Emanuel and Eliza Kissel brought their three daughters to Ford County in 1881. They settled nine miles north of Wright along the Sawlog...

In 1878, Joseph and Margaret loaded their four young children on a train and headed to Kansas. At that time, the train tracks were only...

Coming to Ford County in 1877 and settling five miles east of Spearville just north of the Santa Fe Trail ruts was Urias Krom and his...

Headstones in cemeteries can reveal to us how difficult and tragic life was in those days of early pioneers settling the Midwest. The...

The original headstone for this article, Nancy Linscott, ended up being a story involving four people and two headstones. Three are from...

Thomas B. Stewart was an early settler and Civil War veteran. Thomas Byers Stewart was born on January 20, 1828, in West Virginia. He was...

One of the names mentioned quite frequently in my research for Spearville and Ford County history is Baird. The names in Silent Land are...