Posted on: Graham Co. Ks Queries Board URL: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ks/Graham?read=5 Surname: ------------------------- Dear Ms Hudson..... The director of the museum at Nicodemus, Angela BATES-TOMPKINS, is related to the BATES family of Nicodemus. There is a short online article on her and the museum at: http://www.kshs.org/wwwwow/wow6.htm You can reach Ms Bates-Tompkins at (snail mail): 907 Hummingbird Rd, Bogue, KS 67625 Two well known books on African Americans in Graham County: Going home to Nicodemus : the story of an African American frontie town and the pioneers who settled it / by Daniel Chu & Bill Shaw (Morristown, N.J. : J. Messner, c1994) Promised land on the Solomon : Black settlement at Nicodemus, Kansas. (Denver, Colo.] : U.S. Dept. of the Interior, National Park Service, Rocky Mountain Region, 1986 Good luck with your research Bill Sowers Graham County KSGenWeb coordinator http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/graham/