El Paso Cemetery sits on a slight hill in the center of Derby but was once surrounded by farmland and was about a mile southeast of the growing settlement. In 1878, the cemetery opened, 9 years after the Garrett family staked a claim near the bank of…
On July 11, 1871, J. Hout Minnich and John Hufbauer filed a town plat for El Paso in Sedgwick County, Kansas. It established streets from Madison to Kay and from Water Street to Georgie Avenue, and business boomed.
That Frank Simonsen of School District No. 6, Sedgwick County, Kansas, has completed the Course of Study covering the work of eight years in the Common Branches required by Law to be taught in…
This Certifies That Ella Pittman has completed the Course of Study prescribed for the Common Schools of the State of Kansas and is therefore entitled to this
This is to Certify that Bessie Hopkins
Of District No. 6, Sedgwick County, Kansas, has completed the Course of Study covering the work of eight years in the Common Branches required by Law to be…
This is the envelope Ella Pittman's eighth grade diploma came in from County Superintendent R. M. Crum's office. She wrote all the names of the Derby graduates on the back of the envelope.
Graduates: Ruth Sawin, Orpha Brian, Ella Pittman, Agnes…