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Lilla Day Monroe Collection of Pioneer Stories

Elizabeth Brandley

Pioneer Brandley, Elizabeth (Romigh)
Date/Place of Birth 3/28/1843, [place not given]
Date of Death 12/18/1913
Father Daniel Romigh
Mother Eliza Slaughter
Marriage Captain Henry Brandley, 4/1870
Came to Kansas From Summerfield, Ohio 
Life in Kansas Shawnee County, 1857; Chase County, 1858
Author (other than pioneer) Mrs. Clara B. Hildebrand
Author's relationship to pioneer Daughter 
Contributor Mrs. L. L. Chandler 
Subjects Mentioned Flowers, Fruit Trees, Captain 9th KS Cavalry, Wounded, Trading Patterns, Steamboat, Tecumseh, Early Cottonwood Falls Residents, 1860 Drouth, Butchering Meat, Grasshoppers, Riding Horse Alone on Trips, Buffalo Hunt, Jerk & Dry Buffalo Meat, Trading Supplies with Indians for Moccasins & Buffalo Hides, 6 room Log Cabin, Early Graduate of Emporia Normal, No Doctors, Soap Making, Home was Stagecoach Station, Prairie Schooner, Wild Flowers in May, Women's Work 
KSHS Location Manuscript Coll. 163

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