When Edmond Oscar Hawks passed away in October 1910 in Rossville, Kansas, his obituary noted that he was survived by his wife Iva Elzina (Ha...

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In July 1973, a devastating  fire at the National Personnel Records Center in St. Louis, Missouri destroyed millions of military files, inc...

In June 1989, my great-grandparents sold their farmhouse on the outskirts of Plainville, a small Kansas prairie town. It had been their home...