Mr. Lavoise was a teamster in the
Union Army during the Civil war. He had
no status as a soldier, so he received no pension. He made two round trips from Leavenworth,
Kansas to a point in Arizona.
On these trips, Wild Bill Hickok served as scout, he made 8 miles a day.
Mr. Lavoise worked with a
government surveying party that laid off the state line between Kansas and Colorado and Nebraska.
La Reunion
is a French settlement south of present Carter Air Field, across the railroad
from Carter, northeast of the Watson neighborhood. Mr. Lavoise visited there often because the
people were French.
Source: Mr. Lavoise told Otto Taylor.
