Is there where I can go on the internet get a plat map of Deerfield Township, Mo.? The Kansas book said that Calvin's JAMES place was on the west side of Spring River, above the mouth of Shoal Creek. Calvin JAMES went to Southeast Kansas, where he was one of the earliest settlers. He "broke out" some prairie land and built some cabins on the west side of Spring River near the mouth Shoal Creek which is now Cherokee Co., Kansas. Calvin JAMES appears in the Deerfield Township, Van Buren Co., MO., Census of 1840. Then in 1850 was in the Census for McDonald Co., MO. He probably later moved to Jasper County, Missouri, just a few miles east across the state line, and served as a Justice of the Peace in 1855. Calvin JAMES was appointed first postmaster 8 Dec 1858, at Brushville, McGee Co., KS., for a year or two. This info is found in a book called Kansas Post Offices, or similar. The stuff on Lowell and Tennessee Prairie says that the office was discontinued at the time of the battle of Carthage (date?). Calvin JAMES had built three cabins on his place, and about 1859 Quaker Valley Mills, a school was taught in one of them by the daughter of Dr. Lisle. He died before the Ci! vil War and is buried near Carthage, Missouri.