1870 Kansas census shows Laura Ingalls Wilder (Find a Grave # 1625) living next door to George Newton Longcor.

George Newton Longcor, Co. G, 21 Reg't Missouri Inf. - Description: Age 19; height 5' 5 1/4"; light complexion; hazel eyes; auburn hair; occupation blacksmith; born Indiana per his sworn statements. Enlistment: 15 June 1861 at St. Francisville, MO (about 1 mile south of Lee county, Iowa) by Capt. Roseberry for a term of 3 years. Was engaged in Battles of Athens, MO 5 Aug 1861; Shiloh 6 & 7 April 1862; Corinth, MS 3 & 4 Oct 1862; assigned special guard duty 29 Dec 1863; re-enlisted as a veteran volunteer on 1 Jan 1864, effective 2 March 1864, which entitled him to a 30 day furlough and $100 re-enlistment bounty; furlough granted on 21 March 1864 for 30 days to Belfast, Lee county, Iowa; Tupelo, MS 14 July 1864; Nashville, TN 15 & 16 Dec 1864; Ft. Blakely, AL 9 April 1865; promoted to the rank of Corp. 18 April 1865. Black Smith.

George married Mary Jane Gilmore in Adair Co. Mo. June 1868 and moved to Montgomery Co. Kansas with her parents. In the 13 Aug 1870 Rutland Tsp. Montgomery Co. census, G. N. Lunker born in Iowa is shown as husband of M.J., he's 27 and she's 18. Robert Gilmore, Mary Jane's father is 2 doors down. Mary Jane died soon after Mary Ann was born.

The GIH scroll of 1918 records both George Newton and his daughter died 26 November 1872 in Parsons, Labette Co. Kansas. Son Robert was born in Adair Co. Mo. and daughter was born in Montgomery Co. Kansas.

George was taking his daughter back to his sister Mary Abigail Longcor in Missouri when a winter storm forced him to stop at the Benders place.

Lawrence Republican Daily Journal
May 9, 1873 – Page 2

GEO. W. LONGCOR AND DAUGHTER have been missing since the latter part of December. They had start-ed to go to Iowa from the neighbor-hood of Onion creek. Mr. Longcor was a neighbor of Dr. York, and had purchased a wagon of the latter. He and his daughter were buried in the same grave, the daughter-eighteen
months old-being placed between its father's feet. The father was stripped of all clothing except his undergarments as were all the victims-but the child was buried with all its clothing, even to a pair of mittens. The bodies were claimed by Mr. Longcor's father-in-law and taken away for interment.

1870 Kansas census shows Laura Ingalls Wilder (Find a Grave # 1625) living next door to George Newton Longcor.

George Newton Longcor, Co. G, 21 Reg't Missouri Inf. - Description: Age 19; height 5' 5 1/4"; light complexion; hazel eyes; auburn hair; occupation blacksmith; born Indiana per his sworn statements. Enlistment: 15 June 1861 at St. Francisville, MO (about 1 mile south of Lee county, Iowa) by Capt. Roseberry for a term of 3 years. Was engaged in Battles of Athens, MO 5 Aug 1861; Shiloh 6 & 7 April 1862; Corinth, MS 3 & 4 Oct 1862; assigned special guard duty 29 Dec 1863; re-enlisted as a veteran volunteer on 1 Jan 1864, effective 2 March 1864, which entitled him to a 30 day furlough and $100 re-enlistment bounty; furlough granted on 21 March 1864 for 30 days to Belfast, Lee county, Iowa; Tupelo, MS 14 July 1864; Nashville, TN 15 & 16 Dec 1864; Ft. Blakely, AL 9 April 1865; promoted to the rank of Corp. 18 April 1865. Black Smith.

George married Mary Jane Gilmore in Adair Co. Mo. June 1868 and moved to Montgomery Co. Kansas with her parents. In the 13 Aug 1870 Rutland Tsp. Montgomery Co. census, G. N. Lunker born in Iowa is shown as husband of M.J., he's 27 and she's 18. Robert Gilmore, Mary Jane's father is 2 doors down. Mary Jane died soon after Mary Ann was born.

The GIH scroll of 1918 records both George Newton and his daughter died 26 November 1872 in Parsons, Labette Co. Kansas. Son Robert was born in Adair Co. Mo. and daughter was born in Montgomery Co. Kansas.

George was taking his daughter back to his sister Mary Abigail Longcor in Missouri when a winter storm forced him to stop at the Benders place.

Lawrence Republican Daily Journal
May 9, 1873 – Page 2

GEO. W. LONGCOR AND DAUGHTER have been missing since the latter part of December. They had start-ed to go to Iowa from the neighbor-hood of Onion creek. Mr. Longcor was a neighbor of Dr. York, and had purchased a wagon of the latter. He and his daughter were buried in the same grave, the daughter-eighteen
months old-being placed between its father's feet. The father was stripped of all clothing except his undergarments as were all the victims-but the child was buried with all its clothing, even to a pair of mittens. The bodies were claimed by Mr. Longcor's father-in-law and taken away for interment.