In the last post about Frank and Anna Teply, they had married and bought a farm in Little Blue Township, about seven miles south of Hanover.
During this time, they had four sons:

In the last post about Frank and Anna Teply, they had married and bought a farm in Little Blue Township, about seven miles south of Hanover.
During this time, they had four sons:


We don’t know much about these grandparents, especially their family backgrounds.
Sometimes with genealogy, you hit a brick wall. That’s the case with Jacob Welter and Agnes Wahlen. I just haven’t been able to find them before they came to Kansas.
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Anna Welter was born December 22, 1872, in Missouri. Her parents were Jacob and Agnes Welter. They came to Kansas around 1879.
Anna and Frank probably met when they were young teenagers.
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Land records are an important source of genealogy information.
The Public Land Survey System (PLSS) is a way of subdividing and describing land in the United States.
Continue readingIt could have been Tim, Mike, and Cathy Machal instead of Teply.

There are no Teplys in Kansas in the census of 1875, 1880, or 1885.
Except one…
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