He promised that he would, and he did to some extent. I told him of my desire to have a monument here and requested him to help me out. We lived there together from 1869 to 1873, when he moved to Kansas City. Martin and I were old acquaintances at Junction City, Kansas. Martin, the Secretary of the State Historical Society at Topeka, came to Lincoln Center to deliver and address at the Old Settlers' Reunion of that year. The question however was revived nearly every year until 1907 when Hon. I could not make any headway, and came nearly giving up in despair. My idea was to build a monument for the five who were killed in and from that settlement, and to have it erected in the Lutheran church year there but the settlers did not approve of the idea, so I brought the matter up before the Old Settlers' Reunion of Lincoln county, and met with about the same reception there. Some twelve years ago I began to talk "pioneer monument," especially in the Denmark settlement. (complete text transcribed online by Joan Stevenson) Published: Lincoln, Kansas - by: The Lincoln Sentinel Print - in: 1910 Their memory in Lincoln Court House Square, by: C. Indian Raids in Lincoln County Kansas chapter three INDIAN RAIDSÄ¡8 Story of those killed, with a history of the monument erected to
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