Douglas County - What's New?
JANUARY 2016
~ Eudora Cemetery Register, 1870-1921
~ 1902 Lecomption City Directory
~ Census substitute: March 1868 voters, Grant township.
OCTOBER 2015
~ Census substitute: October 1867 voters, Eudora and Wakarusa townships--more to come.
~ Census substitute: March 1868 voters, Kanwaka township and North Lawrence, 1st Ward--more to come.
~ Added several older obituaries.
MARCH 2015
~ Fred "The Deacon" Buckminster, fun stories by Jerry Hale about his con-man cousin.
JANUARY 2015
~ 1889 burials, Oak Hill and Maple Grove cemeteries, Lawrence.
~ 1878 Farmers' Directory
~ 1889 Post Office and Postmasters
~ "Old Settlers," 1891
MARCH 2012
~ 1888 Township Officials
~ 1894 G.A.R. Posts and Rosters--Eudora, Clinton, Lecompton, Vinland and Baldwin posts.
~ Charles Lawrence Robinson, Kansas' First Governor--written and submitted by Jan Tompkins.
~ North Lawrence School photo, group of students, circa 1892
FEBRUARY 2012
~ 1867-1868 County Business Directory
~ 1873 Plat Maps, all Townships
~ Mortality Reports, Oak Hill and Maple Grove Cemeteries, Lawrence, 1887, 1888, 1890, 1891 (months of Jan., Feb. and Apr., only) and 1892 (1892 includes Apr. through Sept. only)
~ Swedish and Danish immigration
~ 23 bios from "Portrait and Biographical Record of Leavenworth, Douglas and Franklin Counties, Kansas"
~ First Presbyterian Church, Lawrence, charter members and 1888 membership roll
~ "End of Year" death records from newspapers for 1898, 1899 and 1900
~ List of soldiers buried in Oak Hill Cemetery, Lawrence, 1906
~ List of soldiers buried in Maple Grove, Franklin and Oread cemeteries, 1904
~ 1887 County Map
~ African-American enlistees, Spanish American War
~ 1902 and 1904 Teaching Certificates
~ Over 100 obituaries, most over 100 years old
~ Lawrence High School, Classes of 1893, 1894, 1895, 1897, 1904 and 1910 list of graduates
~ 1915 Lawrence Schools 8th Grade Graduates
~ County 8th Grade Graduates, 1895, 1911 and 1921
~ Lawrence Volunteer Company, Spanish-American War enlistees
~ "School Reports," various years
~ 1889 Lawrence Business Directory
~ 1873 County Business Notices
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