Born in Kansas (Riley: home, live, move to)

[straw hat]

I would like to hear from people who are descended from Kansas settlers. Preferable ones that came into the state when it was still the Kansas-Nebraska territory. What I would like is to here why they chose to come here. Some came from the Deep South others came from the northeast. My ancestors came out of Virginia; later that part became West Virginia.

[straw hat]

Originally Posted by straw hat

I would like to hear from people who are descended from Kansas settlers. Preferable ones that came into the state when it was still the Kansas-Nebraska territory. What I would like is to here why they chose to come here. Some came from the Deep South others came from the northeast. Several people have read this, however none have responded. I know that my father’s family came here in 1850‘s. Wm Riley Borror moved to Anderson County, Ks. with his wife and children. They moved by wagon and brought several head of cattle with them. When the civil war broke out, he joined the union army and was a corporal in his unit. After the war, he came home and resumed farming. The family he left back in Virginia stated true to the union and West Virginia broke off Virginia became a new state. My mother’s family had lived in Nebraska until 1913 when they moved to Westport, Ks. They came into Kansas in 1914. The move to Westport was by wagon also. Grandmother was just nine years old. Yes, the dates are correct; the roads were not good in those days. Most good roads were in town and the railroad was the main mode of travel.

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