Genealogy Projects tagged with Kansas on the Geni Family Tree

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  • Graham County, Kansas

    Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Graham County, Kansas. Official Website Master Project Graham Name Study Graham County was established and named for Captain John Livingston Graham, a Union soldier killed in action at the Battle of Chickamauga in Tennessee on September 19, 1863. Company D., 8th Kansas Infantry Adjacent Counties Ellis County Rooks County ...

  • Gove County, Kansas

    Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Gove County, Kansas. Official Website In 1868, Gove County was established and named for Granville Llewellyn Gove, member of the 11th Regiment Kansas Volunteer Cavalry, and son of Moses Gove, a former mayor of Manhattan, Kansas. Adjacent Counties Graham County Lane County Logan County Ness County Scott County Sherid...

  • Goodland Cemetery, Goodland, Kansas

    This project is for those buried in Goodland Cemetery, Goodland, Sherman County, Kansas. Find a Grave Billion Graves

  • Cloud County, Kansas

    Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Cloud County, Kansas. Official Website In 1867, Cloud County was established. Cloud county was originally named "Shirley" county, but civic leaders feared that sounded too much like the name of a prostitute. It was then renamed "Cloud" county in honor of Colonel William F. Cloud. Cloud County was formed from the existing Washingto...

  • Glasco Cemetery, Glasco, Kansas

    This cemetery is located on 550 Clay Road, Glasco, Cloud County, Kansas. Find a Grave

  • Nemaha County, Kansas

    Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Nemaha County, Kansas.= Official Website =Nemaha County was created in 1855 and was named for the Nemaha river, an Indian word meaning either "muddy water" or "no papoose." Adjacent Counties * Brown County * Richardson County, Neb. * Jackson County * Pottawatomie County * Marshall County * Pawnee County, Neb. Cities, Townships & Commu...

  • Geary County, Kansas

    Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Geary County, Kansas. Official Website Geary County was originally named Davis County in 1855 after Jefferson Davis (then the United States Secretary of War). During the American Civil War, when Davis became president of the Confederacy, attempts were made to change the county's name, but both failed. Federal and state census record...

  • St. Fidelis Cemetery, Victoria, Kansas

    This project is for those who are buried in St. Fidelis Cemtery, Victoria, Ellis County, Kansas. Find a Grave Billion Graves

  • Lyon County, Kansas

    Please add profiles for those who were born in Lyon County, Kansas.= Official Website =In 1806, Zebulon Pike led the Pike Expedition westward from St Louis, Missouri, of which part of their journey followed the Cottonwood River through Lyon County.In 1862, Lyon County was established from the county formerly known as Breckinridge County. It was named for General Nathaniel Lyon, who was killed a...

  • Chase County, Kansas

    Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Chase County, Kansas. Official Website History The Great Plains of North America was inhabited by nomadic Native Americans. From the 16th century to 18th century, the Kingdom of France claimed ownership of large parts of North America. In 1762, after the French and Indian War, France secretly ceded New France to Spain, per the Tre...

  • Franklin County, Kansas

    Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Franklin County, Kansas. Official Website In 1855, Franklin County was established. The county was named after Benjamin Franklin. Adjacent Counties Douglas County Miami County Osage County Anderson County Linn County Coffey County Cities & Towns Lane Minneola Norwood Ottawa (County Seat) Pomona Pr...

  • Republic County, Kansas

    Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Republic County, Kansas. Official Website In 1860, Republic County was established by the Kansas legislature. And, in 1861, Kansas became the 34th U.S. state. The county is named for the Republican River, which enters at the northwestern corner of the county, flowing slightly east of south, and leaving the county about eight miles e...

  • Frankfort Cemetery, Frankfort, Kansas

    Willow Hill Cemetery was platted in 1885 by Jay Gano who, with his wife Jane, were buried here in 1911 and 1912. Later the cemetery was incorporated into the Frankfort Cemetery and today is the area of Frankfort Cemetery north of Tumbleweed Road, in Marshall County. Find a Grave

  • Fort Leavenworth National Cemetery

    Wikipedia Fort Leavenworth National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located on Fort Leavenworth, a United States Army installation north of Leavenworth, Kansas. Find a Grave

  • Fort Riley

    Fort Riley is a United States Army installation located in North Central Kansas, on the Kansas River, also known as the Kaw, between Junction City and Manhattan. The Fort Riley Military Reservation covers 101,733 acres in Geary and Riley counties. The portion of the fort that contains housing development is part of the Fort Riley census-designated place, with a residential population of 7,761 a...

  • Riley County, Kansas

    Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Riley County, Kansas. Official Website Riley County, named for Mexican–American War general Bennet Riley, was on the western edge of the 33 original counties established by the Kansas Territorial Legislature in August 1855. The first Territorial Capital of Kansas Territory was located in the boundaries of Riley County, in the form...

  • Reno County, Kansas

    Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Reno County, Kansas. Official Website Reno County was established in 1867 and was named for Major-General Jesse Lee Reno who fought in the Civil War and died in the line of duty at the Battle of South Mountain in Maryland in 1862. Adjacent Counties McPherson County Rice County Harvey County Sedgwick County Kingman Cou...

  • McPherson County, Kansas

    Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in McPherson County, Kansas.= Official Website =The county was established in 1867 and was named for Civil War General James B. McPherson.From the 1820s to 1870s, the Santa Fe Trail passed through, what is now McPherson County. The trail entered the county, east of Canton, then south of Galva, then north of Inman, and west towards Lyons...

  • Barber County, Kansas

    Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Barber County, Kansas. Official Website Barber County was named for Thomas Barber, an abolitionist who was killed in Douglas County in 1855 during the Wakarusa War. Townships & Communities Aetna Deerhead Eldred Elm Mills Forest City Gerlane Hardtner Hazelton Isabel Kiowa Lake City Lasswell McAdoo Med...

  • Jefferson County, Kansas

    Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Jefferson County, Kansas.= Official Website =In 1855, Jefferson County was established, and was named for President Thomas Jefferson. Settlement of the county was slowed by events prior to and during the Civil War, but the present day unincorporated community of Thompsonville was the first established in 1851 by Mormon settlers who in...

  • Marion County, Kansas

    Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Marion County, Kansas.= Official Website ==History=In 1855, Marion County was established. The first settlers in Marion County located on Doyle Creek, near the present site of Florence. They were Moses Shane, who came in 1858, and whose death the next year was the first in the county; Patrick Doyle, in 1859, for whom Doyle Creek and T...

  • Elgin Cemetery, Elgin, Kansas

    This project is for those buried in Elgin Cemetery, Elgin, Chautauqua County, Kansas. Find a Grave

  • Fort Scott National Cemetery

    Wikipedia =Fort Scott National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located near Fort Scott, in Bourbon County, Kansas. Find a Grave

  • Maple Grove Cemetery, Fort Scott, Kansas

    This project is for those buried in Maple Grove Cemetery, Fort Scott, Bourbon County, Kansas. Find a Grave

  • Syracuse Cemetery, Syracuse, Kansas

    This project is for those buried in Syracuse Cemetery, Syracuse, Hamilton County, Kansas. Find a Grave Kansas Gravestones

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