A One-Name Study for the BARNUM/BARNHAM Surname
Charley A. Fuller, a grandson of Lewis Barnum, provided the following story: "Quantrell [Quantrell's Raiders] came back into Brown County, Kansas, after the Lawrence Massacre. Gathering recruits, they came to my grandfather's farm one day. If they found any men folk, they either had to join the band or they would be shot. My grandfather, Lewis Barnum, had made a large chest to pack goods in, back in Vermont, where they came from before the Civil War. When the raiding band came to my grandfather's house to see if there were any men folk, he hid in the big chest right in the house and my mother (who was about 12 years old) sat on the chest while they were looking for him. The chest is still in the family. Ernest Reames and wife Leta, of Jamestown, Kansas, have it. Leta is a great-granddaughter of Lewis Barnum."
A Research Guide to the Genealogy of the Barnum/Barnam/Barnham Family Worldwide
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