Hello List Request is made for someone in or around Cowley County Kansas to possibly check local county records, cemetery records, court records & etc., to determine if a record exists of the people listed below. George W. OGDEN and two sons, John W. born 1894 and Nelson D. C. born 1895 in Fort Smith, Ark.. According to the boy, John W., they arrived in Arkansas City, Ks by horse and wagon between late 1898 and 1905, with possibly his Brother John OGDEN and possibly Milton OGDEN. It is said that George W. OGDEN worked in a Lumber Yard in town, while his two sons stayed by themselves in what was described an old house. Some time during this period the Boys, John W. and Nelson were taken by parties unknown (possibly local authorities or church group) and placed in an orphanage at Topeka, Ks. It is not known whether the Father, George W. OGDEN, was taken ill and died or that he just could no longer care for the children and possibly made arrangements for them to be placed in an orphanage. John W. OGDEN the oldest of the two boys, writes that he did not remember anything about the orphanage in Topeka. Apparently adoption or foster home care arrangements were made with two couples in Wallace County, Kans to either adopt or be foster parents for the boys. Both children were placed on a Train in Topeka KS, with a Mrs. Morrow and delivered to the families in Wallace County Kansas. The paper Trail on John W. OGDEN picks back up in 1910 Census for Wallace County, Ks. Nelson Ogden information has been located starting with a Marriage and Children Born in Miami County, Ks after 1915. We are trying to piece together the time period between late 1890s to sometime possibly 1905. Thank you Virgil D. Miller