How the Egglestons Got to Kansas

In 1865 Madison Joseph Eggleston returned from action in the Civil War. He was in a regiment from Michigan (full information in the cousin notebooks). His 1st wife, the mother of his first child Edwin Theodore Eggleston, Cordelia Parsons, had died that same year.  A few years later he married Mary Elizabeth Dunn and they had one child, Frank Dunn Eggleston, my grandfather. Madison Joseph Eggleston, or so the family story goes, received land out West as a reward for his service in the Union Army. After 1870 he moved his family, including his wife's mother, Jane Parham Dunn, from St. Joseph County, Michigan, to Larned, Pawnee County, Kansas, where he was a carpenter and also a farmer. Later, when his son Frank became a pharmacist and owned the Rexall Drug Store in Kingman, Kansas, Madison Joseph Eggleston moved to Kingman. My father (b. 1902) said that it was so thrilling to see the Kingman, Kansas, 4th of July parade when he was a little boy, because the parade was led by the Civil War soldiers and his grandfather was among them.  The 1st  photo is of the Eggleston brothers: front row--Madison Joseph Eggleston and William H. Eggleston, back row: Lyman Fish Eggleston and Byron F. Eggleston.  I think the photo was taken shortly after the Civil War. The 2nd photo is of Madison Joseph Eggleston in the late 1800s or early 1900s. The 3rd photo is of Eggleston siblings: front--Lyman Fish Eggleston and William H. Eggleston and back: Madison Joseph Eggleston and Leora Elizabeth "Tib" Eggleston Fuller--about early 1900s. Madison Joseph Eggleston died in 1921 so the photo was probably taken about 10 years or less before his death.