Identifier: pioneernarrative00gree (find matches)
Title: Pioneer narratives of the firty twenty-five years of Kansas history
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Green, Charles Ransley, 1845- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Frontier and pioneer life
Publisher: Olathe, Kan.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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.He is one of the Pioneers who came in those years of 1S69 and 70, one ofhundreds of old soldiers of the Civil War his name Orlando S.Starr. By the payment of money he secured the homsteadrights from some settler earlier on the ground to a choice 160 acres 5 milesN. W. of Melvern out on the smooth level prairie in the Richview neighbor-hood now. An acquaintance Scott Daniels secures a bottom farm a couple ofmiles distant on the Marias des Cygnes, he had been there a year longer andStarr now has plenty of work on his hands the breaking and fencing of hisland. He has a good team and wagon that he brought from Ohio. It hasenabled him to make a good living since his arrival in Kansas and lay upmoney beside to buy their home. Daniels has a well timbered farm withnumerous squaw patches on several parts of it where the prairie glades randown to the river, but he has no team. Those little Indian patches are easilyenlarged into fields and strong team help was needed so in those years of be- IV
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QUENEMO Wm. Hurr, the Sac and Fox inter-preter in 1903 told me that he had astep-son by the name of Orilla Davis,whose Indian name was Quenemo.That through his father Arthur Davisthe lad was great-grandson of oldQuenemos. He was then away attending theIndian school at Carlisle, Pa. Laterthrough the assistance of the Supt. ofthat school I procured this picture.There are other descendants of old Quenemo alive but mostly of the fe-male line. Quenemo is standing. The othersare fellow tribesmen to fill out thepicture, one is named Thoi-pe. If oldQuenemo ever had a picture taken assome said he did in Osage county. Myoffer of five dollars for its use failedto bring it, although one of the halfIVoods manae-ed to get $3.50 of theoffered sum into his hands and keptit. C. R. Green. ginning these two settlers join forces and the crops are raised down on thethe bottom and in a year or two when Daniels leaves he places the farm inStarrs hands to manage and sell. William Cables well known to Bnrling

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