Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 59, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 March 1908 — The Murdock Family. [ARTICLE]

The Murdock Family.

Bent Murdock tells of the coming to Kansas of the father of the Murdock* as follows: “He cut a short hickory stick on the south bank of. the Kaw River near the foot of Kansas avenue. Topeka, hung a pack on tne stick, put It over his shoulder, crossed the river on a log wagon, took his foot in his hand, started on a beeline and walked from Topeka to Mount ’Pleasant, la., where he landed in twelve days, the distance being over 300 miles. That was fifty years ago last March. Thomas Murdock —he was the Colonel of a Virginia regiment that was mustered for the Mexican War but didn’t go—left the Alleghany Mountains with a wife and five children In a covered wagon and a carryall early in tne fall of 1856 for the Territory of Kansas. The father and two oldest sons made the overland trip from Mount Pleasant, la., to Topeka in the winter ot 1856-7 by wagon, the wife and three younger children remaining in that town. When Thomas Murdock returned to Mount Pleasant he loaded his family into the cars for Burlington, where they took a Mississippi 3teamboat for, St Louis. Here they changed boats, taking a Missouri River one for Leavenworth, where thej* were met by a team and nauled to Topeka.

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