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Title: Memoirs of Francis Clay Wornall
Description: Description of farmland "about two miles south of Westport," bought by the Wornall family in 1843 from the McCoy family, "patented" partly by John C. McCoy and partly by his father and Indian missionary Isaac McCoy in 1835-1836.
Date: 1963-12
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Letters to the Editor
Description: Reply to the magazine's inquiry about the location of the Palace Stables & Shoeing Shop in an earlier issue, placing the livery stable "at Westport and Main and. ..torn down to provide the building site of what was to become the Warwick theatre."
Date: 1965-03
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Wornall Home Has Historic Past
Description: Photo (of the John Wornall residence) and stories of robberies and other assaults on the Wornall home by brigands during the war.
Date: 1963-07
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Memoirs of Francis Clay Wornall
Description: Reminiscences by Francis Clay Wornall, or Frank Wornall, about the Wornall family's experiences, including killings and retrieval of dead bodies in the yard at the Wornall Home in the Battle of Westport.
Date: 1963-11
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Wornall Home Has Historic Past
Description: Photos and story about the Confederate landholders and mansion owners of the Kansas City area, including John Wornall and his Wornall home, who hospitalized Rebels during the Civil War and were in turn robbed by raiders. From essay by Henry Van Brunt, Jr., in the Kansas City Star, September 25, 1949.
Date: 1963-07
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Lone Jack Museum Dedication to Be August 16
Description: Article about the dedication of the Lone Jack Museum with information about the Civil War Battles of Lone Jack and Westport.
Date: 1963-07
Object Type: Magazine Article