The Missing Ledger, the River Primer, and the Girl Who Wasn't There
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The Missing Ledger, the River Primer, and the Girl Who Wasn't There
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A torn ledger, a primer found eleven miles downstream, and a single sheet cut from a book with fourteen attendance marks for a girl who leaves no legal trace - could one missing name be the key to a murder? How did a ledger wrapped in brown paper, sealed with a signature knot, end up empty while a primer drifted in river mud?
In this episode, we follow the documents, the places, and the people that connect a body in a garden, a broken seal on a ledger, and a primer stamped Calvary Mission School. Listen as a county records clerk pieces together school enrollments, guardianship filings, and visits by a local contractor to ask the question that ties them all: who was Elsa Coe and why was her record erased?
Person: Cynthia Bowers
Date: October 8, 1917
Location: Calvary Mission School, Sutter Fork, Granger County, Kansas
Person: Frances Dodd
Person: Marie Quinn
- The primer was found by the county surveyor on October 9, 1917, eleven miles south of the school in river mud.
- The loose attendance sheet was pressed between pages thirty-one and thirty-two of a McGuffey's Second Eclectic Reader.
- The attendance sheet contained fourteen entries, the name Elsa Coe marked present fourteen times.
- The school ledger for 1911-1912 was torn open and missing from the storeroom shelves of thirty-one sealed annual ledgers.
- A 1913 guardianship filing named Dorothea Coe as guardian and listed Curtis Mason as the petitioner.
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