Hi Wilda.... If I were at work!.... I'd get out the old Kansas Statutes from the turn of the century and see what it says that a township trustee does. I will be at work tomorrow night and will hopefully have some time to check. Bill At 08:57 PM 3/4/00 -0600, you wrote: >I read in the LINCOLN SENTINEL, March 24, 1904: > "Norman Webber our trustee is making his rounds finding out how much >of this worlds goods we have. Says he finds people who are kind of poor >when they come down to business." > >I have these questions: >1- Does this mean that Norman Webber was a township trustee? >2- Does it mean that township trustees were, by virtue of that office, >tax assessors? >3- What else might trustees have done besides assessing property for tax >purposes? >4- Are there still township trustee records from this period in Lincoln >County? If so, are they at the county courthouse? >5- This item comes under the heading of "West End." Is that the name of >a township? > >Thanks, >Wilda Morris > Bill and Diana Sowers - wrs@cjnetworks.com - 1746 Fairmont Rd, Topeka, KS 66604 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