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Ties to Kansas by the Linde family date back to the times before the establishment of
Kansas Territory in 1854.

Major General John B. Scott. served the Union Army as Commanding General at Fort Des Moines, Iowa. His wife Jane "Adams" Scott had died during child birth and his sister and her husband Frederick Troxel assisted in raising Lucinda Jane, their daughter. John would later marry Jane Adams sister, Lucinda. He retired from the Army and opened an Indian Trading Post and Ferry Crossing at Des Moines.

When the Indian removal act of 1830, was enacted, the Sax and Foxx Indian tribes of the Fort Des Moines area, were removed to the Reservation in what soon would be known as Kansas Territory.
In trading with the Indians, the Scott's had generated some $25,000 in script as payment for the provisions provided to the Indians of the tribes.
The Indian Superintendent that redeemed the script in cash periodically, informed the Scott's if they wished to redeemed the script, they would be required to remove with the Indian Nation to their new lands. .
John and his new bride chose to follow the tribes to Indian Territory.
John and Lucinda moved to the prairies of Indian Territory in 1849. They opened a Trading Post on lands in what is now near the town of Quinimo, Kansas.
As the Kansas and Nebraska Act was passed, it recognized this land as Kansas Territory, Lucinda and John decided they would open a Trading Post south of his current location near the Neosho River.

He moved south to the current site of the town of Leroy and established an Indian Trading post on the banks of the Neosho River. The Indians referred to the town as Scotts Town. He and his brother in law Frederick Troxel pooled their lands that they received when they were mustered out of the service and founded Scotts Town.
Later Thomas Crabtree would buy Mr. Troxel's interest in the community.
The town was later to be named, Leroy. Gen. Scott was the first Justice of the Piece on Coffey County and his soon to be Son in Law, Alexander Hamilton, first County Clerk of Coffey County. Both served the Bogus Legislature in 1857 at Lecompton.

Grandfather Scott was appointed Major General by the Governor and placed as Commanding General of the Neosho Valley Home Guard unit and dispatched to Fort Scott with the Kansas Home Guard Units of the 9th Calvary. Major General John B. Scott is burried in the cemetery at Leroy.

The graveyards of Southeast Kansas are full of Kansas Native Sons that paid the supreme price that we might live in freedom. Mother Elizabeth "Hamilton" Linde; Grandfather Stanley Hamilton, Great Grand Father Alexander Hamilton; Great Grand Mother Lucinda Jane "Scott" Hamilton; Great-Great Grandfather Major General John B. Scott.

Judy & Elizabeth
Linde
In the Beginning
Click on the pictures below to learn of the Linde's and their place of orgin.

Dad Linde United in Marriage on April 23, 1923 Mom Linde
1903 - 1992 1904 - 1994

Bill & Maxine Linde
We travel this road of life but once. We must learn from our mistakes and correct accordingly. We must look straight ahead and never look back. And utmost of all, Never give up, Never give up, Never give up.

God Bless You All

Bill Linde Feb 8, 1951 Maxine Thompson
The Thompson Family

Aunt Uncle
Barbara & Donald
Linde

2005
The Year Barb Met Abe