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Name of Deceased: W. J. Thom
County Name: Johnson
State: WY
Newspaper: Buffalo News
Obit: Buffalo News, 7 January 1926, page 1
W. J. Thom Dies Wednesday in Chicago
W. J. Thom passed away in Chicago Wednesday morning from uremia, with which he has been a sufferer for some time.
Mr. Thom's funeral services will be held in Buffalo Sunday at the Episcopal church.
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Name of Deceased: Dr. I. W. Blake
County Name: Johnson
State: WY
Newspaper: Buffalo News
Obit: Buffalo News, 14 January 1926, page 1
Funeral of Dr. Blake Held Sunday P. M.
All that was mortal of Dr. I. W. Blake was laid away in Willow Grove cemetery Sunday afternoon, escorted to his last resting place by the largest funeral cortege ever known in Buffalo. In a room in the Blake home banked with floral offerings, the last mute testimonials of love and respect, services were held for the Doctor conducted by Reverend Anspaugh of the Methodist Church in Buffalo who had been an intimate friend of the Doctor's since his pastorate in Buffalo. After music by Mr. and Mrs. John Flint, and Mrs. long, and a prayer by Reverend Craig Watt, followed by a brief address, Dr. Blake was lovingly carried to his last home by the friends he had known in life. Friends from all over the country braved the deep snows to do him reverence and to mourn his passing with the bereaved family.
Words and tears are futile to express the loss felt to the whole community by the passing of the good doctor, their only consolation for his loss comes from the fact that he had suffered much in the last few years, that his pain had been relieved and that his courageous spriit had found rest with his Maker.
Dr. Blake's only relative, a sister, living in Chicago, was too ill to attend the funeral of her brother. Tom Dennis, a brother of Mrs. Blake, of Midwest was here to attend her.
Mrs. Blake and the children have the deep sympathy of all in their great bereavement.
Name of Deceased: Dr. Irwin William Blake
County Name: Johnson
State: WYNewspaper: Buffalo News
Obit: Buffalo News, 14 January 1926, page 8
Life of Dr. I. W. Blake
(By a Friend)
Dr. Irwin William Blake was born at DeSota, Wisconsin, November 1, 1871, and died at Kansas City, Missouri, January 6, 1926. While Dr. Blake had not been in the best of health for some time, and had gone to Kansas City for treatment for a complication of stomach and bowel trouble, his condition was not considered serious, and the news of his death was a distinct shock to his family and friends.
Dr. Blake's boyhood was spent in Wisconsin where he attended the public schools, and after his graduation from High School he enrolled at the University of Wisconsin, at Madison. He attended the University for two years and then matriculated at Rush Medical College, at Chicago, from which institution he graduated in 1896. After receiving his degree from "Rush" he practised medicine at Brunswick, Missouri; Rock Falls, Illinois, and Ladysmith, Wisconsin, coming to Buffalo in the summer of 1904. He was married on November 1, 1902, to Miss Irene Dennis, at Verokua, Wisconsin, who with two children Beverly aged thirteen, and Jimmy aged eight survive him.
Dr. Blake was a man of splendid character and high ideals and was one who had the courage of his convictions. He was a lover of all out door life, and was an ardent hunter and fisherman. All clean sports appealed to him and he was constantly striving to promote athletics and clean living among the young men and boys of Buffalo. Himself a player of no mean ability, he was an enthusiastic base ball fan, and when financial reverses came to him during his college days, he was able to pay his way through school by playing semi-professional ball. After his graduation he received several flattering offers to enter the ranks of professional base ball, but he preferred to devote his life to the practice of medicine.
Dr. Blake was a man of undaunted courage, which was most thoroughly demonstrated in the fall of 1921, when on a hunting trip on the mountains near North Fork of Powder river, he was accidentally shot by a hunting companion. The accident occured in an almost inaccessible canyon, and though desperately hurt, with what he himself thought was his death wound, he instructed the man what to do for emergency measures, and then sent him for help. He was shot about eight o'clock in the morning and it was five o'clock in the afternoon before help arrived. Alone all day, suffering intensely from the cold, as well as the wound, he managed to crawl around and secure enough wood to start a fire. What agony he endured during that ordeal can never be described. When help did arrive it was impossible to get him out of the canyon that night, and it was not until late the following night that he reached the hospital at Sheridan. Nothing but his indomitable will power saved him. His left arm and shoulder were badly shattered, and operation after operation were necessary, but he endured them without complaint, and in the end the arm was saved and he was able to use it to quite an extent. However, the ordeal was a tremendous drain on his wonderful vitality, and he perhaps never fully recovered from its effects.
During the Worlds War Dr. Blake did wonderful service for the Government as a member of the examination board. He worked diligently day after day examining men for the numerous branches of the service, and for this arduous duty he absolutely refused to accept any remuneration whatever from the Government. It is complimentary to his ability that surprisingly few men examined and passed by him during that time failed to pass the examiners higher up.
He has been county health officer for many years; was serving his second term as First Vice President of the State Medical Society, and was a member of the Volunteer Medical Service Corps for the northwestern district of Wyoming.
During the twenty-one years that Doctor Blake lived among us he enjoyed a remunerative practice, but such was his love for humanity that he went when called, even if the patient had not the means to pay. Many long and tiresome trips he made when there was no recompense but the knowledge that human suffering had been relieved.
He was charitable to the highest degree and in his quiet and unassuming way helped make the pathway of life smoother for many poor unfortunates.
Dr. Blake was an exemplary citizen and will be a great loss to this community. His spendid manhood; his patience under severe trials and suffering should be an inspiration to us all. We are better that we have known him. His unselfish live should be an incentive to us to strive for better things. He was a true friend, a pleasant companinon, and a devoted and indulgent husband and father.
Death had no terrors for him - he was well prepared to meet his Maker - he had kept his mind and body clean.
He lived his life as his conscience dictated and he lived right.
Name of Deceased: Mrs. Leona Clark Hilton
County Name: Johnson
State: WY
Newspaper: Buffalo News
Obit: Buffalo News, 21 January 1926, page 1
Mrs. Hilton Dies
Mrs. Leona Clark Hilton died January 17th, 1926, at her home on Rock Creek, north of Buffalo, after an illness covering several weeks. She was buried Tuesday afternoon, Rev. Anspaugh, of the M. E. church, gave the funeral address. Mrs. Hilton was born in Burbank, California, December 12, 1895. She was married to Carl L. Hilton, at Hermosa Beach, California, later moving here to reside. She leaves one child, a daughter, Hazel, and her husband to mourn her passing.
Name of Deceased: Murice Church
County Name: Johnson
State: WY
Newspaper: Buffalo News
Obit: Buffalo News, 21 January 1926, page 1
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Despondent Young Man Kills Self by Strychnine Poison Apparently Insane For Several Days Before Taking Fatal Dose
Maurice ?. Church, aged 32, son of F. A. Church, Riverdale Farm, Kent City, Michigan, who has been trapping and working on the ranch of J A. Moore on Box Elder, committed suicide by strychnine, Tuesday noon January 19th.
Mr. Church had been mentally deranged for several days, having hallucinations that men were after him and were prowling about the ranch. Several times he had intimated or feared that he would commit suicide. He left the ranch suddenly Saturday night without doing his chores, and stated later that he was afraid of the men who had been loitering about the ranch all day, and stated he had not done them because he stayed in the house to guard it. He took with him when leaving a high powered rifle and disappeared into the hills. About nine in the evening he returned in an exhausted condition, leaving his rifle outside by the gate and stating he was sick. He requested that Mr. Moore take the rifle and also said he would turn over some strychnine which he had used in poisoning of coyotes. However, he did not turn in the strychnine. On Sunday morning he said he felt better. On Monday, during the storm which was raging in the country around Box Elder, he spent most of the time in the house in a despondent condition. He was laboring under the delusion that he had been in trouble for the past 20 years and stated that he wanted to go to town and tell the sheriff about the story of his life. About five o'clock Monday evening he took two pails of milk out to feed the calves, but had not returned to the house when supper was ready. No trace of him or of the milk pails could be found, although search was made in all the corrals and buildings on the ranch. During the balance of the evening Mr. Moore made two trips in the storm in search of him but no trace could be found as the drifting snow had covered up his tracks. The following morning both pails, still containing the milk, were found in a manger of a stall occupied by one calf. Plans were made to report the actions of the unfortunate man to the sheriff in Buffalo, but a little before noon he came out of the hills and entered the house.
Mr. Moore finished feeding this cattle and came to the house about noon to prepare dinner. Church was not in sight, apparently being in his bedroom. Hearing his name called Mr. Moore went to the bedroom where he found Mr. Church in bed, partially undressed. Church said, "I am sick."What is the matter?" he was asked."I think I took some poison," he replied.
"Do you know whether or not you took poison?" was the next question asked Church."Yes, I took a little strychnine."
The man was by this time struggling in the agony of a strychnine convulsion but managed to give the name and address of his father. When sympathy was expressed to the unfortunate man he replied, "Its all right, everybody's always kicked me around."
In the meantime lard was being melted, but before it was ready the unfortunate man was in his final death struggles. He was dead within ten minutes after the time he had called to Mr. Moore.
It was afterwards learned that Mr. Church had walked thru the storm Monday night to the home of Johnny Kumor, arriving at a late hour.Mrs. Kumor arose during the night to replenish the kitchen fire and found Church huddled up by the stove. He told her not to be frightened as he had just come in to get warm and had been there about two hours. Mr. and Mrs. Kumor made him comfortable for the night. He told them he did not remember much about his trip through the storm. He said he thought he had started for the Kumor ranch while he was doing the chores. Early in the afternoon he left the Kumor ranch running through the deep snow and heading back for Mr. Moore's.
As soon as possible Coronor Flint and Sheriff Woodside were notified of the tragedy, word being brought to town by Theodore Wanerus, who was a guest at the Moore ranch. He was compelled to drive through with team and wagon owing to the deep drifts. Mr. Flint went out to the ranch [...] evening but had to turn back and try it again Wenesday [...] The young man's remains are to be shipped to Michigan Friday morning.
Mr. Church had been about Buffalo all summer doing carpenter work and [...] courthouse? to be a good workman, although he [...] something praying on his mind.
Name of Deceased: Louis Crane
County Name: Johnson
State: WY
Newspaper: Buffalo News
Obit: Buffalo News, 21 January 1926, page 5
The funeral of Louis Crane, who died Saturday after months of intense suffering, was held in Buffalo Monday. Mr. Crane leaves a wife and family to mourn his loss.
Name of Deceased: Henry A. Smith
County Name: Johnson
State: WY
Newspaper: Buffalo News
Obit: Buffalo News, 28 January 1926, page 1
Henry A. Smith Dies Suddenly Friday A. M. Henry A. Smith, Commandant at the Soldiers' and Sailors' Home near Buffalo, died suddenly Friday morning while distributing the Home mail. Mr. Smith when stricken lived only thirty minutes. Dr. Hynds was called in attendance but before anything could be done Mr. Smith passed away.
Funeral services, of a military character were held Sunday, with a short service at the home and services at the Congregational Church, Reverend Craig Watt delivering the funeral services.
Henry A. Smith was born at Canon City, Oregon, March 1869. While still a young man he came to the Black Hills country from Oregon and was engaged at that time with his brother in the stock business. About 1890 the two brothers came to Buffalo and for several years were interested together in the old Occidental hotel. When the war broke out between the United States and Spain Mr. Smith was among the first to enlist with the Wyoming volunteers and was immediately sent to the Phillippines. He was rapidly advanced in rank and made an exceptional record becoming a lieutenant in a few months, and was later Major Smith. At the close of the war he returned to Buffalo and married Miss Ida Shinn in 1900. He then put in a term as commandant at the Soldiers and Sailors Home, then resigned and went into ranching in the Big Horn mountains. Later, in 1920, he was reappointed commander of teh Post and was holding this position when overtaken by death.
Mr. Smith leaves a widow and an adopted daughter to mourn his loss.
Name of Deceased: Rene Mayor
County Name: Johnson
State: WY
Newspaper: Buffalo News
Obit: Buffalo News, 4 February 1926, page 1
Young Lad Dies.
Rene, the 18 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Mayor of Nine Mile died suddenly early Monday morning at the home of his parents.
Rene was taken ill Thursday and went to bed, and not u ntil Sunday night was his condition thought to be serious enough to call a physician. They were making arrangements to call a doctor when the boy passed away.
Funeral services were held at the home, Tuesday, Reverend Calvin of Kaycee, officiating and interment was made on the ranch. Mr. and Mrs. Mayor have the sympathy of all in their bereavement.
Name of Deceased: Rene Mayor
County Name: Johnson
State: WY
Newspaper: Buffalo News
Obit: Buffalo News, 11 February 1926, page 4
Obituary
Rene Mayor was born January 22, 1908, at Richmond, Virginia, and departed this life, February 1st at one o'clock a. m. at the age of eighteen years and ten days. He came to Wyoming with his parents about four years ago.
He was a very bright and promising young man and it is with sincere regret that we record the sad tidings of his death, which came as a great shock to the community in which he lived. He had been feeling badly for a day or two, but was not thought to be seriously ill, when suddenly he became very ill, and before the family could get assistance he had passed away. He leaves to mourn his loss his parents, three brothers and three sisters and an aunt who resided in the Mayor home. Mrs. Mayor is an invalid.
Funeral services were conducted at the home and interment was made on the ranch near his home. The bereaved family have the sympathy of all in their bereavement.
Name of Deceased: Boy Baby Wendt
County Name: Johnson
State: WY
Newspaper: Buffalo News
Obit: Buffalo News, 25 February 1926, page 5
Mr. and Mrs. Wendt lost their boy baby last Friday evening. The little one was buried Wednesday from undertaking parlors. Mr. Wendt came over from Sheridan to attend the funeral.
Name of Deceased: Charles Dorsey
County Name: Johnson
State: WY
Newspaper: Buffalo News
Obit: Buffalo News, 25 February 1926, page 1
Injured and Alone Charles Dorsey Commits SuicideCharles Dorsey, a rancher living seventeen miles southeast of Sussex, committed suicide and was found by M. H. Leitner, who notified the coroner in Buffalo. Mr. Leitner was deputized to bring the dead body to town which he did Tuesday.
From a note left by Mr. Dorsey who was living alone, it appears that he had been injured in some way and help not being close at hand and unable to find relief, he had shot himself out of his misery. The gun was still clutched tightly in his hand when brought to Buffalo.
The deceased was a man 58 years old.
All submitted by a Friend of Free Genealogy
Name of Deceased: Mrs. Harriett Watkins
County Name: Johnson
State: WY
Newspaper: Buffalo News
Obit: Buffalo News, 26 November 1925, page 1
Mrs. Harriett Watkins Laid to Rest Tuesday
At twilight, just as the last pale rays of the setting sun had passed westward beyond the Big Horn Mountains, Tuesday evening, Mrs. Harriett Watkins, beloved of the whole community since she first entered it in 1884, was laid to rest by the neighborhood she had served since her early years.
Mrs. Watkins was born in Deerfield, Massachusetts, in 1842, and passed away November 20th, 1925, in Buffalo, Wyoming.
As a girl Mrs. Watkins was very studious and was far ahead of the young women of her generation in education and she became a teacher and expert nurse. As a young woman, she and the sister of Dr. Watkins, better known as "Aunt Molly", established the first reconstruction school in the south after the war at Richmond, Virginia. She married Dr. Watkins at Elko, Nevada in 1859 and they came together to Wyoming in 1881, settling in Buffalo in 1884. Dr. Watkins was one of the first practicing physicians in this section of Wyoming. Dr. Watkins died in 1892 and Mrs. Watkins has since made her home with her two sons, Robert and E. F. Watkins.
Mrs. Watkins was a typical New England Christian woman and her acts of mercy while assisting her doctor husband from year to year are well known and remembered by all the older inhabitants of this vicinity. She was, also, a charter member of the Buffalo Congregational Church and it was largely due to her efforts and those of "Aunt Molly" that the present Congregational Church was built and that it stands of that denomination.
Her son, E. F. Watkins, of Council Bluffs, arrived in town in time for the funeral services and brought with him a beautiful floral offering of lavender Chrysanthemums sent by the Union Pacific Railroad Passenger Yard boys with whom he is employed. Other floral offerings were beautiful and only told in a minute sense of the esteem in which Mrs. Watkins was held.
Rev. Craig Watt and Rev. McKay officiated at the services. Rev. Watt spoke very feelingly of the noble Christian character of the deceased. He closed with the verse written by Bob Burdette after the death of his much loved young wife:
"Since she went home,
How still the empty rooms her presence blessed.
Untouched the pillow that her dear head pressed.
My lonely heart has nowhere for its rest,
Since she went home.”
Name of Deceased: Mrs. Zephyr Grinnell
County Name: Johnson
State: WY
Newspaper: Buffalo News
Obit: Buffalo News, 3 December 1925, page 1
Prominent Johnson County Woman Dragged To Her Death By Runaway Horses
Mrs. Zephyr Grinnell, widow of Samuel Grinnell, who died suddenly two years ago next May, was dragged to death by a team of horses with which she and her son were attempting to start their car, preparatory to coming to town. It has not been definitely determined just how the accident occurred as Jay was at the wheel of the car and his mother was holding the lines to guide the team. It is thought she dropped one of the lines which caused the team to start in a circle and she became entangled in the chains. By the time the team was stopped, Mrs. Grinnell was terribly crushed and mangled. Her sister, Mrs. Doc Sparks, got to her within thirty minutes of the accident and Doctor Blake, of Buffalo, was called at once to the scene. Upon examination he found that nothing could be attempted to save her, but he took her to Sheridan Memorial Hospital where she lived from Saturday morning until about noon Monday. Although so severly injured and mangled, Mrs. Grinnell held consciousness up until a few hours of her death and faced the hereafter with a wonderful cheerfulness of spirit, her whole thought being for the future welfare without her of her son, Jay.
Mrs. Grinnell was born March 11, 1872 and died November 30th, 1925. She was married in January 1895 to Samuel J. Grinnell, who brought her as a bride to the ranch where she met her tragic death. She leaves her son, Jay S. Grinnell, her aged mother, Mrs. Brown, and three brothers and three sisters to mourn her passing.
Funeral services were held at the Grinnell home in Buffalo, Reverend Anspaugh, of the Buffalo M. E. church, officiating. Through a driving snowstorm a large funeral cortege followed this well known and much loved woman to her grave in the beautiful, even in winter, Willow Grove Cemetery.
Name of Deceased: Mrs. Rennie Worden
Name of Deceased: Henry "Dutchy" Lewis
County Name: Johnson
State: WY
Newspaper: Buffalo News
Obit: Buffalo News, 17 December 1925, page 1
Pioneer of Border Drifts to Another
An old pioneer of the border was found dead in his sheep wagon near Thermopolis a few days ago with a 22 bullet hole through his head, presumably suicide. Henry, or "Dutchy" Lewis has passed to his reward, leaving behind the memory of a life that might have been lived in the wildest tale of a wilder west. "Dutchy" was a real border character, of which there are so few left today. When a young child he came to the border with his people. His mother died leaving "Dutchy" an orphan waif, who never remembered his real name. He lived with a man by the name of Henry Lewis who gave him his name.
History tells us that in 1880 "Dutchy" in company with Tom Ryan, sheriff of Sidney, Nebr.; Arthur Chico, Wyoming Brand Inspector, and Clabe Young, Texas cowpuncher, got in some sort of mix up in Nebraska and were visited by the vigilantes who insistently invited them to move on - which they did, drifting to the borders of Wyomng. Clabe Young landed in Sweetwater, where years later he, too, was found dead under the same circumstances as "Dutchy" Lewis.
"Dutchy" was cook at the TA, when it ws run by the Murphy outfit, and the tales of his culinary ability still lingers in the minds of the old timers who were young when "Dutchy" was in his prime. About this time it is related that he had been told that if he would take out the crown of his hat and rub his bald head with bacon grease that it would cause the hair to grown on the baldest head. Thereafter he was seen, a character sketch in himself, shifting about among his cooking utensils, barefooted and with bald greased head shining above his hat brim. He was, too, an adept in the use of his toes and one of the tales they tell of him is about the time he had a bunch of girls to feed because they persisted in riding over to his wagon on the round up to visit their cowboy loves about the wagon when they loped in for the noonday grub. "Dutchy" aimed to break them of this habit, which he succeeded most admirably in doing by appearing one day before them, slouchy, greasy and dirty, tossing dishes into the big dishpan with his toes accompanied by numerous and sundry other eat dispelling maneuvers. The girls, it is said would never eat "Dutchy's" cooking thereafter. From the TA he went on out to Seattle where he was shanghaied by a whaling gang and spent eight years on the water. As soon as he got back to the states he returned to his old stamping ground near Buffalo - glad to return to the scenes of his younger days. In 1890 two cowboys taught him to read, which acquirement proved to be of a great deal of comfort to him in his old age when he became a sheep herder. The last "Dutchy" stayed around here was a few years ago when he herded sheep for Condit. From here he went to Thermopolis. Not long ago he was in Buffalo visiting with old friends, later returning to his job where he was found a few days ag o at the end of his wanderings.
Name of Deceased: John A. Covington
County Name: Johnson
State: WY
Newspaper: Buffalo News
Obit: Buffalo News, 24 December 1925, page 1
Obituary
John A. Covington was born in Missouri August 5, 1850, and died at the Grill Andersn [sic] home December 7, 1925, at the age of 75 years, 5 months. Mr. Covington came from Johnson County from Colorado in 1886 and has made his home in Sheridan and Johnson County most of the time since.
He always preferred living alone and was alone at the time of his death. He had been in failing health for some time, but never unable to care for himself. He had said he wished to pass on before he was a burden to anyone and such he did.
He leaves a brother and a number of nieces and nephews. Two nieces, Mrs. George Gardiner and Mrs. Clark were the only relatives present at the funeral, which was held at the home of Mrs. Gardiner.
Name of Deceased: Mrs. Elizabeth Hepp
County Name: Johnson
State: WY
Newspaper: Buffalo News
Obit: Buffalo News, 24 December 1925, page 1
Grandma Hepp Dies
Mrs. Elizabeth Hepp, one of the real old times of this county, passed away at her home in Buffalo Monday afternoon, of extreme old age. Mrs. Hepp was ninety-one years old the 7th of August and had resided here for over forty-five years. She was buried Wednesday afternoon, Rev. Craig Watt officiating
Name of Deceased: Dr. I. W. Blake
County Name: Johnson
State: WY
Newspaper: Buffalo News
Obit: Buffalo News, 7 January 1926, page 1
Great Physician Calls Doctor Blake
The whole community was shocked Wednesday to learn that Dr. I. W. Blake passed away at Kansas City, where he had gone a few days ago to take treatments for stomach trouble. The cause of his death was a weakened heart. Since the time a few years ago when he was accidentally shot while hunting, the Dr. has suffered a great deal and had worn out his nerve force, this no doubt weakening his heart gradually.
Dr. I. W. Blake will be mourned by the whole community. Always ready to help the poor and the needy, always ready to give a helping hand to any worthy community cause, he was, indeed, a friend to his fellow man, and he will be missed more than words can express, long years to come by all those with whom he came in contact.
The life of Doctor Blake will be published in the NEWS next week, written by one of his closest friends in Johnson County.
All submitted by a Friend of Free Genealogy
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Name of Deceased: Mrs. Harriett Watkins
County Name: Johnson
State: WY
Newspaper: Buffalo News
Obit: Buffalo News, 26 November 1925, page 1
Mrs. Harriett Watkins Laid to Rest Tuesday
At twilight, just as the last pale rays of the setting sun had passed westward beyond the Big Horn Mountains, Tuesday evening, Mrs. Harriett Watkins, beloved of the whole community since she first entered it in 1884, was laid to rest by the neighborhood she had served since her early years.
Mrs. Watkins was born in Deerfield, Massachusetts, in 1842, and passed away November 20th, 1925, in Buffalo, Wyoming.
As a girl Mrs. Watkins was very studious and was far ahead of the young women of her generation in education and she became a teacher and expert nurse. As a young woman, she and the sister of Dr. Watkins, better known as "Aunt Molly", established the first reconstruction school in the south after the war at Richmond, Virginia. She married Dr. Watkins at Elko, Nevada in 1859 and they came together to Wyoming in 1881, settling in Buffalo in 1884. Dr. Watkins was one of the first practicing physicians in this section of Wyoming. Dr. Watkins died in 1892 and Mrs. Watkins has since made her home with her two sons, Robert and E. F. Watkins.
Mrs. Watkins was a typical New England Christian woman and her acts of mercy while assisting her doctor husband from year to year are well known and remembered by all the older inhabitants of this vicinity. She was, also, a charter member of the Buffalo Congregational Church and it was largely due to her efforts and those of "Aunt Molly" that the present Congregational Church was built and that it stands of that denomination.
Her son, E. F. Watkins, of Council Bluffs, arrived in town in time for the funeral services and brought with him a beautiful floral offering of lavender Chrysanthemums sent by the Union Pacific Railroad Passenger Yard boys with whom he is employed. Other floral offerings were beautiful and only told in a minute sense of the esteem in which Mrs. Watkins was held.
Rev. Craig Watt and Rev. McKay officiated at the services. Rev. Watt spoke very feelingly of the noble Christian character of the deceased. He closed with the verse written by Bob Burdette after the death of his much loved young wife:
"Since she went home,
How still the empty rooms her presence blessed.
Untouched the pillow that her dear head pressed.
My lonely heart has nowhere for its rest,
Since she went home."
Name of Deceased: Mrs. Zephyr Grinnell
County Name: Johnson
State: WY
Newspaper: Buffalo News
Obit: Buffalo News, 3 December 1925, page 1
Prominent Johnson County Woman Dragged To Her Death By Runaway Horses
Mrs. Zephyr Grinnell, widow of Samuel Grinnell, who died suddenly two years ago next May, was dragged to death by a team of horses with which she and her son were attempting to start their car, preparatory to coming to town. It has not been definitely determined just how the accident occurred as Jay was at the wheel of the car and his mother was holding the lines to guide the team. It is thought she dropped one of the lines which caused the team to start in a circle and she became entangled in the chains. By the time the team was stopped, Mrs. Grinnell was terribly crushed and mangled. Her sister, Mrs. Doc Sparks, got to her within thirty minutes of the accident and Doctor Blake, of Buffalo, was called at once to the scene. Upon examination he found that nothing could be attempted to save her, but he took her to Sheridan Memorial Hospital where she lived from Saturday morning until about noon Monday. Although so severly injured and mangled, Mrs. Grinnell held consciousness up until a few hours of her death and faced the hereafter with a wonderful cheerfulness of spirit, her whole thought being for the future welfare without her of her son, Jay.
Mrs. Grinnell was born March 11, 1872 and died November 30th, 1925. She was married in January 1895 to Samuel J. Grinnell, who brought her as a bride to the ranch where she met her tragic death. She leaves her son, Jay S. Grinnell, her aged mother, Mrs. Brown, and three brothers and three sisters to mourn her passing.
Funeral services were held at the Grinnell home in Buffalo, Reverend Anspaugh, of the Buffalo M. E. church, officiating. Through a driving snowstorm a large funeral cortege followed this well known and much loved woman to her grave in the beautiful, even in winter, Willow Grove Cemetery.
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Name of Deceased: Mrs. Rennie Worden
County Name: Johnson
State: WY
Newspaper: Buffalo News
Obit: Buffalo News, 3 December 1925, page 5
Mrs. Rennie Worden, a sister of the Dawson boys, of Kaycee, died Wednesday morning in Clearmont.
Name of Deceased: Henry "Dutchy" Lewis
County Name: Johnson
State: WY
Newspaper: Buffalo News
Obit: Buffalo News, 17 December 1925, page 1
Pioneer of Border Drifts to Another
An old pioneer of the border was found dead in his sheep wagon near Thermopolis a few days ago with a 22 bullet hole through his head, presumably suicide. Henry, or "Dutchy" Lewis has passed to his reward, leaving behind the memory of a life that might have been lived in the wildest tale of a wilder west. "Dutchy" was a real border character, of which there are so few left today. When a young child he came to the border with his people. His mother died leaving "Dutchy" an orphan waif, who never remembered his real name. He lived with a man by the name of Henry Lewis who gave him his name.
History tells us that in 1880 "Dutchy" in company with Tom Ryan, sheriff of Sidney, Nebr.; Arthur Chico, Wyoming Brand Inspector, and Clabe Young, Texas cowpuncher, got in some sort of mix up in Nebraska and were visited by the vigilantes who insistently invited them to move on - which they did, drifting to the borders of Wyomng. Clabe Young landed in Sweetwater, where years later he, too, was found dead under the same circumstances as "Dutchy" Lewis.
"Dutchy" was cook at the TA, when it ws run by the Murphy outfit, and the tales of his culinary ability still lingers in the minds of the old timers who were young when "Dutchy" was in his prime. About this time it is related that he had been told that if he would take out the crown of his hat and rub his bald head with bacon grease that it would cause the hair to grown on the baldest head. Thereafter he was seen, a character sketch in himself, shifting about among his cooking utensils, barefooted and with bald greased head shining above his hat brim. He was, too, an adept in the use of his toes and one of the tales they tell of him is about the time he had a bunch of girls to feed because they persisted in riding over to his wagon on the round up to visit their cowboy loves about the wagon when they loped in for the noonday grub. "Dutchy" aimed to break them of this habit, which he succeeded most admirably in doing by appearing one day before them, slouchy, greasy and dirty, tossing dishes into the big dishpan with his toes accompanied by numerous and sundry other eat dispelling maneuvers. The girls, it is said would never eat "Dutchy's" cooking thereafter. From the TA he went on out to Seattle where he was shanghaied by a whaling gang and spent eight years on the water. As soon as he got back to the states he returned to his old stamping ground near Buffalo - glad to return to the scenes of his younger days. In 1890 two cowboys taught him to read, which acquirement proved to be of a great deal of comfort to him in his old age when he became a sheep herder. The last "Dutchy" stayed around here was a few years ago when he herded sheep for Condit. From here he went to Thermopolis. Not long ago he was in Buffalo visiting with old friends, later returning to his job where he was found a few days ago at the end of his wanderings.
Name of Deceased: John A. Covington
County Name: Johnson
State: WY
Newspaper: Buffalo News
Obit: Buffalo News, 24 December 1925, page 1
Obituary
John A. Covington was born in Missouri August 5, 1850, and died at the Grill Andersn [sic] home December 7, 1925, at the age of 75 years, 5 months.
Mr. Covington came from Johnson County from Colorado in 1886 and has made his home in Sheridan and Johnson County most of the time since.
He always preferred living alone and was alone at the time of his death. He had been in failing health for some time, but never unable to care for himself. He had said he wished to pass on before he was a burden to anyone and such he did.
He leaves a brother and a number of nieces and nephews. Two nieces, Mrs. George Gardiner and Mrs. Clark were the only relatives present at the funeral, which was held at the home of Mrs. Gardiner.
Name of Deceased: Mrs. Elizabeth Hepp
County Name: Johnson
State: WY
Newspaper: Buffalo News
Obit: Buffalo News, 24 December 1925, page 1
Grandma Hepp Dies
Mrs. Elizabeth Hepp, one of the real old times of this county, passed away at her home in Buffalo Monday afternoon, of extreme old age. Mrs. Hepp was ninety-one years old the 7th of August and had resided here for over forty-five years. She was buried Wednesday afternoon, Rev. Craig Watt officiating.
Name of Deceased: Dr. I. W. Blake
County Name: Johnson
State: WY
Newspaper: Buffalo News
Obit: Buffalo News, 7 January 1926, page 1
Great Physician Calls Doctor Blake
The whole community was shocked Wednesday to learn that Dr. I. W. Blake passed away at Kansas City, where he had gone a few days ago to take treatments for stomach trouble. The cause of his death was a weakened heart. Since the time a few years ago when he was accidentally shot while hunting, the Dr. has suffered a great deal and had worn out his nerve force, this no doubt weakening his heart gradually.
Dr. I. W. Blake will be mourned by the whole community. Always ready to help the poor and the needy, always ready to give a helping hand to any worthy community cause, he was, indeed, a friend to his fellow man, and he will be missed more than words can express, long years to come by all those with whom he came in contact.
The life of Doctor Blake will be published in the NEWS next week, written by one of his closest friends in Johnson County.
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All from a "Friend of Free Genealogy"
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Name of Deceased: R. S. Sours
County Name: Johnson
State: WY
Newspaper: Buffalo News
Obit: Buffalo News, 2 September 1926, page 1
R. S. Sours Passes Away
R. S. Sours, who had been practically bed ridden since the death of his
wife a few months ago, passed away Wednesday eve at his residence in
South Buffalo.
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Name of Deceased: Perry Keith
County Name: Natrona
State: WY
Newspaper: Buffalo News
Obit: Buffalo News, 2 September 1926, page 1
Perry Keith Killed
By Truck Overturning
Mr. and Mrs. Adam Keith, formerly of Kaycee, but now of Midwest,
are mourning the loss of their son, Perry, who was killed by an
overturning truck. Perry had been employed in Midwest during his
summer vacation. The truck in which he was riding was heavily
loaded with iron pipe, when it struck a small wash out in the road it
overturned, the pipe falling on Perry killing him instantly. The driver
of the truck was unhurt.
Perry was seventeen years old and would have graduated from the
Midwest High School next June.
Mr. and Mrs. Keith have the sympathy of a host of friends in their
bereavement.
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Name of Deceased: Ruth Arlene Nelson
County Name: Johnson
State: WY
Newspaper: Buffalo News
Obit: Buffalo News, 2 September 1926, page 1
Ruth Arlene Nelson, baby daughter born to Mr. and Mrs. Carl J.
Nelson, August 30, lived only a few hours and was buried in Willow
Grove Cemetery the next day. This was the first child of Mr. and Mrs.
Nelso's and they are much bereaved over its death. Their friends in
Buffalo extend their sympathy.
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Name of Deceased: George M. Humphrey
County Name: Laramie
State: WY
Newspaper: Buffalo News
Obit: Buffalo News, 2 September 1926, page 1
Passes AWay When Tooth Is Extracted
George M. Humphrey, of Burns, passed away while having teeth
extracted by a Cheyenne dentist, after an anaesthetic. The first tooth
was pulled when shock and a weak heart caused death. Mr. Humphrey
was 31 years old and lived at Burns with his family.
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Name of Deceased: Mr. Long, Sr.
County Name: Johnson
State: WY
Newspaper: Buffalo News
Obit: Buffalo News, 16 September 1926, page 5
Dr. Long is in Missouri, where he went with the body of his father to
his old home for burial. Mr. Long, Sr., passed away Thursday
afternoon after an extended illness at his son's home.
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