Cheryl, this is wonderful information. You are correct about many people migrating from Logan County to Kansas. That is exactly what my Logan County ancestors did and some of them are buried in Kansas. Then when the 'free' land opened up during the Oklahoma Land Rush in around approx. 1889, some rode to Oklahoma and staked land where more history was made. We just recently buried my Mom's remains in a family plot in a large cemetery in northern Oklahoma where so many of her Oklahoma and Illinois born ancestors are buried. They had large families in the 1800's and it took us all morning to walk the cemetery and remember all of our ancesetors buried there and talk about whether our Oklahoma ancestors were 'Sooners' or not. Thanks again for continuing to share. JaneAnn Gifford Fort Myers, Florida Curtis, Hazen, Robinson, Williams On 6/18/07, Cheryl Rothwell <historysleuth@gmail.com> wrote: > > A lot of people migrated from Logan County to Kansas so I thought this > might > be of interest. This guy has collected pictures of the tombstones of Civil > War veterans who were buried in Kansas. > > http://new.photos.yahoo.com/jajacks62/albums/ > ________ > Logan County ILGenWeb: http://www.rootsweb.com/~illogan > > To unsubscribe send a message to: > ILLOGAN-request@Rootsweb.com > with unsubscribe as the subject. > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ILLOGAN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Anybody know where Lyon Co., KS is in relation to these other counties, and who might have gone from Logan County, Il in the spring of 1878? In researching land purchase records of my g grandfather, Matthew Stoll, I found he had bought the home place from his youngest brother, Jacob Stoll in 1878. So I went to the deed book, and was surprised to find that the deed was notarized in Lyon County in April 1878, with the notary from there certifying that they were residents. Now nobody I have contacted among the direct descendants of Jacob and Mary Roos Stoll had ever heard of this family ever being in Kansas. In fact, two of their small children died in December 1878, and their graves are alongside the grandparents in Mt. Pulaski cemetery. Further, the June 1880 Census finds them recorded in Laenna Twp., Logan County. But they did not buy another farm in Aetna Twp. until 1883. A brief sojourn there would not have been a surprise, as they did have the wanderlust. . In fact, by 1899, this family had gone on to Iowa, lived in two different counties, and then moved on to South Dakota, where Mary died in 1914. The following year, the whole family moved to Minnesota, where Jacob died in 1918. Anyone have information on round-trippers to Kansas from the Laenna-Aetna Township border about 1878, and what they found?

Thank you! I've been meaning to look up Sumner for a long time, just never got to it. Sumner is the first county east of Harper on the south line of Kansas [just east of middle] which may explain why my Lucases went there afterall. Lyons is about two counties east and three up. Kansas counties are pretty much stacked like rows of blocks. http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/countymap.html http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/archives/county/map6.html