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From: "Gwen Weikal" <>
Subject: Re: [OHBUTLER-L] Ohio to Kansas
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 00:19:37 -0500
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My ancestors came to Kansas because of the homestead act.

Ce ce wrote:

> My Gr grandfather was a railroad man and he went from OH to KS to MO. My
> guess is a lot of these people did likewise for the work.

Round 1930 wrote:>
> > I believe that many of them came in the 1850s and 1860s. I remember
seeing
> > something in an old paper about a get together in Doniphan Co, KS and
> there
> > were a number of former 'buckeyes" present including my ancestors Ezra
and
> > John Round, who migrated from Butler Co, to Indiana, then to Buchanan
Co.,
> MO
> > and then to Doniphan Co. Charles Round


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