Good   •   Gaiser   •   Huguenin   •   Lauck
Arriving from Europe, 1727-1878

1908 Main Street
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Location
Peabody on Mapquest
Marion Co., KS

Schools USD #398

Newspapers
Peabody Gazette [Online]
Newton Kansan Online

History
1883, Cutler (4)
1912, Blackmar (2)
1950, Cooper (3)
1999, Richie (5)
2006, Peabody (1)

Points of Interest
Catlin Mennonite Cemetery
First Christian Church
Prairie Lawn Cemetery

Home Town, USA Creating a new family means being close enough together to find each other. For Irvin Good and Jane Huguenin that journey together through the Peabody countryside began in 1935 and ended only with Irvin's death in 1971. In 1935 Irvin was share cropping the family farm of his parents, I. B. and Lizzie Gaiser Good, about six miles northwest of Peabody, and Jane was a telephone operator living in Peabody with her parents, Oscar and Pearl Lauck Huguenin. When they were married in 1941, Jane joined Irvin on the farm to make that their family home and raise their four children. Irvin and Jane and their parents all now rest in Peabody's Prairie Lawn Cemetery as do Jane's grandmother Eugenie Huguenin, her Lauck grandparents and other relatives from the Good, Gaiser, Huguenin, and Lauck families. Irvin's Good grandparents rest in the Catlin Mennonite Cemetery only a few miles away.

Notes

1. "City of Peabody," peabodyks.com (City of Peabody, 2006; accessed 2007 Feb 14).

2. Frank W. Blackmar, A Cyclopedia of State History, Embracing Events, Institutions, Industries, Counties, Cities, Towns, Prominent Persons, Etc. (Chicago, IL: Standard Publishing Co., 1912). Also skyways.lib.ks.us/ge...ives/1912/index.html (Accessed 2005 Jan 1). See section on Peabody.

3. Helen Marie Cooper, The Wealth She Gathered, ed. Gertrude Helen Cooper (Boston: Chapman & Grimes, 1950). In addition to the story of the Cooper family, this book, which is well-written and quite readable, tells a great deal about early Peabody, KS. Gertrude Cooper was a close friend of Oscar and Pearl Huguenin.

4. William G. Cutler, History of the State of Kansas (A. T. Andreas, 1883). Also available online at http://www.kancoll.org/books/cutler/ (University of Kansas, accessed 2005 Jan 1). See section on Peabody.

5. Marcie Ward Richie, "Peabody, Kansas Families Arriving before 1920," http://skyways.lib.ks.us/kansas/genweb/marion/Peabodya.html (Kansas State Library, accessed 2004 Dec 27).