LOMANDO Post Office Contributed and transcribed by Woodson County Commissioner Bill Linde. ------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. Any other use, including publication, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission by electronic, mechanical, or other means requires the written approval of the file's author. -------------------------------------------------------------- LOMANDO Post Office Five miles east and four miles north of Yates Center and located on the Santa Fe railroad was a siding called Lomando. Lomando P. Pierce had come to Woodson County about 1884 and purchased a small tract of land from Fred Stange along Cherry Creek. Pierce established a station and gave it his name. On 28 February 1895, Pierce established a postoffice in his store and gave it the name of Lomando, Kansas. The postoffice remained here until 31 December 1903, when the Rural Free Delivery took over. Lomando is another of the several thriving villages of Woodson County that sprang up and faded away, but during the lifetime of the community it became quite a hay shipping center with from 200 to 300 carloads of hay being shipped from there annually. There were several hay barns nearby, and was a very busy place at times, with many farmers and dozens of horses hauling baled hay. These hay barns are all gone from there now. Lomando P. Pierce died 26 February 1907 and was buried near his home. It is believed that his son was also buried near there. Mrs. Pierce was killed by a train. This was evidently after the death of her husband. The story as told was: "After the station was gone or when Lomando was no longer a scheduled stop for the railroad, the custom was to flag the train, the engineer would signal his recognition, then stop for any passengers. Mrs. Pierce flagged the train but never moved from the tracks." It was considered to be a suicide. We never learned just where she was buried. (Lomando Pierce's gravestone sits not very far from the bank of Cherry Creek, entirely surrounded by trees, brush, blackberry vines and dead trees.)