GYPSUM HILL CEMETERY HISTORICAL WALK

This project was a joint venture of the Salina Public Library and the City of Salina Parks and Recreation Department. Funding was provided in part by Horizons, a private donor group, and the Horizons Grant Pro- gram of the Salina Arts and Humanities Commission.

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Step Light Hooked like a Wing

Silence rings here Deep in the afternoon seeps into the heart we visit Great-granddad’s grave. and steals the breath You want to run in November light My eyes squint before too bright sun pooled by a crown of old cedars.

I won’t let you. Instead I step light between rows and rows you pick up pebbles early warmed, of headstones fold them tight in the palm of your hand. plain rocks stuck in red earth no names no dates Great-grandma walks with us, her wine-red sweater keen Sadness shadows this corner against the fading. between dusty back roads When you crouch to study the ground weeds crushed by hedgerow she bends over you, hooked like a wing, I search and all and together you fingertip I find is a note taped winter grass feathered with seed. to one headstone ink-stained and useless

Jacqueline Magnuson Ash Margaret Wigley Westall

30. Johanna Almquist, born in Sweden in 1845, came to Saline County with her hus- band John and baby daughter in the spring of 1872. Over the next fifteen years as the family grew, the Almquists bought 80 acres on Iron Mound, southeast of Salina and established a home. In the late summer of 1887, John Almquist and his daughter Hilda began suffering from chills and head- aches. Soon other children complained of these symptoms. A doc- tor confirmed that they had contracted typhoid fever from the well on their property, and within a month of one another four members of the family would die of the disease. Four weeks after giving birth to her eighth child, Johanna buried her husband John Gypsum Hill Cemetery and daughter Hilda on the same day in September. With little Self-guided Walking Tour time to mourn, she hurried home to care for her newborn infant and two ailing children. Help from the doctor and neighbors Our community’s past is filled with interesting people, proved futile. Fifteen-year-old Leander died on October 22, and many of whom now rest at Gypsum Hill Cemetery. Among less than a week later, Selma Josephine died five days short of her the cemetery’s “residents” are founders of Salina, veterans of fourth birthday. American wars, politicians, journalists, children, ex-slaves, a murderer and his victims, as well as many ordinary people with poignant tales. This walk through the cemetery is de- signed to be a leisurely stroll that takes you to selected grave- sites where you will learn the stories of people who helped shape our city and county. The walk is a 1.2-mile loop that starts at the cemetery office. Please remember to respect all gravesites.

CEMETERY HISTORY

During the earliest years of settlement in Saline County, resi- dents tended to choose expedient resting places for the dead. Sto- ries are told of graves scattered around town, the choices made Researched and written by quickly, usually during times of emotional stress. One old-timer Judy Magnuson Lilly story is of an Indian child who was buried on or near the north- west corner of Santa Fe and Iron Avenues. So the story goes, the mother came each night to place food on the grave, her sorrowful cries carrying throughout the village. Charles Holtzman created a small cemetery on the southwest 28. Anderson Family This large tombstone stands as mute testi- corner of Ohio and East Cloud when his daughter Mary White mony to a tragic event that occurred one hot August day in 1902. died in childbirth in 1859. A year later, W. A. Phillips, James On a farm in the current location of the Salina Country Club golf Muir and A.M. Campbell, along with Hugh Morrison, laid out a course, Joseph and Cora Anderson lived a seemingly normal life cemetery on Morrison land along the south side of what is now with their four children, ages 6 years to almost three months. On South Street from Ninth Street to Phillips Avenue. this morning Cora left her children with their father and went into Salina to do her weekly shopping. When she returned from town On March 19, 1870, a group of men formed a stock company about one in the afternoon, she found her for the purpose of establishing a private cemetery and sold shares husband on the ground near the cistern, dy- at $10 a piece. They purchased twenty acres of land from Robert ing from self-inflicted gun shot wounds. and Elizabeth Anderson for the sum of $20 per acre. In the first She ran for help and when she and a decade or so, this hilltop graveyard was a bleak, wind-swept loca- neighbor returned and entered the house, tion that caused the local newspaper to call for officials to set out she discovered a note: “The children are in more trees and shrubbery to make the surroundings attractive. But the cistern.” It was thought that financial efforts to soften the starkness failed at first, largely because prai- worries drove Joseph Anderson to drown rie fires often rolled over the hill destroying vegetation and the his children and end his life. The funeral wooden enclosures around the graves. procession from the Anderson home to the cemetery involved three hearses and “more than a hundred rigs” As the city grew, so did the cemetery. Graves from the old that stretched out for a mile. The children were placed together in burying places were moved to Gypsum Hill. When construction one grave, two small caskets with two children in each, resting crews digging basements for a growing residential area uncovered side by side. Their mother later remarried and is buried nearby. unmarked graves, remains were carefully transferred. In 1879 Gypsum Hill officials sold the northeast section to the Catholic Cemetery Association. This became Mt. Calvary, leaving ap- 29. Jessie Wheeler, one of Salina’s two proximately 50 acres as present-day Gypsum Hill. In 1919 lot women doctors at the turn of the twentieth cen- owners petitioned the City of Salina to take over control of the tury, was born on a farm in southern Saline cemetery. The proposition was County on August 24, 1874. Educated in one- submitted to voters in April 1920 room country schools, she later received her and carried by a large majority. medical training at Women’s Medical College Several mausoleums loom of . After be- above the traditional monuments. coming certified to practice The first to be erected were the medicine and surgery in Lynch, Ripke and Amerman on May 15, 1906, Dr. Wheeler opened buildings, with Watson added an office at 238 North Ninth where she also later. Hillcrest Mausoleum was lived with her widowed mother. Her time in Salina history was finished in the latter 1920s. One of its first occupants was not long, however, and little is known about her personal or pro- H.D.Lee, who had been buried in another lot and then moved fessional life. In 1915 she succumbed to cancer at the age of when Hillcrest was finished. forty-two. 26. Henry David Lee (Hillcrest) had made his fortune in his thir- Years ago Native Daughters installed a drinking fountain at the ties, and he was just getting started. Born in Vermont, Dec 9, north entrance to the cemetery. On the fountain they placed a 1849, one of nine children, Lee lost his father at age four. He plaque reading: lived in a foster home for eight years and then struck out on his Erected to the memory of the early pioneers of own. At the age of sixteen, Lee moved to Galion, Ohio, where he Saline County by the County Chapter worked as a night clerk, supplementing his income by polishing Native Daughters of Kansas boots and arranging transportation for traveling men. Eventually 1923 he saved and borrowed enough capital to purchase a failed oil company, which he later sold to John D. Rockefeller and the Standard Oil Company. In 1889, advised by a doctor to move farther west for relief from his pulmonary tuberculosis, Lee chose Salina in which to start Lee Mercantile Company, a wholesale grocery business. Other business concerns were the Lee Hardware Company, Kansas Ice and Storage, the Lee-Warren Flour Mill and Farmers National Bank. By 1915 he had opened a factory in Kansas City that included a line of overalls, work jackets and blue denim pants. Even after his death in 1928, the company retained his name, becoming The H. D. Lee Company in 1942, now a WALKING TOUR leading international retailer of denim wear, including Lee Jeans.

27. Charles Tressin, a Prussian immi- 1. Alexander M. and Christina Phillips Campbell each had a grant, opened his hardware store on the mighty hand in turning a patch of prairie into this town. Alexan- corner of Santa Fe and Ash Street during der joined his future brother-in-law, William A. Phillips, and the deserted years of the Civil War. He friend James Muir in laying out the preliminary survey of Salina had been here only a few months when he in March of 1858. That summer, Christina joined the men, and for looked up from his work early one morn- some time was the only permanent female ing to see six men enter his store with resident. A few months later the couple trav- their revolvers pointed at him. Like every- eled to Riley City to be married by a district one else in town, Tressin was the victim of a guerrilla raid, the judge. Often called the “Mother of Salina,” closest thing Salina had to a “Civil War battle.” At dawn on Sep- Christina helped her husband run a trading tember 17, 1862, a band of fifteen to twenty armed men rode into post, and the two developed a reputation the village and confiscated the supply of horses, mules, firearms among their Native American customers for and ammunition. Tressin told the thieves to take whatever they fair dealing. In addition to being a town foun- wanted and then was marched to the corner of Iron and Fifth der, Alexander was the county’s first postmaster, a prized frontier Street where all the Salina men were corralled. The incident in- position, collecting and dispensing mail at his store. The Camp- volved no violence, but the stolen property, which was never re- bells remained life-long residents of the area they helped to settle, covered, was vital to the settlers’ daily existence. Tressin lost always working for the interest of the town. Their son, Alexander, $300 worth of firearms brought to him for repair. Jr., and his wife Effie devoted much of their lives to collecting and documenting the history of the area. 2. Charles E. Hyde’s life was cut short by consumption, but in paper work, she was the only woman to have been made an hon- just twenty-three years, he had acquired a wealth of loyal friends. orary member of the state Anti-Horse Thief Association. In 1912, News of his death in Denver, where he when the GAR veterans had their pictures taken by photographer had gone to recover his health, was a Asa Moore, Johnson’s photo was placed in the center of the com- shock to everyone and brought many to posite. his funeral. His brother Albert A. Hyde, who in coming years would develop the 24. Andrew Jackson Lipe is one of several GAR veterans buried product Mentholatum, arrived from here who endured incarceration in Confederate prison camps like Wichita. Alexander and Christina Libby, Belle Island, Camp Thunder and the infamous Anderson- Campbell, whose daughter Christie was ville. Lipe spent two months in Andersonville in Sumter County, Hyde’s fiancée, donated a corner of their Georgia, during which time he became so ill that he had to be car- lot for his burial. Other friends erected ried out upon release. A member of the Ninth his metal pergola over his grave as a Illinois Infantry, Lipe enlisted at age 21 and tribute to his “genial ways” and his “excellent head and heart.” served two enlistments covering a period from The plaque on the center pole tells the story. 1861 through 1864. Other soldiers buried in the GAR section who suffered the hardships of 3. Benjamin J. F. and Margaret Phillips prison life include George Snead, Calvin Hanna, born in Illinois and Scotland respec- Gerard, Chapman Mann and B.F. Eggleston. tively, made early contributions to Salina his- tory. Ben Hanna was an outspoken newspaper- man with strong abolitionist views. When the 25. Maria Manners Moran served as a Civil Civil War began, President Lincoln appointed War nurse in the for three years. B.J.F. Hanna the Quartermaster of the United Most of her service was spent at General Hos- States Volunteers. Margaret gathered her chil- pital in St. Louis, caring for wounded and dy- dren and came to Salina, then a frontier out- ing soldiers. She also worked on the hospital post. For most of the war years she lived with boat “Louisiana” under John T. Hogan, Sur- her mother, Christiana Phillips, and brothers. Using her sewing geon General of Missouri, traveling from Pitts- machine, the only one for miles around, she and her sister Chris- burgh Landing on the Ohio tina Campbell sewed a Salina flag which was hoisted at the center River to Vicksburg in Mis- of town to demonstrate the residents’ loyalty to the Union cause. sissippi. For several years When the war ended, the family set up permanent residence. In before her death at age ninety-five, she was the 1867 Hanna established the first newspaper called the Salina Her- only surviving Civil War nurse in this part of ald, its issues printed on a hand press in a building on East Iron. the country. In 1863, she married George Margaret was a frequent contributor of prose and poetry. Moran, a Union soldier and Wardmaster Gen- eral at Benton Barracks, St. Louis. He served 4. David L. Phillips, younger brother of William A. Phillips, was in the hospital corps for nearly four years, re- one of the five-member Salina Town Company. Although his ceiving recognition for his loyal care and atten- family erected a monument to his memory, his body does not rest tion to wounded and dead Union soldiers. of the War of the Rebellion. The John A. Logan Post in Salina here. His disappearance remains a mystery today. Phillips left Sa- was chartered on September 4, 1882. Other posts formed within lina in June 1883 on a trip to Territory via the south- the county. The Salina post was named for a Union general who ern route through California. While traveling by served with distinction in Ulysses Grant’s campaigns. John Alex- train through a desert region of Arizona, Phillips, ander Logan also served as a commander in chief of the GAR and who suffered from migraine headaches, became conceived the idea of a Memorial Day observance distraught and irrational, telling his fellow pas- on May 30 to remember the sacrifices of fallen sengers that he had been robbed. At a railroad comrades. This special section, arranged so that stop called Volcano Springs, the road master the tombstones fan away from the flagpole, was saw Phillips leap from the train without hat, designated for the burial of members of the Grand shoes or coat and run into the sandy, isolated re- Army of the Republic. Also at the section’s apex is gion where temperatures soared during daylight the monument to the unknown, which reads “Our hours. Although the Phillips family spent time and money in at- Unknown dead are remembered.” The oldest burial tempts to find the missing man, neither his fate nor the reason for took place on January 1, 1883, when R. R. Cox his bizarre behavior was ever discovered. was moved from the Holtzman cemetery to the new GAR section. Eventually, women relatives- 5. William A. Phillips was the primary force in wives, daughters and mothers-were buried beside the founding of Salina in 1858. Yet his tomb- the veterans. Oliver Conover, 139th Illinois Infan- stone is one of the most unassuming in the try, was the last Civil War veteran buried here in 1934. The fi- cemetery. Born in Scotland, Phillips immi- nal burial in the GAR section was Katie Haynes, wife of Phillip grated to Randolph County, Illinois, with his Haynes, in 1946. parents and siblings in 1839. A free-state spokesman during Kansas Territorial days, Phillips worked as a correspondent for Horace 23. Jessie Johnson was a favorite of Greeley and the New York Tribune. During the the Grand Army of the Republic and Civil War, he earned distinction as the com- made an honorary member of the John mander of the Third Indian Home Guards, which saw action in A. Logan post. A veteran newspaper- Indian Territory, now Oklahoma. After the war, Phillips served as woman, she learned to “stick type” as a legal council for the Cherokee Nation. He was a representative for little girl for her father, Wallace H. the 74th district in the Kansas Legislature and a member-at-large Johnson, who established some seven- in the U.S. House of Representatives. Despite having two wives teen newspapers in Kansas including the Saline County Journal, and nine children, Phillips lies near only two relatives, his mother the Salina Republican and the Salina Sun. Jessie Johnson was Christiana Phillips, known by early Salina residents as “Grandma trained in all aspects of journalism from the mechanics to the re- Phillips,” and his nephew Maxwell Phillips, Jr., who was struck porting, serving as society editor and city editor for various Salina by a train south of town. The monument to Phillips’ left was newspapers during her lifetime. Long years of public work made erected for three of his children who died at an early age. her a familiar figure to local residents. Johnson was a charter member of the Business and Professional Women’s club in Salina 6. August Bondi was a guerrilla fighter with abolitionist John when it was the Dorian Club. As a result of her extensive news- Brown during the days of Bleeding Kansas. A member of the Jewish faith, Bondi was born in Germany, where at the age of fif- tucky in 1861, he moved to Fredonia, Kan- teen he fought under Kossuth in an unsuccessful Hungarian war sas, with his father twelve years later and for liberty. Exiled as a result, he and his graduated from Baker University, Baldwin, family arrived in New Orleans in 1848 and in 1886. A tall, gaunt man, he stumped the by way of the Mississippi landed in St. state during his campaign for the Senate by Louis. After working for several years any means of travel he could find, present- clerking, setting type and teaching, Bondi ing a strange figure to rural constituents in was lured to Kansas in 1855 by the border his derby hat, stiff white collar and bow tie. struggles between free-state and proslavery One farmer remarked that he resembled an factions. Determined to aid the Free State “attenuated grasshopper.” Although he died at his estate “Ossian movement, Bondi fought with Brown in Hall” near Fairfax, VA, in 1944, he was returned to Salina for in- the Battle of Black Jack and briefly joined a band of freedom terment beside his wife, Margaret. fighters led by radical James Lane, who proposed they call them- selves “Jayhawks.” After serving in the Union Army during the 21. Veterans Area. Sandstone pillars mark the entry to Section Civil War, Bondi and his family moved to Salina where he 22, designated to provide for veterans who served in American opened a grocery store and later purchased land in Saline County. armed forces, whether during war or peacetime. Uniform stones During his life here he was a land clerk, postmaster, member of along the first row and a marker at the northeast corner of the sec- the school board, director of the state board of charities, a local tion identify and honor the generation of men who fought during court judge and practiced law. He was known for his political in- the Spanish American War, 1898-1902. Since that time, soldiers tegrity and idealism. of subsequent wars, World War I, World War II, Korean, and Viet- 7. - 8. Joshua Crowther, Valentine nam, as well as other men and and Alexander Goodall lost their lives women who served our country, in “one of the saddest accidents that have been buried here. ever occurred in this country.” One Sat- urday in spring the three men decided to take a day off from work and join a group of neighbors who were planning a seine fishing expedition. The men chose a fishing spot northeast of town at the junction of the Smoky Hill and Saline Rivers. 22. Grand Army of the Republic Once there, Joshua Crowther volunteered to swim the drag net Following the Civil War, groups of rope across the river and fasten it to the opposite bank. Once in men began gathering together for the water, however, he apparently developed a cramp, let go of emotional support and camaraderie, the rope and began flailing for help. Three companions, Royal their friendships based on shared experiences of war. Founded as Calkin, George Garvin and Alexander Goodall pushed off from a fraternal organization in Illinois in 1866 for honorably dis- the bank to aid the struggling man. What happened next had charged veterans of the Union Army, Navy, Marine Corps, the tragic consequences. In the melee, Crowther nearly pressed Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) soon emerged as a large and Calkin down with him, but instead locked with Alexander politically powerful force. By 1890, it numbered 409,489 veterans two hundred miles through an area held by Confederate sympa- Goodall. The two men became caught in the snarl of the net and thizers. Early in the journey, Choctaw Indians apprehended the were struggling for their lives when Valentine Goodall entered two and held them captive for a time. Lapsley escaped and con- the deadly chaos in an attempt to save his tinued his flight to freedom alone, arriving at Fort Gibson early in son. Neither of the Goodalls nor Crowther 1865, suffering from starvation and exhaustion. The commanding could work himself free. Valentine Goodall officer at the post was Colonel William A. Phillips, one of the left a wife and five children. Alexander founders of Salina. Lapsley befriended another soldier from Sa- Goodall left a wife and newborn baby. To line County named Luke Parsons, and when the war ended, the aid Elizabeth Crowther and her seven chil- ex-slave accompanied Parsons to Kansas. Lapsley died at the age dren, James Muir, a member of the fishing of 57 of heart disease at the home of his neighbors, Frank and party and one of the five Salina town foun- Adelaide Robinson. The Robinsons buried him in the family ders, sold the widow an acre of his land for cemetery beside their infant sons. Years later when the graves one dollar. were moved to Gypsum Hill, they erected the monument for their friend. 9. Oscar and Johanna Seitz were immigrants from Kassel, Germany, who established a 19. George S. Robb, awarded the Congres- prominent business family in Salina. Oscar sional Medal of Honor for outstanding service came to America in time to serve as a Union during World War I, was born May 18, 1887, soldier in the Civil War. Upon arriving in Kan- at Assaria. In September 1918, while serving sas after the war, he was told that the little in the 369th Infantry, 93rd Division, (known as town of Salina would be an ideal place for a “Harlem Hellfighters”), 1st Lt. Robb led his businessman. When the railroad reached here platoon in the assault near Sechault, France, and was severely in 1867, the Seitz drug and chemical business wounded by machinegun fire. He remained with his platoon was off and running. Oscar could then think about a family. He throughout the night and following day, despite suffering addi- brought Johanna Wulp, whom he had courted by correspondence, tional wounds. When his commanding officer was killed, he as- across the ocean to become his wife. She adapted well to the Kan- sumed control and organized his company’s position in the sas prairie, enriching the growing community with her love of trenches. His citation credits Robb with “clearing machinegun music. She owned the first piano in Salina, which was frequently and sniping posts [which] contributed largely to the aid of his bat- transported by wagon to the scene of dances and parties. The talion in holding their objective.” Following the war, Robb served Seitz Drug Store, Seitz Real Estate Company and the Seitz Shoe for twelve years as Salina postmaster. In 1935, Governor Alf Store were long time fixtures in Salina. Landon selected him to fill the post of state auditor. 10. “Our Little Tence” This simple inscription 20. Joseph L. Bristow was many things during his lifetime: a on a dark, sandy stone serves to make mysterious United States senator from Kansas (1909-1915), chairman of the the identity of the child buried here. Records Kansas public utilities commission, a fourth assistant postmaster show that Hortensie Stuart died on June 1, general under President McKinley and editor/publisher of two 1875, but no birth date is known nor the cause of Salina newspapers, the Daily Republican and the Salina Republi- death. David and May Stuart, both European im- can, the latter the forerunner of the Salina Journal. Born in Ken- migrants to America, were like many of their peers: they kept moving west during their lifetime and by neces- wrote fishing and hunting pieces for and the sity left loved ones behind. Bereft of nearby relatives, little Hort- New York Sun. The last twenty years of his life, Wilkeson wan- ensie’s grave might go unnoticed except for the intriguing stone dered between Kansas and Washington, writing promotional arti- and epitaph. cles and dabbling in politics and various business ventures.

11. Mary L. White was 18 and several months pregnant when 17. Winfield W. Watson, born in Indi- she arrived at her husband’s Saline County claim in the spring of ana in 1848, was an energetic and suc- 1859. One night in October, Tom White rode a mile into Salina to cessful businessman, organizing, ask Christiana “Grandma” Phillips to help his among other things, a wholesale gro- wife through her delivery. She agreed and stayed cery business, originally known as the with Mary until the baby was born. But, as hap- Watson-Durand-Kasper Wholesale pened often during these early years, the young Company. However, his two primary mother lived only a few hours after the birth, and contributions to history involve non- the baby girl, who was named Mary E., died less business achievements. Watson was than three months later. Mary White and her baby among the first to support the Good Roads cause in Kansas, a na- were likely buried on the White farm or on the tion-wide movement seeking to improve country roads and estab- southwest corner of Ohio and East Cloud, where lish a highway system. In 1911 Watson joined in the organization Charles Holtzman, Mary’s father, started a small of the Meridian Road Association, serving as president of the cemetery. The graves were moved to Gypsum Hill in 1877. Kansas Division and helping to finance the first markers for the gravel road that stretched from Winnipeg, Canada, to Mexico City. The Meridian Highway, the first road completed across 12. Dana Adams, (unmarked grave) a young man in his late Kansas, is now largely the route of Highway 81. Watson was also teens, was arrested for cutting a white boy with a razor. Because the primary supporter and financial contributor to the building of there were rumors of a lynching attempt, law officials acted Salina’s luxurious Fox Watson Theatre. Unfortunately, he was quickly, making arrangements to transport the prisoner to Leaven- unable to attend the theater’s opening in February 1931, having worth by train. Adams was taken from the jail to the Santa Fe de- just undergone the amputation of one of his legs. The operation pot by the sheriff and two deputies and placed in a passenger robbed the man of his usual vitality and, along with a fever and a coach. However, the train was several minutes late departing, and falling accident, led to his death ten months later. during this time, someone uncoupled the car in which the prisoner rode, leaving it stranded as the engine and other cars pulled away. 18. Larry Lapsley, first black homesteader in Immediately a crowd converged upon the passenger coach, Saline County, was born a slave in Kentucky gained entry and overpowered the sheriff and his deputies. The in 1840. In the 1850s he was taken into Mis- mob dragged their victim from the train to the Union Pacific de- souri by his owner and at the start of the Civil pot and hanged him from a telegraph pole on April 20, 1893. No War, accompanied new owners into northern arrests for this murder were ever made. Adams’ father refused to Texas. One day in the fall of 1864, Lapsley assume responsibility for the burial, saying the white people had and a cousin decided to cross the Red River killed him, and they should bury him. and walk north to Union-held Fort Gibson in Indian Territory. They faced a trek of nearly 15. Luke Parsons was 22 years old when he came to Kansas in 13. David “Napper” Taylor, (unmarked grave, south of Daniel 1856 looking for excitement. Three weeks later the Free State Ho- Spellman) born a slave in North Carolina, was reportedly 117 tel in Lawrence where he worked was years old when he died in 1903. Although Taylor had no knowl- destroyed by a pro-slavery mob. Soon edge of his exact birth date, friends and associates confirmed his Parsons fell in with John Brown and approximate age by his memory of historical incidents. For exam- rode with his band for over a year. ple, he recalled as a child hearing about the death of George Brown recruited him for the Harper’s Washington in 1799. Freed by the Civil War when he was in his Ferry raid, but when the venture was seventies, Taylor came to Salina in 1879 and became a familiar postponed for a year, Parsons went on figure on the corner of Santa Fe and Iron Avenues, playing his to other things. At the encouragement banjo and singing campaign songs for the Garfield presidential of William A. Phillips, Parsons set out for a new town called Sa- election. He left Salina in 1881 and earned a living by publishing lina 180 miles west of the Missouri River. During the Civil War and selling sheet music of original compositions he called Parsons served under Phillips in the Third Indian Brigade. When “Napper’s Hick Nut Dances.” A sheet of his picture and music the war ended, he returned to Saline County and in 1867 married sold for twenty-five cents. Taylor returned to Salina in 1902 to be schoolteacher Katherine Houston, one of the first students to at- cared for by his grandson. He outlived his fourth wife by eighteen tend Bluemont Central College, forerunner to Kansas State Uni- days. versity. Her father, Samuel Dexter Houston, was an early settler in Riley County, locating a claim on Wildcat Creek in December 14. Fannie & Sidney DePriest, both freed slaves, fled Alabama 1853. in the 1870s in order to avoid trouble with the Ku Klux Klan. Un- der cover of darkness, the couple and most of their fifteen chil- 16. Frank Wilkeson led several lives. Born in Buffalo, New dren, several of whom had children of their own, headed for Kan- York, on March 8, 1848, he was the youngest son of journalist, sas, “the land of milk and honey.” Sidney DePriest was part , and Catharine Cady, sister to suffragette Eliza- French and his wife Narcissa “Fannie” was beth Cady Stanton. Wilkeson was only 15 when he ran away from the bi-racial daughter of an Alabama gover- home to join the Union Army during the Civil War. When the war nor. The large DePriest family came to Sa- ended in 1865, he had been brevetted a lina in 1879, well educated and ambitious. captain. He later published Recollections of Several of the sons ran a painting and wallpa- a Private Soldier in the Army of the Poto- pering business, while many of the daughters mac, a starkly realistic view of war. During became teachers. Daughter Narcissa and her his lifetime he worked as a mining engineer friend Lulu Hine were the first black students in Pennsylvania and Colorado, a civil engi- to graduate from Salina High in 1883. Grand- neer for the Northern Pacific Railway and son Oscar DePriest, educated in Salina an explorer of the river valleys in Washing- schools, distinguished himself as the first ton State, to which he returned many times. black councilman in Chicago in 1915, and later as an Illinois rep- He married and came to Saline County in resentative, he became the first black congressman from a north- 1871, buying land in Gypsum Township ern state. When Fannie DePriest died at the age of 104, she had and establishing a cattle ranch, which his outlived all but three of her children. wife Mary and two sons called home. From 1887 to 1893, he  

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