Lyon
County, Kansas
Obituaries
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Mrs. B. F. Hubbard Dies at Home Here
Mrs. B. F. Hubbard passed away at her home, 503 East Tenth street, at 10:50 last night after a lingering illness.
She was born in Lyon county, Kansas, in 1859 and had lived in Cheyenne for more than 20 years. Besides her husband she leaves her mother, Mrs. Mary Putnam of Topeka, Kas.; two sisters, Mrs. J. W. Piper of this city and Mrs. G. T. Hornsby of Topeka; three daughters, Mrs. M. A. Parkers, Mra. Raoul Lendeske and Jennie Hubbard, all of Cheyenne; two sons, A. E. Hubbard of Alabama and C. F. Hubbard of Cheyenne, and one grandchild, Verla Parker.
The body is at the Early-Bricker Brothers
parlors but will be removed tomorrow to the home, where the funeral will be held at 3 p.m. Thursday, with Rev.
J. S. Stubblefield in charge. Interment will be in Lakeview.
(Wyoming State Tribine--Cheyenne State Leader ~ 20 Sept 1921)
Mrs. Thomas Highwood was found dead in her bed at the home of her son, John Highwood, in Olpe, this morning. Death occurred during the night, at an examination made this morning by Dr. A. W. Corbett, county coroner, it was attributed to natural causes. Mrs. Highwood had been suffering for years from chronic kidney trouble, and this disease--coupled with her advanced age--made her exceedingly weak. Her condition had been no worse than usual lately, however, and her death was unexpected. The body was discovered by relatives early this morning, and was left untouched until Dr. Corbett made his examination.
Mrs. Highwood was 80 years old, and had lived in this country for about sixty years. She was born in Manchester, England, was married in that country and came a bride to the United States. Neither Mr. nor Mrs. Highwood had visited their native land during their long residence here. The Highwoods lived several years in Illinois, and then came to Kansas. For the past thirty-give years they have lived in Lyon County, most of that time on their farm southwest of Olpe. For the past three years they have lived with their son, John, in Olpe. Mrs. Highwood was a member of the Methodist Church, having joined it in Illinois.
Mrs. Highwood leaves her husband, who is an
invalid, and who has been in an enfeebled condition for several years. There are three sons, two daughters and
five grandchildren. The sons are John, of Olpe; William, who lives near Olpe; and Thomas, of Tacoma, Wash. The
daughters are Mrs. Dora Stotler, of Phenis Creek, and Mrs. Bertha Piersoll, who lives south of Olpe.
(Emporia Gazette ~ June 29, 1914)
Mrs. Jessie J. Hiatt died at 2 o'clock this morning at her home, 714 Market Street. Mrs. Hiatt had been in declining health since January, from a complication of diseases, which caused her death.
Mrs. Hiatt's maiden name was Jessie J. Aldrich. She was born in Ionia, Mich., in 1856, and came to Kansas with her parents when a child, and settled near Eureka. Her parents died during the Civil War, and she then lived with Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Newlin, on a farm west of Emporia, where she grew to womanhood. She was married to Simon J. Hiatt, of Emporia, in 1873, and her life has been spent in and near Emporia. She leaves a son, C. E. Hiatt, of Emporia, and three daughters, Miss Ola Hiatt, Miss Essie Hiatt, of Emporia, and Mrs. V. M. Pember, of Orin, Wash. She also is survived by a brother, S. A. Aldrich, of Phoenix, Ariz.
For several years Mrs. Hiatt had lived in
Emporia with her daughters. During this time her life had largely been centered on her church work. She joined
the First Christian Church after her marriage, and for years she has been one of its most faithful workers. Her
special work was taking charge of the preparation for the communion services, and she also took an active interest
in Sunday School and Aid Society.
(Emporia Gazette ~ May 9, 1914)
The funeral service of Mrs. T. E. Hicks, who died at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Pyle Sunday afternoon, was held at the Pyle home in Americus, yesterday morning at 10:00 o'clock. Interment was made beside the body of the late Major Hicks in the Americus Cemetery. Rev. E. H. Knepp, of the Methodist Church, conducted the services, and the Methodist Church choir sang.
Mrs. Hick's maiden name was Sarah Chipman Stowell. She was born in Middlebury, Vt., September 14, 1819. When a young woman she was married to a man named Wood, in Dixon, Ill. After his death, she married Major Theodore Elias Hicks. They came to Kansas in 1859, and settled in Emporia, where they became prominent in the town's early activities. A part of their life in Kansas was spent in Waterloo Township, more than thirty years ago. Major Hicks, a Mexican War veteran, died six years ago. For several years Mrs. Hicks had lived with Mr. and Mrs. Pyle. She was a woman of many excellent qualities, and her long life was ever a source of inspiration to all who knew her. She had been a member of the Episcopal Church all her life, and never had united with any other domination.
She is survived by three sons, Jessie E. Hicks,
of Springfield, Mo.; M. S. Hicks, of Idaho, and W. B. Hicks, of California. A daughter, Mrs. Jennie Wharton, died
several years ago. Two children, a son and daughter of her first marriage, are dead.
(Emporia Gazette ~ July 1, 1914)
GIBSON HOLT DEAD
Gibson Holt, or Uncle Gib Holt as he was familiarly known, died at his home a few miles east of Hartford, Monday morning at 5 o'clock. He was up at Hartford as usual Sunday and was apparently as well as ever when he retired. He became ill in the night and died at 5. Uncle "Gib" was one of the oldest---probably the oldest settler in Lyon county. He came to Lyon county before 1854 and settled on the claim east of Hartford whic he has held ever since. When the Civil war broke out he enlisted in Company C. Eleventh Kansas and served through most of the war. About 1858 and 59 he lived here in Emporia and broke a great part of the town lots. He took an active part in the Border Ruffian trouble and was in several Indian skirmishes. He was a good natured old man and had as many friends and acquaintances as any man in the country. At one time he had a brother living near Fort Scott but no near relatives are known of now. He leaves an adopted son, Will Holt, with whom he was living when he died. He was 82 years old.
The funeral was held at the Christian church
in Hartford Monday afternoon. Interment was made at the Hartford cemetery.
(Emporia Gazette ~ June 26, 1902 ~ Submitted by Lori DeWinkler)
The funeral of Robert Hardy held Thursday
at the family home, 1120 Neosho street, was very largely attended. Dr. Madison and Dr. Coker of the Methodist church
conducted the service at the house and the G.A.R. held its customary service at the grave.
(Emporia Gazette ~ October 16, 1902)
Monday morning Mrs. Mary Hall, of Hartford,
mother of Mrs. J. J. Evans, died. About noon while the family was fumigating upstairs the house caught fire and
the entire interior was burned out. The body was taken out before the flames reached it, and was carried across
the street to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Evans. The outside of the house was saved by the Hartford fire department.
(Emporia Gazette ~ February 25, 1904)
DEATH OF SAMUEL B. HARVEY
Samuel B. Harvey died Sunday morning, March 13 at 11:30 o'clock at the home of his nephew, James H. Harvey, 516 West Ninth avenue, his home for the past ten years. He was 73 years of age, and was born in Clinton county, Ohio.
His father, Henry Harvey, came to Kansas in 1840, as a Quaker missionary to the Shawnee Indians, remaining three years. The first language learned by Mr. Harvey was the Shawnee, learned while a child, in Ohio, where his father was a missionary to that tribe before their removal to Kansas. In 1850 his father again came to Kansas, appointed government agent by President Taylor, to the Osage tribe. Since that time Mr. Harvey has made his home in Kansas. He was educated in the government school. In August, 1854, upon the opening of the Kansas lands to settlers, he reempted 160 acres of land in Wabaunsee county, at the present location of Harveyville, named in honor of his father. He remained upon this farm about twelve years, then removed to Dade county, Mo., where he remained about five years, engaged in farming.
He then returned to Kansas, locating in Coffeyville, whence he removed to Colorado three years later, remaining there until 1880, most of the time holding office in Gunnison county as county clerk, and ex-officio recorder of deeds. He later came to Kansas and in partnership with his son-in-law, A. Hinkle, started a stock farm of 350 acres. Mr. Harvey was the second sheriff of Wabaunsee county under territorial government.
He was married to Miss Elizabeth C. Akins, of Cass county, Mo., June 2, 1853. She died January 24, 1855, leaving one child, Elizabeth A., now deceased. His father, mother, four sisters and two brothers have preceded him to the better land. He was the last to go, but he said a short time before he died, that he was not afraid. It is a consolation to know that he is not dead, but sleeping.
A short service was held at the house, and his remains were taken to their last reasting place at Cottonwood cemetery, where the funeral services were held. Four grandchildren survive him. Mrs. Nellie A. Roch, Mrs. Ferry, L. Douglas, and Miss Stella Hinkle of Emporia, and William H. Hinkle of WEst Plains, Mo.
Two small great-grandchildren also survive
him. They are E. Wauda, and Gladys L. Rich, of Emporia.
(Emporia Weekly Gazette ~ March 17, 1904)
The 2-year-old child of Mr. and Mrs. T. F.
Harvey, of Reading, died Thursday. The funeral was held Friday afternoon./
(Emporia Weekly Gazette ~ April 21, 1904)
NEOSHO RAPIDS OLD SOLDIER DEAD
J. P. Harper died Saturday at his home in
Neosho Rapids, of asthma. He was 73 years old, and had lived in Neosho Rapids for the past twelve years. He was
an old soldier. He leaves, besides his wife, three sons and one daughter. The funeral was held at the home Sunday
at 2 o'clock. Rev. Harris, pastor of the Methodist church at Neosho Rapids, conducted the funeral services.
(Emporia Weekly Gazette ~ January 25, 1906)
Mrs. Harriet Hickox died Saturday at cancer
at her home, 202 South State street. Mrs. Hickox was 72 years old. With her husband she moved to Kansas fifty years
ago, and settled five miles south of Emporia, where they lived till eleven years ago, when they moved to town.
She was a member of the Christian church for thirty-seven years and was also a prominent worker in the W.R.C. Mr.
Hickox died ten years ago. She leaves two sons, Charles E. and William H., of Emporia and one daughter, Mrs. E.
L. Bugbee, who lives five miles south of Emporia. The funeral was held Sunday from the Baptist church and Rev.
W. A. Parker, of the Christian church conducted the services.
(Emporia Weekly Gazette ~ February 22, 1906)
T. P. HARPER DEAD
T. P. Harper died Saturday night, at 8 o'clock. Mr. Harper had been sick with heart trouble, for more than a year, during a considerable part of which time he had been confined to the house. He was born in St. Louis forty-eight years ago, and had lived in Emporia twenty-two years. He is survived by a wife and a daughter, Queen, who is a student in Emporia College.
This town and the world loses much by the death of T. P. Harper, for he was one of those cheerful individuals who makes the lives of all they meet brighter and better. The bright side of life was the side he looked for, and the one he reflected for others. It was this cheerfulness that made him a successful business man, so that he could command one of the best salaries of Emporia commercial salesmen.
The funeral services were held Monday afternoon from home at 3 o'clock. Rev. J. H. J. Rice, of the Congregational church, spoke a few words, and then the Knights Templar took charge of the services. Interment was made in Maplewood cemetery. Mrs. Clarence Smith, of Ottawa, and Fred Gaylord, of Junction City, were here for the funeral. Mrs. I. D. Fox arrived from Chicago Tuesday.
THE DEATH OF T. P. HARPER
Apart from the sadness that comes to the community that knew and liked T. P. Harper, upon hearing of his death, the event serves to call attention to the fact that he was a well rounded man---a good citizen in the community, respected by his fellows, admired by his friends and held in the highest esteem by that group of intimates for want of a better term we call his neighbors. It is no unusual thing for men to be thus held by their fellows, and in Emporia a score or more of traveling men are thus esteemed. They are our best citizens--solid, substantial men, who are counted well fixed and are leaders in our churches and lodges and business circles.
The day has long since passed when the drummer---as the old-time commercial traveler was called---might be justly caricatured, as he was pictured in the seventies and early eighties. Today the traveling man is a man of the type which T. P. Harper represented, keen, conscientious, earnest, active and possessing those qualifications of mind and heart which glorified a man whose friends call him "straight."
New business has made new business men. Competition
has made men homester in the last thirty years than they had to be a generation ago, and the commercial salesman
of today is as honorable and respected a gentle man today as the lawyer, the mechanic, the preacher or the banker.
T. P. Harper, who has been on the road nearly all his business life, was an example of the survival of the fittest.
He started out on the road when his competitors, many of them were of a different sort from him; they have left
the road these many years, and Mr. Harper and his kind, the conscientious gentlemanly kind, have remained. He will
be missed not only in Emporia, but all over the west where he has traveled for many years.
(Emporia Gazette ~ February 21, 1907)
Fred W. Hirth, who died at St. Mary's hospital Thursday morning at 3 o'clock was one of the town's oldest citizens. He came to Emporia from Watertown, Wis., in 1859. About ten days ago, Mr. Hirth was taken to the hospital, where, he underwent an operation for gall stones. The operation was performed as a last resort. It did not alter his condition and every day his death was expected.
Having learned the trade of a cabinetmaker in Wisconsin, Mr. Hirth, when he came to Emporia, took up this work. In 1861, when Lincoln issued a call for volunteers, he enlisted as a private in the Second Kansas regiment, Company H. While in this company he participated in the battles of Forsythe, Dug Springs and Wilson's Creek. He was wounded in the latter action of August 10, 1861, and discharged November 19, 1861, and discharged November 19, 1861. Of his return to Emporia after his discharge on account of being wounded, the following appeared in the Emporia News of November 30, 1861:
"Fred Hirth, of the Emporia Guards who was severely wounded at Wilson's creek, returned last week. He is rapidly recovering from his wound. Fred has in his possession a rebel bullet, which passed entirely through his body."
He was not inactive long for August 18, 1862, when Company C, of the Eleventh regiment, Kansas Infantry, was organized in Emporia under Captain L. T. Heritage. Fred Hirth enlisted as second sergeant. While in this company he participated in battles of old Fort Wayne, Cane Hill and Prairie Grove. While acting as color sergeant at Prairie Grove, he had a narrow escape. A rifle ball went through his cap grazing his head. He also participated in several skirmishes and bush-whackers.
He was mustered out with his company, August 17, 1865, and returned to Emporian and started in business, in the manufacture of furniture, continuing in this until 1880. Prior to 1880 Hirth, Gilmore and Arnold ran a furniture store where Hardcastle & Kenyon are now located.
After retiring from business he supervised the erection of the Masonic Temple building on Fifth avenue. He has always been a lodge man, having been secretary of the Emporia lodge No. 12 A. F. & A. M. and Emporia chapter No. 12, R. A. M. He was also secretary of the I. O. O. F. and scribe of the Emporia commandery. Mr. Hirth was a Knights Templar, and was high in the Odd Fellows lodge.
He was one of the first councilmen when Emporia was organized February 6,1865, and was on the council in 1870, when Emporia was made a city of the second class.
Fred Hirth was born in Prussie, September
27, 1837. He came to this country in 1851 and located with his parents in Dodge county, Wisconsin. For the past
twenty-eight years Mr. and Mrs. Hirth have lived at 305 South Commercial street. He leaves a wife, one brother
and two sisters. Ernest Hirth, the brother, lives in Ohio; the two sisters are Mrs. Amelia Molinhower, of Nebraska,
and Mrs. Minnie Phillips, of Iowa. Mr. Hirth was a member of the Lutheran church, having been baptised in Prussia.
Dr. N. H. Morrison, a brother of Mrs. Hirth, arrived today from Los Angeles, Calif. Dr. Morrison is a chief surgeon
for the Santa Fe railroad company. A sister of Mrs. Hirth, Mrs. L. L. McNurney, of Arkansas City, was also here
to attend the funeral.
(Emporia Gazette ~ July 4, 1907)
The funeral of David Hunter was held Sunday
morning at 10 o'clock from Oakland, the Hunter home, five and one-half miles east of town. Joseph Hill conducted
the services. The pall-bearers were J. G. Hutchinson, J. A. Daly, S. T. Wilson, W. F. Pickenpaugh, J. H. Pierson
and N. F. Fuquay and the choir of the United Presbyterian church sang. The body was interred in Maplewood, and
the procession passed through town about 1:30 o'clock. Many people from town attended the services. Mr. and Mrs.
L. Kennedy, of Richland, and Silas Hunter, a brother, were here for the funeral.
(Emporia Gazette ~ August 15, 1907)
MRS. HOOD'S DEATH
The death of Mrs. Calvin Hood this morning at the end of a most pitiful illness, wherein for nearly three months, stricken dumb, she lay, conscious of the sorrow of the loved ones about her, and unable to speak to them save with her eyes, closes another of those chapters which bring the hearts of the town together in common sympathy. During all her illness the town has sorrowed with those in the big brick house, and high and low, rich and poor, felt the anguish of the silent sufferer.
Mrs. Hood had lived in this town for nearly
forty years. And for over half a century she and her husband have gone through life most happily. Six children
were born to them, and five lived to maturity under her guidance and love, and four are left to mourn her. Always
she has been a woman of the home. She has done her work as it lay next to her hand, and has done it lovingly and
quietly, but well. It is miserably sad, this dumb parting of the man and the woman who have striven together through
the years so happily for better or for worse, after fifty years of life together. And in his sorrow, even though
he is surrounded by his children, from a community where he has been so large a part of the common life of all,
the common love and sympathy of all go out to the lonely husband.
(Emporia Gazette ~ January 7, 1909)
THE HOOD FUNERAL
The funeral of Mrs. Calvin Hood was held from
the Hood residence at 2:30 this afternoon. The rooms of the home were filled with townspeople who had come to pay
their last respects to their life-long friend. Rev. S. L. Grigsby, of the First Presbyterian church, conducted
the services. As Tennyson's "Crossing the Bar," had been on of the favorite poems of Mrs. Hood, it was
read at the conclusion of the services at the home. The pall-bearers were Marshall Warren, John E. Martin, Justin
Soden, W. A. White, W. R. Irwin, I. E. Lambert, Fred Lakin, I. E. Lewis, Charles Ryder. Interment was made in Maplewood.
(Emporia Gazette ~ January 9, 1909)
GRIFFITH HUGHES KILLED BY BROTHER, WHO THOUGHT HE WAS A BURGLAR
The Tragedy Occurred Last Night at the Hughes Home on Market Street---Dead Boy the Victim of His Own Joke
Griffith Hughes, the 18-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Hughes, of 914 Market street, was shot by his brother, Owen,
who thought he was a burglar, at the Hughes home about 9 o'clock last night, and as a result of the wound, died
at St. Mary's hospital at 3:45 o'clock this morning.
Griffith and his sister, Miss Jane, who is a teacher in the Lincoln School, and Miss Margaret Teft, who lives with the Hugheses, were singing and playing in the front room when they fancied they hard a noise in the basement. The young man went to the back door, and returning told his companions the outside cellar door was open, and that, as it usually was kept closed, there must be a burglar in the basement. From his subsequent action he probably was joking, and did not think there was anyone in the basement. The young women called upstairs to Owen, who is 15 years old, and was studying, that someone was in the basement, and to come down and show his bravery. He answered by seizing an empty shotgun and a loaded shell and coming downstairs. The indoor stairs to the basement are just off the front hall near the foot of the stairs from the second story. In the hall the younger boy found his brother and the girls, and telling them to follow, started down to the basement. The girls fell in the back of the boy, but Griffith, instead of following, not knowing his brother carried a loaded shell, ran out the front door and into the basement by the rear outside door, so that the noise of his entrance was heard by Owen as he reached the basement. This is divided into three rooms, and hearing a noise in the back room Owen lighted a lamp, and thinking all the time that his brother was following with the girls, loaded the gun and went in to the second room. Here he also turned on the light and as he did so his brother, with his camp pulled low over his face, sprang from the dusk of the back room toward him. His first impulse was to shoot the intruder, and before he had time to recognize the form of his brother he had pulled the trigger. The shot entered the left leg between the knee and thigh , and not until the boy fell to the floor, the blood rushing from the ugly wound, did the brother realize what he had done. Following the helplessness of the first moment of the shock of the tragedy, the brother ran for a doctor, and his mother and sister, with Miss Teft, who had followed into the basement, did what they could to stop the flow of blood. Several doctors live in the neighborhood, and it was only a few minutes before one arrived. As soon as possible the injured young man was removed to St. Mary's hospital, where he died several hours later.
The wound was a severe one, the shot making a large hole, striking the bone and following in a short distance and then being deflected, and the loss of blood was great. Death was due as much to the shock as to the loss of blood, for he rallied from this. The shock was especially great, as there are many large nerves coming from the spinal column in this part of the body. The boy was conscious till within a short time before his death. He told his mother not to worry, and assured his brother he did not hold anything against him, and realized it was his fault, in a large measure. At the hospital the doctors asked him if he cared for some coffee, and he replied that he was in training for the College track team and did not care to drink any.
Mr. Hughes, the father, was at his ranch, thirty miles southwest of town at the time of the accident. A rider was sent out for him, and by phoning he was reached about 2 o'clock. He came to town on horseback, pushing his horse to the utmost till it was covered with lather, and he reached home about 4 o'clock, after his son was dead.
The Hugheses sold their farm, three miles
south of town on Dry creek about a year ago, and built a house in town and moved there. Griffith entered the preparation
department of the College, and was a second year student. He was a strong, manly fellow, and took part in athletes.
He was a good student, and was a favorite among his schoolmates. He was an active church worker, and a member
of the choir of the Second Presbyterian church. Another brother, Walter, is employed by the Jones Commission Company,
of Kansas City, and arrived home today.
(Emporia Gazette ~ April 16, 1909)
