The Merwin family consisted of the father, Hugh, his wife, Adelia, and three children. They were living in Chicago at the time of the...

Nels Erickson was born in Sweden in 1832. His father was a small farmer and wished his son to take a different path. When Nels was old...

Odd as it may seem, the Kansas climate is/was beneficial to many individuals. Those who suffered from consumption (tuberculosis) found...

The Fahlsing family left Germany in 1872 and first settled in Iowa. Seven years later they had settled in Edwards County, Kansas....

There is a rather large contemporary headstone in Hillside Cemetery with three names on one side and one on the other. The three names...

Like many Civil War veterans, E.M. was enticed by cheap land and leaving a war-torn countryside behind them. Thus, he brought his wife...

Grace and Harvey Brand were brother and sister who died one month apart in 1886. There are no other relatives buried in Edwards County....

In March of 1884, Thomas and Bridget Carroll left Missouri in a covered wagon and arrived on their homestead in Edwards County, Kansas....

James C. Jones, his wife, Elizabeth, and their two children were early settlers of Ford County. On the 8th of November 1835 in New...

F.C. Blanchard is credited with the founding and continued growth of and Kinsley, Edwards, Kansas. Ferdinand Clinton Blanchard was born...