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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: From the Archives
Description: One paragraph about the collection of photographs from the Swoford family showing "a street corner and some buildings, horses and street car tracks, and on the side of one building. ..printed P[alace] S[tables and] S[hoeing] S[hop]," possibly at the corner of Westport and Main Streets in 1899.
Date: 1964-03
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: The Journal of Mamie Bernard Aguirre
Description: Description of the story of Mary "Mamie" Bernard, or Mamie Bernard of Westport and her husband, wealthy Spanish trader Epifanio Aguirre in the 1860s, with photos of the couple and family members Joab Bernard and Pedro Joab Aguirre and excerpts from Mamie's journal, recently acquired by the Jackson County Historical Society.
Date: 1966
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

Title: The Journal of Mamie Bernard Aguirre
Description: Photo and description of "Senator Steven B. Elkins," at the age of 21 in Westport during the Civil War as a passenger on an ambulance wagon, accompanying Mamie Aguirre on her honeymoon.
Date: 1966
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: McCoys of Early-Day Independence: John McCoy
Description: Photos and biographical description of John McCoy (1816-1904), a Santa Fe trader and newspaper journalist coming to Independence with his brother, William McCoy, in 1838, and building his large house at "the northwest corner of Main and White Oak streets in Independence, in 1887."
Date: 1964-03
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: McCoys of Early-Day Independence: Alexander Watts McCoy
Description: Portrait and biographical description of Alexander Watts McCoy, or Alexander McCoy, a civil engineer and publisher of an abolitionist newspaper in Independence. Description of his life and career, born in Ohio in 1812 as a brother of William and John McCoy and coming to Independence in 1849, then having his printing establishment destroyed during the Civil War Battle of Independence and leaving Jackson County for good.
Date: 1964-03
Object Type: Magazine Article

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