Similar names, early deaths, and multiple marriages often make genealogy difficult to sort out. Valentine Worley Van Huss Valentine Worl...

I visited the cemetery when I was just starting this project, so a lot of information was unavailable to me. Van Huss Cemetery is just ou...

There were many tribes inhabiting Kansas before the advent of white settlers. The Kansas Indians for whom the state is named were first visi...

The subject of Indians in Kansas is obviously a large one. There are many issues which historians can write about but not resolve. From time...

The 1840 U. S. Census for Carter County, Tennessee at page 195, line 12, lists Mathia (Mathias) Van Huss, wife and seven  children. The nam...

The Frisco Railroad All Aboard   November-December 1993 issue has an article at page four on the Beaumont Water Tower and on page 5, this p...

What! Shall I write the history of a township? I, a beardless youth with matted hair? Wait! Hold on, old boy, look in the glass. Well, no w...