Question: What county in Kansas was Helen T. Parsons born in?
Context: Labette County (county code LB) is a county located in the U.S. state of Kansas.  As of the 2010 census, the county population was 21,607.  Its county seat is Oswego, and its most populous city is Parsons.  The county was named after LaBette creek, the second-largest creek in the county, which runs roughly NNW-SSE from near Parsons to Chetopa.  The creek in turn was named after French-Canadian fur trapper Pierre LaBette who had moved to the area, living along the Neosho River, and marrying into the Osage tribe in the 1830s and 1840s. Southeast Kansas is a region of the U.S. state of Kansas.  It can be roughly defined by Woodson County in the northwest, Bourbon County in the northeast, Cherokee County in the southeast, and Montgomery County in the southwest.  Geographically it is dominated by a broad rolling landscape located between the Flint Hills to the west and includes the Ozarks to the southeast.  Some notable towns there include Pittsburg, Parsons, Coffeyville, Independence, Chanute, Fort Scott, and Iola.  The region has a land area of 13,624.13 km² (5,260.30 sq mi) and a 2000 census population of 180,815 inhabitants.  It has 6.43% of the state's land area and 6.726% of its population.  It is dominated by a broad rolling landscape that includes the Ozarks.  It receives more precipitation than any other part of Kansas.  Southeast Kansas is located in the tallgrass prairie ecosystem of North America.  Originally inhabited by several Native American tribes, frontier towns largely dependent on cattle ranching, and mining, were wracked by violence over the issue of slavery both before and during the American Civil War.  Southeast Kansas offers one of the premier reconstructions of early life in the United States Army at Fort Scott National Historic Site. Richard Proehl (born November 6, 1944) is a Republican member of the Kansas House of Representatives, representing the 7th district (Parsons, Kansas in Labette County, Kansas).  He was elected to his first term on December 21, 2005. Helen T. Parsons (March 26, 1886; Arkansas City, Kansas – December 30, 1977; Madison, Wisconsin) was an American biochemist.  She developed early work in B vitamins. Clarence Leonard Hayes was an American jazz vocalist, banjoist and guitarist born November 14, 1908, in Caney, Kansas.  He lived in Parsons, Kansas for a short time, and the town is the subject of his song "The Parsons, Kansas Blues".  He worked always as a professional musician, turning up in San Francisco in 1926.  By 1927 he was a regular on the music scene there.  He performed regularly on radio in San Francisco until the 1950s when live music came to be replaced with recordings. Major Lawrence Edward Knox(1836–1873) was a British Army officer and founder of The Irish Times.  He was born in the Kemp Town area of Brighton in East Sussex, England.  His parents were Arthur Edward Knox of Castle Rea, County Mayo, (later Trotton House, Sussex) and Jane Parsons, daughter of Laurence Parsons, 2nd Earl of Rosse. Helen Gilbert (1922-2002), who is also known as Helen Gilbert-Bushnell, Helen Odell Gilbert and Helen Odell, was an American artist and art-educator born in Mare Island, California.  She earned a baccalaureate in art at Mills College, in California.  After graduation, she moved to Honolulu, where she married Honolulu physician Fred Gilbert.  In 1968, she received an MFA degree from the University of Hawaii at Manoa, and then remained on the faculty for 30 years.  Her second marriage was to fellow artist Kenneth Wayne Bushnell in 1995.  She had also been a visiting professor at Parsons The New School for Design and the Pratt Institute.  She died at home of cancer on April 8, 2002. Arkansas City (pronounced ) is a city in Cowley County, Kansas, United States, situated at the confluence of the Arkansas and Walnut rivers in the southwestern part of the county.  As of the 2010 census, the city population was 12,415. Parsons is a city in Labette County, Kansas, United States.  As of the 2010 census, the city population was 10,500.  It is the most populous city of Labette County, and is the second-most populous city in the southeastern region of Kansas. Denis Parsons Burkitt FRS (28 February 1911 – 23 March 1993), surgeon, was born in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, Ireland.  He was the son of James Parsons Burkitt.  Aged eleven he lost his right eye in an accident.  He attended Portora Royal School in Enniskillen and Dean Close School, England.  In 1929 Burkitt entered Trinity College, Dublin, to study engineering but believing his evangelical calling was to be a doctor he transferred to medicine.  In 1938 he passed the Edinburgh Royal College of Surgeons fellowship examinations.  On 28 July 1943 he married Olive Rogers.
Answer: Cowley County