LAUREL ROOTS Neosho Falls Photos

Neosho Falls, Kansas
May 30, 2007

This is the same tombstone with Elizabeth Spawr's name on one side and Peter's on the other and a picture of buildings with steep roofs on a third side. It is between two trees.

Above, view from the road (facing south) of Cedarvale Cemetery in Neosho Falls

Below, view facing east
The Mary and Jesse Best tombstone is in the foreground; the Peter and Elizabeth Spawr stone is between the two trees on the left.

The tombstone of Mary Spawr Best and her husband is in the foreground, and it is flanked by stones of their children (who died early). The rectangular stone on the right behind the Best stone is for Joseph Spawr, youngest son of Peter and Elizabeth, who died at age 19 a few months after getting married.

George W. and Sidney Neighbarger tombstones

George W. and Sidney Neighbarger stones

Peter and Elizabeth Spawr’s farm was a quarter section southeast of Neosho Falls in Woodson County, Kansas (near the Allen County line). The section was bounded by 180^th Road on the north, the county line on the east, 170^th Road on the south, and Xylan Road on the west. They had the southwest quarter, at the corner of Xylan and 170^th roads. (Legal description: SW ¼, sec. 10, T24, R17.) They purchased the land June 10, 1867, from Peter R. Martin, and it was sold after Elizabeth's death in 1895.

The town of Neosho Falls was built next to the Neosho River where there was "riffle" on the river. The settlers first built a wooden dam there, and it was replaced in more modern times with a concrete dam (seen here). The building on the left is an abandoned hydroelectric power plant (built after the times our ancestors lived there). The town is also on the left (west) side of the river. In early times, there was a mill across the river. Below is a view of the river looking downstream.

SPAWR FAMILY HISTORY

Updated 8/18/08