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Hi Deborah and all, I don't have the actual flier. It was actually mentioned in a letter written between Pace cousins back 1n 1995. One says they had found the letter in the Atchison (Kansas) Globe some years earlier. I wonder if it may have been in 1965 or so to mark the centennial. Some of the Atchison Globe and Daily Globe newspapers are online at ancestry but I've not been ale to find this article. A Thomas aunt of mine who lived near Atchison had quite a collection of family history docs. She used to submit stuff like that to the paper. She's gone now so I can't ask.

It is interesting though as it names a lot of local people. Will be fun to check the census to see if they are still around in Buchanan and Platte Counties after the war. I know that James Pace and others of his brothers are in Vernon County. One of the counties that was evacuated of all people during the war. Guess land was available to grab or to resettle anyway.

Here is a transcript of what I have:

"To the Citizens of Buchanan and Platte counties - You are ordered to leave the State. You are knows Rebels and Bushwhackers and Rebel sympathizers. You have aided the Rebellion long enough an dif you don't leave that country against the first day of March 1865, hell be you domb(??). I will give you a list of the names first: A. D. Blythe, Jess Page (Pace?), Dick Tilton, Bart Bellis, M. J. Alexander, Thomas Dye, Killion Berry, Wm. Berry, James Berry, Eli Berry, Si Berry, Bill Foley, Allen Foley, Columbus Frazier, Roberts, Harry Hargrove, J. M. Lawrence, Wm Best, Tom Taylor, Mortimer Jones, Henry Gore, Louis Gore, James Gore, Sam Grooms, John Gill, Ben Stuart, James Black and all his boys, James Dunlap and boys, Charley Staley, Alexander Brown, Wm. Brown, Sam Dosser, Sam(uel) Pace, James Pace, Wm. Mulkey and all others that belong to that institution Papaw Militia and Southern Gentlemen. You must leave that country or hell will be your fate. You may mark that. Yours truly, Mid Knight Rangers. No. I to whom it may concern death death death - damn you all.
Letter was postmarked February 1865.

Of interest to my family line are Samuel Pace, James Pace, Sam Grooms and Wm Mulkey. They are related by marriage in my Pace family line. William Mulkey was the brother-in-law of James Pace. James Pace's sister Abigail was married to a Joe Grooms.

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