2016 Fall Newsletter

Queries AnnSpeck wanted copies of Indianapolis cemetery pages. Benjamin Cloud wants any information on Eva )PČ NBO &XJOH "MBO 4XJN XBOUFE PCJU GPS .BVE (Haughn) Hume Susan Toman Rouchka is looking for cemetery re cords for Mahala Gordon and Rufus L Gordon Sr. Ann Dysart Edmondson wanted obits and cemetery records for Hannah Dysart, Dr. Elbert Hoagland and ldah Hoagland. Angie Hackett wanted records from Osawatomie State Hospital Vicki A. Boyer wanted record from Osawatomie State Hospital on Marie W. Boone. Belinda Wilkerson wants obits for Nicks, Weaver and White families Mary Westerhold wants death and burial information on Joseph Weishaupt who in 1940 was in the Osawato mie State Hospital Tina Martin is looking for burial information on 3rd great Uncle Alford Morgan who was in Osawatomie State Hospital 1880-1900 MikeClark JT USZJOH UP ĕ OE PCJU GPS 3PZ .JMMFS Melissa Frazier wants information about early places for the delivering of babies in Paola Jane Fairburn wants death records for Ellinor Miller Yates Jones, John Clement Jones and Olive Dysart Jones. BeckyHale IPQFT UP ĕ OE JOGPSNBUJPO PO .ST /JOB Orm who died at the Osawatomie State Hospital Aug 171918. Jane Fairburn needs documentation on the obits we had sent her ć FTF RVFSJFT IBWF CFFO SFTFBSDIFE CZ &MTJF $PSEMF and Iris Kluber.

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