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Early Settlers – Emanuel and Eliza Kissel – Silent Land Cemetery, Spearville, Ford County, Kansas

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

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Early Settlers – Joseph and Margaret Herron, Silent Land Cemetery, Ford County, Kansas

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...

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Early Pioneer – Urias Krom – Silent Land Cemetery, Spearville, Ford County, Kansas

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...

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Thomas S. Mitchell & Sons – Silent Land Cemetery, Ford County, Kansas

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

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Nancy Linscott, Frances A. Southworth Curtis, Lucy E. Curtis – Silent Land Cemetery, Spearville, For

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

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Early Settlers – Silent Land Cemetery, Ford County, Kansas

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...

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Early Settlers – The Baird Families - Silent Land Cemetery, Spearville, Ford County, Kansas

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