Lord have mercy, I could write a best selling novel, love it all..Hope I get all my questions answered before I meet my maker.. Happy Sunday to All and May the Lord be with You. Been in the census records of Crawford this morning at surnames?Drenik, Drouart, Martin, Carrier,Lamberson, Hough, Long, Lanning, also in Minden Mines, Barton County.?Amazing the inter connections by origin, language, occupation, et al.? I find druggist, grocer, coal miner, Slovak, Austro-Hungarian, England in original immigrants.? Then Jeweler, Educator, Health.? Shawnee, Pawnee, Cherokee, native American fusion into the lines.? Life with passion and survival in some hard times and subsequent survival through education and diversity.? I wax poetic, I guess.? But tis true and I love to gather family and history together and we have it, from Virginia, Pennsylvania to Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Illinois by foot, horseback, wagon, train to plane..West to Mountains of Colorado, East to Illinois. Some instances known and I rely on you to augment the unknown. Murray, Cooper, Terrill, Galloway-KY, Howard county MO, Tecumseh,?Fort Cooper, Boonslick, Daniel Boone and more. Coal mining, dead towns, southeast Kansas, Immigrants to the new world.? Crawford Ks, Miami, Linn, Drexel Mo, Minden, Pawnee, Cherokee..Bates county, MO. Follow the coal, strip pits, good fishing. Hough/Long/Lanning - Wales, HMS Endeavor, William Penn, Bucks county PA, Philadelphia, founding of city of brotherly love.? Ware Long, Protestant Rebellion, Charles I or II of England,?Barbados, indentured servants.??All stories of history and family. ? Michael, sinking of Titanic, Munkres, Quantrill, Jesse James, tis all there. Roberts/Stark not even in this one yet, that is Mother's history to us. Felt the urge here folks.? Hope ok..to expound this morning as my gospel rocks the house. I love my genealogy and felt like sharing. Bob Long son of Richard Sherdine Long, Bernice Lamberson, Richard Sheridan Lamberson/Minnie May Murray, et al get's it all. ?