Autobiography of Mary F. Beeson: James Warfield family in Old Shawneetown. undated

Beeson, Mary Frances, 1848-1943.

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Mary Frances (Warfield) Beeson was born on December 14, 1848 in Jacksonville (Macoupin County), Illinois to James Lot Warfield and Mary Jane (Jones) Warfield. The Warfield family moved to Johnson County, Kansas, on the Kansas and Missouri border, where they became residents of Shawneetown in 1861. On October 17, 1862, James Warfield was one of several Shawneetown residents killed by a band of Missouri bushwhackers led by William Quantrill. Warfield's widow later moved wi...

Merklin, Lester.

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Warfield, James Lot, 1828-1862.

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Warfield family.

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Beeson family.

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Merklin family.

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Quantrill, William Clarke, 1837-1865

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William Clarke Quantrill was born in Canal Dover, Ohio in 1837. He came to Kansas as a young man, and taught school for a while before he became active in the border wars, between free state and pro-slavery forces in the fight for Kansas statehood. He fought on the Confederate side during the Civil War, participating in guerrilla warfare. His most infamous act as a guerrilla chief was the sack of Lawrence in the early morning of August 21, 1863. Quantrill died two years after the raid in a milit...

Suman, Jean.

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