Let's try this again: Rec'd the following communication from Kay Geist, a Chayer descendant: Hi, Here is some research I did on French Canadian families that lived in the same township as my Clement and Melina Chayer. There was another big community of them in Cloud County that I haven't done yet. I thought maybe your ILSTANNE group would like to see the names. Kay (Note by RJB: Melina was daughter of Medard Bourgeois and Petronille Brouillette, and her given name might have been Emile or Marie-Emile) 1875 Kansas Census, Clay County, Mulberry Township This is a group of settlers that came to northern Clay County in the 1870's. My ancestors are part of this group having come from Canada in the 1850's and stopping in Kankakee, Illinois and then traveling out to Kansas. I copied heads of households, but did not write down the rest of their families. Mulberry township later split into two townships, Bloom and Mulberry. #3 A. Allen Sr. age 61 born Canada came from Illinois #4 A. Allen Jr. age 24 Illinois Illinois #5 C. Chayer age 44 Canada Illinois #6 C. Landry age 31 Canada Illinois #52 L. Saintoyne? age 28 Canada Illinois #59 J. McColough age 46 Nova Scotia Illinois #61 N. Paranto age 49 Canada Illinois #62 A. Martin age 60 Canada Missouri #66 R.R. Gerard age 35 Canada Illinois #69 M. Suprenant age 52 Canada Illinois #74 L. Lambert age 34 Canada Illinois #75 M. Lambert age 31 Canada Illinois #77 L. Normandain age 75 Canada Illinois #78 H. Aslain age 41 Canada Illinois #80 Zeb Feif age 33 Canada Illinois #83 F. Provost, Sr. age 40 Canada California #84 P. Boule age 28 Canada Nebraska #85 A.P. Ferguson age 35 Canada Illinois #86 T. Tramble age 46 Canada Michigan #87 E. Balenger age 38 Canada Illinois #88 E. Mona age 75 Canada Illinois #90 B. Seney age 61 Canada Canada #100 E. Ouillette age 30 Canada Canada #102 S. Rossette age 48 Canada Illinois #104 J. Gillie age 41 France Illinois #105 G. Brown age 43 Canada Illinois #124 J.M. Marsant age 68 Canada Illinois #125 C.C. Marsant age 36 Canada Illinois