{"id":41,"date":"2009-09-21T19:24:02","date_gmt":"2009-09-22T02:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morris.pulskamp.org\/blog\/?p=41"},"modified":"2021-12-03T11:20:24","modified_gmt":"2021-12-03T18:20:24","slug":"1860-census-eudora-kansas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/morris.pulskamp.org\/blog\/?p=41","title":{"rendered":"1860 Census, Eudora, Kansas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My mom and I went to Kansas some years ago to investigate family stories. We knew that Samuel Jeremiah Reel, his wife Polly, and their children lived in Eudora, KS, a small German settlement near Lawrence. We were pretty frustrated when we could not find them in the 1860 census microfilm at the university. After trying just about every way I could imagine to locate them, and having gone over the records several times, we were just about to leave in frustration when I decided to look for a blacksmith in Eudora, since I knew that was his profession. Sure enough, I found them right away! The name had been spelled in a manner that probably made sense for the German speakers of the area. Instead of REEL it was RIGEL. All the family was listed just as I expected, but just the last name was wrong. Oh, one of the children is misnamed also. The record lists a Hannah (male) which ought to be Harmon, but close enough. Here is a copy of that census record:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_42\" style=\"width: 238px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-42\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-42\" title=\"Reel Rigel 1860 Census Eudora Kansas\" src=\"http:\/\/morris.pulskamp.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Reel-Rigel-1860-Census-Eudora-Kansas-228x300.jpg\" alt=\"Reel Family in Eudora Kansas 1860\" width=\"228\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/morris.pulskamp.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Reel-Rigel-1860-Census-Eudora-Kansas-228x300.jpg 228w, http:\/\/morris.pulskamp.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Reel-Rigel-1860-Census-Eudora-Kansas-780x1024.jpg 780w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 228px) 100vw, 228px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-42\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Reel Family in Eudora Kansas 1860<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My mom and I went to Kansas some years ago to investigate family stories. We knew that Samuel Jeremiah Reel, his wife Polly, and their children lived in Eudora, KS, a small German settlement near Lawrence. We were pretty frustrated when we could not find them in the 1860 census microfilm at the university. After [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/morris.pulskamp.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/morris.pulskamp.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/morris.pulskamp.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morris.pulskamp.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morris.pulskamp.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/morris.pulskamp.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67,"href":"http:\/\/morris.pulskamp.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions\/67"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/morris.pulskamp.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morris.pulskamp.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morris.pulskamp.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}