Ardie, who was the Robert W. Baughman you mentioned below? Did he live in Norton? I have just found that name in the family. Ditsy ----- Original Message ----- From: Ardie & Greg Grimes <agrimes@inetnebr.com> To: <KSNORTON-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, July 08, 2000 2:48 AM Subject: [KSNORTON] Defunct Norton County towns - Gath and Hanback > The Gath post office was established 21 Feb 1902 with Elizabeth > C. Campbell as postmistress. It was discontinued 14 Oct. 1903. > > Gath was name of an ancient Biblical city, supposedly the > hometown of Goliath, one of the five royal cities of Philistine. > There was also a town named Gath in Fleming County, Kentucky. > Other than these little factoids, I know nothing about Gath. If > anyone out there has any information, please let us know. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > Hanback was located near the Kansas Nebraska border in Aldine > township on Dry Creek. Changes in township boundaries place this > in the current Harrison township. > > The Hanback post office was established 04 March 1884 with the > first postmaster, Devillo R. Blanding. The post office was > formerly called Reagle. You can see the Reagle location at > http://raven.cc.ukans.edu/carrie/kancoll/graphics/maps/norton.jpg > The Hanback post office was discontinued 31 Dec. 1892. > > Hanback was named for Lewis Hanback, a Civil War veteran, Topeka > lawyer, served in the Kansas House, and served three terms as > representative of the Sixth Kansas District. See > http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/archives/1918ks/bioh/hanbacl2.html > or > http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/archives/1918ks/bioh/hanbacl.html > > The only other settler I find mention of in the Hanback area were > Mr. & Mrs. John Case, who lived in Furnas County, NE near Hanback > from 1873 to 1877, when they moved to Norton. The 1900 plat map > has the following names in the immediate vicinity: James > Montague, Sarah J. Montague, Sarah M. Stamey, Henry Hatfield, > Mark Smith, G. W. Hubbard, J. H. Rising, S. E. Renner, J. T. > Smith, Robert Taylor. > > Any additional information you may have about Hanback would be > welcome. > > Kansas" by F. M. Lockard, Kansas Post Offices by Robert W. > Baughman, and "Seventy Years in Norton County, Kansas" by D. N. > Bowers.> Info from "The History of the Early Settlement of Norton County, > > > ==== KSNORTON Mailing List ==== > Check the KS GenWeb Queries for Norton County, Kansas at > http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/norton/queries.htm > For more recent queries, be sure to click on "Use our new query system" at the top of the page > > ============================== > Join the RootsWeb WorldConnect Project: > Linking the world, one GEDCOM at a time. > http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/ > >