Cloud County, Kansas Obits

CLOUD COUNTY, KANSAS OBITS

BROWN, VIRGIL A.

Concordia, Kas., April 27 - Virgil A. Brown, who helped to settle Wolf Creek, an Indian battle ground, in the early days, died today of paralysis. Mr. Brown was one of the few survivors of the state militia organized shortly after the Civil War to keep back the Indians in the Solomon and Republican valleys. He came to Cloud County more than fifty years ago. He was a former councilman and county commissioner. (Kansas City Star, April 28, 1920, page 3)

HAGAMAN, J. M.

J. M. Hagaman, Cloud County's First Attorney Dead

Concordia, Kas., Jan. 10 - J. M. Hagaman, 74 years old, the founder of Concordia, died at his home here last night. He was born in New York in 1810 was married to Mary Webster in 1835 and went to Cloud county in 1860. He was the first attorney admitted to the bar in Cloud county and practiced for forty years. He was editor of the Concordia Blade twenty years. He was the first delegate from Cloud county to the state Republican convention. He was a member of the constitutional convention for Kansas and served one term in the legislature. He was of Dutch-Irish descent.

Mr. Hagaman's Irish ancestors were exiled by the British crown for assisting the colonies in the Revolutionary war. Four years ago he went to the Klondyke in search of gold, but was returned by order of the soldiers who refused him winter quarters on account of his age. He had just completed a history of Cloud county which will be published by his son, James Hagaman. Religiously, he was a free thinker. A widow and six children survive him.

Mr. Hagaman was the oldest settler in the county. At the time of the founding of Concordia, two land companies were formed. Mr. Hagaman was at the head of one of them. His father fought in the war of 1812. Mr. Hagaman was active in the Indian campaigns in Kansas and was a lieutenant in company C, Seventeenth Kansas militia. (Kansas City Star, January 19, 1904, page 5)

LEASLEY, G. W.

Concordia, Kas., Feb. 4, - G. W. Leasley, 78, Cloud County, pioneer died in Los Angeles Thursday and the body will arrive here for burial Monday, according to word received today. He lived here fifty years moving to California a year ago. (Kansas City Star, February 5, 1922, page 4)