I guess it's my turn! I am researching: ANDERSON CROMWELL HARDESTY HAZLETT KERNOHAN KERR MILLER MINNICK SIMPSON STOVER TRIBLE WAKEFIELD Thanks! Jenni in Salina

Surnames that I am researching: (Washington & Chalmers) Smith, Sparks, Altman, Lundstrum, Dimick, Kindlesparger, Stites, and Sulsar Mary Smith

I'm researching the HOBB, BIRD, COUSE, HENDRICKSON, and STRANGE surnames. David Veh d.veh@worldnet.att.net In Overland Park, KS

My Lincoln Co. families: John Small Springer and wife Hannah Burt Moses C. Springer and wife Frances Angeline Johnson David H. Malone and his wife Missouri E. Springer John Stubbs and wife Minerva Frances Springer They lived for a while in the Fayette Co, area of Indiana. Thanks, Kathleen Rizer

Names I am researching are: STEVENSON, MCREYNOLDS, HANCOCK Joan Stevenson

primary surnames i am researching BROCKELMAN, SHAVER/SHAFER, GOURLEY & BOLTE secondary surnames BLOUNT, NORTHERN, DEARMOND/DE ARMOND, DOOLITTLE, FARNSWORTH, INGHAM, LANG, KINDLESPARGER, SPURGEON. sounds like 1/2 of the 1885 census, but one way or another they all tie in , as do several others. most of these families came to lincoln from either fayette county indiana or west virginia. scott brockelman

I am getting a few responses and am hopeful for more. These old pictures are great fun so please send them on. If you don't have a scanner contact me and I will get you my snail mail address. I will be happy to scan in your photo and then return it to you as long as you include a SASE. If you have access to a good photocopy machine, copy the picture onto plain paper and mail it to me without putting any creases across the picture and then I won't have to mail it back. What ever it takes...... Also if Jenni Shimp gets this, the email address on the photo page is incorrect and someone already wanted to contact you. Could you send me your correct address? Later, Joan

Researching surnames Cassel (Cassell), Cossel (Cossell) and Shriver. Lori Dunlap

Hi, list! First, a link to Joan's photo page has been added to the Lincoln County page. Please take a look! Second, I found a lot of old Lincoln Sentinel-Republicans when I moved, and I started tearing into them this weekend. I will have all the obituaries from 1987 and 1988 and some from 1986 when I'm done. In the meantime, I have used the "Down Memory Lane" column to pull a lot of "gleanings." You know I'm a sucker for these, and I know some of you are, too. Here are a few examples: -- Beverly: B.J. SKINNER had a hog badly torn up by vicious dogs and had to kill it. … The cellars were liberally patronized by the citizens during the storm. Most of the men went because their wives did. ... The commerce club of Kansas City visited Beverly on their excursion train April 22 and received a hearty welcome from the enterprising and wide awake business men of this modest little burg. No one could be prevailed upon to deliver an address of welcome to the distinguished visitors, and the inclemency of the weather prevented the ladies of Beverly, far famed for their beauty and grace, from being present, but the little girls were on hand to distribute beautiful bouquets of fragrant flowers to the visitors as priceless mementoes on memory's page. -- It is reported that Hankey Mohn of Spring Valley has planted a bushel of hail with the intent of raising ice plants. -- There was a gentleman from Elkhorn visiting with W.H. BISHOP last Sunday. We would not tell his name, but he can eat more chicken than any living mortal we ever saw. He at six legs for his dinner. The gleanings are from six different periods, 1895, 1896, 1911, 1912, 1936 and 1937. If it's been awhile since you searched your surnames on the site, you ought to try again. I know I saw some SKINNER items for Ginny, some BUZICKs for Luci, and some other familiar surnames as well. If you want to just get a feel for Lincoln in those days, I suggest you call up the gleanings and give them a read. They are funny one minute and heart-breaking the next. Anyway, the gleanings are now broken into 10 pages with more on the way. I also wonder if it's not time to have another "surname soundoff" on the list. It would help me as I go through these papers to have everybody's "interests" in mind. (I try to get as many names as I can but I don't copy every single item.) I don't think Bill would mind me making that suggestion, so please, msg the list with your surnames so we all know who's out there. Thanks! Tracee

My name is Joan Stevenson and I have been working with Bill and Diana Sowers for quite a while to put things up on the Lincoln County site. I recently have come across some old photographs that I believe have Stevenson's or their relatives in and around Beverly, Kansas but there is no one left to identify who they are. My solution??? I started a site on geocities at http://www.geocities.com/rlsteven_2000 (there is an underscore between the l and the 2). There will be a link from the Lincoln County page at some point in the future but I wanted to get the word out so I could start collection photo's. I look forward to hearing from you. "Cousin" Joan rlsteven@flash.net

My ISPN ruraltel.net was hijacked on Wensday & lost it's idenity. It has been fixed but I am not receiving any emails from you. Do I need to rejoin the list? Thank You Gayle M. Garrett <garr@ruraltel.net>

Hi, list. I've added an index to this year's obituaries to the Lincoln County page. I'll be updating it every now and then, so if you see someone you're curious about, let me know... Tracee

Hello again Lincoln County researchers.... We've added a new page to the Lincoln County KSGenWeb page... Grand Army of the Republic, General Hazen Post, No. 258, Lincoln, Kansas, members in 1917 The URL is: http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/lincoln/gar1917.htm The G.A.R. was an organization of veterans of the Civil War. There is a link on this page to a large U.S. online site for the G.A.R. as well. Happy hunting Bill Sowers Bill and Diana Sowers - wrs@cjnetworks.com - check out our SCHREMMER-POLLOCK families page at: http://www.cjnetworks.com/~wrs/index.htm Lincoln County Kansas KSGenweb Project page at: http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/lincoln/index.html Gove County Kansas KSGenWeb Project page at: http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/gove/index.html Graham County Kansas KSGenWeb Project page at: http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/graham/index.html Barton County Kansas ALHN web page at: http://www.geocities.com/irus86/

Hello Pat.... The Topeka/Shawnee County Public Library has a few books that contain cemtery records outside of the city of Topeka. I believe they were all published by the Topeka Genealogical Society. You'll have to write the public library via the US Post (i.e. "snail mail"). The address is: Topeka Room Topeka/Shawnee County Public Library 1515 W 10th Topeka, KS 66604 Be sure to include a stamped, self-addressed envelope with your request for info... it helps speed up the process. Another place to try is the Topeka Genealogical Society. Their address is: Topeka Genealogical Society 2717 SE Indiana Topeka, KS 66605 The society has a webpage at http://www.networksplus.net/donno/ You can also post a query at the Shawnee County KS GenWeb page. The main page for the county is located at: http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/shawnee/ I hope this has been of some help to you... another thing... you might want to post this question on the Shawnee County KS genealogy email list as well as the two (or is it three???) Kansas genealogy email lists too. Good luck with your research Bill Sowers At 10:31 PM 4/16/00 -0500, you wrote: >I am looking for information for my great grandmother who died in Shawnee >County in 1916. There is an address such as" 2 miles south Topeka Dudley >Dairy farm Topeka Ave Road". I don't know just what this location is. Do >you know if there is a rootsweb site for Shawnee County? Thanks for any >information. > > Bill Sowers (ksdocs@ink.org) Kansas Documents Librarian/Tech Services Librarian State Library of Kansas 300 SW 10th, Room 343-N -- Topeka, KS 66612 (In the State Capitol Building in beautiful downtown Topeka) (phone: 785-296-0265) (in-state WATS 800-432-3919) CHECK OUT THE TOPEKA LIBRARIES ONLINE "ATLAS" CATALOG at: http://lib.wuacc.edu/

I am looking for information for my great grandmother who died in Shawnee County in 1916. There is an address such as" 2 miles south Topeka Dudley Dairy farm Topeka Ave Road". I don't know just what this location is. Do you know if there is a rootsweb site for Shawnee County? Thanks for any information.

Hello, Lincoln listers! I have added a couple of new things to the Lincoln page if you're interested: a list of graduates of Lincoln High School from 1891 to 1998, and a list of enumeration districts for Lincoln County for the 1930 Census. There will be no Soundex for Kansas for the 1930 Census, so EDs will be important. Here are the links for both: http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/lincoln/lhsgrads.htm http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/lincoln/1930.html Enjoy! Tracee

Hello again Lincoln County researchers.... OK... I foget something else beside the "o" in he word "Hello" in my last email to you all!!!!<grin> One part of the history of education in Lincoln County page I mentioned in the last email includes a paragraph on the early years of the Kansas Christian College in Lincoln. I know some of you are especially interested in this former institution of higher learning and wanted to let you know this. later Bill Bill and Diana Sowers - wrs@cjnetworks.com - check out our SCHREMMER-POLLOCK families page at: http://www.cjnetworks.com/~wrs/index.htm Lincoln County Kansas KSGenweb Project page at: http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/lincoln/index.html Gove County Kansas KSGenWeb Project page at: http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/gove/index.html Graham County Kansas KSGenWeb Project page at: http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/graham/index.html Barton County Kansas ALHN web page at: http://www.geocities.com/irus86/

Hell Lincoln County researchers.... We've added another page to the Lincoln County Education site: I have transcribed online a chapter on the History of Education in Lincoln County out of the 1892 book: Columbian History of Education in Kansas (Topeka, Kan. : Hamilton Printing Company, 1893) The URL for the Lincoln County online chapter is: http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/lincoln/educhist.htm The history was written by A. T. BIGGS, superintendent of Lincoln County Schools at that time. I'm also in the process of typing up a series of old Lincoln County newspaper articles donated by Clarence Suelter... hope to have them up soon. Good luck with your research Bill Sowers Bill and Diana Sowers - wrs@cjnetworks.com - check out our SCHREMMER-POLLOCK families page at: http://www.cjnetworks.com/~wrs/index.htm Lincoln County Kansas KSGenweb Project page at: http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/lincoln/index.html Gove County Kansas KSGenWeb Project page at: http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/gove/index.html Graham County Kansas KSGenWeb Project page at: http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/graham/index.html Barton County Kansas ALHN web page at: http://www.geocities.com/irus86/

A couple items of interest from the March 30 Lincoln Sentinel-Republican: Old Settlers reunion planned in Lincoln A history gathering and story-sharing weekend is taking place in Lincoln, May 26-29. Interesting articles, photos and verbal stories passed from generation specifically regarding the history of Lincoln County will be available at the Finch Theater throughout the weekend. Fifteen settlers perished in Lincoln County between 1864 and 1869 as settler Christian Berhardt depicts in Indian Raids of Lincoln County. Descendants of Lincoln County's early settlers will be at the Finch Tehater beginning Friday, May 26, at 7 p.m. The Moffitt-Indian War site, located just east of Lincoln, will be the location of [a] dedication of a marker in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Houston and Mr. Tyler who died and are buried there. Also, the land around the war site is being dedicated as a park on Saturday, May 27. Sunday morning a Danish Breakfast is planned at the Denmark Hall. A brief history and tour of Lincoln's 100-year-old courthouse is slated for Monday morning. If you would like more information or want to share history as you've been told, please contact Jim Sechrist at (913) 422-7425, email jasechrist@farmland.com or call Marilyn Helmer at (785) 524-5133. The Historical Marker referred to in the article has been changed, hence the "dedication." I thought you might like to read the "before" and "after" versions: Before: LINCOLN COUNTY INDIAN RAIDS The desperate struggle of Plains Indians to keep out white settlers was a succession of raids and massacres. There were several attacks in present Lincoln county. In 1864, Cheyennes on a foray through the Saline valley trapped four buffalo hunters against a rocky ledge a little south of this marker and killed them after a bitter fight. In 1868 three women who had been captured and maltreated by marauding Indians were found several days later half-dead on the prairie. In 1869 ten persons were massacred and two women were captured on the Saline river and northwest of here on Spillman creek. Federal troops later rescued one of the women in Colorado. A monument to the victims of 1864 and 1869 stands on the courthouse square in Lincoln. After: LINCOLN COUNTY AND THE INDIAN WARS By the 1850s Plains Indians were faced with ever-growing numbers of travelers and settlers in central and western Kansas. Treaties were negotiated by the U.S. government, often taking advantage of tribal divisions, forcing native peoples onto reservations and limiting their hunting areas. Although relations between settlers and Indians were generally peaceful, tensions developed as more settlers arrived. Inevitably, some Native Americans acted to defend their lands. In 1864 Cheyennes attacked four buffalo hunters a short distance south of this marker and killed them after a bitter fight. In 1868 Cheyenne Dog Soldiers attacked settlements along the Salina and Solomon Rivers and their tributaries in present-day Lincoln, Cloud, Ottawa, and Jewell Counties. In 1869 thirteen settlers were killed and several wounded during a conflict between the Cheyennes and settlers in the Saline River valley and northwest of here on Spillman Creek. A monument to those settlers stands on the courthouse square in Lincoln.

i would like to say in response to bill sowers post, that some may not know how lucky lincoln county researchers are. the lincoln county website and all of its contents are head & shoulders above the rest. i am very fortunate that several of my ancestors were in lincoln county in the early days, the website, as well as the people associated with it have been invaluable in my neophyte quest in genealogy. at the same time i have worked other lineages on various genweb sites and other state and local sites, and most have little or no content, limited assistance and no search available. everyone who has lincoln county connections and uses the site does not know how truly fortunate they are, until they venture elsewhere. THANKS SO MUCH AND KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK. scott brockelman