The Sumner County Press,
July 13, 1876
Sudden Death
Amos Wimer, from Lamont, Pettis county, Missouri,
died suddenly last Friday, at the residence of his son, six miles southeast of Wellington. He was apparently well
in the morning, and was out on the farm with his sons, when he complained of a pain in the region of the heart,
and then almost instantly expired. Mr. Wimer was visiting his sons, three of whom reside in this county, at the
time of his death. His remains were deposited in the cemetery near this city, last Saturday. He was fifty-seven
years old.
The Sumner County Press, July 20, 1876
A Double Correction
MR. EDITOR:--In your last issue,
in the notice of the death and burial of Amos Wimer, you stated that “his remains were deposited in the cemetery,
near this city, last Saturday.” As I attended both funerals, in an official relation, on that day, it may be proper
for me to say that A. Wimer was buried about six miles from this city, near the residence of one of his sons, and
that it was James Sybert, whose remains were deposited in the cemetery near Wellington, last Saturday.
I was informed that the latter had been a confederate
soldier, serving in Virginia under Stonewall Jackson, and as I made sundry remarks at the grave, referring to his
and my relations during the “war for the Union,” intending thereby to express my respect for a brave man, who had
conscientiously tried to do what he believed to have been his duty, and my satisfaction that the men who had once
been foes could now meet as friends, and in a friendly spirit, perform acts of kindness to each other, and that
it was a good thing that all the asperities growing out of the past were being buried out of sight; and yet, to
my unbounded astonishment, I have been informed, that I am reported as preaching hostility even at the mouth of
the grave, &, &c., thoughts the very farthest removed from my mind or disposition. To all who are engaged
in this effort to misrepresent my words and feelings, I say--”Evil to him, that evil thinks.”
Yours, In F. L. and T.
H. J. WALKER
The Monitor-Press, April
27, 1910
Buried in Rebel Gray
L. C. Lindsey, the old gentleman who died here
of heart disease while being driven in a hack to the Santa Fe depot last Wednesday afternoon, was quite a singular
character. He had been a soldier in the confederate army and was devoutly attached to the “lost cause.” Among his
few possessions, in the grip he had with him at the time of his death was a complete uniform of the confederate
“butternut,” in which he had often expressed a wish to buried when the end should come. His nephew W. H. Nay, of
Longton, who had come to Wellington to meet the old man and take him to his home, knew of his uncle’s request to
be laid away in his beloved uniform, and gave orders to the undertaker that the body should be dressed for the
grave in the regimentals that meant so much to the old soldier, which was done.
The old man had no home and the nephew decided
to have him buried here. Brief funeral services were held Friday afternoon at the undertaking rooms of French,
Hitchcock & son, and the body, with a funeral escort made up of both union and confederate veterans, was conveyed
to Prairie Lawn cemetery, where it was laid to rest.
