Carol Robel
Independence
To the editor:
Re: March 30, 1987, article about the Adam Fisher house built in 1834, which has a great history behind it.
In the late 1890s, my great grandparents, Charles T. and Matilda Rowland, bought 150 acres of that farm. They moved from a 450-acre rented farm at Woods Chapel and Colburn Road near Lee’s Summit, taking the machinery and farm implements first, then the rest of the things. It was February. All toghether, there were 16 wagons with double sideboards. Matilda, with her sister Jane and my grandmother, drove one wagon. My grandmother’s account is wonderful.
As I drove by the old home on J.P. Jones Road, half mile north of Spring Branch (now Truman Road), I was surprised to see corn fields planted all the way to the road. What happened to the old cemetery that was “up by the road?” The last I know, the house was owned by the Community of Christ.
So much of Jackson County’s history is being paved over.
