Selected Probate Case Numbers, Mitchell County

Selected cases, numeric order

An "x" following the name indicates I have reviewed the file and either photographed its content or decided the subject was not a relative (n.r.). Items notated "no copy" were allowed review after making appeal and justification to the Clerk of Court, and the case could be reviewed without taking notes or photographs.

968	Butler	Martin
997	Butler	Ellen	x	n.r.
1416	Steichen	John
1437	Steichen	Dolorsa et al
1578	Butler	Ruth	x	n.r.
1709	Streit	Peter H	x
2014	Deneke	Mary	x
2062	Butler	John H	x	n.r.
2117	Butler	Daisy E
2134	Steichen	Urban	x	n.r.
2257	Streit	Dorothy & Christina	x (no copy)
2282	Streit	Henry E	x (no copy)
2396	Butler	Maggie	x	n.r.
2584	Streit	Henry Sr	x
2892	Streit	George J
3206	Deneke	George	x
3212	Deneke	Tony	x
3378	Bulthaup	L.L.	x
3924	Gradig	Marie	x
3979	Butler	Florence	x	n.r.
4001	Deneke	Anna T.	x
4093	Deneke	Anna	x
4102	Kohn	Elizabeth	x
4107	Kohn	Vera May	x
4191	Streit	Nick	x
4283	Boberg	Martha	x	n.r.
4392	Gasper	Nick
4398	Butler	Mary Ellen	x	n.r.
4401	Streit	Frank	x
4499	Butler	Edward M
4713	Butler	Mary Ellen	x	n.r.
4736	Steichen	E.M.	x
4935	Gasper	Regina	x
4938	Streit	Anna K	x
5184	Kohn	Louise	x
5247	Reinert	Marie H
5286	Boberg	Anna
5303	Gasper	John P
5359	Deneke	Henry E
5396	Streit	Conrad
5650	Gasper	Philip	x
5693	Gasper	John F
5736	Gasper	Frank T
5758	Gasper	Mary S
5763	Gillen	Minnie
5786	Gasper	Frank T
5805	Gradig	Adolph
5824	Gasper	Gertrude
5885
5895	Reinert	Peter A
6065	Reinert	Mary
6069	Deneke	Frank
6082	Steichen	Theresa
6138	Reinert	Barbara
6162	Reinert	Anna M
6316	Streit	Anna J
6387	Gradig	Urban
6410	Deneke	Justina Helena
6420	Boberg	Henry E
6463	Gradig	Joseph
6471	Gradig	Joseph
6510	Streit	Catherine S
6526	Deneke	Willie
02.p.20	Reinert	Joseph H
04.p.46	Reinert	Fern O
77.p.39	Reinert	Nikolaus
79.p.16	Gradig	Margaret S
79.p.35	Gasper	E.G.
80.p.17	Streit	Gerard F
81.p.25	Streit	John H
83.p.12	Bulthaup	Laurence E
83.p.16	Gasper	Lawrence
88.p.14	Gasper	Anton J
90.gc.02	Kohn	Debra
90.p.01	Gasper	Hilda
90.p.34	Reinert	Margaret M
95.p.27	Reinert	John N
96.p.03	Reinert	Erma B
96.p.11	Kohn	John A
96.p.35	Babb	Helen C
99.p.41	Reinert	Wanda J

Selected cases, alphabetic order

96.p.35	Babb	Helen C
5286	Boberg	Anna
6420	Boberg	Henry E
4283	Boberg	Martha	x	n.r.
3378	Bulthaup	L.L.	x
83.p.12	Bulthaup	Laurence E
2117	Butler	Daisy E
4499	Butler	Edward M
997	Butler	Ellen	x	n.r.
3979	Butler	Florence	x	n.r.
2062	Butler	John H	x	n.r.
2396	Butler	Maggie	x	n.r.
968	Butler	Martin
4398	Butler	Mary Ellen	x	n.r.
4713	Butler	Mary Ellen	x	n.r.
1578	Butler	Ruth	x	n.r.
4093	Deneke	Anna	x
4001	Deneke	Anna T.	x
6069	Deneke	Frank
3206	Deneke	George	x
5359	Deneke	Henry E
6410	Deneke	Justina Helena
2014	Deneke	Mary	x
3212	Deneke	Tony	x
6526	Deneke	Willie
88.p.14	Gasper	Anton J
79.p.35	Gasper	E.G.
5736	Gasper	Frank T
5786	Gasper	Frank T
5824	Gasper	Gertrude
90.p.01	Gasper	Hilda
5693	Gasper	John F
5303	Gasper	John P
83.p.16	Gasper	Lawrence
5758	Gasper	Mary S
4392	Gasper	Nick
5650	Gasper	Philip	x
4935	Gasper	Regina	x
5763	Gillen	Minnie
5805	Gradig	Adolph
6463	Gradig	Joseph
6471	Gradig	Joseph
79.p.16	Gradig	Margaret S
3924	Gradig	Marie	x
6387	Gradig	Urban
90.gc.02	Kohn	Debra
4102	Kohn	Elizabeth	x
96.p.11	Kohn	John A
5184	Kohn	Louise	x
4107	Kohn	Vera May	x
6162	Reinert	Anna M
6138	Reinert	Barbara
96.p.03	Reinert	Erma B
04.p.46	Reinert	Fern O
95.p.27	Reinert	John N
02.p.20	Reinert	Joseph H
90.p.34	Reinert	Margaret M
5247	Reinert	Marie H
6065	Reinert	Mary
77.p.39	Reinert	Nikolaus
5895	Reinert	Peter A
99.p.41	Reinert	Wanda J
1437	Steichen	Dolorsa et al
4736	Steichen	E.M.	x
1416	Steichen	John
6082	Steichen	Theresa
2134	Steichen	Urban	x	n.r.
6316	Streit	Anna J
4938	Streit	Anna K	x
6510	Streit	Catherine S
5396	Streit	Conrad
2257	Streit	Dorothy & Christina	x (no copy)
4401	Streit	Frank	x
2892	Streit	George J
80.p.17	Streit	Gerard F
2282	Streit	Henry E	x (no copy)
2584	Streit	Henry Sr	x
81.p.25	Streit	John H
4191	Streit	Nick	x
1709	Streit	Peter H	x

Two photos of Tipton KS need details

I found two photographs from Tipton, Kansas that beg for more information. Perhaps readers can help?

Main St. looking north Tipton Kan.

First is an undated photograph that shows Tipton's Main Street, looking north. When was it taken? (I presume it dates from 1910 or so.) What are the businesses shown? Is the building at the right a residence? Whose? Do any of the buildings still exist, perhaps with a modified storefront?

The 1917 atlas of Mitchell County has an advertisement for the building, then identified as the Fischer Hotel with a photo from the northwest. Unfortunately, that photo shows no other buildings. In the same atlas is a photo of the Home State Bank, perhaps the most distant storefront on the east side of the street.

Millie Fink writes on 2014.06.02:
"The photo you are asking about with the notation 'Main St. Looking No. Tipton Kan.' is known by my family as the Boden Hotel. My great-grandfather Franz (Frank) Boden and the "French woman," his third wife Ernestine M. Arson Boucher Boden Kleeman, ran the hotel. They were married from about 1905 until his death in 1933, and my mother remembers them running the hotel in about 1930 or so. I do not have any idea about the actual date of the picture."

Village hunters and their rabbit pelts

Next is a group photo of men, boys, and a few women surrounding a pile of rabbit (or perhaps coyote) pelts. One man holds his right hand high. Several hold rifles, and one man holds an infant. Identities? Does the photo celebrate a one-time hunt or a yearly event?

Letter to an elderly cousin

About ten years ago, I visited a distant cousin Alice to tell her of my research in her ancestry. She lived in a quiet neighborhood of Anaheim CA. Orange trees shielded the view of her neighbors' homes. I visited her when she was about 89 years old, shortly after her husband Leo had suffered a stroke. He seemed to be doing pretty well, considering, but he was not very lively.

On the other hand, Alice was very active. Every question I had resulted in her finding another box of family pictures, grade cards, school year books, or other treasures of their life and children's growth.

The visit rekindled my research in her family, and I documented it with a long letter.

I hope my letter finds you well and enjoying the season of Christmas and the New Year, and I hope that 2005 will be a year of joy. It has been two years since my last contacts with you, and I have been fairly successful in my research of the Ohnsat family, both in America and in our ancestors’ European home. 

I believe you told me—or perhaps it was your sister Catherine who told me—that a member of your family once traveled to Pittsburgh Pennsylvania in hopes of finding more information about the Ohnsat family. But that there was no luck in the endeavor. Well, I made a short trip to Pittsburgh this past September, and found baptismal and marriage records that helped greatly in finding the European origins of the Ohnsat family and Salinger family. There are also other researchers I have been in touch with who provide information about your mother’s Streit family.

Let me summarize the information I had for you in October 2002: 

• My aunt, Sister Edna Louise Kohn, who now lives at the Nazareth Motherhouse in Concordia, remembered that her grandfather Ohnsat was from “Neisse” or “Silesia.” She remembered that her grandmother Salinger-Ohnsat was from “Frankfurt.” Your sister Catherine Bulthaup remembered that her grandfather was a butcher and her grandmother worked as a nurse, but that she had such a bad experience with nursing that she worked to prevent any of her grandchildren from going into nursing.

• Sister Edna also provided the following birth and death information:
• 
  John Robert Ohnsat born 18 Sep 1835 in “Neisse” or “Silesia,” died 14 Sep 1897 near Tipton, Kansas.
• 
  Leopoldine Salinger born 29 May 1839 in “Frankfort, Germany,” died 23 Jul 1919 from dropsy at the home of her daughter near Tipton, Kansas.
• They came to Kansas in 1878 from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. These dates were corroborated by information from notes provided by my aunt Katherine Cooper, and from information on tombstones, and in published obituaries.

• City directories of Pittsburgh and its area, dated between 1874 and 1879 locate our family in Pittsburgh residences. The directory of 1876-77 has “Ohnsat Jos, lab [laborer], 16 Twenty-seventh, s s [South Side]” (p. 475). This Joseph Ohnsat is a brother to your grandfather Robert Ohnsat. The directory of 1877-78 has “Ohnest Joseph, butcher, Larimer av, n Broad, e e [East End].” along with “Ohnsat Robert, butcher, Brownsville road, Mt. Oliver, 27th ward.” (p. 464). I believe the name “Ohnest” is a typographic error. 

• The Naturalization Docket Common Pleas No. 1 - Allegheny County, page 328 includes: “[applicant] Ohnsat Robert [no voucher listed] [no date of naturalization listed] [date of declaration] Feby 7, 1873.” The entry probably indicates that Robert Ohnsat was a resident of Allegheny county since about 1871, since the declaration may occur after two years of residency.

Continuing my research based on what I knew, I used the residences of Larimer Street in South Side, North Broad Street in East End, and Brownsville Road in Mount Oliver in a search for Catholic Churches in these neighborhoods. Then I applied to the Diocesan Archives of Pittsburgh for transcripts of any baptism and marriage records for the Ohnsat family. They responded with the following information:

• From the St. Michael (South Side) Marriage Records 1849-1878, p. 318: “26 Nov 1872. Robert Ohnsat; age 37; son of Franz Ohnsat and Kath: Shulz of Prussia married to Anna M.L. Salinger; age 33; daughter of Georgius Salinger and Kath: Vogel of Baden. Witnesses: Joseph Ohnsat, Jacob Müller. Father Fredericus.”
  
  St. Michael Catholic church was at 21 Pius Street. It was deconsecrated and demolished about 1960 

• From the St. Michael (South Side) Baptismal Records 1866-1878, p. 136, 2nd section: “Franz Joseph, born 19 Oct 1873; baptized 2 Nov 1873; father: Robertus Ohnsaat; mother: Leopoline Sallinger; sponsors: Joseph Weizenhefer, Josephine Höbel. Father Ignatius.” 

• From the St. Joseph (Mount Oliver) Baptismal Records 1870-1880, p. 145: “Louisam Cath., born 2 Dec 1875; baptized 12 Dec 1875; father: Roberto Ohnsent, Prussia; mother: Leopoldino Sollenger, Baden; sponsors: Joseph Heirenhäfer, Maria Sherene.”
  
  St. Joseph Catholic church was at 438 Ormsby Avenue. It was deconsecrated and demolished in the late 20th Century. 

• No record of the marriage of Joseph Ohnsat or of his children's baptisms at St. Michael, St. Joseph (Mt. Oliver), Sts Peter & Paul (East End), or St. Philomena. The only record found was a baptism for Catherine in 1899. Since she was identified as Lutheran prior to conversion, it is most likely that her parents’ marriage did not take place in a Catholic parish. From the St. Philomena (Pittsburgh) Baptismal Records 1895-1908, p. 97: “Catharinam Christinam Dorothea, born 15 Jul 1879; baptized 16 Apr 1899; father: Josepho Onshat, Grüben Falkenberg, Prussia; mother: Elizabeth Rothamel, Grossalmerade, Hessen-Cassell; sponsor: Rosa Crenner. Note in record: newly converted from Lutheranismo, conditional baptismal. Step-father's name Elliott.”

Since this letter, I've been contacted by another descendant of the Elliott family. This contact provided a great deal of fresh information about Joseph Ohnsat, who died in Pittsburgh PA in 1880.

The letter continued...

From the two marriage records, I gleaned the location of Grüben Falkenberg, Prussia for the Ohnsat family and of Baden for the Salinger family. Using catalogs made available on the internet by the Church of Latter Day Saints, I found Church Registers of Grüben in Kreis (county) Falkenberg, a county in the Schlesien district of Ostpreußen (East Prussia). 

The photo shows typical “Sunday clothes” of 19th-Century Schlesien.

Grüben is a small town of about 500 residents today. It is within about 30 miles of the town of Neisse, and within ten miles of the Neisse River. Since the Prussian empire broke up in the early Twentieth Century, and since the eastern borders of Germany were changed numerous times around WW II, the area now is in the south-central part of Poland. The town is named Grabin in Polish, and its county seat is now named Niemodlin. It is in the Polish state of Opole.

I have reviewed the Church Registers of Grüben, and the handwriting in the volumes is very hard to read. With the help of a transcription service, I have identified my 2nd great grandparents (and your great grandparents) : Franz Ohnsat (b. about Jan 1803) and Catharina Scholz (b. about Aug 1806). Catharina’s family name may have been “Schotz,” since the handwriting in the Church Register is somewhat illegible. Franz and Catharina were married in Grüben on 15 Nov 1831. They had seven children I know of: Franz Josef (b. 13 Mar 1833), Johann Robert (b.18 Sep 1835), Franz Anton (b. 10 Dec 1837), Maria Caroline (b. 8 Jul 1840), Joseph August (b. 3 Jul 1842), Carl Anton (b. 13 Oct 1844), and Johann Heinrich (b. 2 Apr 1847). I have not researched the Church Registers for marriages or deaths of these children, so I cannot guess whether only your grandfather and one grand uncle emigrated to the U.S.

Also according to the Church Registers, the father of Franz Ohnsat was Joseph Ohnsat, who had died by the date of Franz’ wedding to Catharina Scholz. Catharina’s father was Johann Scholz, a farmer. Both families were from Grüben, as were the unrelated witnesses to the marriage of Franz and Catharina. By their stated occupations, Johann Scholz owned a fair amount of farmland, but Joseph Ohnsat owned a smaller parcel.

I was contacted recently by a researcher whose 3rd Great Grandmother Johanna Juliana Scholz is a sister to my 2nd Great Grandmother Catharina Scholz. This researcher lives near Heidelberg Germany, and they are familiar with the area of Grüben, as well as other areas of Germany where I pursue research.

At least with online phone directories, there are no German families with the name Ohnsat today. The family name has several variant spellings in the Church Registers, including Ohnsatt, Ohnsath, and Ohnesat. Other variant spellings may include Ohnezeit and Ohneseit, which are more common names in today’s Germany than the spelling Ohnsat. I have contacted several researchers with the names Ohneseit and Ohnezeit, but they have not returned e-mails to date.

I found the European home of your grandmother also: Breisach am Rhein, in Kreis Breisgau-Hochscwarzwald, in the state of Baden (today Baden-Württemberg).
Breisach am Rhein is on the eastern bank of the Rhein River, at the extreme southwestern corner of today’s Germany. The county that surrounds the town shares borders with France and Switzerland. The county population is about 243.000 residents, and the town itself has 8,644 residents.

I have reviewed the Church Registers of Breisach am Rhein, and the handwriting in the volumes is a bit easier to read than the Grüben records. I have identified my 2nd great grandparents : Georg Salinger and Katherina Vogel. I have not found their marriage record yet, but I have found four of their children: Carl Julius (b. 26 Mar 1833), Anton Herrmann (b.21 Jun 1836), Maria Anna Josepha (b. 21 Mar 1838), and Anna Maria Leopoldina (b. 30 May 1839). I have not researched the Church Registers for marriages or deaths of these children, so I cannot guess whether only your grandmother emigrated to the U.S.

I have researched the Ohnsat family in the U.S. by reviewing censuses of the last twenty years of the 19th Century.

• In the U.S. Census of 23 Jun 1880, the Robert Ohnsat family lived in Bloom township of Osborne county, Kansas. Robert gave his age as 45 and said he was born in Prussia. His wife Leopoldina gave her age as 34 and said she was born in Baden. Their children’s ages were given as 6 for Frank, 4 for Louiza or Louise, and 2 for Barney. Their neighbors then included the families of Nicholas ARNOLDY, Peter SIMEON, John ARNOLDY, Philip SCHROEDER, Martin OTTLEY, Peter REINERT, Franz RIEDEL, Frank BORDEN, Nicholas RHEINHART, and Nick GASPER. 

• In the Kansas Census of 1 Mar 1885, the family reported ages of 49 for Robert, 45 for Leopoldina, 11 for Francis, 9 for Louisa, and 6 for Barney. None of the children had attended school within the year, but none were reported as illiterate either. Robert reported owning 320 acres, which were fully in use as farmland, with a value of $1200 for the land and $70 for farm implements and machinery. 50 acres were sown in wheat, 11 in corn, 8 in oats, 0.5 in Irish potatoes, and 1 in millet. He had 150 bushels of corn on hand and 200 bushels of wheat. He had cut 9 tons of prairie hay in 1884.He had sold $5 worth of eggs the previous year, and had made 200 pounds of butter. His livestock included 4 horses, 6 milk cows, 13 other cattle, and 13 swine with a total value of $24. He had 112 peach trees and 6 cherry trees. He had one dog. 

• The U.S. Census of 1890 was lost due to a fire in a storage area, which was destroyed in 1921. Of the millions of detailed questionnaires completed for the Eleventh Census of the United States, taken in June 1890, only a fragment of the general population schedules and an incomplete set of special schedules enumerating Union veterans and widows are available today. All the records of Kansas were lost. 

• In the Kansas Census of 1 Mar 1895, the family reported ages of 59 for Robert, 56 for Leopolina, 21 for Francis, 19 for Louisa, and 16 for Bernhart. Only “Bernhart” had attended school within the year, but none were reported as illiterate either. Robert reported owning 320 acres, all “under fence,” of which 100 acres were in cultivation, with a value of $3000 for the land and $75 for farm implements and machinery. 25 acres were sown in wheat, 50 in corn, 5 in oats, 1 in Irish potatoes, and 1 in sorghum for forage or seed. His plans for the next year were 40 acres wheat, 100 acres corn, 8 acres oats, 2 acres Irish potatoes, 5 acres millet, and 1 acre Kaffir corn. He had 200 bushels of wheat on hand. He had cut 25 tons of prairie hay in 1884.He had sold $12 worth of eggs the previous year, and had made 200 pounds of butter. His livestock included 9 horses, 4 milk cows, 60 other cattle, and 53 swine with a total value of $366. He had 2 apple trees and 1 peach tree, and 0.25 acre vineyards; artificial forested area was 1 acre honey locust and 9 acres other varieties. He had one dog.

I have relatively little information about two of the three children of John Robert and Leopoldina Ohnsat. Could you review the information here for you and your brothers and sisters, and help me fill in the missing data?

The letter continued for another four pages, filled with information about Alice's parents, uncles, and aunts. Since they lived into the 20th C, I will provide the information only by private email to family members.

© Thomas G. Kohn, 2013.

The Kansas leg from Kansas City MO to Tipton KS

This post is a stub entry, which is constantly being added to with raw research data about the availability of train travel and the existing roads in the period 1865 (the immigration of John M Kohn) through 1877 (the resettling of the Robert Ohnsat family) and 1883 (the resettling of the Anton Deneke family). This posting records what information I find. If you have further information or know of websites that may provide something, please leave a comment.

I guess that the trip to Tipton and Osborne county could have been made most easily by train, at least from about 1870 on. However, the traveler by train might have limits on how many possessions they could bring. If a family was moving their household belongings, perhaps the more efficient means would be by wagon.

• I know nothing of how John M. Kohn came to Kansas. His first home in the U.S. was likely La Crosse WI.
• According to family anecdote, the Robert Ohnsat family came to Kansas from Pittsburgh PA via Conestoga wagon.
• I know nothing of how the Anton Deneke came to Kansas. Their first home in the U.S. was Cincinnati OH.

Trails and Rails

Santa Fe Trail Research documents a lot of information about the forts established to protect wagon trains, stage coaches, and other travel across Missouri and Kansas. The site also has an index of articles found in the periodical Wagon Tracks, including a number of references to the forts Riley, Leavenworth, Ellsworth, Hays; railroads, stage coaches, Salina KS, Saline county MO, and the Solomon River, wagon trains, and many other topics. A fort existed near Leavenworth KS from about 1827, as reported on the site. Detail there about Fort Ellsworth says, "In June 1864, "Fort Ellsworth, Kansas" was established at the site of the Page Ranche. The fort was one of several that served to protect the area of Central Kansas and the Santa Fe Trail." So far, I have not found a map of the pioneer trails on the site, and its greatest lack is illustrative material in general.

The Legends of America site has detail about the Smoky Hill Trail, which connected travelers from Fort Leavenworth to Denver. Following this trail, the Butterfield Overland Dispatch could travel from Atchison to Denver in about 3.5 months (for example, from 4 June to 23 September in 1865). The stage line was active only from 1865 through 1870, after which train travel obviated its need.

The Legends of Kansas site documents a list of railroad service to the state. However, no maps show clearly  which railway came close to Osborne and Tipton.

The Thompson Family History site records a history that states "On Oct. 18, 1916 the Salina Northern Train arrived in Tipton. It ran between Osborne and Salina." from a history compiled by Adeline Arnoldy. The Tipton municipal site has the same historical record.

According to Solomon Valley Heritage, the first rail to reach the area was to Downs in 1879 and then to Osborne, its terminus. Tipton received service much later from a line that came from Salina. The site also provides a bit of detail about other travel in the period 1865-1880. A detailed early-history of Solomon Valley towns brings new information about the location where my great-grandparents married. Heretofore I had thought they were married at the hotel of Waconda Springs. But now I realize a town named Waconda was begun about two miles south of Cawker City, and it did not survive for many years beyond 1875.

Missouri

Another blog entry holds information about the route the Ohnsat family took through Missouri to Jackson County and Kansas City. In 1877, Kansas City MO was a booming town for about 50,000 citizens who knew it as the Town of Kansas, its incorporated name from 1853. (The city would be renamed in 1889 to Kansas City.)

The bridge across the Missouri River built in 1867 by the Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad indicates the growing importance of the city over others in the area, especially St. Joseph MO and Leavenworth KS to the north. The bridge allowed the first rail service to crossing into Kansas and connected Chicago to Texas by a direct link.

Topic: wagon and foot bridges at Kansas City available in 1877

Kansas

The exact route of travel for the resettling family is easy to dispute, since the state was still developing its infrastructure in the last quarter of the 19th Century. As a starting point, I assume the path was relatively a straight line from Kansas City to Salina. This route parallels the modern-day U.S. 40 and Interstate 70. From Salina, the family could have traveled west to Ellsworth and then north or northerly through Lincoln, Mitchell, and Osborne counties. An alternate path from Salina could take them north through Ottawa, Cloud, and Mitchell counties.

Wyandotte County

A plat map of Wyandotte County from 1887 is available. Although many roads exist by then, their alignment to the meridians at one-mile intervals leads me to believe that their quality was low and purpose was farmland access. The most likely throughfare followed the north bank of the Kansas River westward through Muncy, Edwardsville, and Bonner Springs. The road from Bonner Springs is uncertain.

The county population grew five-fold from 10,015 in 1870 to 54,407 in 1890.

Leavenworth County

A plat map of Leavenworth County from 1878 is available. Again, most roads are aligned to the meridian grid, and a clear throughfare is not clear. But a section of road between Le Mare and Stranger that bends in parallel to the railway may indicate its importance as a throughfare from Bonner Springs in Wyandotte County. I would presume the due-west road from Stranger was the continuation of the throughfare.

Tonganoxie

A fellow researcher cited the importance of Tonganoxie, which in the 1878 map is a stop on the Leavenworth Branch of the Kansas Pacific Railroad. However, roadway use as a throughfare is less clear.

Leavenworth

Topic: Could the family have chosen to go north first to Leavenworth from Kansas City? Where would that path lead them in a westerly journey?

Douglas County

Plat maps only from 1873 are available.

Lawrence

Shawnee County

Plat maps only from 1873 and 1898 are available.

Topeka

Wabaunsee County

Plat maps from 1885 are available.

Alma

Geary County

Plat maps only from 1909 are available.

Junction City

Dickinson County

Plat maps only from 1901 are available.

Abilene

Saline County

Plat maps available for 1884 and 1903. Because of a difference of only three years, I present the 1884 maps here.

Salina

Ellsworth County

Plat maps only from 1901 are available.

Russel

Ohio National Road Association lists some Ohio historical societies.

Lincoln County

Plat maps only from 1901 are available.

Osborne County

Plat maps only from 1900 and 1917 are available.

Mitchell County

Plat maps from 1884 and 1902 are available.

Cloud County

Plat maps from 1885 are available.
Ottawa County

Plat maps [supply dates] are available.