Burwell Family Moves to Wichita, Kansas (1892)

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Mr. M. L. Burwell of Gibson, Ill., and a very interesting and ideal family, consisting of eleven persons in all, including some grandchildren, have permanently located in the city.

An EAGLE reporter had the pleasure yesterday of meeting Mr. Burwell, his wife and daughter, and it can be truthfully said of them that they are most excellent people.   Mr. Burwell has invested between $40,000 and $50,000 in this county, which is a very valuable addition, but nothing as compared to the value of the addition of his family to this community, Mrs. and Miss Burwell are ladies fitted both in mind and personal appearance to grace the highest circles of society in our land.

 

Source: Newspaper clipping from the Wichita Eagle, the Burwell/Tate Family Papers, 1850-1930 (K0233), Folder 1.  Burwell family scrapbook and photo album.*

 

The eleven members of Moses Burwell family probably included: his wife, Isabella; daughter Nettie B.; son John William with wife Gertrude and their children Clyde, Alice, and Harold (Clarence was born in Kansas in November 1892); son Thomas; son Moses, Jr.; daughter Mary Alice and son Guy F.

*BURWELL-TATE FAMILY PAPERS, 1850-1930 (K0233), The State Historical Society of Missouri, 800 East 51st Street, 306 Miller Nichols Library UMKC, Kansas City, MO 64110.