History of Nemaha County, Kansas . in thewoods and plains bordering on the valley of the Xemaha. The prairie land was broken up with the oxen, which had furnishedtheir means of transportation from Crawford county, Illinois. BatsonDennis married a Miss Callender, who was his faithful helpmeet formany years in creating a home in the wilderness of Nemaha Batson Dennis and his pioneer associates enough honors and en-coniums cannot be given for accomplishing the great and arduous taskof breaking the way for the later settlers and proving to the world thatKansas could be made into a comfor
History of Nemaha County, Kansas . in thewoods and plains bordering on the valley of the Xemaha. The prairie land was broken up with the oxen, which had furnishedtheir means of transportation from Crawford county, Illinois. BatsonDennis married a Miss Callender, who was his faithful helpmeet formany years in creating a home in the wilderness of Nemaha Batson Dennis and his pioneer associates enough honors and en-coniums cannot be given for accomplishing the great and arduous taskof breaking the way for the later settlers and proving to the world thatKansas could be made into a comfortable place of habitation. William Dennis was born in Crawford county, Illinois, June 9, 1854,and is a son of John H. and Ellen (Rich) Dennis. John Dennis wasborn in Kentucky, September 28, 1827, and was a son of Batson Dennis,who migrated from Kentucky to Illinois in the early forties. His fatherwas a native of Kentucky, and his mother was born in Virginia, both ofwhom were descended from old American families from the x\tlantic. WILLIAM DENNIS, MAYOR OF SENECA, KANSAS. HISTORY OF NEMAHA CQUNTY 373 seaboard. After the migration of the Dennis family to Kansas in 1856,John Dennis improved the land which he bought from the government,and became an extensive cattle raiser. This was due to the fact thatthere was much free range in those early days and the conveniences forgrazing large herds of cattle were at hand. John Dennis died at hisKansas home in 1898. He was twice married, his first wife being themother of William Dennis, and who bore him four children, all of whomare now deceased but William, the subject of this review. Mrs. Ellen(Rich) Dennis died in 1856. The second of of John H. Dennis wasMiss Nancy (Thompson), a native of Indiana, who is now living inSeneca, aged eighty-two years. William Dennis got little schooling when he was a boy. He at-tended subscription schools for about three months out of the year untilhe attained the age of eighteen years, at which time he bega
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