Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas 1999
12 December 2009
Elton and Greg at Fort Scott KS Fort Scott Kansas, home to the 2nd Kansas Battery of Light Artillery We travelled the road along the Kansas side of the Kansas/Missouri border. We visited Baxter Springs and Fort Scott.
12 December 2009
Jasper County was where Jarrett Foster and his family settled when they came to MO. It is one county west of Lawrence Co. where Frederick and his family settled. It is bordered on the west by Kansas. These western MO counties were the scene of plenty of guerilla violence and intimidation during Bleeding Kansas and […]
12 December 2009
Lawrence Co. MO was home tto Fredrick Foster and his family when they settled in MO. Brother Jarrett settled one county further west, Jasper Co. These were both well populated with southern famillies and were infact part of the state that seperated from the official government and sesseeded from the union. The southern counties of […]