Vanette Hamilton, Columbia, MO. I grew up in the Kansas City area. I'm on the list from habit, mostly. My grandparents are Harry Bronson and Martha "Mattie" Lukens McGonigal. They are buried in Mt. Washington Cemetery in Independence. Harry was raised by his aunt and uncle, Charles Samuel "Sam" and Annie Leota Cook McGonigal. Sam was Clerk in the Common Pleas Court, Wyandotte County, Kansas and later, Registrar of Deeds in Wyandotte County. He and Annie are buried in Woodlawn Cemetery, KCK. Mattie's parents, George Wesley and Sarah Elizabeth Outcalt Lukens, moved to Kansas City around 1907. They died there and are also buried in Mt. Washington Cemetery next to a daughter, Edith Grace Lukens, who died in 1915 at age 32. George built a house at 1413 Collins, KCMO, which is still in decent shape. One of Mattie's great-aunts, Margaret Roberts Lambert Farnsworth, died in Kansas City in 1892. I'd love to find her burial location. I have no idea why she ended up in Kansas City. She went from PA>WV>IA>KS>KCK but died on the Missouri side. Her daughter Mattie Farnsworth Shaw died in KCMO in 1907. There was a daughter, Grattie (at least that's the only name I have for her) Shaw who disappears after 1885 when she was 9. There was a fire in 1904 in an apartment at 15th and Harrison which killed one young woman and injured others, including a Margaret Shaw. I have wondered if this is Grattie. A few of my Roth relatives ended up in Kansas City, coming from Lyon and Osage Counties in Kansas. Some of the folks who migrated south to KC from Daviess Co., MO are distantly related; Lindsey, Galpin, Place, Nation, Jones, and others. This bunch was mostly in Independence and the northeast part of Jackson Co. If I go back to Lee Co., VA in the early 1800s, I find distant connections to many of Jackson County's early settlers as well, including some who were kicked out of the county by Order No. 11 during the Civil War. The longer I do genealogy the more Kansas City connections I turn up. I'm amazed. More than anyone ever wanted to know, I'm sure! Vanette