One of the reasons I like genealogy is I really enjoy delving into someone’s records to determine just what story lies beneath.  This was certainly true when I was researching a small apartment house called The Avalon in Manhattan, Kansas, to help determine its eligibility for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. What intrigued me most was the name of the man who transformed the single-family home into apartments: Landrine Cisero Sheriff. Here is his story.