Linn County KS Archives News.....Death: Asa HAIRGROVE; Survivor of Hamilton massacre. November 26, 1881
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The La Cygne Weekly Journal November 26, 1881
Linn County
Saturday
November 26, 1881

Another of the survivors of the Hamilton massacre, Asa HAIRGROVE, a former
citizen of Linn county, is dead. The Topeka correspondent of the Kansas City
Journal, has the following in that paper on Monday: "From a Del Norte, Col.,
paper I learn that Hon. Asa HAIRGROVE, one of the first settlers of Kansas, died
there on the 9th inst. Mr. Hairgrove was one of the survivors of the Marais des
Cygnes massacre. On the 19th of May, 1858, Mr. Hairgrove, his father, and a
number of others, were taken prisoners by the border ruffians and started to
Missouri. When near a place in Linn county called the Trading Post the prisoners
were halted, formed in line and the order was given by the leader of the their
captors to fire. Five of the defenceless Kansans were killed, and Asa Hairgrove
and his father were left for dead on the field. This brutal massacre is the
subject of a poem by John G. Whittier. The deceased held many positions of trust
and honor in the State, having once been Auditor !
 of State. He has been a resident of Colorado for about seven years." 
 

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