Labette County, Kansas Genealogy

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Parent County

 * 1867--Labette County was created 7 February 1867 from Neosho County. County seat: Oswego

Populated Places

 * Altamont
 * Angola
 * Bartlett
 * Brownstone
 * Chetopa
 * Dennis
 * Edna
 * Fern
 * Garvin
 * Grove
 * Labette
 * Laneville
 * Montana
 * Morehead
 * Mound Valley
 * Orchard Park
 * Oswego
 * Parsons
 * Penfield
 * Stover
 * Strauss
 * Valeda
 * Winway

Neighboring Counties

 * Cherokee
 * Craig County, Oklahoma
 * Crawford
 * Montgomery
 * Neosho
 * Nowata County, Oklahoma
 * Wilson

Cemeteries

 * Altamont Cemetery
 * Cecil Cemetery
 * County Farm Cemetery
 * Crain Cemetery
 * Edna Cemetery
 * Elston Cemetery
 * Fairview Cemetery
 * Fairview Cemetery
 * Franklin Cemetery
 * Griffith Cemetery
 * Hackberry Cemetery
 * Harmony Cemetery
 * Hopewell Cemetery
 * Labette Cemetery
 * Lake Creek Cemetery
 * Leib Cemetery
 * Mason Cemetery
 * Masonic Cemetery
 * Memorial Lawn Cemetery
 * Mitchell Cemetery
 * Mound Valley Cemetery
 * Mount Calvary Cemetery
 * Oak Hill Cemetery
 * Oakwood Cemetery
 * Oswego Cemetery
 * Penfield Cemetery
 * Phillips Cemetery
 * Pleasant Hill Cemetery
 * Pleasant Valley Cemetery
 * Ritchland Cemetery
 * Roberts Cemetery
 * Saint Rose Cemetery
 * Spring Hill Cemetery
 * Tibbets Cemetery
 * Vance Cemetery
 * Wilsonton Cemetery
 * Wooden Cemetery

Churches

 * Cecil Church (historical)
 * Center Bethel Church
 * Center Chapel
 * Elm Church
 * Hopewell Church
 * Mount Zion Church (historical)
 * Pleasant Hill Church
 * Salem Church (historical)
 * Spring Valley Church
 * Zion Hill Church

Local Histories
Case, Nelson. History of Labette County, Kansas: And Representative Citizens. Chicago: Biographical Pub. Co, 1901. Digital version at Internet Archive.

Case, Nelson. History of Labette County, Kansas: From the First Settlement to the Close of 1892. Topeka, Kan: Crane &amp; Co, 1893. Digital versions at Internet Archive and Hathi Trust.

Earle, Jonathan, Ted Wilson, Norman Saul, Paul Kelton, Stephen Hasiotis, and John N. Mack. Swords into Ploughshares: the Struggle to Build an Ordered Community of Liberty on the Southeast Kansas Frontier 1867-1876. , 2009. Internet resource at KU Scholar Works.

Graue, Bertha I, and Norman R. Peters. The Bartlett Book: A Collection of Newspaper Articles Containing a History of the Many Families Who Have Lived in the Southern Part of Labette County, Kansas, 1850-1977. Washington, D.C.] (Box 21117, Washington 20009: N.R. Peters, 1982.

Lightfoot, W H. Our Heroes in Our Defense: Labette County, Kansas. Parsons, Kan: Printed by Commercial publishing co, 1921. Digital versions at Internet Archiveand Hathi Trust.

Parsons, Labette County, Kansas Years from 1869 to 1895 : Story of "the Benders". Parsons, Kan. : Bell Bookcraft, 1970. Digital version at Internet Archive.

Maps
The David Rumsey Map Collection website has digitized atlas maps of Labette County, as well as the cities of Altamont, Chetopa, Dennis, Labette City, Mathewson, Montana, Mortimer, Mound Valley, Neosho Falls, Oswego, and Parsons. The maps' source is "The Official State Atlas of Kansas compiled from government surveys, county records and personal investigations" Philadelphia. L.H. Everts &amp; Co. 1887.

Vital Records
Labette County (Kan.) Funeral Registers 1889-1926. Archival material.

Web Sites

 * USGenWeb project. May have maps, name indexes, history or other information for this county. Select the state, then the county.
 * Labette County, Kansas Genealogy and Family History (Linkpendium)
 * Labette County, Kansas Genealogy and Family History (Linkpendium)