2016 Fall Newsletter

Letter from the President We have had several large tour groups visit the mu TFVN MBUFMZ 0VS OFX *OEJBO 3PPN JT B CJH IJU ć F tee-pee is up and the children love to see it. We have invited all the Miami County schools to bring their classes to visit the museum or use it for research. We have items on display this month to honor our Miami County Veterans. We also have a complete room dedicated to the Military. In building one, the Christmas tree is up and the an tique toys and ornaments are out on display. We have been selling a lot of memorial bricks for the Park Square. If you would like to have a brick, or bricks, celebrating you or your family, give us a call. ć F CSJDLT BSF FBDI :PV DBO HP UP QBHF GPS details.

Colleen Ewan

Save the date of December 13 from 12:00 to 3:00 p.m. and come to the open house to honor Bettie Ore. Bettie was one of the co-founders of the Miami County Museum which was started in 1965. Colleen Ewan, President

LIBRARY Work is progressing on going through the boxes of civil records we received in May from the courthouse. Decisions are being made on what to do with them. ć F BFSJBM NBQT SFDFJWFE FBSMJFS IBWF CFFO QVU JO PSEFS and are for the year of 2012. We are also going through the many boxes of genealogy records from .BSHBSFU 4NJUI BOE QVUUJOH UIFN JO ĕ MFT .BSHBSFU IBE done much research on the many lines of her family. And then we are back to getting the history of the buildings around the square. All this takes up a lot more time than the space here to tell about it. Betty Bendorf, Librarian

Library Research ć F GPMMPXJOH BSF XBML JO SFTFBSDIFST UP UIF MJCSBSZ recently and surnames or information being re searched. Hilary Weber (Weaver, Crose, McTeer, Persinger) James T Karr (Karr) Rosemary Kaiser (McCullough 1840-1961, Foresman 1861-1968) Susan Toman (Toman 1920-1935, Gordon 1870 1910, Ryan 1910) Barbara A. Ferrell (Odenbaugh) Steve Rohrer (Rohrer) Janice Prothe (Jenison/Jennison, Bowen, Hart, Kimes) Sharon Crawford Lake (Crawford) PamSirko (info from cemetery book) Sandra Dennis (Info from Osawatomie State Hospital) +FČ SFZ 1 4QFODFS (Martz, Spencer) Barbara Moore +PTFQI 3 .D%BOJFM ć PNBT 4 McDaniel) ć FTF SFTFBSDIFST DBNF GSPN UIF TUBUFT PG ,BOTBT Missouri, Texas, Colorado, Minnesota, Ohio, and California.

TOMORROW IS ANOTHER TOWN ć F "OBUPNZ PG B $JSDVT An autobiography by James R. Patterson A history of the Great Patterson Shows when the circus maintained winter quarters in Paola. Tax included price is $28.00 " HSFBU $ISJTUNBT HJę How to purchase on page 22

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