Research, stories, and resources tracing one family’s history of immigration and migration.
Sarah Jane Edgerton Smith and the Lawrence Massacre
August 21, 1863, Lawrence Kansas
As the Kansas Border Wars, or Bleeding Kansas, boiled over, Lawrence, Kansas found its citizens in a flashpoint to the Civil War blah blah blah
Samuel Smith: An American Emigration Journey
Congressional Testimony, Kansas Troubles, 1863
Samuel Smith arrived in Kansas in after an already long life of moving westward when he found himself in a stand-off blah blah blah