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Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Leavenworth County, Kansas. Official Website In 1855, Leavenworth County was established and was named, as was its county seat, after Henry Leavenworth, an officer in the War of 1812. By a special act of Congress, the reservation for the U.S. Penitentiary was deeded by the War Department to the Justice Department in 1897 to build t...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Kansas City, Wyandotte County, Kansas. It is not to be confused with Kansas City, Missouri Official Website In October 1872, "old" Kansas City, Kansas, was incorporated. The first city election was held on October 22 of that year, by order of Judge Hiram Stevens of the Tenth Judicial District, and resulted in the election of Mayo...
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
Wikipedia = Find a Grave Leavenworth National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located in the city of Leavenworth, Kansas. It occupies 128.8 acres of land. As of the end of 2005 it had 30,875 interments. It is sometimes locally referred to as "Old Soldiers' Home".
Mount Muncie Cemetery (1866) is tucked into a hillside along the Lansing/Leavenworth border and within view of Leavenworth National Cemetery. It has many famous graves, including Kansas' second Governor, Fred Harvey (Harvey House Restaurants), D. R. Anthony (Susan B's brother and important in Kansas during the Bloody years) and Walter Cronkite's mother. The most infamous graves are those of pr...
This project is for those buried in Mt. Calvary Cemetery, Leavenworth, Leavenworth County, Kansas. The cemetery is located on 1011 North DeSoto Road and is also known as Mt. Calvary Catholic Cemetery . The land was purchased on September 20, 1865 for $3,200. It was surveyed March 3, 1869, and a map was drawn for G.T. Nells, C.E. The first burial took place on June 12, 1869. The cemetery offic...