For Genealogical Help in Sedgwick County, contact:
PO Box 3705
Wichita, KS 67201-3705
e-mail: mailto:info@wichitagensoc.org
or the
Midwest Historical and Genealogical Society
PO Box 1121
Wichita, KS 67201-1121
SG Sedgwick County, Kansas, was established in 1867. It was created out of Butler County and named after John Sedgwick, the highest ranking Union General killed during the Civil War. The county seat of Sedgwick County is Wichita, Kansas.
Sedgwick County Old News
courtesy of the Kansas Old Newspaper Transcribers Guild (KCGS)
Jim McKinney Captured
Jim McKinney, a bad man from Illinois, and wanted in that state for crimes committed several years ago, was captured in Wichita last Friday. He was taken to Illinois to stand trial. The Hutchinson Gazette, Hutchinson KS. Thursday, January 17, 1895. Page 2. (c)...
read moreDoes It Pay?
A Wichita minister took for his text last Sunday, “Does It Pay.” From the number that are in operation and the number anxious to start, we should answer in the affirmative. – The Peabody Graphic The Hutchinson Gazette, Hutchinson KS. Thursday, January 17, 1895. Page...
read moreDeadbeat Bill
A bill is being prepared to make the hotel deadbeat a felon. The author of the bill is a green-eyed Wichita tavern keeper who thinks he is slamming the patrons of the Topeka taverns. – The Kansas City Star. The Hutchinson Gazette, Hutchinson KS. Thursday, January 17,...
read moreDid The Deacon Take The Coal?
Peter Gibson, a deacon in the Colored Baptist Church at Wichita, was arrested a few evenings ago charged with stealing coal from the cars in the Missouri Pacific yards. For some time parties have been stealing coal there and watchmen have been unable to catch them. ...
read moreThe Storms in Pratt and Sedgwick Counties
Wichita, Kan. May 10 - Thomas Smithson, a farmer living near Pratt, a town west of here, was killed in the late gale by the falling of his house, which was blown down. Two members of his family were seriously injured, but not fatally. Several houses in Pratt were...
read moreCalvin Race Buried Yesterday
Calvin Race, an old settler and esteemed citizen, was buried yesterday. He died suddenly of heart disease Sunday night at 11 o'clock. He was justice of the peace for Valley Center township, Sedgwick county, and father of A.C. Race, deputy treasurer of your county. He...
read moreEmma Shepherd Burned By Gasoline
A most distressing, and as now reported, a fatal gasoline accident occurred at No. 611 East Central Avenue, near the Santa Fe railway, at 3 o'clock yesterday, in which Miss Emma Shepherd, 14 years old, was frightfully burned. The particulars obtained by an Eagle...
read moreFight May Cause Death
Two boys 18 years old, in Wichita, had a fight, and the smaller, John Chapman, struck the other, Frank Lacie, with a base ball bat, fracturing the latters skull, and then escaped. Lacie will probably die, and Chapman is well started for a dime novel cover. The...
read more12 Year Old Boy Killed By Lightning
During a storm in Sedgwick county on the 17th, Johnny Lane, 12 years old, was herding his father's cattle, 12 miles from Wichita, and took refuge in a ravine. Strange to say, a stroke of lightning struck him and his pony dead. Their bodies were not found until the...
read moreClearwater Tornado
Quite an energetic specimen of cyclone or tornado passed down the valley of the Ninnescah last week. A house in Clear Water, belonging to Mr. Dunscomb, was missing about that time and only a piece of the roof has been heard of since. Considerable damage was done to...
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