scientious, peace-loving, influential men and women.
     On the table by the window where Henry sat to transact his business, many papers lay in scattered disorder. Among them lay an open Bible.
     Henry Johann Kroth was an "uncommon man."

Arch remembers as told to him:
     Fort Leavenworth had sources of information that General Price with his army was coming into Kansas to make it a Confederate or Slave State.
     Feelings ran high and a militia was organized immediately. All Eastern Kansas men were conscripted. Henry Kroth was one of them. They drilled and make all preparations and waited 16 days. General Price and his army and the Ft. Leavenworth boys met at West Port, a little town near Kansas City. When General Price saw what he was up against, only ai few shots were fired. He turned his army and fled back into Missouri. The militia followed and made certain that they were out of Kansas. Louisiana, Henry's wife, knitted a pair of socks and sent them by a late joiner, but his term in the army was short.
     When Lincoln,-President of the United States, was calling for volunteers and the Civil Was was being fought, Robert Loughmiller, Jacob and Aurelials youngest son, yearned to enlist. His sister, Orlena, said he was too young and was needed at home. However'he did drill with the militia at Easton and did go with them to Leavenworth and Atchison. He had very close connections when Lawrence suffered Quantrill's Raid and had many interesting memoirs of his experience to tell his family as he grew older.
     Joseph Beach, husband of Orlena Loughmiller and father of Frank, Aurelia (a nurse for many years, better known as "Rilla"), Clarence, and Cora, was a Civil War veteran. He had served the four years and had escaped death in many battles, but his hearing was much impaired. He believed that the roar of the cannons during battles had caused the injury to his ear drums. Like the majority of war veterans, he died early. His sudden death at 59 years was a great loss to his wife and the sons and daughters.

Another Civil War incident:
     A half-drunken gang came to Grandfather Loughmiller's place one morning in Easton. The family was having worship. Grandfather went to the door with the Bible in his hand. One of the men called, "Abolitionist, we are going to kill you." Grandfather stood with the Bible in his hand and said, "I guess I am as near ready now as I will ever be." A period of silence followed then the men left, without doing any harm. But, they were pretty drunk and a gun lay in their laps.
     Years later, in Reconstruction days, following the Civil War, when the Jacob Loughmiller family lived on the farm known as the Frank Kroth place, Ruffian Gangs came from Missouri frequently. The horse and cow that the family owned were most


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