Died near St.
Catherine, Monday, April 1, 1895, Barbara, daughter of Daniel Ambs, aged 6 years and 18 days. The funeral occurred from the Catholic church in this city Wednesday, conducted by Rev. Father Tormey.
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Died fifteen
miles north of
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EMMA BARTSCH
Died of consumption at her home on
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ORPHA BIGGER
Died at Laclede, Wednesday, February 18, 1896, Miss Orpha Bigger, aged 22 years. The funeral occurred
Thursday from the Baptist church in this city, conducted by Rev. Denton. The deceased was a daughter of the late Isaac
Bigger of this city and an estimable young lady.
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Died, at her home near Triplett on February 2, Mrs. Mattie
Blackburn, aged 33 years. Mrs. Blackburn was formerly Miss Mattie Wise
of this city, where for many years she made her home with her sister, Mrs. G.
G. Carey. She leaves a husband, children
and four sisters to mourn the loss of a kind wife, a loving mother and a
faithful sister.
“A precious one
from us has gone,
A voice we
loved is stilled;
A place is
vacant in our hearts
Which never can be filled.”
NETTIE BROTT
Sad News.
The following telegram received by Judge Ford yesterday, is sad news to
many a heart in
John Ford,
Nettie
died at 9:45 this morning.
Walter
Brott
Alas, that is
so. One by one our friends pass from
earth. Nettie Brott,
formerly Nettie Scott, is dead. After
fighting that dread disease, consumption, for all these years, one so young, so
bright, must die. How sad. This death calls to mind the younger days of
one who in many ways was a remarkable girl.
Well do we remember her noble traits of character, her acts of kindness
and of love towards her sisters and her friends. A mind of genius, but a
body too weak to support it; a heart of pure unselfish devotion to husband,
family and friends. But her tired
and emaciated body has laid down to rest, while that brilliant soul has taken
wings to a better, fairer world, where aches and pains and suffering never
come; gone to join father, sister and brother who have gone before.
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ANNA LOIS GRESS
Anna Lois Gress, 80, of
Born November
1, 1897 in
She is survived
by a son, James McClelland Gress of Lee Summit,
Missouri; two daughters, Virginia (Mrs. Bernard) Underwood of California, and
Dorothy (Mrs. John) Broaddus of Silverdale; 13 grandchildren and 19
great-grandchildren.
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Memorial
services for Malcolm A. Gress, 80, of Silverdale,
will be tomorrow at Lewis Funeral Chapel.
He died September 13, 1976 at the Veteran’s Hospital in
He was born in
Gress was a 50-year member of the American
Legion, a former scoutmaster, and a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars,
Post 2283 in
Surviving are
his wife, Anna of the family home; a son, James Gress
of Lee Summit, Missouri; two daughters,
Interment will
be at
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MARY E. HARRISON
LAST SAD RITES. The last sad rites of all that was mortal of
Mrs. Mary Harrison was tenderly laid to rest in Rose Hill Cemetery yesterday,
following the services from the home of the grandson, Frank Gress,
on West Park Avenue. Reverend E.L.
Robison paid tribute to the departed one.
Mary Foltz was
born in
She was married
to Dr. Robert G. Harrison, who died some years ago, and of the union four
children were born, one surviving, the son in
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CLARA E. HOLMAN
Mrs. Clara E.
Holman of
Her funeral was
preached by the writer from the text, “Her sun is gone down while it was yet
day,” (Jeremiah 15:9) in the Baptist church at 2:30 p.m., May 27, 1897. From the church, the Sisters of Leah Rebekah Lodge took possession of the remains so far as
ceremonies were concerned, and very lovingly bid their beloved sister
farewell. W.N. Denton.
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Card of Thanks
We wish to
thank our many friends and neighbors who were so kind to us during the sickness
and death of our little daughter. We
pray that God may bless them for their kindness, and that in their hour of
sorrow He may comfort them with that “Peace that may passeth
all understanding.”
Mr. and Mrs.
Gordon Carey
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JOHN E. CURTIS
Died Sunday,
February 11, 1895 at the home of his father, David Curtis, one mile and a half
east of this city, John E. Curtis, oldest son of David and Martha Curtis, aged
39. He leaves a wife and four children
to mourn the loss of husband and father.
The families extend grateful thanks to aiding friends and neighbors.
Card of Thanks
Mr. David
Curtis and children desire us to extend their sincere thanks through the BUDGET
to their many kind friends and neighbors for assistance and true sympathy in
their recent sad bereavement.
FLORA GORDON
At the home of
her parents in the eastern portion of the city, Miss Flora Gordon, eldest
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. H Gordon, peacefully passed away from that dread
disease of consumption, after an illness of almost eighteen months, at 7:30
o’clock Monday morning. Miss Gordon was
in the 17th year of her age, was a member of the Baptist church, and
enjoyed the friendship and confidence of all who knew her. She possessed an admirable disposition, was
unpretentious, and when death claimed her she left behind no one who was not a
friend. The funeral services were held
at the Baptist church Tuesday afternoon at 3 o’clock, the Rev. E.B. Shaw
officiating. The lamented parents have
the sympathy of many friends in
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CLARA GOWDY
Died at her
residence in this city Wednesday, February 7, Mrs. Clara Gowdy,
wife of H. H. Gowdy, aged 61 years. The funeral services took place from the
residence Friday, February 9, conducted by Rev. L. C. Sappenfield
of the Methodist Episcopal church. Mr. Gowdy has the
sympathy of many friends in his bereavement.
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HENRY H. GOWDY
Died in this city, Tuesday, March 13, 1900, Henry H. Gowdy, aged 71 years. The funeral took place Thursday, conducted by
Rev. Paul Linn.
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MAGGIE JACOBS
Died April 2,
1895 at her home in the southern part of our city, Mrs. Maggie Jacobs, aged 40
years. The funeral took place at the
U.B. church at 10 o’clock Wednesday, conducted by Rev. J.W. Penn.
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HORACE KARNS
Died in this
city Saturday, March 31, 1895, Horace, son of George Karns
and wife, aged six months. The funeral
occurred from the house Sunday afternoon, Rev. Frisby
of the Baptist church officiating.
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CORA LONG
KELLOGG
Died, at the home of her parents near
Where vast
herds feed in the valley, where land and wealth and splendor is on every hand,
there is a weeping and sorrow and woe, for death has come and taken away the
daughter, wife and mother. Cora is dead,
and husband, father, mother and brother mourn; mourn for her who was their pet
from childhood, whose life furnished the sunshine for their lives. Life and death. How sad for one so young to die. But God knows best, dear friends, and for
that life He has taken from thy home, he has left another tender one, an
innocent new-born babe. Surely, death
under these circumstances is in a measure softened, although it has come in
terror clad to tear a trembling soul from all it loved. Weep not for her, thy early lost; she’s gone
on high to sing with angels, as she sang on earth with those she loved.
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B. C. LOTTRIDGE
B.C. Lottridge, whose sudden death from catarrhal influenza
occurred last Saturday morning, November 4, was an old citizen of
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NICHOLAS
NORTHUP
A Good Man
Killed. Nicholas Northup, an old and
prominent farmer living just east of this city, was instantly killed in the
eastern portion of the city last Saturday by a runaway team. Mr. Northup was walking into town, and being
defective in his hearing, a runaway team came up quickly behind him, the tongue
of the wagon striking him in the head, killing him almost instantly. He was dead by the time friends could arrive
to where he lay. He was buried here
Tuesday morning and the funeral was largely attended. He was about 70 years old and had quite a
family of sons and daughters. This is a
sad ending of a good life.
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ELIZABETH M.
PARKER
The Sad Death of a
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ELIZABETH
SCHENCK
Death of a Good Woman. Died, in this city on
Thursday, January 10, 1895, Mrs. Elizabeth Schenck,
wife of Mr. S. Schenck, in the 76th year
of her age. The funeral will
occur tomorrow, Sunday, at 1 o’clock p.m. from the residence. The deceased has lived in
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MARY MILDRED
SPARKS
Little Mary
Mildred Sparks of Marshall, Missouri, 2-½ years old, who with her mother, Mrs.
W. B. Sparks, had been at the home of the latter’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. J.
Hightower, for several months, was suddenly taken ill with enteritis a few days
ago and passed away yesterday, July 16, 1917.
The parents
have the sympathy of their new-made friends here in the loss of their only
child. The body was prepared for burial
by M. Y. Rusk and was taken overland this afternoon to
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OSCAR J. STANARD
Ripe in years
of a well-spent life, Oscar J. Stanard passed
peacefully from earth at the home of his son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs.
R. Henry Dryden, about five miles north of Linneus, at 4 o’clock Tuesday
afternoon, July 10, 1917, that being his 87th birthday.
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SUICIDES
SHOCKING
SENSATION!
Suicide of Mrs. Jay Davis, by Using the Deadly Pistol.
The citizens of
the northern portion of the city were thrown into quite a state of excitement
on Tuesday forenoon, about 11 o’clock, by the intelligence, which spread like
wildfire, that Mrs. Alice Davis, wife of Mr. Jay Davis, had shot and killed
herself in her own home. The sad
particulars as near as we can glean them are as follows:
Mr. Davis was
about to leave home to return to his territory (Nebraska) as traveling salesman
for a hard-ware house, very much against his wife’s wish, who opposed his
traveling on the road and had (as it has since been learned) told some of her
friends that she should kill herself if he did not give it up. About 10 o’clock, at his request, Mrs. Davis
had warm water prepared for him to take a bath and change under-clothing
preparatory to his journey, and immediately after he had gone into the east
room to bathe, she passed from the sitting room in which were the house girl
and one of the children, to the bedroom adjoining and shut the door.
Soon after, Mr.
Davis heard a sharp sound as of a smart blow on the weather boarding and a
moment later another. Stepping, in his
shirt sleeves, to the sitting room, he inquired of the servant girl for his
wife. Learning that she was in the
bedroom, he hastened to the door to find it locked. Just then, he distinctly heard a third shot
within the room, and divining the cause, tried in vain to burst in the
door. He then ran out and around to the
window, and with some difficulty hoisted it sufficient to push the drawn
curtain aside to make the horrible discovery that his wife was lying motionless
across the bed with his own four-shooting Remington pistol in her hand.
The alarm had
already been given and neighbors flocked to the scene, and when the door was
opened, by his climbing through the window and unfastening it from the inside,
the scene that met the gaze of the horror-stricken women was truly heart-rendering. The
form before them entirely inanimate and three ghastly wounds were found from
bullets fired into the mouth, one of which passed out at the neck severing the
jugular vein. Another passed out near
the top of the head and the third at the back of the head. Blood was spattered upon the wall back of her
head, a pool formed beneath her neck, and in the ceiling above appears the mark
of a shot passing nearly directly upward.
The pistol was tightly clutched in her fingers, and both hands were
powder-burned. It would seem that in her
desperate and dying struggle that the pistol, a self-cocking weapon, must have
been fired three and possibly four times, empty shells being found in each of
the four barrels.
The terror and
confusion of the family and neighbors may well be imagined. Dr. Haley, who lives next door west, was soon
on the ground, as were other medical men.
Later the coroner, after viewing the corpse and the premises and getting
the facts of the case, decided that no inquest was needed. On commencing to prepare the body for burial,
a note was found pinned within the bosom of her dress, which read as follows:
My Dear Boys,
I will say to you, be good boys and
always live and remember your mother’s advice.
Always live honest and upright in
all things. Forgive me for this act, for
I am tired
Of life. I have lost all that is dear to me, and that
was your Pa’s love. Be good to
Him and always love him as I have done.
From your loving mother,
Mrs. Alice Davis
The remains of
the unfortunate victim of self-destructive mania were yesterday laid to rest, a
touching funeral service being held at the house by Rev. Mr. Canady of the
Methodist Episcopal church, of which denomination the
deceased had formerly been a member.
Mr. and Mrs.
Davis had lived in
Last Saturday
forenoon, about 10 o’clock, the startling and sad news was noised abroad that
Mont DeGraw, only son of Major DeGraw,
had suicided at his father’s home. Upon investigation the report was found to be
but too true. The deceased had taken a
shot gun to his room, and putting the muzzle to his breast, had touched the
trigger with a stick, his death being instantaneous.
In his boyhood
the deceased was a bright, intelligent and promising youth, the pride of an
intelligent father and mother and affectionate sisters. It was at this period in his life that he was
stricken with a malignant type of spinal meningitis, which for a time baffled the
best medical talent of the city. His
cure was effected, but the disease left its mark upon
both mind and body, and he became a cripple for life and his once bright
intellect was forever dimmed.
Mont DeGraw was 28 years of age, was a native of this county,
and has spent a greater part of his life in
T.O. TERHUNE
TAKES HIS LIFE
T.O. Terhune, a master mechanic who had been out of employment
for a year, shot himself at his home at 410 Park Avenue shortly after midnight
and died early in the afternoon. He was
58 years old and lived with his wife and family. He had been unable to secure employment for a
year and was despondent.