Winfield Digital Collections

Winfield, Kansas

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Winfield Kansas Oral History Audio Recordings
Julia grew up in Floral, KS. Her parents came from Chanute, KS around the time she was born in 1894. She went to school in Floral. The first floor was…
Winfield Kansas Oral History Audio Recordings
Gola grew up on a farm by Timber Creek near Wilmont, KS. Her mother's family moved to Kansas from Illinois because the father's health was not well.…
Winfield Kansas Oral History Audio Recordings
Harry was born in Larned, KS. His family moved to Cowley County because there was a drought in Larned. He attended Prairieview school and they lived…
Winfield Kansas Oral History Audio Recordings
Warren recalled the tailor and laundry businesses that Tom and Frank Parker owned together which began in 1893. In the beginning they would send the…
Winfield Kansas Oral History Audio Recordings
Iva was born in 1894 near Burden on a farm that he parents rented. Eventually, they bought their own farm near Burden when she was a young girl. She…
Winfield Kansas Oral History Audio Recordings
Ross shared memories of when his grandpa Wilkins settled near Grouse Creek and Cambridge in the spring of 1870. His father was 6 years old when they…
Winfield Kansas Oral History Audio Recordings
Natalina shares the memory of her uncle who sent for her father in Italy to join him in Brazil to work on a coffee plantation. He did and Natalina was…
Winfield Kansas Oral History Audio Recordings
Howard was born in 1900 in Winfield, KS. He was raised by his grandparents. They moved here from North Carolina after the Civil War. They were both…
Winfield Kansas Oral History Audio Recordings
Stanley was born in Tennessee and spent some time in Arkansas as a child.
His first jobs was carrying a paper route and working at a filling…
Winfield Kansas Oral History Audio Recordings
Myrtle recalled that her father came to Winfield, KS from Indiana. Her parents met in Winfield, KS. The first school she attended was Webster School.…