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There is currently no functioning Genealogy Society in Gray County.

 

GY   Gray County, Kansas, was established in 1887.  It was created out of Finney and Ford Counties, and named for Alfred Gray, who was Kansas Secretary of Agriculture at the time. The county seat of Gray County is Cimarron, Kansas.

Another Murder in Kansas

A correspondent of the New York Tribune, says that on the 29th of June last an election was held in Leavenworth city to fill vacancies occasioned by the resignation of several pro-slavery Councilmen. That no violence was premeditated or anticipated during the day, is...

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Arrest of Charles Fugit

LEAVENWORTH - Last year Mr. Hopps, a Free State man, was murdered near this city, and barbarously scalped. Suspicion rested strongly upon Fugit, as he was seen to exhibit a scalp, and moreover made a bet, on the morning of the day that Hopps was killed, of six dollars...

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Murder Came With The White Man

A shrewd Indian of the Shawnee Nation suggests the establishment of Mission amongst the white people of Kansas. He says a murder was a thing almost unknown until the white folks came in, and now skulls can be found bleaching along all the roads. The sarcasm is pretty...

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William Panky Murdered

William Panky, formerly of Greene County, Illinois, was murdered near the mouth of Blue River, Kansas Territory, it is supposed by a man named Lovell, of Randolph County. $500 are offered for his arrest. The Ottawa Free Trader, Ottawa, Illinois. October 28, 1854. ...

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