Description
"Pioneer Days of Jefferson Township" - - (excerpted from longer article) - - The first settlers on Crooked Creek were Berry Crobarger 1854, Thomas Lamar and Alpha Simmons 1855. Barney and Henry Orrence, young men, also came in 1855. Father came later. Around Hull's grove then settled Isaac and Simeon Hull, William Pitcher and his brothers, Morgan, Miles, and Tom with William Haskell. All were from Platte County, Missouri, except the Orrence family and Simmons who came from Iowa. Thomas Lamar was the only slave holder in the settlement, bringing with him an old black Mammy of the kind that southern people never speak of except in benediction, and who must have loved her master and mistress and the little tots with her whole heart, for when Kansas was admitted as a free state she was told that now she was a free woman and could go when and where she pleased or could stay, as one of the family, she seems to have been more than satisfied to stay, as she stayed until she died in the winter of 1863, and her body lies in the Lamar cemetery among those that she loved so well.Date(s) of Creation
8/24/1916