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| John Finley Van Huss family, Latham, Kansas |
John Finley Van Huss was my wife's great grandfather, grandfather to Robert (Bob) Van Huss. He lived to be 80 years old. He was the youngest son of Valentine Worley Van Huss and Elizabeth Campbell, born in 1859 in Tennessee. He came to Kansas in the 1870s with his parents in a wagon, lost his mother in Johnson County, Kansas, before his father and older brothers took up homesteading in Butler County Kansas. Eventually, John took a farm near Latham, Kansas and married the neighbor's daughter, Josie Brewer. They had five children. The second, Fred Brewer VanHuss (1893-1972) was Bob's father.
