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VanBebber, Effie Sandals
Death of Mrs. VanBebber
"Stomach Trouble Proved Fatal to Knoxville Woman - 44 Years Old"
Mrs. J.W. VanBebber died at 4 o'clock Thursday morning at the home near Knoxville. She was 44 years old. Death
was due to stomach troubles.
Mrs. VanBebber was a daughter of the late J.M. Sandalls, who used to operate a store between Knoxville and Lawson.
She was a native of Ray County.
Besides the husband she is survived by one child, Clifton VanBebber of the home address.
Funeral services were held this afternoon at Knoxville, conducted by Rev. Coffman. Burial was in Knoxville.
RICHMOND NEWS - September 28, 1928 ; Contributed by Leslie Wyman
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Vanbebber, James William "Jim"
James William "Jim" Vanbebber, 77, died at 1:45 Saturday morning, May 14, at the home of his sister,
Mrs. Rosa Kelly in Knoxville after a week's illness. He had been ailing for a month before. Funeral services were
held Sunday afternoon at the Knoxville church with burial in the Knoxville cemetery.
He was born January 6, 1872, in Knoxville and lived there all his life. He was the son of Pryor L. and Lydia Kincaid
Vanbebber. In 1896 he was married to Effie Sandals, who died in 1923.
Mr. Vanbebber served as a deputy county assessor of Ray county and also was cashier of the Elmira bank at one time.
He was a merchant in Knoxville from 1904 to 1920.
Survivors include one son, Clifton, one grandson, James A. Vanbebber, a sister, Mrs. Kelly, and a half-brother,
John, all of Knoxville. Another sister, Mrs. Gertrude Slack died just two weeks earlier.
UNKNOWN NEWSPAPER FROM "CALDWELL CTY MO OBITUARIES VOLUME 4" - HANDWRITTEN DATE OF 1949: Contributed
by Leslie Wyman
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Vance, Nathaniel (Thannie)
The body of Thannie Vance, who was killed by a Missouri Pacific train between Holden and Kingsville, Johnson county,
Wednesday morning, August 28th, announcement of which was made in last week's issue of this paper, was brought
here Friday afternoon and after a short funeral service held at the grave, conducted by Rev. O. Blackburn, pastor
of the Methodist church, interment was made in the Lewis cemetery. Just how the unfortunate man met his death will
probably never be known, as no one witnessed the accident. He had been in Illinois and had written his mother that
he would be home in a few days and it is supposed that he arrived in Holden on an early morning train and started
to walk to the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Vance, in Kingsville, and was overtaken and run down by
a west bound train, following closely after the train on which he is supposed to have ridden to Holden. The body
was so mangled that it was unrecognizable and he was identified only by his clothing and marks on his body.
The Richmond News, September 11, 1918
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Vickers, Charles C.
C.J. VICKERS DEAD
“End Comes to Richmond Man at 10 a.m. Sunday – Was 73 Years Old”
The kindly eyes of Charles Vickers financial secretary of Union No. 298, U.M.W.A., were closed forever Sunday morning
at 10 o’clock, and his legion of friends will no longer hear his cheery, friendly voice. Mr. Vickers died following
an illness of about three months. He was taken to his home in the west part of Richmond Saturday, November 10th.
Physicians pronounced his illness to be yellow jaundice.
Faithful unto the end, although ordered to stay at home, on the first day he was taken from the miners hall, a
very sick man, he got up out of bed later in the day and made his way back to the office “to finish up some work”,
he told friends who again took him home. From that time, he gradually weakened until Sunday morning, when death
conquered. He was 73 years old.
Charles Jepson Vickers was born July 30th, 1850, in Honslette, a suburb of Leeds, Yorkshire, England. With his
wife, who was Miss Ada Mason, of Leeds, and his children, he came to this country in 1880, coming first to Scranton,
Kansas, where he remained six years. He then spent a year at Moberty, Mo., two years in Kimberly, Mo., and one
year in Renick, Mo. In 1890, he came to Richmond, where he spent the rest of his life.
Three children were born of the first marriage, one of whom died in infancy. A son, Charles Jepson Vickers, who
served in the British army during the world war, died in France. A daughter, Mrs. Minnie Morton, of Leeds, England,
survives.
Mr. Vickers’ first wife died in 1881 (sic – possibly 1884). He was married again in 1886 to Mrs. Mary Barraclough,
who survives. Her children, Arthur Barraclough, of Blue Rapids, Kansas, and Mrs. Rose Turner, of Topeka, Kansas,
are here.
The funeral services will be held at the home Tuesday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock, conducted by the Rev. Robin Gould,
pastor of the Methodist church. Burial will be made in Sunnyslope cemetery. The funeral will be under the auspices
of the Pythian and Odd Fellows lodges, and the Mine Workers.
Few men held the confidence and esteem of their friends in all walks of life as did Mr. Vickers. Particularly was
he in possession of the affection of his fellow workers. At the time of his death, he was serving his seventeenth
consecutive year as financial secretary of the miners union, to which he was elected year after year by his fellow-workers.
He also served three years in that position, before he started on his consecutive run.
During that long period, Mr. Vickers never once took a vacation, and he always put his work first in his mind and
heart.
Richmond has lost a good citizen and the hearts of all area saddened by the news of the passing of Charles Vickers.
RICHMOND NEWS – November 26,1922 ; Contributed by Leslie Wyman
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Vinsant, Flora
Flora Vinsant, daughter of Hiram and Lessie Vinsant, Knoxville, Mo., died July 1, 1878, of spinal meningitis, aged
5 years and 10 months. (This obituary was written by J. A. D.)
Ray County Chapters, Gossage Scrapbook, The Missourian, 1932
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