27 June 2020

1878 Map of El Dorado, Butler County, Kansas

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This is an 1878 lithographed map of El Dorado, county seat of Butler County, Kansas.  In 1878, My gg-grandfather John Nelson Surpluss (1839-1901) and his wife my gg-grandmother Sarah (Maclean) Surpluss (1843-1913), were raising their family of three girls and one boy only thirteen miles away in Rosalia.  The boy of course being my g-grandfather James A. Surpluss (1867-1948).


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