Re: Ed Mosley, buffalo hunter, Indian trader on the Kansas plains
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Ed Mosley, buffalo hunter, Indian trader on the Kansas plains
Robert Willis 8/02/06
Bob,
I hope you're still around watching this board - I'd like to compare notes.
I've been researching the Negro family (of Fielding Buckner) that is mentioned as being the closest neighbors to the Mosleys in the story you posted.
I've run into Ed Mosley wherever I find Buckner it seems.
The two Mosley women that you mentioned were Ed Mosley's daughters. Elizabeth Ella married George Gochnat. In 1870 he lived in Coyville, Wilson County, Kansas a few miles west of the Mosleys who lived in Guilford Township on Buffalo Creek.
At Coyville there is a branch of the Verdigris River called the Ross Branch - named for John Ross who lived there for a time. The other white woman that the Mosleys encountered in your story was probably the widow of John Ross who was killed by Indians near the future site of Wichita in October 1860.
Ed Mosely is found in the 1865 Kansas Census in Greenwood County near Eureka. He called his place there "Hunter's Home."
In both 1865 and 1870 his name is listed as Edwin H. Mosley.
Mosley street in Wichita, Kansas was named for him by James R. Mead who was one of the city's founders. Mead was very fond of Mosley and gave him mention in his memoirs. His memoirs were compiled by his grandson, Dr. Schuyler Jones, and published by University of Oklahoma Press. The book is called Hunting and Trading on the Great Plains 1859-1875. (I might have the years wrong!)
I'd like to know why I find several references calling this man "Captain Mosley." Are you a descendant?
Stephen
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Re: Ed Mosley, buffalo hunter, Indian trader on the Kansas plains
Robert Willis 3/04/07