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Standing (left to right) in front of the Derby depot in the early 1910s: Tom Frey, Oscar Yungmeyer, and Franklin Carlton.

Four generations of the Clapham/Shockey family sitting on the porch at the Shockey farm on 71st Street around 1919.

Seated in the back: Amelia (Hough) Clapham and her daughter Fannie (Clapham) Shockey.
Seated in front: Harley Shockey (Fannie's…

George Freeman and son Fred with their steam tractor powered saw mill cutting lumber for the round barn in 1910.

Lela Williams with her friends on the family farm in Derby around 1915.

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Lela Williams with her friends on the family farm in Derby around 1915. Lela and her family moved to Derby when she was eight years old.

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William Henry Harrison Snyder (also known as H. H.) and his wife Mary settled in the Derby area in February 1871 at what is now 87th and Webb. The stone house they built in 1880 is still standing and is currently (2018) owned by Ray and Maurine…

Left to right: Charles Alva "Pat" Goodacre, James "Jim" Goodacre, Jr., a Mock relative, Sarah (Mock) Goodacre, a Mock relative, a Mock relative, and James Goodacre

Back row:
Dora Goodacre, Pat Goodacre, Jim Goodacre, Wynona "Nona" Goodacre

Front row:
James Goodacre, Martha Goodacre, and Sarah Mock Goodacre

In the 1900s Oliver H. P. "OHP" Smith and Alice Morrison Smith brought their family to live in Derby on 240 acres of land, which was eventually sold in the 1950s to build houses. St. Mary Catholic Church and School sat on 10 acres of the land from…

Chris Mohr and Mayme Schlender married on January 3, 1900 at high noon in Moundridge, Kansas and made their home in Derby, Kansas.