This collection of surnames, most being familiar to us all, show up Neosho County, Ks. In 1847 a number of nuns from Loretto, Ky was led by Fr. Shoemakers to start an Indian mission on the Nesoho river prairie located at the southeastern portion of Kansas. It became know as Osage Mission, now St. Paul, a very small catholic town, dominated by it's huge gothic stone Church. Abell Bailey Bell Blandford Bowles Bowman Bradshaw Brewer Brown Burch Calvert Cave Cecil Clark (e) Clements Combs Coomes Cooper Cox Dent Elder Elliott Evans Ewing Ford Fowler French Graves Green Greenwell Hamilton Hayden Heverin Hill Hutchins Jarboe Johnson Knott Leake Lynch McAtee Maguire Martin Mills Moore Mudd Murphy Norris O'Brien O'Bryan O'Conner Owens Parsons Roach Scott Sims Smith Spalding Speake Taylor Thomas Thompson Tucker Turner Walker Ward Warner Warren Whalen Williams Wimsatt Woods Worland Yates Perhaps, some of your ancestor were among those of this list. Randy Dunavan Longview, Tx