MONTGOMERY COUNTY, KANSAS OBITS KRAPP, JOHN John Krapp Dead John Krapp, ages 64, died at his home on Big Hill creek, north of the city, at 3 o,clock Friday morning. Mr. Krapp is well known in this city, being an old settler. The funeral will be held tomorrow at 10 o'clock from the house. (Coffeyville Journal Weekly, Friday, July 21, 1899 - submitted by Marguerette Powell) KRAPP, MARY (MRS. JOHN) DROPPED DEAD WHILE MILKING Mrs. John Krapp, living about five miles northeast of the city, died at 6:30 Tuesday evening from the effects of heart disease. She had gone out into the cow lot to do the milking. While sitting on a stool she fell backwards dead. Her granddaughter, who was near her, made frantic cries for help, but could not get any assistance for half an hour. Finally Mrs. Krapp was carried into the house and a doctor sent for, but when Dr. Wollgast arrived she was cold in death. Mrs. Krapp was a widow, her husband having died a few years ago. The family has lived there for a long time and were well known. The funeral will be held from the house at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday with burial at Elmwood. (Coffeyville Daily Journal, Wednesday Evening, December 18, 1901 - submitted by Marguerette Powell) Note: There is a small tombstone sitting over John and Mary's graves. John had homesteaded in Cherokee Township Lots 4, 5, and 6 of Section No. 18 in Township No. 34 south of Range No. 17 east, 140 acres. Four of their 12 children were buried on the Krapp homestead. Their graves were lost and the stone was found in an old barn. Krapp grandsons Oliver and George (Jack) Powell placed the found stone on John and Mary Jane's graves at Elmwood Cemetery, Coffeyville. The children's tombstone at Elmwood is printed on four sides: (1) John F. son of J. & M. Krapp born 25 Jan. 1864 - died 05 Sept. 1871, (2) Liddie A. dau. of J. & M. Krapp born 05 Apr. 1866 - died 26 Oct. 1872, (3) Infant dau of J. & M. Krapp born and died 15 Oct. 1879 also at bottom William H. and Martha children of J. & M. Krapp buried in Shelby County, IL. and (4) Mellie dau. of J. & M. Krapp born 25 Mar. 1877 - died 28 Sept. 1878. - submitted by Marguerette Powell) KRAPP, WESLEY Their 12th child, Wesley Krapp was born c/a 1884, his obit is in the Coffeyville Journal 06 Dec. 1888, shows he died 03 Dec., 1888 and son of J. and M. Krapp. He is buried without a tombstone in Elmwood Cemetery. (Submitted by Marguerette Powell) KRAPP, HENRY The death of our brother and friend, Henry Krapp, which occurred on last sabbath, after a brief illness, was very sad and unexpected. He was born March 6, 1869, and died December 10, 1893, aged twenty-four years, nine months and four days. He was a member of the Baptist church of this city, having united with the church in December, 1888, and lived a consistent christian life. He will be missed by his brethren in the church, as well as the community at large. He leaves a wife and two children, also a father and mother, and three sisters and one brother to mourn his loss. The funeral was preached at the family residence Tuesday, at eleven o'clock, and notwithstanding the cold piercing wind, his remains were accompanied to our cemetery south of the city, by a large procession of sympathetic friends and neighbors, where after appropriate services, his body was tenderly laid away, to await the last call of the great master. As we gazed upon the helplessness and grief of his little family, the sorrow of his aged parents, and the deep seated sadness of sisters and brother, we could not refrain mingling our tears with theirs, over their irreparable loss. And may the blessing of God, and the sympathy of friends continue to surround their pathway, is the prayer of their pastor and church. W. W. Smith (Coffeyville Journal Weekly, Friday, December 15, 1893, submitted by Marguerette Powell) NOTE: Henry was the s/o John and Mary Jane Cleveland Krapp. His tombstone sits beside the small tombstone with his young siblings on it. Henry's tombstone has 1867 - 1893 on it, obit has 1869 as birth year. His wife was Lillie L. Ashenfelter Krapp, his second child had not yet been born, Lillie was pregnant. (Submitted by Marguerette Powell) FOSTER, MARY ISABELL Mrs. N. F. Foster Is Dead at Liberty (Montgomery Co., KS) Funeral Services Will Be Conducted There at 3 o'clock Tomorrow Afternoon Mrs. Mary Isabell Foster, 57, wife of Newton F. Foster, twenty years a resident of Liberty, died at the home at 5:20 o'clock yesterday afternoon after an illness of several weeks. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Krapp, former residents of Coffeyville. The funeral services will be held at the Methodist Episcopal church at Liberty at 3 o'clock tomorrow afternoon, Rev. Harold Duryes, Christian pastor of Cherryvale, officiating. Burial will be in Liberty cemetery. Those who survive with the husband are her two daughters, Mrs. Carl Herrick of Albuquerque, N. M., Mrs. Nell Nobel of the home, five sons, Carl of Joplin, Ed of Mexia, Tex., Clarence of Kansas City, Melvin of Liberty and Zachary of Liberty, a stepson J. A. Foster of Okmulgee, Okla, a sister, Mrs. O. H. Powell of Coffeyville, and a brother, George W. Krapp of Grand Island, Neb. Mary's husband, Newton F. Foster, died Feb 6, 1936 at the home of his daughter in Albuquerque, N.M. and he was brought back to be buried beside her in Liberty cemetery. Her sister, Mrs. O. H. Powell was named Sarah Krapp Powell and she died just across the line in South Coffeyville which would be in Nowata Co., OK. (Coffeyville, Kansas, Tuesday Evening, July 3, 1928, Submitted by Marguerette Powell) GOLDIE ORA POWELL Age 89, of 1602 1/2 West Eighth Street, Coffeyville, Kansas, died Monday, June 8, 1992, in Mercy Hospital, Independence, Kansas. Mrs. Powell was born in Rockville, Missouri to William Perry and Dollie (Cluck) Burris on February 6, 1903. She moved to Coffeyville with her parents in 1906 and located on North Penn Street. She received her schooling in Coffeyville. On November 12, 1922 she married George "Jack" Grant Powell. The family moved to the Robbins community in 1936 where Goldie was active in Farm Bureau, other community projects. At the death of her husband on May 15, 1948 she purchased the first Help Yourself Laundry in Coffeyville at 1602 West Eighth Street, and ran it until her retirement. She was an active member through the years at the First Baptist Church, Emmanuel Baptist Church, and the First Church of God, and the Banks Ever Ready Home Demonstration Unit. She was active in the Red Cross during WW1 in the Coffeyville, Chapter. She is survived by 2 sons: Jack L. Powell, of 202 Poplar, Dearing, Kansas, Dean H. Powell of 409 N. Willow, Coffeyville, Kansas, 1 daughter, Donna J. Wulf, of 101 Bermuda Dr, Independence, KS; 6 grandchildren, 15 great grandchildren, and 4 great great grandchildren. She is also preceded in death by her parents, two brothers Arnold V. and Guy, and two grandchildren, Linda Sue (Powell) Sjolander, and Brian K. Powell. Funeral services will be held 11 a.m. Friday, June 12, 1992, in the Ford-Wulf-Bruns Edgewood Chapel with burial in Restlawn Memorial Park Cemetery. Friends may call at the Funeral Home from 3 until 9 p.m. Thursday, and until service time Friday. The family would welcome memorials to the First Church of God at 2010 West Fifth Street. These donations may be left at the Funeral Home. (Note: Goldie's death notice was in the Wichita Eagle, Thursday, June 11, 1992, the Tulsa World, Thursday, June 11, 1992, then in the Coffeyville Journal. The obit was published in the Independence Reporter, Wednesday, June 10, 1992 and then two obits, second one corrected in the Coffeyville Journal. The first obit didn't have our daughter, Linda Sue Powell Sjolander and her husband, Jerry who were killed in an auto accident in Cowley County in 1973 and our nephew, Brian K. Powell who was also killed in an auto accident west of Coffeyville a few years later. They both died at age 22 and are buried with a lot in between them in Restlawn Cemetery near Goldie and George Grant "Jack". Jerry is buried beside Linda Sue. Submitted by Marguerette Powell) back to index Copyright © 2007-2008 to Kansas Genealogy Trails' Montgomery County host & all Contributors All rights reserved