Below are some historic family locations. If you have additions or corrections, please send them to us!
Family Farms and Houses
Prairie Blue Ayrshire Farm
Farm of Dwight E Hull
4341 NW HWY 77, Eldorado KS
(House no longer exists)
Cunningham House
Aunt Myrtle’s House, just North of the Hull Family Farm. (Photo is of the Prarie Blue pasture next door)
4513 NW HWY 77, Eldorado KS
Vesta and James Elmer McCaffree House
Leon, Kansas
Address unknown.
Mary Ellen McCaffree’s Childhood Home
From first grade until 10th grade (1934)
425 Washington St. Salina, Kansas
Allen Family Farm (Ken M Childhood home)
Allen farm where Ken lived when he went to grade school and to El Dorado High School.
Address Unknown
Apt Mary Ellen, Jim & Chuck lived in (Top left Apt.)
While Ken was on a Minesweeper in the Mediterranean during WWII. Chuck’s first home.
409 No. Taylor St. El Dorado, Kansas
Hull Feed Store, El Dorado
Feed store owned by Dwight Hull, where Ken worked and met Mary Ellen!
Gordy St. El Dorado, KS (No longer exists)
First House of Dwight & Mary Hull
Likely the original house on the same property as Prarie Blue Dairy. House burnt down in 1924 on Mary Ellen’s first day of school.
El Dorado, KS (Exact location unknown)
Schools
Southwestern College
Winfield, KS
Ken M. McCaffree attended 1938-1940
Kansas State University
(formerly Kansas State Agricultural College)
Manhattan, KS
Mary Ellen McCaffree graduated
Butler County Community college
formerly El Dorado Jr College
El Dorado, KS
Ken M. McCaffree attended 1936-1938
Kansas Places of Interest
The Madonna of the Trail Monument
A statue that was a favorite of Mary Ellen McCaffree. (This is her photo).
Corner of Main St. (US 56) & N. Union St. (KS-177), Council Grove, KS.
N 38° 39.726 W 096° 29.213
First Methodist Church
421 W Central Ave, El Dorado, KS 67042
The church in El Dorado with Ken and Mary Ellen learned to dance.
Gravesites
Sunset Lawns Cemetary
Dwight Hull, Mary A Johnson, Myrtle & James Johnson, Dorothy, Mytle Cunningham
El Dorado, KS
Sunset Lawns Cemetary
James Elmer & Vesta Vinelda McCaffree, Nancy Jane Hushaw McCaffree, Larry J & JoAnne McCaffree
Leon, KS
Roselawn Cemetary
Harriet Sondergard Hull
Salina, KS
Elmwood Cemetary
Lawrence & Irene McCaffree
Augusta, KS