Beyond the Grave: Protecting the Spirits and History of Kansas

Apropos reporting from local bloggers ahead of Halloween . . . 

"More than 4,000 gravesites are recorded between two cemeteries in Quindaro, according to the Wyandotte County Historical Museum. You can find headstones for Civil War veterans, Native Americans, people who escaped slavery and abolitionists . . .

"Cemeteries like it are scattered across Wyandotte County — 18 in total, with tens of thousands of graves. That’s unusually high compared to the rest of the state — Wichita only has two — and even the country."

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .

These 18 abandoned cemeteries in Wyandotte County hold two centuries of local history

"We don't even have enough funds to have dignity for those who we've lost," Unified Government Mayor Christal Watson said at a commission meeting in August, "and that's a tragedy to me."