Posted by Lonna Nevil on 2/6/2005, 4:55 pm, in reply to "HELMS - Allen Co" --Previous Message--
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: Interested in exchanging information on the
: family of Daniel HELMS, who lived most of
: his life in Allen County, KS. Daniel, the
: son of James HELMS, was apparently born in
: Indiana around the year 1844. He came to
: Kansas sometime after the age of 14. He
: may have come with his brothers (Samuel
: & Isaac), where they joined 3 of their
: sisters (Nancy, Lucinda & Susan) and
: their husbands, who apparently had
: apparently previously moved to southeast
: Kansas. Daniel and his wife Grace Jane
: (Yeager), lived in a simple one room house,
: located a mile south of the second house,
: that Daniel later built on the 80 acres (N.
: 1/2 of S. 1/4, of 16-25-21, in Marmaton
: Township, Allen County), 3 1/2 miles
: southwest of Bronson, Kansas. Daniel and
: Grace were married 02 Mar 1876 in Elsmore,
: KS.
:
: There were 3 children from the union of
: Daniel and Grace. Henry Finley Helms, born
: in 1876; James Nicholas Helms, born in 1879;
: and their only daughter Nannie Leota Helms,
: born 30 Jan 1882. Nannie married John Henry
: Burrows, on 02 Mar 1904 in Bourbon County,
: KS.
:
: Daniel HELMS died in 1881, and is buried
: along with is wife in the Old Elsmore
: cemetery.
:
: Will be HAPPY to exchange information on
: Daniel and his family!
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