All Eagle Valley Library District locations will be closed on Monday, May 27, 2024 in observance of Memorial Day. Regular library hours will resume Tuesday, May 28, 2024.

John Theodore Bureman (Johan Teodor Bjurman), far left, front row, with his family before he left Kyrkbyn 19, Alfta, Halsingland (Gavleborg) Sweden. Father, Erik Johan Bjurman is at center front, holding the youngest child. John left from Goteborg on 2 Nov. 1888 with a destination for Clay Center, Kansas. His uncle, Karl Gustave "Gus" Bureman, had emigrated before him and lived at Clay Center. John Lived at Girard, Crawford, Kansas, for six years...