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Bourbon County borders on Missouri, and is in the third tier of Counties from the Indian Territory. The northern boundary of the county is three miles north of the 38th parallel of north latitude. It is bounded as follows: On the north by Linn County; on the east by Missouri; on the South by Crawford County and on the West by Neosho and Allen Counties. By the "Bogus Laws," its limits were defined as follows: beginning at the southeast corner of Linn County, thence south thirty miles; thence west twenty-four miles; thence north thirty miles; thence east twenty-four miles to the place of beginning. Within these limits were contained 720 square miles or 460,800 acres. _1.

Organized in 1855. County seat Ft. Scott. Received its name from Bourbon County, Ky., the latter having been one of the nine counties organized in 1785 by the Virginia legislature, before Kentucky became an independent state._2.

1. William G. Cutler's History of the State of Kansas
published in 1883 by A. T. Andreas, Chicago, IL.

2. History of Kansas, Noble Prentis, (Winfield: E.P. Greer. 1899)

Biographies
Description	File Size	Date	Submitter
Blair, Ed 1863 -	8K	Oct 2008	Joy Fisher
Canaday, Merrit D. 1841 -	3K	Mar 2007	Joy Fisher
Nall, John 1832 -	4K	Mar 2009	Joy Fisher
Cemeteries
Description	File Size	Date	Submitter
Mason Graveyard - Partial Survey	4.6 K	May 2009	Lynn Beatty
History - Directories
Description	File Size	Date	Submitter
Bourbon County Medical Directory 1920	5K	Feb 2009	Joy Fisher
Military Records
Description	File Size	Date	Submitter
Bourbon County, KS 1883 List of Pensioners on the Roll	2 kb	December 1997	Carolyn Ward
Obituaries
Description	File Size	Date	Submitter
Linton, Richard Dean Carrell October 1, 2004	1K	Aug 2007	Oz
Merriam, Maria A. Barrett 1899	5K	Sep 2006	Jeanne Fontaine
Sheppard, Jacob Ingraham October 19, 1921	12K	Apr 2007	Barbara Snyder
Sheppard, James Gifford 1939	4K	Apr 2007	Barbara Snyder
Vital Records
Description	File Size	Date	Submitter
Lester P. JONES - 1988	1 kb	5/14/02	Susie Hastings

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