Tuesday, January 31, 2006

HISTORY OR RILEY COUNTY...Part 10

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SCHOOL AND OTHER STATISTICS. Settled with the kind of people that Riley County was, it would have been expected that they would have taken a...
Tuesday, January 24, 2006

HISTORY OF RILEY COUNTY...Part 9

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OFFICIAL ROSTER. District Judge. - 1861-64, Jacob Safford; 1865-66, C. K. Gilchrist; 1867-69, James Humphrey; 1870-74, William H. Canfield; ...
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Monday, January 23, 2006

HISTORY OF RILEY COUNTY....Part 8

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OFFICERS OF THE EARLY TIME. While Kansas was a Territory, the County Commissioners for Riley were: Clay Thompson, Thomas Reynolds, Claiborne...
Wednesday, January 18, 2006

HISTORY OF RILEY COUNTY...Part 7

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MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENTS. In the names of the municipal townships and election precincts, with shifting boundaries, there has been many and fre...
Tuesday, January 17, 2006

HISTORY OF RILEY COUNTY ...Part 6

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LOCATION OF COUNTY SEAT AND COUNTY BUILDINGS. February 18, 1856, the Commissioners made the following order: "That until the court hous...
Monday, January 16, 2006

HISTORY OF RILEY COUNTY...Part 5

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COUNTY ORGANIZATION. The Territorial Legislature, consisting of thirteen Councilmen and twenty-six Representatives, - of which Samuel D. Hou...
Sunday, January 15, 2006

HISTORY OF RILEY COUNTY...Part 4

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ELECTION DISTRICTS, ELECTIONS, AND DISTRICT COURTS. In obedience to a proclamation from Governor Reeder for the election of a Territorial de...
Saturday, January 14, 2006

Thomas Dudley Stone..Excerpt from City of the Plains

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I have this book, City of the Plains..A Story of Leonardville. It mentions our Stones, Dugans and Breese's in it. If you would like me t...

History of Riley County Part 3

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EARLY SETTLERS AND SETTLEMENTS. In the latter part of 1853, a Tennesseean by the name of Samuel D. Dyer, was running a government ferry at J...
Friday, January 13, 2006

History of Riley County Part 2

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PHYSICAL FEATURES OF THE COUNTY. Of its nearly 400,000 acres of land, about 20 per cent are bottom-lands, 80 per cent uplands, and 6 per cen...
Thursday, January 12, 2006

HISTORY OF RILEY COUNTY...Part 1

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RILEY County was the westernmost county of Kansas, having the Kansas River for its southern boundary, among those organized by the Territori...

Samuel Breese

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This is written by Donna Allen Samuel was born 1799 in Pa according to Federal Census records. He married Jane Prickett in Hamilton, Butler ...
Saturday, January 07, 2006

The Whole Family Tree

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I started to enter all the names in our tree. Took me forever to just enter the few I did! I still have a ton to add and then go back and ad...
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Tuesday, January 03, 2006

Free issue to FAMILY TREE MAGAZINE

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Tuesday, December 27, 2005

DELBERT FESTUS BREES 1875-1963

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Written by Roland Brees Delbert (Del) Breese was born on the Brees Homestead in the Alert Community of Riley County Kansas on August 5th, 18...

Thomas Dudley Stone

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Is this our Thomas Stone?

Watson's Civil War Regiment

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Great info. Tells of all the battles they were in.
Saturday, December 03, 2005

BREESE SURNAME DNA PROJECT

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Alice Clark has started up the DNA project for the Breese name. She is interested in getting some Breese males tested to see what line they ...
Friday, December 02, 2005

RILEY COUNTY KANSAS

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This is a useful website. I haven't used it in a few years, but I found alot of info on it when I did. I will need to start searching th...

SOME BREESE'S TO FOCUS ON

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I am going to post an email I got from Alice Clark. I've corresponded with her a couple of times and she is trying to make a connection ...