Soap Creek Valley · Place

Kansas

Everything the Soap Creek narrators said about Kansas: 15 transcript mentions across 6 records, grouped by who was speaking.

state No coordinate

Index references (printed indexes): 18
Transcript mentions: 15

These two numbers count different things and rarely match. The first is how often the back-of-book indexes the books themselves print point at this place; an indexer chose those. The second is how often the name occurs in the transcript text, counted by machine. More on the difference.

This place has not been given a coordinate. It appears here because the narrators named it; where it stood is not established.

Provenance

Built from: The printed transcripts and back-of-book indexes of the fifteen monographs
Accessioned: From Bob Zybach’s upload, 23 August 2026

Who speaks of it

Bessie Murphy in #11 Bessie Murphy p. 10, p. 40, p. 94
Donald M. Dickey and Maxine Dickey in #3 Donald Dickey p. 41
John Jacob "Jake" Rohner and Wilma "Willie" Rohner in #5 John Jacob & Wilma Rohner p. 1, p. 2, p. 39, p. 53, p. 56, p. 87, p. 96
Marvin Rowley in #15 Marvin Rowley p. 7, p. 110
Neil Elton Vanderburg in #8 Neil Vanderburg p. 9
Velma Carter Rawie in #10 Velma Carter Rawie p. 95

In their words

Quoted character for character from the printed page, with the page it is on.

Well, my father's mother's brother migrated, came to Kansas.

John Jacob "Jake" Rohner and Wilma "Willie" Rohner, #5 John Jacob & Wilma Rohner , p. 1

And there were ten in father's family, and five came one by one to Kansas and settled there.

John Jacob "Jake" Rohner and Wilma "Willie" Rohner, #5 John Jacob & Wilma Rohner , p. 1

Dated statements about this place

1900 — In the year 1900, she was five years old and her family moved to Corvallis. They were originally from Astoria, before that her ancestors from one side of the family lived in Tennessee, then Missouri, then they moved to Oregon. On the other side of the family they lived in Philadelphia, then they moved to Kansas and then they came Zybach (editorial) · source · 1891–1920
1908 — And this was in 1908, when my father caine. John Jacob "Jake" Rohner · source · 1891–1920
1913 — In 1913 he went back to Switzerland and brought my mother over to Kansas, and my mother said, "This is not for me!" Dry, and windy, and no trees. John Jacob "Jake" Rohner · source · 1891–1920
1934 — Fact is, I was back there in 1934, and he had just wrote to my father how things were in Oregon and if there was a chance to come out. John Jacob "Jake" Rohner · source · 1921–1940
1934 — [Uncle Oswald and Les Davis (brother-in-law) and mother-in-law Davis came from Kansas in 1934. John Jacob "Jake" Rohner · source · 1921–1940

How to cite this item

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As printed: The Zybach Collection, Soap Creek Valley series: Kansas (place record).
This page: Soap Creek Valley: Kansas. America's School Trust Library, The Zybach Collection. https://schooltrusts.org/collections/zybach/soap-creek/places/kansas/
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