Sleppy - George - Montgomery InGenWeb Project

Source: Wellsville, Kansas Bicentennial 1776-1976

   

George SLEPPY, a Civil War veteran, first came to Kansas with   his family from Crawfordsville, Indiana about 1872. They traveled   with a caravan that settled northeast of Cherryvale. After a year   or two, they returned to Indiana. In 1876, they again came to   Kansas settling on a farm in a community southeast of Wellsville   on Bull Creek known as Wade's Branch. Mr. Sleppy farmed and did   carpentry work until his death in 1888. His son Milton then took   over the farm and also did carpentry work. A daughter, Lusetta,   was appointed postmistress of the Wade's Branch Post Office and   rode horseback to Paola twice a week to get the mail. Tiring of   farm life, Milt moved the family to Osawatomie and then to   Wellsville about 1900. He worked for the railroad until 1908 and   then as a carpenter helping to build many of the houses in   Wellsville. Milt was also town marshal and janitor at the school   for many years. His daughter, Lela Wiggins, served as the first   woman city clerk in Wellsville. Her son, Larry, resides in the   Wellsville area.

  In 1909, Milt Sleppy and his family moved to their home on East   5th Street and the property remained in the family until 1959   when it was sold to Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Stonequist. This house at   113 East 5th had been Wellsville's first hotel and is the oldest   home in town having been remodeled a number of times.