[colorado tanker]

It's interesting to see Osawatomie referred to as in Southeastern Kansas; I think of it as East Central.

After Kansas admission, the state mental hospital was placed there. I doubt that was because Pottawatomie Brown once lived there; the Free Staters didn't think he was crazy. Probably more because it was an early Free State settlement.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

It's interesting to see Osawatomie referred to as in Southeastern Kansas; I think of it as East Central.

I've been trying to nail down my family history in KS to see if any of my forebears were involved in this part of our history. My great-great grandfather was born in Stark Co. OH in 1818 and died in La Cygne KS in 1886. That is close to the MO state line. His son, my great grandfather, was born in Davis IN in 1852 and died in Adrian MO in 1928. That is just a short distance from La Cygne KS. With those dates and the fact that La Cygne was not founded until the railroad was established there in 1869 I suspect that the Simpsons, er, Deardorffs didn't arrive in the area until after the Civil War.