WELCOME TO BOURBON COUNTY WHERE YOUR JORNEY BEGINS

Welcome to Kansas Trails' Bourbon County. Our goal is helping you find your ancestors by placing data online for the Free use of all researchers.  If you wish to submit data of any type to this site, it will be graciously accepted and added to this site. Remember: Submitted data will always be YOURS. CONTROL of any submitted data is yours. At any time you can choose to remove it or keep it online - from any site - wherever on the web. We regret that we are unable to perform personal research for folks. All data we come across will be added to this site. We thank you for visiting and hope you'll come back again to view the updates we make to this site. your Temporary Bourbon County host, Peggy Thompson EMAIL ME

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TOWNSHIPS Drywood Franklin Freedom Marion Marmaton Mill Creek Osage Pawnee Scott Timberhill Walnut   CITIES Ft. Scott Bourbon Uniontown Fulton Redfield Mapleton

Bourbon County was organized by the Territorial Legislature in 1855. It was named for Bourbon County, Kentucky--a member of the Territorial Legislature, Samuel A. Williams, requested that it be named for his former home county.   Fort Scott is the county seat and largest city; besides the cities listed at the left, other communities include Devon, Garland, Hammond, Hiattville, Hidden Valley, Marmaton, Pawnee Station and Xenia. If you have an Obit you'd like to submit for this County or any other Kansas County? Submit here! Search this site powered by FreeFind Join Our Mailing Lists Genealogy Trails Mailing Lists This Month's Featured Data 1887 Farmers' Directory Bourbon County in Civil War  Biographies

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