[The following article is the result of several interviews with William
Darnell, in Topeka, Louisville and Westmoreland during the years 1925 to
1928. These reminiscences embody much family history, besides the Indian and
pioneer sketches, ranging from North Carolina, in Revolutionary War times, to
Illinois before and after the Black Hawk War to 1855, together with the
account of the trip of his parents and family by ox team to Kansas Territory,
and their experiences in establishing a home on the frontier. Mr. Darnell, a
boy of ten at the time this overland journey was made, was blessed with a
most retentive memory, and has given a remarkably good account of the trip,
together with an account of early day happenings in the Rock Creek
neighborhood, Pottawatomie county, where the family settled in the spring
of 1855. This information has been assembled in chronological order as nearly
as possible, the late Rev. Lee Darnell, of Westmoreland, and Charles Darnell,
of Topeka, sons of the subject, assisting materially in the work. |
REMINISENCES OF WILLIAM DARNELL
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