Taten Bachelor, a 100 year old negro said to be the oldest inhabitant of Wichita, died recently at the home of his daughter. (Kansas City Star, March 26, 1920)
Wichita, Kansas (AP) - Fred (Fritz) Brickell, 30, former baseball player for the New York Yankees and the Los Angeles Angels, died Friday of cancer.
He was a shortstop with the Yankees in 1958 and 1959. He was traded to the Angels in 1961.
He retired before the start of the 1963 season after having spent the previous year at Toronto, in the International League. (Dallas Morning News, October 16, 1965)
Funeral services for Mrs. Clotilda Caliendo, 85, of 10818 Stone Canyon Road, a 28 year Dallas resident will be held at 10 a.m. Monday in Queen of All Saints Mausoleum in Hillside, Ill.
She died Friday in a Wichita, Kansas hospital.
She is survived by one daughter, two sons, eight grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. (Dallas Morning News, June 6, 1976 section A page 32)
Wichita, Kas., Aug. 3 - Mrs. C. Q. Chandler, wife of the president of the Kansas National Bank in Wichita, died in a Chicago hospital today. She was born in 1872 in Burbon County, Kansas. She is survived by Mr. Chandler and four children. (Kansas City Times, August 4, 1915, page 4)
Nathan Duncan, president of the Duncan Lumber Company, wholesale dealers in the R. A. Long Building, died yesterday afternoon at the Tanner Hotel. He was 55 years old and came to Kansas City twenty years ago from Cincinnati. One son, Hart Duncan, manager of a lumber yard in Torrington, Wyo., and one daughter, Mrs. Alice Wall of Wichita, Kas., survive. (The Kansas City Star, April 3, 1911, page 4)
Wichita, Kas., March 20 - Fifteen years after his neck was broken in a runway, John F. Green, a former assayer of Sedgwick County and a resident of Wichita forty-eight years, died Saturday. When Mr. Green was injured in 1904, physicians said he could walk. He was in a hospital a year. He was a grocer. (The Kansas City Star, March 20, 1919)
LEAVENWORTH, Kas. - April 11 - Joseph Haag, 75 years old, the first established photographer in Leavenworth, died yesterday in Wichita according to news received here today by relatives. (The Kansas City Times, April 12, 1920)
Lawrence, Kas., Oct. 24 - The first death from typhoid fever, as a result of the epidemic at the University of Kansas, occurred early yesterday when Paul Huxman, college freshman, died in a Wichita hospital. News of his death was only allowed to reach the university today.
Huxman withdrew from school September 29 and was rushed to his home in Wichita by his brother. Huxman's death has resulted in greater precautions by the university health authorities. Free inoculation of anti-typhoid vaccine is being given daily to all students who wish it. A total of 480 were inoculated last Friday. (Kansas City Star, October 24, 1916, page 10)
Wichita, Kas., July 7 - Leonard C. Jackson, senior member of the Jackson Walker Coal and Material Company, a pioneer of Wichita, died today. He was 54 years old and came to Wichita in 1873 from New York. He was a Mason and a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. (The Kansas City Times, July 8, 1914, page 4)
Wichita, Kan., Sept. 12 (AP) - Tom. C. Johnson, 56, oil operator and Republican leader, died Friday following an illness of several months.
Johnson was president of T. C. Johnson, Inc., which operated extensive properties in Kansas. (Dallas Morning News, September 13, 1941, page 6)
Man Hurt on Car in Critical Condition
Estie Henry Recovers Consciousness for a Time But Loses it Again
Richard Kenney Dies
Native of Bourbon Passes Away at his Home in Wichita, Kansas
Paris, KY., August 2 - The condition of Estie Henry, of this city, who was seriously injured Friday afternoon at Berry, by being knocked from a car and striking his head on a steel rail, is unchanged. He regained consciousness again, and there is little hope entertained for his recovery.
Mr. Richard Kenny, aged sixty-eight years, died at his home in Wichita, Kan., after a long illness. Mr. Kenney was a native of Bourbon County, and was a son of the late Victor M. Kenny. About thirty years ago he moved to Wichita.
He was a prominent citizen during his residence in Paris, serving at different times as a member of the City Council, County Surveyor, Sheriff and Deputy Sheriff. Mr. Kenney is survived by his wife, who was Miss Bettie Stone, of Fayette County, and three children, Miss Pauline Kenney, and Messrs. Victor and Richard M. Kenney, Jr. He was a half-brother of Mrs. D. M. Dodge and Mr. Millard F. Kenney, of Paris and of Mr. Joseph B. Kenney, of Lexington (The Lexington Herald, August 3, 1913)
William Krammer, formerly of San Jose, died recently at Wichita, Kansas. (The Evening News, February 24, 1912, page 4)
Joplin, Mo., Dec. 16 - W.D. Larmore, from Wichita, Kas., died here last night in a rooming house over the Sensation saloon in less than an hour after he engaged the room. The general opinion is that he was given "knockout drops" by "crooks." There will be an inquest tonight. (The Kansas City Star, December 16, 1903)
Philadelphia, June 10 - Five days after she had received her degree as a doctor of medicine, Miss Leotos Lentz, of Wichita, Kansas, a graduate of the Woman's Medical College, committed suicide by taking poison at her boarding house. She took the poison early Monday afternoon and was not discovered until that evening. She died Monday night in the hospital connected with the college from which she was graduated.
Hard study and long hours of over work in class room and at home which resulted in a complete nervous breakdown are reasons given by the college authorities for the suicide. (Wilkes-Barre Times Leader, June 10, 1914, page 12)
Clark A. Little, one of the wealthiest men in Sedgwick County, Kas., died at his home in West Wichita yesterday. He was a member of the famous regiment of Pennsylvania Bucktails. (The Kansas City Star, January 4, 1900, page 1)
Westphalia, Mo., Aug. 6 - Mrs. Alfred Lupher of Wichita, 40 years old, died at the home of her sister, Mrs. J. P. Cole, here today. (The Kansas City Times, August 7, 1919, page 3)
Wichita, Kas., Oct. 23. - John S. Macauley for years president and secretary of the Wichita Board of Trade died this afternoon at the home of his son, William Macauley, at Mulvane, where he had gone to visit. He was one of the pioneer grain dealers of the country. He was 60 years old. (The Kansas City Star, October 24, 1911)
Tioga, Texas (SP) - Funeral services for Weldon Dwight McDavitt, 61, of Tioga, Grayson County, an employee of the B&L Ranch in Tioga, will be held 10 a.m. Friday in Beck Funeral Chapel in Pilot Point, Denton County. Burial will be in the Old Mission Cemetery in Wichita, Kansas.
He died Wednesday in a Dallas Hospital.
The Kingman, Kansas native was a member of the Tioga Methodist Church. (Dallas Morning News, December 23, 1977)
Danville, Ky., Aug. 21 - Mr. H. Clay Mock, founder of the "Old Mock" brand of whisky, died at noon today in Wichita, Kan., where he was visiting. His remains will arrive here Sunday for burial. (The Lexington Herald, August 22, 1908, page 4)
A large number of friends assembled in St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church this morning to attend the solemn requiesn high mass sung for Louis J. Monroe, who died in Wichita, Kansas, January last, Father Russell officiating. (New Haven Evening Register, October 8, 1900, page 2)
Wichita, Kan., March 29 (AP) Pearl Jane Murdock 63, one of the owners of the Wichita Eagle, died Thursday at her Los Angeles home after a week's illness. Death was due to a cerebral thrombosis.
She was the sister of Victor and Marcellus Murdock, publishers of the Eagle. (Dallas Morning News, March 30, 1945)
Wichita, Kan., March 18 - James Murphy died at the Wichita hospital from blood poisoning. A week ago he interfered to prevent a fight between two cattlemen at Ashland. S. P. Mitchell and Henry Montgomery, and received a gunshot wound from one of them which shattered the bones of his left leg near the knee. He was brought here yesterday morning and the leg amputated, but too late as poisoning had already set in. The body was taken to Ashland this morning for interment. Murphy was a cattleman also, wealthy and a prominent citizen of Clark County. (The Kansas Semi-Weekly Capital. March 22, 1898, page 2)
Robert Sumerville, a young New Yorker, was gored to death by a ferocious bull near Wichita, Kasnas. (Wheeling Register, West Virginia, September 19, 1888)
Kingman, Kas., May 7 - H. P. Wait, a pioneer resident of this county, died today in a Wichita hospital where he was taken Monday and operated upon for appendicitis. The body will be brought here. (The Kansas City Star, May 8, 1904)
John H. Wheat, a well known man of this section died in Wichita, Kansas at the age of 74 years. (Philadelphia Inquirer, October 30, 1916)
Funeral services for C. D. Whitehead, 72 years old, who died Wednesday at his home in Wichita, Kan., will be held at 3 o'clock this afternoon at the Pentecostal Nazarene Church, twenty-fourth street and Troost Avenue. Burial Saturday in Elmwood Cemetery. (The Kansas City Times, May 30, 1919, page 4)
Because relatives living at a distance were unable to arrive here in time, the funeral of Mrs. Mary M. Whitehead who died in Wichita, Kas., yesterday will not be held tomorrow afternoon as has been announced, but at 3 o'clock Friday afternoon.
The services Friday will be held at 322 Wabash Avenue. Burial will be in Elmwood Cemetery. Mrs. Whitehead was the wife of C. D. Whitehead. Besides her husband Mrs. Whitehead is survived by three children, Mrs. Mary B. Drake, Mrs. B. W. Dwight and Joseph W. Whitehead. (The Kansas City Star, May 4, 1910, page 11)
Fort Smith, Ark., April 22 - James C. Williams, 63 years old, for four years Sheriff of Sedgwick County, Kansas, an early settler of Wichita, died here today. (Kansas City Star, April 23, 1915)
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