Not much. Too far back for that.
The only story that came down from the Kansas Free Staters is that John Brown stopped off at the family farm near Fort Scott a number of times. Four adult family members, including my great-great-great grandfather Ezra Chandler and his wife, died young at Fort Scott, leaving their family to scatter...some west to Oregon, some to Nebraska, and some back east. Some of them never saw each other again, and others not for as much as the next fifty years.
My great-great grandfather Abner Chandler returned to Lake County Illinois where he joined Company D of the Illinois 96th Volunteer Infantry at the age of sixteen, serving throughout the war. He was wounded at the battle of Kenesaw Mountain, and recovered enough to fight at the battles of Franklin and Nashville. He ended up being one of the pioneers of Sac County, Iowa.
The Missouri clan, most families of which can be traced back through Kentucky to Tidewater Virginia, included Joel and Patsy Stollings Estes, who after having made a small fortune in California during the gold rush, ended up driving the first horses and cattle into Colorado...eventually discovering and then claiming what became Estes Park...the gateway to what is now Rocky Mountain National Park. They also brought the first black slaves to Colorado, which was a wonderment to the Indians. Thousands of them flocked to see this strange sight. It’s said that it was very difficult to keep the Indians from stealing them. Joel freed his slaves in Missouri not long before Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation was issued.
That’s some pretty good family history. Something to pass down the generations.
My family got off the ship and struck out for the Virginia wilderness, squatted on some ground and we’ve been here ever since.
You know how Scotts can be. Give’em some hills and they’re happy.