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Locals honor Quantrill Raid victims in garden tribute
About 30 people gathered at the Japanese Friendship Garden in Lawrence to mark August 21, 1864, a year after Quantrill's Raid killed about 200 men in 1863. Local historian Her schel Stroud read the victims’ names as visitors observed quietly, while emulating survivor John Speer in remarks.
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Jacque Stroud
Elizabeth Speer
Connie Schlageck
Elizabeth Fisher
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