Butler County Kansas - Family History Queries, July - December 2001 Kenneth Thomas (kgthomas51@charter.net) 06/30/03 --------------------------------------------------------------------- KSGENWEB INTERNET GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY COPYRIGHT NOTICE: In keeping with the KSGenWeb policy of providing free information on the Internet, this data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages cannot be reproduced in any format for profit or other gain. Copying of the files within by non-commercial individuals and libraries is encouraged. 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EDSALL, listed on the 1880 census in Hickory Township, wife Sarah, children, Cora McKEEHAN, age 9, Dora McKEEHAN, age 6 and Jesse EDSALL, age 1. Any information appreciated. ----------------------------------------------------------- KLASSEN Margrete Fain Bethea (artistpeg@aol.com) 28 November 2001 I am looking for the parents of Jacob H. & Peter Andrew KLASSEN. Jacob KLASSEN, (b: August 15, 1875) married Maria "Mary" WALL, (b: May 1, 1878) on May 25, 1897 in Cassoday, Kansas (license received in El Dorado, Kansas on May 21, 1897). Peter Andrew KLASSEN, (b: August 25, 1874) married Helena WALL (b: February 10, 1875). WALL family also lived in Kansas, (Peter M. WALL & Maria "Mary" RATZLAFF). ----------------------------------------------------------- OLDS Gary Olds (golds1@datastar.net) 18 November 2001 Looking for information on George Washington OLDS, b: January 28, 1852 in Beaumont, Butler County, Kansas - d: March 10, 1899 in Kansas. ----------------------------------------------------------- ADAMS...JACKSON...BURNS Jenni Coe (jenicoe2001@yahoo.com) 1 November 2001 Researching for nay information no matter how small on Noel D. ADAMS, married to Blanch Elizabeth (JACKSON) BURNS in 1920. They had Helen Louise ADAMS, born in Augusta, Butler County, Kansas August 3, 1922. Noel D. ADAMS had a sister, Alice (ADAMS) SCOTT, who lived in Great Bend, Kansas in the 1930's to 1940's. The ADAMS and SCOTT family were involved in oil field work. ----------------------------------------------------------- HARRISON Debby Potter (greganddebbypotter@aol.com) 1 November 2001 I am adding a list of information that I have on the HARRISON family I'm related to, I descend from Alice Ann (HARRISON) KINCAID. William HARRISON, b: August 14, 1813 in Northamptonshire (near Rugby, Warwickshire). William came with his parents and siblings to the US in 1832. He lived in New York were he worked as a farm hand for 4 years. In 1836 he moved to Kendall County, Illinois, where he followed agricultural pursuits for a number of years. He married Mary Etta HUFF, (b: 1817, Lewis County, New York, d: September 15, 1862) in 1837, in Kendall County, Illinois. William lived in Iowa (unknown county) during 1853-1856 where two of his thirteen children were born. Before 1857 he moved back to Illinois for a short time. In the Spring of 1858, William moved his family to Butler County, Kansas. He was a farmer and politician in Kansas. William was a member of the State Legislature, and Chairman of the Board of County Commissioners in El Dorado, Butler County from 1861-64. In 1869 he was elected to the office of Probate Judge, holding office for four years. William HARRISON died May 6, 1890 at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Wm. A. DAVIS (unknown which daughter this is), four and a half miles south of Towanda, Kansas. He was laid to rest in the family plot in Chelsea Cemetery, Butler County, Kansas. William and Mary had the following children: Emma Ellen, b: May 6, 1840, Illinois, d: November 20, 1871, buried in Chelsea Cemetery; Charles Stuart, b: July 24, 1842, Illinois, d: ?? (also in the 11th Kansas Company M in the Civil War; Lucretia Keseah, b: April 19, 1849, Illinois, d: January 7, 1919 in Stockton, California; Franklin, b: November 20, 1845, Illinois, d: March 18, 1922, buried in Sutton Cemetery, Butler County (also in the 11th Kansas Company M in the Civil War); William Henry, b: 1846/47, Illinois, d: September 2, 1862, buried in Chelsea Cemetery; (twins) Albert, b: July 17, 1850, Illinois, d: July 2, 1869 and Hubert "Hugh", b: July 17, 1850, d: ??; Julia "Hettie", b: April 10, 1852, Illinois, d: ??; Alice Ann, b: January 11, 1854, Iowa, d: October 5, 1934 in Nickerson, Kansas; Edward Simons, b: September 25, 1857, Iowa, d: December 24, 1872, buried in Chelsea Cemetery; John Musson, b: September 29, 1857, Illinois, d: February 26, 1939, Spencer, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, buried in Fairlawn Cemetery, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; Minnie, b: 1859, d: 1859 (infant), buried in Chelsea Cemetery; and Mary, b: 1861, d: 1861 (infant), buried in Chelsea Cemetery. ----------------------------------------------------------- PHILLIPS...MARKS Iona May Phillips (ionamay48@yahoo.com) 31 October 2001 My Grandparents came to Kansas in the early 1900's. On my Uncle's obituary was Richland, Butler County, Kansas. Can anyone help me with any kind of information? My Grandfather's name is Franklin D., and my Grandmother's was Mary Jane. Any help is greatly appreciated. ----------------------------------------------------------- KINDRED Curtis Clark (clkwds@aol.com) 27 October 2001 I am looking for information on the KINDRED family of Butler County, Kansas. Bartholomew KINDRED and MARTHA (GRAY) KINDRED are buried in Brownlow Cemetery. ----------------------------------------------------------- GRAY Ruby Martin (eagle@st-tel.net) 24 October 2001 I am looking for information on my Great-Grandfather, E. S. GRAY, born in 1869. I believe he moved to Glencoe Township, Butler County, Kansas. His parents are, W. W. GRAY and A. GRAY. He had one sister, M. J. GRAY and one brother, Charles GRAY. All help is appreciated. ----------------------------------------------------------- KUHN Bob Kuhn (bob.kuhn@postman.org) 19 October 2001 Looking for Konrad KUHN, known to be living in Butler County in 1897. Had a brother, William living in Illinois. Believe this family to be from Westmoreland County, PA. ----------------------------------------------------------- GHARST Bonny Stuart (bstuart@seasurf.net) 19 October 2001 I need birth records for John Ira GHARST, born in Butler County on March 13, 1877 to father; Ephriam W. GHARTS and Celestian GHARST. Any help will be greatly appreciated. ----------------------------------------------------------- GROVE SueEllen Grove Trout (paulsuet@prodigy.net) 14 October 2001 Looking for nay descendants of Wendle Daniel GROVE and Sarah Jane (HODSON) GROVE, Mary Ellen (HAMM) GROVE, Jesse Milton GROVE, Phila Ann (LEIST) GROVE and William Uriah GROVE. Originally from Ripley, Indiana, having settled in the 1860's (?) Butler County, Kansas near Leon in the settlement of Bois D'Arc. ----------------------------------------------------------- THEROULDE Jean Louis Theroulde (jtheroulde2@libertysurf.fr) 13 October 2001 What about Edna THEROULDE died at Rose Hill, Butler County, Kansas in November 1997. Is there any THEROULDE in Butler County today? ----------------------------------------------------------- CONDELL...LEE...REED Prissy Lee (prissylee@earthlink.net) 12 October 2001 I am looking for information about descendants of Joseph and Jane (FERGUSON) CONDELL, who moved to El Dorado, Butler County from Illinois about 1900. Their children were John CONDELL (wife, Ella or Elsie, son, Logan); Will CONDELL (wife, Lena THOMPSON, children: Frank Robert, Mary, Frances, Wilma and Barbara); Robert CONDELL (wife, Elizabeth, sons Clayton and Lyle); Elizabeth CONDELL (nurse); Jenny CONDELL (husband, Ruby REED of Benton, children, Ercel, Wilbur, Wayne, Betty and Doris); Helen CONDELL, my Grandmother (husband John LEE, children, John, Virginia, Jane, Joan and Robert) and Florence PALMO (husband, Joe PALMO). I may not have listed that all correct, and I certainly don't have the generations after these. All help will be appreciated. ----------------------------------------------------------- RUTCHMAN Don Holtz (thebigsale@hotmail.com) 29 September 2001 Seeking information on deceased mother. ----------------------------------------------------------- NELSON Gary Jacobson (jacobsongary@yahoo.com) 27 September 2001 Searching for Clifford NELSON, mother was named Amanda, brother named Amos. Father may have been named Aron. Trying to locate family of Clifford NELSON who graduated from Hopkins School in 1912. ----------------------------------------------------------- HUNT Chris Stanga (genmom56@gmail.com) 10 September 2001 Looking for any information on the parents of Lloyd H. HUNT, deceased in Butler County. His parents were George McClellan HUNT and Sadie Maude STEADMAN. George may have been taken in by a family in Butler County. ----------------------------------------------------------- JONES btgs@naxs.com 10 September 2001 Searching for anything on Henry Kingman JONES and his wife Nancy. ----------------------------------------------------------- ROACH Kathy C. (kamarca@aol.com) 9 September 2001 My Great-Grandmother was Lena Joslin ROACH. She lived in El Dorado, Kansas in 1949. I am interested in any information about her. ----------------------------------------------------------- ARMAS...CLOUD Lisa Cloud (ela_girl@yahoo.com) 8 September 2001 I am looking for information on my Great-Grandparents, Elsie CLOUD and Isaac ARMAS. Apparently, they lived in Augusta and birthed a child on April 14, 1930 at a location identified as Little Mexico Street. I've checked the 1920 Federal Census and city directories from 1927 to 1931 and came up with nothing. If you have any resources you can direct me to or any information, please reply via email. Any help is appreciated. ----------------------------------------------------------- POSEY...REISCH Duane Tinius (tinius@webtv.net) 3 September 2001 Carlene POSEY married Marvin Dale REISCH in Butler County, divorced, they had a child, either a daughter or perhaps a son. Any information will be greatly appreciated. Marvin Dale REISCH deceased 1964, Carlene (POSEY) REISCH. ----------------------------------------------------------- McALLISTER Beverly McAllister (chief@c-zone.net) 30 August 2001 I am searching for the death of Andrew Mathew McALLISTER, b: 1814, state unknown. Andrew and his wife, Nancy lived in Augusta in 1870. Nancy was alone in 1880. I believe she died in 1893. Thanks you so very much. ----------------------------------------------------------- RUDDICK Gladys (alphius@alltel.net) 29 August 2001 I am researching Frank RUDDICK, would like to know if he had any children. ----------------------------------------------------------- GENOWAYS...WHITAKER GOODING...WALKER Sue Robinson (srobinson@mail.provalue.net) 19 August 2001 Looking for any information about my Great-Grandparents that lived in Butler County, Kansas in the mid-1800's to about 1900. Samuel GENOWAYS died in Kansas (Date of death and where? Name of his wife and his wife's parents, and their children's names?) Elvira Elisabeth GENOWAYS married Willis WHITAKER and were living in Leon, Kansas by 1877 to around 1893 where Willis was the Justice of the Peace. (Date they arrived in Butler County or Leon, Kansas and dates he was Justice of the Peace? Name of his and his wife's parents?) Cornelius GOODING and Caroline WALKER lived in Butler County. (Interested in the names of his and his wife's parents, the names of their children, and the date they lived in Butler County.) Willing to share information on these families. ----------------------------------------------------------- STRAW Yvonne Brunson (lbrunson@cox.net) 18 August 2001 I am looking for the STRAW family that lived in or around Towanda, Kansas. Julius C. STRAW, Rachel J. (STEPHENS) STRAW, John C. STRAW, Dollie (PIERCE) STRAW and Frank STRAW. ----------------------------------------------------------- PHILLIPS Jim Phillips (jphil50477@aol.com) 18 August 2001 I am searching for any information on Lester J. PHILLIPS, he was born in Bradford County, Pennsylvania on January 20, 1903 to Lee M. PHILLIPS and Emma SCHOONOVER. WE know that he lived in Memphis in the 1940's, where he met and married my mother in 1941 but left us when my sister and I were babies. He had previously been married before my mother and had fathered two sons by that union and they had lived in Memphis. He had worked for Western Union here as a telegrapher. When he left us he went to Washington DC and worked there. He left Washington DC and returned to El Dorado, Kansas in 1963 and was there until he died on November 13, 1989 in the El Dorado Nursing Center. His obituary in the paper there said he had attended schools in El Dorado and had gone to Temple Baptist Church. My father donated his body to the University of Kansas. I know nothing about his side of the family and have been looking for just a picture of him for years. He retired from Western Union. I would appreciate any help that anyone can give me. ----------------------------------------------------------- POINDEXTER...PENNINGTON David Camp (dcamp@peoplepc.com) 18 August 2001 Miss Maxine POINDEXTER taught the first and second grade at Rose Hill, Butler County in 1945-1946. There was also a Miss PENNINGTON. I am looking for anyone who might have information on these two ladies; I am also looking for anyone who has a Rose Hill annual for the school year 1945-1946. ----------------------------------------------------------- SPAIN...KIMBERLIN Sharon Holden (ljholden@grapevine.net) 30 July 2001 I am looking for information on Lillian C. (SPAIN) KIMBERLIN. She married Marcus D. KIMBERLIN, 1905 in Greenwood County, Kansas. My information has her death listed as December 16, 1974 in Enid, Oklahoma and buried in Haldeman Cemetery, Butler County, Kansas. I need o know who her parents were and where is Haldeman Cemetery located. Any help will be much appreciated. ----------------------------------------------------------- FREEMAN Patricia Freeman (pfreeman68@yahoo.com) 28 July 2001 Thomas and Emma FREEMAN, Thomas was born in Canada in 1859, emigrated to the United States and married Emma ? from Iowa. Old family members have told me that they were living in Rose Hill during the latter part of the 19th and/or early part of the 20th centuries and are buried there. I would like to have the names and addresses for the local cemeteries near Rose Hill so that I may search them for this couple, my husband's Great-Grandparents. ----------------------------------------------------------- ABRAHAM Kay Stevens (estevens@tvutel.com) 18 July 2001 I am searching for any ABRAHAM's. ----------------------------------------------------------- STANSBURY...RUTHERFORD Lee Ann Walker (leeannw1@hotmail.com) 17 July 2001 Perlee Morgan (P. M.) STANSBURY owned a cattle farm in 1890. Looking for any information about his family, wife Emma M. RUTHERFORD, and daughter, Grace Beatta STANSBURY. ----------------------------------------------------------- SMITH...SCOTT...THORNBRUGH Rick Rantz (rrantz@mail.uh.com) 11 July 2001 I am searching for information on Lawson SMITH and Katherine SCOTT, who had a daughter by the name of Effie Ann SMITH, born 21 October 1870 in Potwin, Butler County, Kansas, d: 27 October 1952 in Walnut Shade, Taney County, Missouri. I am wondering if Lawson and Katherine (SCOTT) SMITH are buried in one of the Potwin Cemeteries. I do not have any other information on Lawson and Katherine (Catherine?). I do know that Effie Ann married George Washington THORNBRUGH, abt. 1889. Any help that anyone can lend in locating information associated with my search is greatly appreciated. ----------------------------------------------------------- BEARDSLEY...DeSHURLEY Allita Griffin (leegentx@yahoo.com) 5 July 2001 Looking for information on Pearl BEARDSLEY and Clara DeSHURLEY, they were married in El Dorado, Butler County, Kansas on 24 December 1900. ----------------------------------------------------------- HACKMAN/HOCKMAN...CLARK Beckie Willsie (brecka@montrose.net) 5 July 2001 I believe the following people lived in Butler County, Kansas in the late 1890's - 1910's: Herman/Harman HACKMAN/HOCKMAN Rachel Harriett HACKMAN/HOCKMAN Caroline HACKMAN/HOCKMAN John CLARK ----------------------------------------------------------- SMITH...CASTO Betty Edmonds (bettylee_98@hotmail.com) 4 July 2001 I am trying to find any information on my Grandfather, Walter Joseph SMITH. He is the son of Oliver SMITH and Emma CASTO. He had a brother named Floyd SMITH. They lived in El Dorado, Kansas. I think Walter is buried there. His body was shipped there from Macon, Georgia. Rumor is he was on his way to New York to try to find my Mom, who his estranged wife had put in an orphanage. He died around 1960 sometime of carbon monoxide poisoning. My mom thinks he also had a sister named Veldeen. There are more, but they are unknown as the SMITH family hated my Grandmother. Anything at all would be wonderful! It gets hard to do a family tree when branches are missing. ----------------------------------------------------------- WOOLEN Bill Woolen (bwoolen@yahoo.com) 4 July 2001 Looking for William H. WOOLEN, in county approximately 1905-1915. Married to a 'Carrie' surname unknown. He died in 1915, probably in county. ----------------------------------------------------------- QUEST Tommie Ford (tford@intertex.net) 4 July 2001 My father, James Quest is buried in a cemetery in Augusta, Kansas. He died in 1966. His father was a doctor in Augusta, Kansas. I am searching for information on my father. ----------------------------------------------------------- FURTNEY Lorena Velasquez (raul@pld.com) 3 July 2001 Looking for any information on Isaac C. FURTNEY who supposedly died in El Dorado, Kansas on 12 July 1906. Much appreciated! ----------------------------------------------------------- ROBERTS Charlene Roberts (grannchik@aol.com) 2 July 2001 We are looking for any information on the George L. ROBERTS family that was listed in the 1880 Census, Butler County, Pleasant Township. George L. ROBERTS, b: 1840 - NC Mary E. ROBERTS, b: 1844 - GA Charles E. ROBERTS, b: 1867 - KY Sarah B. ROBERTS, b: 1869 - KY William C. ROBERTS, b: 1873 - KS George L. ROBERTS, Jr., b: 1876 - KS Tempie A. ROBERTS, b: 1879 - KS Are there any descendants out there or does anyone have cemetery information on this family? Anything? -----------------------------------------------------------