Sept. 17 – George G. Adams, an attorney of Wichita, died at Garden City this morning of apoplexy. (The Kansas City Star, August 17, 1918)
Wichita, Kas., Dec. 4 – A Chicago pioneer, J. S. Andrews, 84 years old, who in 1844 pre-empted a claim within the present city limits of Chicago, died here yesterday. (The Kansas City Star, December 4, 1901)
Wichita, Kas., May 12 – Dr. Lewis W. Cristler, 90 years old, a pioneer physician of Wichita, died here today. (The Kansas City Star, May 13, 1917)
Wichita, Kas., - June 22 – Dr. Dudley of Louisville, KY., who came here two weeks ago and married Miss Viva March, committed suicide this morning by cutting his throat. He lived several hours. Dudley killed himself because his bride deserted him. (The Kansas City Star, June 22, 1899)
Wichita, Kas., Jan. 26 – Thomas Dugan Fouts died here today at the age of 82 years of pneumonia.
Colonel Fouts was one of the old timers in Kansas. He came to this state in 1869 and to Wichita in 1874. He was a colonel during the Civil War, having been mustered in as a member of the One Hundred and Thirty-Seventh Indiana volunteers. In a history of the Fouts family, written by the Colonel, he traces it back to 1663, when a colony of Germans came to America and landed at the mouth of the Delaware river. They went up the river to the new town, which is now Philadelphia. They were Quakers and were known by the name of Pfouts. A number of families of the same name settled on a branch of the Sasquehanna river and gave that locality the name of Pfouts valley. About 1178 the first letter of the name was dropped and it became Fouts. Relatives were in the Revolutionary war. Colonel Fouts was the proprietor of a hotel in this city when Wichita was a frontier town. (The Kansas City Star, January 27, 1907)
Wichita, Kas., Aug. 30 – Two peace officers left the city this morning for Larned to bring back a business man of that city who is said to have driven his motor car over William Hendricks of this city and caused his death. Hendricks was run down three weeks ago. Injuries caused his death three days after the accident. Motor drivers of this city offer a reward of $500 for the guilty person. (The Kansas City Star, August 30, 1907)
Wichita, Kas., July 13 – The Right Rev. John J. Hennessy, bishop of the Wichita Catholic diocese, died at the Episcopal residence this morning. He was born in County Cork, Ireland, in 1847. A stroke of paralysis last night caused his death at 3:45 o’clock this morning. (The Kansas City Times, July 13, 1920)
Died in Kansas – W. H. Hunt, a former resident of this city, and one of the proprietors of the City Mills at Wichita, Kansas, died in that city a few days ago, of ulcer of the brain, after a brief illness, leaving a wife and child. The local papers of that place speak of him as one of the foremost men in the community, and a gentleman whose loss will be deeply felt by all who knew him. (Daily State Gazette, June 11, 1879)
Hyman Joseph, wholesale flour dealer of Wichita, Kas., died this morning, aged 60. (The Kansas City Star, October 19, 1900)
Wichita, Kansas, Jan. 3 – Henry Lansen, aged 54 years, one of the best known millers in the southeast, died suddenly here early this morning of angina pectoris. He came here from El Reno, Ok., twelve years ago. (Dallas Morning News, January 4, 1919)
Ottawa, Kas., Oct. 15 – A message from Wichita early today told of the death there of George D. Lathrop, formerly of Ottawa. Mr. lathrop was the junior member of the Davenoport-Lathrop Dry Goods company here. When the new country opened in the territory he went to Hobart and started there in the dry goods business. He was taken ill last week with pneumonia and was sent to Wichita, where he died last night. (The Kansas City Star, October 15, 1901)
Did the fact that his wife had divorced him or other reasons cause T. W. Perryman, once a prosperous contractor from Wichita, Kas., to seek to die in obsecurity? April 13 he was in Bakersfield, Cal., with $305 in a bank there, a diamond ring, a large diamond stud and a gold watch. Last Sunday morning he was found dead in a cheap lodging house on North Main street, his jewelry gone and not a cent in his pockets. Two bank books were in his pockets, and a card showed he belonged to the Odd Fellow’s Lodge in Wichita.
The coroner, who said Perryman died from natural causes, referred the case to the lodge, and through its efforts a divorced wife of Perryman was found in Wichita and a niece Mrs. Fannie Hartman was found at 1943 North Third street, Kansas City, Kas.
Wichita, Kas. May 12 – T. W. Perryman left Wichita for Bakersfield, Cal., two months ago and his friends here believed him still on the coast until they learned of his death in Kansas City. Perryman grew morose after his wife’s divorce several months ago and decided to leave Wichita. He had few intimates here and sold or transferred all his property before leaving. (The Kansas City Star, May 13, 1911)
The relatives and friends of Leslie Stephens who died near Wichita, Kas., last week of a gunshot wound, are convinced after investigation that the shooting was accidental. The coroner there decided that it was not a case of suicide and held no inquest. (The Kansas City Star, February 23, 1908)
Wichita, Kas., June 3 – Hooper Toler, 30 years old, an actor, grandson of the late Col. H. B. Toler, one of the builders of Wichita, died in Los Angeles Friday night, according to word received here today. His parents live in Kansas City. (The Kansas City Star, June 4, 1922)
Wichita, Kas., - June 29, The Rev. Arnold Hughes, 49, a Baptist Minister who came to Wichita in 1906 from Mexico, Mo., died at his home here last night after a long illness. (Kansas City Star, June 29, 1922)
Wichita, Kansas, April – Cynthia Moller, aged 91, who had been growing very feeble lately, sank rapidly last night and this morning was pronounced dead by the physicians. Today she had been placed on ice before it was discovered that life was not wholly extinct. Physicians were summoned and Mrs. Moller was resusticated. She recovered sufficiently to converse with her friends, but in the afternoon a relapse occurred and she died. (The Daily Boomerang, April 7, 1890)
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