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From: Jennifer <>
Subject: Re: [KANSAS] Minden Kansas
Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2003 10:44:14 -0600
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Hi!
Did your grandparents live near the KS/NE border? There is a Minden, NE.
Since the doctor was from NE, perhaps your mother was delivered there. I
would check it out.

Good luck!
Jennifer
in cold Dodge City, KS
----- Original Message -----
From: "Trudee Svaldi" <>
To: <>
Sent: Saturday, January 25, 2003 10:20 AM
Subject: [KANSAS] Minden Kansas


> Is there such a place? My mother was supposedly born in Minden, KS, in
> 1913. - I know there is a Munden, but there is no record there. The
doctor
> who delivered her was from Nebraska. Just wondered if there ever had been
a
> town by that name. She had written to Munden, but they couldn't find any
> records there. Her name was Opal Umphenour, daughter of Roy and Maude
> Stewart Umphenour. Any help solving this mystery would be appreciated.
> Trudee
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jim Laird" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2003 8:14 AM
> Subject: [KANSAS] Article: Many Kansas Postoffices Reported Discontinued;
> January 1916
>
>
> > The Topeka Daily Capital
> > Wednesday
> > January 19, 1916
> >
> > Many Kansas Postoffices Reported Discontinued.
> >
> > According to the January issue of the United States postal guide
received
> by Postmaster W.O. Rigby yesterday, the following postoffices in Kansas
have
> been discontinued:
> >
> > Drywood (mail to Arcadia), Crawford County
> > Francis (mail to Bazine), Ness County
> > Halifax(mail to Alma), Wabaunsee County
> > Otto (mail to Dexter), Cowley County
> > Ransomville (mail to Homewood), Franklin County
> > Schadel (mail to Alexander), Pawnee County
> > Stippville (mail to Columbus), Cherokee County
> > Stockholm (mail to Weskan), Wallace County
> > Twin Creek (mail to Osborne), Osborne County.
> >
> > These have been established:
> > Catharine (re-established), Ellis County.
> > Groveland, McPherson County
> > Huscher, Cloud County
> > Ringo, Crawford County.
> >
> >
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