"V. W. Van Huss peacefully passed away July 18, 1908 at the home of his son Isaac..."
Born November 15, 1818 in Elizabethton, Carter County, Tennessee, taking his first name Valentine from his grandfather and his middle name from his grandmother Catherine Worley. Valentine's parents were Mattias Van Huss and Elizabeth Worley. Valentine was raised by a loving step-mother Lovina Dugger.
At 24, Valentine married Lucinda Campbell, the marriage producing 8 children. He left Tennessee to homestead in Kansas with five sons, James Matthias, Daniel, Isaac S., Robert Eldridge., and John Finley. The family left Tennessee in a Conestoga wagon, crossing into Missouri south of St. Louis, following the Missouri River to Jefferson City, then heading due west to Sedalia and Pleasant Hill and entered Kansas near Spring Hill where the party stopped, no doubt because Lucinda was in poor health. Lucinda died in 1870 in Johnson County, Kansas.
Eventually, father and sons made their way to Butler County and took up homesteads near Beaumont and Latham, Kansas. Oldest son James got his homestead first in 1875, followed by Isaac, Daniel, Robert, and John. Father Valentine would not get his homestead until 1902. James would move to Oklahoma, Robert to Texas, Daniel unknown. The others would stay.
Surrounded by his children and grandchildren, Valentine was laid to rest in a the small Baptist church cemetery located a few miles north of Highway 54, a few miles west of Beaumont, on the Rosalia-Keighley Road just before it turns west and turns into Flint Hills Road.
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