The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-02-05
v. J. Lane Objects to Bodies o
Family Being Disturbed.
Daughter Buried in QuindarO
Cemetery so Years Ago.
WIFE is THEBIa ALSO.
The Old Indi e Yard
Association 5Oingd.
Editor of the WyandOtte Herald
Has a Sad Complaint.

Kansas City, Kan. Feb. 5.-WincentfJ.
Lane, editor of the Wyandotte Herald,
one Of the Oldest residents of, Wyandotte
county, has brought injunction proceed
ings in the district court to prevent the
Quindaro Cemetery association from re-
moving the bodies Of -hlssauffe- Sarah J.
Lane, and his daughter Marcia Lane,
from the old cemetery at Qufndaro, or in
any way interfering with the graves of
either OF them Judge J. AIcCabe Moore
granted a restraining order which is to
remain in force until the case is finally
heard. The daughters body has been
buried in the cemetery for 50 years.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lane came to Wyandotte
county in 1857 and settled in QuindaF0,
where Mr.. Lane started one of the first
newspapers in the state of Kansas. La
ter he moved TO this city, where he be-
gan the publication Of the WyandOtte
Herald, Of which he is still editor. al
though past 70 years Of age. Mrs. Lane
died January 2, 1905, and was buried in
The Quindaro cemetery where his
daughter, Marcia Lane, was buried in
November, 1857.
In the petition asking for an injunc-
ton Mr. Lane alleges that the old ceme-
terry at Cluindaro was decided to the
Methodist Episcopal church by the cOun-
ell OF the Wyaudotte Indians when they
agreed to give up their tribal rights to
the United States on January 81. 1855
This agreement, he says, was ratified
on March l. 1855. Mrs. Lane was one Of
the founders of the Methodist Episcopal
church in WyandOtte county and when
their child was buried in the Quiudaro
cemetery, he says, they bought a lot
there. When he desired to bury his wife
beside the child, he alleges, the cemetery
association demanded pay for the grave
AT that time all the arrangements for
the funeral had been made. and to pre-
vent the trouble that would have re-
suited from a refusal to pay for the
grave he gave the amount asked Since
them he says, the association has de-
manded further payment for the lot and
threatened to remove both bodies unless
he complied with their demand.
The QuindarO cemetery is on high
blur overlooking the Missouri river. It
is just west Of the ruins Of the old stone
buildings, which stood on the wharf at
Quindaro, where in the SOS steamboats,
landed
In the petition Mr.. Lane relates an in
teresting bit of early WyandOtte county
history. He says that in 1850 the Meth
odfst Episcopal church established a
mission among the Indians and laid out
out 2-aere tract which now forms the
cemetery, as a burying ground When
the Wyandottes agreed to give up all
their rights i'm sNyandott county ne
says they gave this land tolthe- church
out of respect to the missionaries, who
had worked among them. In the civil
war the mission church, which stood in
the old cemetery, was burned.
The Quindaro Cemetery association
owns several acres of land just west of
the two acres which form the old Gene
terry. The association claims it was
authorized to look after the old ceme-
terry by the WyandOttes now in the In
dian nation.