History of Nemaha County, Kansas . 46 HISTORY OF NEMAHA COUNTY Of the Other half dozen original settlers, W. \\. Moore and WalterBeeles built the first bridge in the county. This spanned the Nemahaabout half a mile below Bakers Ford. The old story goes that thebuilders obliged the settlers to use the bridge and pay toll for it, by fell-ing an immense elm tree which fell across the ford, thus rendering theford useless. But a spring freshet the next season swept away the elm,which in turn carried off the bridge, and Bakers Ford again came in-to its own. The following year came a few more familie
History of Nemaha County, Kansas . 46 HISTORY OF NEMAHA COUNTY Of the Other half dozen original settlers, W. \\. Moore and WalterBeeles built the first bridge in the county. This spanned the Nemahaabout half a mile below Bakers Ford. The old story goes that thebuilders obliged the settlers to use the bridge and pay toll for it, by fell-ing an immense elm tree which fell across the ford, thus rendering theford useless. But a spring freshet the next season swept away the elm,which in turn carried off the bridge, and Bakers Ford again came in-to its own. The following year came a few more families: H. H. Lanhan andhis family, and William Harris who gave his name to Harris Creek,which has its source near Oneida and empties into the Nemaha ten orfifteen miles north. In the summer of fifty-five came James Thompson,Cyrus Dolman, John Doyle, Elias Church and John Rodgers, all settlingin Richmond township, as it became known later. With these few citi-zens in this township an election was held in March of that year. Ne-. A PIONEER HOME. maha precinct and Wolf River constituted the Seventh Council Districtof the ten of which Kansas Territory was composed. Nemaha castsixty-one votes at the election, while only the men named aljove wereentitled to vote by right of actual residence in the county with the addi-tion of Samuel Cramer, Jesse Adamson, Samuel Crozier, Samuel Miller,William Bunker and Uriah Blue. The State legislature convened in July. Its laws were called theBogus Laws of Kansas and they took effect immediately upon beingpassed. At least one law has remained in effect to this day, the onedesignating the boundaries of Nemaha county. The county is twenty- HISTORY OF NEMAHA COUNTY 47 four miles east and west and thirty miles north and south. It is bound-ed on the north by Nebraska, on the east by Brown county, on the westby Marshall and on the south by Jackson and Pottawatomie counties. Meantime other corners of Nemaha county were being populated, inthe year 1855. The in
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