ErieTownship Sedgwick County Kansas Genealogy Trails

Erie

Erie Township was first called Fayette, but changed in 1878. It is watered by Mud Creek, Jocelyn Creek and Sand Creek, besides having many prairie ponds distributed in various localities furnishing abundance of water for stock purposes, which is largely the pursuit of its people, though excellent crops are raised, and fruit does well. The soil is a dark loam, capable of fine crops, which could be produced to profit by deep plowing. Its first actual settler was Samuel Elkins but among its active early pioneers were Wm. Embree, Milton W. Tyler, M. A. Swift, M. Davison (blacksmith and preacher), G. Vesey, A. T. Buckeridge, O. H. S. Bartlett and Henry Newton, the last named organized the township. It has several good schoolhouses, wherein church is held by circuit preachers, each Sabbath. Helen postoffice, located on the southwest quarter of Section 9, is surrounded by finely improved farms. Population, 166, valuation of property, $74,505.