Oswego, KS - 67356 - U.S. Post Offices on Waymarking.com

post Office location is:
819 4th Street,
Oswego, KS 67356-1603
(620) 795-4532

Interesting history of a family who lived here:
On the high prairie a mile northwest, beyond the nearby Mounds which bear the name, the Bender family ~ John, his wife, son, and daughter Kate ~ in 1871 built a small house. Partitioned in two rooms by a canvas cloth it had a table, stove and grocery shelves in front. In back were beds, a sledge hammer and a trap door above a pit-like cellar. Kate a self-proclaimed healer and spiritualist and reported to be a beautiful, voluptuous girl with tigerish grace, was the leading spirit of her murderous family.

The house was located on the main road. Travelers stopping for a meal were seated on a bench backed tight against the canvas. In the next two years several disappeared. When suspicions were finally aroused, in 1873, the Benders fled. A search of their property disclosed eleven bodies buried in the garden, skulls crushed by hammer blows through the canvass.

The end of the Benders is not known. The earth seemed to swallow them, as it had their victims.

Type of structure:: Stand Alone re-enter Zip Code here:: 67356 Current Status:: Still in Use

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Date Logged Log User Rating   12/16/2022 The Snowdog visited it