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Membership fees are $15 single, $2 for each additional member of the same household. Checks should be made payable to the Douglas County, Kansas, Genealogical Society (DCGS) and sent to the address above (see form, at end). The fiscal and membership year is from January 1 to December 31. Visitors are always welcome at the meetings. The Douglas County Genealogical Society Library is located in the Helen Osma Room on the lower level of the Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vermont, Lawrence. Hours are Monday through Friday, 9:30am-9pm; Saturday, 9:30am-6pm; and Sunday, 2-6pm. Anyone may use the library, but items may not be checked out. Microfilm readers are available in the Osma Room. webpage http://skyways.lib.ks.uslgenweb/douglasldckgs.htm �***NOTE: Corrected contents) Volume 25, nos. 3-4 September-December 2002 (Corrected contents) page Family History Information in Douglas County, Kansas: The Short List By Paul Jordan 28 In memoriam Ramona Faye 29 Sedlak~Kathryn Jeanette Bunton~Pauline Plisch~A.J. Lawson A. J.'s recipe for Grandma's Cinnamon Rolls 31 Notices 32 Cleaning Mother's House 32 Fairview School District no. 21, Douglas County, Kansas, 1868-70 34 Genealogy quips from the Internet 36 More serious tips from the Internet 36 Hilarious requests of librarians 37 Genealogy corner, by Paul Jordan 37 Website, Kansas Collection, University of Kansas 39 School graduations, 1897, 1927, 1930 42 2002 Membership for Douglas County Genealogical Society 49 Index For Volume 25, nos. 1-2, 3-4 50 27 �THE PIONEER published by the Douglas County, Kansas, Genealogical Society, Inc. P. O. Box 3664 Lawrence, Kansas 66044-0664 Volume 25, nos. 3-4 September-December 2002 contents Family History Information in Douglas County, Kansas: The Short List page 4 by Paul Jordan In memoriam 6 Ramona Faye Sedlak - Kathryn Jeanette Bunton - Pauline Plipsch - A. 1. Lawson A. J.'s recipe for Grandma's Cinnamon Rolls 7 Notices 8 Cleaning Mother's House 8 Fairview School District no. 21, Douglas County, Kansas, 1868-70 10 Genealogy quips from the internet 12 More serious tips from the internet 12 Hilarious requests of librarians 13 Genealogy corner, by Paul Jordan 13 Website, Kansas Collection, University of Kansas 15 School graduations, 1897, 1927,1930 18 �.. Family History Information in Douglas County, Kansas: The Short List by Paul Jordan Records of family history value in Douglas County are housed in several different places, and some are found in places you wouldn't expect. The following list, by topic, is far from comprehensive but covers a large part of the information available. Abbreviations are explained at the end. Newspapers: LPL has microfilms of Lawrence newspapers for 1855-2002 and indexes for 1864-81 and 189294. BPL has microfilms of Baldwin City newspapers for 1884-1996. EPL has Eudora newspapers for 1935-current. CH has Lecompton newspapers for 1891-1934 and a few earlier and later. Birth: Very little birth information is available here in Douglas County. WCM has a notebook of birth records for Baldwin City, August 1911 through December 1916. Marriage: LPL has Douglas County marriage records on microfilm for 1863- June 1992, with indexes. Obituaries, death notices, tombstone inscriptions: WCM has 32 file boxes of obituaries in alphabetical order from Lawrence newspapers of 197999. LPL has card file indexes to obituaries in Lawrence newspapers of 1972-2000. LPL and WCM have indexes in book form for Lawrence newspapers of 1864-81 and 1892-94. LPL and WCM have books of mortuary records of 1890-1927, some alphabetical and some indexed. LPL and WCM have two volumes, "Complete Tombstone Census of Douglas County, Kansas," indexed, published in 1987 and 1989. Probate, Estates: KUSL has Probate Court records of 1855-1974, and indexes. Census, City Directories, and Tax Rolls: LPL has Federal and State census for Douglas County, every 5 years 1860-1925 except 1890, on microfilm. KUAL has Federal and State census for all of Kansas, every 5 years 1860-1930 except 1890, on microfilm. Has index (Soundex) on microfilm for Kansas 1900. WCM has census index for Kansas Territory 1860 in book form. LPL and WCM have 1875 census for Douglas County transcribed and indexed in book form. DCRD has census of school-age popUlation with parent names, yearly 1898-1957, by School District, 12 spools of microfilm marked SCHOOL RECORDS. �LPL and WCM have Lawrence City Directories for 1860-1929 and 1961-2001, a few of which include county as well as city listings. KUSL has Tax Rolls of Douglas County, yearly 1863-1967, with indexes by Township and City. (Personal Property lists cover nearly every household.) Deeds to Real Property: DCRD has registered copies of deeds and a few other legal instruments, with indexes. Explanation of abbreviations and locations of information (phone for hours) BPL: Baldwin City Public Library, 800 7th St., 594-3411. Closed Sunday. eH: Constitution Hall in Lecompton, 319 Elmore St., 887-6520. Closed Sunday through Tuesday. DeRD: Douglas County Register of Deeds, 3rd floor of County building, 11th and Massachusetts St., 832-5282. Closed Saturday, Sunday. EPL: Eudora Public Library, 114 E. 9th St., 542-2496. Closed Sunday. KUAL: University of Kansas, Anschutz Library, 864-4930. KUSL: University of Kansas, Spencer Research Library, 864-4334, closed Sunday. Note-Automobile parking is a problem at KU, Monday-Friday, when classes are in session; lookfor parking garages north ofAllen Field House and north of the Kansas Union. LPL: Lawrence Public Library (Osma Room on lower floor), 7th and Vermont St., 843-1178. WCM: Watkins Community Museum, 1047 Massachusetts St., 841-4109. Research room closed Saturday, Sunday, Monday. (See also the separate reprint of the Spencer Research Library webpage towards the end of this issue.) IN MEMORIAM Ramona Faye Sedlak Oskaloosa - Memorial services for Ramona Faye Sedlak, 72, Lake Side Village Community, rural Ozawkie, were at Barnett Funeral Home, Oskaloosa. Mrs. Sedlak was born 1 October 1929, in Sedalia, Missouri, the daughter of Raymond Dominick and Juanita Faye (Shoemaker) Stoffel. She was a 1944 graduate of Smith-Cotton High School, Sedalia. She had lived in rural Ozawkie since 1985, moving from Lawrence, where she had lived since 1953. She was a clerk and butcher at Turner Grocery Store, Lawrence, for 15 years before she retired in 1972. She was a top breeder and showperson of Chihuahua dogs in Kansas since 1965. She also was a participant in the Westminster Dog Show in New York City and a member of the Chihuahua Club of Oklahoma. Mrs. Sedlak was a member of American Legion Auxiliary Unit No. 225, Ozawkie, and the Douglas County Genealogical Society. She was a founding member of Lawrence Archery Club and was a Kansas State archery champion in the 1960s. She married Donal Kelly Sedlak on 10 November ]947, in Sedalia. He survives at the home. Other survivors include two sons, Michael Kelly Sedlak and Donal Patrick Sedlak, both of Lawrence, a daughter, Kathy Jo Hinderliter, Wellsville, five grandchildren, and seven great-grandchildren. Two daughters, Vicki Ann Sedlak and Teri Sedlak Koder, and a grandson died earlier. . I 2.q . �The family suggests memorial contributions to Jefferson County Friends of Hospice, sent in care of the funeral home, P.O. Box 416, Oskaloosa 66066. [Inforination from the Lawrence Journal-World, 9 January 2002.] Kathryn Jeanette Bunton Kathryn, daughter of Hugh Bunton and Beulah Alice Keilman Bunton (later, Mrs. Earl C. Ricketts), was born in Lawrence on 8 January 1912. She attended public schools in Lawrence and Ottawa, and graduated from Lawrence High School in 1931. She attended the University of Kansas for a year and a half, and Lawrence Business College for one semester. She attended the S1. Joseph Hospital School of Nursing, graduating in 1938, became a Registered Nurse, then nursed a short while at the Lawrence Memorial and Watkins Hospitals. Later, after five years of private duty in Fort Worth, Texas, she joined the Red Cross Nursing Corps in November 1941, and was inducted into the Army Nurse Corps on 4 January 1942 at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, where she completed her basic training, as 2nd L1. ANC Res., at Brooke General Hospital on 29 January 1944. She was sent later to William Beaumont General Hospital, El Paso, an orthopedic and plastic center, for the duration ofthe war. After the war, beginning in 1947, she worked in Lawrence as an office nurse for Drs. Ray A and Margaret Clark, then as a private duty nurse, and by 1959, until her retirement on 1 April 1974, she was at the Lawrence Memorial Hospital, in charge of nurses on the surgical floor from 11 pm to 7 am. She became a member of Trinity Lutheran Church on 16 November 1969. She was a member of the American Legion. Influenced by her mother, she was an avid genealogist and a longtime member of the Douglas County Genealogical Society, to which she gave her collection of books and files in 1999-2000, now in the Osma Room of the Lawrence Public Library. Being a 2nd great granddaughter of Slocum Hussey Bunker (1805-73), and a great granddaughter of Lawrence resident and instructor at Haskell Institute, David Bunker (1830-1905), she was also a member of the Bunker Family Association of America. Her nearest relatives in the area are Lucy Jane Keilman Beisecker, of Topeka (first cousin), her son Thomas Beisecker, associate professor of communication studies at KU (first cousin, one generation removed), Chuck Warner, president of US Bank in Lawrence (second cousin), and J. Bunker Clark, KU professor emeritus of music history (third cousin). Her closest relatives are nieces Virginia Lee Bunton Ashcraft of Hurst, Tex., Vivian Bunton McCleskey of Atlanta, Ga., Irene Bunton Jenkins Sweely ofF1. Worth, Tex., and Jeanette Bunton Brittan Dixon of San Antonio, Tex. She died 31 December 2002, at Brandon Woods Retirement Community, Lawrence. She was buried next to her mother at Memoriai Park Cemetery, Lawrence, 9 January 2003; the graveside service was led by the Rev. Gary Teske, Trinity Lutheran Church. -Bunker Clark Pauline Plipscb , Pauline died on 22 July 2002. We have no other information at this time. Pauline was a former member of the Douglas County Genealogical Society. She typed many pages for Complete Tombstone Census o/Douglas County, vols. 1-2, and Our Family Recipe Tree cookbook. Alfred James "A. J." Lawson Mass of Christian Burial for Alfred James "A J." Lawson, 84, Lawrence, was at S1. John the Evangelist Catholic Church, and burial at Riverview Cemetery, Kiowa. Mr. Lawson died Monday, 8 July 2002, at his home. He was born 10 May 1918, in Saratoga, Okla., the son of John C. and Claracy L. (Walters) Lawson. He graduated from Kiowa High School in 1936. He was president of his graduating : 30 �class. He received a Bachelor of Science degree from Kansas State Teachers College in Emporia in 1940. He served in the US Army Air Corps during World War II in Africa. He received the European-African Middle Eastern Theater Campaign Medal, American Defense Service Medal, Good Conduct Medal, five oversea bars in Africa and Meritorious Service Unit Badge. He was formerly in partnership with his father and brothers in the Lawson Motor company in Kiowa. In 1968 he moved with his wife to Lawrence, where he was the manager of Midland Junction Farmers Co-op for several years, and then manager of the Farmers Co-op Elevator until retirement. Mr. Lawson was a member of Sons of the American Revolution, a former member of Veterans of Foreign Wars, former mayor of Kiowa, and had volunteered in the genealogy department at Lawrence Public Library and as a meal server for Lawrence Interdenominational Nutrition Kitchen (LINK). He married Mary Junot Shipman on 23 May 1948, in Enid, Okla. She died 1 May 1999. Survivors include a daughter, Margaret Konecny, Plano, Tex., two brothers, Vane and Forest "Frosty," both of Kiowa, three grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren. The family suggests memorials to the church or to Douglas County Visiting Nurses Assn., sent in care of the mortuary, Warren-McElwain. [Information from the Lawrence JournalWorld, 10 July 2002.] A. J. and Mary were long time members of the Douglas County Genealogical Society. A. J. worked in our library and was treasurer for several years. A. J. baked bread many times for our bake sales and potluck dinners. Mary was our historian for several years. His recipe for Grandma's Cinnamon Rolls follows. -Mary Burchill A. J.'s recipe for Grandma's Cinnamon Rolls Oven 375 degrees 24 Rolls 5Yz cups to 6 cups all purpose flour 2 packages Red Star Active Dry Yeast or Quick-Rise Yeast Yz cup sugar 1Yz teaspoons salt 1 cup milk 1 cup water Y4 cup butter or margarine 2 eggs 113 cup butter or margarine, melted FILLING Y4 cup sugar Yz cup chopped nuts 1Yz teaspoons cinnamon GLAZE INGREDIENTS 2 cups powdered sugar 3 tablespoons butter or margarine, melted Yz teaspoon maple flavor 3 to 4 tablespoons hot coffee �In large mixer bowl, combine 2 cups flour, yeast, Yz cup sugar and salt; mix well. In saucepan, heat milk, water and butter until very warm (120-130 degrees; butter does not need to melt). Add to flour mixture. Add eggs. Blend at low speed until moistened: beat 3 minutes at medium speed. By hand, gradually stir in enough remaining flour to make a soft dough. Knead on floured surfaced until smooth and elastic, 5-8 minutes. Place in greased bowl, turning to greased top. Cover, let rise in warm place untill1ght and doubled, about 1 hour (30 minutes for quick-rise yeast). PREPARE FILLING: Combine sugar, nuts, and cinnamon; set aside. Punch down dough. Divide into 2 parts. On lightly floured surface, roll or pat each half to a 12x9-inch rectangle. Brush each part with half of melted butter; sprinkle half of filling over dough. Starting with shorter side, roll up tightly. Pinch edge to seal. Cut into 12 slices. Place in greased 13x9 inch cake pans. Cover; let rise in warm place until almost doubled, about 30 minutes (15 minutes for quick-rise yeast). Bake at 375 degrees for 20 to 25 minutes until golden brown. Drizzle glaze over hot rolls; cool. PREPARE GLAZE: Combine glaze ingredients; blend until smooth. Notices We have dust covers for "The Complete Tombstone Census of Douglas County, Kansas Volumes 1 & 2." Ifanyone is interested in new dust covers please contact the society. They will be destroyed at a later date. I have the BRECHEISEN, SPEICHER, DEAY MUENZENMA YER, and WEIL family books, and information up to certain points. I'm not a searcher as such, but when I hear or see items of interest to me, I keep. You can contact me at 290 E. 1250 Rd., Baldwin City, KS 66006. -Norma Jardon (She also said that Katherine Kelley at the Baldwin Public Library has compiled information to help others in their research. -Ed.) Cleaning Mother's House Courtesy of Michael John Neill. This is a warning to all of us. The author ofthe article, which appeared on ancestry. com (see credits below), graciously consented to allow me to use this on the KYRESEARCH list and in Traces, vol. 1, no. 1, and I am very grateful! Michael John Neill has done us all a great favor. -Mary Burchill It has been nearly a year since fictional genealogist Barbara passed away. Her daughter Charlene reflects upon that year in a letter to her friend Karen. Charlene truly has been busy. Barbara is probably rolJing over in her grave. "Karen: As usual, my cards are late. It has been a busy year. We spent much of the year settling up Mother's estate. The house sold well, but cleaning it took longer than we expected. You are probably the· only person who did not know Mother was a genealogy buff. She told practically every human she encountered. I 'm convinced that genealogy "nut" was the most 32 �accurate phrase. The stuff was all over the house. The inheritance would have been enough to pay for my new Mercedes had she not insisted on spending money on that blasted hobby. I don't know why she couldn't be more like Tom's mother. Nadine spends her day doing needlepoint and watching reruns of 50s television shows. Tom just does not realize how lucky he is, but men never do. My mother had to run off to cemeteries and courthouses. She even went to a conference in Davenport, Iowa, last year! Can you imagine? Davenport, Iowa! After she got back, she was so excited about all that she had learned and all the fun she had. She was planning on going to another one in California this year. Wel1 the grim reaper took care of that. Because of my promotion to head of knick knack sales at Garbageforless.com, I. had not been home for several years. I was appal1ed to learn that Mother had converted myoid bedroom into her family history "headquarters." My shelves of Teen Beat and other magazines documenting my adolescence had been replaced with old family photographs, copies of old documents, and something called family group sheets. She even got rid of the pants I wore to my first junior high dance. I cried at the thought. I could not bear to go in the room and be reminded that my childhood had been stripped from me and replaced with an obsession with the past. I told the children that if they would clean the room and prepare the items for the garage (should I say "garbage"?) sale they could have the proceeds. I learned what true entrepreneurs they are. Kenny stripped Mother's hard drive in under ten minutes. I kept hearing him say "GedCom is GedGone . .. GedCom is GedGone .... " I have no idea what it meant, but the computer fetched a good price. Before he unplugged the computer, he erased Mom's floppy disks and downloaded public domain games. He sold these at a nominal price. Susan took the old photographs to a flea market and was able to sel1 many of them. Some speciallabe1s had to be taken off and we had to take them out of protective envelopes. Mother had written the names on the back of many of them. At least none of those pictures of depressing old dead people had our last name written on them. I don't want to be associated with such sour people. Mother had some type of old plat book-whatever that is. Kenny tore out the pages individual1y and sold them separately on EBay. It was so clever. His dad said he got much more than ifhe had left the book in one piece. Susan didn't tear the bibles apart, though. I thought that showed tremendously good sense. She's learning that not everything can be marketed in the same way. The 1790 bible brought her a good penny, but she couldn't get the one from 1900 to bring more than fifty cents. She donated it to a local church, and here is where I am so proud of her. We can write ifoffas a charitable deduction. Someone had written what they had paid for the bible on the back cover. Susan converted that to 2001 dollars and will use that for our tax deduction amount. I've already' enrolled Susan in tax lawyer summer camp this coming August. There was some old large certificate of written on heavy paper. The silly thing wasn't even in English, so why would Mother keep it? Kenny used the other side to keep track of the things he had sold. Waste not, want not. When we were finished we put the paper in the recycling bin. The kids put an old wedding dress from the 1870s in the washer to get the stains out. It was terribly filthy. The worthless thing didn't even survive the extra long cycle and the half-gallon of bleach. It's doubtful we can even use it for cleaning rags. The dress was in some kind of old trunk. I'm not certain what it was for, but it had a name stenciled on the front in huge letters along with the name of a town. Susan gave it a good coating of red paint and sold it as a toy box. ·33 , �The filing cabinets were emptied of their contents, as were the three shelves of binders. Kenny got the bright idea to shred the paper and sell it in bags as New Year's confetti. The file folders were too heavy to shred. The baby did not react well to any of this. She cried and fussed almost the entire time. Kenny thought she wanted tea, which made no sense to me at all. As she cried, it sounded like she was saying "family tee." She can't even talk yet and I think Kenny was hearing things. The baby does look exactly like my mother though, it's the oddest thing. The fussing didn't stop until she spit up an entire bottle of strained prunes on my junior high jeans, which we did find in the basement. They were it was the one real loss. Now my past has really been taken from me-magazines and all. Charlene" Whether you have a child like Charlene or not, have you thought about what might happen to your genealogy collection upon your demise? Michael John Neill, is the Course I Coordinator at the Genealogical Institute of Mid America CGIMA) held annually in Springfield, Illinois, and is also on the faculty of Carl Sandburg College in Galesburg, Illinois. Michael is the Web columnist for the FGS FORUM and is on the editorial board of the Illinois State Genealogical Society Quarterly. He conducts seminars and lectures on a wide variety of genealogical and computer topics, and contributes to several genealogical publications,· including Ancestry and Genealogical Computing. You can e-mail him at mneill@asc.csc.cc.il.us or visit his web site at www.rootdig.coml. but he regrets that he is unable to assist with personal research. All use and access to ancestry. com subject to license. Fairview School District no. 21, Douglas County, Kansas, 1868-70 Fairview was located in the south-east comer of the of the north-east quarter of section 30 T.13 S., R.20 E. about 2Y:! miles south ofthe present 31st street on the extension of Haskell Street. Further information can be found in the book Rural Schools and Schoolhouses ofDouglas County, Kansas by Goldie Piper Daniels. This book is available at the Watkins Museum, 11th and Massachusetts, Lawrence. It has a separate index. Parent- Guardian: Scholar(s) : Term beginning November 2, 1868? Teacher: May Miller. Ayres, Orner Dickson, Chas. Kennedy, Wm. B. Kennedy, Thomas Meairs, Wm. Marshall, F. Cade, Josphine Walker, Jeanette Jessie E.; Elroy E. Nettie A Eugene M. ; Flora M.; Oscar C. El1a A; May L. Thomas H.; Belle Martin L.; Marcus C.; Ida M.; James H. L.; Abraham L. EmmaJ. Hepsa; Sarah; Fannee William Term beginning May 3, 1869. Teacher: Georgia F. Dill. Ayer, Orner Kennedy,Wm. B. Kennedy, Thomas Meairs, Wm. Elroy 0.; Estella J.; Anna E. Flora M.; Oscar c.; Ella A; Lily M. ThomasH. James H. L.; Abraham L. :34 �Marshall, F. Brown, George W. Clark, Miles Wallace,B. Winfield, Robert Kennedy, Wm. B. Kennedy, Thomas Nolan, Martha Courless, Joseph Emma J. Lafayette Charles H. Mary?; Harriet L.; Laura A Mary Ann; James F. Louisa Worthy Belle Mary Nolan Sarah Term beginning December 21, 1869. Teacher: Georgia F. Dill. Ayer, Orner Kennedy, Wm. B. Meairs, Wm. Walburn, John Leming, Abram C. Read, F. R. Marshall, W. Clark, Miles Marshall, W. Doolittle, R. Walker, Jeanette Dickson, Chas. A Rosseau, F. Wallace, P. Rousseau, F. Mueller, Paul Rice, Thomas Morris, Wesley Winfield, Robert Elroy 0.; Jessie E.; Anna E. Flora M.; Oscar C.; Ella A; Lillie M. James H. L.; Abraham L.; Ida May; Martin L.; Marcus C. Sarah A; Nancy A; Margaret C.; William H.; Marson M.E. Lizie Cook Lillie Charles M. Henry Evins Randall William; John; Jimmie Nettie A Laura E. Mary K.; Hattie C. Joseph L.; John H.; Louis B. Charlie; Henry; Gustavous; Frank Columbus; Marida; Frank; Mary F. Edward; Lewis; Joseph JamesF. Term beginning May 2, 1870. Teacher: Rohama Stanley. Kennedy, Wm. Ayer, Orner Morris, Wesley Meairs, Wm. Dolittle, R. Cornelius, ? Wallace, P. Hines, ? Wi field, R. Crim, ? Dickson, G. ? Cade, ? Powel, ? Eally, ? Flora M.; Oscar C.; Ella A; May L. Anna E.; Estella J; O.Elroy; Arthur J Martin L.; Joseph; Edward; William James; Lincoln Randall P.? Laura Mary; Laura; Harriet C. Strawder James Jane Nettie Katie S. Ellen Laura �Walker, ? Mueller, P. McClintock, ? Johnson, ? Jane Charles; Frank Allison; Carlton; Hershel Huldah -copied by Donald W. Vaughn; courtesy of Watkins Museum Genealogy quips from the internet (submitted by Beverley Chapman) My family coat of arms ties at the back ... is that normal? My family tree is a few branches short! All help appreciated. My ancestors must be in the witness protection program. Shake your family tree and watch the nuts fall. My hobby is genealogy, I raise dust bunnies as pets. How can one ancestor cause so much TROUBLE! I looked into my family tree and found out I was a sap... not stuck, I'm ancestrally challenged. I'm searching for myself, have you seen me? If only people came with pull-down menus and on-line help. Isn't genealogy fun? The answer to one problem leads to two more. It's 2001 ... Do you know where your GGGrandparents are? A family reunion is an effective form of birth control. A family tree can wither if nobody tends its roots. A new cousin a day keeps the boredom away. After 30 days unclaimed ancestors can be adopted. Am I the only person up my tree ... sure seems like it. Any family tree produces some lemons, some nuts, and a few bad apples. Ever find an ancestor HANGING from the family tree? FLOOR: The place for storing your priceless genealogy records. Gene-Allergy: It's a contagious disease but I love it. Genealogists are time unravelers. Genealogy is like playing hide and seek: They hide ... I seek. Genealogy: Tracing yourself back to better people. "Crazy" is a relative term in my family. I'm More serious tips from the internet When my dad died, I was upset that the newspaper in the next town did not carry his obituary. Then I realized that, in fact, there was a long front-page article about my dad and his various accomplishments and elective positions. If you are checking newspapers yourself, don't just look at the obituary page, particularly if the person you seek was at all wekk nown in the local area. The death may be classified under "news." -Kate Randall Reeves, Mountain Center, Calif When selecting page protectors or photo protector sheets, remember the three Pollys: polyester, polyethylene, and polypropanol. These are archival-safe materials. If the pack or your vendor can't verity the content of the materials, don't buy the product. �-Mary Clement Douglass, CGRS (former museum curator), Salina, Kansas When I used my scanner to get a picture from 'a book or thick item, it is hard to have the top put down, so when I have the book in the scanner and the edges sticking out, I throuw a large dark sweater or cloth over the whole thing so no light can get in. The writing and pictures turn out well. -Buirl Thomsen Think "outside the box" when searching for information about an ancestor. Searching the normal channels (websites, family papers, relatives, etc.) for information on my greatgrandfather James Robert Tumey produced some written and pictorial documentation but not much. Then, on a whim, I tried a web search for "Tumey Family Recipes" (even though I wasn't interested in cooking) and hit pay-dirt. The site was using a picture of my great-grandfather's homestead (ca. 1910) as a logo. Other information on the site was a childhood picture of a greataunt (ca. 1913) and a written reminiscence by a great-great aunt detailing her early recollections of her father. So, if normal research doesn't produce results, look for information buried within unlikely sources-you can never know what will show up. -Jerry Platz When visiting cemeteries and locating the lot number and grave, I ask the cemetery office for a copy of a map of the cemetery. I then find the location and highlight the route I took to get there, with an x at the target spot. I file this copy with the picture of the headstone of who is buried there. This way, in the future, it will be easy for relatives to locate the graves, and save time wandering around the graveyard. -Mark [no last name] Hilarious requests of librarians (sent by Don Vaughn) Do you have anything on the Looney family, because I am a Looney too. I am sorry we have not got complete families. The trouble is here is extracting the children from the minister. I am forwarding my marriage certificate and three children, one of which is a mistake, as you can see. The wife of Amos Smith could not be found. Someone suggested to me that she might have been stillborn. What do you think? Do you keep a record of branded cattle? I'm trying to find my grandfather. Please send me my genealogy back to Noah, and when will the Flood records be online? Do you have my grandmother in a microwave? [She meant to say microfilm.] Genealogy corner, by Paul Jordan [stolen from the Douglas County Historical Society Newsletter 29, no. 2, March/April 2003] Nearly all of our requests for family history information comes from the U.S., but we continue to get a few from other countries. The latest was an e-mail from Soren Barteldes, who wrote "Me and my family are living in Wetter, Germany and there just 4 families, which carry the name in Germany." This is pretty much the reverse of the usual procedure where we in the U.S. want to get information from the old countries. When searching the West Junior High School website http://history . lawrence . com the name Barteldes was found in seven of the articles, including the fo~di~g oTE~do~~-a;d-a"··­ picture of a Barteldes seed catalog from ] 887. 37 �A book of tombstone inscriptions in the museum enabled me to find nine obituaries, including that of Freiderich Barteldes in 1886, who had come to Douglas County in 1856. The obituary of Friedo Barteldes (1976) included the fact that his nephew, Ben, is a former mayor of Lawrence! Bart Barteldes of Perry is making contact with Soren to share information of other relatives in other states. Isn't the internet great? 38, �The University of Kansas Libraries Kenneth Spencer Research Library THE KANSAS COLLECTION ~~~'::s "II II f' A~;~nns HCounty Records I Kansas Life I Wilcox " . Additional Collections " Kansas Collection Douglas County, Kansas Records The Kansas Collection is the depository for records of Douglas County, Kansas. j ~_ adA/: .tit) 1~. Douglas County District Court Records Douglas County Probate Records Douglas County Civil and Criminal Court Records Douglas County Marriage Records Douglas County Treasurer's Office Records Douglas County Appraiser's Office Records Douglas County District Court Records The majority of county court records for the years 1855-1863 were destroyed when Lawrence was burned down by William C. Quantrill's men in 1863. An account of the earliest county government and court history, including a listing of county and court officials, is contained in A. T. Andreas' History of the State of Kansas, Chicago, 1883 (reprinted in 1976 by the Atchison County Historical Society), pages 310-312. This is available on reference at the Kansas Collection. Court records which are held by the Kansas Collection include: Douglas County Probate Records Probate court records for Douglas County were kept separately from other district court records until 1977. The probate court had jurisdiction over estates, wills, adoptions, insanity hearings, delinquent and dependent children hearings, marriages and town incorporations. Probate files include all original documents filed in a case. In estate cases these can include copies of the inventory of the estate and the will of the deceased and details about the disposition of the estate. No adoption records are open to the public. Records of insanity hearings and care and treatment cases are included in the probate records in the Kansas Collection unless they were deemed confidential. The Kansas Collection has the index to probate records from 1857-1965 and the accompanying case files if they are no longer active. In order to locate a case file in the indexes you need to know the name of the person and if possible the date the case was filed. The index for probate cases after 1965 is only available at the Douglas County Clerk's office. ,.\ In addition, the Kansas Collection has the journals of the probate court for Sept. 24, 1855-June 28,1974. These are a chronological record of the day-to-day proceedings of the probate court. Douglas County Civil and Criminal Court Records 3'1 �District Court Journals 1863-1974, are a record of all the proceedings in the district court each day that it met. It includes civil and ~iminal trials, grand jury proceedings, orders from the judge in vacation or in chambers, jury selection proceedings, petitions from lawyers and parties and all other in-court events and matters. District Court Criminal Trial Docket, 1864-1878 was used by the court clerk to place upcoming criminal cases upon the case calendar. Entries include: the names of parties, the names of attorneys, the docket number, the charge, judicial orders and final dispensation. It is indexed alphabetically from 1874-1878. It appears that this docket may not have been kept after 1878. District Court Criminal Appearance Dockets, 1863-1970, list all legal actions in the order they were filed in the court clerk's office. Information provided includes the date of summons and its return, petition and pleadings filed, judicial judgments and orders and a list of costs accrued during the action. The volumes include an alphabetical index by parties to the actions. District Court Criminal Judicial Dockets, 1874-1878, 1881-1927, 1932-1945, were kept by each judge as a record of cases they personally tried. Entries include case title, date of writ, date of case, party arrest record, property attached, facts stated, affidavits and bills of particular filed, appearing parties, adjoinments, jury selections and verdicts, witnesses sworn, judicial orders and executions, final jUdgment, monies paid at court and any continuances. Dockets were passed on to the next judge, and from the 1890s onward, when two justices served concurrently, the volumes overlap in chronology. There is an alphabetical index in the front of each volume. District Court Civil Trial Dockets, 1864-1868, 1874-1894, were used by the court clerk to place upcoming civil cases upon the case calendar. Entries include the names of parties, names of attorneys, the docket number, the type of dispute, judicial orders, the date of case and the final dispensation. These records are not indexed and it is not certain that they were kept after 1894. The last volume, labeled "Final Record" is blank. District Court Civil Appearance Dockets, 1863-1972, list all civil actions in the order they were filed in the court clerk's office. Entries include the date of summons and its return, petition and pleadings filed, judicial judgments and orders, and a listing of costs accrued during the action. Each volume is indexed in the front by parties involved, except 1901-1903, which has a separate index. A separate index to defendants was kept for 1863-1883. Business legal problems are one type of case covered by these indexes. District Court Civil Judicial Dockets. 1873-1928, 1931-1961, were kept by each judge recording all cases he personally tried. Entries include the case title, date of writ, date of case, property attached, facts stated, affidavits and bills of particular filed, appearing parties, adjoinments, jury selections and verdicts, witnesses sworn. judicial orders and executions. final judgment. monies paid at court and any continuances. Dockets were passed on to the next judge, and from the 1890s onward. when two justices served concurrently, the volumes overlap in chronology. There is an alphabetical index in the front of most volumes, though volumes 15 and 18 have separate indexes. The 1907-1912 volume has no index. The 1922-1925 volume (Judge R. C. Manley) is mistakenly labeled "Criminal docket, volume 9". Cases covered by these volumes include business legal problems, divorce and alimony, and assault and defamation. Douglas County Marriage Records The Kansas Collection has the indexes to marriage certificates from 1863-1920. The indexes for the years after 1920 are housed at the Lawrence Public Library. Marriages are indexed alphabetically by the husband's name and cross-indexed by the wife's name. The. Kansas Collection only has the marriage certificates for 1863-1913. Marriage certificates for 1913- are available from the: Kansas Dept. of Health and Environment, Office of Vital Statistics Landon State Office Building. 1st Floor. Topeka. KS 66612-1290; phone: 785-296-1400; FAX: 785-296-8075. An index of !l'arriages in Dc:>uglas ~ounty for the years 1854-1884 was published in 1989 by the Douglas County. Kansas, Genealogical SOCiety, P.O. Box 3664, Lawrence, Kansas 66046-0664, and is available on reference at the Kansas Collection. Douglas County Treasurer's Office The Kansas Collection has the tax rolls for land in Douglas County and Lawrence. Kansas. for the years 18531967. The Lawrence volumes are arranged by subdivision, legal description, and address (later years) and the Douglas County volumes are arranged by the legal description of the property. The volumes show the name of 1-0 �.. . the owner and the person who paid the taxes year by year, the amount of taxes paid, and the assessed value of the land parcel. These can be very useful for someone attempting to determine what year a house was built because of the corresponding increase in the assessed value. Occasionally additional information about the property is also noted on the entry. Douglas County Appraiser's Office The Kansas Collection stores the property appraisal records for Douglas County for 1964-1988. These records are only accessible by the appraisal file number, which must be obtained from the Douglas County Clerk's office. For more specific information about our Douglas County records, please contact: Sheryl Williams, Curator swilliam@ku.edu , 785-864-4334. Fax 785-864-5803. 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":'j .r-\~.~~~~~.t. ~. / CLASS OF '95; . / DieT•. ,,' ."'~ - ~. - . ' ... . \ _" 62 Etba Marinlng. 4/; Elmer Miller.. 1lI\' Ii!dna·Martln,· 75 Oliver McGee. . .: ::12 Alma.Nelson.. ___ . 2\) Jennie Piper.· ..:-. . 4· Clara Postma.. '. 22. Margaret Pugh.'" 00 Marcus Rlcbmond; . 11 Fred Wbedon.· '. . 55 Oran WilliamS: 25' Russell Wblte. « . Edward Warren:'· 6· Jlonald Alfred:. 63 George Gilmore.' , 1 Olinda Brune. r' '-' '''': ~1·1 . '. NO. OF' ,-. ..'. :. .:j..... · . "(',l. ·-"-i~l~ . · " .. • • •~".;;. ~. • ~I ':1 CLASS OF -....... " 1: '94. I'" NO. OF," :~·.Df8T;., .... . . ~._..~·~t~::.~·_ -.~~...-~----~,2~,,-"::'~~.~~..~,,~·::;;:~~,_.~.;-__~ .. _....>-~._.~~.:.';w.. ' .' . ~ " 4-3 Jj: ! ' .• .' ... 21 Maggie Marshall;' 77 Kate McNeese. " " John Metsker. 2\} .Tennle Piper. 2\} Carrie Piper. 4 Esthl'r Postma. 51 Mabel Reynolds. 81 Harry Russell.. 39 Jessie Rogers. . 75 Henry Schaake. 5,'; Roy Sbanafelt. 4 Zora Stutsman, '00 Sadie Sturdy, 71 Florence Stanley. 55 Edward.Swett. '. 72 'Nettle Stone. 15 Rose Saylor. • 32 Anna Sullivan. I>! Harry Tbralls. 2\} Katty Tuttle. 10. Cora Turner.. 8 Ella T·ucker. 22 Artbur Ulrlcb. 22 Robert Ulrlcb. 62 Empllne Westcott. 85· ·Jobn Wrigbt. . .jjj Amy Walton . 81 Jobn Wiley •. . ...,~., ':,{ I .::/ . j .~ 1 i .~ :4: �Graduates with the Highest Averages Margaret Colma~ ...................................... 95 3/4 Ralph Snyder.....••....................................... 95 1/12 Lauretta Gerstenberger •........................•..95 The Thirty-eighth Annual Graduating Exercises of the Douglas County Common Schools Graduates with an average of 90 or above Velma Fisher Ralph Snyder Ralph Bohnsack James Whate Marie Griffith Herbert Marshall Ida May Richards Bessie Rebecca Johnson Milton Elliott Howard Rose Ella Carvill Sullivan Alfred Lyon Dorothy May Belles Josephine Seetin George Norwood Robert Cory Dorothea Schwartz Dorothy Beurman Clifford Eisele . Kathryn Swanson Harry Richard Miller Ulice M. Hoover Clifford Cox Eva Mertz Marion Everley Dana Elwood Hobson Mabel Frances Kingery Pearl Marie Belles Patricia Gibbens Nadine Dolore Russell N evieve Whaley Mary M. Schalbar Special Mention Jay Hiatt has a perfect record of attendance, having been neither absent nor tardy since he started to school. LIBERTY MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL LAWRENCE, KANSAS Saturday afternoon, June the fourth nineteen hundred twenty-seven Two o'clock �Common School Graduates of Douglas County Program MUSIC-Selected ................................................. The Eriksen Orchestra MUSIC-Selected ............................. ~ ..................Tlu Eriksen Orchestra INVOCATION ........................................................Rev. Edwin F. Price Student Work Director, First M. E. Church VOCAL SOLO EVER A SONG SOMEWHERF. .........•••.•.....•.•...•••.•.••••..•••.•.•.•.•.•....•. Ash!OI.d PHILOSOPHY ..........•••.•••••••••...•.••..•.••••..•••••••..••••............................. Emmell Miss Loraine Carder Accompanist, Miss Helen Pendleton ADDRESS.···................................Dr. H. K. Ebright, Baker University PRESENTATION OF DIPLOMAS ........ O. I. Lalle, County Supt. AMERICA..........................................................................B)' the Audiellce (Class Picture will be taken at the close of the program) 1927 mST. DIST. mST. NO. NO. NO. 48. Harry Ardel Miller t. Amos Levi Martin 28. Lily Ziegler Pearl Mable Martin Ralph Snyder 49. Almira Laughlin Norman Andrew Norris Arleta Grimes Alherta Reusch Martha Ruth Wilson Ralph Bohnsack 50. An"na llichelmeyer John Grist Nevieve Whaley Fredericka Schlegel 2. Clifford Walter Scott Tom Akin Genevieve Brown 4. lIa Brubaker Robert Cory 5 \. Wesley W. Flory Lauretta Gerstenberger Mildred Weyhright Herhert H. Marshall Marion Everley 1\1 ildred Fern Deay Pearl Knake 5. Howard E. Caviness 52. Wilma I. English Leslie Johnson Veral H. Neis Millired I. Steele Clifford Eisele 6. Frank O. Banks Nadine Dolores Russell53. N orman Kasson Lindell K. Chappell Wendell Kasson Kathryn James Edward Chamney Oliver Brown 56. Mariam Madl Annabel Lee lIIae Johnson 7. Drexell Tucker Eva Mertz Erma Winter. John William Deay John William Musick ~g: Georgia Williams \Vallace Kennedy Earl Reynolds 30. Dorothy Elizabeth 6\. Alice Powell Edmonds Esther Wilber 10. Dana Elwood lIobson Howard Harley COOl'ef 62. Robert Simon Thoma. Marsden King . Eldon Marcus King 31. Archie Georgia Catherine Pirotte Frank Brune Arlene Posten I \. George Clayton ·Elsie Posten 63. H arrr Richard Miller Kemberling H..ze Dorothy Stowe Clifford Clarence 32. Ella Carvill Sullivan Ruby Matilde Leonhard Kemberling Earl Cecil Simmons Carl Eugene Hegeman 33. 67. Jay Hiatt Clarence Matney 69. Ona Belle Collins 12. Clifford Cox 34. Mae PipJlert Freddie Kidd 70. Clarence Transmier Glenn Ulrich Ida May Richards 13. Mary M. Schalbar Karl Niebrugge »orothy Beurman Georgia Schirmer 35. Robert Kampschroeder 7\' Cecile Irene lIIitchell Annabel Schirmer Eva Mae Steele Donald Cannole 14. Marie Grillith Laura Marie Kropf 72. Raymond C. Deister Dorothy Archadle Elmer Kampschroeller Lucille Johnson Thelma Gertrude Pearl Afmeda Spencer 15. Margaret Colman Slusser Gladfs Ruth Duncan Ruth Genevive Colman Jualtlta Irene \Vebber Josephine Seetin 36. Harold Dunn ~verett Shaw Patricia Gibbens 74. Velma Fisher Milton Elliott lIazel Gibson Wilma Gibbens Kathryn Swanson George Norwood 77. Ruth Johanning Howard Rose 16. Harold Wilson White 79. Frieda Louise Schaake James White Evelyn Marie Suttles Lulu James 20. Gertrude lIIarie Roth. Wilma Hartman we1l37. James Dryan Shiel.)s Walter Heck Ilh.rguerite Nunemaker Charles Wilson Shields 2\' Clara Hunsinger 82. Helen Dews 39. Ruth Randal 22. Ruth Olive Crady Ina Slusser Clifford Walker 23. Dorothea Schwartz 83. Arthur Holcom Lila Elaine Featherston 40 . Dorothy May lIelles Virgil Goff Pearl Marie Belles Irena Mohler 114. n"ssie Rehecca Johnson Kenneth IIradley La 4 \. Ulice M. Hoo',er Almeda Lucille 1I:umph. Barr rey Alfred Lyon 43. Leon A. Peterson 85. Owen Edgecomb Mabel Frances Kingery46. Ezra A. Fishburn 87. Nina M. Sutor 47. Minnie F. Dietz 24. Lcatha Rose Glenn Donald lIIi11er Raymond W. 3andrr" HF. Rohert L. Zillner 25. Irene G. Nemic Pearl J. Ikenberry �• • • • Douglas County Eighth ,prade Graduates, 1930 ... District No. 1 "Evelyn Bunce District No. 3 "Margaret Craig District No. 4 "'Frances Boerkircher Irene Griffith Distrid No. 5 "'Rosmary Harris °Everett Votaw District No. 7 "Maurice Vaughn "Herbert Williams Dlstrid No. 8 "Dale Johnson District No. 9 "Glenn A. Kalb District No. 11 "Helen Dreher' • James Garrett "Frieda Johnson District No. 12 "'Marian Hughes "Clara Cox Distrid No. 14 "Phil Blough District No. 15 Charles Traynor, Jr. District No. 18 "Sylvia Shuler . District No. 20 "Robert Gorrill "EIi7.nbeth Wiggins Ruby Trowbridge District No. 21 ·Carl Hunsinger District No. Z3 "Ruth Mildred Hepner "'George Brown Elfie Rouse District No. 24 "Hazel Glenn District No. 25 ·Laverne Kampschroeder "Alice Woodward "Fred Scott DIstrict No. 26 "Pauline Ikenberry "Paul Anderson Lee Brown District No. 28 *Elfrieda Papenhausen "Elizabeth Erwin "Helen Mathia "Margaret Everley "Robert Eisele District No. 29 "Clarence Hubbard "Ruth McClintock "Allen Harvey • Joyce Harvey District No. 30 Genevieve Raber District No. 31 James R. W,!shlngton District No. 32 "Georgetta Sullivan "Delia Montfoort District No. 33 'Mary Sanfor4 'Juanita Chiles "'Rose Parrish "'Grace Parristt 'Ernest BrOw" District No. 34 'Martha Niebrugge 'Helen Sutton District No. 35 • Patrick Anderson Myrtle Rake District No. 36 'Donald Baughman • James Clarke' "'Inez Graves ·Iva Graves , 'Lucille Hildepbrand 'Ralph Hildenl>rand 'Edith Kues~ 'Hedgeman Ml'Clanahan • Arthur Moore ·Helen Shaffe.. 'Edith Alice Slavens 'Hazel Wingfield "Jessie Norwood . "'Louis Wegenor District No. 37 "'Neoma Neis 'Mary Lou Sbields District No. 38 • Leonard Deal' "Paul Flory District No. 39 "Viola Hird "Margaret Stllrdy Distrld No. 40 ' "Lloyd Talley District No. U "Earl Tyner District No. 42 ·Vernon Scott District No. 44 "Virginia Rose Starr "Amaretta Gai>riel District No. 47 "Anna Lindell. "'Marguerite Anderson District No. 48 'Freda Wulfkllhle District No. 49 "Fred Will, Jr. ~Hazel Hoskinson 'Edlth Gimblet "Maurice Reusch "Ruth Parsons "Mabel Eckmap Kenneth Mesenheimer Dlstrld No. 50 Alberta Hadl Ruth Duncan Dorothea Bartz John Bichelmeyer Thurman McNish Claude Landon District No. 51 Carl W. Johanning Alva J. Flory District No. 54 "'Nadine Gaon Distrid No. 56 Le Roy Olmstead Distrid No. 57 Leo Hagerman District No. 58 Lucille Chaney Otto Selzer District No. 61 ·Claude Penfold District No. 62 "Neva Stowe "Christine Worley District No. 83 'Doyle Rced District No. 64 "Richard Mastin Elizabeth Plambeck District No. 65 "AI vena Brecheisen District No. 71 "Doris Davis "Roberta Copp "Laura Alieda. Perk his District No. 73 . 'Edna I. Anderson' "Kathleen Bahnmaler 'Eugene Harold Murphy District No. 74 "Lucille Crawford "Violet Crawford Opal Berniece Elm District No. 77 "Marie Flory il=Faye Montgomery District No. 82 Alta Slusser District No. 85 'Goldle Barnhart District No. 88 "Ruth Nels District No. 87 "Alma Llna Petty 'Dorothy Simpaon "Edwin Davison Parochial School Gerald Grosdldler Catherine Rothberger (") Indicates the pupils have signified their intention of entering high school next fall. ,. 1 j of the I DOUGLAS COUNTY COMMON SCHOOLS ~ Saturday Afternoon, May 31: 1930 • Two o'clock I. . ii LIBERTY MEMORIAL HIGH S,CHOOL AUDITORIUM LAWRENCE, KANSAS ii H i~::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::~, �HONOR ROLL PROGRAM g Music-Selected -~--~~. ~-~-~_~ ___ ' ____ ._____ ~ ______ ~_~ __ .____ ._~ ___ .___ ~_~~~ ______ ~ Graduates With the Highest Averages Mrs. Wm. A. Roe >lu,;,--8.,,,,,.. .'._.'_._......__... _......._........_........_ ............ _....... 1. 2. Jessie Norwood 3. Amaretta GabriEll Edith Alice Slavens Invocation _______ ~ ____ .~ __ .___ ._______ .~ _____ ~ ____ ~ _________ ~_~ ____ ~ __ ~ __ .. ~ ~~. Dr. Harry A. Gordon Graduates With An Average of 90 or Above Music-Selected ~ ___ .__ ~ __ ~ _______ ~__ ~ ___________________ ~ _____ ._____ ~ __________ ~Miss Blanche Sams Address-At the Foot of the Rainbow ____ Superintendi;!nt W. W. Curfman Presentation of Diplomas ______ ~ __ ~ ____ ~_~._~~O. J. Lane, County Superintendent "America" ___________ ._________________________________________ ~ ___ ~ ______________________ By the Audience 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Helen Shaffer Ernest Brown Ruth Parsons Fred Scott Edith Kuester Virginia Rose Starr Elfrieda Papenhausen Edna I. Anderson Sylvia Shuler James Clarke 11. Elizabeth Plambeck 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. Hedgeman McClanahan Lucille Hildenhrand Mary Sanford Hazel Wingfield Viola Hird Earl Tyner Elizabeth Wiggins Opal Berniece Elm In the State Wide Every Pupil Scholarship contest for eighth g.rade students in 8-month schools in Spelling, Language, Reading, Arithmetic, Civics, and History, the following students made the ten ~ighest grades in the county: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Amaretta Gabriel Fred Scott Helen Dreher Christine Worley Frances Boerkircher 6. Bertha Candriea 7. Alice Woodward 8. Virginia Rose Starr 9. Dale Johnson 10. Charles W. Traynor, Jr. Of these ten, three ranked a~ follows among the 96 students who made up the highest five per cent in the State 13. Amaretta Gabriel 16. Fred Scott 25. Helen Dreher �SO THAT WE MAY BETTER SERVE YOUI What programs have you enjoyed the most? Speakers: Subjects: What programs would you like to have in the future? Speaker: Subject: Area: Other: Would you be interested in group trips? State and/or county: Library: Archives: Court houses: Other: Would you be willing to help on committees? Copying "old" records (from books) Copying records from microfilm Typing Advertising Refreshments Help on Research Committee Help on Ways and Means Committee Membership Committee Workshop Committee Study Group Calling Committee Publications Mailing Committee There will be other committees as needed. Suggestions & comments: If so, where? Signed: Dues for the Douglas CountY Genealogical Society are due on January] and are good through December 31 of that year. 2003 dues can be paid now. If your label does not have "03" your dues are due! �Douglas County, KS Genealogical Society Membership list for 2002 ANDERSON, Charles 7815 Manor Circle Unit 102 BALL, Artis M 7709 Marble Canyon Court BEASLEY, Norma & Willis 1525 So. Garfield Street BROWN, Justyn 2024 New Hampshire Street BRUNK, Doris M 508 Oswell Street BURCHILL, Mary D 1329 Kasold Drive G-l CARTTAR, Peter & Rosalea 723 Louisiana Street 2400 Winterbrook Court CHAPMAN, Beverley Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints Acquisitions-Serial, 35 North West Temple 1618 Cypress Point Qrive CLARK, J. Bunker 1191 E. 596 Rd CLOUGH, Vivian 3435 S.E. Cora Drive DURKEIMER, Shirlie 15550 Burnt Store Rd No.46 FLESHMAN, Barbara A 1624 Hwy40 GARRETT, Bill E & Patti L 417 Second Street GRANGER, Gary 1631 Pennsylvania St. HOLDERMAN, Mae 1573 Beverly Road HOOVER, Mark 289 E 1250 Rd JARDON, Marvin & Norma 2820 Missouri Street JORDAN, Paul 10650 SW Lucas Drive LARSEN, Janet M 2617 Louisiana Street MOORE, Sharon, Mary & Albert 14104 Piedras Rd NE PRALL,Rhoda 1416 So. 40th Street RADER, Juanita 722 Randall Road ROONEY, Dorothy A 2875 E 101 st Rd SANDERS, Elizabeth W 648 Schwarz Road SHOGRlN, Quentin T & Sharon J 1828 E 100Rd SPENCER, lona B. 2020 Emerald Drive TALLEY, Fay S. 1946 Barker Avenue VAUGHN, Don & Wilma 535 N 500 Rd WARREN, Catherine E 813 Highland Drive WIECHERT, Allen L. 816 State Street WISCONSIN Historical Society Westland, MI 48185-4516 Fort Worth, TX 76137-4150 Denver, CO 80210 Lawrence, KS 66046-2948 Bakersfield, CA 93307 Lawrence, KS 66049 Lawrence, KS 66044-2339 Lawrence, KS 66047-2452 Family History Library Salt Lake City, UT 84150 Lawrence, KS 66047-1721 Lawrence, KS 66047-9523 Portland, OR 97202-3330 Punta Gorda, FL 33955-9336 Lawrence, KS 66044 Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 Lawrence, KS 66044-3751 Idaho Falls, ID 83402-2649 Baldwin City, KS 66006-7163 Lawrence, KS 66046 Tualatin, OR 97062-8413 Lawrence, KS 66046-4663 Albuquerque, NM 87123-2323 Kansas City, KS 66106-1924 Lawrence, KS 66049-3239 Warrensburg, MO 64093 Lawrence, KS 66049 Lecompton, KS 66050-4009 Lawrence, KS 66046-2650 Lawrence, KS 66046-3138 Overbrook, KS 66524-8818 Lawrence, KS 66044-2431 Madison, WI 53706-1482 �SURNAME INDEX FOR VOLUME 25: Pages 1 through 26 are in issue no. 1-2, pages 27 through 49 are in issue no. 3-4. Akin Alfred Allen Altenbernd Anderson Andreas Archadle Ashcraft Atwood· Ayer Ayres Badskey Bahnmaier Baker Baldwin Ball Banker Banks Barker Barnhart Barteldes Bartlett Bartz Baughman Beasley Beisecker Bell Belles Beurman Bichelmeyer Bishop Blakeman Blough Boerkircher Bohnsack Boles Bond Boyd Brecheisen Brook Brown Brubaker Brune Brunk Buck Bunce 45 43 42 42 24,46,47,49 15, 39 45 30 43 35 34 42 46 43 43 49 43 45 43 46 37, 38 12,42 46 46 49 30 43 44,45 44,45 45,46 43 43 46 46,47 44,45 43 43 42,43 32,46 18 11, 35, 43, 45, 46,47,49 45 43,45 49 43 46 6,7,10,11, 12, 13, 30 10,11,30 5,31,32,49 42 42,43 42 42 43 Bunker Bunton Burchill Burgan Burnett Burton Butel Butler Cade Cade? Campbell Candriea Cannole Carder Carson Carttar Caviness Chamney Chaney Chapman Chappell Chiles Clark Clarke Clarke Clough Coletrane Collins Colman Cook Cooper Copp Cornelius? Cory Courless Cowder Cowles Cox Cradit Crady Craig Crawford Creel Crim? 34 35 42 47 45 45 43 49 45 45 46 36,49 45 46 5, 10, 11, 12, 24, 30, 35, 42, 43,49 46 47 49 43 45 44,45 35 45 46 35 44,45 35 43 42 44,45,46 42 45 46 46 42 35 50 Crosby Crosswhite Curfman Cutter 10 14 47 42 Daniels Darnold Davis Davison Day Dean Deay Deister DeNeen Derby 34 42 46 46 42,43 10,11,13 45,46 45 42 43 Dershem Dews Dickson Dietz Dill Dixon Dolittle Donald Doolittle Douglas Douglass Dreher Duncan Dunn Durkeimer 42 45 34, 35 45 34, 35 30 35 43 35 14 37 46,47 45,46 45 49 EaJly? Ebright Eckman Edgecomb Edmonds Eisele Elliott Elm English Erwin Everley Evins 35 45 46 45 45 44,45,46 44,45 46,47 45 46 44,45,46 35 �Featherston Fishburn Fisher Fitz Fleenor Fleshman Flory Ford French 45 45 42,44,45 42 43 49 45,46 42 42 Gabriel Gabriel 'Gann Garrett Georgia Gerstenberger Gibbens Gibson Gill Gilmore Gimblet Glenn Glenn Goff Gordon Gorrill Granger Graves Green? Gregory Griffith Grimes Grist Grosdidier 46 47 46 46,49 45 44,45 44,45 45 42,43 43 46 45 46 45 47 46 49 46 43 42 42,44,45,46 45 45 46 Hadl Hagerman Hall Hammond Harding Harris Hart Hartman Hartup Harvey Heck Hegeman Heise Hepner Hiatt Hicks Hildenbrand 46 46 11 42 42 46 43 45 43 46 15,45 45 42 46 42,44,45 7 46,47 Hinderliter Hines? Hird Hoad Hobson Hodges Holcom Holderman Hoover Harrel Hoskinson Howard Hubbard Hughes Humphrey Hunsinger Husted 29 35 46,47 43 44,45 42 45 49 44,45,49 43 43,46 43 46 46 45 45,46 42 Ikenberry Iliff 45,46 43 James Jardon Jay Jenkins Johanning Johnson 45 32,49 42 42 45,46 44,45,46,47 Johnson? Jones Jordan 36 42 5,28,37,49 Kalb Kampschroeder Kasson Keilman Kelley Kemberling Kennedy 46 45, 46 45 11 32 45 34, 35, 42, 43, 45 45 45 44,45 45 29 43 31 45 46,47 Kidd King Kingery Knake Kader Koehring Konecny Kropf Kuester 5) LaBarr Landon Lane Laptad Larsen Lathrop Laughlin Lawrence Lawson Lee Leming Leonhard Leslie Lewis Lindell Longaker Lawn Lyon Lyons 45 46 42,45,47 42 49 42 42,45 14 30, 31 45 35 42,45 42,43 43 46 43 42 44,45 43 Madl Manley Manning Marckle Marshall 45 18,40 43 42 34, 35, 43, 44, 45 42 43,45 9 43 46 46 45 Martin Martin Mason Masterson Mastin Mathia Matney McClanahan McCleskey McClintock McClintock? McCoy McGee McNeese McNish Meairs Mertz Mesenheimer Metsker Meyer Migliaro Miller Mitchell Mohler Montfoort Montgomery 46,47 30 46 36 14 43 43 46 34,35 44,45 46 42,43 11 43 7, 34, 43, 44, 45 45 45 46 46 �Moore Morris Mueller Muenzenmayer Murphy Musick 42,46,49 35 35, 36 32 46 45 Neill Neis Nelson Nemic Niebrugge Nolan· .Norris Norwood Nunemaker 32, 34 45,46 43 45 45,46 35 45 44,45,46,47 45 Olmstead Owen 46 42 Painter Papenhausen Pardee Parnell Parrish Parsons Pendleton Penfold Perkins Peterson Petty Pine Piper Pippert Pirotte 42 46,47 42 11 46 46,47 45 46 46 45 46 42 42,43 45 45 24 46,47 37 30 45 42,43 35 45 49 42 45 13 43 Place Plambeck Platz Plipsch Posten Postma Powel? Powell Prall Pray Price Prior Pugh Quantrill 14, 17,39 Raber Rader Rake Randel Read Reed Reeves Reusch Reynolds Rice Richards Richmond Ricketts Roe Rogers Rooney Rose Ross Rosseau Rothberger Rothwell Rouse Rousseau Roy Rumsey Russell 42,46 49 46 45 35 42,46 36 45, 46 42,43,45 35 44,45 43 10,30 42,47 43 49 44,45 10, 11 35 46 45 46 35 7 42 43,44,45 Sams Sanders Sanford Sanford Saylor Schaake Schalbar Schalbar Schirmer Schlegel Schwartz 47 45,49 46 47 43 43,45 44 45 45 45 44,45 45,46,47 29 44, 45 46 46, 47 43 45 42 45 46 31 29 49 46,47 45 Scott Sedlak Seetin Selzer Shaffer Shanafelt Shaw Shepp_ Shields Shields Shipman Shoemaker Shogrin Shuler Simmons 52 Simon Simpson Slavens Slusser Slusser Small? Smith Snyder Speicher Spencer Standing Stanley Starr Steele Stockham Stoffel Stone Stowe Sturday Sturdy Stuts_ Stutsman Sullivan Sutor Suttles Sutton Swanson Sweely Sweets Swett 45 46 46,47 45 46 42 13 44, 45 32 10,11,45,49 42 35,43 46,47 45 11,13 29 12,43 45,46 42 43,46 42 43 43,44,45,46 45 45 46 44,45 30 24 43 Tuttle Tyner Tyner 46,49 30 42 37 43 42 45 46,47 46 43,45 43 42,43 46 47 Ulrich 42,43,45 Vaughn 4, 36, 37, 46, 49 46 Talley Teske Thomas Thomsen Thralls Thurb_ Transmier Traynor Trowbridge Tucker Turner Votaw �Wulfkuhle 35 42 34,35,45 36 35 30 43 11,30 43 49 46 11,45 42 46 32 43 45 44,45 44 42,43 6 43,45 15 49 35 46,47 45 43 46 41,42,43,45, 46 42 13 45 35 35 46,47 45 42 6, 10 46 47 46,47 35 42,43 46 Ziegler Zillner 45 45 Walburn Walgamott Walker Walker? Wallace Walters Walton Warner Warren Warren Washington Webber Weeks Wegener Weil Westcott Weybright Whaley Whate Whedon White White Whitenight Wiechert Wifield Wiggins Wilber Wiley Will Williams Willis? Wills Wilson Winfield Winfield Wingfield Winters Wise Wood Woodward Woodward Worley Worthy Wright 53 �DOUGLAS COUNTY, KANSAS GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY (PRICES INCLUDE POSTAGE AND SHIPPING CHARGES AND UPDATED KANSAS SALES TAX EFFECTIVE JULY I, 2002) Books & Publications Col. 1 ORIGINAL PRE-EMPTIONS in DOUGLAS, CO., KS. (75 pp) $10.71 ORIGINAL OWNERS in CITY of LAWRENCE, KS (89 pp) $12.54 $ 7.94 LAWRENCE CITY DIRECTORY & BUSINESS MIRROR 1860-61 (30 pp) LAWRENCE CITY DIRECTORY 1875-6 (92 pp) $ 8.94 C.W. SMITH, LAWRENCE, KS.- UNDERTAKER&EMBALMERI890-1907 (80pp) $12.16 DOUGLAS COUNTY, KS. MARRIAGES 1854-1884 (306 pp) $37.19 1875 DOUGLAS CO., KS. CENSUS WITH CONSOLIDATED INDEX (452 pp) $37.34 $ 5.26 1875 DOUGLAS CO., KS. CENSUS CONSOLIDATED INDEX ONLY(22 pp ) INDEX to RURAL SCHOOLS SCHOOLHOUSES of DOUGLAS CO., KS. (33 pp) $ 5.26 FIVE GENERATION ANCESTOR CHARTS ofDCGS MEMBERS 1984 (99 pp) $ 9.01 FIVE GENERATION ANCESTOR CHARTS ofDCGS MEMBERS 1992 (148 pp) $13.73 COMPLETE TOMBSTONE CENSUS of DOUGLAS CO., KS. VOL.l (321 pp) $37.19 COMPLETE TOMBSTONE CENSUS QfDOUGLAS CO., KS. VOL.2 (486 pp) $47.92 DOUGLAS COUNTY, KS. FAMILY HISTORIES 1991-92 (674 pp) REDUCED $26.46 INDEX of DEATHS & BIRTHS in DAlLY NEWSPAPERS of LAWRENCE, KS.1864-72 (25 pp)$ 6.87 GEN. INFORMATION in NEWSPAPERS of LAWRENCE, 00. CO. ,KS. INDEX 1873-1881 (115 pp) $22.31 Col.2 $10.15 $11.95 $ 7.50 $ 8.50 $11.50 $35.00 $35.00 $ 5.00 $ 5.00 $ 8.50 $13.00 $35.00 $45.00 $25.00 $ 6.50 $21.00 THE PIONEER-DOUGLAS COUNTY, KS. GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY QUARTERLY BACK ISSUES INDEX VOL. I, II, III, IV INDEX VOL. V INDEX VOL. VI INDEX VOL. 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Box 3664 Lawrence, Kansas 66046-0664 : L FORWARDING AND RETURN POSTAGE GUARANTEED ADDRESS CORRECTION REQUESTED ------- ----- --- - -___ f . \ -.-l J -- ----- ---~--- � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Douglas County Genealogical Society Subject The topic of the resource Douglas County (Kan.) -- Genealogy Douglas County (Kan.) -- History Description An account of the resource This collection is comprised of the publications of the Douglas County Genealogical Society, including issues of The Pioneer (the quarterly newsletter of the Society) as well as directories, various indexes compiled by members of the Society, and other resources of interest to genealogists and researchers studying the history of Lawrence and Douglas County, Kansas. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Douglas County Genealogical Society (Lawrence, Kan.) Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Lawrence Public Library (Lawrence, Kan.) Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1977 - 2013 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource text Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Douglas County (Kan.) Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Pioneer, Vol. 25, Nos. 3 and 4: September and December 2002 Subject The topic of the resource Douglas County (Kan.) -- Genealogy Douglas County (Kan.) -- History Douglas County Genealogical Society (Lawrence, Kan.) Description An account of the resource The quarterly newsletter of the Douglas County Genealogical Society in Douglas County, Kansas, containing information regarding the organization, activities, and membership of the Society, and articles of interest to those researching family ties to or the history of Douglas County, Kansas. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Douglas County Genealogical Society Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Douglas County Genealogical Society (Lawrence, Kan.) Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2002 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Copyright, Douglas County Genealogical Society Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context PIONEER_VOL25_3AND4_SEPT-DEC2002 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Douglas County (Kan.)