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She helped start the Home Demonstration Unit, later known as the Extension Homemakers Unit, for Rossville, Kansas.

This is a portrait of Grace Eversole in the fifth grade. Her adult portrait is RCL0078, which is reflected on the back of this picture from being stacked together.

Mr. Cyrus W. Higginbotham was one of the earliest settlers of Shawnee County and Rossville township and one of the founders of Rossville, Kansas.

Mrs. C.C. McPherson was elected Rossville, Kansas, councilwoman in 1889 on an all-woman ticket.

Mr. William Cyrus Baylis was the first Rossville, Kansas, rural route mail carrier.

These are the "pioneer" settlers of Rossville, Kansas, ages 20 and older. Pictured left to right are: Dr. Robert S. Gabbey, C.W. Higginbotham, Tom Cox, Richard Binns, Bennett Swearingen, Josh Harding, Paul Patell, Greg Navarre, Clark McPherson,…

See RCL0051 for a picture of her husband, Mr. Leroy Sedgwick. They were two of the earliest Rossville, Kansas, settlers.

Walter Startup, pictured on the left, was born May 6, 1891, died February 5, 1972, and was buried in the Silver Lake Cemetery. Della Startup, pictured on the right, was born September 7, 1884, and died April 14, 1957. They were Rossville, Kansas,…

Dr. Clyde S. Smith was born November 8, 1881, in Edina, Missouri. He practiced medicine in Willard, Kansas, around 1905 to 1922, when he moved to Rossville, Kansas. He married Rose Humphrey in February 1906. He owned one of the first automobiles in…

Pictured left to right on the porch front are Beulah McIntyre, Grace White, Gwen Kramer, Mable Bruce, and Mildred McCollough.