MARTIN SERVICES
Funeral rites for Elmer Martin, 84, of El Dorado
will be held Friday at 2 p.m. from the Kirby Funeral home there. He had lived in El Dorado 16 years and he was
a retired farmer. His wife, two daughters and a son are survivors. Burial will be in the Leon cemetery.
(Augusta Daily Gazette ~ Thursday ~ December 9, 1954)
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AUGUSTA BOY DROWNS
AUGUSTA, Kan.---A 17-year-old rural Augusta youth drowned in a creek near his home Thursday when he lost his footing on an overflowing bridge.
He was with a friend at the time of the drowning.
He was identified as Carl Cross, son of Mr. and
Mrs. T. W. Cross.
(Great Bend Daily Tribune ~ Friday ~ July 7, 1967 ~ Submitted by Lori DeWinkler)
KANSAS COUPLE RETURNS FROM VACATION TO HEAR SON DROWNED THURSDAY
LEON, Kan.---Mr. and Mrs. P. W. Cross returned home from vacation Sunday night and learned that their 16-year-old son drowned Thursday.
Authorities had sought since the drowning of Carl Cross to locate the family which was on vacation in Yellowstone National Park. The family was unaware of the tragedy until they were met by relatives at their rural home near here shortly before Sunday midnight.
Mrs. Cross, mother of the victim, and her mother, Mrs. Spencer Bevan, who had been on the trip also, collapsed and were hospitalized at El Dorado. Both were later released.
Young Cross was lost in the rain-swollen Little Walnut Ruber while trying to wade the stream on a submerged bridge. His body was recovered the next day.
Funeral services are scheduled for 10 a.m. Tuesday.
(Lawrence Daily Journal-World ~ Monday ~ July 10, 1967 ~ Submitted by Lori DeWinkler)
GEORGE KENOYER, PIONEER, IS DEAD
End Comes To Well-Known Resident Of Leon Community Here Saturday
George Anderson Kenoyer, aged 91 years, a revered and outstanding pioneer citizen of Leon and who, in 1878, had the first store and mill on the Little Walnut River, south and east of El Dorado, died at 2:30 o'clock Saturday afternoon in El Dorado, succumbing to an illness of eight days.
Funeral arrangements will be announced tomorrow by the Arnold-Kirby Funeral Home.
Mr. Kenoyer had the news agency for the Wichita Beacon at Leon and was active in this work until seven days before his death. He was one of Butler County's finest citizens.
BORN IN INDIANA
Mr. Kenoyer was born January 16, 1852, in Kentland, Ind., the son of Sarah and Elijah Kenoyer, and the eldest of thirteen children. In 1870 the family moved to Scotland County, Missouri, where they acquired farming land and where Mr. Kenoyer was married, in 1873, to Martha Ellen Ballinger.
After their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Kenoyer moved to Butler County where Mr. Kenoyer entered the merchandising and milling business. He helped to plat the town of Leon and was Leon's first postmaster, in 1880. Later he established the first bank of Leon of which he was president and cashier for many years.
At the time of his death, Mr. Kenoyer was serving as justice of Little Walnut Township. His court was held in his home and he dealt justice tempered with kindliness, to all who came before him. Leon was proud of its eldest citizen and founder and deferred to him in many ways. He was effectionately known as "George" by young and old in Southeast Butler County.
Mr. Kenoyer was a veteran leader and student, thoroughly informed on current events. At the time of his death he was compiling a history of the Masonic Lodge of Leon. He was Past Master and historian of Joppa Lodge A. F. & A. M. of Leon and a member of the Scottish Rite Consistory of Wichita.
Survivng are Mrs. Kenoyer, two daughters, Mrs.
Pearl Royce and Mrs. W. J. LaRue of Wichita; two sons, G. G. Kenoyer of Los Angeles and John J. Kenoyer of Kansas
City, Mo.; eight grandchildren and ten great grandchildren; one sister, Mrs. Ida Blanchard or Orwell, Ohio, and
one brother, Charles Kenoyer of Inman (Kansas).
(El Dorado Times ~ Monday ~ January 25, 1943 ~ Submitted by Lori DeWinkler)
NOTE: George Kenoyer is buried in the Leon Cemetery.
MRS. WILLIAM A. CUNDELL
ATLANTA, Kan.---Services for Mrs. Gertrude B. Cundell, 89, who died Tuesday, will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at Kirby Funeral Home, El Dorado, Kan. Burial will be in Leon, Kan., Cemetery.
Born at Potwin, Kan., she came here in 1941. She was a teacher in Butler County schools from 1903 to 1934. Her husband, William A., died in February. She was a member of Seventh Day Adventist Church.
Survivors include a daughter, Mrs. Lillian Morgan,
Wichita, and a brother, John A. Hopkins, Nevada, Mo.
(Wichita Eagle ~ Thursday ~ April 24, 1969 ~ Submitted by Sharon A. Hopkins Walsh)
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