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  1. Marsh betony (2)
  2. Marsh elder; Iva annua; domesticated native plant; from feature 3, area B. (1)
  3. Marshall County (2)
  4. Marshall, R. B. (2)
  5. Marshall, R. B. (Robert Bradford), 1867-1949. (2)
  6. martini (2)
  7. Mary and James Reed home site (2)
  8. Mary and James Reed home site, 731 New York St. Langston Hughes and his grandmother lived at this site occasionally, in a former house, and when his grandmother died, he moved back with the Reeds. Hughes's grandmother Mary Langston is listed at this address as a boarder in the 1908-09 and 1913-14 city directories. The Reeds appear in city directories at this address from 1905 to 1923. James Wilson Reed worked as a laborer and as a sewer man for Kennedy Plumbing Co. Hughes remembered, Uncle Reed dug ditches and laid sewer pipes for the city, and Auntie Reed sold milk and eggs to her neighbors (Big Sea 18). After James Reed died, Walter Campbell lived here, according to the city directory (1925-26), and he married Mary Reed, who owned this house (Rampersad V.1, 234). In March of 1932, his first visit to Lawrence since leaving in 1915, Hughes stayed with the Campbells at this site. (1)
  9. Mary Sampson Patterson Langston, Marker (1)
  10. Mary Sampson Patterson Langston, Marker, Oak Hill Cemetery Mary Sampson Patterson first married Lewis Sheridan Leary, who was killed with John Brown at Harpers Ferry. Then she married Charles Langston in 1869. Mary was born in North Carolina and educated at Oberlin College. In the 1860 U.S. Census, she is listed as a milliner in Oberlin. She and Charles Langston married in 1869 and moved to a farm in Lakeview, Kansas, near Lawrence, in 1870. There she had two children, Nathaniel (1870) and Carolina (1873), Langston Hughes's mother. The family moved to town in 1886. After her husbands death she supported herself and family by renting rooms in her house. Her grandson, Langston Hughes, lived with her much of his boyhood. Hughes remembers her looking very much like an Indian, copper-colored with long, black hair, just a little gray in places (The Big Sea). He remembered her love of books. (1)
  11. Mary] [Mardonada (1)
  12. Marysville quadrangle (1)
  13. mascallensis (2)
  14. Mass of Ridge and Clouds (1)
  15. mass transit (1)
  16. Matfield Green, 3 mi E on W side of Kansas Turnpike. (2)
  17. matted grass (3)
  18. Maxilla (1)
  19. May-apple (2)
  20. McCook Athletic Field (1)