Augusta, Butler County, Kansas
Elmwood Mausoluem
MAUSOLEUM IS BEING PLANNED FOR COMMUNITY
Formal Contract Made Between City of Augusta and Latchaw Brothers
To Be Placed in Elmwood
Plans Tentatively Suggested Call for Building Containing 100 Crypts - One-Third of Space Sold Already
Following the signing of a formal contract last night by Mayor George M. Smith, in behalf of the city, and Dr. John R. H. Latchaw, representing Latchaw Bros., and barring wars, strikes or other contingencies, it is confidently anticipated that 'ere the dawning of Memorial Day next year there will have been installed in Elmwood Cemetery a modern community mausoleum that will represent the very last word in artistic architectural construction.
The contract above referred to provides that in consideration of the sum of $1, the city conveys to Latchaw Bros. a plot of ground in Elmwood approximately 100x150 feet in dimensions, on which will be erected the community mausoleum now being promoted by the Messers. Latchaw. Following the completion of the structure, the title will then revert to the city, it only being vested in this building concern until such time as purchasers of crypts within the mausoleum have met their obligations to Latchaw Bros.
One-Third Space Sold
That the project is assured of being carried to a successful completion between now and May 30, 1921 is attested by the fact that within the past few days practically one-third of the space in a 100-crypt mausoleum has already been bargained for by seven residents of Augusta. Such gratifying encouragement has thus been given the promoters of the enterprise that an edifice of at least this magnitude and possibly even larger seems definitely assured.
Individual crypts are being offered for $300 each but where something like a family tomb is arranged for the price naturally varies with the size required. One of these adjuncts is already spoken for and another will probably be arranged for by some other family within the next few days, there being only a limited number available so as not to interfere with the symmetry of the interior of the edifice.
As suggested by Dr. Latchaw last night, the building proper, figuring on the basis of 100 crypts, will cover a ground space about 40x52 feet in dimensions. The crypts are apportioned fifty to each side and five tiers high, leaving ample space for a roomy interior through the center. The triple walls are to be 22 inches in thickness. Probably Bedford or Carthage stone will be used for the exterior panel walls and a light veined marble for the interior. The ceiling is to be plastered.
Artistic Creation
There is to be a concrete roof and the reinforced concrete floor to be covered with ceramic mosaic or marble design. Art glass windows and doors and decorative designs in oil or water colors for the interior walls and ceiling will combine to make the whole an artistic creation of infinite beauty- admirably in keeping with the most advanced ideas concerning mausoleum construction.
The firm, comprising of Dr. Latchaw and his brother, C. F. Latchaw, has been in active operation for the past fifteen years, specializing in such type of construction in Ohio and Michigan, their headquarters being at Findlay, O. Just at present they are negotiating for the erection of a similar mausoleum at Wichita and their program as now outlined would call for the building of the one there and the Augusta structure during the same interval. Incidentally, it is said that they have really received more encouragement in Augusta than in Wichita and indications now point to a more imposing design for this city than for the Sedgwick county metropolis. (Augusta Gazette, Tuesday, January 20, 1920, front page & page 3)
THAT MAUSOLEUM
The mausoleum that they plan, will put Augusta in the van of Kansas cities far and near; in other words, a pioneer, in modern movements of the age; a climax to the growing stage, that long has marked this city fair that has 'em all beat everywhere. A massive structure built of stone and edifice that will add tone, proclaiming in the years to come, that simply crude petroleum has not usurped our every thought as life's stiff battle we have fought. A hallowed, sacred resting place, that even Time can ne'er efface. A. J. S. (Augusta Gazette, Tuesday, January 20, 1920, page 1)
MAUSOLEUM COMPLETED BY SEPT 1
According to C. F. Latchaw, of Latchaw Bros., the
firm which is building the mausoleum at Elmwood Cemetery, the construction of the building is going foward rapidly
and they expect to open between August 15 and September 1.
(Augusta Gazette ~ Tuesday ~ 21 June 1921 ~ Page 2)
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NAME |
BIRTH DATE |
DEATH DATE |
OBIT |
PICTURE OF HEADSTONE |
| Alexander, Beulah Ann |
February 25, 1883 |
August 5, 1953 |
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| Alexander, Robert Young |
March 8, 1882 |
March 30, 1930 |
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| Alley, James M. |
May 4, 1886 |
September 10, 1973 |
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| Alley, Nan R. |
October 15, 1891 |
August 1, 1982 |
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| Alley, Robert Johnson |
September 27, 1924 |
September 23, 1927 |
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| Anderson, Carl B. |
June 21, 1888 |
June 9, 1961 |
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| Anderson, Carrie |
August 23, 1852 |
December 9, 1917 |
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| Anderson, Ernest E. |
December 12, 1881 |
November 13, 1966 |
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| Anderson, Frank Ludwig |
October 3, 1859 |
May 23, 1935 |
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| Anderson, Stella |
November 22, 1877 |
October 24, 1968 |
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| Ayres, Elizabeth |
February 2, 1846 |
March 3, 1923 |
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| Ayres, Franklin L. |
August 10, 1844 |
May 26, 1926 |
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| Bausinger, John |
February 11, 1854 |
April 26, 1924 |
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| Bayles, Martha Ann |
February 9, 1863 |
April 24, 1949 |
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| Bisagno, John |
June 10, 1869 |
August 8, 1956 |
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| Bisagno, Margaret |
August 22, 1849 |
September 26, 1938 |
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| Blaney, Anna |
January 22, 1847 |
December 22, 1921 |
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| Blaney, George J. |
December 1, 1844 |
January 17, 1918 |
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| Bloss, Frank |
1850 |
1927 |
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| Bloss, Will |
1854 |
1936 |
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| Bost, Dora |
1862 |
1947 |
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| Cease, Anna Belle |
April 8, 1876 |
August 3, 1924 |
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| Cheney, Coral |
1879 |
1966 |
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| Cing, Earl F. |
May 9, 1889 |
February 27, 1958 |
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| Clippenger, Isabel |
November 14, 1861 |
February 16, 1938 |
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| Cornelius, B. H. |
June 5, 1864 |
May 2, 1941 |
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| Cornelius, Laura |
June 23, 1865 |
November 7, 1929 |
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| Crane, Arthur F. |
February 25, 1884 |
June 9, 1924 |
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| Crawford, Audrey M. |
November 27, 1897 |
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| Crawford, John D. |
January 21, 1885 |
January 9, 1940 |
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| Davis, Faye |
September 10, 1884 |
January 11, 1976 |
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| Davis, Oliver Perry |
August 13, 1876 |
November 1, 1954 |
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| Elder, J. "Crit" |
September 6, 1857 |
July 18, 1926 |
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| Elder, Laura Lee |
April 24, 1864 |
August 18, 1937 |
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| Etnire, Ben |
January 10, 1888 |
June 4, 1952 |
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| Feltham, Flora R. |
March 24, 1872 |
February 28, 1955 |
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| Feltham, Octavius |
May 27, 1858 |
March 2, 1938 |
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| Fetrow, Martha |
March 29, 1859 |
September 2, 1935 |
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| Fetrow, Martin M. |
December 11, 1862 |
March 19, 1940 |
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| Firebaugh, Earl |
August 28, 1904 |
November 20, 2000 |
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| Firebaugh, Gladys Varner |
November 17, 1909 |
October 8, 1997 |
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| Ford, Vera F. |
February 7, 1899 |
October 7, 1984 |
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| Fowler, Golda M. |
1897 |
1966 |
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| Fowler, Olen R. |
1897 |
1971 |
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| Fuller, Evelyn |
March 19, 1853 |
April 5, 1952 |
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| Fuller, Thomas Alvin |
April 20, 1856 |
June 22, 1926 |
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| Garden, Grace |
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| Garden, Helen |
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| Gibson, Clyde |
October 16, 1889 |
June 1, 1942 |
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| Gibson, Rhea |
November 2, 1887 |
September 10, 1954 |
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| Gilehirst, Frederic W. |
February 5, 1872 |
January 9, 1925 |
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| Govenius, C. W. |
October 8, 1869 |
October 22, 1934 |
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| Govenius, Charles W. |
January 25, 1917 |
February 1, 1982 |
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| Govenius, Elva B. |
1868 |
1952 |
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| Govenius, Henry |
1873 |
1945 |
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| Govenius, Lillie K. |
February 24, 1873 |
December 11, 1921 |
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| Graham, Clyde E. |
September 15, 1876 |
March 25, 1943 |
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| Graham, Ruby B. |
December 23, 1886 |
May 9, 1982 |
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| Grant, James A. |
1873 |
1943 |
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| Guest, Annie E. |
January 5, 1841 |
September 13, 1927 |
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| Guest, John B. |
January 12, 1835 |
February 28, 1924 |
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| Haage, Delbert Otto Doctor |
July 12, 1904 |
February 28, 1924 |
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| Haage, Ruth Patricia |
March 5, 1909 |
May 6, 1950 |
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| Harine, Amy |
May 17, 1895 |
March 23, 1972 |
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| Harrington, George Samuel |
March 25, 1871 |
July 31, 1955 |
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| Harrington, Margaret M. |
February 18, 1872 |
September 13, 1927 |
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| Harrington, Roscoe B. |
1893 |
1932 |
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| Holloway, Harriet B. |
July 27, 1875 |
November 16, 1960 |
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| Howard, Veda Ann |
August 19, 1906 |
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| Howard, William Ray |
July 9, 1905 |
December 27, 1981 |
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| Kennedy, Frank Grant |
December 27, 1892 |
February 10, 1956 |
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| Kennedy, Ruth |
October 12, 1892 |
March 10, 1977 |
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| King, Fred G. |
November 30, 1860 |
May 22, 1928 |
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| King, Josie |
November 5, 1867 |
February 27, 1947 |
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| King, Maude Jane |
May 24, 1884 |
January 28, 1953 |
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| King, Walter |
August 6, 1890 |
April 16, 1935 |
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| Kirby, Ida J. |
November 23, 1866 |
April 8, 1938 |
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| Kirby, John W. |
May 30, 1860 |
August 31, 1922 |
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| Leonard, Hugh C. |
March 10, 1868 |
June 15, 1934 |
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| Leonard, Minnie L. |
November 13, 1869 |
July 12, 1936 |
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| Loomis, Henrietta |
April 13, 1854 |
March 13, 1922 |
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| Loomis, Sherman B. |
March 9, 1854 |
December 4, 1908 |
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| Mallison, Dora A. Heaston |
July 8, 1882 |
September 1, 1969 |
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| Marshall, Alice |
September 29, 1862 |
October 6, 1945 |
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| Marshall, clara |
January 7, 1884 |
May 16, 1929 |
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| Marshall, R. A. Doctor |
August 10, 1858 |
October 11, 1932 |
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| Martin, Alex A. |
March 21, 1842 |
June 6, 1927 |
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| Martin, Marie E. |
May 18, 1841 |
August 13, 1906 |
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| McCauley, Minnie A. |
February 21, 1894 |
December 16, 1983 |
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| McCauley, Ralph L. |
April 30, 1893 |
December 21, 1951 |
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| McDougal, Daniel |
March 22, 1858 |
March 5, 1922 |
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| Moore, Lee Roy |
August 25, 1897 |
June 17, 1981 |
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| Moore, Myrtle |
March 22, 1898 |
June 3, 1970 |
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| Myers, Blanche |
August 28, 1878 |
August 26, 1983 |
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| Myers, Macleod |
March 31, 1873 |
March 8, 1961 |
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| Myers, Maxwell E. |
July 15, 1894 |
December 14, 1947 |
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| Napier, Elma |
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| Napier, John M. |
1905 |
1975 |
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| Orr, George W. |
November 26, 1872 |
March 4, 1941 |
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| Parret, Joseph Mark |
October 17, 1876 |
November 18, 1940 |
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| Parry, Grace Lovica |
January 21, 1895 |
April 15, 1967 |
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| Parry, Ward Gray |
November 11, 1892 |
September 8, 1942 |
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| Peckham, A. R. |
December 13, 1883 |
February 22, 1944 |
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| Peckham, Flora |
January 8, 1862 |
December 4, 1942 |
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| Peckham, W. W. |
October 14, 1859 |
August 12, 1943 |
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| Penley, Ellen F. |
May 29, 1853 |
September 8, 1915 |
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| Penley, Francis H. |
March 20, 1856 |
August 14, 1935 |
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| Reed, Ella |
September 8, 1869 |
September 2, 1953 |
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| Ritchey, Bertha Ann |
1877 |
1963 |
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| Ritchey, Helen |
December 17, 1915 |
June 3, 1945 |
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| Ritchey, James S. |
April 23, 1905 |
September 2, 1932 |
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| Ritchey, Sherman A. |
March 28, 1865 |
June 23, 1926 |
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| Robbins, Amos A. |
October 9, 1850 |
March 25, 1937 |
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| Robbins, Nannie A. |
October 18, 1853 |
June 3, 1938 |
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| Robertson, Charles Alton |
1863 |
1942 |
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| Robertson, Sadie E. |
1872 |
1932 |
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| Royce, Lois |
July 17, 1889 |
February 2, 1960 |
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| Rutherford, Edith E. |
July 19, 1860 |
January 17, 1944 |
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| Rutherford, William R. |
June 21, 1857 |
June 19, 1938 |
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| Ryan, Andy J. |
June 16, 1844 |
November 3, 1926 |
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| Rayn, Mary J. |
July 28, 1854 |
March 9, 1925 |
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| Schoeb, Bill |
January 4, 1899 |
July 28, 1945 |
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| Schoeb, Ella |
January 24, 1873 |
July 9, 1946 |
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| Schoeb, Frank H. |
February 5, 1870 |
March 10, 1958 |
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| Skaer, Albert L. |
October 10, 1872 |
April 18, 1937 |
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| Skaer, Edward Charles |
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March 29, 1946 |
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| Skaer, Emma |
September 13, 1871 |
September 5, 1909 |
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| Skaer, Ethel Varner |
January 18, 1898 |
May 2, 1930 |
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| Skaer, Evalyn |
1887 |
1912 |
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| Skaer, Floyd G. |
August 27, 1902 |
December 11, 1949 |
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| Skaer, Georgia |
August 23, 1883 |
October 18, 1965 |
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| Skaer, Gus Phillip |
August 8, 1862 |
June 6, 1947 |
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| Skaer, Howard A. |
1896 |
1916 |
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| Skaer, Jennie |
May 8, 1866 |
March 1, 1950 |
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| Skaer, Jssie Rhumah |
September 5, 1877 |
November 28, 1954 |
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| Skaer, John H. |
October 18, 1864 |
March 27, 1943 |
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| Skaer, Lucy |
September 9, 1866 |
April 15, 1931 |
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| Skaer, Nora |
August 20, 1876 |
January 22, 1957 |
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| Skaer, Olive Zoe |
September 17, 1887 |
April 9, 1951 |
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| Skaer, Rhea |
1892 |
1907 |
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| Skaer, Robert D. |
January 12, 1918 |
January 7, 1965 |
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| Skaer, Stanley W. |
February 7, 1888 |
April 12, 1963 |
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| Skaer, Walter |
October 7, 1892 |
October 10, 1943 |
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| Skaer, Walter H. |
June 16, 1881 |
September 19, 1959 |
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| Skaer, William |
March 3, 1916 |
June 1, 1949 |
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| Skiles, Dorothy J. |
May 18, 1908 |
May 12, 1979 |
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| Skiles, Ernest |
August 24, 1892 |
January 16, 1971 |
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| Skiles, Myrl M. |
September 27, 1895 |
June 11, 1940 |
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| Smiley, Robert M. |
October 29, 1877 |
January 8, 1924 |
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| Smith, Dora |
February 8, 1849 |
February 3, 1933 |
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| Smith, G. M. |
March 7, 1877 |
September 10, 1973 |
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| Smith, Henry |
May 27, 1844 |
December 26, 1934 |
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| Smith, William Henry |
December 25, 1879 |
April 13, 1954 |
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| Smock, C. A. |
November 16, 1867 |
October 7, 1935 |
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| Smock, Carrie E. |
September 27, 1867 |
February 25, 1940 |
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| Smock, James B. |
December 16, 1839 |
May 11, 1924 |
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| Smock, Rosepha |
March 12, 1845 |
September 17, 1924 |
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| Snyder, Beulah |
1896 |
1897 |
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| Snyder, Caroline |
October 28, 1857 |
October 17, 1940 |
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| Snyder, George W. |
1849 |
1922 |
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| Spencer, Bertha |
January 2, 1866 |
June 3, 1952 |
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| Spencer, Ethel Downing |
May 19, 1896 |
November 7, 1984 |
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| Spencer, Fred G. |
August 30, 1883 |
June 20, 1976 |
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| Spencer, Marion O. |
March 28, 1884 |
January 7, 1975 |
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| Starkey, Joe |
1868 |
1942 |
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| Starkey, Levi |
1835 |
1928 |
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| Starkey, William M. |
1866 |
1936 |
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| Stewart, George A. |
July 16, 1882 |
March 26, 1946 |
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| Stewart, Grace |
November 2, 1886 |
October 30, 1982 |
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| Switzer, Fred |
December 21, 1891 |
November 3, 1969 |
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| Switzer, Gerogia Grace |
January 20, 1898 |
January 15, 1944 |
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| Thompson, Gladys |
April 11, 1881 |
June 18, 1974 |
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| Van Haverbeke, Virginia P. |
1910 |
1979 |
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| Varner, Cecil Doran |
February 6, 1906 |
March 17, 1972 |
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| Varner, Charles Otto |
April 16, 1880 |
April 21, 1951 |
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| Varner, Chester C. |
1867 |
1952 |
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| Varner, Edwin Cassius |
May 17, 1867 |
March 23, 1952 |
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| Varner, Emma A. |
September 30, 1865 |
January 15, 1932 |
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| Varner, Gertrude |
September 12, 1878 |
February 10, 1970 |
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| Varner, Jesse |
December 21, 1828 |
July 29, 1904 |
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| Varner, Louise Meecke |
September 30, 1898 |
May 31, 1992 |
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| Varner, Mary Maryls |
June 16, 1912 |
June 18, 1995 |
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| Varner, Olive Ann |
July 11, 1837 |
March 23, 1932 |
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| Varner, Ona |
1871 |
1945 |
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| Varner, Ralph Byron |
September 29, 1899 |
September 5, 1956 |
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| Viets, C. A. |
October 26, 1862 |
July 23, 1926 |
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| Viets, Mary Stella |
October 26, 1871 |
August 27, 1949 |
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| Wallace, David A. |
June 30, 1856 |
August 30, 1927 |
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| Wallace, Elma C. |
February 15, 1891 |
November 13, 1988 |
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| Wallace, Elmer C. |
January 3, 1889 |
March 9, 1959 |
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| Wallace, Lillie Jane |
December 15, 1857 |
December 16, 1945 |
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| Wallace, Ruel T. |
May 19, 1886 |
November 19, 1957 |
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| Warner, Lillian M. |
November 6, 1885 |
June 7, 1972 |
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| Warner, Mary |
February 8, 1860 |
June 26, 1956 |
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| Warner, William A. |
February 22, 1855 |
September 21, 1943 |
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| Webb, Retta |
1869 |
1956 |
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| Webb, Sebastion C. |
1855 |
1937 |
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| West, Emma Robbins |
August 20, 1880 |
Septmeber 20, 1934 |
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| West, Flossie Boucher (Mrs. Lyman) |
May 11, 1890 |
September 6, 1953 |
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| West, Lyman |
June 1, 1884 |
September 12, 1962 |
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| West, Russell |
March 18, 1876 |
April 8, 1946 |
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| Whitehead, Edmund |
April 13, 1861 |
January 14, 1923 |
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| Wilkerson, Neva |
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| Williams, George F. |
February 10, 1895 |
September 15, 1925 |
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| Williamson, Alma |
September 30, 1889 |
November 16, 1927 |
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| Williamson, Fred King |
February 17, 1881 |
February 9, 1972 |
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| Wilson, Clara E. |
May 14, 1887 |
April 6, 1967 |
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| Wilson, Emily Margaret |
1887 |
1950 |
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| Wilson, Henry W. |
October 7, 1842 |
June 16, 1924 |
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| Wilson, Jean H. |
August 8, 1892 |
October 1, 1974 |
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| Wilson, John Thomas |
August 26, 1881 |
January 20, 1946 |
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| Wilson, Mary |
September 5, 1853 |
July 9, 1937 |
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| Wilson, Roy P. |
July 9, 1885 |
July 18, 1971 |
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| Wilson, Velma I. |
November 23, 1905 |
July 23, 1968 |
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| Wirth, George Christian |
October 26, 1841 |
December 30, 1936 |
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| Woolley, Logan Howard |
August 8, 1907 |
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| Woolley, Ruth Sorby |
January 31, 1911 |
January 5, 1984 |
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| Yates, Carrie |
July 9, 1878 |
December 13, 1925 |
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| Yates, William B. |
July 17, 1877 |
May 28, 1941 |
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| Yeager, N. A. |
1853 |
1933 |
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