History of Nemaha County, Kansas . major part of his schooling, at-tending school for about three months of the year. In 1856, he cameto Kansas and settled on 160 acres of raw, unbroken prairie land, oneand a half miles northeast of Sabetha, in Berwick township, Nemahacounty. His parents came to the State during that same year, drivinga team of oxen. They built a log cabin, which served as their first homein Kansas, and Francis M. tilled his land until the outbreak of the Civilwar and then enrolled as a member of Company D, Eighth Kansas in-fantry. His greatest battle was at Chickamauga, where
History of Nemaha County, Kansas . major part of his schooling, at-tending school for about three months of the year. In 1856, he cameto Kansas and settled on 160 acres of raw, unbroken prairie land, oneand a half miles northeast of Sabetha, in Berwick township, Nemahacounty. His parents came to the State during that same year, drivinga team of oxen. They built a log cabin, which served as their first homein Kansas, and Francis M. tilled his land until the outbreak of the Civilwar and then enrolled as a member of Company D, Eighth Kansas in-fantry. His greatest battle was at Chickamauga, where he was woundedin the right forearm and incapacitated for duty. He received his hon-orable discharge from the Union service at Nashville, Tenn., in 1864, andreturned to his farm near Sabetha. It is well to remark here that hetook part in the border warfare and was detailed by Jim Lane and JohnBrown for border service in keeping order along the border of Kansasand Missouri and protecting the State from forays of the border ruffians. HISTORY OF NEMAHA COUNTY 645 and pro-slavery men. In those early days when towns were few andfar between, there was not town on the site of Sabetha and his nearesttrading point was White Cloud, Kans. Mr. Starns well remembers thefamous grasshopper years and the hardships incidental to the loss ofhis crops—but time and patience changed conditions in Kansas- and heprospered as the years rolled on, and he tilled his fine farm of i6o acresuntil his retirement to Sabetha in 1907, at which time he disposed of hisacreage at a good price. He is well-to-do and is interested in the Mu-tual Telephone Company of Sabetha. Mr. Starns has been three times married. His first marriage wasin 1857, with Eugenie Archer, of Pontiac, 111., and who died in second marriage was in 1859, when he married Isa J. Vassar, bornin Gentry county, Missouri, February 21, 1840, and died August 13, 1908. Seven children blessed this union, as follows: Mrs. Alice , Baldw
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