At 10:21 AM 10/10/02, you wrote: >I'm not sure why Isaac came to KS, but I know that Quinton came after the >Civil War. The obit for Isaac states that he came in 1857. The gov't. was >trying to settle KS so many came as homesteaders. Being that Isaac and >Quinton were related is probably one other reason Quinton came. > >Yes, many people moved here, but not all could adjust. I think we may need to distinguish between those who went before the war and those who went after. The family story as I got it, and I think it was probably my father, who knew history but was arithmetically challenged, who garbled it, was that his grandmother, Rosetta LUPHER GILSON as she then was, went there before the war, found it too much, too wild, you know, "bleeding Kansas" and all that, and that is why she came back. This is nonsense. Rosetta was 14 when the war ended. She married John GILSON in Crawford Co in 1870, he died in 1874, and *then* she went to Kansas, taking along her young son, not earlier than 1875 and probably a year or two later. There is a covered wagon story in there somewhere too, which I treat with a generous shaker full of salt because there were railroads by then, in fact some of those places in Harvey Co seem to have been boomtowns precisely because they were railroad centers (Newton, Burrton). In 1878 in Newton, Kansas she married my greatgrandfather, Chandler Price TAYLOR, who, as I said, was from Ohio. Their first child was born in Kansas in 1879, and they were there for the census of 1880. By the time their second child, my grandmother, was born, in 1882, they were back in Ohio. Later they came all the way back to Crawford County. It wasn't land with mine, not with greatgrandfather Chandler TAYLOR. On the contrary, he *had* land; he had inherited a large farm in Ohio and I get the impression he was always looking for ways not to be a farmer. On his marriage license in Kansas in 1878 he gave his occupation as 'Trader' and if you think that seems a bit evasive, so do I. In 1880 he told the census he was a Druggist (!). I'm sure he was not in the modern sense but perhaps he had a drugstore, or was an assistant in one. Back in Ohio he took a brief crack at farming among other things, but soon sold the farm. At the end of his life he was a hotel keeper in Lincolnville, Crawford County. Jan My website: http://janiceaf.home.netcom.com/index.html