Central Kansas Library System

A collection of letters by nineteenth-century homesteader Howard Ruede in which he chronicles his first year in Kansas while writing back to his family in Pennsylvania, covering topics such as poverty, unsanitary conditions, and starvation.

The concept of this work is to list every known formal burial that has occurred within what is now Osborne County, Kansas. Information for each entry comes from myriad of sources. These include cemetery surveys, obituaries, county records of land, probate, and taxes, and census data, as well as published biographical books for the area. A map of cemetery locations, graves of unknown individuals, and lot maps of the Downs and Osborne cemeteries are...