Regarding 3/18/99 posting by Jeff Lyons I have some information regarding the Garrett family which I believe is the same one that took Ella Piatt to Kansas. I don't have anything about Ella, but there was a Garrett family which left Monroe, around 1867, for Kansas. Alexander Garrett, born 1845, married Margaret Dickson/Dixon on September 27, 1866, in Antioch, Monroe County Ohio. They traveled via flatboat down the Ohio River and then by steamboat up the Mississippi and Missouri rivers to Leavenworth Kansas and the by overland trail to Ottawa County Ks, near the towns of Verdi and Bennington. In March of 1868 they moved to Sedgwick County Kansas and were among the first settlers in that county, and were the first settlers in what is now Derby Kansas. There is a brief mention of them in Derby's webpage at http://derbyweb.com/community.html#history. The 1870 Federal census for Sedgwick County list an Alexander and Margaret Garrett and a daughter, Annie. I don't know if there is connection between Hannah Ferrell-Dixon and the Dixon family of Margaret Garrett. Margaret's parents Andrew and Margaret Dixon, also listed as Dickson, came from Ireland to Pennsylvania, then Jefferson County Ohio, to Monroe County in the early 1830s and finally Kansas in the late 1860s. I hope this helps, I think these are the Garretts that took Ella Piatt to Kansas. Milton McWilliams Omaha, NE