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From: "rose" <>
Subject: Re: [MO-CW] Cass County Home Guard
Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2008 11:46:07 -0600
References: <552055.26979.qm@web50207.mail.re2.yahoo.com><000b01c8813d$42bbc810$6f01a8c0@kri>


I think I had to go to groups and then put the KansasMissouri War down but
I finally accessed it!

Rose Mary Lankford

----- Original Message -----
From: "Don Knight" <>
To: <>
Sent: Saturday, March 08, 2008 10:55 AM
Subject: Re: [MO-CW] Cass County Home Guard


> Arleigh,
>
> I went to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/KansasMissouriWar/
>
> I copied and pasted . I
> received this message: Windows cannot find
> ''. Check the spelling and try
> again.
>
> then I typed in . I received
> the
> same message: Windows cannot find
> ''. Check the spelling and try
> again.
>
> Can you help?
>
> I grew up in Cass county, 1952-1984. My family lived outside of Peculiar,
> adjacent to what was known as "the tree in the middle of the road."
> Self-explanatory. About 4 miles north of Morristown. There were just a
> few
> "stories" about guerillas and Kansas Jayhawkers I heard as a youngster. I
> later found that some of those stories had significant elements of truth.
> For example, the farm we lived on at one time was owned by the Williams
> family. A family friend, L. D. "Drew" Laffoon told us that his
> great-uncle
> was hung by some "bushwhackers" in the barn of John Williams, and was
> buried
> at the foot of a walnut tree. Drew pointed out the walnut tree. In the
> 1960s this walnut tree was located in the southwest corner of our larger
> garden. In the last few years I noted that the tree still stands.
>
> Don Knight
>
>
>
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