[ALBERTSON, HATTIE]
Maryville Republican (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, January 24, 1878
--Miss Hattie Albertson, daughter of Mrs. Harriet Albertson, died at her home in St. Joseph, Tuesday, Jan. 15th. She was sick only a few days, her disease being inflammation of the stomach. Miss Albertson was a sister of Mrs. Henry Harmon of this city.

[ARNOTT, DORA]
Maryville Republican (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, May 9, 1878
GRAHAM - Our community has once more been visited by the angel of death, this time taking from our midst one, who, though prepared to enter the other and better world, through her trust in the Elder Brother, seemed young to die. Last Thursday at the residence of George Vinsonhaler Miss Dora Arnott closed her eyes in the sleep which knows no waking here. She leaves a sister and a brother to mourn her loss and to follow her example, meet her in her home above. The sympathies of all are extended to them in their loss. Her funeral was largely attended at the Methodist Church on Friday, Rev. Balson officiating.

[AUSTIN, JOHN]
Maryville Republican (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, November 21, 1878
--John Austin of Liberty, Mo., once of Maryville, died at his home in Liberty on Monday at 6 o'clock P. M. of inflammation of the bowels. Mr. Austin was well known in Maryville and had many friends here, especially among our young people. He has been travelling for St. Joseph wholesale houses for the past three years and was a young man of fine business qualifications. He was twenty-seven years of age at the time of his death. His death will be heard with sorrow by his many friends here.

[BAKER, GEORGE]
Maryville Republican (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, September 26, 1878
LAMAR STATION – George Baker died last Tuesday night, he was 64 years of age, came to this place several years ago from Graham, was a member of the M. E. Church, South. His funeral was preached in the church on Wednesday by Dr. Callings. He leaves a wife and six children to mourn his loss.

[BAKER, MARGARET ELLEN PRATHER]
Maryville Republican (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, September 5, 1878
--Just as we go to press we learn of the death of Mrs.  George Baker. We will give a more extended notice next week.

[BAKER, MARGARET ELLEN PRATHER]
Maryville Republican (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, September 12, 1878
The Pale Messenger. Mrs. Geo. S. Baker Crosses the Dark River.
Just as we were going to press last week, the sad news was borne to us that Mrs. Geo. S. Baker was no more. For days her life hung as if in a balance, but at last exhausted nature gave away and she sank into the arms of the grim monster who sooner or later claims us all. Mrs. Baker's maiden name was Margaret E. [llen] Prather. She was united in marriage to Geo. S. Baker April 14, 1863 and has ever been a true and devoted wife. Indeed it may be said that her kingdom was her home and her throne the heart of her husband. In her the poor ever found a friend and the needy she turned not away. She was a firm and consistent member of the Christian Church and died in its faith. The funeral services were held at the Christian Church on Thursday evening at four o'clock P. M. and the house was filled with sympathizing friends who came to mingle their tears with those to whom she was near and dear. Elder George Dew preached an impressive discourse, the last look was taken of the loved face and she was borne to her last resting place.
Mrs. Baker left two children, Maud, aged ten years and Georgie, aged six, who will never more know the care of a mother. Three children died in infancy and had gone to welcome her on the shining shore. Mrs. Baker's aged mother is still living in this city with her son, Jas. B. Prather. Deceased leaves four sisters, all residing in Maryville and Nodaway county, Mrs. Geo. Davis, Mrs. Ed. McMillan, Mrs. Dr. Mulholland and Mrs. W. B. Roseberry. Her death has left a void that will be hard to fill and we can say truly, a good woman has gone.

[BARNES, NANCY WRIGHT]
Maryville Republican (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, May 9, 1878
Across the Flood. Death of Mrs. Nancy W. Barnes.
One of the saddest duties in life is to record the demise of a fellow mortal with whom we have been associated and respect. But it is with feelings that we are unable to express in attempting to review the life and good deeds of her, whose name heads this article, for in doing so we are compelled to wander back to the days of our childhood, when we could hardly realize that a cloud would ever arise again after the rain, when the brightness of the morning drove away the darkness of the night. Thirty-six years have passed with their sunshine and shadows since we first met mother Barnes and under her hospitable roof we slept our first sleep in Nodaway county and in travelling back to that day and time we, in fancy, see the angels of mercy that guided our infant steps from the thorny pathway, who have finished their work on earth and entered the beautiful city beyond the blue ether, and among this number we in fancy again see the face of mother Barnes, the friend of all, who always had a kind word for the children, sons and daughters of the pioneers.
Nancy W. Wright was born in Brunswick county, Virginia, Sept. 6th, 1800. When she was three years old she, with her parents, moved to Allen county, Ky., where, in 1824, she married Nathaniel H. Barnes. In 1827 she moved to Illinois and in 1841 to Nodaway county, Missouri, enduring the hardships and trials incident to the settlement of the great States of Illinois and Missouri.
At the age of fourteen she was converted and joined the M. E. Church, and from that hour was a faithful and unwavering Christian until she crossed the dark river on the 15th of April, 1878, and entered that building not made with hands, where we trust she will join her sainted husband, who preceded her to the spirit world. Mother Barnes had long been an invalid, and made her home with her son, Stephen H. Barnes, one of the esteemed citizens of Hughes township, on whom she leaned for comfort after the death of her husband. He kindly cared for her, and smoothed her pillow to the grave, and with him many friends weep when they think she is gone. We believe she is the last one of the old settlers who were regarded as old people when the White Cloud was settled, and we trust that those who knew her and were the recipients of her kind hospitalities may imitate her good works and ever remember that the hand that welcomed them in the wilds of the west is waiting to welcome them in that land where the 'leaf never withers and the storm never blows.'

[BEECH, GUY]
Maryville Republican (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, November 14, 1878
--Mr. and Mrs. S. R. Beech were called upon to mourn the death of their infant son, Guy, who died last Sunday and was buried on Monday. The funeral services were held at the Main Street M. E. church in the presence of large assemblage of friends, Rev. D. B. Lake officiating. Little Guy was a bright, intelligent little fellow and the sad blow falls heavily on the afflicted parents.

[BINGHAM, WILLIE]
Maryville Republican (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, May 23, 1878
UPPER ELKHORN – Willie, son of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Bingham, died last Monday morning. He suffered terribly during his last illness and it was a relief to see him close his eyes in death. The sorrowing parents have the sympathy of all.

[BOSCH, ERMINA EMMA "MINA"]
Maryville Republican (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, March 28, 1878
It becomes our painful duty to record the death of Miss Mina Bosch who breathed her last on last Saturday evening at 7 p. m. She bore her sickness of four weeks with all the true courage of a Christian and when death came to relieve her of her suffering, she felt that she was prepared to meet her God. In health she was a bright lady like acting girl. She was 14 years of age and an active member of the Sabbath School. None knew her but to love her. The funeral services were held at the residence of Mr. Bosch last Monday at 10 a. m. Thence a concourse of friends followed her to her lasting place in the Maryville Cemetery. The sympathy of the community is extended to the grief-stricken parents who are bending under the weight of years

[BOSCH, JOHN CHRISTOPH]
Maryville Republican (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, January 25, 1900
Death of J. C. Bosch.
Died at his home near Orrsburg Tuesday morning, January 22, 1900, J. C. Bosch, aged 84 years, 1 month and 9 days.
John C. [hristoph] Bosch was born in the city of Ulm, Wurtemburg, Germany, December 14, 1815. He grew up in his native city and learned the trade of carpenter. In 1840 he became superintendent of water works and buildings in his native city, which position he held for ten years.
In May 1850 he immigrated to this country with his parents, settling in Cincinnati. He only remained there a short time and located in Jasper county, Iowa, where he engaged in farming some 25 years.
On March 28, 1875, he moved to Nodaway county, locating some five miles north of Maryville, where he lived until a few years ago when he sold out and moved over near Orrsburg. Three children survive him.
Funerals services were held at the home Wednesday morning, after which the remains were interred in Oak Hill cemetery at Maryville, by the side of his wife and other members of the family who had preceded him.

[BOSCH, JOHN CHRISTOPH]
Maryville Tribune (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, January 25, 1900
Aged German Dead.
J. C. Bosch Came to Nodaway County in 1875.
J. [ohn] C.[hristoph] Bosch died Tuesday morning at his home near Orrsburg, aged 80. Mr. Bosch was born in Germany and located in Nodaway county in 1875. He lived on a farm four miles north of Maryville until about eight years ago he moved to the place where he died. His wife and four children survive him. He was buried in the Oak Hill cemetery at Maryville Wednesday afternoon beside the remains of his wife and children. He was a prominent farmer and was wealthy.

[BOSCH, SARAH ASHER]
Maryville Republican (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, December 28, 1893
--Mrs. J. [ohn] C. [hristoph] Bosch died at her home in Union township on Tuesday, December 19, 1893 and was buried Thursday in Oak Hill cemetery.

[BOYER, "LITTLE DOC"]
Maryville Republican (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, April 18, 1878
--"Little Doc" as he was familiarly called, son of Mr. H. B. Boyer, proprietor of the City Meat Market, died very suddenly of heart disease on Tuesday morning. Deceased was about 13 years of age and had been an invalid nearly all his life. His funeral took place yesterday morning from the Main St. M. E. Church.

[BREWER, SARAH ANN COBB HUTSON]
Daily Democrat-Forum (Maryville, Missouri), Friday, November 14, 1913
Died Thursday. Grandma Brewer of Near Barnard Was Confined to Her Bed Eighteen Years From Rheumatism.
Grandma Brewer, who lived with her son, Bert Hudson, two and a half miles southeast of Barnard, died Thursday afternoon. The day was the seventy-eighth anniversary of her birth. Mrs. Brewer had been a sufferer from rheumatism for twenty years and had been confined to her bed eighteen years.
The funeral services were held at 1 o'clock Friday afternoon at the Hudson home by Rev. W. A. Chapman of Rosendale. Burial took place in Bolckow cemetery by the body of Mrs. Brewer's husband, who died a year ago last September.
Mrs. Brewer is survived by two sons and daughters by her first marriage and two daughters living near Bedford and four sons of her second marriage.

[BREWER, SARAH ANN COBB HUTSON]
Bedford Free Press (Bedford, Iowa), Thursday, November 18, 1913
Mrs. Sarah Anne Brewer – Last Thursday at 11:30 a. m., Mrs. Sarah Anne Brewer died at her home near Rosendale, Mo. Mrs. Brewer has been a bed-ridden invalid for nearly 20 years, from an aggravated form of rheumatism, which distorted her limbs and caused her intense suffering for many years. Mrs. Brewer was 78 years old the day of her death and was one of the pioneer mothers of this county, coming here in a very early day and enduring the privations incident to making a home in a new country. She was a daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Cobb and a sister to Ambrose and William Cobb and Mrs. Nancy Foreman, who still survive her. Mrs. Brewer was twice married, her first husband being Thomas Hudson, who died fifty years ago. Seven years after his death she was married to Mr. Brewer who died some time ago. Deceased was the mother of nine children, five by her first marriage and four by the last, all of whom survive her. Until twenty years ago the family resided in this county, since then their home has been near Barnard.
Funeral services were held at the home on Friday, conducted by Elder Chapman of Rosendale. Interment was in the cemetery at Bolckow.

[BREWER, SARAH ANN COBB HUTSON]
Bedford Free Press (Bedford, Iowa), Thursday, November 18, 1913
Mr. and Mrs. William Cobb, Mr. and Mrs. Ambrose Cobb, Mr. and Mrs. L. L. Terrell, Elmer and Leslie Cobb, Isaac Coon and Benton Cobb attended the funeral of Mrs. Sarah Brewer near Barnard, Mo., last Friday.

[BREWER, SARAH ANN COBB HUTSON]
Bedford Times-Republican (Bedford, Iowa), Thursday, November 20, 1913
NEW MARKET – Mrs. S. A. Brewer of Barnard, Mo., mother of Mrs. E. H. Cade, died at her home November 13, age 78 years. Mrs. E. H. Cade, Mr. and Mrs. Ora Cade, and Mr. and Mrs. Alva Jones attended the funeral Thursday.

[BRINSON, ISAAC]
Maryville Republican (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, August 22, 1878
--A melancholy case of suicide happened about two miles south of Maryville on last Tuesday. A young man by the name of Isaac Brinson had been working for Mr. W. Hoshor during the summer and last Thursday morning he and young Brinson had some disagreement which resulted in the discharge of Brinson. Mr. Hoshor went to attend a sale and Brinson said he would come to town. A little before sundown Mr. Hoshor came home and Brinson was found dead lying about 120 yards from the house in the edge of a cornfield. He had taken a revolver from the valise of a companion staying at Hoshor's and shot himself, holding the revolver near the pit of the stomach. A jury consisting of Lafe Johnson, G. W. Turner, Ed M. Moss, G. B. Vaughn, J. W. Herran, Henry Toel and N. W. Charles were empaneled, and the above facts extracted from the testimony of Mr. Hoshor and others. Deceased was nineteen years of age and the reasons for his committing suicide are more or less matters of conjecture.

[BROWN, JOHN]
Maryville Republican (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, November 14, 1878
GRAHAM – A son of John Brown, east of town, was thrown from off his horse on Friday evening and seriously injured. The horse stepped in his face and crushed it. On Sunday night his father was taken with a congestive chill and died before morning.

[BROWN, JOHN]              [CRYDER, EMMA ELLA]              [KERR, JESSIE]
Maryville Republican (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, November 14, 1878
STRINGTOWN – The pale messenger has been in our midst and some, who were full of life, have been laid to rest in the silent city of the dead. It is our painful duty to record, first the infant daughter of Mr. Fredrick Kerr. The next one called home was Miss Ella Cryder, an estimable young lady of eighteen years. She was born in Illinois, came to this county with her parents in 1865, joined the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1875 and died in the full hope of heaven. Mr. John Brown who died on the 10th inst., was about 44 years of age and also was born in Illinois. He was a member of the church and a farmer by occupation. His little son was thrown from a horse the night of the 8th inst. and his upper jaw bone broken, besides sustaining other injuries. The family have the sympathy of the neighborhood in their great affliction.

[CALLAWAY, AMANDA JANE WIGGINTON]
Maryville Republican (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, April 11, 1878
Death of Mrs. Callaway.
Another family circle has been visited by the unwelcome visitor, this time taking away an aged mother and wife and leaving desolate the hearts of husband and children. Mrs. Amanda J. Callaway was born in Kentucky in 1808, was married in July 1835 at Princeton. She was the loved and loving mother of several children, all of whom are still living. She has been confined to her bed for the last five months and on the evening of March 31st closed her eyes in the last long slee0 with the full hope of opening them in that other and better land. Her funeral was preached by Elder Trapp at the Christian Church on Tuesday morning. The sympathies of the community are extended to the bereaved family and may the example of the dear one prove a guide to her home above. [Poem not transcribed.]

[CASTILLE, CULLIN]
Maryville Republican (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, September 5, 1878
LAMAR STATION – Allen Castillo and wife have been called upon to mourn the death of their little son, a bright, beautiful babe of fifteen months. They have the sympathy of the entire community.

[CHAMBERLAIN, DAVID]
Maryville Republican (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, July 18, 1878
Terrible Tragedy. The Accidental shooting and Death of David Chamberlain
Yesterday morning our community was startled by the most shocking tragedy that has ever occurred in our midst, resulting in the death of David Chamberlain, a young man just entering his sixteenth year, son of the late Rev. J. K. Chamberlain. A coroner's jury was immediately summoned by E. A. Vinsonhaler acting as coroner and from the evidence then produced it seems that yesterday morning between nine and ten o'clock, John Lawson went into Mrs. Chamberlain's store where David was clerking, having in his pocket a small derringer pistol, calibre forty one hundredths and having this peculiarity that when the pistol is cocked the hammer sinks back into the handle so that it is not near as prominent as when it is not cocked. This with a very strong spring makes it almost impossible to lower the hammer without its coming down with sufficient force to explode a cartridge. The deceased in passing near Lawson took the pistol from his (Lawson's) pocket, stepped behind the counter and commenced examining it. Lawson then cautioned him not to raise the hammer. Deceased then took the cartridge out and after examining it replaced the cartridge and handed the pistol to Geo. Hutchinson, who glanced at it without trying the hammer and returned it to Lawson who immediately put it in his pocket. Mrs. Chamberlain had come in during this time and she and Hutchinson left about the same time and Lawson and deceased were alone in the store. Lawson's statement now is that deceased then proposed trading pistols and produced one to trade. Lawson was sitting down and deceased was standing in front of him at this time; Lawson taking the pistol from his pocket was in the act of handing it to deceased when it was accidentally discharged in his hand, the powder burning his hand and the force of the discharge throwing it out of his hand. The ball struck the deceased in the left breast a little below the nipple and as revealed by an examination held this morning by Drs. Morgan, Wyman and Holloway entered the heart at the apex, passed the entire length of the heart, through the left ventricle through the lung and striking the spinal column rebounded back, lodging in the lung. He immediately ran out of the store door and nearly across the street in the direction of Bohart & Sons store, crying out "Oh my God he's shot me, he's shot me!" he was met by several parties who carried him into the dwelling house which was connected with the store. He raised up and spoke once after being carried into the house and then sinking back the spirit of poor Davie drifted out into eternity.
The coroner's jury, in accordance with the above facts, with the exception of the examination which was held today, returned a verdict, "That the deceased came to his death by the accidental discharge of a pistol in the hands of John Lawson." What a terrible lesson this should be to young men and boys who are in the habit of carrying concealed weapons. A lesson that is taught at the loss of human life should not be forgotten or disregarded. While we cannot too severely condemn this unnecessary and dangerous practice, Mr. Lawson doubtless did no more than has been done hundreds of times without fatal results and those who think he deserves punishment, let them just think a moment of what a terrible punishment the memory of that July morning will be to him. To the bereaved family his loss is doubly heavy, coming as it does when the sorrow for the husband and father is yet fresh upon them (Mr. Chamberlain died on the 8th of June) and deprived them of a son and brother, and of the one who by attending to the business of the store, both before and since the death of Mr. Chamberlain, had supported and maintained the family. To the family we extend our condolence and to the deceased we say peace to his ashes.  Graham.

[CHAMBERLAIN, DAVID]
Maryville Republican (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, July 18, 1878
--Our Graham correspondent sends us the full particulars of the terrible tragedy that was enacted in that town Monday. David, the boy killed, was a bright youth about fifteen years of age. It was but a few weeks ago that his father was buried, and he was striving nobly in connection with his widowed stepmother to conduct the business left by his father when the fatal bullet ended his young life. Mrs. Chamberlain is indeed afflicted. A few months ago she was called upon to give up her only child. Then her companion was called to the pure realm beyond and now David, just entering upon manhood and whom she expected to take his father's place in business has been suddenly stricken down. The whole community is in mourning over the sad accident and Mrs. Chamberlain has the sympathy of all.

[CHAMBERLAIN, DAVID]        [GRAHAM, ELLA D. GRIFFTH]
Maryville Republican (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, July 25, 1878
That man is mortal and our time of life uncertain, must certainly be vividly impressed on the minds of the citizens of Graham, for on Wednesday David Chamberlain was buried, on Tuesday night the wife of Ira G. Graham, who has been very low with consumption, departed this life and was buried on Thursday and on Friday, a lady whose name I have not learned, died. They were borne to the Odd Fellows Prairie Home Cemetery, one of
"Those vast yet voiceless cities,
     Growing ever street on street,
Where friends with friends are meeting,
     Ever meeting, never greet.

[CHARLES, JACOB'S INFANT]
Maryville Republican (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, October 24, 1878
Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Charles were called upon to mourn the loss by death of their infant son Saturday last. The little fellow was a bright child and Mr. and Mrs. Charles have the sympathy of the entire community in their bereavement. A large concourse of sympathizing friends followed the remains to the grave. Elder Gile officiated. [Poem not transcribed.]

[COLLINS, ALEXANDER MCMILLEN]
Maryville Daily Forum (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, June 2, 1932
Alexander McMillen Collins Dies in Home Near Elmo
Alexander McMillen Collins, 79 years of age, died about 2:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon at the home of his son, John O. Collins, southwest of Elmo. He was born in Iowa May 4, 1853 but has been a resident of Nodaway county practically all of his life and was engaged in farming. Funeral arrangements have not been completed.
He is survived by five sons, John O. of Elmo, William R. and S. A. of Maryville, T. A. of Barnard and L. W. of Phoenix, Ariz., five daughters, Mrs. E. J. Rhoads of Arkoe, Mrs. Mary A. Steele and Mrs. W. C. Duff of Maryville, Mr[s]. A. C. Waldier of Parnell and Mrs. H. B. Rhode of Phoenix; one brother, William H. Collins of Maryville and one sister, Mrs. Effie L. Logan of St. Joseph; thirty-one grandchildren and nine great grandchildren.

[COLLINS, ALEXANDER MCMILLEN]
Maryville Daily Forum (Maryville, Missouri), Friday, June 3, 1932
Collins Rites Sunday
Rev. H. D. Thompson Will Conduct Services at 11 O'Clock
Funeral services for Alexander McMillen Collins who died Wednesday afternoon at the home of his son, John, southwest of Elmo will be held at 11 o'clock Sunday morning at the Salem church south of Maryville. The Rev. H. D. Thompson will conduct the srvices
In the list of surviving relatives the name of the widow was omitted yesterday. Among others surviving are F. A. Collins of Maryville and G. A. Collins of Barnard and Mrs. A. C. Waldier of Parnell. The widow makes her home with her daughter, Mrs. W. C. Duff. Mrs. H. B. Rhodes of Phoenix will arrive Saturday evening. L. W. Collins will be unable to attend.

[COLLINS ANDREW JACKSON]
Maryville Tribune (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, August 2, 1906
Collins Funeral Sunday.
Burial of Aged Man Who Died Friday Took Place Sunday.
The funeral of William [Andrew] J.[ackson] Collins, who died Friday at his home near Salem church, was held Sunday afternoon in that church, the services being conducted by Rev. Homer Lewis, a student from Drake University, Des Moines, Ia.
The dead man was 78 years of age and had been a member of Salem church twenty-four years. his wife died some years ago. The children of the dead man are William Collins of East Fourth street, Mrs. A. Logan of Arkoe, Mrs. J. McLaughlin and Alexander Collins of Salem neighborhood.
[Note: The name on his headstone is Andrew J. Collins.]

[COLLINS ANDREW JACKSON]
Maryville Republican (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, August 2, 1906
--William [Andrew] J. [ackson] Collins, aged 78 years, died at his home near Salem church, south of Maryville Friday, July 27, 1906. He had been a member of that church for over 20 years. Funeral services were held in the church Sunday, conducted by Rev. Homer Lewis, a student of Drake University at Des Moines, Iowa. His wife died several years ago. The children of the dead man are William Collins of East Fourth street in Maryville, Mrs. A. Logan of Arkoe, Mrs. J. McLaughlin and Alexander Collins of Salem neighborhood.
[Note: The name on the headstone is Andrew J. Collins.]

[COLLINS, CATHERINE CAROLINE HOOVER]
Maryville Republican (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, September 7, 1899
Obituary of Mrs. Collins.
Died, at her home in Maryville, at 2 o'clock p. m. Thursday, August 31, 1899, Caroline H. Collins; aged 43 years, 1 month and 17 days.
Caroline Hoover was born in Wapello county, Iowa, near Ottumwa, July 14, 1856. On October 18, 1874, she was married to W. [illiam] H. [enry] Collins, in the same county, and he with eight of their ten children survive the loss of a loving wife and mother.
In the fall of 1881 the family moved to Nodaway county, settling in White Cloud township, which has since been their home, except that since Mr. Collins' first election to the office of sheriff, in 1896, they have lived in Maryville.
Funeral services were held at Salem church, at 11 o'clock a. m. Saturday, conducted by Elder Lawrence of the Christian church of which Mr. Collins had been a devoted member since childhood.
The sympathies of all are with the afflicted family in their great loss,

[COLLINS, CATHERINE CAROLINE HOOVER]
Maryville Tribune (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, September 7, 1899
Mrs. Collin's Death.
The Killing of Evangelist Johnston the Cause of a Very Sad Occurrence.
Mrs. W. H. Collins, wife of Sheriff Collins, died at her home last Thursday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock.
The killing of Rev. Johnston, the negro evangelist, took place Wednesday evening only a short distance from Sheriff Collins' residence. Mrs. Collins was at home and hearing the shots, became very much frightened and excited, her fear apparently being that her husband was engaged in the affray. She was in a delicate condition and suddenly became violently ill.
Dr. C. D. Koch was immediately sent for and remained with her almost all night and on Thursday until the time of her death.
A short service was held over the remains at the home on Saturday morning, after which the funeral procession left for Salem church, ten miles south of Maryville, in the neighborhood where Mr. and Mrs. Collins lived the greater part of their residence in Nodaway county. Here the services were conducted by Rev. O. W. Lawrence, pastor of the Maryville Christian church, of which the deceased was a member, and the remains were interred in the adjoining cemetery. City Marshall Sam B. Arnold, W. T. Garrett, Abe Williams, County Clerk William Kelly, John Phelpps and Frank Owens acted as pallbearers.
Mrs. Collins was 44 years old. She was born in Iowa and with her husband had lived in Nodaway county eighteen years. she left eight children, Rosa, Charles A., who is his father's deputy; Effie, Adda, Sumner, Ray, Gladys and Lex. She was an excellent woman and the sad circumstances of her death added greatly to the grief of her family and friends.
Mr. Collins and family have asked the city's paper to express their sincere thanks to the people of Maryville and vicinity for their sympathy and aid during their affliction.

[COLLINS, JANNIE ADALINE "ADDIE"]
Maryville Republican (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, April 5, 1900
Death of Addie Collins.
Died at the home of her father, Sheriff W. H. Collins, in Maryville, early Saturday morning, March 31, 1900, Addie Collins, aged 18 years, 2 months and 9 days.
Addie Collins was born west of Barnard in the Salem neighborhood, January 22, 1885, and had spent all her life in Nodaway county. She received her education in the Salem district school and in the public schools of this city. she had hosts of friends in Maryville and in Salem neighborhood, where she lived as a child. She was a devoted Christian, and an earnest worker in the Christian Endeavor Society and Mission Band
She was only sick a few days but was critically ill from the first. Her physician, Dr. C. D. Koch, felt hopeful however of her case until Friday evening, when she began to grow worse and sank rapidly, dying at 12:30 a. m. Her illness was caused at first by inflammation of the stomach and bowels, resulting in acute peritonitis.
Her funeral services were held at 1 o'clock p. m. Monday, at the Salem church, ten miles south of Maryville, conducted by Elder O. W. Lawrence, after which the remains were laid by those of her mother, who preceded her last fall. The pall bearers were selected from her friends and associates as follows: Will Shullenberger, Clifford Wilfley, Frank Orme, Roland Hosmer, Vane Wright and James Frank.

[COLLINS, MARIA BARKER GUISINGER]
Daily Democrat-Forum (Maryville, Missouri), Monday, December 21, 1925
Mrs. William Collins Dies at Her Home Here
Had Been Resident of Maryville For Last Twenty-Four Years-Ill For Last Year.
Mrs. William Collins, for the last twenty-four years a resident of Maryville, died suddenly at 2 o'clock this morning at her house, 422 East Fourth street. She had been ill of heart disease and complications for the last year.
Mrs. Collins was born in Ohio in 1843. Prior to locating in Maryville, she had resided at different points in Iowa and Missouri.
She is survived by her husband and five children, William R. Guisinger, Sedgwick, Colo., L. O. Guisinger, Witten, S. Dak., Mrs. F. H. Gray, Sioux Falls, S. Dak., Mrs. Margaret Sneathen, Winner, S. Dak., and Mrs. Myrtle Hubbard of Barnard. She also leaves two brothers, George Barker, Dodge, S. Dak., and Malachi Barker, Corning, Ia.
Arrangements for the funeral will not be completed until word is received from the children living at a distance.

[COLLINS, MARIA BARKER GUISINGER]
Daily Democrat-Forum (Maryville, Missouri), Wednesday, December 23, 1925
Collins Funeral to Be Held Tomorrow
Funeral services for Mrs. William H. Collins, who died early Monday morning, will be held at 1 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. A short service will be held at the family residence, 424 East Fourth street, followed by services at the Salem church, ten miles south of Maryville, at 2 o'clock. The Rev. R. E. Musgrave, pastor of the Christian Church, will officiate. Burial will be in Salem cemetery.

[COLLINS, MARIA BARKER GUISINGER]
Adams County Free Press (Corning, Iowa), Friday, February 5, 1926
Word comes of the passing of another of Adams county's old pioneers in the death of Maria Barker Guisinger Collins, who passed away at her home in Maryville, Mo. Mary Barker was born in Perry county, Ohio, March 20, 1843. She was married to Shepherd Silvester Guisinger, March 31, 1860 and in 1862 they came to Adams county, locating west of Corning and later went to Missouri. Her husband died in 1886. April 14, 1909, she was married to W. H. Collins of Maryville, Mo. which had been her home since 1880. She is survived by her husband W. H. Collins and five children: William R. Guisinger, Sedgwick, Colo.; Lee O. Guisinger, Witten. S. D.; Mrs. Myrtle Hubbard, Barnard, Mo. She is also survived by two brothers, Melchi Barker of Corning, Iowa and George Barker of Dodge, North Dakota.

[COLLINS, ROSE ALICE]
Maryville Daily Forum (Maryville, Missouri), Monday, August 7, 1972
Miss Collins, Teacher 59 Years, Dies at 96
Funeral services were held today at Buena Park, Cal., for Miss Rose Collins, 96-year-old retired Nodaway County teacher who taught 59 years. She died Thursday in a convalescent hospital, Fullerton, Cal. Burial was in Santa Ana, Cal.
Miss Collins was born in Nodaway County, the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. William Henry Collins. Her father was a former sheriff of Nodaway County.
She attended the former Seminary in Maryville, studied 13 summers at the University of Missouri and was graduated from the University of Wyoming with a bachelor of arts degree in education. She taught 35 years in Nodaway County at Stanberry, including Davis, Lasher and Garrett, rural schools; Arkoe Village School, Hopkins School District and Maryville, Barnard and Skidmore Schools.
Miss Collins retired three times from active teaching. In 1945 she retired after teaching 21 years in the Casper, Wyo. High School and then returned to Missouri, where she had previously taught and began teaching again, retiring in 1952. After that she taught in schools in the state of Iowa until she retired in 1955 when she was 80 years old.
Miss Collins has been residing since October, 1963 with her brother and sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Lex D. Collins, La Mirada, Cal. and fell June 15, suffering a fractured hip.
She was a member of state and national retired teachers associations, the Eastern Star, American Association of University Women and the Christian Church.
She also is survived by one sister and another brother.
[Note: Her Iowa State Delayed Birth Certificate gives the birth place as Chillicothe, Wapello County, Iowa. California Death Index also gives the birth place as Iowa.]

[COLLINS, SARAH ANN WILLIAMS]
Maryville Daily Forum (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, March 21, 1940
Mrs. Sarah Collins Dies At Home of Her Son Here
Mrs. Sarah Ann Collins, 83 years of age, widow of Alex McMillen Collins, died at 7:05 o'clock this morning at the home of her son, John O. [liver] Collins at 303 Park avenue. She had been ill three weeks.
Mrs. Collins was born September 5, 1856, at Ottumwa, Ia. Her husband died in 1932.
Surviving Mrs. Collins are five sons, John Collins, William Collins and Albert Collins, Maryville, George Collins, Barnard and Wade Collins, Gays Mills, Wis.; and five daughters, Mrs. Mattie Rhoads, Aberdeen, Wash., Mrs. Mary Steel, Marshalltown, Ia., Mrs. Margaret E.[llen] Waldeier, Sheridan, Mrs. Belle Duff, Barnard and Mrs. Leota Rhode, Phoenix, Ariz.
Two brothers, M. F. Williams, Barnard and S. B. Williams, Stilwell, Okla.; a sister, Mrs. H. M. Pope, Burlington Junction; thirty-five grandchildren, nineteen great grandchildren also survive.

COLLINS, SARAH ANN WILLIAMS]
Maryville Daily Forum (Maryville, Missouri), Saturday, March 23, 1940
Mrs. Collins' Funeral Will Be Held Tuesday
The funeral of Mrs. Sarah Ann Collins, who died Thursday morning at her home in Maryville, will be held at 2 o'clock Tuesday afternoon at the Salem church ten miles south of Maryville, with burial in the Salem Cemetery. Rev. Sherman Moore will conduct the services.
The funeral has been delayed until the arrival of a daughter, Mrs. Martha Rhodes, from Aberdeen, Wash., Monday night.
Pallbearers will be Leo Waldeier, James Collins, Ralph Collins, Edward Collins, Wayne Collins and Dean Duff, all grandsons.

[COLLINS, WILLIAM HENRY]
Maryville Daily Forum (Maryville, Missouri), Saturday, March 12, 1938
William Collins dies, Was Formerly Sheriff
William Henry Collins, a former Nodaway County sheriff and an insurance dealer here for many years, died at 1 o'clock this afternoon at his home, 810 East Fourth street. He had been in failing health the last few years and had been bedfast since February 4.
Funeral arrangements have not been made. However, the service will probably be held Monday.
Mr. Collins was born June 25, 1855, in Illinois. He came to Maryville from a farm in the Salem community south of Maryville in 1896, the year he was elected sheriff. After serving in that office for two terms, he entered the insurance business as a solicitor for the farm department of the Home Insurance company. He was with the J. J. Heifner Sons Insurance Agency and later with the Heifner-Hosmer agency. When Joseph Jackson, jr. took over the Hosmer business a few years ago, Mr. Collins retained his office but retired afterward because of failing health.
Mr. Collins was a member of the Christian church and was a member of the Masonic lodge for many years.
He was first married to Miss Caroline Hoover, who died August 3, 1899. He was remarried to Miss Maria Guisinger on April 14, 1909. She has been dead nine years.
Surviving are four sons, Charles A. [lexander] Collins, Riverside, Calif., Sumner S. Collins, Omaha, H. [enry] Ray Collins, Des Moines and Lex DeBord Collins, Hollywood, Calif.; and three daughters, Miss Rose Alice Collins, Casper, Wyo., Mrs. Effie Crozier, Casper and Mrs. L. W. Shirley, Portland, Ore.
Four children, Miss Collins, Mrs. Crozier, Sumner Collins and Ray Collins are expected to come for the funeral.

[COLLINS, WILLIAM HENRY]
Maryville Daily Forum (Maryville, Missouri), Monday, March 14, 1938
Collins' Rites Held
Masonic Services Are Conducted at Grave at Salem Cemetery
Funeral services for William Henry Collins, who died Saturday afternoon at his home, 810 East Fourth street, were conducted at 2 o'clock this afternoon at the Campbell funeral home by Rev. Sherman B. Moore, pastor of the First Christian church. Masonic services were held at the grave in the Salem cemetery south of Maryville.

[CALVERT, JESSE]
Maryville Republican (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, May 2, 1878
--Jessie [Jesse] Colvert [Calvert], one of Andrew county's oldest citizens, passed away last week.
[Note:  The last name is spelled Calvert on his headstone.]

[COOVER, ERNEST]
Maryville Republican (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, May 9, 1878
--Dr. McCluskey has just received a letter which states that Ernest Coover died in Globe City, Arizona Territory, on the 22d of April.

[COOVER, ERNEST]
Maryville Republican (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, May 16, 1878
Obituary – Departed to the spiritual world, in Globe City, Pinal county, Arizona, on Monday, April 22, 1878, Ernest Coover, eldest son of Mr. James P. and Mrs. Emma Coover, aged 22 years and six months.
Last August he left his home in Missouri to join his parents in Colorado, who were on their way to Arizona.
They arrived here on the 16th of October. Two months later Ernest obtained a position as fireman in the mill at the Champion mine. After working there six months his foot one day became entangled in the machinery which resulted in a frightful injury—so great indeed that an immediate amputation became necessary. The operation was unskillfully performed, and he lingered through two months of untold suffering, at the end of which time he was brought to Globe and a second amputation had to be resorted to. Under Dr. Thatcher's skillful hands this proved an entire success, but Ernest's long confinement and the monotony of his daily life began to tell upon him toward the last and it is believed that he became totally discouraged and thus fell into hopeless melancholy.
During his long illness he had maintained unbroken cheerfulness and had endured his sufferings with a fortitude that was a marvel to many. He had endeared himself to a large circle of friends and acquaintances and these, with hearts overflowing with love and tenderness towards the gentle, patient boy, who had so irresistibly fastened himself upon the sympathies, ministered to his comfort in every possible way. All were struck with the purity and innocence of his character. There was that about him which bespoke a nature too finely strung for rude contact with a course and sensual world. To the inmost fibres of his being he was refined, and his tastes and aspirations elevated. In his early removal to the spirit world we feel that he has but been taken away from the sorrows and perplexities and struggles of this weary earth life to dwell amid the fairer scenes and the more genial clime of God's Paradise above. Moving ever amid the angelic beings of that bright land, his tears will all be wiped away—his burdens and disappointments laid aside and we may safely think of him as growing ever younger and happier amid the transport and the joys of his celestial home. Oh! who could wish him back again in this world of pain where with his poor maimed limb a ceaseless regret and a bitter mortification would be his lifelong companion. With such thoughts as these may his poor stricken parents be comforted and may they cease to mourn as those who have no hope. – Arizona Silver Belt.

[CORDELL, MR.]
Maryville Republican (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, November 21, 1878
FLORIDA – An aged citizen by the name of Cordell was taken from our midst on the 6th inst. by the tyrant death. May he rest in peace.

[CRAIG, ALBERT]
Maryville Republican (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, May 16, 1878
--Albert, the eldest child of Mr. and Mrs. S. L. Craig, departed this life Saturday morning. Albert was a beautiful child, not quite four years of age. His last illness was long and painful. For several days he stood at death's door but at last the summons came and the little sufferer was released. The funeral services were held at the Christian Church Sabbath afternoon at two o'clock P. M. Elders Dew and Workman were the officiating clergymen. A large concourse of friends followed the remains to the grave. The affected parents have the sympathy of all.

[CRAWFORD, HIRAM HEATON]
Maryville Republican (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, November 14, 1878
STRINGTOWN – Mr. Hiram Crawford died at the residence of his brother, Israel Crawford, on the 15th inst. He leaves a large family to mourn his loss.

[CRYDER, EMMA ELLA]
Maryville Republican (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, November 14, 1878
GRAHAM – Miss Ella Cryder of Stringtown died on Saturday, the 9th. Her funeral was preached on Saturday, by Rev. Balsom. Miss Ella was about nineteen years of age and was loved and respected by all of her friends and acquaintances. Her presence will be missed at home and in the Stringtown society but all must bow in submission to him who "doeth all things well."

[CRYDER, EMMA ELLA]
Maryville Republican (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, November 21, 1878
Death of Miss Ella Cryder
Emma E. Cryder was born in Pike county, Illinois, January 18, 1860. In the fall of 1865 she, with the rest of her family, moved to Nodaway county where they have resided ever since. In the afternoon of November 9, 1878, she was called upon to quit the trials of earth and accept a home in heaven where peace and happiness reign and where sorrow is not known. She died in peace. When the dying hour was near she expressed a desire to see her friends and when gathered together made one final request, "Meet me in Heaven."
Her death has caused many vacancies. She was a member of the Methodist Church, being converted to that faith under the ministry of Rev. B. F. Stauber in 1875. The church will miss her, as she was a faithful member. She has vacated a place in the family circle which can not be filled. When gathered around the table, a vacant place is seen and with sorrow they think, Oh, but that it could be filled as of yore. And at evening when sitting around the bright fire they miss one who usually spent her leisure hours in literary improvement. Although it is sad to think that one so young and useful should be called away, we should remember that her troubles are all over. [Poem not transcribed.]
At school where she loved so well to go, she will be missed. She was always among the first of her class. A seeker of knowledge, she spent her spare moments in the cultivation of her mind. As a teacher, for two terms the writer labored with a school of which she was a member. We worked hard and made rapid progress; and now that she has been called away so young, do we feel that our time and labor has been spent for naught? No. Although the taper, which is faintly burning for a few moments only, increase its light. J. R. B.

Maryville Republican (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, November 14, 1878
STRINGTOWN – The pale messenger has been in our midst and some, who were full of life, have been laid to rest in the silent city of the dead. It is our painful duty to record, first the infant daughter of Mr. Fredrick Kerr. The next one called home was Miss Ella Cryder, an estimable young lady of eighteen years. She was born in Illinois, came to this county with her parents in 1865, joined the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1875 and died in the full hope of heaven. Mr. John Brown who died on the 10th inst., was about 44 years of age and also was born in Illinois. He was a member of the church and a farmer by occupation. His little son was thrown from a horse the night of the 8th inst. and his upper jaw bone broken, besides sustaining other injuries. The family have the sympathy of the neighborhood in their great affliction.

[DALBY, JOSEPH J.]
Republican Tribune (Union, Missouri), Friday, September 8, 1922
MORRELLTON – J. [oseph] J. Dalby died of paralysis Tuesday August 29 at 5 a. m. The funeral was preached at the residence Friday by the Rev. Montgomery of St. Clair, after which he was laid to rest in the St. Clair cemetery. Among those who attended the funeral from a distance were his son, E. [rnest] H. Dalby of Omaha, Nebraska, J. A. Speer of St. Joseph, Mo., Mrs. B. F. Funk of Bloomington, Ill., Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Anderson of Carlinsville, Ill. and L. E. Pierce and Dr. J. V. Denny of Sullivan.
Among those from St. Clair who attended Mr. Dalby's funeral were Dr. Briegleb, Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Roberts, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Johnson, J. W. Panhorst, Mr. and Mrs. R. King, Mrs. James Webster and Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Pierce.

[DALBY, JOSEPH J.]
Sullivan News (Sullivan, Missouri), Thursday, September 14, 1922
Joseph J. Dalby died at Morrellton August 29 of paralysis at the age of 73 years, 1 month, 28 days. He was a veteran of the Union army. He leaves a wife and daughter, Miss Alice of Morrellton; a son, Ernest H. Dalby, Omaha, Nebraska and a brother, George Dalby of Blanchard, Mo.

[DALBY, SARAH HOPKINS]
Maryville Republican (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, June 27, 1878
--Mrs. Dalby, mother of J. [oseph] J. Dalby of Clearmont and G. [eorge] B. Dalby of Quitman, died last week and her body was taken to Illinois for interment. We have been unable to learn any particulars.

[DECKER, JAMES B.]
Maryville Times (Maryville, Missouri), Wednesday, May 16, 1883
--Capt. James B. Decker of Hughes township, died very suddenly last Sunday morning, the 6th inst. of neuralgia of the heart.

[DECKER, JAMES BENJAMIN]
Maryville Republican (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, May 10, 1883
Sudden Death. Captain James B. Decker Dies in His Chair.
Tuesday morning we received the sad intelligence that James B. Decker of Hughes township had suddenly been stricken down in the midst of his family by the hand of death. He had not been enjoying good health for some time but when he arose Sunday morning he said to his family that he was feeling unusually well. In about two hours from this time, he complained of feeling worse and said that he would lie down. A few moments after he was spoken to by his sister-in-law who receiving no answer, approached him, only to find that he was breathing his last. His death was caused by neuralgia of the heart. Mr. Decker has long been identified with the interests of this county and in his death Hughes township loses one of her oldest and most respected residents; one who labored not only to advance his own personal interest, but that of others. He served with distinction during the war and lived to see the cause for which he fought triumphant. He leaves a wife and several children to mourn his sudden death. The bereaved family have the sympathy of all.

[DECKER, JAMES BENJAMIN]
Maryville Republican (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, May 24, 1883
James Benjamin Decker – We were born to die. Death is everywhere. Sometimes his presence is felt for months, and his victims gradually breathe their life away. At other times he comes as sudden as the lightning's flash. Thus did he come when he summoned James Benjamin Decker from earth to heaven.
Mr. Decker has been subject to attacks of neuralgia of the heart for years. On Sabbath morning, May 6th, Mr. Decker arose feeling as well as ever, in fact better than usual. Mrs. Decker and the children went to Sabbath school, leaving Mr. Decker, a hired hand, Mr. Bobeck, and his wife's sister, Pauline Morgan at the house.
Mr. Decker took a newspaper and lay down upon a bed to read. Mr. Bobeck went upstairs leaving Miss Morgan in the room. A few moments passed. She thought she heard Mr. Decker make a peculiar noise. She spoke to him, but he did not answer. She went to him, raised his head and in an instant he was dead.
Words cannot depict  the agony of his wife and children as they returned to find the husband and father no more.
His funeral took place May 8th, his remains being buried in the family burying ground. Friends and neighbors gathered to pay the last respects to one so beloved and respected and then all that was mortal of James Benjamin Decker was laid away until the morning of the resurrection.
The subject of this sketch was born in Pennsylvania, August 4th, 1838. While yet a child his parents removed to Ottawa county, Michigan. Here James grew to manhood. He received a common school education. In 1860, Mr. Decker came to Nodaway county. Already this county was being convulsed with the coming shock of war and his heart was with his country's flag. In July 1861, he enlisted as a private in Co. H, 13th Mo., vol., commanded by Col. E. Peabody. He was at the battle at Lexington and in that fight was noted for his coolness and bravery. He volunteered to try and get a cannon that was outside of the works in the fortification and while engaged in the dangerous work was shot down, receiving no less than three severe wounds. Being paroled with the rest of the command he remained in the hospital until the following year when he returned to Nodaway county. He was married to Ruth A. Morgan, February 22d, 1863.
The disabilities of his parole having been removed in in July 1863 he enlisted in Co. M, 9th cav. M. S. M. and was elected first lieutenant. In 1865, he was promoted to captain. He remained in the army until July 1863 [1865] when he was discharged by reason of termination of war.
As a soldier he was the bravest of the brave, knowing no fear. Single handed and alone he pursued and killed the captain of a notorious guerilla band in Platte county, this state.
When he returned home he settled on his farm in Hughes township, where he has ever since resided. As a husband, father, and neighbor he was honored and beloved by all. He joined the Baptist church in 1871 and ever since has lived a consistent Christian. His death is not only a loss to his neighborhood but to the country. He leaves his devoted wife and five children to weep over his loss. Of the children, one is a daughter grown, two younger girls and two little boys, one three and one six years of age.
To the bereaved ones we say, look beyond to the golden city of rest where he is now waiting for you.

[DECKER, JAMES B.]
Nodaway Democrat (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, May 10, 1883
--Capt. James Decker died at his residence in Hughes township last Sunday. Mr. Decker laid down on the bed to rest, in apparent good health, with his wife sitting near, when he suddenly expired. His disease was thought to be neuralgia of the heart.

[DECKER, RUTH A. MORGAN]
Maryville Republican (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, March 8, 1900
Death of Mrs. Decker
Mrs. James Decker, a prominent Graham woman, died Thursday March 1, 1900, in the South, where she had been for some time on account of her health, which had been failing for a number of years.
She leaves a family consisting of three daughters, Mrs. George Leeper, Misses Fannie and Olive Decker and one son, James B. Decker. She was a sister of the late Dr. James Morgan of Graham and aunt of the late Mrs. George F. Woodworth of this city and of John L. Morgan of Graham, formerly of Maryville.
Mrs. Decker was one of the first members of the Baptist church of Graham and a woman who will be sadly missed by a large circle of relatives, friends and acquaintances.

The remains will be sent home and the funeral will be held Sunday by Rev. Malotte, her former pator—Record.

[DECKER, WILLIAM HARRY "WILLIE"]
Maryville Republican (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, August 15, 1878
Little Willie Taken Up. Sudden Death of William Decker.
When the gray haired veteran has passed from the toils and cares of times to that eternal city, where we hope to join the loved of earth after our earthly mission is ended, we feel that his work has been done, that he has gone to reap the reward of a well-spent life; but when we are called on to witness the sudden taking away of one whose feet have trod the flowers of a few summers only, we feel that the frosts of time have nipped a flower that renders a home desolate and gloomy, cheered only by the Christian's hope which whispers of blossoms from the land of flowers, in that land, that home where the broken and dismembered families of earth shall be reunited in that spiritual building where those who have finished their journey are waiting to welcome the way-worn pilgrims, Earthly friends left behind to the enjoyments of that city in the beautiful beyond. We are led to these solemn reflections by the sudden death of William H. Decker, who was born February 16, 1867 and met his death on the 11th day of August, 1878. The particulars of his untimely death will perhaps remain unknown.
On Sunday his eldest sister had been attending a funeral and as the day was very warm, he concluded that he would ride to the house of mourning nearby and assist her home. She having returned by a different road he missed her and on his way homeward, a few hundred yards distant, met a little eight year old sister; he dismounted and placed her on the horse which was gentle, passed a noose around his hand, doubtless for the purpose of preventing the rein from falling while he was getting on behind. The child says: " A rein dropped, the horse reared and threw them off and that Billy said "Fannie, hold Clara, or she will kill me," and I held the rein until I was pulled down and could hold no longer and Billy was killed." Here the sobs of the child ended the sad, sad story of the death of a noble little boy.
After the accident the little girl ran home, a distance of 350 yards, bearing the sad tidings. The parents, in great haste, reached the fatal spot and found the animal lying down beside the boy. The halter was cut which was attached to the mangled boy and the little one wrapped in the cold embrace of death.
Billy was a bright and an interesting little boy, ever courteous and kind to his associates and won the esteem of all with whom he was associated, but his mission on earth is ended. No more will he gladden and make bright the home from which he has been taken. May the God who witnesses the falling of a sparrow sustain them in this dark hour. He has given and he has taken away. In childhood's innocence he was gathered home by an Omnipotent Father. He has been taken up and in the land of sunlight under the smiles of a beneficent Father, he is waiting to welcome the dear ones to the enjoyments of the land where the flowers ever blossom and death never comes.

[DEBELL, MRS.]
Maryville Republican (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, November 21, 1878
UNION VALLEY – On Tuesday evening last, an old lady by the name of DeBell was called to her long home and on Thursday was buried in the graveyard on Mr. Thomas Clark's place.

[DUNCAN, CHARLES]
Maryville Republican (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, August 22, 1878
Sad News. Death of Charles Duncan.
It is with sorrow that we announce the death of Mr. Charles Duncan, of the firm of J. E. Hudson & Co. Mr. Duncan came from St. Joseph and associated himself in business with Mr. Hudson some three years ago. By his gentlemanly conduct and courteous manners, he made hosts of friends, and no one knew but to respect him. He was married to Miss Ella Porter, of St. Joseph, some two years ago. His health had been failing for some time, when last May it became so bad that he gave up business and went East for his health. He has been in Philadelphia most of the time under medical treatment. On last Tuesday Mr. Hudson received a telegram from Mrs. Duncan dated at Wilmington, Delaware, saying that Mr. Duncan had just breathed his last. The news will convey sorrow to the hearts of many.

[EDMONDS, WILLIE]
Maryville Republican (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, July 25, 1878
--Our Quitman correspondent tells us of a sad accident that happened about five miles above Quitman on last Sabbath. A number of boys were in bathing when a son of a Mr. Edwards [Edmonds], about ten years of age, got beyond his depth and was drowned. One of the boys in with him reached him and tried to get him ashore but being only an indifferent swimmer he could not succeed. The body had not been recovered at last accounts.

[EDMONDS, WILLIE]
Maryville Republican (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, August 1, 1878
-- The body of little Willie Edmonds drowned in the Nodaway, of which we spoke last week, was recovered the next day

[FARLIN, JAMES]
Maryville Republican (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, June 27, 1878
--James Farlin, a young man of Atchison county, committed suicide on Sunday evening of last week, by hanging himself. He was but twenty-two years of age and no cause is given for the rash act.

[FINK, MARGARETHA WENDELL]
Maryville Republican (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, July 11, 1878
Sad Accident. Mrs. Fink Fatally Injured.
A sad accident occurred on the Fourth of July near the northern limits of the city which resulted in the death of a most estimable lady. Our correspondent from school district No. 5 gives us the following particulars:
Joy and mirth was suddenly turned to grief and mourning in the family of Mr. Fink. The particulars as related to us by a member of the family are as follows: The family all went to Maryville to celebrate the Fourth and after spending the day at the celebration, Mr. Fink and his wife started for home driving a team of spirited horses and in passing over a rough piece of road the wagon struck a timber lying across the track at the foot of the hill near the residence of Mr. Conrad. They were both suddenly and without warning thrown from the wagon with such force that Mrs. Fink was unable to be conveyed home and was taken into Mr. Conrad's where she lingered until Saturday night at 11 P. M., when she breathed her last. Mr. F., although considerably stunned, sustained but slight injuries. Funeral services were held at the Catholic Church at 8 o'clock A. M. last Monday. In her death Mr. Fink loses a dutiful wife and the children a kind mother. the sympathy of the community is extended to them in their hour of bereavement.

[FORD, BOURNE G.]
Maryville Republican (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, September 5, 1878
Death of Dr. B. G. Ford.
On Monday morning our citizens were shocked to heart that Dr. B. [ourne] G. Ford had quietly breathed his last on the evening before. Dr. Ford had been sick for some time but was reported getting better, but for the last few days his symptoms became worse and he failed rapidly until the end came. His sufferings during his illness were severe, but the last few hours of his life he lay in a stupor and did not seem to suffer pain. Dr. Ford was one of the old landmarks of Maryville. He was born in Pulaski county, Kentucky, on July 8, 1822, therefor he was a little over fifty-six years of age at the time of his death. He studied medicine under William Stone at Monticello, Kentucky. He came to Maryville in 1853 and has ever since been identified with our city. in 1855 he was married to Miss Lucinda Lemons, who survives him to mourn his loss. In those early days Dr. Ford was an important factor in the community. He was a practicing physician and a leading citizen. He held the office of county clerk for several years, and at one time accumulated considerable property. In late years financial misfortunes fell upon him and ill health prevented him practicing his profession. At the time of his death he was Justice of the Peace, an office which he had held for some time. He was known by all and so far as we know, had not a single enemy. He was the brother of Marsh and Elijah Ford, two well-known farmers of this county. He also has a sister living in Henry county in this state and a brother in Johnson county. He leaves a widow and seven children. His eldest daughter, Dora, is the wife of Mr. French, once a banker of Maryville but now a citizen of Kansas. Eliza, his second daughter, wife of Ed. Hull, was buried a few months ago. Kate, another daughter, is the wife of Mr. James G. Gaddis, of Barnard. There are five children at home, the eldest, now just budding into womanhood.
The funeral services were held at the family residence. A large concourse of our citizens were present. The Masonic lodge, of which the deceased was an honored member, was out in full force. Elder Workman was the officiating clergyman. At the grave, the impressive ceremony of the Masonic burial service was read. Elder L. D. Cook delivered an impressive prayer, and the dead was left quietly sleeping in its last resting place. Peace to his ashes.

[FULLERTON, CORA]
Maryville Republican (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, September 5, 1878
ELKHORN VALLEY - The child of David Fullerton, of which we made mention as being quite low with bilious fever and flux, died on the 15th of August, the second death in that family within two weeks. The bereaved ones have the sympathy of all.

[FULLERTON, DAVID'S CHILD]]
Maryville Republican (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, August 15, 1878
EKLHORN VALLEY – David Fullerton lost one of his children last Saturday and another one is lying very low.

[GARNER, PETE'S INFANT]
Maryville Republican (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, October 10, 1878
An interesting babe of Mr. and Mrs. Pete Garner died last week, aged eighteen months. The bereaved parents have the sympathy of all this neighborhood.

[GEORGE, EMELINE WATSON]
Maryville Republican (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, January 10, 1878
LAMAR STATION – Mrs. Emeline George, wife of Jas. George, died very suddenly last Sabbath evening. She was a sister-in-law to Eliphus George.

[GEORGE, JAMES W.]
Valentine Democrat (Valentine, Nebraska), Thursday, July 21, 1904
James W. George died at his home in this city last Saturday morning at half past twelve o'clock at the age of 56 years, 7 months and 7 days, of paralysis, from which affliction he had suffered for about 3 years. Mr. George was born in Illinois in 1847. He served 3 years and 3 months in the civil war and moved to Missouri in 1870, was married to Miss Emeline Watson in 1871 and to them was born two children, Dave and Nina, the latter since dead. After Mrs. George's death in 1878 Mr. George married Miss Louisa Brown, who now survives him, together with his sister, Mrs. Mary Barker and son Dave. The funeral services were conducted by Rev. Carpenter of the M. E. church. As we knew him Mr. George was a citizen and had lots of friends. He never wronged a neighbor that we have heard of and everyone spoke well of him. Last Saturday our flag floated at half mast for the departed brother and all unite in sympathy for the bereaved.

[GRAHAM, ELLA D. GRIFFTH]
Maryville Republican (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, July 25, 1878
It becomes our painful duty to chronicle the death of Mrs. J. G. Graham, who departed this life on the morning of the 17th, at two o'clock. She was an estimable lady, beloved by all who knew her. The bereaved husband has the sympathy of the entire community.

 [GRAHAM, ELLA D. GRIFFTH]
Maryville Republican (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, July 25, 1878
That man is mortal and our time of life uncertain, must certainly be vividly impressed on the minds of the citizens of Graham, for on Wednesday David Chamberlain was buried, on Tuesday night the wife of Ira G. Graham, who has been very low with consumption, departed this life and was buried on Thursday and on Friday, a lady whose name I have not learned, died. They were borne to the Odd Fellows Prairie Home Cemetery, one of
"Those vast yet voiceless cities,
     Growing ever street on street,
Where friends with friends are meeting,
     Ever meeting, never greet.

[GREMS, EDWIN STANTON "TONY"]
Maryville Republican (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, October 31, 1878
--The enemy, death, entered the family of John Grems on Sunday morning, October 27th, and plucked the fair flower "Tony" from the household. On Monday at two o'clock a large number of friends of the afflicted parents followed the remains of the dear boy to the Main street M. E. Church where an appropriate sermon was preached by the pastor from Ephesians, third chapter and fifteenth verse, after which his remains were committed to the dust to await the resurrection of the just. "Tony" was a sweet boy. His parents are almost broken hearted, and they have the sympathy of all.

[HARLAN, JOHN'S CHILD]
Maryville Republican (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, August 22, 1878
BARNARD - Mr. John Harlen lost a little boy Saturday night very suddenly. He had been having the chills for some time and was supposed to be better all that day and a little after dark was lying on the bed when he gave a sudden scream and fell off the bed, and his mother picked him up and found that he was dead. This is two children that Mr. Harlen has lost this season. Those who have been so sorely afflicted have the sympathy of the entire community.

[HARRIETT, MARY ELVIRA LEGRAND]
Bedford Times-Republican (Bedford, Iowa), Thursday, December 18, 1913
HOPKINS – Word has been received here of the death of Mrs. Harriett, the aged lady who was taken from here to the asylum in St. Joseph last spring and was violently insane.

[HARRISON, THOMAS]
Maryville Republican (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, September 26, 1878
DIED – Thomas Harrison, Aged 21 years, six months and eight days.
Thomas departed this life very suddenly, taking his bed on the 16th and on Thursday night was taken with a congestive chill, suffering very much until near four o'clock, when he breathed his last. Deceased leaves a father and mother and three sisters to mourn his loss. he was a trustworthy young man, was noted for his truthfulness and was beloved by all who knew him. [Poem not transcribed.]

[HASNESS, ABRAM]
St. Joseph Gazette (St. Joseph, Missouri), Thursday, August 22, 1878
--Abram Hasness, aged 75 years, died in Oregon on Tuesday last. He had resided in Holt county for over twenty years, and was a useful and respected citizen.

[HASNESS, ABRAM]
Maryville Republican (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, August 29, 1878
An aged and greatly respected citizen of Oregon, Holt county, Mr. Abram Hasness died and was buried on the 21st inst. J. M. Hasness of the Holt County Press is his son.

[HAYS, DAVID PEERY]
Idaho Statesman (Boise, Idaho), Friday, February 21, 1930
HAYES – David P. [eery] Hayes passed away at his home Thursday morning at 620 South Sixteenth street. He was born January 6, 1853 in Missouri and came to Boise 50 years ago. Surviving are his widow of Boise, two sons, Wilbur B. Hayes of Salmon and William Hayes of Boulder, Mont.; two adopted children, Joseph B. Hayes of Castle Rock, Wash., and Mrs. Jennie Mitchell of Baker, Ore.; a stepdaughter Nellie C. Brown of Caldwell; also 17 grandchildren. Hayes was a member of the Seventh Day Adventist church. He was to celebrate his forty-third anniversary today. The body is at the McBratney funeral parlors.
Funeral services will be held Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Seventh Day Adventist church, with Rev. C. C. Wilcox officiating. Interment will be in Morris Hill cemetery.

[HAYS, MARY ANN MARKWOOD]
Maryville Republican (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, January 24, 1878
LAMAR STATION - The wife of Dave Hays, Sen., died last week.

[HAZELWOOD, CLINT]
Maryville Republican (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, April 4, 1878
GRAHAM – A very sad accident occurred at the Ohio Mills last Thursday. Mr. Clint Hazelwood attempted to cross the river on the dam with a team of mules. The water was running very swiftly, and the mules not being very well broken became frightened and backed over the dam, killing themselves and Mr. Hazelwood. He floated some distance down the river but was still alive when taken from the water but died soon after. He leaves a wife and one child to mourn his loss besides many friends. He was buried in the Prairie Home on Saturday. [Poem not transcribed.]

[HOLLAND, HORTON FAYE "HOOT"]
Maryville Daily Forum (Maryville, Missouri), Tuesday, February 13, 1973
Holland Rites Set Wednesday
Funeral rites will be conducted at 1:30 p. m. Wednesday at the Andrew Funeral Home, Grant City, for Horton Faye "Hoot" Holland, 74, Sheridan, former state representative, who died about 7 p. m. Sunday at his home.
The Rev. Jerry Daily and the Rev. Delbert Biehle will officiate. Burial will be in the Blockton, Iowa Cemetery.
He was born Nov. 4, 1898 at Redding, Iowa and was married to Miss Bernice Pence, Clearmont, who survives.
He was educated in the Redding and Blockton, Iowa, school systems and was graduated from the Chillicothe Business College.
Holland, who served for 18 years in the Missouri House of Representatives, also had served as a judge of Worth County for eight years.
A farmer and oil jobber at Sheridan since 1929, he was a member of the Sheridan United Methodist Church where he also had been a Sunday school superintendent; a member of the Sheridan Masonic Lodge, Sheridan Order of the Eastern Star, a veteran of World War I and a member of the Sheridan American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars and the Scottish Rite and Moila Temple, both of St. Joseph.
He also was a charter member and a past president of the Sheridan Lions Club and had been a member of the Worth County Extension Council. Holland also had served as vice president of the Worth County Industrial Development Corp. and was a member of the board of directors of the Farmers Bank, Sheridan.
Besides his wife of the home, he is survived by two sons, Darrel D. Holland, Littleton, Calif., and Bobby Holland, Sheridan; one daughter, Mrs. Shirley Hopkins, Modesto, Calif.; one stepdaughter, Mrs. Ruth Ann Galiher, Iowa City, Iowa; one brother, Alvin Holland, Joshua Tree, Calif.; one sister, Mrs. Bernice Fogde, Spencer, Iowa; nine grandchildren and four great grandchildren.

[HOLLENBAUGH, JOHN]
Maryville Republican (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, August 12, 1886
Fatal Accident. Sudden Killing of John Hollenbaugh of Hughes Township.
On the 11th inst., Mr. John Hollenbaugh, an old resident of Hughes township, was driving home from Filmore and in crossing a bridge the wagon ran off to one side throwing him violently to the ground and instantly killing him. His son's wife was riding with him and is now insane from her fright, imagining all the time that she is to be killed in some manner. Mr. Hollenbaugh was about seventy years old and being quite lame he was unable to protect himself in any manner from his fall. He came from Maryland to this county twenty years ago and has been living near Graham ever since. The citizens of that place will sadly miss Uncle John and Hughes Township has lost an upright citizen.
[Note: His headstone gives the death date as August 10, 1886.]

[HOLLENBAUGH, JOHN]
Kansas City Star (Kansas City, Missouri), Thursday, August 12, 1886
Killed by a Runaway Team.
Special Telegram to The Star
MARYVILLE, Mo., Aug. 12. – Mr. John Hollenbaugh, a resident of Graham, in this county, was driving home from Fillmore yesterday morning when his team became frightened and started to run. In their course was a bridge several feet high and the maddened horses dashed off one side, violently throwing Mr. Hollenbaugh out and instantly killing him. He was above 70 years old and quite lame, hence was unable to save himself in some degree in his fall. Mr. Hollenbaugh was a native of Maryland but had resided in Nodaway county about twenty years. His son's wife was in the wagon with him and is now insane from fright imagining all the time she is to be killed in some way.

[HOLLENBAUGH, MARGARET JANE WHEELER]
Maryville Republican (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, October 31, 1878

GRAHAM – Mrs. Holenbaugh of Stringtown, died on Friday the twenty-fifth. She leaves a husband and a son and daughter to mourn her loss. may the consolation contained in a meeting beyond be theirs.
[Note: The last name is spelled Hollenbaugh on her headstone.]

[HOSHOR, FRANKLIN P. "FRANK"]
Maryville Republican (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, July 18, 1878
Mr. Frank Hosher Killed by a Kick From His Horse.
It becomes our duty to chronicle a sad and fatal accident which befell Mr. Frank Hosher, a young farmer who resided about three miles south of this place. on last Thursday, as he was driving along, the lines became entangled in the tail of one of his horses. Mr. Hosher stopped, got out and adjusted the line and had just stepped back from the horse when it suddenly kicked, striking Mr. Hosher in the pit of the stomach. He lingered in great agony until the next day at noon when death put an end to his sufferings. Mr. Hosher was a married man, twenty-three years of age, and leaves a wife and two young children. His remains were taken to Savannah for interment.
The bereaved widow and the two helpless children have the sympathy of all.
It is terrible to be bereft of a husband and father so suddenly and unexpectedly.

[HOUSE, SALLY]                          [MARTINGALE, WILLIAM]
Maryville Republican (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, September 26, 1878
LAMAR STATION – On Wednesday night Mr. William Martingale died and the same night Mrs. Sally House, a widow woman living about four miles west of this place died. Dr. Callings preached a funeral discourse at her residence, after which her remains were brought to Lamar Station graveyard and laid in their final resting place.

[HOWARD, JOHN HENRY]
Daily Democrat-Forum (Maryville, Missouri), Tuesday, April 2, 1912
Called by Brother's Death.
Ben Howard, five miles north of Maryville, was called to Bolckow Monday evening by the death of his brother, John Howard, who died Monday afternoon. The deceased man was 73 years of age and was at one time a resident of Nodaway county. The body was taken to Savannah Tuesday morning for burial. Mr. Howard is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Claud Davidson of Barnard and a stepson, Charles Saunders of St. Joseph.

[HOWARD, SARAH MELISSA NEAL]
Maryville Republican (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, July 4, 1878
PICKERING – Mrs. John Howard, who has been ill with a complication of diseases for several years and who has not been able to help herself, died Monday evening, June 30. She was a daughter of Uncle Billy Neal. Her mother was a Wiseman [words missing] of the first wives of A. and Thomas Kelly, all well and favorably known by the old [settlers?] of this county. She leaves [words missing] and two children, both [words missing] to mourn her loss.

[HOWARD, SARAH MELISSA NEAL]
Maryville Republican (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, July 4, 1878
SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 5. -- Mr. John Howard was called upon to mourn the loss of his wife, who died on Sunday evening last. She had been sick for a long time, when at last death came to relieve her. She has gone where sickness and death are not known, but what is his loss is her eternal gain.

HOWARD, SARAH MELISSA NEAL]
Maryville Republican (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, July 11, 1878
Died. – Sarah M. Howard, wife of John H. Howard, at his residence in Nodaway county, on June 30, 1878, of chronic diseases.
Sarah M. [elissa], Daughter of William and Polly Neal, was born in Gallia county, Ohio, July 24, 1840, was baptized when a child. She emigrated from that State, to Nodaway county Missouri in October 1852, was married to John H. Howard, October 7, 1858, and united with the M. E. Church, South, March 20, under the ministration of Rev. A. P. Parker. The subject of this notice was afflicted about a year. Her disease seemed to defy all medical skill. At times she was able to attend to her household duties until the last eight months. She has been confined to her bed nearly all that time. On Friday before she died all hopes of her recovery were given up. She continued to sink until June 30, at five and a half o'clock P. M., when she fell asleep in Jesus. Her constant prayer was that death would come and put an end to her sufferings. During this time she would sing such hymns as "I would not live Always," and 'Jesus my all to Heaven has gone." She told the writer while talking to her on the subject of religion that she was ready to die and wanted to go and be at rest. The Sunday before she died while holding class meeting at her house for her benefit at the hour of five o'clock and singing that beautiful hymn, "My Latest Sun is Sinking Fast," she joined in the chorus, "Come Angel Bands," and during the prayer of her aged father seemed to be carried away. How blest the righteous when they die. She leaves a husband, two children, a father, three brothers and three sisters to mourn her loss, but we sorrow not as those who have no hope.
Sister thou were mild and lovely,
    Gentle as the sun and breeze;
Pleasant as the air of evening,
    When it floats among the trees.
Her remains were buried in her family burial ground near Savannah July 2.
Andrew county papers please copy.    J. M. N.

[HEAD, BIGGER J.]
Maryville Republican (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, September 6, 1888
Bigger J. Head died at Graham, Mo., on Thursday, August 30, 1888, aged 75 years.
Mr. Head was born in Highland county, Ohio, in October 1813. He moved to Jasper county, Iowa, in 1855 where he was one of the pioneers, having to haul all the lumber used in improving his farm for 144 miles. In 1871 he moved with his family to Graham, where his wife and two daughters preceded him to the grave.
Mr. Head lived in Nodaway county for 17 years and none who knew him doubted his integrity. He had troubles to face and overcome that few men could have borne, yet was always silent, patient and enduring. To a few of his intimates he occasionally remarked "The Lord administers chastisements in justice and for my good."
The funeral services of Mr. Head were conducted by Hesperian Lodge I. O. O. F., after which his remains were deposited in the Graham Odd Fellows cemetery on Friday, August 31, 1888. Hesperian Lodge had among its members three of the oldest Odd Fellows in the State, one of whom has now departed after 43 years of service in the order. His brethren have only happy remembrance of his companionship and feel glad that a part of his days were spent among them.

[HEAD, ELIZA S. DIXON]
Maryville Republican (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, November 21, 1878
GRAHAM – Again has this community been visited by the angel, Death. This time taking both the old and young. On Friday morning Mr. and Mrs. Fayette Hughes were called upon to give up their son, Johnnie. He was not quite seven years old but his place is vacant, nor can it be filled. The sympathy of the community is with them in their sad bereavement. The funeral took place at Liberty school house on Sabbath morning.
On Sunday morning, at about five o'clock, Mrs. Head, wife of B. J. Head, departed from this world of pain and sorrow to that of rest unto the weary. She has been confined to the house for a long time and for the last three weeks has been gradually failing. She was a member of the Methodist church, from which place her funeral took place on Tuesday.

[HULL, ELIZA LIDA FORD]
Maryville Republican (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, May 30, 1878
--Wednesday morning our city was shocked by the news that Mrs. Eliza Hull, wife of Edward Hull, and daughter of B.[ourne] G. Ford, Esq., had suddenly died during the night. On Monday of last week Mrs. Hull became a mother and to all appearances was doing finely; but Tuesday evening she was suddenly taken worse and died before morning. If her sister, Mrs. French, arrives from Kansas the funeral will take place this (Thursday) afternoon from the Presbyterian Church. If Mrs. French does not arrive the services will be postponed. We will publish no extended notice of the deceased until next week. But to the bereaved young husband and to her parents and others to whom she was near and dear we extend our heartfelt sympathy.

[HULL, ELIZA LIDA FORD]
Maryville Republican (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, June 6, 1878
In Memoriam.
Died – Wednesday morning, May 29th, of puerperal typhus fever, Mrs. Lida Hull.
Last week we mentioned the sudden death of Mrs. Lida Hull, wife of Edward Hull and now it is our mournful duty to give more extended notice of the deceased. She was a daughter of Dr. B.[ourne] G. Ford and was born and raised in Nodaway county. Most of her life has been spent in Maryville. Being of an amiable and gentle disposition, she was a great favorite with all who knew her and many were the hearts that mourned when they heard of her sudden death. Well we remember her as a laughing school girl, a favorite with all of her young companions. As she budded into womanhood she lost none of her gentleness and when she gave her heart and hand to whom she loved many were the "God speeds" given to her and she and her friends looked forward to a long life of happiness. But inscrutable are the ways of Providence and she was called away in the morning of her wedded life. Hardly had she felt the warm breath of her child upon her cheek and knew what it was to feel a mother's love when the summons came and the little one was motherless. There is a beautiful legend that she who dies in giving birth to a soul, to her, the gates of paradise are opened wide and she passes in unquestioned. It is a beautiful tribute to motherhood; and indeed there is nothing sadder in this world than the taking away of a mother from the young child. The funeral services were held in the Presbyterian Church on Thursday at 2 ½ o'clock P. M. The house was filled with sympathizing friends who came to mingle their tears with those to whom she was so near and dear. The Rev. Mr. Workman chose for the foundation of his remarks the story of Jesus at the grave of Lazarus. He told of Jesus sympathetic heart, how he wept over the grave of his friend, how he strove to comfort the afflicted sisters and how at last, by the aid of his divine power, the grave opened and gave up the dead. The same Jesus lives now to comfort the hearts of those that mourn. Some day at his divine command the graves of the loved ones would be opened and in the mansions prepared from the foundations of the world, his children would find rest and peace. He then spoke a few words of the deceased, of her gentleness, purity, and worth of character and the sad cortege repaired to the last resting place of the dead and the loved remains were laid away forever. But to those who knew and loved her, her memory will ever be fresh and green.

[HULL, CHARLES FORD]
Maryville Republican (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, June 13, 1878
--The infant child of Ed. Hull has followed its mother to the tomb. The funeral services took place at the residence of E. C. Wood yesterday at nine o'clock A. M.

[JOHNSON, LUCIUS]
Maryville Republican (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, November 7, 1878
--An old man by the name of Johnson, suicided in Macky school house, district No. 3, Atchison Co., Sunday, October 27. He left a note, saying he was tired of life. Evidently the old man was deranged.

[KAVANAUGH, DOCTOR]
Maryville Republican (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, March 21, 1878
LAMAR STATION – Dr. Kavanaugh died the morning of March 14. He was a physician of more than ordinary ability, and at one time had an extensive practice here. Has been a resident of our town about twelve years.
As a man he possessed many good and generous qualities. He is gone and we will let the mantle of Charity fall over whatever may have been his faults. His remains were taken to Graham for burial. May God rest his soul in peace.

[MARTIN, NICHOLAS P.]
Maryville Republican (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, January 24, 1878
--Our Lamar correspondent gives us the particulars of the sudden death of a Nicholas Martin, a young man of that place. it seems that on Monday of last week Nicholas went to move a family to White Cloud, Kan. he left in his accustomed health but on his way back was stricken with death. Our correspondent says: He was found in his wagon in a dying condition by strangers about six miles this side of Mound City. He died without giving any account of himself. So they had to take his back track to where he stayed all night at a hotel in Mound City and got his name and residence from the register. His bereaved and heartbroken parents have gone to bring the remains of their son home. He was a grandson of Levi Martin and Nicholas Owen, two of the oldest and first settlers of this part of Nodaway county. No further particulars are known.

[MARTIN, NICHOLAS P.]
Maryville Republican (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, January 31, 1878
--Nicholas Martin the young man from Lamar that was found in a dying condition near Mound City last week died from congestion of the lungs.

[MARTIN, NICHOLAS P.]
Maryville Republican (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, January 31, 1878
LAMAR STATION – Mr. and Mrs. Martin arrived at their home with the remains of their son, Nicholas, on Saturday, the 29th, at 3 o'clock in the afternoon. They had the coffin carried into the house and opened, so that his brothers and sisters and many relatives and friends could take their last look on the dead. There was singing, prayers and exhortation by Rev. Dr. Callings, local Elder in the M. E. Church South. The grave was ready and when the sad rites were over the body was followed to the cemetery by a large concourse of people, where it was committed to its last resting place. The family have the sympathy of the entire community.

[MARTIN, NICHOLAS P.]
Maryville Republican (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, June 27, 1878
LAMAR STATION –  On the fourth of this month Rev. Gillum preached an able sermon on the death of Nicholas Martin, who was found dying in his wagon near Mound City last winter to a large and attentive congregation.

[MCCLAIN, WILLIAM H. H.]
Maryville Republican (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, September 19, 1878
--We have been advised of the death of W.[ illiam] H. H. McClain, a former resident and businessman of Maryville, a brother of Mrs. I. N. Albin, of this city and Jas. D. McClain, of St. Joseph. Mr. McClain had poor health for the last three or four years and last spring concluded to go to the mountains and try the pure air of that climate but all to no avail. He died at Greely, Colorado, September 9, of consumption. He leaves a wife and two children at Cameron, Missouri, to mourn his departure. Mr. McClain was a member in good standing of the Masonic fraternity and was well cared for by his brother Masons during his last sickness and was interred with the honors of that ancient order. He was an estimable citizen and a kind and affectionate husband. The community in which he lived deeply sympathize with the bereaved family.
[The same notice was published in the St. Joseph Gazette, September 19, 1878.]

[MCNEAL, AARON'S SON]
Maryville Republican (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, August 15, 1878
GRAHAM – We are pained to announce the death of a son of Aaron McNeal, who died on the 6th inst.

[MCQUARY, JOHN W.]
Maryville Republican (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, October 24, 1878
GRAHAM – All were shocked on Saturday evening to hear of the death of John W. McQuary. His death was sudden and very unexpected. The funeral will take place from the residence of Dr. R. C. Wyman on Monday at 2 o'clock P. M. under the supervision of the Odd Fellows. Further notice will be given next week.

[MCQUARY, JOHN W.]
Maryville Republican (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, October 24, 1878
--Another old citizen of Graham has been gathered to his fathers, Mr. McQuary of the firm of Paschal & McQuary.

[MCQUARY, JOHN W.]
Maryville Republican (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, October 31, 1878
Rest In Peace. Death of John W. McQuary.
It is always a painful task to record the death of a neighbor or friend, but when the icy fingers of the grim monster is bent over our entire community it's with trembling hand and a heavy heart we attempt to offer a tribute to his memory, fully realizing that the deeds of kindness and brotherly love which have marked his pathway in life can never be revealed until the morning of the resurrection of the just. Such was the character and history of John W. McQuary, who was born in Pulaski county, Kentucky, in November 1844. When only four years old his father was called to cross the dark stream of death and the culture and training of John was left to his mother and all who knew him will attest to her faithful discharge of the duties of a mother. As he approached manhood and as the mother's steps neared the tomb, he became her comforter and in reality the head of the household. In 1870 an omnipotent Father called the mother home and he and his brother, Pleasant, came west and made their home in Graham. Here we made his acquaintance and learned to appreciate his kindness of heart which was extended to all grades of society, in every condition. His heart was ever open to the wail of the suffering and with his hands he administered kindness to all, without inquiring from which country he came or by what means he had fallen; it was enough for him to know that he was bowed in distress to elicit his sympathy.
On Wednesday he was confined to his bed; though quite sick, nothing serious was anticipated until Saturday, the 19th inst., when hemorrhage from the stomach set up and fears for his safety were entertained. From that time he gradually passed down the dark valley and at 4:30 o'clock he passed from the cares of time to Him who has said, "Whosoever shall give a cup of cold water to one of these little ones shall not lose his reward." Therefore those who knew him should be comforted by this promise and live in hope of joining him in the kingdom of eternal bliss.
His death was peaceful and tranquil, passing away while asleep, without a groan or a murmur. So quiet was his death we did not know when the spirit quit the earthly tenement and soared away to join the loved ones who had preceded him to the spirit land.
The funeral took place from the Presbyterian church on Monday. Singing and prayer was offered by the pastor, after which a procession was formed by Summer's cornet band, who played a solemn dirge, while the Odd Fellows, of which he was an honored member, filled by a long procession of friends, followed all that was mortal of one whose death they deeply mourned to the Odd Fellows Prairie Home cemetery, where his mortality was laid to rest by the side of a brother who died some five years since. After the impressive ceremony of the Odd Fellows was executed, the mournful procession returned, feeling that a noble citizen had been gathered to his fathers.
Rest in in peace dear departed friend. May angels wreathe for thee a crown of immortality.

[MICKLES, EDNA]
Maryville Republican (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, August 15, 1878
--Little Edna, child of Mr. and Mrs. L. G. Mickles, died Wednesday morning of cholera infantum. Edna was a sweet child seven months old and her loss falls heavily on her stricken parents. The funeral will take place today (Thursday) at ten o'clock A. M. from the residence on Market street near Baptist Church.

[MILLER'S SON]
Maryville Republican (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, June 20, 1878
LAMAR STATION – Also on that day a boy was drowned in a branch that runs into the Nodaway river in the northeast part of this township. The boy's name was Miller, the son of the teacher who taught the school last winter at this place. The two little boys were in the habit of going to the branch, undressing and jumping from off a bank into the water to bathe. But the river was rising, the water was about ten feet deep, and they did not know it. Soon as they were in another boy saw they were both drowning, and he got the little fellow by the fingers and pulled him ashore. He was saved but the eldest drowned. The sad event cast a gloom over the entire community.

[MILLER, MR.]
Maryville Republican (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, July 18, 1878
--Our Lamar correspondent relates another case of drowning as follows: On last Wednesday Mr. Miller was drowned in the same branch and almost the same place where his son was drowned a few weeks ago. The Nodaway river was again out of its banks and had backed up the water in the branch and with it some logs and driftwood. Mr. Miller had waded in and was getting the same out, when by some means he fell, never to rise to the surface alive. His little son was the only person who saw him fall and he called his mother and she called some of the neighbors who were near by. They hurried to the branch and soon recovered the body but life was extinct. He was buried on Thursday at the Braddyville grave yard.

[MILLER, PETER]
Maryville Republican (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, September 26, 1878
--Died at his residence two miles south of Clearmont, Peter Miller, of typhus malaria fever, aged 36 years, 2 months and 22 days. Mr. Miller was born in Columbia county, Penn. He immigrated to Missouri from Michigan in the spring of 1873. He was a member of the M. E. Church and died having strong faith in the Savior. Mr. Miller was a good citizen and loved and respected by all who knew him. He leaves a wife and three children to mourn his loss.

[MOORHEAD, JENNIE HELEMAN]
Maryville Republican (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, August 22, 1878
BARNARD – On last Monday morning the wife of T. [heodore] P. Morehead died. she had been having the chills for some time. She was confined on Sunday and died Monday morning. She had not been married more than eighteen months. The child is still living. Miss Maggie, the sister of Mr. Morehead, is keeping house for him at present.

[MOORHEAD, THEODORE PARKER]
Skidmore News (Skidmore, Missouri), Thursday, October 19, 1916
Death of T. P. Moorhead
Theodore Parker Moorhead died at his residence in Skidmore at 7:30 Monday morning, after an illness extending over several years.
Funeral services were held at the residence at 2 o'clock, Tuesday afternoon, conducted by Revs. W. H. Welton and M. Dewitt. Interment was in the Masonic cemetery, funeral rites being conducted by the Masonic fraternity.
Mr. Moorhead was born in Pennsylvania, Oct. 3, 1854, so was at his death a few days over 62 years old. He is survived by his wife and two sons, Irvin and Jack.
He located in Skidmore about thirty-five years ago, opening up a shop and working at his trade as a painter and decorator, but had been unable to work for several years.

[NEIGHBORS, EDDIE]
Maryville Republican (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, June 27, 1878
--Mr. and Mrs. Neighbors have been called upon to mourn the loss of their son, Eddie, who died Saturday morning, June 22, of inflammatory rheumatism. His death was unexpected, as he appeared much better all day Friday. Mr. Neighbors was absent in Nebraska at the time and a telegram bore him the sad news. He walked twenty miles during the night, to reach the railroad in time for the morning train. he arrived home Monday evening and Tuesday morning at 9 o'clock A. M. all that was mortal of little Eddie was consigned to the tomb. The grief-stricken parents have the sympathy of all.

[NELSON, HANSON]
Maryville Republican (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, August 15, 1878
--Hanson Nelson, an old and highly respected citizen of Jefferson township, left his house on the morning of the 5th to drive the cattle to the range. After he had been absent some hours his daughter becoming uneasy started in search of him and found him on the prairie dead, blood oozing from his mouth and nostrils. It is supposed he had a sunstroke. – Barnard Times.

[NIXON, INFANT]
Maryville Republican (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, August 22, 1878
LAMAR STATION – A child of Mr. Nixon, aged two years, was buried last Saturday at Lamar Station graveyard. The first interment this season.

[NYE, EPHRAIM ELLIS]
Maryville Republican (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, February 17, 1910
Aged Pioneer Passes Away
Ephraim Nye, for about eight years a resident of Maryville and a well-known Northwest Missouri pioneer, died Sunday morning at the age of 89 at his home in Maryville. He was living with his daughter, Mrs. J. A. Murphy.
The body was taken to the old home at Parnell Monday for burial in Oxford cemetery. The funeral services will be held Tuesday morning.
Mr. Nye had lived in Nodaway county and Northwest Missouri for many years. The most of his residence in this county was spent in Parnell.
He was born in 1821 in Montpelier, Vt. He came west at the time when the town of St. Joseph was being formed and did much to help out that city. He was a well-known resident of the county.
He is survived by four children. They are: Mrs. Eliza Davis of Maryville, Ella Nye of Alliance, Neb.; Major Nye, Forest city, Mo. and Mrs. Sarah Murphy of Maryville.

[NYE, JOHN – 1878]
Maryville Republican (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, February 28, 1878
--From Mr. Joseph White we learn the particulars of a terrible accident that befell a son of E.[phraim E. [llis] Nye, of Greene township, on Tuesday, which resulted in his death.
It appears that he and several others were in the wood chopping and in felling a tree a limb lodged in the forks of another tree and as he passed under it the limb fell, striking him on the head, knocking out his brains. This is indeed a sad affliction and Mr. Nye and wife have the sympathy of the entire neighborhood. He was buried at Oxford yesterday. His age was about twelve years. – Worth County Times.

[NYE, SUSAN GLENN]
Maryville Tribune (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, July 17, 1902
Obituary – Mrs. Susan Nye died July 4, aged 75 years, seven months and eight days. She was an old resident of Nodaway county. She left a husband, E.[phraim] E.[llis] Nye; one son, A.[lfred] M. Nye of St. Joseph; three daughters, Mrs. Will Nye, Alliance, Nebraska; Mrs. J. A. Murphy and Mrs. Will Davis of Maryville and one granddaughter, Mrs. J. A. Croase, who was raised by Mr. and Mrs. Nye. Funeral services were held at the Nye home at 1 o'clock on the Saturday following her death, conducted by Rev. I. T. Creek and on Sunday at 11 o'clock the remains were interred at Oxford.

[NYE, SUSAN GLENN]
Maryville Republican (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, July 17, 1902
--Mrs. Ephraim Nye who lived one-half mile north of Maryville died Friday July 4, 1902, at 8:30 p. m., aged nearly 76 years. the body was brought by train to Parnell Saturday afternoon and conveyed to Oxford where funeral services were conducted Sunday morning and burial took place in the afternoon. Her husband is past 81 years old. They were formerly residents of Oxford but had lived in Maryville for a number of years. Mrs. Nye was formerly a Miss Glenn. – Parnell Sentinel.

[PARTRIDGE, MARGARET CORSON WOOD]
St. Joseph Gazette (St. Joseph, Missouri), Wednesday, October 25, 1911
Old Resident Is Called By Death
Mrs. Margaret Partridge Had Lived in Nodaway County for Years
Special to the Gazette.
MARYVILLE, Mo., Oct. 24. – Mrs. Margaret Partridge, one of the oldest residents of Nodaway county, was buried at Myrtle Tree cemetery yesterday. Mrs. Partridge was born in Bracken county, Ky., Sept. 24, 1822. When she was 9 years old her parents moved to Edgar county, Ill., where she was married in 1839 to John Partridge. They moved to Gentry county in 1855 and to Nodaway county in 1860. Mrs. Partridge is survived by four children: W. J. Partridge of Wilbur, Wash.; Hon. G. W. Partridge of Cherokee, Okla.; Mrs. H. T. Wray of Pickering and J. L. Partridge of near Maryville. Mrs. Partridge had been a widow for more than sixteen years. She was a member of the Methodist church.

[PARTRIDGE, MARGARET CORSON WOOD]
Maryville Tribune (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, October 26, 1911
Mrs. Partridge Dies At Home Of Son Saturday.
Aged Woman Passes Away After Nine Weeks' Illness From Paralysis.
In the County Fifty Years. Mrs. Partridge Settled Near Maryville in 1861. Coming from Bracken County, Kentucky.
Death came Saturday afternoon at about 4 o'clock to Mrs. Margaret Carson Partridge, aged 89, at the home of her son, J. L. Partridge eight miles northeast of Maryville. Paralysis, from which she had suffered for the past nine weeks was the cause of her death.
The funeral services were held on Monday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock, at the Myrtle Tree church, with Rev. C. R. Green officiating. Burial took place in the church cemetery.
Mrs. Partridge had been a resident of Nodaway County for fifty years, settling near Maryville in 1861. She has always lived near Maryville since that time. She was born September 24, 1822, in Bracken County, Kentucky, where she lived until her removal to Nodaway County.
John R. [andall] Partridge, her husband, has been dead for sixteen years. Since that time Mrs. Partridge had made her home with her son, J. L. Partridge. Four children survive her. They are George W. Partridge of Cherokee, Okla.; W. J. Partridge, Webber Falls, Wash.; Mrs. H. T. Wray, Pickering and J. L. Partridge. George W. Partridge arrived at Pickering at noon from his home in Oklahoma.

PARTRIDGE, MARGARET CORSON WOOD]
Maryville Tribune (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, October 26, 1911
Pioneer Is Subject Of Poem By Her Son
Mrs. Margaret Partridge, Deceased, Is Given Praise in Poetry Written Lately.
When sunlight glinted on my hair,
      And roses blossomed on my mouth,
And every breath of life I drew
      Was sweet as spice-breath from
            the South;
If ever childish grieving came
       Sweet transient joys to smother,
My "Balm of Gilead" came to me
       In thy sweet kisses, mother.

Thy circling arms were ever fond,
      And faithful was thy love
As steadfast stars in ripples blue
      Through silent spaces move.
And though I other home-ties had
       In Father, sister, brother,
No earthly bond was half so sweet,
       As that to thee, my mother.

So on through all the checkered days
      That go to count a life,
Through all the smiles and all the
           Tears
      Of maiden and of wife,
I've found one unstained altar-stone,
      And bow before the shrine
That holds my life's love consecrate
      To thee, sweet mother, mine.

Pray God our life-lines ne'er will
     part,
      Whate'er the years may bring
Of grief, of joy, of blooms or smiles,
      Fair winds and winged things;
Down to the shadows of the grave
       Still bound to one another,
Pray God, we step by step may go.
      Just thou and I, my mother,
                                   Your loving son, George. Sunday, September 10, 1911.
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Margaret C. Wood was born September 24, 1822. She removed with her parents to Edgar County, Ill., where she grew to womanhood. She was married February 13, 1839, to John R. Partridge, who preceded her in death sixteen years.
In 1855 Mrs. Partridge with her family removed to Gentry County, Mo., and in the fall of 1860 removed to Nodaway County, Mo., where she lived until her death, October 21, 1911, at 4:30 p. m.
She was the mother of ten children, four of whom survive her, Mrs. H. [enry] T.[homas] Wray of Pickering, Mo., W.[illiam] J. [ohn] Partridge, Wilbur Washington; G. [eorge] W. Partridge, Cherokee, Okla. and J.[ohn]  L. [incoln] Partridge, Myrtle Tree, Mo.
In 1856 she was converted and with her husband united with the Methodist Protestant church and remained a consistent member until death came to her at the age of 89 years and 28 days.
Her funeral was conducted by her pastor, Rev. C. Green, of Harmony, at Myrtle Tree church, October 23, 1911, from a text found in I Pet. 1: 3-4. A large concourse of people of her relatives, friends and neighbors attended her funeral services, after which she was laid to rest beside her husband in the Myrtle Tree cemetery.
A good mother, a good Christian woman and neighbor and a pioneer of Nodaway County has gone to her final rest.

[PRATHER, BASIL HOLT]
Maryville Republican (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, November 28, 1878
-- Mr. and Mrs. James B. [asil] Prather have been called upon to part with their youngest child, Basil Holt. He died of pneumonia last Wednesday night and the funeral took place from the family residence Thursday afternoon at 4 o'clock. Elder George Dew officiated. The remains were followed to the grave by a large concourse of sympathizing friends. Basil was a promising child some nineteen months old, and his loss falls with crushing weight upon the afflicted parents.

[PRATHER, BENJAMIN VANCE]
Maryville Republican (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, January 27, 1910
Ben V. Prather Dies Suddenly
Passed Away in St. Louis Wednesday. Was Preparing to Return Home When Gastritis Caused His Death
With but a few days time intervening before his departure for his home town and feeling in the best of spirits, Ben V. Prather, a son of the late James B. [asil] Prather, died suddenly in St. Anthony's hospital in St. Louis Wednesday afternoon. Death was due to an attack of gastritis.
The body will arrive in Maryville early Friday morning. No funeral arrangements will be made until the arrival of his sister, Mrs. Frances J. Oakes of Brookline, Mass. She will probably reach here Sunday.
The death of the well-known young man was a distinct shock to the community. The news came Thursday morning.
Mr. Prather had been staying at the Southern hotel. He was preparing to return to Maryville next week and was feeling in the best of spirits. His recovery had been practically assured and his sudden illness Tuesday night was not known in Maryville. He was hurried to the hospital, where he had undergone a critical operation several weeks ago. Death came at 3:40 o'clock Wednesday afternoon.
The young man had been an invalid for about four years. Aabout six weeks ago he was operated on for gall stones. For several days he hovered between life and death, but for several weeks he had been rapidly recovering. His local friends were assured of his return in much better health than he had known for several years.
With him at the time of his sudden illness and death were his wife and daughter and sister, Miss Bettie Prather.
Ben V. Prather was born in Maryville, July 17, 1875. His father, James B. [asil] Prather, died nineteen years ago. His father was one of the best-known men in Missouri. He engaged in the drug busines and became the leading druggist in Northwest Missouri. The elder Prather was one of the most prominent stockmen in Northwest Missouri.
Ben Prather was first married to Besse Guerin, a daughter of the rector of St. Paul's church. She died several years ago. He afterward married Miss Gertrude O'Riley, who survives him. A daughter, Elizabeth, was born of their union.
He is survived by two sisters, Miss Elizabeth Prather of Maryville and Mrs. Frances J. Oakes of Brookline, Mass. He was a nephew of Mrs. C. A. Mulholland and Mrs. Edward McMillen, both of Maryville. Mrs. M. G. Tate, George B. Baker, Miss Ruth Davis and Don Davis, all of Maryville, were cousins of Mr. Prather.
The deceased was a thirty-second degree Mason, being a member of the Consistory of Western Missouri at Kansas City. He was prominent in state lodge circles. Maryville lodge, No. 165, of which he was a member, will probably assist in the funeral services.
The Prather family is one of the best known pioneer families in Nodaway county. Isaac Prather, the grandfather of Ben V. Prather, came to Nodaway county in 1841 and settled in White Cloud township, where he owned a large tract of land.
James B. [asil] Prather was elected sheriff of the county in 1856, when he was but 22 years old. Three years later he was promoted to the county clerkship. The elder Prather was one of the organizers of the Nodaway Valley bank. The family is now one of the wealthiest in the county.

[PRATHER, BENJAMIN VANCE]
Maryville Republican (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, January 31, 1910
Funeral Services Largely Attended
Funeral services for Ben V. Prather, who passed away Wednesday in St. Louis, were held Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at the First Presbyterian church. The Episcopal service was conducted by Bishop Atwill of Kansas City. Interment took place in Miriam cemetery.
The church was not large enough to hold the hundreds of people who cared to attend the services and the funeral was one of the largest ever held in Maryville.
All of the lodges of which the deceased was a member were represented with big delegations and there were many relatives and friends of the family in attendance. The funeral was in charge of the Masonic order, of which Mr. Prather was a prominent member.
Many beautiful floral offerings were received. The body lay in state at the family residence on West Second street from 10 till 1 o'clock Sunday. Many people viewed the remains.

[PRATHER, BESSIE GUERIN]
Maryville Republican (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, October 23, 1902
--Bessie Guerin Prather, wife of Ben V. Prather, died at the family residence Sunday afternoon, October 19, 1902, about 5 o'clock, after an illness of about three weeks. She had apparently been in good health up to the time of coming down but appeared to be in a dangerous condition from the first ill symptoms, and Mrs. Emma Prather and daughters were summoned from the East, arriving here last Wednesday. Funeral services were held at the First M. E. church Wednesday, October 22, conducted by Rector F. C. Smith of St. Paul's Episcopal church, after which burial occurred at Miriam cemetery. The untimely taking away of one so young and with naught but the fairest prospects, is peculiarly touching and has elicited manifestations of kindness and good will that will ever be gratefully remembered.

[PRATHER, EMMA FRANCES HOLT]
Maryville Republican (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, April 20, 1910
Will Arrive in the City Thursday
George B. Baker received word Wednesday that Mr. and Mrs. Frank Oakes and Miss Elizabeth Prather will arrive in Maryville on the morning Wabash passenger Thursday with the remains of Mrs. Emma Prather, who died Monday morning at Brookline, Mass. The funeral services are to be held Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Christian church, conducted by Rev. L. O. Bricker.

[PRATHER, EMMA FRANCES HOLT]
Maryville Republican (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, April 21, 1910
Mrs. Prather Died Monday Morning
Has Been in Ill Health For Some Time. Passed Away at Home of Her Daughter in Brookline, Massachusetts.
Word was received Monday morning by George B. Baker of the death of Mrs. Emma F. Prather at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Francis Oakes, in Brookline, Mass. She died early Monday morning. Mrs. Prather has been in ill health for some weeks and the death of her son, Benjamin V. Prather, January 26, this year, was quite a shock to her.
Mrs. Prather and daughter, Miss Elizabeth Prather, and Mrs. Gertrude Prather and daughter, left Maryville just a week ago for Brookline, Mass., where they were to reside.
Mrs. Prather's maiden name was Miss Emma Holt, and she was born in Kentucky. Her mother, Mrs. Sarah Holt, is still living at Quitman, at the age of 86 years. She was married to James B. [asil] Prather November 16, 1873. Two children survived, Mrs. Frances Oakes of Brookline, Mass., and Miss Elizabeth Prather of this city. Two children are dead—Benjamin V. Prather, who died January 26, 1910, and another son, Basil Holt Prather, in infancy.
Two sisters, Mrs. J. W. Linville of Skidmore and Mrs. Ambrose Collins of Quitman and a brother, Bart Holt, who lives in Oklahoma, also survive.
Her husband, James B. [asil] Prather, was one of the organizers of the Nodaway Valley bank of this city and was a leading druggist of this part of the state. He was also a big land owner. He held office in this county for several terms. James B. [asil] Prather's death occurred nineteen years ago.
No particulars have been received as yet about the funeral services. The body will be brought here and burial will take place in Oak Hill cemetery beside the body of her husband, James B. [asil] Prather.

[PRATHER, EMMA FRANCES HOLT]
Maryville Republican (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, April 28, 1910
Disposing of Household Goods
Francis Oakes, who, with Mrs. Oakes and Miss Bettie Prather, came to Maryville to attend the funeral of Mrs. Emma Prather, returned Sunday to his home in Brookline, Mass. All the household furniture of the Prather Residence will be sold. Mrs. Oakes and Miss Prather will remain in Maryville while this is being done, after which they will return to their home in Brookline.

[PRATHER, EMMA FRANCES HOLT]
Maryville Republican (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, April 28, 1910
Funeral of Mrs. Prather Was Held
The funeral of Mrs. Emma Prather was held Friday afternoon at the First Christian church. A large crowd of her friends attended the services. Rev. L. O. Bricker conducted the services. The active pallbearers were George B. Baker, Thad Wilderman, James Colby, Horace Richmond, James B. Robinson and John Dawson. The burial was in Oak Hill cemetery.

[PRATHER, EMMA FRANCES HOLT]
Maryville Republican (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, April 28, 1910
Prather Will Is Probated
Bulk of Estate to Elizabeth Prather. Property of Estate Valued at Over $50,000—J. B. Robinson Executor.
The will of Mrs. Emma Prather, the pioneer Maryville resident who died at Brookline, Mass., Monday morning, was filed in probate court Saturday afternoon.
Practically all of the estate, which is conservatively estimated at $50, 000 is left to Mrs. Prather's daughter, Miss Elizabeth Prather.
As the will was made before her son, Ben V. Prather, died, it contains a provision for him. The testator left $100 to Ben V. Prather and $100 to a daughter, Mrs. Mary Oakes, of Brookline, Mass.
The will states that because of the fact that Miss Elizabeth Prather is crippled and an invalid, she is left the bulk of the estate, the other heirs being well provided for already. The testator states that this is her only reason for leaving Miss Elizabeth the bulk of the estate.
It is said that the will was made in that way with the entire approval of the other heirs.
J. B. Robinson is names as the executor of the estate.

[PRATHER, JAMES BASIL]
Maryville Republican (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, February 26, 1891
James B. Prather – James B.[asil] Prather is dead. At the hour of 6 p. m. on Monday last, in the midst of friends and a people he loved and in a county, of which he was both proud and fond, he breathed his last. His country, his people and his home will miss him.
Mr. Prather was born in Mercer county, Kentucky on the 6th day of April 1834. In 1841 at the age of seven he came to this county. For the last half century his life has been spent in sight of our court house steeple. His life is, therefore, a part of the history of our county.
In 1856, at the age of twenty one, he was elected sheriff of Nodaway county and filled that office for several years.
In 1859 he was elected to the office of Clerk of the Circuit Court and ex officio Recorder of Deeds. In 1866 he formed a partnership with Albert T. Ellis and under the firm name of Ellis & Prather, engaged in the drug business which continued up to the date of his sickness. During the year 1869, in connection with Messrs. Geo. S. Baker, E. S. Stephenson, Joseph E. Alexander and W. C. O'Rear, he organized a bank at Maryville under the firm name of George S. Baker & Co. With some changes of individual interest, this firm continued the banking business until 1873, in which year the name of the bank was changed to Nodaway Valley Bank, with Jas. B. Prather as president and Theodore L. Robinson as cashier. This bank has continued up to this date.
Early in the seventies, Mr. Prather began to manifest an interest in thoroughbred horses and as opportunity offered, he purchased choice brood mares. In this business enterprise, as in all others, he prospered from the start to the finish. Today the Faustiana Stock farm, which lies just west of Maryville, is the finest thoroughbred horse farm west of the Mississippi and is considered among the best in the United States. This business enterprise alone has made the name of Prather known wherever lovers of horses dwell and turf records are kept. It has likewise done much for Maryville and Northwest Missouri. As the fame of the Arabian steed is inseparably connected with the mountains and plains over which it roams, so the flying feet of a Jim Gray, a Galen, a Bobby Beach bear tributes to the land where they were bred and reared.
In 1885, Mr. Prather was selected by Gov. John S. Marmaduke as a member of the State Board of Health.
In all these varied positions and business enterprises, Mr. Prather has been prosperous and successful. His life has been a constant series of successes. What an example to be studied and emulated by the young men of our country.
It is difficult sometimes to account for the failures and successes of men. In any instance the explanation probably contains some mere conjecture, yet in this case some of the causes which individualized James B. Prather were so pronounced that the venture is a safe one. First among the qualities which distinguished him, was self-confidence. Possessed of good, sound judgment and native sense he counseled himself on all occasions, touching all matters, concerning all project and endeavors. In this he seldom erred. Such a habit and practice make men think. The judgment is strengthened, and power of decision created. Mr. Prather thus found it easy to be equal to emergencies and occasions. He was also a most excellent judge of men and made no mistakes in the selection of business relations. In the drug business he associated with A. T. Ellis for twenty-five years, dissolving partnership only by his death. In the banking business for twenty-five years Theo. L. Robinson has been, as it were, his right arm. This constancy of friendship and trust was a most noble trait in his character. No greater eulogy can be pronounced upon man than to truthfully say he was constant in his friendships and attachments. And a finer epitaph cannot be written than "His first friends were his last."
In addition to the two characteristics mentioned it should be said that Mr. Prather had always the courage of his convictions. By no means an enthusiast or experimentalist he was a prudent yet bold pioneer in business ventures. Having made up his mind he fearlessly made the venture and asked no quarters but ultimate success. Thus he started the first drug store in our county. Later he helped organize the first bank. Still later he established the stock farm above mentioned. In these ventures it was not the restless unstable spirit of discontent which prompted the departure for in each instance he held with an iron grasp to his first undertakings. It was simply the man rising with the occasion and with measured tread stepping out to meet opportunity.
It is a matter of public regret that such men must die. In his intercourse and association with men Mr. Prather was modest, unassuming and ever gentlemanly. His store of information was varied. His intuitive knowledge of men and ready discernment of motives and designs gave him an advantage in any company. The wide range of his interests, the extent of his own personal experience, together with a natural bent, made him liberal and reasonable in his opinions and views. Among the few things which he detested were fanaticism in any guise and hypocrisy in any form. These he looked upon as positive evils not to be tolerated nor countenanced.
Having seen the growth of our county from the first cabin to its present populous state and wealthy condition, he was the friend and companion of that hardy manhood which has made Northwest Missouri what it is. His place of business has been the mustering ground for the early settlers, back woods men for the past quarter century. Their welfare was his constant care, their misfortunes his deep concern and their successes his great delight. But he has gone. The grandest oak in the forest has fallen. Rich and poor alike will miss him, while those who called him master before the war, with streaming eyes will bedeck his grave and bless his memory.   W. W. Ramsay.
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                                                           The Funeral.
Mr. Prather's funeral services were held today at 2 o'clock p. m., at the Christian Church in Maryville. The remains laid in state from 9 a. m. to 1 p. m., giving an opportunity for all to take a last look at the familiar face. The actual pall bearers were Judge Kennedy, Theodore L. Robinson, Judge Alexander, Thomps. Denning, William T. Garrett, Joseph Jackson, Ed Townsend and Lafe Dawson. Honorary pall bearers: John Lamar, Judge Anthony, N. B. Lamar, Frank Bellows, John Whedbee, L. Michau, A. Thompson and Judge Terhune.
After the funeral service the remains were taken to Oak Hill cemetery and there laid by the side of relatives who had preceded him to the future world.
We desire to add our feeble tribute to the memory of Mr. Prather. For twenty-one years we had been acquainted with him and for eighteen of those years we had lived next door neighbors. If during that time there were any disagreements, they never came to the surface. He was always quiet but kindly; unobtrusive yet ever ready in accommodation; in short, all that a neighbor and friend should be. In common with thousands of others we and ours sincerely mourn his loss and extend our deep felt sympathies to his surviving family and relatives.

[PRATHER, MARY C. "MARIA"PRATHER]
St. Louis Globe-Democrat (St. Louis, Missouri), Wednesday, January 10, 1883
Mrs. Maria Prather.
Special Dispatch to the Globe-Democrat.
Maryville, Mo., January 9. – This morning Mrs. Maria C. Prather was found dead in bed. She was the widow of Col. Isaac N. Prather, one of the first and most noted of Nodaway County's early settlers. She was the mother of a large family of children and died at the residence of her son, James B. Prather, of this city.

[PRATHER, MARY C. "MARIA"PRATHER]
Maryville Republican (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, January 11, 1883
Sudden Death. Mrs. Maria C. Prather Found Dead in Bed.
Another one of the noble pioneer women of Nodaway county has fallen asleep. This time the summons came so quietly, so softly that none heard the silent messenger. On Tuesday morning the aged mother of Mrs. James B. [asil] Prather, of this city, was discovered dead in bed. She sleeps in a room adjoining her son's bedroom, and about five o'clock he heard her breathing rather heavily but hearing the hired girl who was sleeping in the same room with her, speak to her, he thought nothing of it and went to sleep again. The girl says Mrs. Prather did not answer her but appeared to be sleeping so quietly that she suspected nothing.
About four years ago Mrs. Prather had an attack of apoplexy but for the last few months she has been enjoying much better health than usual, and her sudden death has fallen with crushing weight on her children. Mrs. Prather's maiden name was Maria C. Prather. She was born on Sept. 13th, 1808, in Harrisburg, Mercer county, Kentucky. Her father, Thomas Prather, was one of the first settlers of the state, having come to the "dark and bloody ground" in 1780, when he settled in Harrisburg, where he lived and died.
Mrs. Prather was married to Col. Isaac N. Prather, a distant relative, on the 2nd day of June 1831. In 1841 they emigrated to Missouri and settled on a splendid body of land in what is now White Cloud township. Col. Prather was one of the wealthiest and most influential citizens in northwest Missouri. He took an active part in the organization of Nodaway county and the first county court met at his house and organized the county on the first Monday in April 1845. This court consisted of T. A. Brown, J. M. Fulkerson and John Lowe. Col Isaac N. Prather died in 1859. For a quarter of a century has his widow survived him but now she has gone to join him in the eternal world.
Mrs. Prather was the mother of ten children, five of whom are dead. The ones living are James B. [asil] Prather, one of the best known citizens of our city, Mrs. Mulholland, Mrs. Ed. McMillan, Mrs. Geo. W. Davis and Mrs. Ella Roseberry, who is now in Memphis, Tenn.
The funeral services took place at three o'clock yesterday from the residence of James B. Prather on Second street, Rev. A. D. Workman officiating. The remains were interred in the family lot in Oak Hill Cemetery. Mrs. Prather was a zealous member of the Presbyterian church, it being the faith of her childhood. Thus has passed from time, one of the aged mothers of our county. But her life has been long and useful. Gently she laid its burdens down and now she sweetly rests.

[PRATHER, MARY C. "MARIA"PRATHER]
Maryville Times (Maryville, Missouri), Wednesday, January 17, 1883
Mrs. Mary C. Prather. Sudden Death of this Most Estimable Lady.
The sad intelligence was received upon the streets last Tuesday morning of the sudden death of Mrs. Prather, at her son's residence in this city, Mrs. [Mr.] James B. Prather. She was found dead in her bed, having retired the night before apparently in good health. Mrs. Prather has been a resident of this county for 42 years and had a large circle of admiring friends. She was the mother of ten children, five of whom are living—James B. [asil] Prather, one of our wealthiest and most influential citizens, Mrs. Mulholland, Mrs. Ed. McMillan, Mrs. Geo. W. Davis and Mrs. Ella Roseberry, who deeply mourn the loss of their mother.
Mrs. Prather was born in Harrisburg, Kentucky in 1805, her father being one of the first settlers of that state, having cast his fortunes there, among the early settlers, along with Daniel Boone and others and lived and died in the land that he assisted to wrest from the savages.
Mrs. Prather was married in 1831 to Col. Isaac N. Prather and ten years afterwards they came to Missouri land settled on a body of land in what is now known as White Cloud township. In their new home they prospered. Col. Prather died in 1859, a wealthy and influential man.
Mrs. Prather was a kind and tender mother, an accommodating and benevolent neighbor and died as she had lived since her childhood, a sincere Christian—a member of the Presbyterian church.
Little does this generation know of the trials and hardships our pioneer mothers had to endure in the settlement of the Great West and but few are now left to relate to their descendants around the family hearth-stone, the perils of their early adventures. They are going one by one, only to live in our memories.
The funeral took place on Wednesday at three o'clock from the residence of Jas. B. Prather. The remains were laid to rest in Oak Hill Cemetery and a large procession of friends attended the last sad rites.

[PRATHER, MARY C. "MARIA" PRATHER]
Nodaway Democrat (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, January 11, 1883
With the Angels. Death of Mrs. Maria C. Prather.
Another of the first settlers of Nodaway county has laid down the burden of life and passed to her reward. Mrs. Maria C. Prather departed this life Tuesday morning, January 9, 1883. In the morning she spoke to the servant girl who slept in another bed in the same room and told her she had better get up. The girl did get up and went about her work. When breakfast was ready, Mr. Prather's little boy went into the room of his grandmother to tell her to come to breakfast, but he could not arouse her and so informed his parents who upon going to her bed found that she was dead. It was probably a stroke of apoplexy.
She had not been in good health for several weeks past but on Monday last seemed to feel better than usual and made her accustomed visit around among her children, also going to Mrs. Jackson's millinery store where she gave some instructions regarding a dress that was being made for her.
Deceased was born in Harrodsburg, Ky., Sep. 13, 1808, her maiden name being Prather. Her father settled in Kentucky 103 years ago and was an active participant in the bloody struggle with the Indians in that state. Her mother died only a few years ago having reached nearly 100 years of age. June 2, 1832, she was married to Col. I. N. Prather, from which union ten children were born as follows: -- James B., next a daughter who died in Kentucky aged two years, next Isaac N. Jr., who died in this county in 1866, next Cynthia A. Mulholland, next Mrs. M. V. McMillan, next Maria L., who died in 1865, next Margaret E. Baker, who was her first child born in Nodaway county and who died in 1865, next Henrietta J. Davis and Ella Roseberry, half of her children being dead. She moved to Nodaway county with her husband in the year 1841 and settled on what is known as the Prather estate eight miles south of Maryville, where her husband Col. Prather, died Sept. 29, 1859. In 1843 she united with the Presbyterian church of which denomination she has been a member ever since. Her funeral services were conducted at the residence of her son, James B. Prather Wednesday afternoon, Jan. 10, by Rev. Workman, after which her remains were followed to Oak Hill cemetery by a large concourse of sorrowing friends and relatives and there laid to rest. Deceased was a woman of more than ordinary strength of character and lived a long and useful life. Her friends were legion in Nodaway county, for all loved her, and her death is a great bereavement to her devoted children. A few more years of watching and waiting and they will join father, mother and the other loved ones in that beautiful home of the soul where there is neither sorrow or death.

[PRUITT, FRANCIS, MRS.]
Maryville Republican (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, October 17, 1878
LAMAR STATION – Mrs. Francis Pruit died very suddenly on the tenth of this month at the residence of Mitchell Bailey. She was eighty-four years of age and one of the first settlers of this part of the county. She was buried Thursday at the Short School house graveyard in the midst of a driving storm. The wind blew almost a hurricane and the rain fell in torrents as the coffin was lowered into the grave. Nine men and six women braved the storm and placed the old lady where she will rest until time shall have an end. She leaves three granddaughters and nine great grandchildren in this neighborhood. Mrs. Nancy Hutson, who lately moved to Kansas, is her only daughter.

[RHOADES, JOHN]
Maryville Republican (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, July 18, 1878
  A distressing accident happened near Sweet Home, last Sabbath. A party of young men went into the Platte River bathing, among them was one John Rhoades, a son of Allen Rhoades, a young man about seventeen years of age. Young Rhoades swam the river, got out upon the bank and stood about three feet from the water, when suddenly he threw up his arms, fell back ward into the wa er and sank without a word, before the gaze of his horrified companions. His body was recovered two or three hours afterwards. It is supposed the cause of his falling into the water was a sun stroke, as it can be accounted for under no other reasonable hypothesis. The sudden taking away of the young man has thrown the whole neighborhood into mourning.

[RHOADES, KARL]
Maryville Republican (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, August 1, 1878
Obituary – Once more death has visited our quiet city. This time the family of Dr. M. [arcus] M.[orton] Rhodes is called to mourn the loss of a darling child.
Little "Carl" was taken some two weeks before his death with cholera infantum. Everything was done that could be done to relieve the little sufferer, but seemingly to no purpose. His cherub spirit was freed and it flew away to that celestial city where there is no more sickness, sorrow, pain or death; where it is one bright summer always and sickness never comes. To the bereaved parents this may seem hard to bear. We should ever remember that He who hath taken away is able and willing to help in affliction if we look to him in faith believing.
Rev. Balson read a chapter and after a song led in prayer. To the sorrowing parents and friends, we, with the entire community, tender our heartfelt sympathy.   A Friend.
[Note: The name is spelled Karl Rhoades on his headstone.]

[RUSH, IRVIN]
Maryville Republican (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, May 16, 1878

--A terrible accident, resulting in the death of Irvin Rush, a little son of Phillip and Caroline Rush, near this place, occurred about 8 P. M. on Friday last. A kettle containing hot water had been placed on the floor temporarily by the mother of the child, when in her absence, he fell into it backwards, scalding his entire back and right arm in a fearful manner. Doctors Callen and Thatcher were at once called in and rendered all the aid possible, but death soon put an end to its sufferings. – Holt County Sentinel.

[SPENCER, HENRY]
Maryville Republican (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, September 12, 1878
UPPER ELKHORN – Mr. Henry Spencer, who lived two miles north of Graham, died on Monday morning at four o'clock.

[SPURIER, LIZZIE]
Maryville Republican (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, September 12, 1878
UPPER ELKHORN – Mrs. Lizzie Spurier, aged about fifty-five years, departed this life one day last week after a protracted illness of about five months. She was born near Baltimore, Md., where she resided until nine years of age, when her parents emigrated to Ohio, where she lived until about one year ago, when she, with her son, Foster Spurier, moved to Nodaway county. Mrs. Spurier was an estimable lady and many friends will mourn her loss.

[STRADER'S SON]
Maryville Republican (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, November 7, 1878
GRAHAM - Mr. Strader's, living some two miles north of town, were called upon to mourn the loss of one of their children this week. It was about three years old and died of cerebro spinal meningitis.

[THOMPSON, KATHRYN PRINGLE]
Maryville Daily Forum (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, January 27, 1966
Mrs. Kathryn Thompson Dies at Hospital
Mrs. Kathryn Thompson, 88, Pickering, died at 5:45 a. m. today at St. Francis Hospital where she had been a patient for two days following a long illness.
Born Sept. 8, 1877, in Fairfield, Ia., she was the daughter of William and Rachel Maxon Pringle. She was married Dec. 31, 1911, to Ira C. [lement] Thompson, at Trenton.
She had lived most of her life in Pickering and was a member of the Pickering Methodist Church.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p. m. Saturday at the Pickering Methodist Church. The Rev. Gerald Sappington will officiate, and burial will be in the White Oak Cemetery, Pickering.
She is survived by her husband, Ira C. [lement] Thompson of the home; two daughters, Mrs. Robert McAmis, Maryville, Mrs. Vernon Baker, New Market, Ia.; one son, Keith Thompson, Tulsa, Ok.; five grandchildren and four great grandchildren.
The body is at the Price Funeral Home and will be taken at 1 p. m. Saturday to the church where it will lie in state until the hour of service.

[THOMPSON, KATHRYN PRINGLE]
Maryville Daily Forum (Maryville, Missouri), Monday, January 31, 1966
Final Rites Held For Mrs. Thompson
Final rites were held at 2 p. m. Saturday at the Price Funeral Home for Mrs. Kathryn Thompson, Pickering, who died Thursday at St. Francis Hospital.
The Rev. Gerald Sappington officiated and burial was in the White Oak Cemetery, Pickering.
Mrs. Edward Hackett and Mrs. Earl W. Trueblood, accompanied by Glenn Morrow organist sang, "The Old Rugged Cross" and "Nearer My God to Thee."
Pallbearers were Ivan Sparks, Earl McClurg, Vilas McClurg, Virgil Hyde, C. C. Rice and Eugene Doran.
In charge of the flowers were Mrs. Walter Runnels, Mrs. Ivan Sparks, Mrs. Earl McClurg, Mrs. Vilas McClurg, Mrs. C. C. Rice and Mrs. Eugene Doran.

[TRACY, PEARLEY]
Maryville Republican (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, September 5, 1878
ELKHORN VALLEY – On the 24th of August the family of W. W. Tracy was called upon to mourn the death of little Pearley, who had been in delicate health for some time, although hopes were entertained for his recovery. But the hot weather, together with the disease, were too much for the little sufferer and he passed away to the land where sickness, sorrow, pain and death are feared and felt no more. [Poem not transcribed.]

[TRUSTY, ADELINE PARTRIDGE]
Maryville Republican (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, November 21, 1878
--Mrs. Adeline Trusty, wife of James Trusty, of this county, died on Tuesday evening Nov. 12. An obituary notice appears in another column of this issue.

[TRUSTY, ADELINE PARTRIDGE]
Maryville Republican (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, November 21, 1878
Another Christian Gone. Death of Mrs. Adeline Trusty.
It is always a painful task to record the death of a neighbor or friend, but when the icy finger of the grim monster is bent on one that casts a gloom over the entire community, it is with trembling hand and heavy heart we attempt to offer a tribute to her memory, fully realizing that the deeds of kindness and sisterly love which have marked her pathway in life can never be revealed until the morning of the resurrection of the just. Such was the character and history of Adeline Trusty, who was born in Edgar county, Illinois, in 1852. She was the daughter of John R. [andall] and M. [argaret] C. [orson] Partridge, who came from Illinois and settled in Nodaway county, Missouri, in 1859 where they still reside. In 1868 she gave her heart to God and joined the Methodist Church and remained a devoted Christian till her death.
She was united in marriage to James Trusty and proved a true wife and good mother. she has been failing in health for the past two years and during the last three months was confined to her bed. All that medical skill could do was of no avail. During her illness she prayed that Jesus would come and relieve her from pain and take her home to glory. She was twenty-five years of age at the time of her death. She leaves a husband and three children, a father, mother, three sisters and three brothers to mourn her loss. Her funeral was preached at the residence on Thursday, by the Rev. Wm. Grimes, after which the remains were followed to the Myrtle Tree Cemetery, where the last look was taken of the loved one and she was confined to her final resting place, after which the mournful procession returned, feeling that a noble woman had been gathered to her fathers. Rest in peace, dear departed friend. May angels wreathe for thee a crown of immortality.
[Poem not transcribed.]

[TURPEN, JAMES WILLIAM]
St. Joseph News-Press (St. Joseph, Missouri), Monday, October 30, 1922
Attend Father's Funeral.
Mrs. Linda McKnight, 325 Massachusetts avenue, went to Clearmont, Mo., today to attend the funeral of her father, James W. [illiam] Turpen, who died there Saturday. Other surviving children include a daughter, Mrs. Mary Baker of Clearmont; and three sons, Sidney Turpen of Avenue City; William Turpen of Fairview, neb. and Charles Turpen of Barnard, Mo., Mr. Turpen was well known in the South End. He was eighty-six years old.

[TURPEN, MARTHA JANE WARREN]
Maryville Republican (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, July 18, 1878
Mrs. Jas. Turpin died last week. She had been confined to her bed eight months with consumption.

[TYLER, JOB]
Maryville Republican (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, November 14, 1878
GRAHAM – The funeral services of Mr. Job Tyler, near Fillmore, were held in the Methodist Church on last Friday. Rev. Balsom delivered the sermon, after which the Masons and friends followed his remains to the Prairie Home, where the ceremony was completed.

[VESS, HENRY'S INFANT]
Maryville Republican (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, September 5, 1878
LAMAR STATION – Henry Vess and wife have lost by death their babe one year old. She was afflicted most all her life. she has only gone from a world of suffering to one of brightness and beauty.

[VINSONHALER, NANCY MCDONALD]
Maryville Republican (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, January 24, 1878
GRAHAM - The funeral of Mrs. Vinsonhaler, mother of George and Mack Vinsonhaler, was largely attended on Tuesday at the Methodist Church. She died Monday morning at her daughter's Mrs. Duncan.

[VINSONHALER, NANCY MCDONALD]
Maryville Republican (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, January 31, 1878
Life's Journey Ended. Death of Mrs. Nancy Vinsonhaler.
The subject of this notice was the daughter of Hugh and Jane McDonald and was born in Washington county, Penn., on the 2d day of May 1797. When she was eight years old her parents moved to Chilicothe, Ross county, Ohio, where she was reared and educated. She was married to Mr. Jacob Vinsonhaler, at the residence of Gov. Duncan McArthur in 1814. Mr. Vinsonhaler , at the time of his marriage, was the private Secretary of Gov. McArthur. After marriage they moved to Sinking Springs, in Adams county, remaining there about five years and then moved back to Ross county. She was the mother of two sons and six daughters. During the fall of 1841 they removed to Missouri and settled near Graham. Her life has indeed been a useful one, extending over nearly a century. She was of Scotch ancestry and not far removed—possessed the traits of character of that people. She lived in a day and age that can not be forgotten by Americans, has seen the sun rise and set while our country was engaged in three wars and in each, those that were near and dear to her, were in the "tented field" and upholding and defending their country's honor and its flag. She was just budding into womanhood when Great Britain waged war against the United States, when the merciless savages were engaged by the mother country to wage war on the inhabitants of the frontier settlements. She was then on the border of civilization and had to endure the hardships of that dark hour, when fathers and brothers were compelled to quit home and enter the army to repel invasion. In that day mother and daughters were compelled to raise the corn, furnish the food, and do the milling. In all these arduous duties, she cheerfully did her part. After the close of the war of 1812 and after marriage she lived in comparative ease and comfort until they emigrated west, where she was again to enter upon the privation of frontier life in the "Platte Purchase." But she was the mother of a large young family who would soon need homes, so she cheerfully relinquished many comforts and conveniences that could not be found in the Nodaway Valley and came west and endured the privations for the sake of her children and him for whom she had forsaken all others. It was in these western wilds and in boyhood that we first met her. I learned to love and revere her for her kindness of heart and Christian graces. She was of cheerful disposition and had the ability to render all comfortable and happy who sought shelter under their hospitable roof. She was raised by Presbyterians but after her marriage she united with the M. E. Church, the church of her husband's choice. She was a true Christian woman, believed in doing right and always scattered seeds of kindness. She never adhered close church ritual but always preserved a warm Christian experience.
After a few years of privations after their arrival, she spent a long season of unbroken happiness, comforted by a kind, devoted husband, surrounded by her children and friends. In 1861 a dark cloud arose in which she was deeply interested. The news of war again comes and in fancy she traverses the scenes of early struggles and realizes from experience that it costs to establish and maintain the flag of our common country; and again laid her all on the altar of our freedom. Many a tired and way worn soldier, "boys in blue," have found food, shelter and encouragement under her hospitable roof.
On the 8th day of December 1864, Mrs. Vinsonhaler met with a sad bereavement. The one for whom she left home and friends, the husband with whom she had lived so happily was called to his reward in the home of the adopted on the other side of the river. After the death of her husband she made her home with her children, principally with her daughter, Mrs. Henrietta Duncan. She has been gradually failing in health for several years and for the past few years she was anxious to lay her armor by and join the loved ones in the eternal city, whose maker and builder is God. When visited by her pastor a few days before her death, she informed him that life was to her a burden and was ready and anxious to depart but would wait with patience until He who gave called her. On the morning of the 14th of January 1878, her journey ended. She had passed from earth and on that brighter shore her eyes beheld new glories. In our Father's house she has found a mansion of rest and there her lifelong labor will meet its reward. While in our hearts is enshrined forever the memory of her patient gentleness through privation and pain, we may trust that through her we have learned a lesson of Christian fortitude and holy trust and when at last we are ushered into the presence of the Eternal, may we be clothed in the garb of the redeemed. 

[WAREHIME, JOHN]
Maryville Republican (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, June 20, 1878
Another Old Citizen Gone. Death of Mr. John Warehine of Jackson Township.
Again we are called upon to chronicle the close of the earthly career of one of our citizens. On Friday last at twelve o'clock, Mr. John Warehine departed this life at his home about a mile and a half southwest of Sweet Home. The deceased was born in Bradford county, Pa., July 9th, 1803, consequently he was at the time of his death nearly sixty-four years of age. About 1821 he went to Ohio. In the year 1826 he joined the Methodist Episcopal Church and has ever since found spiritual support and strength in the faith. In 1829 he married Miss Maria Nuzum. In 1851 he again married, the bride being Rebecca Maginety [Maginnete]. Again being left a widower he in the year 1853 married Rebecca Dauford. In 1869 he came to Nodaway county where he has since resided. Nearly a year since he began to fail in health and for several months preceding his demise he suffered intensely. He leaves a widow and six children to mourn his loss. Two of the latter, viz: George Warehine and a daughter, wife of Mr. Isaac Borlon. The remains were interred at the cemetery a mile and a quarter north of Sweet Home last Saturday. Mr. Warehine had won a large circle of appreciative friends and was highly esteemed by them. They extend their heartfelt sympathy to the bereaved family as also does the Republican.
[Note: The last name is spelled Warehime on his headstone.]

[WILEY, JOHN, - 1878]
Maryville Republican (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, June 6, 1878
SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 5 – Death has again visited our community, choosing this time Master John Wiley, aged 15 years. the disease being pronounced by the attending physician as typhoid pneumonia. Although his parents never considered him a healthy son, yet he was able to be about until Tuesday, the 28th of May, when he was taken suddenly worse and kept failing until last Saturday at 5 P. M. when he breathed his last. He was a member of the M. E. Church and was noted for his honest, industrious habits. His death was a heavy blow to his aged parents and the sympathies of the community are extended to them, in this, their hour of bereavement. The funral services were held at the schoolhouse last Sunday at 11 o'clock A. M. Elder Lewis preached an able sermon to a crowded house after which the remains were taken to their last resting place, in the Maryville cemetery.

[WILSON, THOMAS]
Maryville Republican (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, May 22, 1890
LAMAR STATION – Thomas Wilson, who has been a long time afflicted with paralysis, died last Saturday night. He was a member of the Baptist Church. The funeral was held at his late residence on Sabbath afternoon, Rev. A. M. Wallace officiating. His remains were laid to rest in Lamar Station cemetery by those of his first wife, who died several years ago at the same place; she left no children. His last wife, nee Nellie Cramer with a lovely little daughter and a bright son are left to mourn their loss. Two of their little ones preceded him to the grave. He left a bright evidence that he is gone to that home in heaven "where eye hath not seen neither has it entered into the heart of man," the things God has prepared for them that love him. Another old settler gone and the grinding of his mill has ceased.

[WILSON, TOMMIE]
Maryville Republican (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, September 26, 1878
LAMAR STATION – On Saturday night a sweet little babe nine months old, only son of Thomas Wilson and wife, died. Grief almost kills the young mother. the bereaved parents have the sympathy of the entire community.

[WRIGHT, S'S CHILD]
Maryville Republican (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, June 20, 1878
MOUNT TABOR – Mr. and Mrs. S. Wright have been bereft of one of their children. We deeply feel for the afflicted parents.
Death may the bands of life unloose,
    But can't dissolve my love,
Millions of infant souls compose
     The family above.

[WYMAN, SARAH E.]
Maryville Republican (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, February 7, 1878
--We are sorry to notice the death of Miss Sarah E. Wyman of Graham. She was one of Nodaway's finest young ladies and her place will not be easy to fill.

[WYMAN, SARAH E.]
Maryville Republican (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, February 7, 1878
Asleep in Jesus. Death of Miss Sarah E. Wyman.
Sarah E. Wyman was born in Walcotville, Litchfield county, Connecticut, on the 2nd day of March 1855. Soon after her birth her parents moved to Blandenville, Ill., where they lived until 1864, when they came to Nodaway county, Mo., where they remained until 1867 when they removed to Clarinda, Iowa. Here she was principally educated. At the age of 12 years she was converted under the preaching of Rev. Clark and united with the Presbyterian Church and continued steadfast in faith until the 31st of January when her eyes were closed on earth to open and behold the beauties of the land beyond the river. She was just entering womanhood when she had the misfortune to lose by death a Christian mother and the cares and duties of the mother fell upon her daughter Sarah, she being the eldest of three sisters, one a mere child and also had the care of an infant brother. In '73 the family returned to Nodaway county. The announcement of her death will bring sadness to many a heart as her acquaintance was very extensive, she having been a teacher of public schools for many years and also an untiring worker in Sunday schools in every community where her lot has been cast. Many a little heart will throb with sorrow when they realize that their former teacher and friend is sleeping her last long sleep.
Early last spring her health began to fail, hemorrhage of the lungs and other unmistakable symptoms that the fell destroyer consumption was surely doing its work. She seemed to to be determined to weather the storm—kept on teaching long after many a one (with less energy than she possessed) would have been prostrate on a bed of sickness. About two months before her death, she was compelled to abandon school and bid adieu to scholars and lay her body down upon a bed of sickness which ended her career. She gradually failed and frequently spoke of dying and expressed a willingness to depart but preferred remaining with her friends. Early in the morning of the day of her death she realized that she was crossing the dark river, called her friends and told them that she was dying—expressed a desire to see her brother who was absent. She said, "Jesus is our best friend. – I have no fear of death and have no power but feel that I am going to sleep and will wake and see you all again. She gradually failed until four o'clock P. M. when her struggle ended, the battle had been fought, the victory won, she was asleep in Jesus. Oh how sweet. From which none ever wake to weep.