Editing Louisville, Kansas (section)

===Louis Vieux===
Louis Vieux Sr.<ref>VIEUX, Louis Sr., The Oregon Trail, Pottawatome County, KANSAS COLLECTION ARTICLES, http://www.kancoll.org/articles/otrail/ortrail5.htm</ref> was a prominent citizen of Louisville who operated a trail crossing across the Vermillion River.  He was born in 1809 in [[Wisconsin]] to Angelique Roy, a [[Potawatomi]] woman, and [[Jacques Vieau|Jacques Vieux]], a Canadian-French trader. Vieux and his wife, Sha-Note, moved first to Cedar Bluffs, Iowa in 1832 until moving to [[Indianola, Kansas]] (northwest of [[Topeka, Kansas|Topeka]] along Soldier Creek) in 1846.  Sha-Note died in 1857 and Vieux moved to the Vermillion River near present-day Louisville.  Vieux began his trail crossing business and worked as a caller for the U.S. Government working the pay station in [[St. Marys, Kansas|St. Mary's]] and he also served on the tribal council and made trips to [[Washington, D.C.]], on behalf of the Pottawatomies.  Vieux also signed the treaty that split the Pottawatomies into two separate tribes-the [[Prairie Band of Potawatomi Nation|Prairie Band]] and [[Citizen Potawatomi Nation]].  Vieux died in 1872 and left behind a 200-page will leaving half the town of Louisville, all of [[Belvue, Kansas|Belvue]] and other personal property to his wife and children.