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| Birth: | 13 Dec 1880 in Jewell, Kansas |
| Death: | 6 Apr 1968 in Kansas City, Jackson, Missouri |
| Sex: | F |
| Father: | John K Karns b. 16 Feb 1847 in Jackson,Jay,Indiana |
| Mother: | Esther Ann Renner b. 14 Jun 1844 in Wayne,jay,Indiana |
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| Burial: 1 Mt Ida Cemetery, Anderson, Kansas |
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| William Henry Halstead (Husband) b. 26 Mar 1874 in Andes, Delaware, New York
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| Marriage: | 19 OCT 1898 |
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 Margariette Esther Halstead b. 19 Jul 1897 in Garnett, Anderson, Kansas
- Henry Clifford Halstead b. 12 May 1901 in Anderson, Kansas
- Albert Levi Halstead b. 7 Jun 1904 in Anderson, Kansas
 Isaac Ora Halstead b. About 1907 in Anderson, Kansas
- Wilma Estella Halstead b. 27 Oct 1908 in Garnett, Anderson, Kansas
- Homer Aaron Halstead b. Sep 1912 in Anderson, Kansas
- Olive Emma Halstead b. 24 May 1914 in Anderson, Kansas
- Mary Etta Halstead b. 18 Oct 1916 in Garnett,Anderson, Kansas
- Loren Edward Halstead b. 24 Feb 1919 in Anderson, Kansas
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Individual:
Purchase 16 acres, Anderson, Kansas
MRS DIANNAH E KARNS OBITUARY--K C STAR NEWSPAPER MRSDIANNAH E KARNS, 86 , O F 8600 THOMPSON, DIED YESTERDAY AT ST JOSEPH.SHEWAS BORN IN JEWELL COUNTY, KANSAS, AND HA D L IVED HERE SEVEN YEARS.SHEWAS A MEMBER OF THE BAPTIST CHURCH AT GARNETT, KANSAS. SHE LEAVE S TWOSONS, ALBERT HALSTEAD,DAYS CREEK Oregon AND LOREN HALSTEAD,OFKANSASCITY, MO; THREE DAUG HT ERS, MRS WILMA E HUYETT OF THE HOME, MRSOLIVEDORSEY, 5826 E 16 TER., AND MRS MARY ETTA HOR ST , 4918 BELINDER,WESTWOOD; 10 GRANDCHILDREN, 26 GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN, AGREAT-GREATGRANDCHIL D . SERVICES WILL BE AT 12;30 MONDAY AT THE SHELLCHAPEL, 6606INDEP. AVE;BURIAL IN MOUNT ID A , KS. FRIENDS MAY CALL TODAYAT THE CHAPEL.
GARNETT NEWSPAPER OBITUARY
Mrs Diannah Duncan, formerly of Garnet, died April 6 at the home of herdaughter in Kansas C i ty. She was the former Mrs William H Halstead,andhad lived on West Eight Street here.
a graveside service will be held at 4 o'clock this Monday afternoon attheMt Ida cemetery.
PIONEERING IN KANSAS
This is my grandmother, Dianah Elizabeth Karns, born December 30,1880,Jewell County, Kansas, who married William Henry Halstead. Her father, John K Karns was born in Jackson, Jay, Indiana on February 16,1847 in 1870 they sold the balance of their land in Indiana and left for a homestead in Jewell County, Kansas. The terms of getting a homestead was to stay five years; then the farmer got one hundred sixty acres. They traveled by covered wagon thru Missouri when covered wagons had signs "Kansas or Bust". A year or two afterwards, the same wagons might return with the sign "Kansas and We Busted". Perhaps the homesteaders did not stay to prove up on their claims, for lack of moisture and bugs spoiled the corn crops which most planted. There were all the privations possible, blizzards, cyclones, droughts, grasshoppers, and what the drought left, and the grasshoppers ate up. The most available food was the wild jackrabbit but it became staple as a regular diet. They had hundreds of jackrabbits, coyotes, rattlesnakes, wild horses and some antelope as late as 1890. Prairie grass was everywhere- as were the bones of buffalo, which men collected and sent off to factories for fertilizer. Not a tree could be seen, not a bird was seen or heard that first year. They were far from any stream, hence the homesteaders dug wells. The house was a sod house, built with Buffalo sod cut into strips twenty-eight inches long, fourteen inches broad and four inches thick. They were laid to gather in brick fashion and struck of their own power. They were cool in summer and hot in winter. The house was large enough to have sleeping rooms apart from the kitchen and living room, which was one and the same, hence the attic was utilized, a ladder on the outside gained access to which. The smaller children were tucked away in the trundle bed lodged, when not in use, under the large bed. There were few orchards and almost no berry patches productive then. Most of the fruit was wild plum, gooseberry and grape. Not much jelly was made because sugar was scarce and expensive. Most of the fruit was made into butter where sorghum could be used for sweetening. The fuel was "buffalo chips" with which the ground was covered. My grandmother also said she had baked bread in a sheet iron stove with dry weeds as fuel. She helped on wash day, which fell on Monday, she would crawl out of bed two hours earlier so they could have the wash done by ten o'clock. They would dip water into a great iron kettle, which swung over an open fire. Some women used hot stones from a fire, throwing them into the water to heat the water up. After breakfast work was done they would go pour the water into tubs, which were made of sawed off barrels. Then the clothes were smeared with soft soap (home made) and put in the tub. This soap was usually made twice a year and used for laundry and toilet purposes. After the clothes had soaked an hour, they stretched them out on clean boards and vigorously beat them with a clothes paddle or a clothes spanker as some call it. This took the place of a washboard, which they didn't have. This was not as bad for the clothes as it sounds, for all their things were made of a coarse homespun, which lasted a long time. Next came the wringing, which was done by hand. Two people holding the sheet and twisting in opposite directions wrung sheets. Usually they had three boils by the well-established rules that governed a wash. The first had the men's white shirts; our Sunday white skirts and dresses, sheets and pillowcases. The next had towels and underwear, the third dishcloths, dust rags and grimy things, all three boils boiled in the same suds. There was no bluing, so they rinsed the clothes in three waters to take out the suds and dirty water; the clothes were very white. Before they had a wash line and pins, they spread the wash on the grass or bushes or even on clean rocks. Ironing day was the next day. The Flat irons were heated on the stove and then lifted by tongs and cooled a little in a pail of water.
Narrated 1950
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- Title: Mt Ida Cemetery,Anderson,Kansas
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