, Wild Turkeys, Wintered Cows, Kept Boarders, Had Garden, Raised Chickens

Dunlap Esther Bell 1860 Indians killed Uncle Bracken Bell, Esther & Margaret captured by Indians (Cheyenne & Sioux) but Later Escaped

Dunlop Jane Girwin 1848 Referred to Homestead as "Poverty Hill", Rolling Prairie with few Trees, Roads were mere Trails, Spelling Bees, Lyceums, Square Dances

Dunlop Jane Girwin 1848 Born in Scotland, Buffalo Meat 3 Cents/Pound, Calico Dress, Lumber Wagons, Deer, Prairie Chickens, Wood Gathered Along River, Grasshoppers, Homestead North of Detroit KS, Five Room Mansion

1880, Log Cabin, Use of Oxen

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Dunton Frances J. Glenn 1855

Durst Emeline Hanna 1862 Husband Ran Hotel in King City, King City Vanished when McPherson became County Seat, Newton was end of Santa Fe Railroad in 1871, Prairie Fires, Roads & Trails, Teachers: Emma Smith-Ella

Eastlick-Mrs. Woodward, Sunday School, Haul Flour from Salina

Durst Emeline Hanna 1862 Antelope, Howard Gibler, Buffalo Hunt, Sermon south of Smoky Hill River, Ashtabula Colony, King City, Newton, Railroad, McPherson County Seat Dispute, Drowning of Child in Turkey Creek,

Grasshoppers Destroyed Crop in One Day, Claim in Lone Tree Twp.

Durst Emeline Hanna 1862 Scarcity of Trees

Dusin Mary Veeh 1848 Buffalo, Born in Germany, Homesteaded adjoining Brother George Veeh, Brother found Dead Indian Boy, Indians demanded Bread, Indians Stole Horse, Log Cabin, Mailed delivered to Truesdale, No

stores in Phillipsburg, Wild Turkeys, April 1873 Blizzard

Dutton Susie T. Craig 1848 Keeper of Toll Bridge Across Switzler Creek, Craigs Operated Tavern on Santa Fe Trail, Gardening, Husband served in Military

Eberhardt Anna C. Lampert 1842 Salina Methodist Church, Husband 12th Wisconsin, House filled with Handiwork, Home was Dormitory for Salina Wesleyan College

Edwards Martha

Jane

Lady 1849 Battle of Gettysburg, Worked in Tailor Shop Before Marriage, Abilene in 1876, Metropolitan Hall

Egy Sarah Ann Papered 1 Room House with Newspapers

Ehman Feddie Persinger 1860 Indiana, Covered Wagon, Lost Mother at Age 11in 1871, Gathering Peaches to Save from Grasshoppers, Grasshoppers ate Window Shades, Encountered Friendly Indians, Log Cabin in Miami Co.,

Fighting Prairie Fires, Walking to School, Sunday School

Ehman Feddie Persinger 1860 Carrying Water

Elder Catherine

Cecilia

Sook 1851

Eldred Sophronia Nye Covered Wagon from Massachusetts, Miami County, Baptiste Peoria, Had Claim 1 mile from Paola

Elliott Mrs.

David

Stewart

David Stewart Elliott purchased Coffeyville Journal from Senator Peffer, David Stewart Elliott killed by Quantrill's Men at Baxter Springs 10/6/1863

Emery Frances Roberts 1852 Indian Scare Miami Co., Baby Died from Diphtheria, Melted Lard Down Throat

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Eply Mary V. Ambrose 1841

Espenlaub Elvira Gromes 1844

Espy Melora

Elizabeth

1836 Wyandotte Convention

Espy Melora

Elizabeth

1836 Methodist Church, Animals, Taught Indians, Husband Wounded by Indians, 2 Indians Executed in Council Grove, Pilfering Indians, Indian Uprisings, Leavenworth Convention, Mexican War, Wagon

Train from Leavenworth to New Mexico 1855, Santa Fe Trail

Evans Emma Mason 1855 Indian ponies, Richfield Kansas

Ewing Myra Hawk 1855 Cattle, Blackleg, Covered Wagon, Iowa, Walnut Creek, Mitchell County, Helping Mother, Fort on Ewing Land in Round Springs Township Mitchell Co., Stone House with Dirt Floor, New House Built in

1902

Fall Delia 1837

Faris Emma Pitezel 1844 Presbyterian Church, Susan B. Anthony, Ellsworth, Durham Cattle, Texas Fever, Illinois, Covered Wagon, Employed Sophie & Charlotte Strous, Adopted Brownlee & Elizabeth Becker, Dr. Sternberg

Preached in Faris' Log House

Faris Emma Pitezel 1844 Brother Irwin Pitezel bit by Skunk on Hunting Trip Died of Hydrophobia 1872, Mistaken for Carrie Nation, Dr. Levi Sternberg, Sunday School in Faris Grove, Woman's Suffrage

Farnsworth Helen Bowker 1853 Topeka Baptist Church, Masonic Orders, Charter Member of Beulah Chapter 1884, Worthy Matron, Worthy Grand Marshall, Grand Conductree 1895

Ferguson Hannah J. Covered Wagon, Iowa, Wild Gooseberries Plums Grapes Blackberries

Ferrell Tarsy

Salome

Myers 1854 Home & Store Fire in Wichita, Owned 4 Farms they Subdivided into Wichita Town Lots, Lloyd Ferrel was a Telegrapher, Operated Ferrell's Dollar Store

Ferris M.

Genette

Whitney 1837 Buffalo Chips & Brush as Fuel, Husband Civil War Veteran, Soldier's Homestead, Buffalo Meat, Buffalo Peas, Rye Coffee, Indians Stealing & Pilfering, Log Cabin with Board floor, Fought Prairie Fires

with Wet Sacks, Taught in Dugout School

Ferris M.

Genette

Whitney 1837 Smith Center Merchant, Sunday School on Creek bank, Children Home Alone During Blizzard

Fischer Frederica Hecker 1841 Born near Stuttgart Germany, German Friendly Spirit, Log House, Caring for Sick Neighbor

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Fisher Elizabeth Atcheson Leavenworth Methodist Church, Quantrill Raid, Reverend Fisher hid in Rolled Up Rug During Quantrill's Raid, Temperance Worker

Fleming Lydia Brown 1852

Fletcher Cassie Freeman 1842 Homesteaded West of Clay Center

Fletcher Martha Hainswort

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1861 Children lived on the Claim, Father had Cottonwood Shanty in Cawker City, Hunting Rabbits with Army Musket, Pilfering Indians, Indians raided Settler West of Cawker City 1870, Subscription Schools

in Cawker, Clark A. Smith, Phoebe Philips, Snakes


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1861 Sunday School, Traveled by RR to Solomon City & Ox Team to Claim, Member of Carr Creek Social Federated


h

1861 Born in Canada, Buffalo, Antelope, Wild Turkeys, Beaver, Rabbit, Howard Gibler, Buffalo Tallow Candles, Cawker City, Carpenter, Raising Children, Motherless Home, Dugout, Log House, Sorghum

Molasses, Vinegar, Homesteading

Foltz Rebecca Heberling 1842 Father Hiram Heberling was Free State Settler

Foote Sarah Gleason 1846 Baptist Church Organized, Asherville, Solomon City, Wisconsin, Homemade Furniture, 17 in 1 Room Log Cabin, Unplastered Frame House, Roads & Trails to Mitchell Co., Sunday School in Home,

Traveled by RR to Solomon City, Planting Trees, Asherville WCTU

Ford Ada Ford 1864 Antelope, No Buffalo, Settler killed by Indians buried in Oberlin Cemetery 1878, Sister of Bill Hickok lived in Oberlin, Dull Knife Cheyenne Raid, Wild Turkeys

Forrest Lillian Incidents of Indian Hostility & Atrocities, Capture of Mrs. Nicholas Ward

Forseman Mrs. J. O. Methodist South Church, Rev. Forseman, Presiding Elder

Frans Lottie

Irene

Taylor 1842 William Taylor, Professional Buffalo Hunter

Frederickson Johanna 1833 Born in Sweden, Clouds of Grasshoppers, Homesteading in McPherson Co., Begging Indians, Faster to walk than drive Oxen

Frink Laura

Elizabeth

Belts Scarce Food, Sorghum, Corn, Aid from Iowa, Sack Clothing, Pomeroy Kansas Aid, Ohio River, Missouri River, St. Joseph, 1860 Drouth

Fritz Phoebe Hurr 1847 Friendly Spirit, Animals, Coyotes, Prairie Chickens, Quail, Meadowlarks, Candles, Chicago Fire, Lumber Wagon, Firewood Hauled 8 miles, Dense Cloud of Grasshoppers, Homesteading in Dickinson Co

Near Abilene, Boarding with Neighbors

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Fritz Phoebe Hurr 1847 Planting Trees, 80 Foot Deep Well Produced Alkali Water

Fritz Phoebe Hurr 1847 Lumber for House Hauled from Abilene, Neighbors took turns getting Mail from Abilene, Oxen used to Break Land, No County Roads in 1871, Six in First School, Cooperative Farming, Snakes in Cellar,

Sunday School, Traveled to Abilene via RR 1871

Frizzell L. Dora DuMont 1866 Presbyterian Church, Father was First Merchant in Larned

Fromm Augusta Accident, Drowning of Family, Wash Out of Bridge

Fuhr Lulu R. Logdon 1864 Dodge City, Stage Coach, Courteous Cowboys, Homemade Furniture, Claim in Meade Co., Mrs. Fuhr Built House with No Experience, Moving of Touzalin, Husband was Printer, First Newspaper in

Meade Center, Stagecoach Travel

Fuller W. L. Buffalo Bones, Ohio Colony, 1874 Grasshopper Plague Ellis Co., Early Days of Walker, January 1875 Blizzard in Ellis Co.

Galbraith Catharine

P.

Biggus 1836 Husband Captain of 16th Kentucky Infantry, Knitted Stockings & Mittens, Sewing Machine, Helped with 75 Births, Families owned Slaves Prior to Civil War, Traveled by Wagons to Morris Co. 1878

Gale Ellen Hall 1835 Married in 1858, Log House, Homemade Furniture, Husband in Militia patrolling Stage Line, Trained Singer, Log House Schools, Few Doctors, Married Jan. 1858

Gale Ellen Hall 1835 Born in England, Baker University, Graduation 1866, James C. Hall, Border Ruffians, Homesteading Douglas Co.Near Willow Springs, Church Services. Knitted Stockings, Covered Wagons, Ohio, 1860

Drouth, Log School Houses, Burning of Lawrence

Gallon Ellen Humphries Masonic Orders

Gandy Nancy

Ellen

Williams 1831 Lee County Iowa, A.B. Watson, Smith Williams, Lived in Log House in Cottonwood Falls Formerly Occupied by Col. Sam Wood, Friendly Indians, Wagon Train from Iowa

Garrett Nannie Kerr 1846 Campaigning for Woman Suffrage

Garrettson Mary A. Herd Lost, Run Mower & Chuck Wagon, Pre-emption Claim, Railroad Land, Homesteading, Bought Texas Cattle but Could Not Bring Them to Kearny Co. Because of Quarantine, Cutting Hay

Garrison Hepshiba Hendricks 1808 Indiana, Ohio-Mississippi-Missouri Rivers, Leavenworth, Overland Freight Train, 1860 Drouth, Supplies from Indiana, Hospitality, Home near Burnett's Mound, Chief Abram Burnett, Quantrill, Social

Affairs, Wild Flowers

Garvey Berta Alexander 1864

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Gaston Catherine McGhee 1824 Coyotes, Home a Wayfaring Inn, Post Office in Home, Planting Fruit Trees

Gates Anna Pearson 1850 Timber Claim in Mitchell County, Caldwell Family, Covered Wagons, Marriage to Josiah Gates, 1st Husband went with Family Back to Iowa, Anna Stayed in Mitchell Co., Bought Land 2 Miles N of

Asherville, Log House,

Geis Mary

Isadore

Cantwell 1848 Bank Failure, Salina, William Gies, Salina Catholic Church Services, First 2 Story House in East Salina, Friendly Indian woman

Gilbert Lovina Glendenni

ng

1846 Charter Member of Newton Ladies Reading Circle

Giles Lucinda Junken 1854 Grasshoppers ate Curtains & Clothing, Bill Hickock, Abilene Schools, Abilene in 1871, Courthouse Fire 1882, Married in 1874 to Wm. Giles, Member of Abilene Ladies Literary League, Equal Suffrage,

School Bond Elections

Gilkeson Annie Chadwick 1844 Superior Double Log House, Total Abstinence Society, The Good Templars, First School in Kansas at Easton, Teacher relative of General Grant, Slavery in Kansas, Square Dances, Virginia Reel, Walnut

Trees on Stranger Creek, Ice House, Prickly Heat

Gilkeson Annie Chadwick 1844 Black Abolitionist, Sheltered a Slave, Murder, Easton, Horse Thieves, Tallow Candles, Sweet Butter, Roasting & Grinding Coffee, Wild Strawberries Grapes, Rode Pony in First Fair in KS, Kept an Inn,

Chadwicks bought land 12 Miles from Leavenworth

Gill Grace Arnold Choirmaster in Methodist Church

Gillette Ida 1851 1879 Produce Prices, Born in Sweden, Left Smith Co. due to Grasshoppers, Indians Camped in Farmyard, Township Picnic, Supply trip to Manhattan, Water Witching, Hot Summer Winds, cold

Winters, Stocked & Ran Farm

Gilmore Susannah

Charlotte

O'Dell 1837

Gleason Anna Accident, Six Week Covered Wagon Trip from Wisconsin, Brother buried in Winterset Iowa, Stepfather killed by Falling Tree, Walked 30 miles to get Team of Oxen

Gleason Johanna

Ladd

Ayer Mrs. Thaddeus Prentice was Sister, Hang Clothes on Line at Night, Married in July 1863

Gleason Johanna

Ladd

Ayer Coffin, Chas. Dow, F.N. Coleman, Wakarusa War, Margaret Wood, Wheat $2/bushel in 1863, House burned by Quantrill Near Brooklin, Built "Salt Box" with Roof, Built 10 Room House, Mail Service,

Meadowlarks, Santa Fe Trail, Saving Dish Water

Gleason Sally A. 1827 Seamstress, Dainty Baby Garments, Dirt Sifted Through Every Crack in House, After Visiting Sister in Kansas Decided to Stay, Nursing Ability, Planted 4000 Trees

Glenn Harriet

Ann

Duncan 1838

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Goodale Laura A. Logan Dugout, Pioneering in the Schoolroom, Baked Squash, Buffalo Meat, Corn Bread, Neighbors had only 2 knives & forks, Went to Town to see Her First Indians the Peaceable Pawnees, Prairie Fire Oct.

1873 Smith Co., Snakes would not cross buffalo Hair

Goodin Zana 1860

s

Father Taylor, Circuit Rider, Baker University, Baldwin

Gordon Elizabeth Keyes 1843 Accident, Laying Out the Dead, Good of Early Abilene, Widow in Early Abilene

Gordon Julia Muffly 1844 Husband Captain of 6th Missouri Volunteer Infantry, First Dinner in Topeka, Wild Strawberries & Cream, Hunting near Topeka, Drunk Indian Bride of White Husband, Early Topeka

Graham I. D. Sod Houses

Graham James

Blanchard

Prairie Grass Made Good Hay, Ague, Wild Daffodils

Graham James

Blanchard

Rusty Red Coal, Coal Stripped, Covered Wagon Trip from Texas 1874, Malaria, Fever, Quinine, Wild Blueberries & Dewberries, Grasshoppers, Bought Claim Crawford Co., Member of Sherman's

March to the Sea, 129th Illinois Infantry, Prairie Chicken's Nest

Graham Mary Hicks Bedbugs, Rusty Red Coal, Covered Wagon Trip from Texas, Sheep Sorrel Pies, Stripped Coal, Prairie Chickens, Floor Half Planks & Half Dirt, House Built with Wide Boards, Tall Prairie Grasses, Fighting

Prairie Fires

Gray Anna M. Riley 1847 Flooding 1875, Cattle Country, Husband served in The Army of the Potomac, Claim Jumpers, Burning of Topeka Records, Cattle Herders at House, Kaw Indians, Traveled by RR to Americus, Women's

Work in Chase Co.

Green Annie Little 1858 Cimarron River, Quicksand, Christmas Dinner, Buffalo Steak, Walked to Father's Claim from Hugoton, Hand Dug well 223 Feet Deep, Blizzards

Green Ella

Tarleton

Green 1853 Conditions of Hotels before WCTU, Instumental in Legislation for Hotel Inspection, Delivered an Address in 1898 Before State Assembly of WCTU, Represented Mound City Paint & Color Company for

17 years

Groom Euphenia Street Claim Jumpers, Ague, Pile of Hay for Bed, Carried Revolver on Trips, Good Shot, Rode Alone on 2 Day Trip from Clifton to Jewell City, Log Cabin Burned by Prairie Fire, Used Oxen to Haul Lumber 50

Miles

Groves Mary Richards 1852 Cattle Man, Bought 3000 acre Ranch near Raymond, Ranch had 2 Wells & Boiling Springs, Hail Storm Destroyed Hay Crop

Gugler Elizabeth Weber 1836

Guild Avella Dunn 1852

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Guild Edward

Butts

1841

Guild Pamelia Butts Hid Valuables in Well from Quantrill's Men, Dressed son in women's Clothes & he Fled to the Country

Gullikson Bernhardin

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Benson 1850 Hand Made Clothing, Born in Sweden, First Husband Andrew Johnson Worked on Railroad, Harvey Co., Mortgaged Farm to Buy a Cow & Wagon, Fighting Prairie Fires, Price of Butter & Eggs, Selling

Eggs to Pay Mortgage

Guthrie Mary

Catherine

Hester 1837 Turkeys, Prairie Chickens, Quail, Presbyterian, On Arrival in Topeka Stayed at Gordon House 4th & Kansas Ave., Found Stone House in Topeka at 820 Quincy St., Pottawatomie Indians had Reservation

near Burnett's Mound, Travel on Kansas Central RR

Guthrie Mary

Catherine

Hester 1837 Came to Kansas from Logansport IN in 1866

Hadden Emily Dupoy 1849 Antelope, Hunting, Smith Co. Church Services, Jewell Co. Dugout, Husband Freighted between Hastings & Smith Center 1874, Third Burial in Smith Center Cemetery, 1874 Grasshopper Invasion,

Begging Indians, Buffalo Grass, Snow in Dugout

Haines Lavina Oiler Aid from IOOF, Nortonville Cemetery, Chinch Bugs, Nortonville Church Services, Losing Children, Produce Prices, 1874 Grasshopper Invasion, Prairie Fires Started by Trains, First School in Nortonville,

Early Days of Nortonville

Haines Mary E. Brown 1852 District President & State VP of the WCTU, "Y" Temperance Band for Young Women, State Organizer for Women's Suffrage

Haines Mary E. Brown 1852 Chinch Bugs, Women's Home Missionary Society of KS, Butler Co. Lecturer, Grange Organization, Grasshoppers, Homesteading in Butler Co., Traded Horses for Oxen, Built Shanty with Muslin Walls,

Early Days of Rosehill, Hot Winds, Blizzards

Hainline Prue Haun 1863 Death of Mrs. Phillip Best, Owner & Operator of Metropolitan Hotel in Eldorado at Time of Death, Owned Interest in Oil Wells

Haise Martha

Jane

Texas Fever, Cattle, Ranch of 5200 Acres, Dr. Haise Practiced in Russell, Orchard

Hall Elizabeth Decker 1838 Centerville Methodist Church, Husband Civil War Veteran, Free State Settler, Acted as Doctor & Nurse

Hamilton Alena O'Leary One Tree Visible in Clay Co. 1876, Drawing Water by Hand, Kept Farm Going in Husband's Absence

Hamilton Alena O'Leary 1854 Grange, Buggy, July 4th, Christmas. Circuit Riding Ministers, Clay Co., Calico Dress, Barefoot, Prohibition Colony, Dickinson County, Corn as Fuel, Few Musical Instruments, Oxen, Prairie Grasses,

Taught in Dickinson 1872, Barn Dances, Spelling School

Hamilton Mary O'Leary Prohibition Colony, Rev. W. B. Christopher, Born in Ireland

Handy Emma Chandler Description of Pioneer Schools-Teaching-Salary

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Hanley Carrie E. Pfeiffer 1852 Born in Alsace France, Grand Noble of the Naomi Lodge Rebeccas (Rebekahs), Superintendent of Topeka Orphan's Home from 1880 to 1926

Hanna Margaret Philips 1826 Buffalo, Salina, Sewing, Gardening, House Built of Green Cottonwood Lumber, House Blown Off Foundation, Husband editor of Newspaper in Chester Illinois, Brother named Salina, Raised Company

of Indians in Civil War, Salina Land Office

Hanna Margaret Philips 1826 Wm. Philips was Correspondent of NY Tribune, During Civil War supplies for Salina came from Lawrence, Husband published Salina Herald Paper, Traveled to Salina by Boat & Wagon

Harbaugh Sarah Ann Bogart 1832 Railroad Set Off a Freight Car for use as a House in Bunker Hill, Indians were Troublesome Beggars, Husband Founder of Bunker Hill, Ran Boarding House in Bunker Hill

Hardman Ellen Wilford 1851 Sod House, Husband Started Store before Working for Railroad, Iowa to Concordia Wagon Train

Hardman Ellen Wilford 1851 Lynx, Unmarked grave of young girl, Husband killed on RR in 1882, Parched Corn Coffee, Corn Bread, Clouds of Grasshoppers, Homesteading in Beaver Creek Cloud Co, Hunters Caught in Blizzard

1871, Fighting Prairie Fires, Rattlesnakes

Harger Charles

Moreau

Harlan Delilah Hendrix 1822 Golden Wedding Anniversary Sept. 18 1889 at Wakeeney

Harms Hannah Aschman 1873 Antelope, Shared Food with Travelers, Deer, Clothing Made from Linens, Typhoid Fever, 1874 Grasshopper Invasion, Oxen Team & Wagon, Lit Lantern to guide Travelers, Mailed carried by Stage,

Traded Horse for Oxen, Prairie Fires, Working for 25cents/day

Harris Jane Hill 1835 Town of Federal Failed Because of Lack of Water

Harris Jane Hill 1835 Christian Church, Early Churches in Hamilton Co., Development of Town, Furniture built by Local Craftsmen, Town of Federal, Claim in Hamilton Co., The Kendall Boomer-First Newspaper in Kendall,

Quilting, Planting Cottonwood & Locust Trees

Harris Jim No Stores in Barton Co., Nearest Store in Great Bend

Haseltine Louisa Merrick 1832 Rev. John Haseltine, Cawker City, 1874 Grasshopper Invasion, Homesteaded NW S.22,T7, R.10W in 1871

Haseltine Mary E. Thomas 1859 Buffalo, General Bull, Wild Elk,Wagon Train From Clarinda Iowa, Homesteading in Mitchell Co., Horse Thieves, Wagon Train met Indians in Nebraska, Wagons in a Circle

Hatch Dorothy Hammond 1844 Buffalo, 1874 Grasshopper Invasion in Smith Co., Indian Hunting Trips, Log Cabin, Neighbors took turns getting Mail from Hastings NE, Tree Claim of 160 Acres

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Haun Elizabeth Best 1853 Gave Land for Courthouse & School in Jetmore, Colonel A.B. Jetmore, Family Home sold at Sheriff's Sale, Come to Hodgeman Co. in 1878, Views of Virgin Prairie, Prairie Fires, Needlework, Sewing

Machine, Haul Water in Keg, Garden Destroyed by Hail

Haun Elizabeth Best 1853 Ran Farm, Brush & Cow Chips as Fuel, Pre-emption Quarter near Jetmore, First Stone House in Jetmore, Framed House on Farm moved & Added to Stone House in Jetmore, Cheyenne Indian Raid of

1878, Son born 10/1/1878, Laid Out Fairmont Cemetery

Haun Elizabeth Best 1853 German Evangelical Church, Antelope, Buffalo Bones, Cattle Trails, Musical Institute & Academy, Sewing Machine, Dugout, Jetmore, Fear of Prairie Fires & Horse Thieves, First Child Born in Jetmore

1881, Pawnee Creek Flooding, Dried Prunes

Haun Notley Ann Blackburn 1821 All Welcomed in Her Home, Carrie Nation Meeting, Wagon Trails

Haveman Mary Carrick 1882 Hays City, Hunting by Victorian Settlers, Indian Scares in Victoria, Sir George Grant, Advertising Campaign in Europe by Railroads, Early Days of Victoria

Hay Elizabeth Walton 1841 Free State Settler, Chief Chetopa, Indian Dances

Hays Caroline Pinney 1833 Destructive Indians, 500 Kaws camped near Home on way to Indian Territory, Mail Stage Route passed Hays House, Plowed around Home to Stop Prairie Fires, Snake in Canary Cage, Hauling Corn &

Wheat to Mill, Prairie Schooner, Planted Elm & Fruit Trees

Hays Caroline Pinney 1833 1868 Cyclone

Hays Caroline Pinney 1833 Flower Garden Buttons, Lady Slippers, Fear of Snakes Indians & Prairie Fires in Chase Co., Wooden Wash Tub for Bathing, "Shake Downs" for Sleeping, First House a Box House Made with Saw Mill

Lumber, Indians Hunting, Kaw Indians raced with Hays Boys

Heacock Anna John Brown Memorial Park, Sunday School Superintendent, Smallpox, Diphtheria, Spinal Meningitis, Homesteading in Labette Co., Wolves, Charter Member of Parson's Woman's Relief Corps, First

Department Patriotic Instructor of KS

Heacock Anna President of Woman's Relief Corps 1908-1909

Healey Florence I. Curtis 1854 Antelope, Buying a Cow, Meningitis, No Doctor, Dapple Gray Horses, Farm Animals, Buffalo Chips & Sunflower Stalks as Fuel, Homesteading Logan Co., Husband Elected Sheriff, Pioneer Houses,

Unobstructed Views on the Prairie, Killing Rattlesnakes

Healey Florence I. Curtis 1854 Sod Houses, Dirt Floors, Early Stories of Russell Springs, Traveled by RR to Russell Springs, Water, Dug May Wells but No Water

Hedin Anna Rosander 1840 Herding Cattle on Site of Lindsborg, Walked 21 Miles to Salina to sell Eggs for 5 cents/dozen & Get Mail, Born in Sweden, Shared Bread & Molasses

Hedlund Maria Vaver 1835 Taught in Salina until 1875, Homesteading near Lindsborg, Shelter, Dugout, Born in Sweden, Log house with Floor but Snakes still got in, Bolaga-Huset House in Lindsborg, Mr. Agrelius, Maria came to

Kansas from Pennsylvania

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Heinselman Eliza Reynolds

Hemphill Mary Jane Carnine 1835 Deer, Antelope, Panthers, Wolves, Buffalo, Church Service in Clay Center, Republican River, Could Use Gun, Home 45 miles from Fort Riley, Indian Scare, Construction of Log Cabin, Oxen, Sickness,

Doctor 40 Miles Away

Henshaw Leah Ellen 1844 Mules, Cow, Chickens, Buffalo, One Room Frame House, One of First Woman in Grant Co., Vast Prairie with few Neighbors, Relay Stage with 6 Horses passed the Place, Crossed ferry at Topeka, 1886

Blizzard

Hentschel Rose Fertemes 1864

Herington Jane Waters Born in England, Platted & Named Town of Herington, Bought Elliott Ranch of 3000 acres

Hiatt Mary

Eleanor

Maris 1840 Husband & Father bought Land on Old Delaware Indian Reserve, Cousin Wm. Coffin was former Indian Commissioner, Leavenworth in 1866, Quaker Meetings in Leavenworth, Road between

Leavenworth & Kansas City

Hiatt Sarah Wattles

Hildebrand Louise P. School Election, Newton Library Association, DAR, Mush & Milk, Begging Indians, High Bluestem Prairie Grass

Hildreth Texas Cowboys, Organizing Regent of the Newton DAR, Planted Trees & Shrubs in Newton, Homesteading near Newton, Remained in Newton when Family Moved to California, Taught in Rural

Schools & Darlington High School, Early Days of Newton

Hildreth Strong City Terminus of RR in 1871, Member of Reading Circle since 1880

Hill Addie Burrow Buffalo Hunt in Blizzard, No Schools in White Rock, Wagon Train from Macon County Illinois, Became a Quaker, Taught Children of White Rock in Home, Sister was Mary Watson

Hill Emma G. Belleville Town Well was Locked, First Well a Failure

Hill Emma G. Grasshoppers, Camping, Biscuits, Plainfield Iowa, Team & Wagon, Need of Water, Seed Potatoes, Turnips in Winter, Received Help from Elliot Family on Arrival, Homesteading in Mitchell Co.,

Concordia Land Office, Railroads, Colt killed by Rattlesnake

Hill Sarah Prosser 1839 Plowing Accident cause by Oxen, Homesteading in McPherson Co., Copperhead Snake, Member of McPherson Town Company, Scarcity of Trees, Pioneer Wedding Story won Prize, Mail and Breeze

Hills Alice Dutton 1843 Traveled by RR to Jefferson City MO, Picking Wild Flowers

Hills Alice Dutton 1843 Presbyterian Church, Civil War Casualties, Vermont, Council City, Santa Fe Trail near Dutton House, Ague, Peach Eating Grasshoppers, Begging Indians, Bought Land 4 Miles from Burlingame, Log

House, Purchased oxen & wagon in Lawrence, Taught at Age 15

Hinckley Eliza Hays 1826 Settled in Chase County, Cottonwood Falls House, Assisted at Birth, Jimson Salve, Hinkley House Hotel, Built 1st Dam & Saw Mill

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Hinshaw Sarah Ann Hiatt 1838 Antelope, Candles, Claim Jumpers, Drying Clothes, Emporia Town Company, "Indian Float", Cabin Headquarters for Travelers & Indulged Meetings, Feeding Indians, Immense Wagon known as

"49ers", Married Jan. 1857, Woman Preacher, Women's Work

Hitchcock Ellen Simmons 1855 Father in 3rd Kansas Cavalry, Came from Galesburg Illinois by Ox Team

Hitchcock Ellen Simmons 1855 Civil War, 2nd KS Cavalry, Ague, Few Doctors, Tent, Dugout, Free State Settler, Husband Freighted between Leavenworth & Burlingame, Claim in Osage Co., Indians would Repay for Food with Buffalo

Meat or Skins, Loneliness, Cattle Wore Bells

Hoag Ellen D. McConnell Woman's Missionary Society, Presbyterian, Homesteading in Harvey Co., Quakers

Hodges Lydia Ann Hartshorn Buggy, Cattle Trail near Olathe, Texas Longhorns, George Hartshorn, Grasshoppers, Son was George Hodges Kansas Governor, Shawnee Indian Reservation a few miles from Olathe, Olathe was full of

Saloons, Prairie Grass, Dr. Barton 1857

Hodges Lydia Ann Hartshorn Wagon Train from Mason City Iowa to Olathe 1869, Pink Verbena, Wild Flowers

Hoffman Agatha Gantenbei

n

1849 Dickinson Co. Reformed Church, Dried Buffalo Meat, Rabbits, Corn Meal, Born in Switzerland, 2 Room Log Cabin, Supplies at Nearest Railroad Terminal

Hoffman Catherine

A.

Hopkins 1855 Carrie Nation, Cultural Activities, Homesteading on Turkey Creek Dickinson Co., Established 1st Kindergarten in Enterprise, Supply Trips to Leavenworth 1872, Founder of Enterprise, President of

Suffrage Association

Hoffman Mary

Frances

Welsh 1851 Soldiers Camped at Attica to Protect Settlers from Indians, Talked to Abraham Lincoln, Attica Advocate

Hoisington Hannah C. Miller 1824 Sod House with Plastered Walls, Early Days of King City, Traveled by RR to Newton then Oxen to King City

Hoisington Hannah C. Miller 1824 Baptist Preacher's Pony in Kitchen During Blizzard, Hoisington, Husband Civil War Veteran 11th NY Artillery, Ashtabula Colony, King City, Nurse & Doctor in McPherson Co., Homesteading, David

Hoisington, Road Surveyed Between McPherson & King City

Hokanson Christine 1858 Kaw Indians, Rattlesnakes, Early Days of McPherson Co.Thrilling Adventure with Wolves, Women Alone While Husbands Worked on RR

Hokanson Christine 1858 Born in Sweden, Raising Chickens, Gooseberries, Sand Hill Plums, Buffalo Hunt & Meat, Christmas Service 1870, Homemade Chandelier, Lutheran Congregation, Stone Church, Marriage, Sunbonnets,

Calico Dresses, Swedish Colony, Marquette, Fremont, Drouth

Hokanson Mrs. C. J. 1849 Born in Sweden, Rattlesnakes, Wolves, Riding Horses, Rode Horse to Notify Settlers of Minister's Arrival, 1st Marriage in Stone Church at Fremont April 9 1871

Hollinsworth Margaret Spencer 1846 Seward Co. WCTU, Grange, Sunday School, Christian College Ottumwa Coffey Co., Kansas State Normal Emporia First Class of 1865, Rinker School in Lyon County, Served on Seward Co. School Board

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Holsinger Fannie 1848 Buying a Milk Cow, Built Frame House with Loft, Carrie Nation Funeral

Holsinger Flora May Gandy 1857 President of Local WCTU Wyandotte Co.

Holt Phoebe

Jane

King 1838 Boarding House, Rock Island Railroad to Hoyt, Husband 77th Illinois Volunteer Infantry, Servetus Holt born in England

Hook Mary

Elizabeth

Shuch 1854 White Cloud Church Services, Indians living in Bark Houses & Wearing Moccasins & Blankets, White Cloud named for Chief White Cloud of the Iowa Tribe, First Newspaper in Kansas 1857, Father Mr.

Shuch was 1st Blacksmith

Hoopman Mary Corbett

Horton Mary Ann Sawyer 1841 Founder of DAR in Kansas, Nathan Converse's Market in Salina

Houghton Kittie Robbins 1862 Adoption by Seth Hays, Hays' Slave "Aunt Sallie"

Howard Acasta Roe 1844

Howard Hannah Accident, Dugout Roof Fell Killing Mr. Howard & Eldest Son, Diet of Corn Bread & Sorghum, Unfavorable Description of 1st Schools

Huffaker Eliza Baker Methodist South Church, First White Child in Council Grove 1853, Mission, Drowning, In Charge Sunday School of Kaw Mission at Council Grove, Built Colonial House, Died in 1920 in Old Mission

Building, Mission bought by Carl Huffaker in 1926

Huffaker Eliza Baker Wliza Baker & T.S. Huffaker were married in May 1852 at the Kaw Mission Building in Council Grove, 1st Marriage in Morris County

Huffman Della Shaw 1866 Rough Lumber Beds & Table, Aid from Iowa, Buffalo Hunt, Medicine Lodge, Husband 14th Illinois Infantry, Shoes, Barefoot in Winter, Hauled Wood from Gypsum Creek, Corn Stalks as Fuel, Saving

Peach Trees from Grasshoppers, Salina Claim Office

Huffman Della Shaw 1866 4 Families Lived in 1 House, Mail Carrier Scalped by Indians, Husband Attended Lincoln's Funeral, Santa Fe Trail, Did Wash in the Morning then School in the Afternoon, Sod House, Wagon Train from

Vernon Iowa, Hauling Water, Howling Wolves

Huffman Mattie A. Gilbert 1855 Money was Silver or Gold, No Banks, Prairie Chickens Plentiful, Price Raid, Teachers were Quakers, Santa Fe Railroad to Wellington 1879, Log School House, Sheep, Wool, Rag dolls, Doll Dishes,

University in 1872, David Gilbert Family, 1875 Snow Storm

Huffman Mattie A. Gilbert 1855 Garden & Field Seeds Aid, Mr. Anthony, Exams, Negro outlaws, Quantrill, Stampedes, Singing to Cattle, Texas Longhorns, Ticks, Hunnewell, Cherokee Strip Run 1893, Homestead in Oklahoma,

Chickens, Wool Uses, Shooting Up Towns in Sumner Co, Selling Eggs

Huffman Mattie A. Gilbert 1855 Chicken Flock of 200, Pigs, Homesickness, Homesteading in Sumner Co., Lived in Log Hut & Tent, Town of Hunnewell Sprung Up when Santa Fe RR Came to State Line 1880, Bright Colored Baskets of

the Kaw Indians, Log Cabin, Husband served in 19th Calvary

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Hughes Clara Strieby Methodist Church, Worked with Susan B. Anthony

Humphrey Lydia Betts 1865 Indian Scare near Russell, Husband's Grocery Store Failed in 1897 Panic,

Humphrey Martha Merritt 1856 Hot Winds, Sand Storms

Humphrey Mary

Annie

Vance 1838 Novelist, Organized Junction City Reading Club, President of Kansas Social Science Federation, Close Friend of Susan B. Anthony

Hunn Elizabeth

Ann

Rebman 1825 Border Ruffians, Theft of Cattle, Iowa, D.R. Anthony, W.D. Wilder, Claimed Delaware Indian Land in Atchison Co., Abolitionists, Ferry at Leavenworth 1857, Ran Farm & Raised Stock

Hunt Clara M. Barber 1869 Sister was in Shock from Meeting Wolf Pack, Snake in Bed

Hunt Clara M. Barber 1869 Pot Pie, Dried Apples, Turnips, Eagleville Missouri, Lockart Ranch, Covered Wagon, Sedgwick, Wagons, Kansas or Bust, Dugout, Chicken house of Sunflower Stalks, Grasshoppers Ruined Lochard

Ranch, Indian Songs, Mouse Traps, Mosquitoes, Prairie Grasses

Hurst Anna Galvin 1832 Hauled Grain to Rocky Hill Mill

Hurst Anna Galvin 1832 Born in Ireland, Grasshopper Plague 1874 & 1875, Mr. Crabtree, Smoky Hill River, Covered Wagon, Homesteading in Russell Co., Pawnee Indian Scares Fall 1873, Dull Knife Cheyenne Raid, Prairie Fires

1878 Russell Co., Schools in Russell Co.

Husband Ella Williams 1861 Kansas River Bridge, Pontoon Bridge, Homesteading in Elk Township Cloud Co., Rented Half of a House in Topeka 1869, Railroad to Clay Center then Clyde, First School in Elk Twp was in a Granary,

Anna McCrell was Teacher

Hutchinson Martha

Ann

Ward 1858 Brothers Freighted from Blue Rapids 1871, Buffalo, Antelope, Gray Wolves, Coyotes, Elk, Beaver, LaFayette Indiana, Republican River, Howling Coyotes, Domestic & Hotel Work, Dugout,

Homesteading on Limestone Creek Jewell Co.

Hutchison Martha

Ann

Ward 1858 Father & Brothers Captured by Indians during Buffalo Hunt but Escaped, Log House, Mail picked up at Jewell City Fort, Self Taught, Subscription School, Wild Turkeys, Wagon Train 1870, 1871 Easter

Snow Storm

Huyler Mrs. J. W. Atkinson 1864 Baptist Church, Father Stephen Atkinson a Renowned Hunter, Family came to Kansas in 1858 via Wagon Train

Idol Jane Hobbs 1836 Border Ruffians, Kansas Red Legs, Sewing , Needlework, Spinning, Wild Fruits Brought by Indians, Pumpkin, Squash, Quilts, Snowbird Pie, 5 Room Boxed Cottonwood House, Modern 12 room House,

Indians traded Calico for Chickens, Iowa & Sioux Mission

Idol Jane Hobbs 1836 Horsemint & Catnip Tea, Mullen Plant to ward off Colds, Beautiful Prairie, Oregon Trail near Home, First School House was Log Cabin, Wagon Train Start Dance, Lectures, Festivals, Sunbonnets,

Traveled from Ft. Benton Montana to White Cloud via Boats

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Idol Jane Hobbs 1836 Wagon Train to West Coast 1861, Strong March Winds

Ingalls Sheffield

Inman Eunice Train Trip to Fort Harker in Blizzard, Entertained Kiowa Chief Lone Wolf during Visit to Fort Harker, Upon Arrival at Ft. Harker in Jan 1868 found Husband gone with General Custer, General Sheridan in

Command, Dr. Levi Sternberg

Irwin Mrs. G. A. Presbyterian Church Council Grove, Husband Pastor

Jackson Almeda Myers 1849 Dugout, Sod House, Dugout for Chickens, Homesteading in Smith Co., Lue Parks, Passing of Indians from Nebraska Reservations, Roofs of House Home to Rats & Mice, Killing Snakes

Jay Phoebe Patty 1830 Phaeton Buggy, Railroad to Ellsworth, Living on same Homestead at Age 96, Husband Carried mail from Sterling to Lyons, Boarded Santa Fe Workers out to Colorado

Jeffcoat Emily Harrington 1842 Reverend Harrington, Illinois, Prairie Schooner, Husband was a Veteran, Homesteaded 160 acres, Home was 1 Room Shack, Black Dirty Wilderness, Prairie Fires, Hauling Water

Jennings Frances A. Chautauqua Course Certificate, Fifth District Federation Officer, Born in Canada

Jesse Nancy Weaver 1809 Saved Senator Lane from Quantrill's Men

John Nancy J. Woodrum 1847 Buffalo, Wild Turkeys, Rabbits, Antelope, 1874 Grasshopper Invasion, Chickens Ate so Many Grasshoppers Their Flesh Turned Blue, Homesteaded 12 miles NW of Smith Center, Cheyenne Indian Scare

Oct 1873

Johnson Annie Williams 1830 Husband 83rd Illinois Infantry, Fever, Ague, Home Fire, Born in England, Husband Hauled Goods to Leavenworth, Indian Scare, Children Often Went to Bed Hungry

Johnson Ary

Phoebus

Selsor 1840 Death of Daughter Stella of Lung Fever, Crossing Saline River in Boat, Bridge Out on Salina River 1885, Grasshoppers in Russell Co., Prairie Fires, Taffy Pulling, Baseball, Spelling Bees, January 1886

Blizzard on Day of Daughter's Wedding

Johnson Carolina Ericson 1836 Indian Thievery, Prairie Fires Started by Train, 6 foot Tall Bluestem Grass, Snakes in Dugouts

Johnson Carolina Ericson 1836 Copper Utensils, Born in Sweden, Buffalo, Stockton, Lindsborg Stone Church, Pastor Olsson, Swedish Colony, Texas Cattle, Death of 3 Children, Rented Dugout, Dugout with Floor, Farm Animals,

Homesteading near Lindsborg, Pioneer Minister

Johnson Eliza Williams 1850 Married by Rev. Blood of Junction City

Johnson Eliza Williams 1850 Buffalo, Reverend Price, Preaching in Tent, Flooding of Chapman Creek 1869, Numerous Indians Camped near Home, 2 Brothers killed in Civil War, Log House School, Martin Price & Miss Carr were

Teachers, Territorial Days, Wild Turkeys

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Johnson Emily

Hiddleson

Taught until Marriage in 1888, Supplies from Waterville, No place to Rent in Beloit 1871, Wagon Train from Ill., November 1871 Snow Storm

Johnson Emily

Hiddleson

Antelope, Beloit, Dugout, Grasshoppers, Homesteaded in Mitchell & Osborne Co., Homesteaded on Brows Creek Mitchell Co., Hauled Lumber for House from Solomon City, Quarry, Stone Barn, Son

Served in WWI, Expansive Prairie, Prairie Dogs, Prairie Fires

Johnson Mariah

Elizabeth

Straight 1842 Squaring Stone, Begging Indians, Middle Creek Post Office, Newspaper in Chase Co., Home Schooled, Literary Society, Spelling Schools, Founding of Elmdale, Jeffrey Williams, Ezra Campbell, J. Wood,

Plant Trees & Shrubs

Johnson Mariah

Elizabeth

Straight 1842 Elk Grange, Small Fruit put up in Medicine Bottles Sealed with Beeswax, Aid from Illinois, Christmas Decorating, Double Mittens, Towels made from Grain Sacks, 1874 Grasshopper Invasion, Riding to

Cottonwood Falls, Built 5 Room Stone House

Johnson Mrs. F. O. Swedish Church Members Lindsborg, Swedish Colony, Coronado Heights

Johnson Rhoda Newlin 1846 Quaker, Drouths, Grasshoppers. Hot Winds, Prairie Fires, Kaw Raid on Council Grove 1859, 2 Kaw Indians Hung in Council Grove 1859

Jones Charlotte Wheeler 1830 Homesteaded 4 Miles South of Salina, Business in Salina, Operated Hotel-General Store-Blacksmith Shop in Salina, Territorial Days

Jones Emma M. Davis Col. Coffey, Mary Coffey, Summer Kitchen, Lawless Claim Jumpers, Verdigris River, Ross Gang in Coffeyville, Teacher's Institute in Independence, Early Teacher around Coffeyville, Sunday School,

Trading Post in Coffeyville, Kentucky

Jones Margaret McClure 1856 Feed Corn, Born near Convoy Donegal County Ireland, July 4th War Dance by Indians Jackson Co., Details of Indian Costumes, 1874 & 1875 Grasshopper Invasion, Trading with Indians, Taught in Log

School House, Husband Taught After 1879

Jones Mary Callahan 1848 Husband 11th Minnesota Volunteer Infantry, Took Farm in Newly Opened Osage Reserve 1870, Log Cabin, Husband was Expert Orchadist

Jones Melvina Rhoades 1841 Fleas, Hospitality to Wanderers, Animals, Buffalo, Wolf, Squirrel, Turkeys, Prairie Chickens, California Gold Rush, Education, Homesteading, Hospitality, First Home was 1 Room Un-Hewed Log Cabin,

Indians Demanding Food, Husband was Civil War Veteran

Jones Melvina Rhoades 1841 Nursing the Sick, Used Oxen on Trip to Gold Fields, Rains Made Mud Floor

Jones Mrs. John

T.

Husband Founder of Ottawa University, Came to Kansas to work with Indians

Justice Smith 1861 Member of Belles Lettres Club 1894, Organized Pan American Club-Athenaeum Club-Research Culture Club

Justice Smith 1861 Drug Store Liquor Traffic in Chanute, Kansas Federation of Women's Clubs, Train Arriving in KC on 9/12/1880 had been robbed by Jesse James, Secretary of Chanute Library Board, Teacher in Indiana

& Kansas, Oceans of Sunflowers

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Kackley Olive Kackley 1881 Received Teachers Certificate at 15

Kandt Dorothes Bradow Born in Germany

Kandt Fannie Cook Born in Austria

Keith Mary

Frances

Grossman 1845 Stealing Horses, Fort Leavenworth, Taught Iowa Indians in Government Mission at White Cloud, Open Country, Trees along Roy's Creek

Keller Mary L. Dickerson Grasshopper Invasion Near Florence, Fear of Horses Being Stolen on Wagon Train, Young Men Came Calling on Horses, Taught in Rural Schools-Lyndon-Florence-Marion, Early Days of Marion, Wagon

Train from Lewisburg Ill to Osage Co., Hauling Water 1 Mile

Kelley Josephine

Abigail

Bates 1846 Enoch Spalding Kept Hotel in White Cloud, Sol Miller, Taber IA, Nebraska City

Kellogg Florence Shaw 1851 Author, Mother Bickerdyke, Postmistress of Post Office at Fay

Kellogg Susan V. Ames 1841 Widow & 2 Daughters Homesteaded Adjoining Claims in Sherman Co., Bane Ranch

Kendrew Anna Schoonove

r

1848 Buffalo, Pennsylvania, Covered Wagon, Few Doctors, Son's Death, Dugout with Blanket for Door, Broke Prairie & Planted Corn, Supply Trips to Kearny NE, Alone on Homestead

Kessler Elizabeth Snyder

Kimpton Josephine

Catherine

Butler 1838 Taught at First School in Americus, Aunt Kate, Full Detail of Nursing

Kindblade Cinderella

M.

Soles 1843 J.Q. Barnes Drug Store in McPherson

Kindblade Cinderella

M.

Soles 1843 Geese, Buffalo, Pioneer Methods of Work, Hedge Seeds, Homesteaded near McPherson, House Called "The White House", Hauled Lumber from Salina, A Light Always in Window, Husband served in

4th Iowa Infantry, Early Days of McPherson, B.E. Smith Hotel

King Lydia E. White 1839 1876 Grasshopper Plague, Covered Well with Oil Cloth to Keep Grasshoppers Out, Buried Valuable out of Fear of Indians, Log House made of Cottonwood, Prairie Fires, Early Days of Ellis Co.,

Blizzards, Making a Taper

King Marry

Frances

Hottle 1843 Iatan Oak Hills Ferry destroyed in Atchison Co., Help Teach at Oak Mills in Atchison Co., Territorial Days, HQ of Kickapoo Rangers, Border Ruffians, Steamer Caledonia to Weston MO, Ferry to Kickapoo

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King Marry

Frances

Hottle 1843 Married by Parson Williams without Dismounting from Horses

Kinney Lurelda Saunders 1838

Kisner Emma Seever 1854 Grasshoppers, Freighters, Green Coffee, Camping, Dangerous Texas Cattle, Mr. Seever Homesteaded in Mitchell Co., 500 Braves Passed Home on way to Waconda Springs, Chartered Railroad Car to

Solomon City

Kline Sarah Miller 1851 Shawnee Co. WCTU, Women Doctor

Knuth Annie Koepke 1853 Rev. Leuker, Menke Church, Born in Petersdorf Germany

Kramer Mary

Parnham

1874 Grasshopper Invasion, Husband served in 57th Ohio Infantry, The Terror of Prairie Fires, Planted Cottonwood Sprouts

Krebs Elizabeth Oelder 1848 Born in Switzerland, Flower Woman, Garden Clubs, Beautify Hiawatha, Furniture Shopping, Corn Husk Shoes, Making of Coffee, Family Moved to Hiawatha due to Destruction Done By Grasshoppers,

Log House, Moving Bee, Good Corn Crop 1873

Krebs Elizabeth Oelder 1848 Organizer of Civic Club No. 1 & Civic Club No. 2 in Hiawatha

Kreuter Emma B. Weaver 1867 Homemade Beds, Mrs. York, Benders, Selling Buffalo Bones, Disabled Indian, Ague, Caught & Sold Catfish from Kaw, Wild Grapes Pawpaws Persimmons, Buffalo & Cow Chips as Fuel, Weaver's

Unknowingly entertained Jesse James 1879, Short School Term

Kreuter Emma B. Weaver 1867 Blacksnakes, Wano Public Hall, Dances, Sunday School in School Houses, Sod House, Weaver Station near DeSoto, Mr. Weaver Operated Ferry across Kaw, No Trees except Along Streams, Wild

Flowers, Gray or Timber Wolves

Ladd Mina Bailey

Lamb Martha Carr 1841 Entertained Wild Bill Hickok, Homesteaded North of Smoky River 4 miles from Abilene, Settlers would Hide from Indians in Tall Grass, Taught School in Log Cabin on Mud Creek, Rode First Locomotive

on UP Railroad, Wm. F. Cody

Lane Ida Koch 1863 Frederick Koch was Interpreter at Ft. Leavenworth during Civil War, Mrs. Koch cousin of Gov. Reeder, Big Springs & Lecompton in 1854

Lane Ida Koch 1863 Hotel at Big Springs, Passwords, Hannibal Missouri, Free State Settlers, Horses Stolen Frequently, Iron Chains Around neck of Horses, Plot to Trap Lane, Lecompton, Settled in Big Springs, Street was

Part of Santa Fe Trail

Lanning Sarah

Emma

Preston 1848 Husband Aaron Lane Lanning was Teacher in Winter, "Weavilly Wheat", "Sweet Sister Phoebe", Dances, Husband was Civil War Veteran, Sunday School, Stores at Twin Springs & Brooklyn, Steamer

Eastern Star, Married at Preston's Log Cabin

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Lanning Sarah

Emma

Preston 1848 Rocky Mountain Locusts, Aid, Grasshoppers, Guard, Marais des Cygnes River, No Buggies, Linn Co. Church Services, Battle of Mine Creek, Dutch Ovens, Winchester Iowa, Claims in Linn & Osage Co.,

Hospitality, Sac & Fox Indians, Bought Land for $300

Lape Fannie Bump Rockville Indiana, Leavenworth Lawrence & Galveston Railroad reached Coffeyville 1871, Saloons, Dance Halls, Gambling, 1 Room House in Coffeyville, Ratification of Treaty with Osage Dec 1870, Red

Hot Street in Coffeyville

Lassell Celia Taylor Supply Trips to Wichita, Planted Cottonwoods & Orchard

Lassell Celia Taylor Deer, Selling Buffalo Bones, Wisconsin State Normal, Teacher, Books, Helped with 32 Births, Silk Clothes, Shoes, Sod House, Covered Wagon, Homesteading in SW Sumner Co., Indian Trail from

Medicine Lodge to Caldwell, Home on Indian Trail, Fire Guards

Lawless Minnie A. Taylor 1872 Church Services in Cheyenne Co., Cheyenne County Seat Dispute, Minnie continued Newspaper after death of Husband, Wano Kansas, Railroad in St. Francis, Stagecoach Trip, Hauled Water 10 Miles,

Blizzard, Cow brought into House

Layne Clara Hurst 1859 Wichita Clubs & Organizations, Garden City US Land Office, O.O. Layne was Editor of Garden City Irrigator, January 1886 Blizzard, Wild Flowers

Leahy Mary Moore Gasoline Stove, Cooking for Harvest Hands, Hospitality, Husband Assistant Attorney General, Planting Trees, 1879 Drouth

LeCleve Mrs. A. S. Unexpected Birth, Husband Hauled Wood from Mule Creek, Corn Stalks & Cobs as Fuel, Built 4 Room Frame House, Trained a Dog to Protect Against Rattlesnakes

Lee Ann Jane Seece 1838 Antelope, Buffalo, Covered Wagon, Homesteaded in Athens Twp. Jewell County, Large Dugout, 1874 Grasshopper Invasion, Indians stayed at Lee Home in Solomon City, Wolves

Leidigh Catherine

Anne

Myers 1840 Congregational Church, Presbyterian Church, Grasshoppers, Organized Relief, Charter Member of Presbyterian Church in Spearville, Fever & Bedfast, Soldier's Homestead North of Hutchinson,

Pottawatomie Reservation near Home in St. Marys

Leidigh Catherine

Anne

Myers 1840 Husband wounded at Antietam & Petersburg during Civil War, Stone Schoolhouse in Ford Co. 1884, Sunday School in Reno. Co.

Leonard Juliette Lane 1841 Christian Science Church. Methodist Church, Adell Iowa, 1860 Drouth, Friendly Spirit, Homesteaded 160 acres near Bazaar, Indians stealing Provisions, Log House, Oxen Only thing Left After Indian

Raid

Leonard Kate

Adeline

Withers 1853 Antelope, Sherman County Cemetery, Blizzard Deaths 1886 of 4, Ohio, Benkleman Nebraska, Barrel of Water, Itasca Hotel moved to Goodland, Used A Gun, Wallace Post Office was 35 Miles Away,

Settling on School Land, Sod House, Supply Trip to Kansas City

Leonard Martha Walton 1834 Buried on Hillside near Bazaar, Mr. Leonard died Nov 1858, Homesteaded near Bazaar, Indians demanding Bread, Log House on Claim

Lewis Martha

Jane

Baird 1846 Methodist Church

Lewis Mary Kinney 1851 Congregational Church, Buffalo Hunting, Sunday School Teacher, Ripon Wisconsin, Col. Asa Kinney, Grasshoppers Ate Clothes Off Line, Fear of Indians, Rattlesnakes, Married at Russell Courthouse

Aug. 31 1873 in Double Wedding

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Lewis Mary Kinney 1851 Arrabelle Geer, Charles Wolcott

Lindberg Caroline Carlson Charter Members of Mission Church McPherson Co.

Lindsay Fannie Batchelor 1850 Methodist Church, Came to Kansas from Kentucky because of Prohibition

Little Harriet Z. Adams Books

Littler Susan Free Satchel 1834 Homesteading in Pawnee Co.

Lloyd Ellen Jones 1842 Born in Wales, Congregational Church, Clay Co., Wales, Train to Waterville, Mr. Bushnell, Raising Wheat but little Corn, Grasshoppers, Husband Emigrated & Homestead in 1870, Ellen Emigrated in

1872, Husband worked as Carpenter

Lloyd Ellen Jones 1872 Married by Justice of the Peace in Marysville May 31 1872, Carter's Creek & Fact Post Offices, Prairie Fires, Wheat Prices 1874, Goshen Township, 1896 Cyclone Destroyed House & Barn

Lobdell Roxanna Godding 1835 Guard Duty, July 4th Picnics, Early Memories, Fresh Doughnuts at Christmas, Husband Captain of 15th Regular Volunteer Cavalry, Husband Seriously Ill for Months

Lockard Mary

Isabel

Gettys 1857 Sol Peak, Norton County Seat Dispute, Covered Wagon, Iowa, Waterville, Husband Hauled Goods in Norton Co., Platting of Gettysburg Kansas, Millbrook, Hill City, Mr. Pomeroy, Col. Chapman, Prairie

Dog, Preemption in 1874, Worked in Hotel in Grinnell

Lockard Mary

Isabel

Gettys 1857 Husband Carried Mail from Old Fort Parks, Stagecoach, Early Days of Leota, Father's Shack Blown Away

Lockard Mary

Isabel

Gettys 1857 Railroad House Hotel in Ellis, Rogers House Log Hotel in Norton, Prairie View Hotel in Phillips Co., Father Built Clapboard Shanty, Richard & George Jordan killed by Indians, Cheyenne Raid under Dull

Knife 1878, Capture of Van Cleve Girls

Logan Belle McNair Covered Wagon, Bay Horses, Shepherd Dog, Upon Arrival Log House not Completed, Teaching School in Dugouts, Worked for Room & Board for Family while Going to School

Logan Eliza A. Martin 1838 Baptist Church, Raymond Sunday School, Wood Hauled 30 miles, Grasshoppers Ate Rinds of Watermelon, Settled on Land near Raymond then on School Land near Chase, Built 3 Room House, When

Ill Sent Boy to Town, Rattlesnakes, Planted Trees, Blizzard

Logan Mary

Elizabeth

Beck 1840 Blizzard, Loss of Cattle, Second German Colony from Russia, Dumplings, Cooking in Wash Boiler, Homesteading in Shawnee Co., Taught Squaw to make Bread

Lohman Kathrine Dumler 1835 Part of Second German Russian Colony, Bender Kansas, Indian Scares, Dull Knife Cheyenne Raid

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Long Harriet M. Sage 1840 Cholera at Ft. Riley & Wallace, Husband Lt. Long Moved Family from Fort Wallace to Fort Hays in 1868, Indian Uprising 1867, Battle with Indians at Pond Creek, Homestead on Smoky Hill 1866,

Grinnell Stage Station Burned 1866, Colonel Inman

Long Harriet M. Sage 1840 Husband was appointed Hospital Steward at Ft. Wallace, Rattlesnakes, Ambulance Train 1866, Dr. George Sternberg, Wamego Terminus of Train 1868, Matron at Fort Wallace Hospital, Only Woman

at Fort

Long Jacob

Long Lou May Beall 1866

Lord Mrs. A. W.

Lorry Roland 1822 Sold Flowers & Vegetables to Fifth Avenue & Gladstone Hotels in Arkansas City

Lorry Roland 1822 Catholic Church, French Cooking, Both born in France, Emigrated in 1856, Guarded Home with Shotgun & Dog, Supplied AA Newman Dry Goods & Matlock Dry Goods with Men's & Boy's Clothing,

Acted as Doctor & Midwife, French Songs, Alto Horn, Raised Flowers

Loucks Amy M. Sturtevant 1843 Organization of Kearny County, First settler & Storekeeper in Lakin was John O'Loughlin, Organized 1st Subscription School in Kearny Co., Sewed Scalp Back on with Fiddle String & Needle, Removed 3

Fingers from Crushed Hand, Studied Medicine

Loughstreth Alice M. Hand 1842 Presbyterian Church, Father was Santa Fe Forester & Skilled Orchardist, Grasshoppers, Homesteaded 3 Miles from Lakin, Irrigation, Apple Orchards, Indian Visits, Food & clothing Prepared in case of

Flight, Santa Fe to West State Line in 1872

Loughstreth Alice N. Hand 1842 1872 Tornado in Ottawa, Prepared to Flee from Indian Attack

Lundstrom Greta J. Larson 1st Couple Married by Major M. Molmberg, Wolves

Lundstrom Greta J. Larson Born in Sweden, Lutheran Church, Buffalo, Only Doctor was Druggist without Certificate, 2 Room Dugout with Stone Basement, Husband Veteran of 43rd Illinois Infantry, Riding Horses, Feared Osage

Indians Would Kidnap Women, Snakes

Lyon Lydia

Edwina

Smith Leaky Log House, Hauling by Oxen, Prairie Fires, Mr. Sargent killed in Quantrill's Raid, Mother bitten by Rattlesnake, Stagecoach Stopped Overnight at Twin Mounds, Building with Stone, Planting

Maple & Oak Trees, Hauling Water

Lyon Lydia

Edwina

Smith Friends Church, Aid from Pennsylvania, Farming, Butcher Shop, Lawrence, Quantrill, Steamboat to Leavenworth, 1860 Drouth, Preempted Homesteading in Osage Co., Few had Horses, Uncle Henry

Hiatt Operated Inn at Twin Mound, Indians Walking Single File

Lyon Mary M. Coryell 1840 Surprise Parties, Sod House, Women's Suffrage

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Lyon Mary M. Coryell 1840 Organizing Grange, Hospitality, Universalist Church, Chapman Creek Ford, Jim Kirby, Pie Melon, Coffee from Beans or Rye, Grasshoppers, Explanation of Homestead Laws, Prairie Fires, Prohibition,

Roads & Trails, School House Center of Activity

Lyon Sarah A.

Gray

Bush Shawnee Co. 1857, Dayton Ohio, River Steamer, Preempted Land 10 Miles East of Topeka, Took Shelled Corn to Mill to Trade for Corn Meal, Owned Oxen No Horses, No School East of Topeka 1857,

Traded at Tecumseh

Mace -male F. G.

Mahoney Margaret Howard Expert Butter Maker, Homesteaded 2 Miles from Bunker Hill Russell Co., Prairie Fires, Famous Butter Maker, No Water

Maichel Mary

Cresence

Berhalter 1835 Husband Arrived in Lawrence Just After Quantrill's Raid, Studied at German Hospital, Nursemaid in Royal Family, Emigrated 1853, Married 1856

Maichel Mary

Cresence

Berhalter 1835 Kaw River Bridge, Toll Bridge, Quantrill, Born in Germany, Husband Hauled Goods from Westport to Laramie Wyoming, Husband Preempted Homesteaded 22 Miles S of Lawrence in 1860, Indians

often passed Log Cabin

Mallows Sarah Scott 1849 Samuel Mallows born in England, Traded Ponies for Land 3 Miles from White Cloud, Log Houses, Trail close to House

Malone Carrie Murphy 1863

Malone Emily 1837 Husband Andrew served in 1st Ohio Artillery during Civil War, Railroad trip for 300 Prospective Settlers to Wichita

Maloy Paralee Ray 1841 In midst of Southern Sympathizers, Commissary Train, Forced to Flee Missouri, Hid oxen before Trip to Kansas, took Load of Vegetables to Lawrence Day After Quantrill's Raid, Taught School in

Clinton 1863

Maloy Sarah Glaze

Mann Adelaide

Louise

Dunham 1844 Operated First Hotel in Russell Co., Patrons Slept in Buffalo Robes on Floor

Marcks Sarah Ann Hittell 1840 Clothing on Trip to Kansas, Bastian Family, Suit Material, Lumber Wagon, Train to Leavenworth, Treatment of Snake Bite, Tonganoxie, Indian Visits, Chief wanted Camphor, Log House Built by Indians,

In Order of Eastern Star, Caring for the Sick

Marcks Sarah Ann Hittell 1840 Stranger Creek Leavenworth Co., Beautiful Wild Flowers

Marcy Jennie C. C.

Margreiter Katherine Springer Homestead in Athens Twp. Jewell Co., Log House, Husband worked 10 Months in Solomon City

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Marsh Caroline Coberly 1849 Missouri, Horses, Oxen, Cows, Fireplace Cooking, 1860 Drouth, Aaron Coberly Farm on Wakarusa, Wild Strawberries Plums Grapes, Aaron Coberly Preempted 160 acres 12 Miles from Topeka, Sac &

Fox Visits, Log Cabin, Spring in River Bank

Marsh Rebecca Rocky ? Diphtheria Epidemic, Bunker Hill Cemetery, Dorrance, Southern Pennsylvania Colony, Diphtheria in Bunker Hill, Death of Children, Russell Co. Teachers, Malaria, Husband had Civil War Pension, Price

of Butter & Eggs, Colony School

Marshall Adeline Lobeingier 1836 Presbyterian Church, Prisoners, Prairie City, John Brown Brought Company to Protect Settlers, Church Disturbance, Cared for Union Soldiers, Father Preempted Homesteaded near Baldwin, Quantrill,

Emigrated from Pennsylvania

Marshall Emma Sells Topeka Mayor Cofran's Kitchen Cabinet, All Woman School Board, Member of Loyal Temperance Legion, Treasurer of Stat Equal Suffrage Ass'n, Member of Good Government Club in Topeka

Martin Caroline Martin 1854 Indian Scare of 1858, Strongest House in Area was J.C. Lambaine's, Log House, Father Operated Henry Martin's General Store in El Dorado, Wagon Train from Wisconsin 1857

Martin Caroline Martin 1854 July 4th in Butler Co., Buffalo, Wolf, Prairie Dogs, Coyotes, Ducks, Drought 1860, Relief Supplies, Tallow Candles, Herding Cattle, Family sick with Malaria, Wild Grapes Plums, Homemade Furniture,

Homesteaded on Walnut Creek Butler Co., Poor Farm

Martin Mary

Elizabeth

Hill 1858

Martin Rebekah Mercer 1813 Nursing, Husband was Doctor, Nursing the Sick

Mathers

Matthews Charles T. 1851 Operated Drug Store in Newton

Mauk Eliza F. Rooms built around Original Log House, Had Knowledge of Taking Care of Sick, Sod House, Railroad to Solomon City-Stage to Asherville, Was a Sturdy Strong Woman who Helped with Out Door Work

McAdam Isabell Buzzi 1867 Catholic Church, Claimed Land 5 Miles from Arkansas City, Rode Horses to School & Church, Built House of Cut Stone Windows Barricaded with Iron, Friendly Indians

McAllister Mary E. 1834 Sod House Congregational Church Osborne, Dial Post Office in Home, No Doctors, Making Vinegar & Soap & Yeast, Conducted Funeral, Flowers, Vegetables, Homesteaded 10 Miles from Waldo,

Indian Scare 1878, Money Scarce, Served as Physician & Nurse

McAllister Mary E. 1834 Home was Half-Way Station for Stagecoach

McAtee Etta Clyde Kelley 1868 1st Marriage License in Morris Co. was that of Malvina Rook & Daniel Long Kelly June 8 1867

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McCabe Wisel 1850 Cows, Steers, Wagon Trains from Wisconsin, Maple Sugar, Grasshoppers Ate Pitchfork Handle Peach Trees, Homesteaded on Rock Creek, Wisel Springs, Frame House built with No Nails, Built House

Outbuilding & Fence out of Stone, Dug Well through Rock

McCabe Wisel 1850 Married by Charley Rogler in 1867

McCarthy Minerva Reed

McClanahan Presbyterian Church, Lecompton

McClintic Carrie Gates

McComb Elizabeth

Anne

Simmons 1862 Baptist Church, Buffalo, Antelope, Sun City, Cooking for Santa Fe RR Construction Gang, Homesteaded 160 Acres, Timber Claim of 160 Acres, Built 1 Room Frame House with Sod Kitchen, Married

1878, Hauled Salt to Hutchinson, Prairie Dogs, Rattlesnakes

McComb Elizabeth

Anne

Simmons 1862 Got Supplies from Hutchinson or Stafford, Sister's Home near Stafford, Timber Claim, Helped with Wheat Drilling

McConnell Rosella Leavett 1830 Quantrill's Raid, Smallpox, State Militia, Early Topeka, Menoken, Widow on Farm

McConnell Rosella Leavett 1830 California Gold Rush, Battle of the Blue, Samuel Reader, California, Making Cheese, Coffee from roasted Wheat, Born in Sherbrook Canada, Grasshoppers, Pioneer Houses, Pilfering Indians, Topeka

Militia, Smallpox, Dr. Campdoras, Price Raid

McCord Priscilla

Frances

Davis 1847 Clay Center Christian Church, Indians, Fires, Drouth, Grasshoppers, Cheered Up by Signing of Meadowlarks, Husband Union Veteran, Wife Relative of Jefferson Davis, Wagon Load of Supplies to Claim,

Few Trees

McCulloch Sarah Wilkerson 1835 Buffalo, Howard Gilber, Wagon Train from Texas to California, Homesteading, Baking for Neighbors, Pioneer Log Houses, Indians in Sumner Co., Malaria, Nursing the Sick, Early Days & Organization of

Wellington, Wagon Trains

McDowell Cordelia Niles 1847 Smith Center Schoolhouse built in 1876, Founders of Smith Center, Husband was Regent for Kansas State College, Hauling Water in Smith Center 1874

McDowell Cordelia Niles 1847 Relief from East, Hilda Ingalls, J.R. Burrow, Adoption of Jamie Garfield & Maude Odair, Smith Center Christmas 1876, Reverend Foster, Flag Made by Women in 1876, 1874 Grasshopper Invasion,

Husband served 77th PA Infantry Taken Prisoner at Chickamauga

McFarland Matilda Steele 1852

McGee Katie R. Hammond Subscription School, Grandfather Samuel Shepler Hammond Organized Hammond Chapel Class, Neighbor Stranded by Blizzard, President of Saline Co. WCTU

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McGee Katie R. Hammond Methodist Church, Antelope, Buffalo, Wild Turkeys, Selling Buffalo Bones, Dried Buffalo Meat, Samuel Hammond, No Doctors, Dresden Post Office, Dugout, Grasshoppers, Homesteaded near Portis,

Sylvanus Hammon brought Saw Mill from Ohio, Indian Relations

McGeorge Mrs. W. J. Order Number 11 issued by General Ewing of the Union Army, Removal of all persons in Jackson-Cass-Bates & Parts of Vernon Counties Missouri, Home Across from Council Oak

McIntosh James Antelope, Settlers helping Newcomers, Ed Madden, I.M. Yost, Corn, Cane, Watermelon, Hays Business District Fire, Rampage of Colored Soldiers, Buckeye Twp. Ellis Co., Sod Houses

McKitrick Clara Moorhead 1847 Buffalo Roasts, Stagecoach from Emporia to Wichita, Supplies from Emporia, Leonard Blood, Early Days of Augusta

McKune Kate Miller 1856 Rabbits, Corn Bread, Dull Knife Cheyenne Raid, Indian Band in Saline Valley, Oxen

McNeice Mae Belle Gray 1885

McTaggart Maggie

Annis

Beigle 1840 Capt. McTaggart killed in 1897 by Tenant of the Mill, Failure of Verdigris City & Montgomery City, Moving of City of Liberty to the Railroad

McTaggart Maggie

Annis

Beigle 1840 Baptist Church, Captain McTaggart Homestead on East Bank of Verdigris River, Hauled Lumber for House from Ft. Scott, One Room Log House, Husband hired to Lay Out National Cemeteries at

Nashville & Murfreesboro, Operated Flour Mill on Verdigris

McTaggart Maggie

Annis

Beigle 1840

Meall Eliza Waples 1831 Covered Wagon, Dugout, Mitchell Co., Born in England, Emigrated from Scotland in 1871 on City of Baltimore, Grasshoppers, Taught School in Dugout

Middlekauf Josephine Hawickhol

st

Bachelors Ball in Hays, Concord Stages, Wagon Trains 1867, Frostbite, Planted 1st Wheat in Ellis Co. 1872


st

Buffalo Calf, Hays, Basket Phaeton Buggy, Cats, Early Days of Hays, Church Services at Fort Hays, Chaplain Collins, Holy Joe, General Custer at Hays Spring 1869, Indian Campaign to free Two White

Women, Antelope & Wild Turkey Meat


st

Indians passed Through Hays with Little White Girl, First Paper Hays City Advance edited by Joe Clark, Prairie Fires, Railroad in Hays 10/16/1887, Arrived in Hays by Rail on 11/6/1887, Saloons in Hays,

Subscription & Public Schools in Hays

Middlekauf Jospehine Hawickhol

st

Huge Government Warehouse in Hays to Supply Forts, Gambling, 1874 Grasshopper Invasion in Hays, Bill Hickok Married Owner of Circus Madame Lake, Children had Indian Ponies, Hunters on Guard

for Wolves & Rabid Skunks, 19th Kansas Camped at Hays

Milburn Emma

Jane

Whaley 1856 Dugout, Sod House, Indians considered Skunk Meat a Delicacy

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Miller Catharine

Elizabeth

Boone 1855 Buffalo Hunt, July 4th 1872 in Wichita, Indian Scare, Grasshoppers destroyed all Crops except Castor Beans, Homesteading in Union Twp. Sedgwick Co., Newton was End of Railroad in 1872

Miller Clarinda Dawson 1835 First Kerosene Lamp, Hauled Apples from Missouri to Lawrence, Prairie Schooner, Horses, Featherbed, Bureau, Johnson County, Shotgun, Gardner Church, Covered Wagon, Firing Shotgun, Friendly

but Thieving Indians, Log Cabin, Wall Papered with Newspapers

Miller Clarinda Dawson 1835 Hole in Log Cabin for Shotgun, Lexington Post Office, Lexington Stage Coach Station, Log Cabin Roof Leaks

Miller Della Huff 1857 Prairie Fires, Wild turkeys

Miller Della Huff 1857 Dry Good Boxes for Chairs, Featherbed, Sharing of Horse to Make Team, Antelope, Buffalo Hunt, Covered Wagon, Iowa, Niece buried at Rockport Missouri, Husband emigrated from Switzerland,

Grasshoppers, Married Fred Miller in 1873, Log House

Miller Mary McNee 1837 Wisconsin, Preempted Homesteading in Chase County, Born in Perthshire Scotland, Husband from Ireland, Murder of James Fisher by Martin Goss, George McNee

Miner Eliza Smith 1839 Eastern Star, WCTU, Keep Pace Club, Oberlin, Delegate to 1st Grand Chapter Meeting

Missimer Mary Jones Built House of Native Limestone, Oxen

Mitchell Addie Parsons 1868 Presbyterian Church

Mitchell Amanda

Fitzland

Moore Presbyterian Church, General Bull, Union Hotel, Operated Hotel in Waterville, Homesteading in Mitchell Co., Husband served in 19th Kentucky Volunteers, Husband 1st County Superintendent of

Schools in Mitchell Co.

Mitchell Eliza Blacksmith, Morris County

Moden Maja Anderson 1836 Homesteading in Marshall Co., School & Church Founding Marshall Co., Cared for the Sick

Moore Kate Dunsworth Wagon Covers, Driving Cattle, Jennie Tuggle, Baking Bread, Clerked in Grigsby Store, Railroad Workers, Homesteading in Lane Co., Filed for Land in Wakeeney, Jennie Tuggle, Sod House, 65 Cattle on

Wagon Train, 1886 Blizzard, Married in Her Sod House

Moore Malvina Utt 1843 Brother Lee served in Kansas Jayhawkers 7th Kansas Cavalry, Father was Founder of White Cloud,

Moore Malvina Utt 1843 Congregational Church, Steamboat Excursion up Nemaha River, Captain Wiley Moore, J. Utt & Enocoh Spaulding built First Hotel. Guests at Hotel Included Richard Gatling Bayard Taylor Jim Lane,

White Cloud was located on Indian Land

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Morgan Anna Brewster 1843 Captured by Indians Oct 1868, Rescued March 1869, Gave Birth to Indian Child, Died in Insane Hospital

Morgan Mabel Dean 1871 Richfield Methodist Church, Homesteading in Morton Co. 1886, Rag Dolls, Cornstalk Horses, Wild Flowers in Bloom

Morgan Mary Turley 1854 Dugout, Leaky Roof, Husband Freighted between Syracuse Kansas & San Francisco, Preemption & Tree Claim in Morton Co. 1885, Blizzard 1886

Morgan Minnie D. Yoast 1845 Officer in State Woman Suffrage Association, Worked in Fields & Took in Washing

Morgan Minnie D. Yoast 1845 Presbyterian Church, Mayor of Cottonwood Falls 1888, First Woman Mayor, Chase Co. WCTU, KS Woman's Republican Assn., Woman's Press Club, Husband Served in 23rd Kentucky Infantry,

Husband was Editor of The Chase County Leader

Morrison Mary Belle Metcalf Broken Leg Accident, Antelope, Buffalo, Indiana, Two Covered Wagons, Dugout, Blizzard, Dugout Fire, "Run Off" 2 Claims, Clark Co., Fighting Prairie Fires, 3300 Acres of Land

Morse Emma Wattles Secretary of the 1st Woman Suffrage Meeting in Kansas at Moneka in 1858, Prepared Petitions that were Presented to the Wyandotte constitutional Convention

Moser Flora Ann Brigham 1850 Taught at Parkerville & Adjoining Communities

Moser Ida Saxton 1861 Rosetta Saxon's School, Flour Doings, Chicken Fixings, Pioneering Family, Adelia Saxon

Muck Melina Heft 1829 Homemade Furniture, Antelope, Prairie Chickens, Turkeys, Cured & Salted Buffalo Meat, Dugout, Log House, Homesteaded in Walnut Creek Twp. Mitchell Co., Wagon Train from Ohio 1872, Hauling

Water 2 Miles, Husband Died 1879 of Blood Poisoning

Munkers Frances First Tavern, Council Grove

Murphy Harrison Co. Missouri, Driving Cattle, Grasshoppers, Murphy house a rendezvous in case of Indian Scare, Prairie Fires, Rattlesnakes

Murphy Eva Maria Morley 1856 Sherman County Seat Dispute, Husband UP Land Agent, Dugout, 1st Rock Island Train to Goodland on July 4 1888

Murphy Jane Black 1842 Cattle Trail to Abilene, Longhorns, Born in Ireland, Prairie Fires, Organizing School Districts, Was a Nurse in New York, Organized Sunday School

Myers Catherine Younkin 1837 Steamboat from Pittsburgh to Leavenworth-Ox Team to Clay County, Lumber for House Hauled from Atchison, Ranched 4000 Acres, Alone on Homestead

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Myers Harriet

Beebe

Prentiss 1834 Description of Pioneer Days in Ohio, Came to Kansas because of Prohibition

Myers Kathryn

Elizabeth

Wynn 1856 Buffalo Hunt, Flooding, Indians asked for Share of Buffalo Meat, Log House with Stone Fireplace, Money Scarce, Sheep, Settlers Care for Each Other, Sawmill built by Bacon, Wagon Train from

Northern Iowa, Married by Squire Maxwell of Sharp Creek

Myers Mary Guthridge Aid Committee, Buffalo Meat, Wild Plums, Grasshoppers, Homestead Adjoined Wellington Townsite, Founding of Wellington, Company of Wellington Men marched to meet Indians, Malaria,

Husband was Captain in Civil War, Prairie Fires, Snakes

Myers Mary Guthridge Hauled Wheat to Wichita & Hauled Lumber back to Wellington, Wellington in 1871, Wellington Mail Wagon, Drouth

Neeley Mary J. Haggar 1848 Parsons Presbyterian Church, Covered Wagon, Auburn Kansas, Railroad Payroll Cash, Vigilante Committee, Hanging of Five Gang Members near Ladore, Husband was Postmaster & Owner of General

Store in Ladore, Houses moved to Parsons because of Railroad

Neibling Elizabeth

Jane

Swartz 1832 Doniphan Co. Church, Death of 3 Children from Typhoid Fever

Neifert Mary E. Gants 1856 Mitchell County Snow Storm 1871, Covered Wagon, 1874 Grasshopper Invasion, Guns to Defend Against Wolves, Gant Family Homesteaded in Walnut Creek Mitchell Co., Built Good Stone Home on

Claim Used for Refuge from Indian Raids

Neifert Melinda

Jane

Reed

Neil Catherine

Jane

Heberling 1847 Hiram Heberling, Free State Settlers, Log House

Nelson Carolina Peterson 1844 Homemade Furniture, Married in 1870, Both born in Sweden, Lutheran Church, Buffalo Hunt, Tough Meat, Swedish Immigration, Death of Mr. Nelson from Tuberculosis, Partnership Cow, Stone

House with Sod Roof, Begging Indians, Husband lost getting Windows

Nelson Carolina Peterson 1844 Married by Dr. Olsson, Worked in Salina before Marriage, Stormy Sea Voyage, Married February 1870 in Dr. Ollson's Home

Nelson Stina

Maria

Jonsson Both born in Sweden, Swedish Settlement on Smoky Hill River, Died 2 months after arrival of Brain Fever, Had Large Estate & Servants in Sweden, Dugout housing 9, No Food after Mother's Death,

First White Person Buried in McPherson Co.

Nelson Stina

Maria

Jonsson Homesteaded 1 Mile South of Lindsborg, Immigrated Alone

New Emma Mitchell 1851 Working for 50 cents/day, Took in Washing

New Emma Mitchell 1851 Car-load, Plow, Lumber, Chickens, Dairy, Births with no Doctor, House Fire, Lived on Corn Meal for 1 year, Cow Chips as Fuel, Homesteaded 2 Miles from Russell, Loneliness, Joy at having Neighbors,

Boundless Prairie, Prairie Fires, Hauling Water

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Nichols Hanna

Maria

Scott 1849 Methodist Church, Measles, Appendicitis, Mr. Hoone Fisherman, Kept Cottonwood Falls Hotel 1872, Homesteaded Land that had been in Kaw Reserve, Lived in Stone House built for the Indians, Kaw

Indians moved in 1873, James Dunlap US Marshall for Indians

Nichols Hanna

Maria

Scott 1849 Morris Co. WCTU

Nichols Sarah Milmine 1837 Cared for Sick, Sunday Schools

Nincehelser Minnie Wendorff 1860 Lutheran Church, DAR Member

Nixon Almon C. Antelope, Buffalo, Prairie Chickens, Wolves, Coyote, Abilene, Texas Longhorns, Cowboys, Abilene Cemetery, Plot to kill Wild Bill Hickok, Marshals, Vigilance Committee, Dugout, Gus Packard,

Gambling, Wild Turkeys, Shooting of Deputy

Nixon Almon C. Indian Wife of Hickok

Nixon Almon C. Shooting Skills of Hickock, Six Shooter Versus Shotgun, Bells Boarding House, Hersey Hotel, Drover's Cottage, Indians Camped on Smoky Hill River, Nursery Business, Abilene Saloons, Shooting Up the

Town, Marshall Tom Smith, Wagon Trains, Wild Flowers

Norstrom Anna Swenson 1846 1st White Child in McPherson County, Born in Sweden, Indians Stole Articles in Store, First Log House in McPherson Co., Post Office & Store in their Log House

Norton Elizabeth Coughlan Horse Stealing, Breaking Oxen, Border Ruffians Stole Horses, Buffalo, Sons Civil War Veterans, Both born in Ireland, Husband Died in 1856, Homesteaded Claim on Norton Creek Chase Co., 3300 Acre

Ranch, Sons Built Log House, Tecumseh was County Seat

Norton Hannah Oliver Covered Wagon, Iowa, Carr Creek Dugout, Homesteaded on Carr Creek Mitchell Co., Married April 23 1871 in Iowa

Norton Rhoda Rolfe 1843 Henry Rolfe, W.C. Lippincott, A.H. & W.D. Norton, Wheat Crop Destroyed by Hail, Lightning Struck House, Alone on Homestead

Norton Rhoda Rolfe 1843 Deer, Buffalo, Prairie Chickens, Quail, Rabbits, Covered Wagon, Husband Freighted, Neighbors Put Out Fire, Homesteaded SE of Cawker City, Lumber for Framed House Hauled from Solomon, Friendly

Indians, Died of typhoid in Paxton, IL, Samuel Nevison

Noyes Caroline L. Noyes 1851 Pomeroy aid, Beans, Biscuits, Fever & Ague, Log House with Carpet for Door, House was Stagecoach Station

Nuzum Sarah Sifers 1835 St. Louis Missouri, River Steamer to Iowa Point, Doniphan County, Indian Dead Place on Scaffold, Log House

Oberholser Harriet

Jane

Galbraith 1865 Methodist Church, Burdick, Hospitality, Church Services in Wilsey School, T.J. Pearson, T.P. Henry, Farm Bureau, Homemakers Club, Red Cross, Herding Cattle, Galbraith House had 3 Rooms, Teacher

Lucy Phinney, Rolling Prairies, Taught in Dickinson Co.

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Oberholser Harriet

Jane

Galbraith 1865 5 Prairie Schooners from Illinois

Oliver Josephine Gustafson 1850 Born in Sweden

Oliver Sarah E. Jayne 1836 Daughters became "cowgirls", Hospitality, Bartering with Indians, Malaria, Had Melodeon in House, Homeopathic Remedies, Burlingame Store, Railroad to Lawrence

O'Loughlin 1870 Buying and Death of Cow, City of Rome was site of Indian Village, Rattlesnakes, Bull & Water snakes, Blue Racers

O'Loughlin Mary V. Farrell 1860 Vinegar Gravy, Corn Bread, Lakin Catholic Church, Prairie Dogs, Antelope, Beaver, Opossum, Mountain Lion, Covered Wagon Experience, "Kansas or Bust", Texas Longhorns, Cousin Died on Way to

Kansas, Cow Death, Fleas, Milkweed, Marshal Charlie Bason

O'Loughlin Mary V. Farrell 1860 Description of O'Loughlin Store in Kearny Co., Founding of Catherine 1876, Wagon Train marked "Kansas or Bust", Water Witching, 1886 Blizzard, Russian Wedding Lasting 5 Days, Woman's Club,

Operated Store After Death of Husband

O'Loughlin Mary V. Farrell 1860 Rioting of Negro Troops Winter 1881in Hays, Gathering & Selling Wild Fruits, Cut Red Cedar along Saline River, Amusement of Riding Horses, Early Lakin, Prairie Fires, Old Indian Village West of Hays,

Dances, Russian Wedding, Sod Houses

Olson Anna 1837 Lutheran Church, Birth with no Doctor, Colony House, Death of Infant Son, Both Born in Sweden, Homesteaded near Bridgeport, Indian Squaw, Prairie Fires, Tall Prairie Grass, Sod House, Cyclone,

Lumber Wagon, Cyclones

Olson Margaret Williamson 1844 One Well in Wakeeney

Olson Margaret Williamson 1844 Cattle Country, Trego County, Church Services, Rev. Wilson, Born in Sweden, Wakeeney was on Railroad, Norton & Ness City had no Railroad, Sold Homestead 3 Miles W of Wakeeney, Husband Had

Union House Hotel & Harness Shop, Stagecoach

Olsson Anna L. Jonsson 1841 Lutheran Church, Swedish Lutheran Church Lindsborg, Clothes in Sweden, Pastor of Colony, Boy born in 1872 died of Summer Complaint, Both born in Sweden, Homesteaded in Smoky Hill Twp.,

Parsonage built by Parishioners, Poverty

Osborn Ness City Church Services, Rev. Webb, Rev. State, Union Church, A.L. McCreary sent Organ from home to Church, Wakeeney School House-First Choir

Ostlund Susan Ida Moss 1866 July 4th 1878 Fireworks in Great Bend, Christmas Tree, Russian Colony, Lone Tree Township, Cooking with Corn Stalks, Davis County Iowa, Ness County, Dry Cows, Grattan Family, Burial Preparations,

Burial Grounds near Moss Home, Mort Fresh, Hospitality

Ostlund Susan Ida Moss 1866 Covered Wagon drawn by Oxen, Spring Valley School, Blizzard of January 1886

Ott Justina Schieve 1838 Born in Germany, Husband Built & Operated Olathe Flour Mill, Quantrill's Sacking of Olathe 9/6/1862

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Overfield Margaret Ferguson 1831 Born in Scotland, Free State Settler, Came to Lawrence in 1853 with a party of 250, Lawrence a Rag-Tag City, New England Emigrant

Owen Mary Tedstone Both born & Married in England, Episcopalian Church, Buffalo, Hanging of Two Horse Thieves on Bridge in Council Grove, Homesteaded on Camp Creek Near Burdick, Six Mile Ranch on Santa Fe Trail,

Cheyennes ransacked Home 1868, Sunday School

Owen Olive Packard 1842 Maine, Quindaro, Boiling Sorghum Molasses, Prairie Fire, Free State Settlers, Underground Railroad Station for John Brown, Begging Indians near Rochester, Taught at age 15 to Help Family, "Black

Ann" Shattio/Chouteau, Prairie Fires, Teacher

Owen Olive Packard 1842 Jesse Stone, General Sherman in Shawnee Co. 1857 to Supervise Building on Farm Owned by Thomas Ewing, Topeka had 30 Houses in 1857

Owen Sarah Ann Howe 1860 Born in Emporia

Page Jessie McLintock 1854 Husband started Milling in North Topeka in 1880

Pagenkopf Mrs.

Gotlop

Both Born in Germany

Painter Bettie C. Robbins Husband Dr. D.H. Painter Practiced in Council Grove

Painter Emily Hackworth 1845 Sour Dough & Corn Bread, Corn Coffee, Chalk Beeson, Dodge City, Books, Justice of the Peace, Postmaster, School Board, Lakeland Town Site, Husband Legislator, Cowboys created Indian Scare,

Woman Horse Thief, Dugout, College

Painter Emily Hackworth 1845 3 Prairie Schooners, Snow Storm November 1884

Painter Emily Hackworth 1845 Husband was Freighter & Carpenter, Horses Stolen, 18 Pioneers sent to Asylum because of Stress, Lakeland founded 1885, Husband Representative in Legislature, Moving of Lakeland Post Office,

Spelling Matches, Literary society, Sod House, Sunday School

Palmer Olive Kaw Valley State & Savings Bank, Wamego, Underground Railroad, John Brown, Slaves, Husband was Regent for State Ag College

Palmer Rebecca

Palmquist Brita Lisa 1821 Dugout, Lindsborg, Born in Sweden

Pappan Julie Gonvil Born on Kaw Indian Lands, Sold Tract to Oren Curtis, Tract later platted as town of Eugene, Kaw Mile Four, William & Charles Curtis

Parent Eliza

Jennie

Dobson 1850 Presbyterian Church, Stampedes, Cowboys & Saloons in Abilene, Cattle Shipment, Mob Hanging in Abilene, Indians begging for Food at House, Bill Hickok, Cottonwood-Box Elders-Maple Trees

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Park Phoebe

Ann

Lowrey 1839 Cows, Milk & Butter, Herding Cows, Riding to Cottonwood Falls with Toothache, Lumber for Frame House Hauled from Emporia, Squaw wanted to Trade Baby For Calico Dress, Middle Creek Chase Co.

Parker Celestia Melvin Mother Real DAR, Tablet in Troy Cemetery, Nursed Sick, Cared for Dead, Sent 6 to College, Husband Invested in Mill that Later Burned, Sold Insurance, Sold Insurance, Kept Boarders, Sewed & Knitted

Parker Emma Woodward Charter Member of LRC of Olathe 1884

Parker Katherina Mills 1838 Free State Settler, Congregational Church, Andover Band, Ministers, Rescue of Rev. Cordley& Family, Quantrill, Election, Leavenworth, Buffalo, Emporia, Rev. Parker, 1860 Drouth New England Aid,

Lawrence, Thanksgiving Services

Parnham Margaret Covered Wagon, Horse, Sewing Machine, Harvey County, Burning Green Cottonwood as Fuel, Indians Drove Buffalo & Big Game Away, Arrived at Homestead with Little Money, Bull Snakes,

Rattlesnakes, Sod House, Cottonwoods Planted & then Destroyed, Wolves

Parrott Bidwell Eye Trouble of Husband, Husband Fred was Freighter, Indian Raids, Borrowed Money for Eye Treatment at 60 percent interest, Hauled Lumber from Newton, Wabash Co. IN

Paulen Lucy B. Johnson 1848 Methodist Church, Importance of Cow, Took Claim on an Indian Trail 3 Miles from Fredonia, Son & Her would Hide in Tall Grass when Husband was Away, Built Up Store in Fredonia

Pearl Margaret

C.

White 1857 Dr. McCarthy of Dodge City, Married in Lakin 1879, Brother John White established Trading Post, Santa Fe Railroad, 1886 Blizzard

Pearson Carrie Carpets, Hand Loom, Dugout, Cyclone, Log House, Both Born in Sweden, Good Frame House

Pearson Elcy A. Howard 1848 Indians breaking up Schooling, Books

Peaslee Elizabeth Smith Aid from Ohio, Apples, Potatoes, Missouri River, Blue River, Coon Creek, Republican River, River Crossings, Cawker City, Pella Iowa, Horse Oats, Bob Huffman First Blacksmith in Glen Elder, First Store

in Glen Elder run by George & Frank Stinson

Peaslee Elizabeth Smith Grasshopper Invasion In Mitchell Co. Started 8/1/1874, Homesteaded in Mitchell Co., House built of Rock with Dirt Roof, Trail Passed Close to House near Beloit & Had Only Well on Government Trail

Pennel Bithia Yoxall 1852 Animals, Born in Crew England, Grasshoppers, Riding Horses on Prairie, Hospitality to Fleeing Indians, Hunting, Camp of 300 Indians near Russell, Dull Knife Cheyenne Raid, Organization of "Kansas

Colony", Town Well, Kansas Winds, Wild Flowers,

Perigo Lannie Frost Walter Chrysler, Russian Children in Ellis Schools, Teaching in Pfeiffer & Hays

Perring Mary E. Whaley 1845 Homesteaded in Cheever Twp. Dickinson Co., Sod House, Frame House, Cyclone in Cheever Twp.

Peterson Hattie

Elvira

Moon 1872 Milk Cows, Droves of Coyotes, Hospitality, Dugout, Smoky River, Moons Homesteaded in Lone Tree Twp. McPherson Co., Built Cellar with Shingle Roof, Oxen, Lizzie Beaton was Teacher at Union

School, Treeless Prairie, Husband Broke Prairie for Neighbors

Philip Annie Hardie

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Philip Jane Hardie Antelope, Cattle, Victoria, Five Railroad Hands killed by Indians 1867, Seth Family Members Died of Fever, George Grant, 1871 Victoria Christmas, Currant Loaf, Grants Colony, Killing of Sheriff

Alexander Ramsey, Raisins, Syrup

Philip Jane Hardie Both Born in Scotland, Married in Hays, Friendly Spirit among Victoria Colonists, Horse Thieves, Member of Grant's Victoria Colony, UP Station at Victoria used as Hotel, Hunt Clubs, Hunters wearing

Scarlet Coats, No Roads or Trails

Philip Jane Hardie Miss Montgomery-Teacher at 1st Victoria School, Raising Sheep Failed for Grant's Colony, George Grant's Guest, Store at Victoria, History of Victoria Colony, 1st Wedding in Colony, Maggie Grant,

John Hardie

Phillippy Minnie Nelson 1871 Conesburg later named Peabody, Wisconsin Colony, First Child Born in Peabody Township Marion Co., Homesteaded in Peabody Twp. Marion Co., John Cone, Postmistress at Peabody, School in

Baptist Church

Phillips Lucretia Spencer 1844 Husband was Lieutenant in Civil War, Husband's Health was Undermined

Phinney Columbia

Pickering Rosanna Done Traveling Minister of Friends Church, Great Granddaughter of Martha Washington, DAR Member, Practical Nurse

Pierson Nancy

Annette

Shaw 1828 Grasshoppers

Pinkston Sarah A. Lyon 1837 California Trail on Lyon Property, Delegate to WCTU National Convention when Frances Willard was President

Pinkston Sarah A. Lyon 1837 Presbyterian Church, Cedar Point Cemetery, Rev. Lum, First Sermon in Lawrence, Lyon Family Homesteaded 4 Miles W of Lawrence, Lawrence was City of Tents, In July 1854 stood on Future Site of

University, Lived in Lawrence with Husband John W. Mack

Platt Mrs. John

W.

Tennison 1857 After Marriage Moved to Comanche Co., Trip made by Wagon, Father James Tennison came to Johnson Co. before 1857, Managed 7000 Acre Ranch

Plumb Martha

Jane

Yates 1844 Officiated at 200 Births, Cared for Dead, Grasshoppers, Homesteaded in West Belton Cowley Co., Jesse James in Disguise as a Woman, Settlers gathered at Home for Protection against the Cheyenne,

Oil Discovered on Farm, Known as "Aunt Jane"

Plummer Theoline 1848 Built First Board & Frame House in Smith Co. 1872, Indians received Allotments at Muscotah, Homestead on Old Kickapoo Reservation, Mrs. Frank Green, Log House, Patients did not Pay, Husband

Published Smith County Pioneer, Rattlesnake, Cottonwood Tree

Plummer Theoline 1848 Cookstove, Utensils, Buffalo, Wild Turkeys, Rabbits, Cedarville, Saw Mill, Husband Dr. Plummer practiced in Muscotah & Smith Co., Dugout, Log Cabin, Corn Meal, Grasshoppers in Smith Co., Mrs.

Green Indian Missionary, Used 44 Remington to hunt Buffalo

Poff Mary Ellen Medearis 1844 Water Hauled in Railroad Tanks to Bunker Hill, Wild Bill Hickok

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Poff Mary Ellen Medearis 1844 Drug Store, Bunker Hill, Cattle Diseases, Russell County Seat Dispute, Grasshoppers, Indians entered without Knocking, Russell's Social Life, "Scarlet Women" in Abilene, Husband druggist in Abilene,

One Tree in Russell-Behind Saloon

Polley Mary Akins Akins first settlers, All Neighbors were Indians, Latch String to Door taken in at Night, All Laundry Done by Hand, Loneliness, Oxen, Wool, Returned to Cass Co MO, Married Alfred Flinn in 1856

Polley Mary Akins Moblin McGee, Pro-Slavery, Election, Tallow Candles, Jeans, Linsey, Covered Wagon, Osage County, Killing of Able Polley by Bates, First Hanging in Osage County, Bed Cord Bed, Sam & George

Harvey, Harveyville, James Akins Family, Homesteaded

Poor Frances Jordan 1845 Farm Mortgaged, Mr. Poor Died in 1904, Homesteaded near Chapman, Husband was Telegrapher At Wamego-Abilene-Chapman Postmaster & Owner of Lumber Yard, Indians stole Coal, Little

Money, Trains stalled by Snow, Bill Hickok, Dave Naill, Planted Trees

Porter Emily Wingfield 1860 Presbyterian Church, Care of Sick

Potts Elizabeth

A. G.

Brander 1843 Traded Dress for Cow, Visited Sister Mrs. P.N. Wingert, Mr. Wingert traded Wedding Suit Watch & Team for 160 Acres, Fall from Horse, Broken Arm, Indians in Paola, Married 1871, Log Cabin,

Loneliness, Ox, Paola Grocer, Supplies from Paola, Paola 1866

Pracht Marinda F. Pratt 1849 Church Services in Home, Chase Co., Covered Wagon drawn by Oxen from Pennsylvania, Grasshoppers, Homesteaded 2 Miles W of Cottonwood Falls, School House Refuge from Indians in

Cottonwood Falls, Jane Wentworth & Joshua Shipman were Teachers

Pracht Marinda F. Pratt 1849 1st Wedding in Chase Co. between Jane Wentworth & Mr. Pine

Prenninger Mrs. M Feather Beds, Yankee Tea Plant, Corn Bread, Fleas from Rabbits, Aid from Ohio, Shoes, Clothing, Bedbugs, Cottonwoods, Beloit, Store, Church Services in Dugout, 1871 Blizzard, Losing Cows, Death &

Burial of Baby 1871, Wild Fruits, Grasshoppers

Prenninger Mrs. M. Homesteaded 25 Miles SW of Beloit, Mail Service, Traded Horses for Oxen as they ate Grass, Fear of Rattlesnakes, School in Dugouts, Sod Houses, Minneapolis flour Mill, 3 Day Blizzard

Prentis Caroline Campbell 1847 Stood for Temperance-Equal Suffrage-Freedom for Slaves, First Husband was Harmon Anderson, Became First Woman Employed by Santa Fe Railroad, Commission Clerk in Office of Secretary of State

1881

Prentis Caroline Campbell 1847 No Streets in Topeka 1859, Hauling Water in Topeka

Prentis Caroline Campbell 1847 Indians living across the River in Topeka were dirty & drunken, New England Emigrant Aid Society, Poverty, Escaped to Potwin Place out of Fear that Quantrill was coming to Topeka, 1st School at 6th

& Kansas Ave-Topeka, Stagecoach, Early Topeka Hotel

Prentis Caroline Campbell 1847 Bedbugs, Boarding House, Straw Ticks, Fayette County Ohio, Stern Wheel Steamboat to Leavenworth, Stagecoach to Topeka, Digging Potatoes for Chickens, 1860 Drouth, Stone Hotel in Topeka

Operated by Chase Family, Rented Concrete House Shawnee Co.

Prentiss Ann Julia Soule 1842 New England Emigrant, Details of Quantrill's Raid, Teaching at Kanwaks, Stagecoach, Father was Amasa Soule, Relocated from Boston

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Prentiss Ann Julia Soule 1842 1860 Drouth, Free State Settlers, Father & Brother in Militia, 1874 & 1875 Grasshopper Invasions, Father Amasa Soule Preempted Claim in 1854 on Coal Creek 8 Miles S of Lawrence, Destruction of

Eldridge Hotel & Charles Robinson Home

Preston Margaret

J.

Robinson 1822 Wool, Shearing Sheep, Cared for the Sick, Covered Wagon drawn by Oxen,

Preston Margaret

J.

Robinson 1822 Free State Settler, Border Ruffians, Broomstick Bayonet, Arsenal, Candles, Helped with 50 Births, Fine Embroidery, Kettles, Dutch Oven, Winchester Iowa, Milking Cows, Making Butter, Driving a Team

of Horses, Wash Board, Log House, Prairie Fires

Pringle Louise Gear Women Homesteading in Greeley Co., Town of Tribune moved to Railroad

Pritchard Annie Pierce 1846 Covered Wagon, Graham County, Indians killed Settler in Decatur Co. 1876, Dull Knife Cheyenne Raid, So Hungry Could Not Sleep, Sod Houses

Proffitt Susan Burcham 1882 Methodist Church

Prouty Help with Births, Cared for Sick, Covered Wagon from Boston Illinois, Members of Harvey Co. Grange, Homesteaded in Sec. 20-22-1W Harvey Co., Drove Oxen to Dances, Setting Trees, Planting Corn,

Plowing with Oxen

Pruitt Mary J. 1848

Pullins Charlotte

T.

Martin Neighbors Depended on Her for Nursing, Wove Blankets-Linen Sheets-Carpets-Bolts of Home Spun Cloth

Putnam Louise Gibson

Rarick Lavina H. Harper 1840

Ray Marietta Drocon 1820 Virginia, Cole Co. Missouri, Clinton Kansas, Union Sympathizers, Hickory Point Battle 1856, Husband Member of Home Guard, Lived near Clinton

Reader Elizabeth Smith Sam Readers Diaries, Battle of the Blue, Library, Grasshoppers, Peach Trees, Hickory Point Battle 1856, Frame House 4 Miles N of Topeka, Indian took Cooking Utensils

Reader Samuel J. 1836 Covered Wagon, Shawnee County 1855, Indianola was Pro-Slavery where whiskey was sold. Served Under Col. Veale, Taken Prisoner at Battle of the Blue, Temperance Society

Reckards Martha S. Murphy 1844 Superintendent of Thomsonville Methodist Church, Cows, Selling of Eggs & Butter in Topeka, First Child Born in Perry, Wild Fruit, Soft Soap Making, Raised Chickens

Records Lucinda Caldwell Peru Kansas, Rev. Records, Methodist

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Rector Mary

Elizabeth

DuVal 1842 Son of John Friend stolen by Indians Returned 14 years later, In late 1870's 500 Indians passed on way to Indian Territory, Bought Farm with Log Cabin near Chelsea, Hauled Lumber from Florence

Rector Mary

Elizabeth

DuVal 1842 Chelsea, Butler County, Baby Girl's Birth, Butler County Seat Dispute, Chills & Ague, Scarlett Fever in El Dorado, Whooping Cough, Durachen Creek Flooding, Grasshoppers, Ohio House & Brunswick

Hotels in El Dorado, Mrs. Friend partially scalped

Rees Nancy Goodwin Crude Homemade Furniture, Son was 1st White Child born in Mitchell County, Outside Church Services, Dugout, Log House, Homestead on later site of Asherville, Took Refuge at Sand Springs from

Indians, Known as Aunt Nancy for care of Sick, Wagon Trains

Reese Mrs. G. A. Miller 1867 Buffalo Hunt, Salted Buffalo Meat, Grasshopper Invasion 8/17/1874, Father S.E. Miller Homesteaded 3 Miles W of Roxbury, Father of G.A. Reese first to Homestead in McPherson Co. 1866, Log

House, Mail Service, Drove Oxen to Junction City for Supplies

Reese Mrs. G. A. Miller 1867 3 Month School Term, Sunday School, Joseph Tolle, Salina Nearest Trading Point, Silver Johnson, Gypsum Creek, 1872 Hail Storm

Reinhardt Henrietta Buettner Grasshoppers, Hot Winds, Husband Filed Claim 3-1/2 Miles N of Glen Elder, Log House, Indians killed several People in Mitchell Co., Log House, Came to KS in 1869,

Remington Emma Adair 1847 Dan Anthony, Wedding, Rev. Adair, David Garrison Killed in Destruction of Osawatomie, Frederick Brown, Gold Watch, Slaves, WCTU, Methodist Aid Society, Ague, July 4th in Miami Co., Chief

Baptiste Peoria, Steamboat Snagged on Sandbar

Remington Emma Adair 1847 Destruction of Osawatomie, Dan Anthony

Render

(family)

Gertrude ? Poet, Books, Dickens, Herding, First Twins Born in Scott Co., Wild Horse Killed Itself, School in Render Home, School Built in 1903, Owned 2000 Sheep, Read while Herding Sheep, Mr. Smith lost in

Blizzard & died

Ricards Harriet

Louise

Jones 1846 Methodist Church, Husband served with 95th Ohio Infantry during Civil War, Morris Co., WCTU, Woman's Suffrage Supporter

Rice Almazinia 1839 Rabbits, Quail, Wild Turkeys, Prairie Chickens, Buffalo, Freezing Buffalo Meat, Ohio, Shot Game but not Buffalo, Homesteaded NE of Glen Elder, Planted Orchard Trees from Seeds

Rice Roxanna E. Miller 1833 Unitarian Church, Universalist Church, Lecturer for Douglas Co. WCTU, Former Friend of Susan B. Anthony, State President of KESA

Rich Hannah Hinshaw 1805 Friends Church, Malaria, Fever, Ague, 1860 Drouth, Stunted Wheat, Bushels of Dried Apples, Friends Society Customs, Always fed Hungry Indians, Cared for Sick, Relocated from Indianapolis

Richmond Florence Church Services in Home Graham Co., Homesteading in Graham Co., Prairie Fires, 1st School in Indiana Twp in a Sod Barn

Rickart Hattie Brown 1872 Buffalo, Antelope, Mustangs, Wolf, Coyote, All Ranch Supplies & Mail Freighted from Guymon Oklahoma, Pueblo Indians from NM came to Morton Co to Trade, Before Marriage Homestead in

Neutral Strip of OK

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Ridings Lucy Jane Manly 1854 Doctor in Abilene & Solomon, Corncobs, Coal, Spring Wagon was Ordinary Conveyance, Enlargement of Houses, Bought Land in Willowdale Twp., Came to Abilene in 1884 with Carload of Goods,

Superintendent Hornaday, Lyceums, Singing Schools

Right Eliza Rathbun Council Grove Congregational Church, Union Sunday School, Rev. Armsby, Sunday School, School House called Little Brown Jug

Ringberg Mary Lundquist 1857 Lutheran Church, Buffalo Hunting, Hospitality, Dugout, Potatoes & Sorghum, Buffalo Meat, Grasshoppers, Parents Located Claim on Smoky River 7 Miles SW of Lindsborg, Indians stole all Food in

Home, Dr. Olsson's Singing School, Poverty

Ringberg Mary Lundquist 1857 Husband worked for Railroad, Spelling Bees, Singing School, Galva IL

Ringeisen Katherine Bonard 1848 Born in Germany, Lutheran Church, Buggy, Milberger, Gorham, Schwartz School House, Captain Sperry, Corn Bread, Dull Knife Cheyenne Raid, Took Refuge in Wilt's basement, Washboard & Elbow

Grease, Weekly Mail, Prairie Fires

Ringle Jane Morris 1836 United Brethren Church, Guerillas, Border Warfare, Homesteaded on Osage Diminished Reserve, Husband Member of Militia, Territorial Days

Robbins Mrs.

James A.

Roberts Hulda

Elizabeth

Fairholm 1822 Flies, Oskaloosa Independent, Herds of Buffalo, Boys guarding Oskaloosa, Husband Minister, Gathering of Sheep Sorrel for Pies, Wild Plums, Grasshoppers, Home in Oskaloosa Headquarters for

Preachers, Indians not Hostile

Roberts Hulda

Elizabeth

Fairholm 1822 Cincinnati OH, Steamboat to Leavenworth

Robidoux Peter 1852 Cooking for Railroad Workers, Dutch Oven, Buffalo Chips, Hanging of Five Horse Thieves in Sheridan, Kansas Pacific Railroad Wood Pile Fire, Dugout, Cheyenne set Fire to Pump Station near Ogallah,

Indians killed Pumper, Land Grants Received

Robidoux Peter 1852 Kansas Pacific Railroad reached Denver in 1870

Robinson Julia G. Husband Published Topeka Record-Valley Falls New Era-Lacrosse Republican, Work of Amanda Way, Good Templars, Valley Falls formerly Grasshopper Falls, Jefferson Co. WCTU in 1878, Woman's

Relief Corps

Robinson Sara T. D. Lawrence 1830 Author, Kansas Its Interior and Exterior Life, C.S. Finch, First Colonist in Lawrence

Robinson Sarah Bloomington Nebraska, Phillips County, Dugout, Traded Breaking Plow for Stone Quarry, Parched Wheat & Corn Coffee, Homesteaded 7-1/2 Miles N & 1 Mile W of Phillipsburg

Rockwell Julia

Marshall

Snyder 1850 Episcopalian Church, Antelope, Shooting Buffalo from Train, Ogallah, General Custer Camp near Fort Hays 1868, DAR Member, General Sturges, Early Hays City, Planters Hotel in Leavenworth,

"American Desert" west of Ellsworth, City of Leavenworth

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Rockwell Julia

Marshall

Snyder 1850 Excursion Trains for Well-Known Men, Dinner at Anderson House, Kansas City Population was 30,000 in 1868, Wild Bill Hickok in Hays City

Rockwood Martha

Janette

Hunt 1839 Presbyterian Church, Early Teacher at Cottonwood Falls

Rodocker Mattie E. Boarding House, Price of Horses $5-$10, Winfield Feed Lot

Rogers Anna Wood 1860

Root Mrs. R. H. Reed

Root Nancy Reed

Rorabaugh Burr Latch String to Door, Poverty, Prairie Chickens, Prairie Dog Towns, Wild Turkeys

Rorabaugh Burr Beaver, Mink, Muskrat, Otter, Quail, Rattle Snakes, Grasshoppers, Bedding, Shoes, Antelope, Buffalo, Husband only Doctor on Spring Creek, Child cured of Ague, Dugout, Watermelons, Pumpkin, Fish

Plentiful In Spring Creek, Selling Buffalo Meat, Onions

Rouse Hazel MacDonal

d

1886 Methodist Church, Antelope, Cattle, Butter

Rouse Mary Saunders 1859 Cowboys & Shooting, Cow Towns, Wichita, Medicine Lodge, Plenty of Game, Wood Hauled 75 Miles, Homesteading, Pioneer Houses, Came to Wichita in 1876, Chartered a Railroad Car, Teacher at

Age of 17, Carrie Nation, Hanging of Bank robbers, Jerry Simpson

Rouse Mary Saunders 1859 Lack of Trees

Rouse Mary

Amelia

Rarick 1861 Peas, Beans, After Grasshoppers No Feed for Stock, Hiram Rarick & Sons Took Claims N of Glen Elder, Limestone House, Hauled Logs to a Sawmill in Glen Elder for House, Double Log House, Little

Money, Oxen, Prairie Fires, Teacher Dave Elder, I.D. Young

Rouse Mary

Amelia

Rarick 1861 Buffalo, Wagon to Kansas 1871, Homemade Christmas Gifts, Barefoot, Cactus Thorns, College, Teachers, Raising of Produce

Rouse Mary

Amelia

Rarick 1861 A.D. Moon, Mother was Family Doctor, Homemade Dolls, One Elm Tree on Claim

Rowe Margaret

E.

Smith A.C. Smith Sr., Robert W. Smith, J.S. Smith, James Smith, Richard Smith, John Smith, Charlie Stricklet, Homesteading in Mitchell & Cloud Co., Indian raid when Alexander Smith Sr. & Jr. were killed

Royal Minnie Miller 1856 Husband Freighted to Fort Sill & Fort Reno, Sketches by Husband, Methodist Church, Buffalo Hunt, Caldwell, Original Cattle Trail, Catville, Wesley Hospital, Women's Board, Polo Illinois, Catching

Catfish

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Royal Minnie Miller 1856 David Miller ran Candy Store in Topeka, Member of Twentieth Century Club of Wichita

Royal Minnie Miller 1856 Father David Miller Preempted Claim 4 Miles E of Wichita, Married 1876, Homesteaded 8 Miles SW of Wichita, David Miller built house at 9th & Lawrence Streets in Wichita, Hennessey Massacre,

Attended 1st High School in Wichita

Royston Margaret

E.

Timmerma

n

1860 Cared for Sick

Royston Margaret

E.

Timmerma

n

1850 Methodist Church, Husband Civil War Veteran, Peoria Illinois, Harvey County, Covered Wagon from Illinois, Large Garden, Dried & Preserved Fruits, Buffalo Chips & Corn Stalks as Fuel, Sandstorms,

Grasshoppers, Prairie Fires, Bought Land N of Newton

Rucker Katie E. Austin Hay, Corn, Tent Poles, Cook Stove, Covered Wagon, Ogle County Illinois, 1874 Grasshopper Invasion, Mr. Austin built a Boxed & Battened House, Prairie Fire 3/11/1873, Her & her Sister Taught

School 1874, Hauling Water

Ruggles Susanna Spencer 1832 Americus, Cattle

Rugh Caroline Heim 1831 Bought Lands 1-1/2 & 6 Miles S of Abilene, Wheat Harvested with Ellwood Harvester, 11 Year Old CE Rugh Drove Harvester Team

Ruppenthal Anna

Barbara

Immendor

f

1840 Bought Relinquishment N of Wilson, Log House, Plastering Chinks, Frank Brown Dugout on Hell Creek, Prairie Fire set by Freighters, Prohibition & Temperance, Rattlesnakes, Sailing Vessel

Bremerhaven 1853, Hotel in Wilson, Yoke to Carry Water

Ruppenthal Anna

Barbara

Immendor

f

1840 Well completed 1878, Planting Potatoes, Helped Load Hay & Hoed the Garden

Ruppenthal Anna

Barbara

Immendor

f

1840 Walnut Furniture, Fireplace, No. 8 Stove, Kerosene Lamps, Both Born in Germany, Lutheran Church, Books, Birth of Baby, Herding, Feeding Hogs, Judge Ruppenthal, Mitchell Farm Wagon, Cows,

Salina Normal University, Emigrated in 1853, Knew no English

Ryon Mary Bush 1847 Cassie Batham, Sunday School, Roof Blown Off

Ryon Mary Bush 1847 Homestead Burials, Cared for Sick, School Christmas Tree, Chas Debenham, Red Cross, Women's Independent Club, Plano Illinois, Advances in Farm Equipment, Neighbors help Replace Roof,

Homesteading in Sherman Twp. Dickinson Co., Sod House Was A Castle

Sain Anna Griffin 1821 Henry Blackwell & Susan B. Anthony lectured before Kansas Legislature

Sain Anna Griffin 1821 Farm East of Topeka, Rocking Chairs, Each Sister had Own Pony, Concrete 2 Story House, Tall Prairie Grass, Fear of Quantrill coming to Topeka, Topeka a small cluster of Homes in 1859, Organized a

Woman's Suffrage Association, Lucy Stone

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Salathiel Jemina Corel 1842 John Brown Supporter, Grocery, Independence, Measles Epidemic, Lawrence Cemetery, Death of Corel Family, Farming, Entertained Jim Lane Several Times, Joined Preston B. Plumb & Pursued

Quantrill, Operated Private School

Sands Isabella Dick 1825 Burlington Episcopal Church, Free State Legislature designated Minneola as Territorial Capital, Bishop Vail, Baptism in Mineola 1859

Sanner Hattie Deer, Antelopes, Quail, Rabbits, Covered Wagon from Illinois, Grasshoppers, Parents Homestead 7 Miles N of Walton Harvey Co., Husband Homesteaded in Fairplay Twp. Marion Co. 1871, Oxen Like

to Stay in Water on Trips

Sapp Jasper S. Cherokee Strip Run, Runaway, Broken Bones, Covered Wagon

Satterfield Elizabet Baysinger Lots in Emporia sold for $20 in 1867, Many Saloons in Emporia, Wagon Train from Paris Ill to Emporia 1866

Satterfield Elizabet Baysinger Wagon Train Births, Lyon County, Cared for Sick, Cowboys, Hanging of Three Cattle Thieves, Wagon Train Death, Summoning Dr. John Moore, Able Horsewoman, First Lyon Co. Fair, Rescue of Mason

Williams from Indians, Baysinger bought land S of Emporia

Savage Amanda Crandall 1826 Border Ruffians, Supplies, Her & 4 children died in the 1850s, Measles Epidemic, Border Interference caused Food Shortage, Crude Shake House, Relocated from Hartford VT, Baby dies on Trip from

VT

Savage Mary Burgess Born in Scotland, Savages first Members of Kansas Academy of Science, Saved Life of Hired Man from Quantrill's Men

Sawyer Elvira

Louise

Putman Banker, Thomas C. Sawyer, Manchester, Hope, McPherson

Sayre Martha

Adeline

Piles 1838 Methodist Church, Buffalo Meat, Hay Stack, Grandpa Fairchield Methodist Circuit Rider, Thanksgiving Dinner with Turkey, Homesteaded on Cedar Creek W Edge of Chase Co., Died 1911, Indian

Scares, Nearest White Woman 11 Miles Away

Sayre Martha

Adeline

Piles 1838 Leavenworth was Trading Post

Schmidt Lucy Ann Thompson 1836 Boarding House, Council Grove, Husband left Germany to Avoid Military Service, Smallpox, Husband Drafted for Mexican War, Indians Having Smallpox

Schmidt Lucy Ann 1836

Scholl Rebecca Gansil 1846 Carpet, Watch, Oxen, Cared for Sick, Bought Relinquishment, Lived on Land for 50 Years, Half Owner of Millinery Shop in Cawker City, Traded for Yoke of Oxen, Twin Babies, Hauling Water, Alone on

Homestead, Digging Cellar

Scott Emily Martin Husband Wounded in Battle of Lookout Mountain, Prisoner at Andersonville, Member of T.P.M. Club of Council Grove & Woman's Relief Corps, Husband was an Invalid so most Farm Work was Done

by Emily

Scott Lilian Baldwin City Clerk, President YWCA & KS State Teachers Ass'n, State Board of Education Member, Taught in Country Schools 1870s, Professor of Pedagogy at Baker University

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Scott Rachel

Elizabeth

Day 1847 Methodist Church South in Council Grove Organized in 1855, Foreign Missionary Society, Active Member of Woman's Christian Temperance Union, Member of T.P.M. Club at Council Grove

Segraves Louise Lee Seven Sons served in Military 3 Killed in Action, Oskaloosa American Legion post named for Larner Segraves

Selder Augusta Noyes

Sellers Anna Husband Broke Sod for 75 cents/acre, Baked & Sold for Soldiers Colony

Sellers Anna Wild Horses, Buffalo, Coyotes, Badgers, Ranchers, Covered Wagon, Milk, Eggs, Homesteaded at Junction of Two Forks of Whitewoman Creek Greeley Co., County paid Bounty on Ground Squirrels,

Anna Impressed with Prairie, Sod Houses, Water at Shallow Depth

Severson Anne 1853

Sewell Margaret Baker Nurse to Whole Countryside

Shafer Mattie

Jane

Jesse 1843 Grasshoppers, Prairie Fires, Sickness

Shaffer Sarah Ann Stoke 1845 Roving Cattle, Coyotes killed Chickens, Drouth, Grasshoppers, Indians, Homesteaded 1 Mile N of Bunker Hill, Taught Country School & School in Council Grove, Cared for Sick & Saved Lives

Shaft Jane Parker 1820 Husband drowned Leaving Her with 9 Children, 1860 Drouth, Preempted a Claim on Silver Creek Chase Co., Stone House with Shake Shingles & Puncheon Floor, Nearest neighbors were Kaw Indians,

Council Grove Post Office

Shamleffer Margaret Munkers Distributing Bibles, Center of Social Activities

Sharp Nancy Landrum Dinner of Fried Chicken & Hot Biscuits, Buffalo, Homesteaded on Sharps Creek S of Bazaar 1861, Double Log House, Left on Claim after Husband Died, Made Clothing, Raised Sheep, Pole berry Ink

Shaw Grace Eva Hilliker 1858 Covered Wagon from Michigan, Bad Roads, Indians entering School House, Passed Teachers Exam at 16, Sod Houses

Shaw Prudence Tyler Amherst Ohio, Henry Tyler, Cared for Relatives through Sickness & Death, Sunday School in Home, Husband & Son Died Before She Came to Kansas

Shean Anstress Dudley Quantrill's Men Demanded Husband Guide Them to Lawrence, Escaped out Back Door

Shearer Matilda Netz 1837 Bunker Hill Lutheran Church, Mother Bickerdyke, Aid & Missionary Society, WRC, Ladies Circle, Mended Stockings, Made Mittens, Husband served in Ohio National Guard, Boiling Kettle of Soap

Shelden Mary Lamb No Bridges, Side Saddle, Riding Skirts, Covered Wagon, Horse Thieves, Lynching, Riding in First Butler Co. Fair, Brother kept First Hotel in Douglass, Husband edited Walnut Valley Times, Taught at Age

16, Stagecoach

Shellenbarge

r

Amanda Spencer

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Shepard Daphne Dutton Five Brothers killed in Civil War, Henry Dutton only Survivor, At School when Quantrill's Men Raided Lawrence

Shepherd Willie M. Birdsall Butter & Eggs, Chinch Bugs, Destroyed Corn, School Money paid Taxes on Ranch, Husband Failed at Raising Sheep in Trego Co., Regulation Sod House, Tracts Went to Tax Sale, Hot Winds, Hail Storms,

Husband died & Had to Hire Help

Shottin, Sr. John

Shreves Vesta Westgate Buggy, Grocery, Winfield, Farming, Wooden Churn, Canned & Preserved Fruit, Begging Indians, 300 Peach Trees, Peaches fed to Pigs, Wichita Terminus of Railroad 1879

Sibbitt Mary Ferguson 1858 Head of Social Service Department of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union

Silver Mrs.

William

Genuine Friendships, Unnecessary Cellar at Clay Co. Parsonage, Young Orchards, Fish, Buffalo, Wild Turkeys, Drouths, Grasshoppers, Fear of Indians, Husband Served in Civil War, Log House Burned

upon Return from War, Gave Eagle to Indians

Silver Mrs.

William

Incorporation of Morganville, Relocated from Pennsylvania, Married in 1863 when Mr. Silver was home on Furlough

Simcock Mary White

Simmons India Harris Antelope, Tornado at Dugout School, Hauling Water by Oxen, Pioneer Teacher & Superintendent, Gypsum Bed for Modeling Supplies, Wild Flowers, Cactus

Simmons Mary

Adeline

Garrett 1840 Cottonwood Falls Congregational Church, No Bridges, Buffalo Tongue & Hunts, Husband 31st Ohio Infantry, 1874 Grasshopper Invasion, Cheyenne on War Path Against Kaws, Log House, Prairie Fire

1873, Tall Prairie Grass, Santa Fe to Cottonwood Falls 1870

Simons Jennie R. Gowdy 1836 Widow with 5 Children Homesteaded with Father Collins Gowdy, Hambletonian Horses, Entertained Itinerant Preachers, Taught at 1st School at Marena

Simpson Flora Lord Grasshoppers ate Everything in Cellar, Lord Family had Frame House, Oxen, Prairie Chickens were a Nuisance

Simpson Sarah Old Free Church Mound City

Skelton Anne Holtby 1879 Poor Crops & Lack of Money, Prairie Fires, Sod School House, School District 29, Failed at Raising Sheep, John Skelton, Matthew Skelton, Rain Ruined English Oil Paintings, Husband worked for RR in

NE

Skelton Anne Holtby 1849 Valuable Paintings, Both Born in England, Meat Market, Restaurant, Long Island, Church Services in School, Phillips Co., Dickeyville, Dugout, Ferguson Family Welcomed New Arrivals, Cyclone,

Homestead on Bissell Creek, Lumber Hauled from Kearney Neb.

Skelton Jessie Both Born in England, Harness Maker, Raising Chickens, Dickeyville, July 4th Celebration, Upon Arrival Entertained by William Ferguson Family, Snakes, Hail Storms

Slaven Emily

Candace

Williams Traded horse for Yoke of Oxen, Prairie Fires, Sunday School in Home, Glen Elder in 1871, Wagon Train from Logansport IN to Glen Elder, 1st Wedding in Walnut Creek Twp.

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Slaven Emily

Candace

Williams Badger, Turkey, Squirrel, Quail, Curing Buffalo, Leaky Dugout, Friendly Spirit, 1874 Grasshopper Invasion, Selling of Hogs, Homesickness, Father Bought Relinquishment 2 Miles W of Glen Elder,

Hauled Lumber for House from Hastings Neb.

Slocum Elizabeth King 1849 Accident, Covered Wagon, Oldest Son Killed Accidentally when gun Discharged, Begging Indians, Husband was Civil War Veteran, Taught Children Poetry, Prairie Fires, Santa Fe Trail near Dodge City

1885, Taught at Subscription School, 160 Ft. Deep Well

Slocum Elizabeth King 1849 Blizzard of 1886, Cyclone Destroyed House in Gray Co. 1885

Smalley Ellen Rice 1854 Free State Settler, Mound Township, School, Hospitality, Cemetery, Birth at St. Francis MO, Skirt Hoops, Corsets, Fireplace Cooking, Sweet Butter, Father First Settler to Take Claim in Mound Valley,

Begging Indians, Singing in Choir, Thomas Rice

Smalley Ellen Rice 1864 Good Practical Nurse, Grandfather Thomas Rice Opened Store in His House in Miami Co.

Smith Oakey Neighbors Helping Neighbors, Sunday School in Homes, Junction City Grain Market, Small Village of Abilene, 47 Ft. Well

Smith Oakey Born in England, Dickinson Co. 1871, Wood hauled from Turkey & Lyon Creeks, 1874 Grasshopper Invasion, Good Shot, Homesteaded in Ridge Twp., Indians begging for Corn, Prairie Strewn with

Buffalo Bones, Tall Prairie Grasses, Stone School House 1870's

Smith Alice M. Stewart

Smith Caroline Abbott New England Emigrant Aid sent Grist Mill to J.W. Pillsbury

Smith Carrie Stearns Lake Erie, Lake Michigan, Train to Leavenworth

Smith Catherine Children going Barefoot, Children Milking Cows, Grasshoppers, Lived in Granary, Bought Land 20 Miles S of Abilene, Abilene Post Office, Early School building, In 1st much of Family Sick, Snakes

Everywhere, No Houses to Rent in Abilene 1876, No Trees

Smith Catherine Hauling Poor Water

Smith Emma Brumfield 1835 Midwife, Husband Freighted between Westport & Santa Fe, Fish in Streams, Prairie Chicken, Buffalo, Deer, Gathering Bones, Thomas County, Covered Wagon by Oxen, Drouth, Grasshoppers, Pests,

Located Claim near Council Grove, Indian Scares, Log House

Smith Emma Brumfield 1835 Council Grove small Trading Post in 1864, Indian Council

Smith Emma

Louisa

Leonard 1849 Thomas County Dugout, Free Meals to Neighbors, Chips gathered with Pitchfork, Timber Claims on South Sappa in Thomas Co., Smiths, James Floyd, Homestead Act 1862, Mail Route from Oberlin to

Wallace, Husband taught School at Home, Railroad at Lenora

Smith Emma

Louisa

Leonard 1849 Covered Wagon to Thomas Co. 1882

Smith J.

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Smith Luna Collins 1868 Cedar Creek Flooding 1880, Flooding destroyed Home, Born in Log Cabin near White Cloud

Smith Mary Loque 1843 United Brethren Church, Son served in Spanish-American War in Phillippines, Son died on Journey Home from War, Woman's Relief Corps

Smith Sarah

Elizabeth

Reed 1837 Methodist Church, 1874 Grasshopper Invasion, Grasshoppers Ate Sunbonnet, Judge Smith traded McPherson House, Stage & Mail Routes, First House 1 Story with Basement, Operated Hotel at

Kansas Ave & Main Street, John Smith lost Life in Prairie Fire

Smith Sarah

Elizabeth

Reed 1837 Santa Fe Railroad to McPherson 1879, Operated A Hotel & 3 Stage Lines

Smith Susan Currier 1843 Rev. H.C. Bradbury, Covered Wagon from McLean County, Illinois, Homemade Furniture, Grasshoppers, Bought Homestead Rights from Amos Perry in Lincoln Co., Tom Brown's Home in Lincoln Co.,

Indian Scares, Husband Served in Illinois Infantry

Smith Susan Currier 1843 Taught 13 terms at Log School House, Strangers cared for Baby, Collecting Water in Buffalo Wallows, Strong Kansas Winds

Snyder Frances

Charlotte

Jillson 1845 Blacksmith, Marais des Cygnes Massacre, Whittier, Captain Hamelton

Snyder Grace L. Appointed Field Supervisor of School of Northern Kansas 1923

Southwick Caroline Curran 1845 Parsons Home & Hospital Board, County Superintendent of Schools, Born in Ireland, Emigrated in 1848, Taught 5 years in NY & 15 in Parsons, President of Parsons City Federation of Clubs

Sowers Ann M. A, Rose 1834 Rag Carpet, Hand Loom, Spring Hill Hotel, Battle of Westport, Grasshoppers, Stage Horses, Ran Hotel during Civil War, Kept Stage Horses, Made Rag Carpet on Hand Loom, Milked Cows

Spalding Margaret Wilson 1844 Loo, Rag Strips, Homesteading in Pottawatomie & Russell Co., Husband was a Veteran 11th KS Cavalry, Timber Claim on Lone Wolf Creek, Log House, Children had Training on Organ & Singing,

Dugout School, Civil War Veterans Gathering

Sparks H. A. Brooks 1856 Supplies from Fort Scott, Came to Kansas 1869, Married in 1873, Bought Provisions in Parsons

Sparks H. A. Brooks 1856 Bender, Bodies, 1871 Chicago Fire, Cherryvale Church Services, Covered Wagon from Hedron Indiana, Homesteaded NE of Cherryvale 1869, Indians visited Often & took what they wanted,

McCormick Post Office, School in Abandoned Cabin, Sod Houses,

Speck Sarah

Eleanor

Armfield 1830 Kickapoo Rangers, Shot at one of Quantrill's Men, Captain Speck

Spencer Martha

Priscilla

1850 Held Chair of Elocution at Kansas State Normal, Entered Normal in 1865, Taught at Americus-Wldorado-Chetopa-Emporia-Florence-Topeka, Became Presbyterian Missionary

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Spencer Mary Munkers Methodist South Church, Buffalo, Council Grove, Hays House, Last Chance Store, Kaw Indians living South of Council Grove, Husband Representative in Legislature, Mail brought weekly by Stage

Coach, Santa Fe Trail

Spencer Mary Spencer

Spencer Sarah Spencer

Sponable Myra

Dudley

Shean 1842 Banks, Paola, John Sponable

Springer Mary Lived in sod house 30 Years in Gove Co.

St. Denis Caroline Burlon 1831 4 Year Course in Chautauqua, Homesteaded in East Sedgwick Co. Near Butler Line 1871, Home Schooled Children

St. John Aura Viola Stanton 1833 Border Ruffians, Splint Broom, Indians, Log Cabin with Puncheon Floor, Mail Service, Minneola, Oxen, Prairie Fires, News of Quantrill's Raid, Members of Yeager Band Ate a Meal at Her Home

St. John Susan Parker Regent of Kansas State Agricultural College, Wife of Governor, Organized LRC in 1884

Staatz Friederika Oesterreic

h

1838 First White Girl in Dickinson County 1857, Living in Wagon, Wisconsin, Married September 1856, Wintered in Nebraska

Staatz Maria Gantenbei

n

1847 Born in Switzerland, Swiss Colony, Turkey Creek, Begging Indians, Frequent Prairie Fires, Husband was General Mechandiser in Enterprise, Winds Swept Prairies Desolate

Staley Sarah Brown 1844 Emporia Christian Church, First White Child in Emporia Twp., Solomon Brown, Sarah Hiatt, Andrew Hinshaw, Husband Died in Early 1880s Leaving Her with 6 Children

Stearnes Mary

Steele Hance

Steelman Jesse

Steinberger Lou Flory Dugout, Hospitality, Tuberculosis, Railroad, Stagecoach, Barrel Spring, Women Homesteading

Stevens Irena Ruth Babcock 1873 Mr. Stevens wrote History of Odd Fellows Lodge in Kansas & the Topeka Lodge

Stevenson Susan P. Methodist South Church

Stewart Emma Shearon 1855 Alfalfa, Buffalo, Indian Territory, Hospitality, Taught in Indian Schools, Protection of Horses, Grasshoppers Ate Cover of Bible in School Room, Mother & 2 Daughters to claims on Ninnescah Near

Cheney, Quaker Missionary, Posted Bond for Carrie Nation

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Stewart Emma Shearon 1855 Taught in Wichita in 1872, Covered Wagon Train to Wichita 1871

Stilley Margaret Springs 1848 Buffalo, Antelope, Covered Wagon Drawn by Oxen from Marion Illinois, 1874 Grasshopper Invasion, Took Claim in Beloit Twp. Mitchell Co., Relatives killed by Indians, Log House

Stinson Julia Ann Beauchemi

e

1834 Early Tecumseh General Stores

Stolp Therese Jacobs 1876 Circuit Riding Preacher

Stotts Adeline

Howell

Murder of Mr. Howell by Dick Yaegers Gang at Diamond Springs May 1863, Mr. Stotts Preempted Homestead in Cottonwood Valley, Mr. Stotts Established General Store in Cottonwood Falls, Adeline

Married Ebenezer Stotts of Chase County

Stotts Elizabeth Dorsey 1838 Murder of Mr. Howell by Dick Yaegers Gang at Diamond Springs May 1863, Mr. Stotts Preempted Homestead in Cottonwood Valley, Mr. Stotts Established General Store in Cottonwood Falls

Stotts Sarah A. Benbow Murder of Mr. Howell by Dick Yaegers Gang at Diamond Springs May 1863, Mr. Stotts Preempted Homestead in Cottonwood Valley, Mr. Stotts Established General Store in Cottonwood Falls

Stoughton Martha J. Davis 1863

Stratford Jennie Long 1857 Methodist Church, Grasshoppers Did Not Eat Gooseberries, 1874 Grasshopper Invasion, Mother was Postmistress at El Dorado, Post Office in Drug Store owned by Dr. Allen White, Taught in Brown

low community Butler Co., No RR in Butler Co. 1870, Cyclones

Strieby Caroline Wright 1849

Strieby Clara Council Grove School Board, Methodist Church, Susan B. Anthony, Covered Wagon to Council Grove

Strode Mary L. 1828 Indiana Postmistress, Lincoln Assassination, Husband Proved Up on Claim in Finney Co., Woman's Relief Corps, Called Barbara Friethcie II as she kept Flag at Half Mast after Lincoln's Death

Strong Hannah

Stuart Phoebe Wooton 1856 Friends Church, Andrew Wooton Preacher, Hot Winds, Drouth, Grasshoppers, Homestead with Dugout in Glen Elder Twp. Mitchell Co.

Sudendorf Lizette W. Lance 1827 Methodist Church, Lumber Yard, Salina, C. Eberhardt, Born in Germany, Leavenworth 1859, Saline Co. 1870, Begging Indians, Relocated from Seymour IN

Sutton Dill Was the Fashionable Dress Maker of Council Grove, Father was Dr. EW Dill

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Swarts Mary Jane Patrick 1824 Rev. Swarts, First Service in Arkansas City, Organized Churches in Hutchinson, Anthony, West Wichita, Oswego, Haltsted, Homesteaded on Present Site of Arkansas City, Daughter 1st Teacher in

Arkansas City

Swenson Sjoberg 1863 1869 Christmas Service in Dugout, Meals of Corn Bread & Sorghum, Flour from Salina, Emigrated from Sweden, Homesteaded near Marquette, Mr. Sjoberg work for Railroad in Manhattan, Poverty,

No English Schools or Text Books, Left Alone on Homestead

Swenson Ida

Charlotte

Axelson 1860 Born in Dalarna Sweden, Emigrated at age 16 to Join Father in Mitchell Co., Bed & Furniture made of Stone, Husband Homesteaded E of Beloit 1869, Saw Many Indians upon arrival at Solomon,

Helped Care for Sick, Ox Team, Cyclone Destroyed Home 1882

Swenson Irene

Arrabella

Dexter 1860 Covered Wagon from Chicago 1863

Tacha Kate Heilman Log House with no Door or Windows, School in Decatur Co. Organized in 1878, Skunk in House, Hauled Household Goods from NE, Mr. Rohan worked as Stone Mason

Tacha Kate Heilman Buffalo, Worked for $1.50 per Week, Roasted Corn for Coffee, Corn Meal, Rohan Family Helped Newcomers, Grasshoppers Ate Sunbonnet, Stepfather Wenzel Rohan Homesteaded on Big Timber

Creek, Wagon Carried Corpse of Wife of a Traveler, Dull Knife

Tallman Lillian Log House, Osborne Co.

Taylor Lyda Duncan 1855 Indian Friends: Big Hill Joe, Toby, Wild Cat, White Hair, Chetopa, Malaria, Pupil in 1st High School Class in Independence, Began Teaching in 1873, Social Affairs, Golden Wedding Anniversary August

15 1925, WCTU Member, Mrs. Deffenbaugh Mayor of Tyro

Taylor Lyda Duncan 1855 Methodist Church, Methodist Ladies Aid, Sunday School Teacher, Tyro City Council Member, Covered Wagon from Illinois, Drouth, Blizzards, Grasshoppers, Lawless White Men, Drunken Indians,

Father Solomon Duncan Homesteaded near Independence

Taylor Margaret Williams Husband Company I, 4th Iowa Infantry

Taylor Minerva Tompson 1825 Bought Land 3 miles from White Cloud, Later owned 2208 acres

Taylor Minnie Waters 1851 Husband Dr. Taylor Pioneer Physician, Midwife, Golden Wedding Anniversary on September 16 1918

Thomas Emmma

Alice

Sargent 1844 Aid from East, Cincinnati, Christmas Presents from Relative, Stockings, 1874 Grasshopper Invasion, House Walls Papered with Newspapers, Begging Indians in Morris Co., Prairie Fires

Thomas Leah F. Painter 1879 Quakers Osage Co. 1880, President of Osage Co. WCTU, Secretary of State WCTU

Thomas Mary

Elizabeth

Sparks 1843

Thomas Mary

Elizabeth

Sparks 1843

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Thomas Olive

Ellizabeth

Gringsby 1841

Thompson Emeline Merriam 1810 Bushwackers, Thompson Place, The Inn, Pony Express Station, California Trail Ranch, Husband Ran Ferry, House Materials from Abandoned Boats, Preempted 320 of Indian Land near Troy, Indians

tried to destroy Cabin, Log House with small Windows

Thompson Matilda

Ann

Thompson 1842

Tisdale Betsy Ann Bangs 1832 Living at Eldridge Hotel at Time of Quantrill' Raid, Guest at Eldridge Taken to Another Hotel, Husband in Stagecoach Business

Toland Mrs.

James W.

Furniture made of Walnut Trees

Toothaker Lydia

Elizabeth

Murphy News of Lincoln's Assassination, Indian Council House at Shawnee, Red Legs guarded Slaves from Missouri, Professor Blodgett, Taught in Twin Springs School District, Railroad to Hannibal MO 1859,

Underground Railroad ran close to House, Hauling Water

Toothaker Lydia

Elizabeth

Murphy Methodist Church, Baker University, Wardrobe, College Bell, No Bridges, Chouteau Barbecue, Shawnee, Rev. Sheldon Parker, Hays Hall in Olathe, Rev. Wm. Smith, Silks, Sewing Machine, Arrival at

Shawnee, Covered Wagon from Lee County Iowa

Toothaker Lydia

Elizabeth

Murphy Kansas City Ferry, Father Nutter Webb Murphy was Abolitionist, Lime Mixed with Hog Hair made Plaster, Cyprian & Frederick Chauteau, Indian Councils in Shawnee, Chiefs Charles Blue Jacket &

Pascal, Nutter Murphy bought land near Shawnee

Train Christina Peterson 1844 Husband bought land on Turkey Creek & in Smoky Hill Twp., 3 Families owned one Team of Horses, Begging Indians, Log House, Oxen ran & Dragged Mr. Train, Prairie Chickens, Frequent Prairie Fires,

Skunk Odor, Husband emigrated 1862

Train Christina Peterson 1844 Swedish Lutheran Church 1869, No Bridges, Buffalo, Rev. Olsson, Bolage-huset, Swedish Agricultural Colony, Herds Destroyed Crops, Work for $1 per Week, Both Born in Sweden, Prairie Fires, Snakes,

Polecats, Grasshoppers

Train Christina Peterson 1844 Married by Police Magistrate in Rock Island Illinois, Wolves

Trego Alice Manington

Troutman Marcia Gordon 1860

Turner Henrietta Stoddard Paola Librarian, Library Board, Founder of Pleasant Hour Club of Paola, Worked for Women's Suffrage

Turner Rebecca Andrew 1825

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Turner Sarah

Jayne

Cook 1848 Husband served in 1st Kansas Mounted Infantry During Civil War, Father Aaron Cook killed in Price Raid

Tygart Ida May Jenkins 1861

Underwood Juliet Planck 1846 Rev. W.H. Underwood, Methodist, Irving, Blue Rapids, Clay Center, 1874 Grasshopper Invasion

Valette Emily Woods Homesteaded in Mitchell Co., Ran Store NE of Glen Elder, Husband ran Store NE of Glen Elder, Husband went to St. Louis for 6 months for Medical Treatment

Van Atta Rebecca

Jane

Homesteaded in Solomon Rapids Twp. Mitchell Co., Seven Room House a Community Center, Begging & Stealing Indians, One Room Log House, Hauled Lumber from Waterville & Solomon

Van Natta Emma

Arminta

Shawhan 1832 Crossing at Elk Creek, Hauling Water, Washing at the Creek, Left Alone on Homestead during Civil War

Van Natta Emma

Arminta

Shawhan 1832 Log Cabin Church Services Lyon Co., Husband was in Battle of Westport Landing, Bushwhackers, Chicken Creek, Farm Lease, Friends with Indians, Large Log House, Pitch Pipe, Led Singing, Prairie Fire,

Santa Fe Trail 1860, Log Cabin School, Marsh Murdock

Van Ness Eliza Spencer

Van Zile Mary

Louise

Pierce 1872

Vannoy Sarah Jane Luster Captured by Indians in Texas in 1863, Rescued by US Soldiers in 1867, 2 Indians captured did not want to leave the Indians

Venable Lina Canfield 1858 Fattening Cattle, Farm with Fruit Trees Grapes, Teacher, Parsons' Schools, Musicals, Literaries, Widowed in 1894, Husband took Job in Colorado

Verbeck Isabelle Walker 1855

Vickstrand Maria Carlson 1837 Husband worked for Santa Fe Railroad near Emporia

Vickstrand Maria Carlson 1837 Buffalo, Baby Buried Near Bluffs north of Lindsborg, Emigrated from Sweden April 1868, Married August 1868 Moline Illinois, Born in Nordmarka Sweden, Homesteaded 3 Miles SW of Lindsborg, Built

Stone House, Indians Taking Food, Log House, Prairie Fire

Viets Adelheit Grother 1846 Episcopalian Church, Boarders, Railroad, Hepler, Herding Cattle, Fireplace Cooking, MK&T Train, Lifetime Railroad Pass, Hepler Kansas, Covered Wagon from Wisconsin, 1867 Prices for Food, Squash

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Viets Adelheit Grother 1846 Both Born in Hanover Germany, Grasshoppers Ate Green Strips Only Out of Dress, Homesteaded on Walnut Creek Crawford Co., Husband Owned Store in Hepler, Log House, Boarded Railroad Hands,

Nearest Railroad in Kansas City

Volker Minnie Sanders 1830 Corn Stalks as Fuel, One Team of Horses, Wagon, Spinning Wheel, Knitted Stockings, Coffee Essence, Sour Milk to make Corn Bread, Selling Eggs & Butter in Sterling, Both Born & Married in Germany,

Traded Horse for Oxen, Settled near Zenith, Sod Houses

Volker Minnie Sanders 1830 Sons worked for 25 cents/day

Von Schriltz Mrs. B. S. 1857 Camping, Tent, Covered Wagon from Ohio, Sod House in Comanche Co., Charter Member of WCTU in Coldwater, Guarded Out Door Bar

Wagaman Sarah A. Cullum Buffalo, Antelope, Beloit, Store, Blacksmith, Texas Longhorns, Texas Fever, Iowa, No railroad in Beloit 1871, 1874 Grasshopper Invasion, Two Brothers Homesteaded 5 Miles N of Solomon Rapids

1870, Storm Blew Down Tent, Lowell Family, Roving Indians

Wagaman Sarah A. Cullum Prairie Fires, Roof Blown Off House, Wedding included Dinner-Dancing-Supper-Cakes

Wahl Barbara Graw 1840 1884 Flood of Dugout, Born in Germany, Married in Philadelphia, Prairie Fires

Wait Anna

Amelia

Churchill 1837 WCTU, Beloit Industrial School for Women, KS Woman's Suffrage Officer, Radical Reform Christian Ass'n, Capt. Wait Preempted 40 Acres Adjoining Lincoln Center, Husband served in 50th Illinois

Infantry, Edited The Lincoln Beacon, Woman's Relief Corps

Wallace Louise Bigham 1871 Presbyterian Church

Wallace Sena Hartzell 1848 Lecturer for WCTU

Walter Harriet E. Cowle 1873 Herded Cattle & Hogs, Drove Team in the Field

Walter Harriet E. Cowle 1873 July 4th Celebration, Chores, Jerked Planter, Corn, Lynching Bees, Relatives sent dried Apples Peaches Plums, Marmalade, Roaming Indians, Prairie Fires, Received Teaching Certificate at 17, Spelling

& Singing Schools, Local WCTU President

Ward Jennie M. Ottawa Library, Founding Regent of Ottawa DAR, Ladies Mount Vernon Association, Died in 1910, Husband & Her taught at Ottawa University

Wardell Carolina Backlund 1859 Animals, Born in Varmland Sweden, Cow Chips as Fuel, Grindstones, Candles, Spinning, Hospitality, Father Built Stone Houses, Indians, Choir Organized by Dr. Olsson, Schools, Women Alone as Men

Worked on RR

Warkentin Mrs.

Bernard

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Washburn Alice Jane Hurt 1850 Democrat Wagon, Sharing of Fruit Crop, Homesickness, Mr. Harding Homesteaded in Dickinson Co. & bought Land in Ottawa Co., House was Stopping Place for Prominent Men & Tramps, Farmers

Helping Each Other, Husband had Hardware Store in Bennington

Washburn Alice Jane Hurt 1850 Planted Trees, Sold Grocery in Philadelphia Ill, Wagon Train 1877

Waterman Alma I. 1855 Antelope, Harvey House in Lakin, Charlie Youngblood Supplied Harvey Houses with Buffalo Meat, Boylan House Lakin, Two Wheeled Cart, Accident with Cow, Drunken Cowboys Shot Up Train, Round-

ups, Dugout, Homesteaded 1 Mile N of Lakin

Waterman Alma I. 1855 Husband Santa Fe Agent, Railroad Station also Post Office, Modern Improvements, No Fences or Roads on Prairie, Family Lived in Depot, Rattlesnake with 13 Rattles, School Teacher-J.E. Bennett,

Cyclone, Blizzards

Watkins Martha

Ann

Faulconer 1845

Watson Caroline Morehous

e

Watson House & All Contents Burned by Quantrill, Mr. Watson not Killed

Watson Eva C. Agrelius 1838 Ark Building, Lindsborg, Made Dresses, Teacher, Born in Sweden, Emigrated in 1851, Lindsborg in 1872, Taught in Lindsborg 1872

Watson Mary Burrow

Watson Mary J. Burrow Wagon Train from Macon County Illinois, No travel on Sunday, Rock Creek, White Rock Jewell Co., Feared Indian Attacks After Twilight, Sister was Addie Hill, Husband worked as Carpenter in Jewell

City

Watson Saluda B. Fugua No Sewing Machines

Watson Sarah Jane Williams 1840 Husband Civil War Veteran, Brother was Dr. George Williams, Cared for Sick, Located on Land Located on Site of Cottonwood Falls

Wattles Susan Gave Provisions to Free State Settlers

Weaver Ivy Henderson 1872 Sheep Sorrel, First Pie, Peaches

Weidenheim

er

Myrtle Hummer 1863 Family Left Washington Co After Grasshopper But Returned, Father took Claim in Washington Co 1873, Husband worked in Denver for a Year & Her & Children Ran the Farm

Weir Sarah J. Martin 1854 Buffalo, Antelopes, Gray Wolf, Cimarron River Flood, Husband & Her Ran Restaurant in Richfield, County Seat War, Ran Ritchfield Hotel, Owned Ranch 81 on Cimarron River, Rattlesnake caused

Runaway

Wells Kattie Hammatt 1850 Husband Wounded, Crippled by Tetanus, Dugout, Adobe, Husband Homesteaded near Oak Hill, Kept Store in Oak Hill, Prairie Fires, Santa Fe built Strong City-Superior Branch in 1887

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Wentworth Charlotte

B.

Mills 1835 Russell Congregational Church, Ripon Colony, Fossil Station, Wisconsin, Unfriendly Indians, Card Games Of Cowboys, Disturbance of Prayer Meetings, Heavily Garrisoned Fort Hays 1871, Subscription

School in Ripon, No Doctors in Russell

White

White Genorie B. Hold Up of Medicine Lodge Bank by Sheriff & Deputy from Caldwell, Log House, Carrie Nation, Dan Pierce had Large Cattle Ranch, Pratt City in 1925, Jerry Simpson, Stage Coach in Barber Co., Lumber

Wagon, Children died in Blizzard in Barber Co.

White Marry Ann Hatton 1830 El Dorado Library, Established Negro School in Council Grove, Husband ran Hotel, Drug & General Store in El Dorado

White Nancy C. Collins 1845 Accident, Knitted Socks & Mittens, Spinning Yard, Sheared Sheep, Clogs Hung on Feet of Horses, No Fences, Grasshoppers 1875, Visiting Indians, Bought Matches by the Dozen, 1874 Drouth

White Sarah J. Hammond Farm 25 miles from Council Grove, Prairie Chicken Diet, Freight Caravans on Santa Fe Trail, Moved to Council Grove after 5 Years of Farming, Wagon Train from TN

White Sarah J. Hammond Antelope, Buffalo Hides, Tallow Candles, Kerosene Lamp, Fireplace Cooking, Chills & Fever, Quinine, Wild Fruits, Buffalo Meat, Crude Cooking, Drouth, Grasshoppers, Poverty, Slept on Puncheon Floor

at Hammond's Home, Buffalo Hunting in Fall

Whiting Katherine

Amelia

Whitney 1838 Central Congregational Church Topeka, Mount Hope Cemetery, YWCA, YMCA, Price Raid, Ranch Hand Killed by Horse, Always had Gun in Kitchen, Hostile Indians while Husband was in Civil War,

Indians Stole Horses but not Oxen, Care for Sick, Managed Ranch

Whitney Anna Eliza Holmes 1825 Golden Wedding, Cawker City, Justice Smith, Husband Colonel, Husband Appointed by Governor to Administer Relief After 1874 Grasshopper Invasion, Built Hotel in Waconda Springs, Whitney Hotel

in Cawker City, Charter Member of Reynolds Relief Corps

Whitney Fannie Halliday 1841 Coffeyville Methodist Church, Malaria Prevalent in Montgomery Co. 1870s, Cow in Dugout, Blizzard, Husband Freighted Goods to Indian on Osage Reservation, Osage Indians, No Railroad in Ft. Scott

in 1869, Alone on Homestead

Whitney Josephine Parnell 1836 Husband Company A 7th KS Cavalry, White Cloud Fruit Farm, Born in Cornwall England, Emigrated with Parents in 1840, Husband Employed by C.W. Noyes at White Cloud, Levi Utt, Phillip Kelly, A.S.

Brewster, Sol Miller, Relocated from IL

Whitright Mary Dilla Evans 1861 Gathering Corn Stalks for Fire, Grasshopper Eggs, Pig Raising, Homesteaded in Sec 30 Canton Twp McPherson Co., Husband walked to Salina to File Land Claim, Mr. Evans Built Unplastered Frame

House, Going Barefoot, Prairie Fires, Rattlesnakes

Whitright Mary Dilla Evans 1861 Husband broke acreage with 4 Yoke of Wild Steers, Husked Corn, Stacked Grain & Hay, Married Farmer

Whitright Mary Dilla Evans 1861 July 4th 1873 Program in Empire, Methodist Church, Breaking Prairie, Husband Civil War Veteran, Sherman's March to the Sea, Barefoot, Rattlesnakes, Covered Wagon from Iowa, Death of Parents,

Dried Beans & Peas, Coffee, Gathering Wild Plums

Wickham Pauline Floeder 1860 Raising of Hogs, Brothers Homestead on The Cowskin SW of Wichita, Samuel & Julius Floeder Built House, Floeders came to Leavenworth Co from Ponca NE, Grocer James Black extended credit,

Hauled Lumber from Sedgwick Co., Fresh Well Water

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Wickham Pauline Floeder 1860 Quail, Prairie Chicken, Deer, Antelope, Breaking Prairie, Fording Rivers, Furnishing Water to Cowboys, Horse Thief Grave, Dugout, Both Born in Germany, Emigrated 1862 to Nebraska, Came to Kansas

after Indian Uprising, 1874 Grasshopper Invasion

Wickins Margaret Ray 1843 DAR Member, National President 1892-Department President of Kansas 1883-National Senior Vice-President 1891 of the Woman's Relief Corps, Orator

Williams Julia Hoisington 1848 First Baptist Church of McPherson, Husband Member of First School Board

Williams Mary O'Neil General Store in Beloit, Dugout, Stopped at Home of Capt. John Potts on way to Beloit, Homestead 3-1/2 Miles SE of Beloit, Mrs. Bell & 2 girls taken by Indians, Bought Supplies at Solomon City,

Willow Springs

Wilson Annie Kirkham 1869 Mice & Snakes Dropping from Brush Roof, Drove Organ across Prairie to Religious Services, Kirkham School

Wilson Bessie

Josephine

Felton 1873 Mail Service, Father served in Civil War, Father Discharged 6/27/1865, Scarcity of Money, Prairie Fires, Rattlesnakes, Santa Fe Trail, Victory School 1878, Desks with Seats, Appendicitis, Broken Arms,

King City Sunday School, Drawing Water, Windmills

Wilson Bessie

Josephine

Felton 1873 J. B. Jackson, Wild Meat, Corn Stalks as Fuel, Aid After 1874 Grasshopper Invasion, Hogs & Pigs, Bought Homestead Papers to SW Section 32 McPherson Co. 1873, 1875 Blizzard in Osage Co., Joseph

Fenton Built Frame House, Indian Refused Food

Wilson Bessie

Josephine

Felton 1873 When Husband was Sick Harrowed the Ground for Wheat

Wilson Bessie

Josephine

Felton 1873 Geese, Ducks, Prairie Chicken, Quail, Antelope, Buffalo, Birth Assistance, Barefoot Herding, Housework, Haying, McPherson Methodist Church, Patching of Trousers, Covered Wagon, Santa Fe Trail,

Appendicitis, Diphtheria, Chills & Ague, McPherson Doctor

Wilson Hattie Monfarte 1857 Wild Flowers along Timber Creek

Wilson Hattie Monfarte 1857 Cordiality & Kindness with Neighbors, House Raising of Log House, Union Cemetery in Winfield was deserted Indian Village, Cutting Shakes, House Raising, Timber Creek Farm, Rev. Parmalee, Log

Store in Winfield, Col. Manning, Capt. Monforte, No Wells

Wilson Hattie Monfarte 1857 July 4th 1870 in Winfield, Dr. Graham, Deer, Wild Turkey, Coyote, Buffalo Hunts in Oklahoma, Camping, Dutch Oven, Lumber Wagon from Wisconsin, Kickapoo Corral, Death of Nephew Sidney Hill,

Ague, Drs Graham & Andrews, Both Born in London England

Winslow Anna J. Frazer 1848 Iowa, Covered Wagon, Jonathan Heles, Renting Dugout, Homesteaded in Osborne Co., Came to Kansas in 1873, Considered Becoming a Quaker

Witham Lucy Cooly 1825 Founding of Cawker City, Her & Son Took Claim near Cawker City Mitchell Co. 1872, She & Son went Buffalo Hunting in 1871, Killing of Joseph & Hiram Smith by Mob in Hancock Co., Illinois, Dugout

or Sod Schools, Supplies from Waterville & Wilson

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Wolcott Arabelle Geer 1848 Cowboys Shot at House, Dull Knife Cheyenne Raid, Wolcott Ranch was a Refuge for Settlers, Escaped Prairie Fire, Skunk & Baby Asleep Together

Womer Margaret Mitchell 1856 Gift of Wild Turkeys, Indians Camped near Home, Log House, Prairie Fires, Remedy for Snake bites was to Apply Warm Flesh of Newly Killed Chicken to Wound, No Doctors, Bull Snakes, Mr. Womer

bought Wedding Dress Material, Daughters Did Farm Work

Womer Margaret Mitchell 1856 Fishing, Wolves, Badger, Bobcat, Skunk, Oxen, Horse, Heifer Cow, Chicago Fire, Boots, Coyotes Surrounding Supply Wagon, Pulling Teeth, Dugout, Log House, Tapping Box Elder Tree for Syrup,

Vinegar from Melon Juice, Sylvester Womer Took Claim Smith Co.

Wood Caroline Breese 1833 Homesteaded near Elmdale, Husband Representative in Legislature, Relocated from West Liberty IA

Wood Elizabeth Hobart 1834 Husband was Civil War Veteran, Cared for Sick, Ennisville OK moved over State Line & became Caney, Caught in Blizzard, Woman's Relief Corps

Wood Elizabeth Hobart 1834 Buffalo Hunt, Caney Methodist Church, Husband Called Late, Covered Wagon from Ohio, Rustlers & Horse Thieves, Necktie Parties, 1850 Illinois Pioneer, Peaceful Osage Indians, Bought Land near

Caney, Heard Lincoln Speak in Illinois

Wood Margaret Wilson 1834 Voted in School Bond Election 1872, Decorated House with Wild Flowers

Wood Margaret Lyon 1830 Wakarusa War, Underground Railroad, Murder of Husband Col. Samuel Wood by Jim Brennan, Stevens County, Col. Wood Homesteaded 4 Miles East of Lawrence 1854, Home Was Refuge for Free

Staters, Built Frame House on Homestead, Relocated from Ohio

Wood Margaret Wilson 1834 White City Congregational Church, Born in Manchester England, Married William Wood in Chicago, 1874 Grasshopper Invasion, Chicago Colony, Oxen, Prairie Fires, No Depot in White City on Arrival,

Hauled Lumber for House from Westport & Junction City

Woodburn Mary Roberts 1838 Prairie Fires, Sassafras Tea, Quinine for Chills, Alone on Homestead

Woodburn Mary Roberts 1838 Methodist Church, Christmas Stockings, Homemade Gifts, Rev. Woodburn Circuit Rider, Spring Wagon, Covered Wagon, 1874 Grasshopper Invasion, House Used as Wayside Inn, Log House, Produce

in Church Collection, Always had Musical Instrument

Wooden Martha

Elizabeth

Lick 1833 Clarinda Sunday School, Bedbugs in Hays City Hotel, Alone with Children on Homestead

Wooden Martha

Elizabeth

Lick 1833 Clarinda's Cyclone, County Seat Dispute, Crying of Coyotes, Dugout with Ceiling, Canning Wild Plums & Grapes, Cow Chips, Took A Land Claim near Clarinda, Husband & Sons Worked for Railroad, Got

Lost Because of No Roads, Scarlet Fever, Typhoid

Woods Anna Cline 1854 Widowed with 6 Children

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Woods Anna Cline 1854 Husband Veteran of Mexican War, Husband Died during Service, Prairie Fires, Teacher Fannie Adel Voise in Subscription School, Mary Bickly, Dick McClaren, Robert Quay, John Booth, Denison Sunday

School 1864, No Water to Run Mill

Woods Anne Cline 1854 Rev. Pardee Butler, Denison, Spun Flannel & Linsey, 1860 Drouth, Aid Sacks bore label of McAtee & Pomeroy, Biscuits on Sunday, Going After Fire, Pike's Peak Gold Rush, Abraham Cline, Half Mound,

Denison, Grasshoppers, Painted Indians

Woodward Elvira M. Husband Iowa Volunteer Infantry, Covered Wagon from Nebraska, Member of Authors Club

Wooton Sarah Hixon Buffalo, Husband Quaker Minister, Tonganoxie, Homesteaded near Glen Elder, Coyote Music, Dugout, Strong Homemade Furniture, Visits of Friends Church Ministers

Wright Annie L. Norton 1863

Yeager Catherine Rogler 1844 Emigrated in 1859 from Asch Austria to Iowa, Moved to Chase Co., Wild Plums, Fruit from Orchard Given to Neighbors, Indians in Chase Co., Husband worked for Sam Wood 1865

Yong Mary J. Charter Member of Mitchell Co. WCTU

Yong Mary J. Coffee & Corn Bread, Christian Church, Sod House, Grasshoppers,Cawker City Woman's Hesperian Library Club, Husband Coffin Maker, Left After 1874 Grasshopper Invasion But Returned Next Year,

Homesteaded 3/4 Miles W of Turkey Creek Mitchell Co.

Zimmerman Arabella C Thomas Chautauqua Literary & Scientific Circle, Nortonville Library Ass'n, Neighbor Mrs. Burns sent milk Watched Children to & from School, Bought Land NW of Nortonville, Maple Groves & Row of Walnuts,

3 Wells dug, Jefferson Co. Blizzard, WCTU

Zimmerman Helen Stevens 1852 Grasshoppers, Antelope, Smith Center Dugout, July 4th 1874 Buffalo Hunt, Homesteaded in Smith Co., Settlers Feared Otoe Omaha & Pawnee Indians, Rattlesnakes, First School in Court House,

Drama Club, Horseback Riding, Railroad to Sabetha

Zimmerman Mary Alice Mallows 1868

Zimmerman Mary

Elizabeth

Maynard 1851

Zimmerman Phoebe Smiley 1847 Covered Wagon from Waterville to Osborne County, Homesteaded 2 Miles W of Portis Osborne Co.

Zinn Sarah M. Gleen ?

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