My James Vance showed up in Dorn Co. in about 1855. I believe that he owned land in the area of what is now Osage Township, Labette Co. In a court record of Jackson Co., OH his wife divorced him in 1858 because of desertion and said that he had been in KS for three years. In 1870 he is in the Labette Co., Census, in Osage twp, and the nearest post office was Timber Hill. His wife at the time of the census was Mary. Is there a marriage record for them? Does James Vance show up as a land owner in Dorn or Neosho Co. records? Is it true that there were only 3 pages of census for Dorn Co. in 1860? Were the other people in the area enumerated with a different county or state? Was there a state census of this area in 1855? Thanks! Carole