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Box 3664 Lawrence, Kansas 66044 Vol. III, No. 3 Winter 1980 Contents Page President's Note . . • 74 1979-1980 Hembership . . . . . . . . . • • 75 Douglas County Cemetery Information. · • 76 Douglas County Rural School Information. · • 78 "How to Trace Your Family Tree" •• · • 81 Early Douglas County Petitions for Naturalization. . • . 86 1866-1867 Douglas County Harriages · 88 Sachsman - Soxman Family Information • . • 94 "County in Path of Early Explorers". • 96 The Kenneth Spencer Research Library "Kansas Collection" 98 "The Past" .104 Queries . . . . • 107 7 June Workshop Information. .109 ******** Remember "The Pioneer" needs non-published material for future issues. We need your queries, too. ******** There is no point in burying the hatchet if you're going to put a marker on the site. "Home Town News" - Wichita, Kansas Eagle-Beacon 73 �Dear Readers, We are late but so is winter!! After not meeting in January or February, we hope we are rested, full of energy and really ready to tackle the next few months' affairs. We are planning to have-an annual workshop on Saturday, June 7 at the 4H-Fairgrounds, buildings 1 & 2. We hope you will all wish to be included in the planning. Let's plan to attend and bring visitors to hear these excellent future speakers in the meetings to come. Our sympathy to both Dr. Thomas Gorton in the death of his mother and Mrs. Maxine Hougland in the death of her brother. Thank you for your help in committee work and in publishing the "Pioneer." ~n~ President Remember to plan to attend our June 7 workshop. Watch for details!! The Douglas County Genealogical Society is a non-profit organization with regular scheduled meetings the second Tuesday night of each month, 7:30 p.m. alternated between the Lawrence Public Library and the Presbyterian Manor. Afternoon meetings are held if possible and occasional area tours. An annual public workshop is held to help in research. Membership fees are $5.00 single, $7.50 for 2 family members. The fiscal year is from July 1 to June 30 the following year. * * * * The D.C.G.S. has these items for sale: Limited number of back copies of the quarterly "THE PIONEER". by mail) Cordley's "HISTORY OF LAWRENCE". (Postage and tax extra) $1. 50 ($2. 00 $10.50 members; $12.50 non-members. 16 count package of four Lawrence scenes Notes. $3.00 (Postage and tax extra) "THE ORIGINAL PREMPTIONS OF DOUGLAS COUNTY (KANSAS)". tax extra) "THE ORIGINAL LANDOWNERS OF THE CITY OF LAWRENCE". tax extra) Tax is added only where applicable. 74 $5.50 (Postage and $6.00 (Postage and �1979-1980 MEMBERSHIP Banta, John V., Jr., 2209 Kingston Dr., Lawrence, KS 66044 Berg, Mrs. Emma Semple, Rt. 2, Box 224, Lawrence, KS 66044 Barkley, Mrs. R.L.,. 3734 S.E. Tecllmseh Rd., Tecumseh, KS 66542 Brown, Mrs. Virginia, Box 325, Paola, KS 66071 Bruchler, Betty, 618 Mary Lane, Ukiah, CA 954~2 Brune, Mrs. Frank, Rt. 3, Lawrence, KS 66044 Bunton, Kathryn, 2135 Kentucky, Lawrence, KS 66044 Clarke, Dorothy V., 1908 New Hampshire. St. , Lawrence, KS 66044 Davis, Mrs. Ula C., 2nd & Arkansas St., Lawrence, KS. 66044 Elniff, Mrs. Pauline B., 820 Sunset Dr., Lawrence, KS 66044 Fellenstein, Mrs. Charles, 2000 Arrowhead Dr., Olathe, KS 66061 Francis, Mrs. Alice H., L.V.S.R., G.H.R., Box 963, Kingman, AZ 86401 Gorton, Dr. & Mrs. Thomas, 831 Illinois, Lawrence, KS 66044 Hansen, Mrs. Georgia M., 308 East Rumble Rcl., Modesto, CA 95350 Hougland, Mrs. Sherman, 1920 Harper St., Lawrence, KS 66044 Hout, Mrs. Goldie V., Rt. 5, Box 128, Lawrence, KS 66044 Ingram, Mrs. Tom, 313 East 17th St., Lawrence, KS 66044 Jackman, Mrs. Claire, 1230 North Van Buren, Topeka, KS 66608. Jamison, Mrs. Joe W., Rt. 5, Box 176, Lawrence, KS 66044 Kidwell, Mrs. Richard, 1617 Rhode Island St., Lawrence, KS 66044 . Land, Mrs. Alice Noland, 502 N.E. Birchwood Rd., Hillsboro, Oregon 97123 Niedermaier, Mrs. E.J., 3922 South Buckner Blvd., Dallas, TX 75227 Ralston, Hrs. Thomas, Jr., 516 Caraway Place, Lansing, KS 66043 Reppert, N. Lance, 1605 Tennessee St., Lawrence, KS 66044 Rosencrantz, Mrs. David, 2726 Ponderosa St., Lawrence, KS 66044 Schlee, Phillip F., 1000 Humboldt, Manhattan, KS 66052 Sheldon, Mrs. Evelyn, 2908 Chisholm Dr., Lawrence, KS 66044 Simmons, Hazel Lee, 1646 Barker, Lawrence,KS 66044 Smith, Mrs. Sheldon E., 2928 Cornell Ave., Iowa City, IA 52240 Smith, Mr. & Mrs. Claude, 939 Pamela Lane, Lawrence, KS 66044 Stayton, Floyd, 2611 Oxford Rd., Lawrence, KS 66044 Stooksberry, Mrs. Willie, 2411 Louisiana, Apt. 13, Lawrence, KS 66044 Sweets, Hrs. John, 2905 Moccasin Dr., Lawrence, KS 66044 Syphus, Mrs. Phillip L., 6505 Dinning Ave., Las Vegas, Nevada 89107 Wiggins, Mrs. Elwood, 2020 Stratford Rd., Lawrence, KS 66044 Wiggins, Jane, 2020 Stratford Rd., Lawrence, KS 66044 Wisconsin State Historical Society, 816 State Street, Madison, Wisconsin 53706 Wismer, Miss Nettie, 1421 Kaso1d Dr., Lawrence, KS 66044 Nominating Committee: Dorothy Clarke, Gloria Ingram, Kathryn Bunton, Zona Smith Remember the 1980-1981 election of officers April 8. 75 �WILLIAMS CE~1ETERY Douglas Co., Kansas Located on ,:kLPbweiLiliL.,flat.m.:' From Highway 56 at Worden take County road 1039 north for 2 miles, then County-road 464 1/2 mile west, then go 1/ 4'· '-mile north on toWnship road. BURTON, Sara A., Sept. 18, 1834-June 17, 1917 David L., June 13, 1832-Nov. 26, 1902 Rev. John D., died Jan. 16, 1861, aged 40 years, 28 days GARST, Magie M., wife of B. F. Garst, died July 16, 1887, aged 38 years, 3 months, 5 days Freddie H., son of B. F. and Magie M. Garst, died May 27, 1898, 13 yrs., 10 months and 21 days HAMMILL, B. G., died Sept. 20, 1876, aged 48 yrs., 5 ms., 12 ds. JONES, John (broken), died 1869, aged 58 yrs. LIVERMORE, Orame1, M.D., b. in Sangerfield, N.Y., Sept. 10, 1806, died Mar. 18, 1872 Arthur 0., born in Deansvi11e, N.Y., Nov. 29, 1852, died Feb. 3, 1871 MYERS, Elizabeth, wife of John, died April 23, 1877, aged -6 years, - months, 12 days; (broken, probably 36 years and three months) SMITH, Daniel B., born July 19, 1865, died Dec. 24, 1882 Martha, daughter of W. and M.E. Smith, died May 9, 1865, aged 4 years, 3 months, 8 days ALL ON ONE STONE: SMITH, Daniel 1810-1884 Anna 1814-1905 Wm. 1835-1925 Marica (cq) 1839-1911 Ellen 1861-1864 Daniel 1865-1882 Fredrick 1874-1893 (cq) Detroit, 1876, erected this marker 1955 TALLEY, James, born May 5, 1835, died Jan. 5, 1899, age 63 years, 8 months Sarah, daughter of J. and M. E. Talley, died July 10, 1868, aged 1 year, 7 months, 18 days WALTER, Neri S., died Oct. 22, 1864, aged 34 years, 9 stone N.S.W.) , month~, 4 days (foot- WILLIAMS, John L., born Jan. 25, 1840, died May 11, 1861, 21 years, 18 months, 16 days Susan, wife of L., born Sept. 13, 1802, died June 1, 1885, aged 82 years, 8 months, 18 days Alford (cq) Burton, born Apr. 25, 1860, died Jan. 29, 1862 Lewis, born Aug. 12, 1806, died Feb. 21, 1871, aged 64 years, 6 months, 11 days At least 12 fie1dstones or other broken and worn stones. Copied and compiled in April 1976 by Gladys Aiken, Lawrence, Kansas. 76 �KENNEDY CEHETERY Douglas Co., Kansas Copied from Markers by Anna C. & Wm. Hastie, Nov. 6, 1940 KENNEDY, W. B., Oct. 16, l882-Nov. 26, 1887 . Elizabeth, His wife, ~~y 27, l829-Mar. 20, 1916 KENNEDY, Flora.M., dau. Jan. 22, 1853 - Aug. 13, 1886 Josephine, dau., Aug. 17, 1857- Aug. 16, 1859 Harry E., Son, Feb. 28, 1865 - Nov. 8, 1865 KENNEDY, L. J., Sept. 2, 1835 - June 29, 1903 Amanda Todd, His wlE.e, Nov. 23, 1841 - Mar. 4, 1926 Isabelle, July 14, 1860 - Aug. 1, 1860 Ida May, July 28, 1871 - June 24, 1875 KENNEDY, Margaret, 1800-1887 HIND~Ulli, Salina and Children Arthur & Baby HINGAN, Richie V:, July 9, 1869 - Feb. 4, 1886 YHATES, Wm. T., died July 20, 1866 ODELL, S. J., died Nov. 16, 1879 age 45 yrs, 14 days DAVIS, L. May, 1862-1928 TOWNSEND, Flora M., Jan. 22, 1853 - Aug. 13, 1886 Small stone mark W.B.K. " E.K. " " " " H.E.K. " " " J.R. " " " " A.D. " " Angelica " " " " Edith The Kennedy Cemetery is located 1~ miles south of 31st Street on Haskell Avenue, then first farm lane right in a field along the south side of the Wakarusa River. Contributed by Maxine Hougland, Lawrence, Kansas. **** Excerpts from: "A KANSAS SOUVENIR" Products of an advanced civilization. A book of information relative to the moral, educational, agricultural, commercial, manufacturing, and mining interests of the state. Issued by The Kansas Immigration and Information Association, 1896 Submitted by Lance Reppert, Lawrence, Kansas "KANSAS" By Hon. John J. Ingalls KANSAS is the naval of the nation. 77 �RURAL SCHOOLS AND SCHOOLHOUSES OF DOUGLAS COUNTY, KANSAS by Goldie Piper Daniels Enterprise School District No. 18. The site for this school was acquired by condemnation because the School District had been unable to acquire title because the land was "wild land" and the owner could not be found. It was appraised for $5.00 for the site. Later it was believed that the "wild land" may have belonged to a man named Graham, who lived in Missouri. When in operation this little schoolhouse was known as Brown Jug School, so named by Thurb Harding who loved to sing "Little Brown Jug", but when the new and last schoolhouse was built about 1894, the name was changed to "Enterprise" because the neighborhood, according to J. B. Banker, was too enterprising a neighborhood for its school to be named "Little Brown Jug." The 1897-98 term of school was taught by C. E. Jay with salary of $40.00 per month. Board members were: J. H. Baldwin and M. T. Harding. Total expenditure for the year was $364.01. Those of school age at that time were: -. ; Joe· Baldwin Susie and Nora Collins Della and Myrtle Coursen Mary, John, Henry, Charlie, & Louisa Desque Roy, Pearl, Eva Dodder Minnie Griffin Nettie, Birdie, & Rosie Griffith Alvin Harding Goldie, Clyde, Elmer, Belle, Charlie, John, 0, Ot8. .Dodder Martin & Myrtle Hines Orval Kingston Elizabeth, Ella, & Lily Marckle Jim, Carrie, & Jennie Murphy John & Belle Rea George, Henry, & Louisa Raible Joe and Jake Thompson Guy, Lettie, Ethel, Earl, & Jay Weimer Ella Woodyard taught the 1899-1900 term. Emma Chappam that of 1900-1901, followed by: Grace Showalter Edith Wolgamott W. S. Martin Nora Hershey May Mowldley Eva Lutz Lizzie Postma Board Members ending in 1910 were: Thomas Murphy E. D. Flory Edward Raible Myrtle Hines, eleven years of age, was the youngest graduate from any rural school in Douglas County in 1902. This could be an all-time record. Later teachers were: Eva Lutz Faye Woodvmrd Mamie Haus Olive Lemberger Edith L. Read Camilla Maichel Myrtle Coursen Dollie Mannix Mabel Weimer Dorothy Henderson Pearl Pogue Loretta Shaw Hattie Tucher Edna Fawl Blanche Collins Dorothy Griffith Elsie Reed Other Board Members were: J. E. Hardtarfer, J. C. Miller, F. E. Faul, H. M. Desque, George Raible, H. R. Wright 78 �RURAL SCHOOLS AND SCHOOLHOUSES OF DOUGLAS COUNTY, KANSAS by Goldie Piper Daniels Bismark School District No. 79. In 1870, when an acre of land was given to the district by the Kansas Pacific Railway Company, a two-story brick schoolhouse was built. The first schoolhouse had two teachers and the enrollment was large. Bismark in its day was a bustling settlement where the Kansas Pacific Railway Shops were located and also the famous Bismark Grove, scene of early day fairs, picnics, chautauquas, Independence Day celebrations, political rallies, famous races, and other large gatherings. In 1897-98, Emma Martin was the teacher at a monthly salary of $40.00. The enrollment was 22. Total expenditures for the year were $'334.13. Board members were G. W. Campbell and Jacob Hammig, Jr. No treasurer was listed. The 1898 census showed children from the following families: ADAMS, BEARD, BRAUNING, CAMPBELL, DAVIS, DAVENPORT, HOSKINS, GREGORY, PHILLIPS, ROBERTSON, WISE, SIMMONS, and FRENCH. The 1898-99 and 1899-1900 terms were taught by Ida Dorsey with the same board members as in 1898 except for the addition of J. C. Wise as treasurer. The first ten years of the 1900's had teachers Nora Lane, May Clark, Etha Wise, Alpha Lane, Alice Hammond, Jennie Wasson, Alice Smith, and Emma Dews for the term endirig in 1910. Board members were W. R. Green, Jacob Hammig, and P. H. Weeks. Alice Dicker, the teacher in 1911, remembers that a tornado struck the district in the evening of an early spring day before she had left the schoolhouse, and that her walk home was hazardous as she climbed over and under fallen wires and other debris. Teachers of the next ten years were Alice Dicker, Anna Woodward, Chas. A. Kelsall, Mrs. Ruth Daniel, Nellie McLean, and Cora Eastman for the term ending in 1920, with board members Alfred Heck, Chas. A. Wu1fkuh1e, and Chas. A. Wise. . Bismark School was discontinued when the new Grant School was opened in the 1960's. Book available from author: Mrs. Goldie Piper Daniels 1525 Vermont Street Lawrence, Kansas 66044 * ** * Excerps from: "KANSAS" by Hon. John J. Ingalls I~ has been sometimes obscurely intimated that the typical Kansas 1acks.1n reserve, and occasionaly exhibits a tendency to exaggeration in ~wel17n~ upon. the development of the State and the benefits and burdens of 1ts c1t1zensh1p. 79 �UNION SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 34 Willow Springs Township, Douglas County, Kansas ·1926-1927 Teacher: Miss Opal Steen (now Mrs. Ernest Pohl, Lawrence, Kansas) County Superintendent: O.J. Lane School Board: V.M. Flory, C.C. Schwartz, Wm. Niebrugge Pupils Evalyn Barnhart Orpha Barnhart Roy Barnhart Lila Boehle Mary Churchbaugh Leonard Flory Raymond Flory Ruth Flory Charles Heim Fred Howser Karl Niebrugge Martha Niebrugge Milton Niebrugge Elsie Pippert Mae Pippert Helen Sutton Mable Sutton Veda Sutton Dudley Ulrich Glenn Ulrich In the schoolyears' 1945-1946; 1946-1947, I returned to teach Union School with Mrs. Margaret Hurley as the County Superintendent, Virgil Schwartz, Lester Schwartz and Roy Schwalm as the School Board members. Submitted by Mary Churchbaugh Jamison, Lawrence, Kansas. * * ** Excerpts from "KANSAS" by Hon. John J. Ingalls Diagonals drawn from Duluth to Galveston; from Washington to San Francisco; from Tallahasse to Olympia; from Sacramento to Augusta, intersect at its center. Kansas is the nucleus of our political system, around which its forces assemble; to which its energies converge; and from which its energies radiate to the remotest circumference. Kansas is the focus,of freedom, where the rays of heat and light concentrated into a flame that melted the manacles of the slave, and cauterized the heresies of State Sovereignty and disunion. Kansas is the core and kernel of the country, containing the germs of its growth and the quickening ideas essential to its perpetuity. The history of Kansas is written in capitals. It is punctuated with exclamation points. Its verbs are imperative. Its adjectives are superlative. The commonplace and the prosaic are not defined in its lexicon. Its statistics can be stated only in the language of hyperbole. The aspiration of Kansas is to reach the unattainable; its dream is the realization of the impossible. Alexander wept because there were no more worlds to conquer. Kansas, having vanquished all competitors, smiles complacently as she su~passes from year to year her own triumphs in growth and glory. Other States could be spared without irreparable bereavement, but Kansas is indispensable to the joy, the inspiration, and the improvement of the World. 80 �HOW TO TRACE YOUR FAHILY TREE Finding out who your ancestors were is a fascinating adventure and is not as difficult as it seems, if you know where to look. By NIKKI SCHULTZ. Your great-great grandfather might well have been of royal blood; on the other hand, your great-great grandmother might have been an infamous courtesan. Interest in heredity is growing rapidly. What was once the hobby of the elite and the intellectuals is fast becoming a serious project for people of all backgrounds. One reason could be family pride and the natural resentment at the attempts being made by our society to reduce everyone to a series of computer numbers. There has versities, and There seems to elders must be also been a flurry of excitement throughout colleges and unistudents are being encouraged to investigate their heritage. be a feeling of urgency, as oral records retained by family recorded before they die. Marianne Nemeth was one of the many college students who received an assignment to trace her family tree. Miss Nemeth was not too enthused at first, but her grandmother told her the family was originally from Pennsylvania via Hungary and the family name, at one time, was spelled Namath. "My first reaction," said Miss Nemeth, "was oh boy! I might be Joe Namath's long-lost cousin." The Search Begins Miss Nemeth began her quest, concentrating on the Nemeth, or paternal, side of the family tree. She got off to a good start because her parents and grandparents were able to supp~y dates and places. Her dad had a copy of his birth certificate (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) which revealed that his father was also born in Wisconsin. Grandfather Nemeth supplied the date and place and within a short time, Miss Nemeth had acquired a copy of his birth certificate from the county clerk's office. According to her grandfather's birth certificate, great-grandfather Nemeth was born in Pennsylvania, but no one knew exactly where, so Miss Nemeth calculated his year of birth (his age was on Grandfather Nemeth's birth certificate) and wrote to the Bureau of Vital Statistics in Harrisburg requesting a search for that year. Amazingly, the birth certificate arrived almost by return mail. So far, the search had been easy, but great-grandfather's birth certificate gave his father's place of birth simply as "Hungary," and the family had no knowledge of where in Hungary he was born other than that it was a very small village. Miss Nemeth consulted with the local genealogical society for advice and they suggested that she make some calculations with the aid of the documents she had in her possession. If she could estimate the year in which her great-grandfather's father arrived in the United States from Hungary, she was told, the National Archives in Washington, D.C., might be able to assist her further. She City and Archives clues as took a chance and guessed that the port of arrival was New York even though her estimate of the year was incorrect, the National somehow came up with a copy of the passenger list, which gave her to where to begin her search in Hungary. 81 �"I think the most interesting part," said Miss Nemeth, "was actually 'seeing' the migration of my fami1y--from Europe to the United States and then the migration west." Miss Nemeth also collected marriage certificates along the way and found the documents to be quite revea1ing--showing professions, first names, surnames and so on. Miss Nemeth completed her class project and is now proceeding on her own to trace the maternal side of the family tree. She's off to a start with her mother's birth certificate, but the information on this side of the family line is vague, so she expects that the search will be a bit more challenging. Where to Begin Families differ to such a great extent that it is impossible to 1is~ any one search program that can be followed by everyone. For many, the search may be only as far away as the local genealogical society or town clerk's office. For others, a $3 check and a letter to the Immigration and Naturalization Service can provide a key to the past. For most, the project requires time, effort and patience. It depends upon the information with which you have to work and just how deeply you wish to delve into your family's past. Members of the Daughters of the American Revolution can rely on written records going back to the Mayflower, but persons of African and European descent usually do not have written diaries to rely on, so the search becomes a bit more challenging. There are many agencies and services that will do some searching for you, but the first and most important step is to collect as much information as possible. Drafting a Chart You should first begin with a draft of a family tree chart to guide you as you proceed to fit together the broken pieces. The sketch below is a simple paternal tree of the Forester family, starting with the present generation and going back to Thomas Forester, born in 1814. Branches to include brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles and so on are not shown because of the spatial limitations of the magazine. (Great-grandfather Charles there produced nine children, so you can imagine the width of the full-blown tree!) Thomas Forester 1814-1864 .. m. Suzanna Field 1815-1890 ,r----~ Charles Forester 1842-1903 m. Jane Hayer 1846-1936 m. Alice Goddard 1881-1944 f Arthur Forester 1879-1962 j Leslie R. Forester 19211 Michae1 Goddard Forester 1948- m. 1 Mark I David Forester' 1950- Blanche Cook 1923I Lawson Forester 1952- 82 , Goeffrey Gibbs Forester 1955- �Fill in as much information as possible, including dates and places of birth and marriage and death, and then proceed step-by-step to fill in the rest of the facts as they become known to you through the documents or vital statistics that you will be collecting. Many will know enough about their parents--where they were born, where their parents (your grandparents) were born--but for those of you who do not know, you must begin from scratch. Some of the answers might be found in family Bibles or other documents that might have been stored away in attics and trunks. If these are not available, interviewing your parents or a family elder should reward you with places and dates of birth. If your relatives are not nearby, prepare and send them a questionnaire. It would be a good idea to send a questionnaire to as many of your relatives as possible, as certain facts might be known only by some. When you know the date and place of birth, a copy of a birth certificate can easily be obtained. The birth certificate will reveal the names of your grandparents and, in most cases, their occupations at the time of the birth of your father (or mother). Most birth records will also show the country in which the parents of the child were born. You can then move on to the next step which would be to trace the birth certificates of your grandparents, then the birth certificates of their parents, and so on. If you do not know the exact date, but know the exact place of birth, you can estimate the year of birth and request a search. In most places you can request a search for a period covering an entire decade, but knowing· the exact dates will save you both a lot of time and effort. If or town will be need do the place of birth is in the United States,the city, county, state clerk's office will have the birth records. (In some localities, it the department of health or the bureau of vital statistics--a11 you is check the telephone book for the correct name.) Foreign Records For birth records in foreign countries, you can write directly to the bureau of vital statistics in the village, city or town; and when in doubt as exactly where to write, you can write to the U. S. consul in that country for assistance. He will not secure the document for you in most cases, but he will be able to advise you as to where you should direct your inquiry. If your forefathers did, in fact, come from Europe, an interview with a relative or a search through family papers might reveal naturalization information or the name of the ship and date of arrival in the United States. The National Archives, Central Reference Division, Washington, D. C. 20408, has customs passenger lists dating back to 1820, with a few as early as 1787. Lists prior to 1820 may be on file at the port of entry or' the state archives in the state where the port is located. Passenger lists for ships arriving in New York, a main port of entry, are available except that the years from 1874 to 1896 are not indexed and they are unable to provide a page by page search of these lists unless you can provide the name of the ship and the specific date of arrival. If you are near Washington, D. C., archive's librarians will make the lists available to you in the Microfilm Research Room. For those unable to get to 83 �Washington, D. C., the National Archives will send a list of organizations which list the names of persons who will do the researching for you for a fee. Departure Date Passenger lists usually disclose the exact place and date of departure and the closest relative in the passenger's native country or in the United States. You might also find names of relatives who arrived on the same ship and then migrated to a different part of the country. If you know the name of the ship, but not the date of arrival, The Morton Allan Directory of European Passenger Steamship Arrivals, available in all large public libraries, lists the names and arrival dates of ships arriving at New York from 1890 to 1930, and Philadelphia, Baltimore and Boston, from 1904 to 1926. Pacific Coast ports are not included in the passenger list records at the National Archives. The San Francisco passenger lists were destroyed by fires in 1851 and 1920. The California Historical Society, 2090 Jackson St., San Francisco, Calif. 94109, has lists of persons who arrived-in California and indexes to the names on the lists, mainly in the 1820-1869 period; but the lists are not original records as they had to be prepared from newspapers and other sources., The National Archives ask that you do not send money in advance for a passenger list search. You will be billed $1 for the copy if they are able to find the entry you are seeking. If you are able to obtain a copy of the passenger list, you will have sufficient information to write to the Immigration and Naturalization Service for a copy of the naturalization petition. Write to the I & NS, at 119 D Street, N.E., Washington, D. C. 20536, .or your nearest office, for application form N-585. When you have completed the application, send it to the nearest office, except in those cases where naturalization data is desired relating to naturalization that took place between September 21, 1906 and April 1, 1956. These applications should be sent to the Washington, D. C., office. The basic search fee is $3 and is not returnable. For the basic search fee you will also receive a copy of the first page of the naturalization petition or admission record, but the petitions contain a w~alth of family information and so it is recommended to request a copy of the entire petition. The cost is 25¢ per page, so you can get all of the four pages that you need for the basic search fee of $3 plus 75¢. If naturalization occurred prior to September 7, 1906, the place of residence at the time of naturalization must be furnished. Records prior to 1906, however, rarely contain information regarding the subject's family. The National Archives also has naturalization proceedings but only of the Washington, D. C., courts from 1802 to 1926, and copies and indexes of naturalization documents from 1787 to 1906 filed by courts in the states of Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Rhode Island. Also available at the National Archives are U.S. Census records from 1790 to the present. If the locality of your family is known to you, you can purchase, for a small fee, a copy of the reel of microfilm showing the census information on your family. Census records, if complete, will disclose the names of all family members, as well as their ages, occupations, incomes and places of birth. 84 �Genealogical searches by those of Irish or Scotch ancestry seem to be easy, and a guide to genealogical records and repositories in Ireland is available in most public libraries. The book is called Irish and ScotchIrish Ancestral Research, by Margaret Dickson Fally. The Irish Historical Society in Dublin is also willing to give a helping hand. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints is presently engaged in a large-scale way in tracing the genealogy of its church members., Their services are also available to non-members for a small fee, so if you do encounter problems, you can write or visit the nearest Mormon Church for assistance and they will be more than willing to share their expertise with you. Negro History It has long been assumed that the Negro had no traceable history beyond that of a slave, but author Alex Haley has proved this to be wrong by tracing his past to a seventh-generation ancestor in a village on the Gambia River. Haley spent thousands of dollars and seven years' work in his quest to discover his past. He will be sharing his research methods in a book which will be written as a guide for black genealogists, and the story of his own search will be told in a soon-to-be published book entitled Roots. Haley is also going even one step further by creating a black genealogical library in Washington, D. C. Through his search he learned that documentation is available for the blacks, such 8S plantation inventory lists, slave-sale records and emancipation records. His library, which will be open iIi 1976, will make available these records along with records from villages in Africa. The knowledge being so unselfishly shared by Haley will be of invaluable help to the many thousands of blacks who have been unsuccessful in fitting together the pieces of their broken pasts. White Anglo-Saxons have been at a distinct advantage in their searches due to the careful recordkeeping, but in the case of the blacks, the search can be painfully complex. An important point to remember while tracing your family tree is to attempt to do more than compile names and dates--look into the occupations of your ancestors and find out more about the history of your family. If it's possible to speak to someone who actually knew your parents or grandparents, take a tape recorder along and let him tell you the stories he might recall about your family. Sometimes a non-member of the family can give you an even greater insight about your pedigree. This will make your project even more interesting, and who knows what you will discover? A name in itself might prove to be very revealing, as second names came into being because everyone in the village was usually named John, William or Richard. This became so confusing that it became necessary to adopt a last name. The names used came from four major sources--occupations, location, father's name or an unusual characteristic. In other words, John,the village blacksmith became John Black or John Smith, and John, the village suit maker, became John Taylor. If John lived on the hill, he became John Hill, or, if near a stream, John Brook. The Foresters (see preceding page) might have roamed the woods with Robin Hood in Sherwood Forest. 85 �Using the father's name resulted in Williamson, Johnson and Richardson. Patronymics (father's names) in other countries ended in "sen" (Denmark and Norway), "pulos" (Greece), "ez" (Spain), and "wiecz" (Poland). In some countries, prefixes denoted "son," such as the Scotch and Irish use of "Mac" and "Mc" and the Germanic "Fritz." In Ireland~ the 0' denotes grandfather. Characteristics resulted in such surnames as Longfellow, Fox, Walker, Dancer, Witty, Elder, and so on. The Dictionary of American Family Names, published by Harper & Row, is available at most libraries and will give you the origin of thousands of names plus possible variations in spelling. Knowing who and what you are is certainly far more interesting than being "MXl02876." Good luck in your search! Copied with the permission of Family Circle Magazine, November 1972. **** Petitions for Naturalization Douglas Co. Kansas, ta~en from Naturalization Petition and Record Book Vol. I: Oct. 25, 1906 to Feb. 5, 1924 p. 149 Name: Theodore Spires Bahos Occupation: (192l-cook) (1924-proprietor of restaurant) Address: (1921)-1001 New Hampshire St., Lawrence, Ks. (1924)-1104 New York St., Lawrence, Kansas Description: (At age of 22) - complexion dark, 6 feet, 185 lbs., black hair, light blue eyes, no distinguishing marks. Born: Patras, Greece - 25 Dec. 1898 (or 1899) Emigrated to U.S. from Patras, Greece on vessel "Martha Washington". Arrived N.Y. on or about 5 Feb. 1913. Declaration of intention: 7 March 1921, Douglas Co. District Court Resided in Kansas since: 20 Dec. 1916 Wife: Lillie Spiros Bahos, born l1eaura, Oklahoma Children: Two p. 31 Name: Maria Louisa Johanna Helene Barteldes Residence: 510 Ohio, Lawrence Occupation: None Description: (age 60) complexion fair, 5'2", 180 lbs. gray hair, blue eyes Born: Hanover, Germany, 5 March 1848 Emigrated to U.S. from Bremen, Germany on vessel "Saliel". Arrived in N.Y. on or about 19th Sept. 1882 Declaration of intention: November 19, 1908, in Douglas Co. District Court Marital status: unmarried 86 �Petitions for Naturalization Con't. p. 52 Name: Abraham Bear Residence: 922 New Jersey St., Lawrence, Ks. Occupation: Garage Helper Born: 20 Dec. 1896 Place: Washilsek (7), Russia Emigrated to U.S. from Antwerp, Belgium on or about 2 July 1913. Boston, Mass. in vessel "Fatherland" Declaration of intention: 3 April 1917 Resided in Kansas since:5 April 1915 (except while in U.S. Army) Marital status: unmarried Arrived p. 95 Name: August Henry Boehle (Second application) ReSidence: Willow Springs Township, Douglas Co., Ks. Occupation:· Farmer Description: (Age 53) - fair complexion, 5'6", 155 lbs., brown hair, brown eyes, scar on inside of left hand. Resided in Kansas since: 1 May l8[H Born: 28th March 1864 "Emigrated from Potsdam, Germany on vessel, "Hohhenstaufer, 24 March l88!. Arrived N.Y. 12 April 1881. Declaration of intention: 27 Feb. 1918 Wife's name: Augusta Wilhelmina, born, Wisconsin Children: Five Name: Henry Bowman (father was John Bowman) ReSidence: 1809 Massachusetts St., Lawrence, Kansas Occupation: Engineer contractor Born: 24 or 29 Nov. 1860, Cumberland, England Emigrated from Liverpool, England about 12 April 1876 in vessel, "Illinois". Arrived at Philadelphia, Penn. on or about 25 April 1876. Resided Kansas since: 1 May 1876 Wife's name:. Sarah Elizabeth Bowman, b. St. Joseph, Mo., 18 Sept. 1861. Children: One adopted child p. 23 Name: Anselm Brohamer Residence: R.R. 5, Baldwin, Kansas Occupation: Farmer Born: 21 July 1846 Place: Burgcell, Wolfasch, Germany Emigrated to U.S. from Germany in vessel "Union" arrived port of N.Y. about 16 July 1870 Declaration of intention: October 17, 1876, Akron, (Summit Co.,) Ohio Wife's name: Barbara Flaeschmann of Kocherbach, Germany. Children: Fi ve To be, continued in future issues. Compiled and submitted by Judy Sweets, Lawrence, Kansas. 87 �DOUGLAS COUNTY KANSAS MARRIAGES 1866-1867 Recorded in the county clerk"s office, Lawrence, "Kansas. Compiled October 1979 by Mary Jamison listing groom, bride, date and officiant. ADAJ~S L. ROBERTS--14 March l867--Rev. John S. Brown , David C.--Emma . ADAMS, John N.--Mary A. MARKLE--7 Jan. l866--Rev. Jesse Brockway ANDERSON, William N.--Libbie J. WEAVER--15 11arch l866--Rev. H. D. Healey ANTHONY, Mark--Matilda MOORE--4 April l867--Rev. H. Green ARBANE, James C.--Edie ARBANE--20 May l866--Rev. O.H. Mitchell ASHER, Asa--Parthenia FARMER--ll Oct. l866--Rev. O.H. Mitchell ATKINSON, Isaac--Zilphia A. BURTON~-l Nov. l866--Rev. Madison F. Joiner AUSTIN, Robert--Julia CLAYTON--23 May l867--Chas. Pilla, J.P. BAIRD, William Franklin--Georgiana BELL--l July l866--Rev. Richard Cordley BAKER, Fletcher H.--Sarah FEARER--25 Dec. l866--Rev. 'Samuel Kretsinger BALDWIN, George A.--Melissa(Malisa)THORP--16 June l866--H.H. Howard, J.P. BALDWIN, Lewis Cass--Viola BOUTON--19 Aug. l866--Horace Tucker, J.P. BALES, Aaron--Elizabeth H. FORDS--25 April l866--Rev. O.H: Mitchell BALL, Samuel--Francis HARRISON--9 Aug. l866--H.H. Howard, J.P. BALLAGH, James--Nancy R. RAY--6 March l867--Rev. O.H. Mitchell BARKER, Daniel--Frances E. McGINNIS--2 June l867--H.H. Howard, J.P. BARKER, Pattsen--Adline STONE--3l July l866--Rev. H. Green BARTHOLOW, J. Newton--Mary A. FIELD--16 May l866--Rev. G.S. Dearborn BEALS, Jacob M.--Sarah F. WOODS--28 Jan. l866--Rev. W.H. Fisher BEAM, L.J.--Sarah F. RAY--13 Aug. l866--Rev. L.E. Ray BEELER, Samuel F.--Anna M. SHORT--10 July l866--Rev. Samuel MacBurney BENNETT, William--Mattie FORTNIGHT--12 April l866--Rev. Dudley Lee BETTS, John L.--Dillie SELLERS--27 Jan. l867--Rev. James M. Strasburg BLANKINSHIP, Elisha~-Ann SCOFIELD--10 June l866--Rev. John S. Brown BOLTON~ William--Harriet MOORE--14 Sept. l866--Rev. O.H. Mitchell BOWERS, Joseph--Fanny LEFTWICK--15 Dec. l866--Rev. Joseph H. Payne BRAGOON, David--Easter PRICE--23 Dec. l866--Rev. Abraham Rothrock BRENDER, John L. --Nancy E. SIURLEY --25 Dec. l866--Charles H. Sears, J. P . BRISCO, James--Susannah CHISSINBERG--14 Jan. l866--Rev. Wm. Kimberlin BRONSON, Henry--Mary A. SANGER--27 Aug. l866--Rev. John S. Brown BROOKS, Albert G.--Addie M. SWEET--14 June l866--Rev. Richard Cordley BROUTHERTON, W.H.--Rachel J. BAKER--7 March l867--Rev. D. Woodward BROWN, Arthur V.--Ann B. BROOKS--4 March l867--H.H. Howard, J.P. BROWN, John--Mary DELt~ARCH--l Aug. l866--Wm. Draper, J.P. BROWN, John--Mary Sophronia CALLAWAY--3 Jan. l867--H.H. Howard, J.P. BUCKELS, William--Martha E. WOOD--4 July l866--Horace Tucker, J.P. BURGOON, Thomas--Martha A. KINGCADE(KINCAID)--14 Jan. l866--Rev. Joel Sherfy BUTLER, John--Sarah DOYEL--7 April l866--C. Pilla, J.P. CALDWELL, Jackson--Mary BROWN--ll Feb. l866--Rev. Dudley Lee CAPPER, Alfred--Fanny GOODELL--16 Jan. l867--Rev. George F. Chapin CARNEY, James H., Esq.--Annie SPENCE--17 Hay l867--Rev. George F. Chapin CARR, Harden--Lizey DRISDEN--13 March l866--Rev. Dudley Lee . CARTER, John Lyman--Angie G. SARGENT--2l Jan. l866--Rev. Richard Cordley CARTER, Moses--Martha Jane JOHNSON--22 April l866--Rev. C.A. Bateman CAYLOR, Peter H.--Lucy Ann McKINNEY--l Feb. l866--Rev. Abraham Rothrock CAYTON, William H.--Margaret R. CRUTCHFIELD--4 Jan. l866--Rev. Wm. Kimberlin CHAPMAN, Wm. B.--Sarah R. BROWN--19 Aug. l866--Wm. Draper, J.P. CHEW, Robert--Rebecca Elizabeth HULBERT--29 June l866--Benjamin M. Pratt, J.P. 88 �Douglas County, Kansas Marriages 1866-1867 CHILSON, Stephen--Mary E. HARD--14 Jan. l866--Rev. John S. Brown CHRYSTY, John F.--Miss MILLER--3 Feb. l866--Rev. S. Favre, Catholic P,riest CLARK, George--Rachel MASON--6 April l867--Charles Pilla, J.P. CLARK, Oliver J.--Kate PERCY~-5 Sept. l866--Rev. J.F. Morgan COLE, Wm. H.--Mary E. NIX(ESSIX)--l Nov. l866--Benjamin M. Piatt, J.P. COLLINS, Charles--Lorette McMILLAN--27 Jan. l866--E.D. Ladd, J.P. CONKLIN, Benjamin F.--Sarah WOOD--30 Aug. l866--Rev. John S. Brown COPELAND, Henry--Libby MINER--no date--recorded 19 June l866--Rev. J.H. Payne CRAWFORD, Reid--Osadore A. ALLISON--8 Feb. l866--Rev. G. W. Paddock CREECH, Ira--Sue M. TURNER~-ll March l866--Rev. John S. Brown CUNNINGHAM, J.C.--Mary C. WARO--9 Jan. l866--Rev. G. W. Paddock CURES, Thomas L.--Clayana OLIVER--2 Oct. l866--Rev. James M. Strasburg CURTIS, John H.--Mary E. POTTER--25 May l866--Charles Chadwick, J.P. CURTISS, Wm.--Ella TRIPP--8 March l866--Rev. David Shuck DALLY, Albert--Margrett DUGAN--3 April l866--Rev. H.D. Fisher DANIELS, George--Mary FFANCIS--4 April l866--Rev. Dudley DAVIS, Benjamin F.--Amanda E. BOWLIN--l July l866--Rev. M.W. Marquess DAVIS, Jefferson--Mary GREGGS--5 May l866--Rev. Dudley Lee DAVIS, Oscar--Hattie SIMMS--l Aug. l866--Charles Chadwick, J.P. DAVIS, Richard--Jane JACKSON--7 May l866--S. R. Waters, J.P. DEER, Emerson--Elizabeth HINK--8 July l867--Jesse McKenney, J.P. DERBY, Frederick A.--Clara H. WHITE--8 March l866--Rev. Richard Cordley DINNEY, Absalam--Harriet SIMPSON--20 Feb. l866--E.D. Ladd, J.P. DOLLINYER, Charles--Emelia YOUNG--25 March l866--Rev. Alois Mayers, Catholic ~riest DONAHUE, John--Martha M. BALDWIN--14 Jan. l867--Rev. George F. Chapin DREW, Elisha--Martha E. LITTLE--ll March l867--Rev. John G. Piper DUNGAR, Willis--Kate FRENCH--4 Oct. l866--Rev.Job W. Hague DURLAND, J. Henry--Eunice L. COX--l Jan. l867--Rev.E. D. Bentl~y EDIE, J.S.--Maria C. DANIELS--l Harch l866--Rev. G.W. Paddock EDMISTON, James C.--Flora J. GREEN--16 Oct. l866--Rev. Jesse Brockway EDr1URTSEN, Selman--America HENDERSON--9 Aug. l866--Rev. H. Green EGGERS, Henry--Catherine EGGERS--1(6) Dec. l866--Wm. Ginley, J.P. ELLISTON, John H.--Nannie DUNN--6 June l867--James M. Hendry, J.P. ENRIGHT, Munroe J.--Frances POORE--8 April l867--Rev. Edwin D. Bentley ETTER, Edwin D.--Hester A. McKEE--4 March l866--Rev. O.H. Mitchell ETTER, George A.--Eliza J. LEACH--3l March l867--Rev. Jesse Brockway EVANS, Henry--Mary WHITLOCK--7 June l866--Rev. Richard Cordley FALLEY, Samuel--Elizabeth L. SAUMS--2l March l867--Rev. O.H.Mitchell FARMER, Lemuel T.--Mary J. MATHEWS--no date--recorded 10 May 1866--Rev. O.H. Mitchell FIELDING, Jeremiah--E1iza JONES-- June l866--Evan Jones, Cherokee Missionary FIELDS, Edward--Jane HARRIS--11 Aug. l866--Rev. H. Green FISH, Thomas--Mary P. FULLER--24 Dec. l866--H.H. Howard, J.P. FITZMORRIS, Dennis--Sarah DONAHOE--8 July l866--Rev. S. Favre, Catholic Priest FOWLER, Chester F1oyd--Emi1y(Emi1ie) PARDEE~-13 April 1866--C. Pilla, J.P. FULLER, Wallace--Anne AYER--15 April l867--Rev. R.W. Oliver GAMLIN, Samue1--Cherry GAMLIN--18 May l866--Rev. O.H. Mitchell GEER, Benjamin--Lucinda MOREHEAD--19 May l867--Charles Chadwick, J.P. GELEANE (GELERENE.,GELEIENE)John--Nancy BANKS--24 June l866--Rev. H. Green GENTRY, Austian--Sylvia WARD--2 Feb. l866--Charles Dickson, J.P. GLADDEN, Jerry--Susannah DAVIS--15 Jan. l866--Rev. Dudley Lee 89 �Douglas County, Kansas Marriages 1866-1867 GLENN, Jonathan H.--Ma1vina ZINN--20 Feb. 1866--R.W. Dummar, J.P. GRANBY, Danie1--E1iza BRAND--15 Sept. 1866--Char1es Chadwick, J.P. GRAZIER, Moses L.--Mary E. STANFIELD--16 Dec. 1866--H.H.Howard, J.P. GULASPIE, John Wm.--Minerva FRAKER--8 July 1866--R.W. Dummer, J.P. HACKWORTH, P1easant--Mary WALTON--27 March 1867--Char1es Pilla, J.P. HAMILTON, James P.--Sarah A. RANKIN--28 June 1866--Char1es Chadwick, J.P. HARD, A.B.--Sarah J. DOUGLAS--12 April 1866--Rev. G.W. Paddock HARD, Gideon--Joanna V. JONES--22 Feb. 1866--Rev. G.W. Paddock HARRINGTON, Jesse--Jane BARLEY--2 May 1867--Char1es Chadwick, J.P. HARRIS, Robert--Katharine ESSEX--31 Dec. 1866--Char1es Pilla, J.P. HARRIS, W. M.--Lydia TOOTHAKER--12 Sept. 1866--Rev. George S. Dearborn HARVEY, Thomas B.--Sarah F. SHORT--12 Jan. 1867--Rev. Jesse Brockway HASTINGS, 01iver--Sarah F. AMSDEN--6 Dec. 1866--Rev. Joseph H. Payne HAVENS, George--E1iza A. JACKSON--26 April 1866--Rev. T.J. Ferri1 HEATH, A. Judson--He1en A. ISERMAN--12 May 1867--Rev. Wm. C. Tenney HERRINGTON, Robert C.--Lena V. HENRY--12 April 1866--Rev. Richard Cord ley HITCHCOCK, Bethue1--De1iser LEWIS--23 Aug. 1866--Rev. T.J. Ferri1 HOLLADAY, Duncan~-Ma!y V. THRASHER--13 Aug. 1866--Rev. H.M. Greene HOLMES, We1lington--Mariah BLACKSTEN--8 April 1866--John Pieratt, J.P. HOLTZ, John--Margaret LEWIS--2 April 1867--Rev. E. Vea HORNBACH, Samue1--Rebecca CHRISS--18 March 1866--Rev. L.R. Campbell HORTON, James C.--Fannie B. ROBINSON--22 April 1867--Rev. R.W. Oliver HULTSOPPLE, Jacob--Barbra BUCKHART--22 Feb. 1866--Rev. George F. Chapin IRONSIDE, Robert--Susan L. KING--4 March 1866--Wm. Draper, J.P. JACKSON, Harry--Fi1is LADLEY--1 Jan. 1866--Rev. Dudley Lee JACKSON, Henry--Nancy RILEY--24 June 1866--Rev. H. Green JEWITT, Luther--Mary Jane SQUARES--4 Oct. 1866--Char1es Chadwick, J.P. JOHNSON, A1bert--JaneC. RICE--3 Feb. 1867--Rev. Samuel Kretsinger JOHNSON, King--Josephene WALTON--21 May 1866--Rev. O.H. Mitchell JOINER, M.F.--Char1otte Ann HOLMARK--1 July 1866--Rev. W.W. Williams JONES, James--Ruth COLLIER--30 Sept. 1866--Rev. Richard Cord1ey JONES, Va1entine--Kate SIMSON--22 Sept. 1866--Char1es M. Sears KEES, Andrew--Sarah GROOMS--27 Oct. 1866--H.H. Howard, J.P. KELLEY, James N.--Anna G.VANANDA--20 May 1866--Rev. John S. Brown KLAUS, Robert--Sarah E. COLLINS--l1 Oct. 1866--H.H. Howard, J.P. KLEINVOGAL, Char1es--Dora PAPENHUSEN--no date--recorded 13 June 1866-Charles Pilla, J.P. KNIGHT, Geo. W.--Caro1ine M. BE~~--15 March 1866--Rev. Martin Seiler KRETSINGER, Isaac W.--Mary L. BRANDER--24 Feb. 1867--Rev. H.M. Greene LAMBDIN, McKendrie L.--E1la GILBERT--13 Aug. l866--Rev. J.F. Morgan LAMON, Wm. H.--Harriet A. BELL--1 April 1866--Rev. Richard Cord1ey LANATH, Oscar M.--Sarah HALE--7 Jan. l866--Charles Darr, J.P. LANDRETH, Henry--Me1inda LANDERS--9 Nov. 1866--Char1es Pilla, J.P. LAPTAD, Peter--Agnes PETRIE--3 Feb. 1867--Rev. J.F. Morgan LEON, Joseph--Betsey Ann BARKER--26 May 1866--H.H. Howard, J.P. LEONARD, Henry--Eme1ine PEARCE--19 Aug. 1866--Rev. John S. Brown LOGAN, A1bert--Oma GAIRIT--25 May 1866--Rev. O.H. Mitchell LONGFELLOW, Jacob W.--Sarah A. DAVIS-~8 Nov. 1866--Rev. G.S. Dearborn LONGFELLOW, Nathan L.--Mary E.R. CAMPBELL--31 Jan. 1867--Rev. Geo. S. Dearborn LOVETT, George--E1iza A. JOHNSON--5 April 1867--J.W. Vaughn, J.P. LOWRIE, James Edward--Elizabeth FRANCE--18 March 1867--Rev. James H. Carruth LYON, Samuel E.--Annie R. BARTLEMAN--28 April 1867--Rev. George S. Dearborn 90 �Douglas County, Kansas Marriages 1866-1867 McCAN, Stephen S.--Em1ey f. TOLLE--26 July 1866--Rev. O.H. Mitchell McCLELAN, Joseph S.--Sarah E. BELL--7 Jan. 1866--Wm. Draper, J.P. McCOOLE, James P.--Mary A. McKEE--25 Dec. 1866--Rev. O.H. Mitchell McCULLIE, Gabrie1--Ada1ine WARD--22 April 1867--Rev. Dudley Lee McCURRY, John--Eunice M. Seward-- ? Feb. l867--recorded 13 June 1867--Rev. R.P. Duvall McDEVITT, Samuel L.--Demarest PROVO--6 April 1866--E.D. Ladd, J.P. McEATHRON, Rufus C.--Fannie E. TUCKER--3 Feb. 1867--Rev. Henry M. Greene McKINLEY, James B.--Ju1ia A. PORTER--19 April 1866--Rev. J.F. Morgan MAHONEY, Thomas--Bridget WEIS--17 June 1866--Rev. S. Favre, Catholic Priest MALLORY, J.S.--Casanda THAYER--15 March 1866--Rev. N. Taylor MALLOY, John--Pari1ee R. RAY~-13 Aug. 1866--Rev. H.M. Greene MAPHET, John R.--A1ice C. MUNGER--19 Aug. 1866--S.R. Waters, J.P. MARKLE, Gabrie1--Mary T. LAHAY--22 March 1866--Wm. Draper, J.P. MARKS, A1ex--Eunice A. FAXON--4 March 1867--Rev. John S. Brown MARKS, James--Martha ALLEN--8 Jan. 1866--Rev. G.W. Paddock MARTIN, Char1es--Emily WILSON--3 April l867--Rev. H. Green MARTIN, Houstin--Ma1inda JOHNSON--21 Jan. 1866--Rev. Dudley Lee MEEKER, E.J.--Minnie DAVIS--22 Feb. 1866--Rev. W. Locke MERVIN, Scott--Me1issa HICKS--l July 1866--H.H. Howard, J.P. MERWIN, Arthur T.--Ce1estia T. WAIT--6 April 1866--Rev. Richard Cordley MIERLY, Michae1--Mary A. ALUMBAUGH--28 Feb. 1867--Rev. T.J. Ferri1 MILLER, Charles P.--Sarah C. WOODLAND--10 Sept. 1866--Rev. R.W. Oliver MILLS, Albert D.--C1ara M. DEY--1 March l866--Rev. Geo. Chapin MISNEY, Wm. A.--Mary L. ROBERTS--18 Feb. 1866--Rev. S. Weaver MITCHELL, C.W.--Mary A.F. WADE--10 June 1866--Rev. S. Weaver MITCHELL, Green--Jennette FOSTER--2l May 1866--Rev. O.H. Mitchell MONROE, Anthony--Anne CLARK--24 Dec. 1866--Chas. Pilla, J.P. MONTANYE, Edward--Margaret COPPINGER--30 Jan. 1867--Chas. Chadwick, J.P. MONTGOMERY, Michae1--Mary TURNER--17 March 1867--Rev. John Bower MOORE, Alexander B.--C1ara BUCKLES--11 Oct. 1866--Rev. Jesse Brockway MORGAN, Peter--Catherine McKEARNEE--26 Aug. 1866--Rev. S. Faver, Catholic Priest MORTEN, James--Per1inaLOGAN--13 Nov. 1866--Rev. O.H. Mitchell MOSBY, Andrew--Jane MOSBY(CALDWELL)--17 May 1866--Rev. Evan Jones MOYS, Rev. H.--Ju1ia A. STOCKING--24 Oct. 1866--Rev. H.D. Fisher MURPHY, Timothy--Bridget(?)GRANT--17 June 1866--Rev. F.J. Wattron, Catholic Priest NEEL, Thomas--E1izabeth Cornelius BOOTH--8 July 1866--Char1es M. Sears, J.P. NELSON, Martin--Lucy WIGG--30 Oct. 1866~-Chas. Chadwick, J.P. NEWMAN, George--Maggie ALLEN--30 April 1867--Rev. Dudley Lee NEWMAN, Thomas G.--Josephine WILLIAMS--22 Aug. 1866--Rev. George S. Dearborn NICHOLLS, George A.--A1va V. BURNETT--15 Oct. l866--Rev. Richard Cord1ey NYE, George M.--Mrs. L.E. WILLIAMS--25 Nov. 1866--Rev. George F. Chapin OWEN, Alvin E.--Eme1ine BROCKWAY--25 July 1866--Rev. Jesse Brockway OWENS, Simeon--Isabe11a HANROY(HANVOY,HAMOY)--l July 1866--Rev. Dudley Lee PAISTON, Lymen E.--Anna HARNED--4 July 1866--Rev. R. W. Oliver PALMER, B.D.--Gertie NORTON--l Jan. 1867--Rev. R. W. Oliver PARKER, Antony--Mary Elizabeth STEPTON--20 Jan. 1867~-Gabrie1 Gray, J.P. PEARSON, Joseph E.--Mary STUDEBAKER--23 Oct. 1866--Rev. Geo. F. Chapin PELED, Jefferson--Martha MUMFURD--16 Jan. l867--Rev. H. Green PERRY, Thomas--Ann POLK--No date, recorded 19 June 1866--Rev. Joseph H. Payne PIERATT, Balvard J.--Ju1iette MOORE--29 Jan. 1867--Rev. John S. Brown PIERSOL, Si1as--Mary E. GUY--23 Sept. 1866--Rev. Geo. S. Dearborn POKE, James--Ann JONES--14 Dec. l866--Rev. H. Green POOL, Francis A.--Harriet T. HANNAM--14 March 1866--S. B. Waters, J.P. POOR, Henry--Mary LAWS--4 Jan. 1866--Rev. W. Kimberlin 91 �Douglas County, Kansas Marriages 1866-1867 POWELL, Benjamin--E1izabeth JACKSON--22 March 1866 PRENTICE, Dr. S.R.--Annie J. SOUL--21 June 1866--Rev. E.D. Bentley PRUIT, Anderson--Nancy PUCKETT--24 Feb. 1866--E.D. Ladd, J.P. RANDALL, Reuben--Lizzie WOOD--3 Feb. 1867--Rev. Richard Cord1ey RANDOLPH, John--Char1otte FULLBRIGHT--14 March 1866--Rev. H. Green RATZENSTEIN, Simon--Regine SHLOSS--7 Jan. 1867--Rev.H. Friendlich RAZEY, Daniel P.--Susannah HARMON--1 June 1867--Rev. Geo. S. Dearborn REASTER, John D.--Hannah Ann GLIZER-~2S April 1867--Chas. Chadwick, J.P. REECE, Commodore B.--Sarah A. BROCRAW--16 May 1867--Rev. H.D. Fisher REID, John W.--Maggie E. WILLIAMS--11 Nov. 1866--Rev. G.S. Dearborn REINHARD, John G.--Kate TRUSHEIM--19 March 1867--Rev. Henry Meyer RICHARDS, Charles O.--Belle CAIN--23 Sept. 1866--Char1es M. Sears, J.P. RICHARDS, Henry H.--F1ora H. ROGERS--27 Jan. 1867--Rev. Richard Cord1ey RICHARDSON, Thadeus B.--Martha F. BROWN--S July 1866--Wm. Draper, J.P. RIGGS, Joseph E.--Emma E. ELDRIDGE--1 June 1867--James M. Hendry, J.P. ROBINS, Wm.--A1ma L. ETTER--20 Jan. 1866--Rev. O.H. Mitchell ROE, John F.--Mary CHAPMAN--21 Feb. 1867--S.B. Waters, J.P. ROSBERRY, James E.--A1ity BROOKS--6 March 1866--Rev. O.H. Mitchell ROSEBAUGH, Thomas--Mary V. FREEMAN--S Sept. 1866--Rev. Sam'l MacBurney RUNNER, Henry--Nancy J. GILL--10 May 1867--Chas. Chadwick, J.P. SCHNEIDER,Emanue1--Eppa1ina EPLEY--2S Dec. 1866--Rev. Henry Meyer SCHORDA, Peter--Josephine DONWILLER--12 April 1866--Rev. G. W. Paddock SCOTT, Samuel S.--Rachae1 T. HESTER--1 Jan. 1866-~S.B. Waters, J.P. SEYBOLD, John A.--Bertha WETCEL--l4 July l866--Ben. M. Piatt, J.P. SHANK, John--Samatha SALSBURY--20 Nov. 1866--Rev. H.D. Fisher SHOPE, William M.--Margaret E. CAMPBELL--22 Feb. 1867~-Chas. Chadwick, J.P. SHUGART, Charles A. --Carrie J. COMBS--S May 186 7--Rev~' Richard Cord1ey SIBLEY, W.S.--Mary E. EVANS--29 May 1867-,-Rev. G.S. Dearborn SPENCER, William F.--Martha Jane TRUE--6 Nov. 1866--Rev. L.R. Campbell SPRIGGS, Edmond--E1izabeth BEVLER(?)--12 Sept. 1866--Rev. Dudley Lee STEELE, L. Scott--Louisa BLAKELY--1 March 1866--Rev. George F. Chapin STEVENS, George H.--Eme1ine KIRBY--29 March 1866--E.D. Ladd, J.P. STEVENS, John--Mary JONES--S March 1866--John Pieratt, J.P. STITZ, Wm.--E1izabeth LORD--17 April 1866--Rev. Richard Cord1ey STREADE, Frank--Ann MILLER--12 July 1866--Rev. H. Green STRAHAN, A.J.--Mary J. LACY--4 July 1866--Rev. T.B. Woodard STRONG, Horace E.--E11en B. NORTON--6 Dec. 1866~-Rev. Richard Cord1ey SULLIVAN, John--Bridget DWEYER--26 Aug. 1866--Father S. Favre SWAREH, Frederick--Anna Elizabeth REBERT--29 June 1866--Rev. Phillip Frieker SWIFT, Francis B.--Mattie TURNER--12 Dec. 1866--Rev. Richard Cord1ey TAYLOR, Amos--Sarah A. BARRETT--7 June 1866--Rev. Job W. Hague TAYLOR, Char1es--Em1y GAINS--22 July 1866--Rev. H.R. Bevels THOMAS, Erven--Caro1ine OVELTON-~29 Dec. 1866--Rev. H. Green THOMPSON, Ne1son--Fannie MOORE--30 April 1866--Rev. Dudley Lee THORP, Mathew--Nansey THORP--1 May 1866--Rev. Dudley Lee THUGGARD, Richard--E11en SWIFT--29 Oct. 1866--F~ther S. Favre TOLLE, Reuben H.--E1izabeth CURRY--11 Nov. 1866--H.H. Howard, J.P. TOWNSEND, Herod M.--Jemima SIBERT--20 May 1866--H.H. Howard, J.P. TRAVIS, Ezra D.--E1iza MULFORD--11 March 1866--Rev. Geo. W. Paddock TRIPPLETT, G.W.--Tempe E. GOCIA--15 Jan. 1866--Rev. O.H.Mitche11 TRUSHEIM, Conrad--Gertrude ALBRECHT--23 Dec. 1866--Rev. Henry Meyer TRYAN, Pomeroy B.--Charity E. JOHNSON--22 April 1866--Rev. R.S. Campbell 92 �Douglas County, Kansas Marriages 1866-1867 VANDAMAN, Clinton P.--~~ry E. GRITLESS--2l June l866--Rev. A.P. Anderson WAKEFIELD, T.J.--Miss M.E. BALDWIN--2s Jan. l866--Recorded 6 April 1867-Rev. H.D. Fisher WALKER, James--Laura LEWIS--ls March l866--Rev. Hector Barker WALLACE, John A.--Josephine B. HOYT--14 Oct. 1866--Rev. R.W. Oliver WASHINGTON, Perry--Sarah GREGG--18 May l866--Rev. Evan Jones WETrKER, Enoch--Elizabeth WEIHEL--ls Feb. l867--Charles Pilla, J.P. WENTGERTER, Louis--Ellen KANMOND--2l April l867--Chas. Chadwick, J.P. WHITCOMB,A.H.--Mary B. GRIFFITH--s April l866--Rev. Edwin D. Bentley WHITE, Morris E.--Isabella E. DICKSON--28 ~~rch l866--Rev. J.F. Morgan WHITE, William W.--Louisa M. RICHARDS--7 May l867--Rev. Richard Cordley WHITMAN, H. Delos--Roselthe H. FILLMORE--ll Oct. l866--Rev. E.D. Bentley WILLETT, H.W.--Susannah SPARR--28 May l866--Rev. H.D. Fisher WILLIAMS, Alexander--Mary SIMPSON--10 June l866--Rev. David T. Woodward WILLIAMS, James--Ellen SIMMS--2 May 1867--Chas. Chadwick, J.P. WILLIAMS, Levi--Eliza Jane McKAUGHEE--6 Jan. l867--S.B. Waters, J.P. WINCHESTER, Sippuel--Alice BROWN--10 Jan. l867--Rev. O.H. Mitchell WINGFIELD, O.H.P.--Hester A. CRUMMETT--ls March l866--Rev. A. Hitchcock WINKELMAN, Wm.--Jane DIX--30 Sept. l866--Chas. Pilla, J.P. WITHERS, Edwin R.--Mary ROGERS--3 May l867--Chas. Chadwick, J.P. WOOD, Zachariah C.--Matilda J. BUCKELS--19 Aug. l866--Horace Tucker, J.P. WOOLSEY, Eugene D.--Amanda C. BECK--6 Jan. l867--Rev. John S. Brown WORREL, Amos--Evelyn J. BRYSON--2l Oct. l866--John Pieratt,J.P. WRIGHT, Charles--Sarah Jane TAYLOR--27 Feb. l867--Chas. Chadwick, J.P. ZIMMERMAN, James L.--Fanny BLAKELY--14 Nov. 1866--Rev. Geo. F. Chapin ZINN, Geo. W.--Elizabeth HORNBACK--22 March l866--Rev. David Shuck The D.C.G.S. has these items for sale: Limited number of back copies of the quarterly "THE PIONEER". $1.50 ($2.00 by mail) Cordley's "HISTORY OF LAWRENCE". $10.50 members; $12.50 non-:-members. (Postage and tax extra) 16 count package of four Lawrence scenes Notes. tax extra) $3.00 (Postage and "THE ORIGINAL PREMPTIONS OF DOUGLAS COUNTY (KANSAS) '.'. $5.50 and tax extra) "THE ORIGINAL LANDOWNERS OF THE CITY OF LAWRENCE". tax extra) $6.00 (Postage (Postage and Tax is added only where applicable. Watch for details about the June 7 annual workshop with Mrs. Helen King, Topeka, Kansas as speaker. Location, Douglas County 4H-Fairgrounds, 2120 Harper, Lawrence, Kansas. 93 �A COLLECTION OF 30,000 NAMES OF GERMAN, SWISS, DUTCH, FRENCH IMMIGRANTS IN PENNSYLVANIA FROM 1727 TO 1776, p. 359: Sept. 26, 1764: Ship: Brittania, Thomas Arnot Captain, Rotterdam Christain Sachsman 1790 Census for Pennsylvania, W~stmore1and Co., Deery Twp. Christopher Saxman 1810 Census for Pennsylvania, Westmoreland Co., Derry Twp. Christian Saxman Sr. Christian Saxman Jr. Frederic Saxman Mathias Saxman 1840 Census for Pennsylvania, Armstrong Co. Wayne Twp. Christian Sachsman Nicholas Sachsman Christian Sachsman 1850 Census for Pennsylvania, Armstrong Co. Wayne Twp. Christian Saxman, t~l Elizabeth Saxman, 41 Jacob, 12 Susannah, 10 - married William Marshall 1868 Henry, 7 Joseph, 5 1880 Census for Kansas, Douglas Co. Marion Twp. H. R. Saxman, 37 - with William Marshall in the Civil War Libby A., 29 George, 10 Clara B., 8 Ray, 5 G. F. Saxman, 35 A1evida A., 27 Ford, 9 Lilly, 4 Willow Springs Township Jacob Saxman, 41 Sarah A., 41 Christian, 19 Anna, 17 John, 10 Joseph, 13 Edward, 6 Emma E, 1 94 �Willow Springs Twp. Christian Soxman, 70 Elizabeth, 71 William Marshall, 39 Susan (Soxman), 39 Elizabeth, 10 Laura, 9 Franklin, 7 Mary, 4 William Marshall was in Company G, 78 Regiment of Pennsylvania Infantry in the Civil War from September 12, 1861 until November 4, 1864. He and Henry Soxman enlisted together and so probably belonged to the same Regiment. There is a biograpl'dcal sketch of H. R. Soxman in the book "History of Kansas" by A. T. Andreas published in 1883 in Chicago. The sketch appears on page 361 of Vol. 1. Submitted by Mrs. Catherine Ramsey, 1108 22nd St. West, Bradenton, Florida 33505 ********* It was sleeting overhead and slushy underfoot. People hurried along 42nd Street with their coat collars up about their ears, hardly glancing at passersby. A young Negro, carrying a heavy valise in one hand and a huge suitcase in the other, hurried toward the Grand Central Station, slipping and skidding as he went. Suddenly a hand reached out and took the valise, while a pleasant voice said: "Let me take one, brother! Bad weather to have to carry things." The Negro was reluctant, but the white man insisted: "I'm going your way." All the way to the station they chatted like two old buddies. Years later, Booker T. Washington said: "That was my introduction to Theodore Roosevelt!" --Maenna Cheeserton-Mangle. **** Excerpts from: "KANSAS" by Hon. John J. Ingalls It seems incredible that there was a time when Kansas did not exist; when its name was not written on the map of the United States; when the Kansas cyclone, the Kansas grasshopper, the Kansas boom, and the Kansas Utopia were unknown. I was a student in the Junior class at Williams College when President Pierce, forgotten but for that signature, approved the act establishing the Territory of Kansas, May 30, 1854. I recall the inconceivable agitation that preceded, accompanied and followed the event. It was an epoch. Destiny closed one volume of our annals, and, opening another, traced with shadowy finger upon its pages a million epitaphs, ending with "Appomattox". 95 �LAWRENCE DAILY JOURNAL WORLD, Thursday, October 10, 1929. Lawrence, Kansas COUNTY IN PATH OF EARLY EXPLORERS Trading Post Near Lake View First Permanent Settlement Douglas county was first visited, as far as is known, by white men in the persons of French traders who passed up the Kaw river in the first quarter of the'eighteenth century. They traded with the native Indian tribes. A century later white explorers followed the waterways to the west. Fremont, in 1842, camped near the present site of Lawrence on bluffs commanding a view of the river. He was surveying a railroad route to the Pacific coast and stated in his report that there were enough trees along the Kaw bottom to furnish ties. Fremont followed the Santa Fe Trail which crossed the Wakarusa near Franklin, southwest of Eudora, and passed near Lawrence and left the county beyond Big Springs. The first permanent white settlement in Douglas county was made by Frederick Choutea, who, in 1827, established a trading post on the south side of the Kansas river a little above Lake View. Shortly after he moved to Shawnee county. Some of the men who came to Douglas county in 1854 settled along the California Road. This road was one of the great highways of travel between the East and the Pacific coast and crossed the county from east to west. It was also the route over which much of the Pottawattomie trade passed, one of the great crcossings of the river being at Uniontown, in what is now Shawnee county. The men who settled along the road and the dates they came were: J. W. Lunkis of South Carolina, April 13; A. R. Hopper, ~~y 9; Clark Stearns and William H. R. Lykins, May 26; A. B. and N. E. Wade, June 5; J. A. Wakefield, June 8; Calvin and Martin Adams, June 10; J. J. Eberhart, June 12; Brice W. Miller, June 6; J. H. Harrison, June 14; H. S. and Paul C. Eberhart; June 15; S. N. Wood, June' 24; Mr. Rolf, June 24; L. A. Lagerquest, July 4; James F. Legate, July 5; William Lyon and Josiah Hutchinson in J~ly. On the Wakarusa, south of the road Joel K. Goodwin settled in May, and William Breyman, July 18. T. W. and R. F. Barber settled near the site of Bloomington, in 1855, and Oliver Barber at the same place, June 1, 1857. During the same month and at a later date John A.Bean, N. A1quine and M. Albin settled a little further west, where the village of Clinton now stands and Albin opened a store there. Napoleon Bonaparte Blanton settled on the Wakarusa four miles directly south of Lawrence and built a bridge, known as Blanton's Bridge. G. W. Zinn, A. W. Glenn, M. S. Winter and William Shirley settled on the site of Lecompton in 1854. On what is now the site of Vin1and, Jacob Branson, Charles W. Dow, Franklin N. Coleman, George Cutler, F. B. Varnum, William \Vhite, Josiah Hargus and Harrison W. Buckley took claims during the year. At Baldwin City, Robert Pierson, Richard Pierson, Jacob Cantre1 and L. F. Green took claims. 96 �On the claim of Paris Ellison, two miles southeast of Lecompton, was laid out the site of Douglas. G. W. Clarke and others were associated with him as town proprietors. Late in the year William Harper and John Chamberlain settled at the forks of the road at Big Springs. Prior to the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska bill much land had been marked out by Missourians for preemption in the Kaw Valley against the protests of the Indians. The county was part of the Shawnee Indian reservation set apart by the treaty of 1825. Claims of Pro-slavery men were marked by logs cut and sliced and piled up. Signs were erected stating that these claims belonged to these men. Those preempting the claims stated that anyone who attempted to take these claims would be shot. The boundaries of the county as defined by the Territorial legislature of 1855: "Beginning at the main channel of the Kansas River, at the northwest corner of Johnson County; thence south to the southwest corner of Johnson County;. thence west twenty-four (24) miles to a point equidistant between the limits (embraced in the original plats) of the towns of Lecompton and Tecumseh". Evidently, there was no boundary on the west unless it was that line between Tecumseh and Lecompton. It is presumed that the river formed the north boundary. The county was named for Stephen A. Douglas, author of the Kansas-Nebraska Act. By 1883, the limits of the county read from the northwest corner of Johnson County in the main channel of the Kansas river, then up the channel of the river to the southwest corner of Leavenworth County •. thence north oriwest boundary line of Leavenworth county to north line of township 12, thence west on said north line to the middle of the main channel of the Kansas river. This took in what is now known as Grant township. The western boundary line was determined as the line between the second and third tiers of sections in Range 17. Populations in different years: 1857, 3,727; 1860, 9,207; 1865, 15,814; l875i 18,365; 1880, 24,773; 1885, 25,092; 1890, 23,828; 1895, 23,075. Submitted by Jane Wiggins, Lawrence, Kansas. Copied with full permission of The Lawrence Daily Journal World. * *** Kansas was the prologue to a tragedy whose epilogue has not been pronounced; the prelude to a fugue of battles whose reverberations have not yet died away. ' Floating one summer night upon a moonlit sea, I heard far over the still waters a high, cle:ar voice singing: "To the West! To the West! To the land of the free. Where the mighty Mi:ssouri rolls down to the sea; Where a man is a man if he's willing to toil, . And the humblest may gather the fruits of the soil." From "KANSAS" by Hon. J?hn J. Ingalls 97 �THE KANSAS COLLECTION Located on the University of Kansas campus, in 220 Kenneth Spencer Research Library on the ground lev.el, The Kansas Collection, is the place where a researcher with early Kansas ancestors will find answers to many unanswered questions. It was established in 1892 by Carrie Watson, first Librarian of the university. The Collection is dedicated to the preservation of the social, cultural, political, and economic history of Kansas and the Kansas region (Nebraska, Colorado, Oklahoma and Missouri). Manuscripts, photographs, books, newspapers, and maps are to be found in the Kenneth Spencer Research Library, completed in 1968 with temperature and humidity maintained at levels which prevent the physical deterioration of the collections. The Kansas Collection has holdings of the papers of famous men and less well kno\?U figures in the story of Kansas. These collections represent the full breadth of the Kansas region's history and prehistory and the impact of the Plains' environment on the history of the nation. Personal and family papers, such as those of the Stewart-Lockwood family, of the Fowler-Rose-Thompsonfamily, of the William Clarke Quantrill and of the famous John Brown, are contained in::the Collection. The papers of politicians, the writings and correspondence of the Balzac Hoffman; the manuscript autobiography of an ex-slave, Andrew Williams; the vast financial enterprises of J. B. Watkins Land and Mortgage Company and many, many others are among the major collections. "millionaresocialist"~Christian "Kansas" sP!lled-Aver ~nto .western; Colorado and northern Oklahoma._ What happened in Kansas directly affected .- --,.: events in Nebraska and Missouri. Any correspondence or records that relate to Kansas or the region can be evaluated as to their historical value by the Collection librarian. They could be valuable and possibly should be preserved for posterity. Tour groups are welcome but should make arrangements for an appointment. Individuals are welcome to visit also. DIARISTS RECORD TRIALS AND TRAVAILS OF PLAINSMEN LIFE by Roger Martin The pages are brittle in these diaries, as are the spirits of the longdead who wrote in them. Elizabeth and Wesley Harvey Duncan were living in Lawrence in 1867 when they decided to join a group headed for California. Mrs. Duncan kept a diary. On departure day, June 24, 1867, whe writes: "The dreaded day has at last come." The next day the pain of leaving has eased enough for her to write, "For the first time since leaving home, I could eat a little." 98 �Thumb through the pages quickly, and you'll notice the disintegration of Mrs. Duncan's handwriting, her letters turning to alphabet soup by the last pages. It's a point noted by Sheryl Williams, curator of the Spencer Library's Kansas Collection, though she hesitates to connect the change in the handwriting to any psychic disintegration. While she avoids the role of analyst, Ms. Williams is the gatekeeper of the collection's diaries, of which there are.approximate1y 500. And she can tell you precisely that 4,000 linear feet of manuscript ephemera is included in the collection's holdings of diaries, business records, ledgers and letters. Disavowing a burning, personal interest in the diaries, Ms. Williams says, "My interest stems from being a person who works with this kind of material all the time. My interest is not drawn to diaries above and beyond other things." Yet somehow the world of the diaries is enfolding. Hours of reading telescope into minutes, it seems, as one squints to piece letters into words, words into sentences. And what is not written seems, at times, translatable into a silent cry, an untold loneliness. In the last diary kept by Hrs. Duncan that the Spencer possesses, she writes from San Jose in 1868. After filling the pages faithfully for two months, she falters, making her second-to-last entry on March 1: "Sabbath day has come and with it a sadness I can not shake off it is so muddy I could not go to Church or Sabbath schoo1." After an unexplained silence, the final entry (Nov. 21) reads, "Spent the evening at Aunt Betties ••. think more of my dear Aunt every day. Hope she will always be my aunt." Not all the diaries are so mournful, Ms. Williams says. Although some people relate feelings, others give detailed descriptions of their surroundings and still others offer no more than the weather and the time they woke up and went to bed. Why would the last group write at all? Ms. Williams says she believes that perhaps those people felt bound to write for some reason but then were uncomfortable with expressing their thoughts. One frustration she has felt reading the diaries, she says, is a lack of detail about the trivial matters of daily existence. They'll tell you they cooked supper, for example, but they won't tell you what they ate, who did the cooking or what role the children played in meal preparation, she says. 99 �Does the diarists' neglect extend to the great as well? Yes, she says, presenting a modern analogy in a rhetorical question: "How many people wrote anything down when President Kennedy was shot, for example?" Yet J. Findlay Harrison, writing in 1866, relates a bit of lore he learned in Lawrence about the town's sacking by William Clark Quantrill's raiders in 1863: "There are now to be seen but few evidences of the burning and massacre of the 21 Aug 63. Quantre11's (sic) band of assassins came in at 4 a.m., murdered 189 men, and destroyed the town, Yet cowards as they were they would avoid a closed house for fear of a shot ... Two doors south is a stone house, the owner of which refused to surrender and dared them to break in -- After some pa~ley they rode off leaving him and house in safety -- A woman of noto~ riety named Sally Young saved the inmates of the Eldridge Hotel -- by her influence over Quantre11. .. " One diary contains drawings. It was kept by the gaudily named German immigrant, Carl Julius Adolph Hunnius, who did surveying in the Midwest for the U.S. Army and kept diaries of his work in 1876. His meticulousness shows on the penciled-in title page of his diary, which appears thus: Survey of the Sources of the Red River April 25th to June 30th_1876 And it shows in his careful drawings of a buffalo on page 149, beneath which is written, "An old one," and of an Indian papoose on page 153. Another diary, this one by Robert Gilbert who came to America from England in 1855, is quilted from personal observations and expenditures C'Ju;ty 31 -- Shoes Soa1ed"), brief essays and poems. A sample essay is titled "On the Art of Swimming." "Go into the water carefully just up to the knees," writes Gilbert. "Lay down flat with your arms extended and hands resting in the grounde, head gently held back 50 as to keep your mouth just out of the water. Now raise your arms and feet -- together extending your arms laterally to and fro. You find you are a swimmer directly." At first, Ms. Williams couldn't think of any humorous moments in the diaries. Then, she said, "There is one diary .•• Let me think •.• " She paged through Harrison's log to an Oct. 1, 1866 entry. Osawatomie, he writes: From "This month of September has presented the oft heard of showers of grasshoppers. They are everywhere, in the air; on the earth, in the waters and the houses. My wheels crush thousands. They are nm., while writing, setting on my slippers, my hand, my arms, my back and covering my legs. Not less than a dozen on one at once. When driven away, others take their place 100 �immediately. In. looking near the sun, millions can be seen; the light shining through their wings presenting the appearance of snow -- and the bare places of the earth is red with these torments -- The wheat is all destroyed, where it has come up, nothing else has been injured." Ms. Williams notes that the diaries "often come to us from relatives" who discover the Spencer Library is interested in preserving such documents in its stable 70-degree-temperature and 50-percent-humidity climate. Lots of people store such material in their attics and closets, she says, without realizing their potential research value or the damage that can be done to them if they are stored less kindly, say, in a garage, where they are subject to extremes of temperature and humidity. Those interested in keeping Aunt Bertha's memories from mouldering, then, might consider donating her diary to the Spencer Library, where it will yellow more slowly and provide researchers with a backward-running river to the past. Despite the cowardly Quantrill's activities here, diarist Harrison saw in Lawrence of an earlier time, a city he loved. He writes, "If I could make my bread and butter at the law, I would settle in this town. It is a second Terre-Haute." Copied with permission from the Sunday, Feb. 3, 1980, Lawrence Journal World, Lawrence, Kansas. DOUGLAS COUNTY HATERIALS IN THE KANSAS COLLECTION by Sheryl Williams, Collection Librarian I. Douglas County Records A. Register of Deeds Index to Deeds B. Mortgage Records 1855-1900 Index to Mortgages 1860-1895 C. Assessment Rolls l863-l940's May not be complete. Arranged by township. D. Tax Rolls 1863-1907 1940's Arranged by township. E. Commissioner's Records 1855-1939 Accounts of Board of Commissioners' Meetings. F. Court Records 1. Court journals 1863-1901 Proceedings of Douglas County District Court for each day that it met. An alphabetical index is in front of each volume, listing the names of people mentioned. 1855-1900 1855-1900 101 �II. 2. Judgment Dockets 1870-1878 A general index of each person against whom a judgment is set forth. 1878-1907 Criminal Appearance Docket 1945-1949 1950-1951 Lists all legal actions in the order that they were filed in Court Clerk's office. 3. 1863-1901 Civil Appearance Dockets the order that they were filed in the in all legal actions Lists Court Clerk's office. 4. Jail Books 5. 1864-1865 Sheriff's Account Book Lists all court cases by parties where sheriff is owed a fee. 6. Criminal Judicial Dockets 1874-1878 1881-1945 Records kept by each district judge of all court cases he personally tried. This was required by law. 7. Civil Judicial Dockets 1867-1885 1904-1911 Lists all male prisoners incarcerated in the County Jail by order of the court. 1873-1927 1932-1961 Douglas County Historical Society The collection contains a variety of materials, most of which date from the latter half of the Nineteenth Century. Some of the more interesting items include personal narratives of Kansas during the territorial conflicts and the Civil War and reminiscences by those who lived through Quantrill's Raid on Lawrence in 1863. Correspondence includes letters from Amos Lawrence, founder of Lawrence, Charles Robinson, first governor of Kansas, and many prominent businessmen. Among the manuscripts is a 6 volume, very detailed history of Lawrence and Douglas County compiled by Tracy Learnard, son of a local banker and grandson of Shalor Eldridge, politician, and Lawrence hotel owner. In addition to manuscripts, the collection contains printed books, pamphlets, maps, and memorabilia. The material was placed on indefinite loan to the Kansas Collection in 1969. III. IV. Printed Materials A. County History Portraits and Biographical Record of Leavenworth, Douglas and Franklin Counties, Kansas, 1899. Contains portraits and geneologies of well-known citizens. B. City Directories The Kansas Collection has a number of city directories for cities in Kansas. Maps and Atlases A. Sanborn City Maps l880!s-1920's B. County and City Plat Maps 102 �V. Newspapers The collection has some newspapers on microfilm and scattered issues of various newspapers in their original format. On microfilm: VI. Lawrence Daily Gazette 10/15/1884-11/3/1885 7/2/1893-2/20/1894 Lawrence Daill': Journal 6/19/1879-2/17/1911 Lawrence Daily Journal World 2/20/1911-present Lawrence Daill: World 3/3/1892-2/18/1911 Lawrence ReEub1ican 5/28/1857-12/29/1859 Census Materials (Located in Government Documents, Watson Library) State Census 1855, 1865, 1875, 1885, 1895, 1905, 1915 Federal Census 1854-1861, 1860, 1870, 1880 Compiled and submitted by Mary Jamison, Lawrence, Kansas. * ** * Excerpts from:: "Kansas" by Hon. John J. Ingalls A few days later, my studies being completed, I joined the uninterrupted and resistless column of volunteers that marched to the land of the free. St. Louis was a squalid border toWn, the outpost of civilization. The railroad ended at Jefferson City. Trans-continental trains with sleepers and dining-cars, annihilating space and time, were the vague dream of a future century. Overtaking at Hermann, a fragile steamer that had left her levee the day before, we embarked upon a monotonous voyage of four days along the treacherous and tortuous channel that crawled between forests of cottonwood and barren bars of tawny sand, to the frontier of the American Desert. It was the mission of the pioneer with his plough to abolish the frontier and to subjugate the desert. One has become a boundry and the other an oasis. But with so much acquisition, something has been lost for which there is no compensation or equivalent. He is unfortunate who has never felt the fascination of the frontier; the temptation of unknown and mysterious solitudes; the exultation of helping to build a State; of forming its institutions and giving direction to its career. Kansas in its rudimentery stage, extended westward six hundred fifty-eight miles to the crest of the Rocky Mountains, the eastern boundary of Utah. By subsequent amputation and curtailment, it was shorn to its present narrow limits of fifty-two million acres; three thousand square miles in excess of. the entire area of New England. Denver, Manitou, Pueblo, Pike's Peak, and Cripple Creek are among the treasures which the State-makers of 1859, like the base Indian, richer than all his tribe, threw unconsciously away. 103 �THE PAST Confined by a chronic leg ailment, Johann Christian Schmidt, Gene Becker's great-grandfather, wrote a detailed history of his life on the prairie. The following is a condensed version of his chronicle. Like so many other immigrants to America, Johann Christian Schmidt was lured by the dream of land ownership. Schmidt and his family had left Germany in May of 1852. For three years after their arrival in the United States, he worked on farms, first near Albany, N. Y. Moving his family to Fort Dearborn, Ill. (now Chicago), Schmidt worked on the farm which belonged to an old friend from Germany. While he toiled for others, the desire to 0\-111 land grew. Word had been passed among Fort Dearborn farm workers that government land was available for homesteading near Sioux City, Ia. In May of 1856 the Schmidt family and other German immigrants started their 500-mile trek in four wagons. Averaging 20 miles a day, the travelers negotiated rivers, swamps and steep hills, all the while fending off hordes of flies. Upon reaching Sioux City on July 3, 1856, the group dispersed. , Christian Schmidt, his wife and children had a shanty for shelter, one cow, a wagon, and $5.00 in his pocket. He must have wondered if this was really the promised land of opportunity. In dismay he asked his wife, "Oh, why did we not stay in Illinois?" Facing such odds, Schmidt drew on the one source of strength that had helped him through rough times before and would do so again. He fell to his knees to pray. His nephew, Philip Held, had walked over to the wagon to see if the Schm{dt family was settled in for the night. When he saw his uncle praying in earnest, he asked, "What troubles you?" Christian explained his predicament to the young bachelor. "Here is $20 I'll loan you," his nephew said. "Tomorrow we will find some work for you." Schmidt and his son Philip soon found a job in a Sioux City trading post, moving barrels and stacking lumber. They worked hard and quickly earned enough to repay the debt and purchase a sack of flour. It didn't take the Schmidt family long to acclimate themselves to their new home. They were an industrious group, never missing an opportunity to put their talents and penchant for work to good use. Schmidt and his sons would collect hay for other farmers' cattle or they would clear land of trees for a fee and sell the lumber they kept. The elder Schmidt sold baskets he had woven from willow branches growing wild along the Missouri River, while his wife and daughters took in extra laundry. In time, the Schmidts' ambitious nature brought them, in trades or cash exchanges, a yoke of oxen, lumber to build a home and four milk cows. But there was still the one reason Schmidt and his family had come to Sioux' City. Late in the summer of 1856, Schmidt prepared to fulfill his dream of land ownership. Traveling with other members of the immigrant group, he laid claim to 160 acres, 15 miles northeast of Sioux City, on the Floyd River. Memories of their bleak arrival in Sioux City had faded, but there were still a few dark clouds on the horizon. 104 �Food was in short supply during the spring of 1857. The Schmidts had run out of flour and no one would or could sell such a valuable possession. Knowing the situation, the God-fearing settler knelt and prayed for relief from the food shortage. When Schmidt arose, he saw a wagon approaching from the East. He greeted the driver and was told that the wagon was ~u11 of flour for sale. Sometime later, the Schmidts' youngest daughter developed a headache and a high fever and within 24 hours was dead. In 1859, the Schmidt family prepared to move to the homestead. (No explanation is given for the 2&~/2 year delay.) They tore down their frame house in Sioux City and rebuilt it next to the docile Floyd River. The following spring, melting snows pushed the Floyd over its banks and onto the Schmidt homestead. They lost most of their livestock and might have perished themselves if neighbors had not come to the rescue. They rebuilt their home on higher ground. The following years were busy ones. They found their land more bountiful than they had ever imagined. With home-made tools, the Schmidts planted wheat, corn, sorghum, oats and a large garden. They sold much of what~·­ they grew. Not long after the family had moved to the Floyd River Valley, preachers began visiting. These "circuit riders" preached in the homes of the settlers. In 1860, a Rev. H. K1iensorge came by spring wagon and horse to organize a congregation. As was the custom, the itinerant preacher would make his home with a family. The Schmidts welcomed Mr. K1iensorge into their home. Surely their reasons for accepting the preacher were genuine, but Schmidt's present-day descendants think there may have been an ulterior motive. In 1864 Mr. K1iensorge and Johann Schmidt's daughter Christina were married. In the fall of 1863, Christian had begun to make sorghum molasses. His horse was hitched to a pole that rotated a heavy stone press. Schmidt was feeding stalks into the press when he caught his middle finger in the grinding stones. His horse stopped at once. But when Schmidt yelled to his family for assistance, the animal spooked and started to move, drawing his hand further into the press. His sons could not free their father's hand. One boy rushed to the neighbors for help. Schmidt stood with his hand in the press for half an hour before it was freed. They wrapped his hand in a sheet and drove the horses as fast as they could to Sioux City, 15 miles away. The doctor amputated three fingers. He asked two men to hold Schmidt while the wound was being closed. But Schmidt said, "You need not hold me, for God will hold me sti11." He calmly sat still as the doctor did his work. When the doctor finished, Schmidt's wife asked how many stitches. The doctor, exhausted by the delicate work, did not know. Schmidt quietly spoke up: "28 stitches and 14 knots." It was a year before his hand was completely healed, but the injury did not keep the homesteader from his work. Like many other homesteaders, Christian Schmidt's title to his land was contested. In his case, only a small part of his acreage was lost. The railroad claimed the land Schmidt had purchased for $200 belonged to the government. A judge ruled for the railroad. 105 �It was about this time that new labor saving machinery began to appear in the Sioux City area. Schmidt noted that a man could be hired to cut grain with a horse drawn mower for 75¢ an acre. A farmer could also rent a threshing machine for so much an acre. As Christian Schmidt aged, he left his sons more and more in charge. He began to devote more of his time to a church which he helped found and build, and to visiting his children and grandchildren. He died at the age of 79 in October of 1886. In his chronicle, Johann Christian Schmidt observes the evolution of a young country and a new society. It is a tribute to him and others like him that they did not lose faith but persisted in taming the land and leaving a legacy of courage to families like the Gene Beckers. This article appeared in the June 30, 1976 FARMLAND NEWS, and is copied with their permission. Contributed by Maxine Hougland, Lawrence, Kansas. Found in the Territorial Paper of Kansas 1854-1861, Reel # 1. Taken from the Herald of Freedom published in Lawrence, Kansas Terri.tory, Saturday, March 20, 1858. Married at Tecumseh on the 4th last by Rev. L. B. Stateler, Joseph A. Powell, esq. to Miss Mollie Byler. On the same day by the Rev. C. M. Calloway, John W. Fainsworth, esq., to Miss Nelly Jacobs, all of Topeka. From the paper, "The Organizer", July 13, 1850, Oxford, Miss. My son, William Hammock left Russell County Alabama in October 1842 bound for Arkansas. Any information concerning him will be appreciated. Harrison Hammock, January 26, 1850. Ideas are funny little things. They won't work unless you do. Contrary to what is usually said, success sometimes goes to our mouth, not to our head. From Home Town Ne\V's, Wichita Eagle Beacon, Wichita, Kansas. 106 �QUERIES Queries are free to members. They should state at le8.st two facts to gain the best results. There are many of our ancestors who have the same first and last names and this might hasten our answers. Queries are for the present time free to non-members. cern Kansas related ancestors of fifty years or more. They.must con- Hiss Dorothy Clarke, 1908 New Hampshire, Lawrence, Kansas 66044 Would like birthplace of my grandmother Sarah RUSSELL, b. 8 Dec. l852-3(?). Parents William RUSSELL, b. 6 Jan. 1811 Newnham, N.Hamptns, England; Ann Elizabeth ENNEW, b. 11 Jan. l82l,England. They emmigrated to Lawrence, Kansas from Ipswich, Suffolk, England after Civil War. Miss Dorothy Clarke, 1908 New Hampshire, Lawrence, Kansas 66044 Need birthplace, parents of Ann Elizabeth ENNEW, b. England, 11 Jan. 1821. H. 8 Harch 1849, in England (where?), to William RUSSELL, b. Newnham, N. Hamptns, England 6 Jan. 1811. They lived in Ipswich, Suffolk, England, before coming to Lawrence, Kansas 1866-70 (probably 1869). Mrs. Pauline B. Elniff, 820 Sunset Drive, Need locations and family information for Frances BORDEN and Elizabeth PARKER) born died 1852; children-tCharles BORDEN, Mary Lawrence, Kansas 66044 Elizabeth BORDEN (daughter of 1779; married Thomas TULEY 1810; STEWART, Ann FOLWELL and Ferdinand. I I Hrs. Pauline B. Elniff, 820 Sunset Drive, Lawrence, Kansas 66044 Beulah NORCROSS, bor* ca. 1791 possibly in New Jersey, ~arried Benjamin FRAZIER 1813. Movedito Shelby county, Ohio. They had eight children: George Washington, J9hn Quincy Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Joseph, Mary, Rebecca, and Elizabeth. Seeking any information about this family and their par~nts. . I I Mrs. Robert S. Opie, \7260 Valley Trails Dr., Pleasanton, California 94566 Am seeking information on Mary Jane FARMER, d. 2 March 1934 and parents, William,d. l86l-l86~, and Elizabeth HATTHEWS, d. 8 Feb. 1886. She married 2nd to James M. JACKSpN. All buried in Oak Hill Cemetery in Lawrence, Kansas. Mrs. R.R. Wilkes, 985!0 North Federal 11279, Denver, Colorado 80221 Need information about my grandfather, Isaiah ~itchell (nickname Jim) ST. JOHN, b. 27 Sept.\ 1872 in Lawrence, Kansas. I I I Ms. Anna Stracener, 1~27 North Edwards, Irving, Texas 75062 Am researching the BEALS family in Kansas between their years in Illinois and Oklahoma Territory. Grandfather Levi BEALS born in Ottawa, Kansas, Franklin county aboutl 1880. Moved to Afton, Oklahoma Territory about 1900. I Mrs. Joe Hadley,Rt. 1, Box 772, Tenimo, Washington 98589 Need information abouf the HADLEY family; were Quakers; moved to Baldwin City, Kansas from Indiana i* 1880. Some Given names: Calvin, Spencer, Joab. All buried near Baldwin City. . . I I Mrs. Joanne Vopicka, 9312 South Harding, Evergreen Park, Illinois 60642 Am researching the BA~TLEMAN family in Douglas County, Kansas; about 1860-1875. 107 �Mrs. Mary Jamison, Rt. 5, Box 176, Lawrence, Kansas 66044 Need birth date, death date, burial place and family information for grandfather Joseph H.ANDERSON in Ohio ca. 1848. Married Nettie Isabelle ROBERTS Oct. 1883 in Peru, Nebraska. Moved to Oklahoma Territory (?). Children: Logan, James,Bertha, Bessie, Cora. Mrs. Maxine Moore Hougland, 1920 Harper Street, Lawrence, Kansas 66044 Need burial place of Harriet DILLON, b. S. Carolina 1837; d. Wathena, Kansas ca. 1874; dau. of Emmaline THOMPSON. Came with husband, Luther DILLON to Doniphan County, Kansas in early 1854. Wathena, Kansas courthouse records show two deeds recorded 1st: to Luther DILLON, 1864; lot 7, Block 4. 2nd to Harriet A. DILLON, April 5, 1867; S. W. Corner, N.W. one fourth of S27-T3-R22, one acre of land. Was this the family cemetery? Harriet is supposed to be buried on the family farm. Mrs. Emma Semple Berg; RFD 2- Box 224, Lawrence, Kansas 66044 Would like to exchange information on the surnameSE~~LE, and especially of those who lived in Ohio during the early 1800's to the present time, and who may have been related to Will H. SEMPLE, born 7 August 1834 possibly in Ireland or New York, and who died in Elyria, Ohio, 15 October 1904. He married Lucinda COON in 1855 and was a tinsmith by trade. Would like to know who his parents, brothers, and sisters were. Any information on surname SEMPLE will be appreciated. Have much information on SEMPLE line to be exchanged. Mrs. Emma Semple Berg; RFD 2 - Box 224, Lawrence, Kansas 66044 Seeking information on Elizabeth (Betsy) COLE, born 23 January 1800, in Dutchess County, New York - died 22 July 1895 in Elyria, Ohio - married 22 July 1820 John COON possibly in Ontario County, New York. Lived in Wayne County, Michigan possibly between 1840 and 1850. Daughters were Eliza Jane COON and Lucinda COON. Eliza married Peter ANDREWS of Port Clinton, Ohio, and Lucinda married Wm. H. SEMPLE of Elyria, O~io. Who were the parents and/or siblings of Elizabeth (Betsy) COLE? Any information will.be appreciated and have much COLE information to exchange. Mrs. Wilma (Sutton) Cogdell, 4335 Char1eswood, Memphis, Tennessee 38117 Seeking information on Micajah SUTTON born Pulaski County, Kentucky ca. 1858 "went to Kansas" about 1880. Marie Vannoy, 1401 So. J., Arkansas City, Kansas 67005 Would like information concerning the following persons. Robert G. MANSFIELD, b. Indiana. Wife: Lucinda ROBERTS, b. Ky., d. Troy, Kansas. Children: Allen MANSFIELD of Garnett, Ks., William S. MANSFIELD, Concordia, Ks., Glen MANSFIELD, Baldwin City, Ks., and Nary A. MANSFIELD, b. 28 Jan. 1854, (Gentry Co.), Albany, Missouri, m. 16 June 1871 to William A. LEIVIS, b. 1844, Madison Co., Indiana. Marie Vannoy, 1401 So. J., Arkansas City, Kansas 67005 Seek information concerning, Maria (REYNOLDS) GRIFFITH, b. 12 Aug. 1836. Parents: Byron REYNOLDS, b. Ireland and Mariha MATTHEWS, b. Kentucky. Maria married John N. GRIFFITH. 108 �FIFTH PUBLIC GENEALOGY WORKSHOP Place: Date: 4H-Fair Grounds, BLDGS. 1&2, 2120 Harper St., Lawrence, Kansas Saturday, 7 June 1980, 8:30a.m. - 4:30p.m. Speaker: r~RS. HELEN KING, Topeka, Kansas. Genealogy Teacher, Lecturer Answers for both beginning and advanced researchers. Lunch served.in building (By Reservation, Pay when served.) by the India E H U Ladies or eat out or bring your own. Cookies and coffee for all. Soft drink machine in buildinp. 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