This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Leeburg/Halberg/Holmquist/Larson/Jones/Shepard Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/Vm.2ADE/1224 Message Board Post: The Story of My Grandfather - Swan John Leeburg Compiled by Rollie Leeburg Swan John Leeburg was born 5 Oct 1846 in Ăsgärdet, Essunga, Sweden with the Swedish name of Sven Johannson Lidberg. His father’s name was Johannes Andersson and his mother’s name was Maja Andersdotter. His father and mother were never married. Swan applied for work permits in Stockholm when was 17 years old and again when he was 18, which indicates that he was working early in his life. Swan lived with his father. His father was a former tenant farmer, where he and his wife, Kirsten Eriksdottor, lived as lodgers in 1873. After the death of his wife, he moved in 1875 to Östra Högelid on Spjutstorp lands also in Essunga, where he owned a house. Maja Andersdottor was a servant girl at Ăsgärdet when her son, Sven, was born. During her marriages, she lived in a dug-out on Jämnekärr land in Essunga, where she stayed on as a widow. She first married Anders Larsson who lived with his family in a cottage on Jämnekärr land in Essunga. Around 1858, he is blind and a pauper. They had four children who would be half brothers and sisters to Swan. She was married a second time to Anders Olofsson. He moved in with Maja at Jämnekärr after their marriage. He was a sharecropper from Bjorkas, and she was a lodger from Jämnekärr. Both had been married before. Swan married Mary K (Maja Katarina Johansdottor) December 30, 1866 in Essunga. Before her marriage, she was a maid at Tumleberg, Hallstorp, and Essunga. Mary’s father Johannes Bryggelsson, was a tenant farmer, and owner of a house at Sandhålebacken, and her mother, Johanna Jonsdottor, was a maid from Västergården. Mary had one sister and three brothers. Two brothers were soldiers. Johanna was widowed and lived with her children for twenty years. Another child born to Johannes and Johanna was Anna-Stina. She was born 3 July 1854 in Essunga. At age 24 she married Anton (Anthony) Anderson Hurty (Hurtig) 26 Dec 1878. They immigrated to the US in 1882. Anna-Stina is buried in Eastside Cemetery, Hutchinson, Reno County, KS. More about Maja Katerina’s family - When Johannes Bryggelsson (b. 13 Apr 1813 in Tengene) and Johanna Jonsdottor were first married, they lived at Högelund on Stommen lands in Essunga and in 1843 they moved to Lundby. They were married 30 Dec 1836 in Essunga. Marriage records report that he was a farmhand from Lafsegården, she a maid from Västergården. He died (no cause listed) 25 Mar 1865 in Sandhålebacken, Essunga. Johanna was a widow living with her children at Sandhålebacken. In 1869 she moved to Dunsasen, also in Essunga, but moved back to Sandhålebacken in 1870 where she lived with son, Andreas and daughter, Anna-Stina in a dug-out. She is still living there in 1880. Children other than Anna-Stina and Maja Katarina: 1. Johann Johansson - born 8 Dec 1837 in Essunga. Moved in 1859 from Sandhålebacken to Tengene. 2. Anders Petter Johansson Lust - born 12 Feb 1846 in Essunga. Moved 5 Oct 1866 from Sandhålebacken to Bitterna. He cam back to Sandhålebacken and in 1869 became a soldier with the soldier’s name Lust and he was soldier #631 of the Skåning company of the Skaraborg Infantry Regiment. Part of his salary was use of a cottage on Dunsåsen lands in Essunga. 3. Andreas Johansson Sandberg - born 10 Dec 1849 in Essunga. He became a soldier around 1871 with the soldier’s name Sandberg. He is listed in Kulling company of the Vastagota-Dal Infantry Regiment. Moved 4 Nov 1871 from Sandhålebacken, Essunga to Folene. Mary worked in Tengene which is probably where she met Swan. They had a son, John (Johan Gottfrid Lidberg) and a daughter (Amanda Josefina Lidberg). They came to the United States in 1868 and resided in Bureau County, Illinois in a town called Princeton. Amanda died at the age of two and is buried in Wilmington Cemetery, Wabaunsee Co. KS. Swan applied for citizenship in the United States at that time. In 1870, they came to Osage City, Osage County, KS. Swan John had planned to get a new start in Kansas and the building of the railroad fit right into his plan. The Santa Fe was then building west from Topeka. He secured one of the construction contracts. R.R. Price was the other sub-contractor. Both of them located in Reno County and figured in the later history of the new town of Hutchinson. There was a future, especially along the line of the new railroad and he was determined to get in on the ground floor of the new empire. He determined not to live near a railroad. He heard enough of railroading while building the new road. He didn’t want steam cars going close by his farm. With the whole vast prairie to pick from, he decided to pick his homestead far from a railroad. As it turned out, the railroad almost hit him. He picked a quarter that was almost a stone’s throw from his home. If there was anybody in Kansas who ought to know just where the railroad was to be built, it was Swan John, as the sub-contractor who was to build it. He had the plans. He had the surveys. A.A. Robinson, the chief engineer who made the survey stayed at Swan John’s home. After Swan John got nicely settled, word came one day the survey had been changed. It was decided impractical to cross the Arkansas river - the new railway would stay on the north side of the river, and a new survey was ordered. This brought the railroad four miles north - right through his farm! Mary K. was the only woman in the whole country, and when the Santa Fe crass collar officials came along to see how the work was coming on the surveys or the construction, they found her hospitable home a much better place to stay than the bachelor dugouts or the soddies. Here and there over the prairie were little sod houses or dugouts where pioneer settlers were locating, literally “digging in.” On April 16, 1871, Swan John made formal filing on his homestead claim, the family living on the place two or three weeks before. “The first woman in Reno County - and the only woman here for months was Mrs. S.J. Leeburg, mother of John G. Leeburg who came here with his parents, settled with them on the homestead of 160 acres in Clay township in March, 1871. If there was any other woman in Reno county then I wouldn’t know who it could be,” remarked son John in an interview in January, 1931 for the Hutchinson Herald. “There wasn’t any Hutchinson when we first located here. The only settlers in the county were a few men, most bachelors, who had located claims and were holding them down, awaiting families to come later. It was a wild prairie, the feeding grounds of buffalo herds and the hunting grounds of Indian tribes. While Swan John was busy with his construction crew building the railroad westward across the plains, his family stayed alone on the place holding down the claim. His son John remembered the lonesome days and nights, the howling wolves of the prairie, the coyotes, the buffalo herds, the Indian scares, the prairie fires, the hot winds and the blizzards. Swan John’s construction work on the Santa Fe started at Osage City. He built the road on west through Florence and Newton, and Great Bend and on to Dodge City. “A good many of the men working under him on the construction work were Swedes and they located near Swan John, forming quite a little settlement of Swedes. Among them were Pete and M. Nyborg, John and Pete Swanson, Fred Walder and J.P. Talbert.” Son John said, “My father was busy with the railroad work for a year after we came here. My mother ran the farm. Jim Freese and John Shahan took homesteads nearby.” There is an interesting photograph of a Hutchinson flood, in either 1875 or 1876 showing the big livery building at Second and Main. It was a huge barn-like structure with cattle in the water and a boat with men apparently having a good time as some jugs and bottles can be seen. During the summer of 1881, Swan John had his picture taken as he was standing on top of a wagon, holding a big sign reading “Lager Beer.” Men and boys are shown in the crowd opening kegs, jugs, and bottles. Sauer’s Saloon was Hutchinson’s last legalized saloon. The state prohibition law had just gone into effect. Orders had just been issued that all stocks of liquor must be disposed of by a certain day. A story remembered by Lois Blanch, great-grandaughter, was that Swan got drunk in Hutchinson and Mary K. went after him in a wheelbarrow and after she got him home, he sobered up and went back to the tavern. On March 24, 1884, Mary K. petitioned, in the District Court of Reno County, Swan John for a divorce. He was charged with gross neglect and extreme cruelty. He was characterized as an habitual drinker of many years. Swan went back to Sweden on April 2, 1884. The divorce was granted May 7, 1884 as uncontested. The custody of John, who was about 18 years old, was awarded to the mother and the homestead divided. On November 1, 1884, Swan deeded the 160 acres to Mary K. for the sum of $1,000. On April 8, 1885 in Lyndon, Osage County, KS, Swan John Leeburg, age 36, of Lyon County, KS, was married to Hannah Louise Halberg, age 21 of Princeton, IL. Hannah was born in Sweden on 28 November 1863. They moved to the little farm town of Wilmington, Wabaunsee County, KS, about five miles south of Harveyville. Their house was on the edge of town, but their farmland was on the eastern edge of town. Swan purchased this farm as he had already homesteaded in Reno County. It was a regular farm, but it was next to the town. The farm buildings were within a couple of hundred feet from the other buildings in town. It seemed like they lived in town. The had five children: 1) Gunnar Amil b. 21 May 1886 2) Axel Edward b. 3 September 1887 3) Lillian A. b. April 1889 4) Ella H. b. November 1892 5) Victor b. September 1895 After the children were raised, Swan and Hannah purchased a home and moved into Harveyville. His son, Axel purchased the farm from his father. In the spring of 1919, Gunnar had rented part of Uncle John’s farm, Swan’s original homestead east of Hutchinson. He made arrangements for Swan and Hannah to move to Hutchinson to live with him. The farm had two homes about a quarter of a mile from the road. A newer house was built in 1915 for John, Selma, and Mary K. It was built next to the first house in Reno County. Part of the old house was torn down and part was used for the milk separator, etc. Gunnar was married 3 July, 1920, so Swan and Hannah moved back to Harveyville that summer. Swan died 6 March 1923. He and Hannah’s graves are in Wilmington Cemetery, Wabaunsee County, KS. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS There were many people who provided me with the information to write this story. Most of the information on the first marriage was provided by Lois Leeburg Blanche. Lois provided me with the 1931 newspaper article and copies of many documents. She had copies of pictures made and sent them to me. I consider myself very lucky to find a collector of family history of Swan’s first marriage. I had mailed many letters to Leeburg namesakes to find information. I mailed such a letter Linn and Verlene Leeburg living in Boulder, CO. Lyn mailed it to his mother, Rachel Leeburg, living in Bennington, KS. Rachel sent my letter to Lois Blanche who living in Gordonville, TX because whe knew that Lois was the only one still living who knew much about the Leeburg family. Thank you, Lois. You are my dear cousin, once removed. My brother, Laverne Leeburg and my cousin, Margaret Leeburg Provost provided me with most of the material from the second marriage. My nephew, Bill Leeburg, provided me with the computerized printout on the descendants of Swan John Leeburg. Thank you!

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Vm.2ADE/762.1.1 Message Board Post: DO YOU HAVE ANY SPECIFIC DATES ON FRED AND SARAH GREEN?

Looking for the family of Alta E Wilson, b.1892 married Henry J Koch in Hutchinson, KS on March 02, 1910. They had a son named Gerald (maybe Jerald) Koch. Alta was from the town of Haven, KS and she had three brothers and two sisters. Hermann and James Roy (maybe LeRoy) stayed in the Reno County area. Anna, Benjamin and Delaware moved with the parents (James Greenville Wilson & Mary Elizabeth Jane Green) to Houston Texas in 1912. Please reply to Paul Wilson at pewilson@ev1.net

Looking for family of James Roy Wilson married to Myrtle Unknown and then to Maud Irene Unknown. Moved to Haven, Reno County with his father, James Greenville Wilson, and family about 1895-1900 and had following children Louise Ruth b.~1915, Kenneth Roy b.~1917, Alma Jane b.~1926, Mary Magelene b.~1928, George Carl b.~1929, John b.~1932, Alice May b.~1933, Daisy Grace b.~1936, Anna Irene b.~1939 and James Robert DOB unknown. His parents moved on to Texas in 1912 but he stayed in Reno County with his family. I believe they were in the Haven area but could also be Hutchinson as my father mentioned both places. Please reply to pewilson@ev1.net

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/Vm.2ADE/156.259 Message Board Post: My grandfather was Louis Ernest McOsker. What info would you like to know?

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Vm.2ADE/1169.1.1.1.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: My Will Blankenship had a daughter named Rosa Lee. Though I am certain she is not your Rose, she was born at a later date, naming patterns are common in some families. I am in contact with two Blankenship families, trying to find a connection, and the naming patterns are just unbelievable! I will kep an eye out. Good Luck! Sarah

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Vm.2ADE/1169.1.1.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Rose Blankenship, my paternal grandmother, was b.1874, d. 1917, m. 1893 Hutchinson, KS. Her lengthy illness and death absolutely devastated my grandfather and his 3 children. Her history was not recorded in the information passed down to me. I am certain that Colbert connects with her mother or grandmother. Oral history states Colbert ran a rooming or boarding house in National City, CA. And a Rue Louise Colbert is buried next to Rose in Chicago. Big mystery to me ! !

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.co.uk/mbexec/msg/5538/Vm.2ADE/16.2 Message Board Post: I have been researching my Hostutler side. I have come across the name Amos Hostutler as my Great Great Grandfather. I have him as being married to a Jennie Maple I don't have any dates but if you think this is same person I do have a few more things I can give you . My email is Joy6Rose@aol,com Hope to hear from you.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Vm.2ADE/1169.1.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: I understand how you feel. Where did your Blankenship/Sharpe move to from KS? What was the name of their children?

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Vm.2ADE/1169.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Our Blankenship research hits a dead end everywhere. I have our family in Kansas, 1893, only briefly. There is a connection to the name Colbert. And we have a studio photo.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/Vm.2ADE/16.1 Message Board Post: My Great Grandfather was Raymond M. Hostutler his father was named Amos except his wife was listed as Jennie Maple I'm not sure we're with the same family but if you would like to talk you can email me at Joy6Rose@aol.com. Joyce

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Vm.2ADE/1223 Message Board Post: I am looking for info on Hobart Jones (b. 6/4/1832, Rochester, NY) who came to Clay Twp Kansas in 1876 with wife Isabel ,children Alfred H and Mary E. and mother Isabel. They were members of the Methodist Episcopal Church and owned 320 acres in Reno County. He was a member of the school board. I believe they lived Section 2 P.O. Hutchinson. He died here March 14, 1887. I am looking primarily for Hobart and his mother Isabel's burial plots or obit in local paper for Hobart, but would appreciate any information. Thanks in advance, Jackie MacNair

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: DeShazo, Lowe, Minner Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Vm.2ADE/1222 Message Board Post: Searching for Lynette, my cousin, went to the same high school. Did find her in the 1951 HHS yearbook, sophomore. I moved to California that year. Her mother's obit stated her married name is Lowe and living in Hays, KS. My father and her grandmother were brother and sister.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Bailey Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Vm.2ADE/1221 Message Board Post: Does anyone have the 1920 or 1930 census for a Mrs. Ann Bailey on it or an Edith, Marion W. or Ethel Bailey? Ethel Bailey's married name was Neighbors. Thank you for any help you can give. Lois

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Heller+Burkett Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Vm.2ADE/548.1.1 Message Board Post: Heather, I am an ancestor of Milton and Sarah Heller. I would be happy to help you with our family history. e-mail me crawford@pld.com from, Pat

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Vm.2ADE/1220 Message Board Post: I am seeking the birth records of Minnie Mae/May Hall b. 11/14/1892 in Kansas, possibly Hutchinson, Reno Co., Kansas. Parebts are William M. Hall and Mary E. Hall. On her marriage application dated 1907 (Kay Co., Oklahoma) it states she resides in Silverdale, Kansas. There is a story in the family that William and Mary Hall are not her real parents. That her family left her with them in Hominy, Oklahoma and went on. They never came back to get her.This family lived in Kansas and Oklahoma. I am trying to prove/disprove this story. I do not know where her 'real' family was going. There was always a rumor about her not being their real daughter. Minnie's daughter wrote my grandmother and told her that Minnie told her the above story. Minnie had seizures, so this could be the reason she was left behind. Also, after she married, she was living in Hominy, Oklahoma. Some Indian agents, tribe unknown, came to the house and told her she had land and rights. Her husband, ! Earnest Gregory (changed last name to Rhoads after marrying) ran them off. He often said if he had known she was a, derogatory word, he never would have married her. Because of her seizures, he called her Crazy. Can anyone help me? I have pic's and other info. Thanx! Sarah

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Vm.2ADE/1169.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Have you found anything out on the Blankenships? I. too, have Blankenships that remain a mystery. They are the reason why I am addicted to my research! Do you know of a William W. Blankenship m. Lizzie McAlip? Thanx. Sarah

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: COCHREN Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Vm.2ADE/1219 Message Board Post: Looking for information on this son of George Daniel Cochren (born Muncie, IND) and Annie B. Brown Cochren (b. Kansas). George Valjean had sisters Elva and Velma Dora. Any info on what happened to him helpful.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Sprouse Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Vm.2ADE/1218 Message Board Post: Carl Junior Sprouse 1921-2003 Carl Junior Sprouse died May 21, 2003 in Lincoln, Lancaster County, Nebraska. Carl Junior Sprouse was born to Carl Newton and Sybil Armanilla (Ogden) Sprouse on May 25, 1921** in Hutchinson, Reno County, Kansas. Carl was a Seaman First Class with the U. S. Navy Seabees during World War II. Carl held various jobs during his lifetime. Two of the earliest ones were a gas service station attendant and a messenger for a message service in Hutchinson. He spent the majority of his working life with Nash Finch Company, where he worked for forty-one years doing several jobs. He was a banana crate builder, salesman, warehouse foreman, and lastly a truck driver. His dedicated work earned him the President's award in 1961. Carl lived in Hutchinson for 51 years before moving to Lincoln in October of 1972. After retirement Carl worked as a part-time custodian for Floorbrite Building Services (FBG). Carl is survived by: his wife, two daughters, two sons and a daughter-in-law, six grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren. Also surviving Carl is his first cousin (who was like a brother to him). Carl was preceded in death by daughter Janet Kay (Sprouse) Haberman, granddaughter Theresa Suzanne Haberman, his parents, his grandparents: Orion Lee and Mattie (Milliken) Sprouse, Charles H. and Estella Elzora (Shatto) Ogden, great-grandparents: James William and Adelia Emeline (Mulkey) Sprouse. (Note: **Birth Certificate states Carl Junior was born May 24, but the naval records state May 25. Obituary written by Carl Junior Sprouse's oldest son, poster of this obituary).

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Vm.2ADE/156.258 Message Board Post: My grandfather was Ernest L. McOsker. He married Muriel Titus and his brother Clark C. McOsker married Elma B. Titus. What info would you like.