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February Wrap-Up

Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Favorite Read of the Month:

Solita by Vivien Rainn (GR review)

It’s only through facing the past and her buried fears can Sadie find salvation as she upturns the Hacienda’s twisted roots, roots born from the faith and fire of the conquistas, the Spaniards who came from distant shores, bringing with them not only their God, but also their demons.

THE gothic romance. This book changed my perspective on romance books. I've thought about this book regularly since I read it.

"In my time," he continues, voice low, "sanctity was measured by suffering. Those saints that abstained from the pleasures of life, fasted to starvation, mortified their flesh, drank the blood of the wounded - it was only they who saw the eyes of God, it was only through their agony that they were touched by true divinity, enraptured by their own faith."

"I...I'm not a saint, Silas." Her eyes meet his in a gaze that's wrapped up in the promise for everything she's always denied herself. The promise of temptation for the taste of that forbidden fruit, a single bite all it takes for irreversible expulsion, for an eternal fall from grace.

"I never said you were."

The warmth of his breath is so close to her own, heat mingling, pulses flush close. "Then what are you saying?"

"That I am," he answers. "I found God. And I'm looking into her eyes."

HELLO???? THIS QUOTE HAS IRREVOCABLY CHANGED HOW I READ ROMANCE BOOKS. THIS IS THE STANDARD.

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Rest of Books Read Under the Cut:

Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐

The Undertakers by Nicole Glover (sequel)

The second book in the Murder & Magic series of historical fantasy novels featuring Hetty Rhodes and her husband, Benjy, magic practitioners and detectives living in post–Civil War Philadelphia.

Godkiller by Hannah Kaner

Kissen’s family were killed by zealots of a fire god - now, she makes a living killing gods. That is until she finds a god she cannot kill: Skedi, a god of white lies, who bound himself to a young noble, and are on the run from assassins.

The Book of Living Secrets by Madeline Roux (GR review)

Best friends Adelle and Connie love of a little-known gothic romance novel called Moira. When they find a way to enter the book, suddenly everything isn't how they remember.

The Devil and the Dark Water by Stuart Turton (GR review)

It's 1634 and Samuel Pipps, the world's greatest detective, is being transported to be executed for a crime he may, or may not, have committed. Out at sea things begin happening. A twice-dead leper stalks the decks. Strange symbols appear on the sails. Livestock is slaughtered. And then three passengers are marked for death, including Samuel.

The Song of the Sandman by J.F. Dubeau (GR review) (sequel)

After a terrible mass shooting at Cicero’s Circus, the evil presence responsible for the carnage is taken in by a doomsday cult lying in wait for such an opportunity.

The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist by Radley Balko

For nearly two decades, medical examiner Dr. Steven Hayne performed the vast majority of Mississippi's autopsies, while his friend Dr. Michael West, a local dentist, pitched himself as a forensic jack-of-all-trades. Together they became the go-to experts for prosecutors and helped put countless Mississippians in prison. But then some of those convictions began to fall apart.

Hell's Half-Acre by Susan Jonusas

In 1873 the people of Labette County, Kansas discovered the remains of countless bodies, and below the cabin was a cellar stained with blood. The cabin's family, the Benders, were nowhere to be found, sparking a frenzy that continued for decades.

Seductive Poison by Deborah Layton

In this haunting and riveting firsthand account, a survivor of Jim Jones's Peoples Temple opens up the shadowy world of cults and shows how anyone can fall under their spell.

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Rating: ⭐⭐⭐

Born to be Hanged by Keith Thomson

The year is 1680, in the heart of the Golden Age of Piracy, and more than three hundred daring, hardened pirates gather on a remote Caribbean island. The plan: to wreak havoc on the Pacific coastline, raiding cities, mines, and merchant ships.

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Books read so far this year: 21

How I rate books.

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Hell's Half-Acre: The Untold Story of the Benders, a Serial Killer Family on the American Frontier

CC KILLER DNA

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November 1940: Home supervisor examining canned goods of FSA rehabilitation borrower in food storage cave. Labette County, Kansas. Acetate negative by John Vachon.

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U.S. Daily Low Temperature Records Tied/Broken 4/10/22

Geneva, Alabama: 36 (also 36 2000)

Lake Ft. Smith State Park, Arkansas: 26 (previous record 28 2003)

Lake Ouachita State Park, Arkansas: 28 (previous record 29 2003)

Unincorporated Modoc County, California: 17 (previous record 19 2001)

Unincorporated Collier County, Florida: 42 (previous record 43 2009)

Unincorporated Collier County, Florida: 45 (previous record 52 2016)

Daytona Beach, Florida: 42 (also 42 1938)

Unincorporated Highlands County, Florida: 33 (previous record 35 1986)

Unincorporated Indian River County, Florida: 43 (previous record 47 2016)

Jacksonville Beach, Florida: 43 (previous record 44 1996)

Kissimmee, Florida: 45 (also 45 1986)

Unincorporated Miami-Dade County, Florida: 47 (previous record 48 2009)

Rufkin, Florida: 48 (also 48 1996)

Sanford, Florida: 45 (also 45 2000)

Venice, Florida: 47 (previous record 48 1974)

Moscow, Idaho: 24 (also 24 2005)

Unincorporated Valley County, Idaho: 19 (previous record 23 2008)

Clarinda, Iowa: 19 (previous record 20 2007)

Unincorporated Labette County, Kansas: 24 (previous record 26 2003)

Unincorporated Beaverhead County, Montana: 14 (also 14 1975)

Unincorporated Humboldt County, Nevada: 6 (previous record 13 2021)

Muskogee, Oklahoma: 30 (previous record 31 1916)

Ralston, Oklahoma: 25 (previous record 26 2003)

Unincorporated Curry County, Oregon: 31 (also 31 2021)

Fremont National Forest, Oregon: 19 (also 19 2001)

Hart Mountain National Antelope Refuge, Oregon: 9 (previous record 16 1977)

Unincorporated Jackson County, Oregon: 30 (previous record 31 2021)

Unincorporated Lane County, Oregon: 31 (also 31 1991)

Morgan Mt. summit, Oregon: 23 (previous record 24 1991)

Willamette National Forest, Oregon: 25 (previous record 26 2021)

Greer, South Carolina: 28 (previous record 30 1976)

Lewisburg, Tennessee: 19 (previous record 22 1966)

Unincorporated Clallam County, Washington: 15 (previous record 27 1992)

Cougar Mt. summit, Washington: 27 (also 27 2010)

Davenport, Washington: 19 (previous record 21 2010)

Deer Mt. summit, Washington: 25 (previous record 26 1999)

Lake Chellan National Recreation Area, Washington: 25 (previous record 26 2021)

Unincorporated Mason County, Washington: 31 (also 31 2001)

Spokane, Washington: 25 (also 25 1954)

Wenatchee National Forest, Washington: 23 (previous record 24 2021)

Wilbur, Washington: 17 (previous record 19 1902)

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This Serial-Killing Family Terrorized the American Frontier

This Serial-Killing Family Terrorized the American Frontier

Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/Public Domain Hell’s Half-Acre tells the story of the grisly murders committed by the Bender family during their time spent in Labette County, Kansas, in the early 1870s. The family, an older couple–Ma and Pa, and younger couple Kate and John–killed at least 11 people before fleeing the state, leaving a trail of horror in their wake. When…

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Making Wetland Restoration History in Kansas

Making Wetland Restoration History in Kansas

USDA – Article by By Angela R. Allen, NRCS, Kansas. This is part of the Fridays on the Farm Series Max and Eweleen Good, the first landowners in Kansas to voluntarily participate in a USDA wetland restoration program in 1994. The Goods live on 40 acres northeast of Oswego, Kansas, in Labette County. Their land likely started as tall grass prairie scattered with ponds before being used as…

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Week 13  The Old Homestead

After a couple of weeks off (the prompts didn’t inspire me, but I may revisit them if I come up with some ideas), I’m back at it. This week’s prompt for 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks is The Old Homestead.

This photo shows my great-great grandparents, Edward L. and Euphemia (Tracy) Wiseman, and their children outside their home in Crawford County, Illinois. The children from left to right are: Tura, Rollie, Elsie, and Harry. I don’t know an exact date for the photo, but I’d estimate it was taken between 1895 and 1898, based on the age of my great-grandfather, Rollie.

I’ve communicated with my dad and his older brother (my Uncle Larry) this week regarding the photo. This is a beloved family photo and it is usually brought to our annual family reunion for display. We think the home stood on an 18¼-acre parcel located a couple of miles north of Stoy in Section 22 of Township 7N, Range 13W. There’s a possibility, though, that this house was on a 40-acre parcel north and west of Oblong on Section 17 near Kibbie, but the note on the back of the photo says, “near Stoy,” so I’m inclined to think that this was on the land (18 acres) closer to Stoy.

Dad and I spent a bit of time looking at Google Earth this week, and we were able to locate this property, bordered on the west by Onion Creek. On a 1930 plat map online, I found an 18-acre parcel of land with the initials, E.L.W.—Edward Livingston Wiseman, corroborating Dad’s memories. According to the will of Edward’s mother Sarah Wiseman, this 18 ¼-acre parcel was to be divided three ways after her 1894 death—Albert was to inherit 6 1/8 acres on the southern part of this property, James the northern 6 1/8, and Edward was to inherit the middle 6 acres. This is part of the southwest ¼ of the northeast ¼ of Section 22, and the transcribed will names the southeast ¼ of the northeast ¼. I’m assuming this is a transcription error on the part of the clerk.

The 40 acres owned by Sarah was a couple of miles west and approximately one mile north of the 18 acres: SE ¼ of NE ¼ of section 17, Township 7, Range 13W. In Sarah Wiseman’s will, signed on 10 January 1883, she indicates that she was currently living on this parcel of land. She desired for this land to be divided three ways as well, with each son getting 26 and two-thirds rods—Edward, the western third, Albert, the middle third, and James the easternmost third.

I have a suspicion that there was some land swapping going on between the brothers. I looked at an 1898 plat map and noticed that the 40 acres in Section 17 is not divided into three sections, but two. Jas. Wiseman has 20 acres and A. Wiseman has 20 acres. The land parcel in section 22 isn’t divided at all. It has the intitals ELW, and the number 20 (18 acres, rounded up, I presume). It seems that Edward exchanged his third of the 40 acres for his brothers’ shares of the 18 acres—and created the homestead that my dad and uncle remember with mostly fond memories. The 40 acres was owned by an A. M. Wilken in 1930.

An $1100 land sale from W. N. Wilkin to Sarah Wiseman was made on 31 December 1872. The land sale wasn’t recorded until 30 September 1878, in book 29, page 104. In the Description column of the land sale index is the word “described.” I have not had the opportunity to look at the land deed books. Uncle Larry thinks that both the 40-acre parcel and the 18-acre parcel were purchased at the same time.

I’ll now share some of my dad’s and uncle’s memories of the place my dad calls “The Farm.” A flat area east side of Onion Creek and west of the house was tillable. My dad remembered in the 1940s walking alongside a wagon and hand-picking corn here with his dad (Ray Wiseman) and grandpa (Rollie Wiseman). Behind the house, the creek curved, and the land fell off into the swampy bottomland of Big Creek. More tillable land was to the north. Dad remembers following his grandpa and a plow in this field and picking up newly-turned potatoes and putting them in a basket. A nice stand of oak and shagbark hickory stood to the north as well. Dad remembered camping there with his brother Larry, and later, with high school buddies. Between The Farm and the Big Henry Woods to the east was a fence line. Dad remembers a couple of half-buried car bodies there. How did they get there? Were they the family’s old cars? Dad and Uncle Larry remember hunting squirrels and rabbits in this area. Dad remembers his grandpa Rollie taking him back into a swampy area and showing him two large bald cypress trees and telling him that bald cypress trees weren’t too common in that part of Illinois.

Both my dad and uncle remember visiting the house a few times in the early-mid 1940s, when their great-uncle Harry lived there. The house stood on a hill on the south end of the property. It had a dirt floor as you entered but the rest of the home was floored. There was a well in front of the house that had a wooden cover. In later years one had to be very careful to locate the well because the cover was obscured by tall grass. It would’ve been easy to fall through the cover. In my dad’s teenage years, after Uncle Harry moved out of the house, my dad would buy a box of rifle shells for 50 cents and go to The Farm to shoot bottles. The property was littered with old medicine bottles, as Uncle Harry and Aunt Mae were herbalists, and helped many local people improve their health. Uncle Larry thinks that the house was gone by the mid-1950s. After the death of Rollie in 1963, the 18 acres was deeded to his widow (my great-grandmother Martha (Cramer) Wiseman. Shortly afterwards, it was deeded to my great-uncle Donald. After his death, it was sold to a non-family member as timberland.

My dad took me to the remnants of The Farm about fifteen years ago and I remember there was no access road to the property. We parked alongside the road and walked maybe a quarter of a mile through a field, across a small stream, and into some woods.  No buildings stood on the property at that time.  Fortunately, we didn’t encounter the well.

The older gentleman in the photo, my great-great grandfather Edward L. Wiseman, was born in Cincinnati, Ohio on 22 January 1839. After his father’s death in 1857, his mother Sarah (Mankey) Wiseman moved with her six living children to Jackson County, Texas. Edward stayed on the Texas ranch during the Civil War to help his widowed mother. He ultimately lost two brothers to the war—one dying in battle and the second after years of imprisonment as a prisoner-of-war. The Texas ‘experiment’ ended in 1867, when the family, reportedly worth nearly $700,000 (in today’s dollars) in the 1860 census, met with financial difficulties and returned to the Midwest.

In 1870 Edward, his mother, and brothers James and Albert lived in Turman township in Sullivan County, Indiana, presumably having moved there to be near Sarah’s sister Lydia A. Secrist. The family’s real estate and personal property value in 1870 was reported as today’s equivalent of $25,000—quite a change from ten years before. Edward had attended medical college in Cincinnati before moving to Texas and was enumerated as a physician in the census. The family also has record of him later practicing medicine in Crawford County as well.

Euphemia Tracy was born in Crawford County on 6 March 1851, the youngest daughter of Loyd and Jane (Kirk) Tracy. Loyd and Jane, along with Loyd’s brother Elijah Tracy and his family, moved from Licking County, Ohio to Crawford County in 1846. In 1850 and 1851, Loyd purchased 160 acres in western Robinson township and eastern Oblong township, northeast of Robinson, from the U.S. government land office located in Palestine. Sadly, Loyd died when Euphemia was about 18 months old.

On 6 October 1878, Edward and Euphemia married in Crawford County. Shortly afterwards, they moved to Richland township, Labette County, Kansas. In the 1880 census, Edward was enumerated there as a farmer. Brother James was farming in adjacent Neosho township in Cherokee County. By 1883, Edward and Euphemia added two children to their family. Daughter Elsie was born on 7 November 1879 and son Harry was born on 8 January 1881. Based on birthplaces and birthdates for children, Edward and James were back in Illinois by the mid-1880s-James in Jasper County and Edward in Crawford County.

Elsie Lee Wiseman and Harry Lamar Kirk Wiseman were born in Labette County, Kansas. Elsie married William Reynolds in 1918, and died in Paris, Edgar County, Illinois in 1945. Older son Harry Lamar Kirk Wiseman was born in 1881. He married Mae Servison in 1909 and died in Crawford County in 1964. Tura Alice Wiseman was born in 1883 in Illinois. She married Henry Tracy in 1906 and died in 1945. My great-grandfather Rollie Mankey Wiseman was born in 1886 in Crawford County. He married Martha Washington Cramer in 1909 and died in 1963 in Stoy. All are buried in Prairie Cemetery in Oblong Township.

As always, I would love to hear from any descendants of Edward L. and Euphemia (Tracy) Wiseman.

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U.S. Daily Low Temperature Records Tied/Broken 4/9/22

Cold Bay, Alaska: 7 (previous record 12 1988)

Conway, Arkansas: 28 (previous record 29 1914)

Unincorporated Garland County, Arkansas: 31 (also 31 2000)

Unincorporated Pike County, Arkansas: 28 (previous record 30 2018)

Unincorporated Pulaski County, Arkansas: 34 (previous record 36 1982)

Trinidad Lake State Park, Colorado: 20 (also 20 2013)

Unincorporated Santa Rosa County, Florida: 39 (also 39 2016)

Unincorporated Labette County, Kansas: 22 (previous record 24 2007)

Unincorporated Riley County, Kansas: 18 (previous record 19 2003)

Unincorporated Saline County, Kansas: 23 (also 23 2003)

Unincorporated Bossier Parish, Louisiana: 35 (previous record 37 2000)

Homer, Louisiana: 31 (previous record 33 2014)

Unincorporated Rapides Parish, Louisiana: 35 (also 35 2003)

Unincorporated Buchanan County, Missouri: 19 (previous record 20 2007)

Unincorporated Clay County, Missouri: 22 (previous record 23 2007)

Unincorporated Greene County, Missouri: 26 (also 26 1997)

Unincorporated Big Horn County, Montana: 8 (previous record 11 1959)

Billings, Montana: 26 (also 26 2003)

Rocker Peak summit, Montana: -1 (previous record 0 1989)

Lincoln, Nebraska: 20 (previous record 21 2007)

Unincorporated Madison County, Nebraska: 20 (also 20 2007)

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma: 29 (also 29 2003)

Unincorporated Osage County, Oklahoma: 24 (previous record 27 2003)

Edgemont, South Dakota: 9 (previous record 16 2021)

Angelina National Forest, Texas: 35 (also 35 1993)

Marshall, Texas: 0 (previous record 33 1916)

Unincorporated Clallam County, Washington: 16 (previous record 26 1982)

Deer Mt. summit, Washington: 27 (also 27 1987)

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Girl Cave: 1940 November 1940. "Home supervisor examining canned goods of FSA rehabilitation borrower in food storage cave. Labette County, Kansas." Acetate negative by John Vachon. View full size.

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Esta é a história dos primeiros serial killers dos Estados Unidos que se tem notícia. Por volta de 1871, em Labette County, no Texas, a família construiu uma casa que servia de pousada e mercearia para viajantes das redondezas. Era eles: John Bender casado com Elvira Bender, e os filhos John Jr. e Kate. O casal não era muito bem compreendido por falarem pouco o inglês e eram vistos como pessoas hostis. O filho John falava com sotaque alemão e a filha Kate era muito atraente e sociável.

Os Bender dividiram o cômodo princial com uma cortina, onde o convidado sentava de costas para ela, enquanto ficava de frente à mesa com Kate. kate era responsável por incentivar uma conversa que a faria saber se o hóspede era uma vítima em potencial: sem família ou amigos que fossem atrás dele e rico. Assim que Kate fazia o sinal, o pai acertava a cabeça da vítima com um martelo saindo de trás da cortina. Em seguida, Kate cortava a garganta e o corpo era jogado em um porão, enquanto a cova era cavada por John.

A partir de 1873, os sumiços começaram a chamar atenção, apesar de se tratar de uma região conhecida por ser violenta e cheia de perigos.

O começo do fim foi quando o irmão de uma das vítimas apareceu procurando informações sobre o paradeiro e viu a sela do cavalo de seu irmão. Evitou entrar na residência e acionou as autoridades, as quais chegaram no dia seguinte, encontrando a casa já abandonada e vários corpos enterrados na propriedade.

O destino da família Bender é desconhecido. Teorias existem. Alguns acreditam que eles foram executados por justiceiros. Outros que eles mudaram seus nomes e se separaram para que não houvesse comparação à família. Há registros de mãe e filha presas acusadas de serem da famíalia assassina, porém as pessoas ficavam divididas na tentativa de reconhecimento. E aí? O que você acha que aconteceu com eles?

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Farming in the 21st Century Requires Being Connected As you step onto Bebb Farms in rural Labette County, Kan., you see tractors, combines, sprayers, grain bins, and semis. All necessary equipment on a Kansas farm, but perhaps the most important equipment you don’t see is the Internet.

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Huge S/O and Thank You to

Labette Avenue Montgomery County Chronicle Labette Avenue Taylor Newspapers The Josie Music Awards

All Editors, staff, employees, Labette County, Newspapers, The Josie Music Awards, Josie Passantino, Tinamarie Passantino, family, friends, fans, for all of your love and support

U R AWESOME

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Eurydice, by Sarah Ruhl, performed by Troupe 6290, Labette County High School, Altamont, Kansas.

Photos by Susan Doremus.