Reuben and Nancy (McCotter) GEORGE Jr. and Enoch and Jane (McCotter) GEORGE were sons of Reuben GEORGE Sr. of Butler County Ohio.

The brothers brought their families west to Andrew County in the mid to later 1840s. When the Kansas Territory opened to white settlement in the later 1850s, members from both families crossed the Missouri River due west from Andrew County to help settle Doniphan County Kansas.

Enoch and most of his children returned to Andrew County, but Reuben stayed the rest of his life in Doniphan County Kansas.

Date of Death: 8 Sep 1876
Subject: Edmond Gee
Source: Andrew County Republican, 21 Sep 1876, p. 1

Edmund [sic] Gee, a former resident of Jackson township died at the residence of his son in Washington township, on Friday, the 8th inst. Mr. Gee was one of the earliest settlers of Andrew county, having been a citizen of the county for nearly forty years. At the time of his death he had attained the age of ninety-one years. Among his most intimate acquaintances he has always bore a character which was above reproach. His remains were interred at Nodaway church, on Hackberry Ridge.– Democrat.

Date of death: 22 Jun 1901
Subject: Mrs. Sarah M. Gardner
Source: St. Joseph Gazette-Herald, 23 Jun 1901, p. 7

Mrs. Sarah M. Gardner, seventy-seven years old, died of old age at 8 o’clock Saturday morning at the home of her daughter, Mrs. R. M. Bullimore, 141? North Sixth street. The funeral will be held this afternoon from the residence.

Source: St. Joseph Gazette-Herald, 23 Jun 1901, p. 9

Mrs. Sarah M. Gardner died at 8 o’clock Saturday morning at the home of her daughter, Mrs. R. M. … N. 6th St., at the age of … years … months and 21 days. Funeral will … at the house Sunday … p.m. Interment at Green cemetery. Friends of the family invited to attend.

BURNS PROVED FATAL
Mrs. Mae E. Gamble Victim of Frightful Accident.
Had Attempted to Start a Fire With Coal Oil When the Can Exploded and Enveloped Her in Flames — News Notes and Personal Mention
Mrs. Mae Elizabeth Gamble, twenty-nine years old, wife of William J. Gamble, an engineer at the Swift Packing plant, died at 11:30 o’clock last night at St. Joseph’s Hospital as a result of injuries sustained when her clothing caught fire early yesterday morning. The body was removed to H. A. Sidenfaden’s. Services will be conducted at 7:30 o’clock tonight in the undertaker’s chapel, and tomorrow the body will be taken to Helena, Mo., her former home, for burial.

The dead woman leaves a five-year-old son and also is survived by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Alonzo Shay of Andrew County; three brothers, Fred, Bert and Charles, and a sister, Nellie Shay.

The accident happened shortly before 6 o’clock at the Gamble home, Second and Cliff streets. The husband had gone to work and Mrs. Gamble’s brother, Bert, a night employe of the Rock Island, was in bed at the house … that Mrs. Gamble was … the … a fire in the kitchen with coal oil when the can exploded. Her clothing was instantly a mass of flames and her brother, who was awakened by her cries, smothered the blaze with bedclothing.

Rare presence of mind was displayed by Mrs. Gamble … agonizing pain, for while her brother was putting out the fire to save the house, she staggered to the telephone and called for J. J. Byrne. The physician said today that her entire body was literally cooked.

The unfortunate woman became unconscious soon after reaching the hospital and never regained … Her mother came to St. Joseph from Helena yesterday afternoon.

Source: St. Joseph News-Press, 4 January 1912, p. 2, col. 1.

Date of Death: 23 Dec 1922
Subject: Walter Wallace Galley, Jr.
Source: St. Joseph News-Press, 25 Dec 1922, p. 6

Walter Wallace Jr., infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Wallace Galley, died Saturday afternoon at the home on the Maxwell road.

Date of Death: 20 Jan 1889
Subject: Martin VanSchoiack & James Gabbert
Source: unknown, 25 Jan 1889

Double Funeral

Old Martin VanSchoiack died in St. Joseph asylum last Sat. Remains were returned to the old homestead on Sunday, in Jefferson township. Among others waiting was the corpse of James Gabbert, about 40 years, who has been raised in the VanSchoiack family. He died about one hour before body arrived from St. Joe. Both were buried on Monday in Long Branch Cemetery.

Date of Death: 2 Jan 1895
Subject: William Frodsham
Source: Holt County Sentinel, 4 Jan 1895, p. 1

Mrs. C. W. Frodsham, of Savannah, is in the city at the bedside of her father, Judge Lehmer, who is still quite sick. On Wednesday last she received a telegram announcing the death of her venerable father-in-law, Wm. Frodsham, Esq., of Savannah.

Date of Death: 20 Sep 1902
Subject: Elizabeth (Brickhill) Frodsham
Source: Holt County Sentinel, 26 Sep 1902, p. 8

Mrs. Elizabeth Frodsham, of Savannah, one of the oldest and most respected citizens, died Sunday night, September 21, 1902, aged eighty-five years.

Date of Death: 30 Oct 1905
Subject: John Fritchman
Source: Holt County Sentinel, 17 Nov 1905, p. 5

The death of John Fritchman last Monday, removes another of the pioneers of Andrew county and a citizen who stood high in the estimation of all who knew him. He was born in Cumberland county, Pa., February 16, 1828, and while an infant came with his parents to Westmoreland county, in the same state where he grew to manhood. On October 25, 1850, he was married to Miss Susan Lynn and in 1865 they came west, settling on the farm six miles northwest of Savannah, where he died. The day of his death, October 30, was the 40th anniversary of this settlement.– Savannah Democrat.

Date of Death: 8 Apr 1876
Subject: Levina Freeman
Source: Andrew County Republican, 14 Apr 1876, p. 8

Died. In Savannah, at the residence of D. C. Stotts, of Pneumonia, on Saturday, April 8th, 1876, Miss Lavinia [sic] Freeman, aged 60 years. The deceased was an aunt of W. S. Greenlee, of this city.

Date of Death: 28 Jun 1921
Subject: John Fothergill
Source: St. Joseph Observer, 9 Jul 1921

John Fothergill died at his home three miles west of Rosendale Tuesday, June 28, from the effects of a bee sting. That is[,] there was no illness until after the sting, when stomach trouble developed. Mr. Fothergill was 88 years, 11 months and 18 days old and he is survived by three sons and two daughters, Charles, George and Gordon [sic], all of near Rosendale, Mrs. George J. Gurm of Wall Lake, Iowa, and Miss Mary Fothergill at home.

Census of 1850:

• FOSTER, James O. 22 M Ind.
• Mary J. 21 F Ind.
• Melinda E. KAUBLE 16 F Ind.
• Jaob C. KAUBLE 5 M Mo.
• McGLAHLIN, Harrison 38 M Ind.
• Margaret A. McGlahlin 40 F Ky.
• Missouri A. McGlahlin 9 F Mo.
• William FOSTER 25 M O.
• Elizabeth F. ” 15 F Ky.
• John BOWMAN 80 M Pa.
• FOSTER, James 27 M Ind.
• Mary J. 20 F Mo.
• David A. 4/12 M Mo.

1841- 1856 Marriages in Andrew County, MO:

• FOSTER, James (m) Mary Graham 13 Mar 1849
• FOSTER, James O. (m) Mary Jane Cobble 15 Aug 1850
• FOSTER, Mathias (m) Louisa Jane Raney 27 Nov 1850
• FOSTER, William (m) Frances McGlothlin 11 Apr 1850 (McGlahlin above)
• SMITH, Daniel (m) Elizabeth FOSTER 29 Aug 1841
• SMITH, Henry (m) Marinda FOSTER 25 Dec 1844

FOSTER, Lafayette M., M. D., lived in Savannah in 1876-77.

Date of Death: 27 Jan 1918
Subject: Katherine (Kidel) Ford
Source: St. Joseph Observer, 2 Feb 1918

Mrs. Katherine Ford, 89 years of age, a widow, residing at Cosby, died at a local hospital Sunday afternoon.

Date of Death: 29 Sep 1921
Subject: Mary (Hibbs) Follett
Source: St. Joseph Observer, 8 Oct 1921

Mrs. Mary Follett, wife of the late E. S. Follett, early settlers of Savannah, died at her home in Savannah Wednesday morning after an illness lasting some time. The funeral services were held at the Baptist church Saturday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock. Burial was in the Savannah cemetery in charge of the Rebekah lodge.- Savannah Reporter

Date of Death: 22 Apr 1876
Subject: John H. Floyd
Source: Andrew County Republican, 27 Apr 1876, p. 1

We learn that a man named Floyd, a new comer to this county, and renter, was killed by lightning on Saturday evening last. He was returning home from Flag Springs, near which place he lived, in a wagon, accompanied by a boy, during the storm, when the fatal bolt descended. The boy was shocked, but recovered. Mr. Floyd was buried on Monday.

Source: Andrew County Republican, 27 Apr 1876, p. 4

Letter From Flag Springs, April 25th, 1876.

Our quiet little village was thrown into a state of excitement last Saturday, the 22d inst., on account of a man being killed near here. During the thunder storm on that evening. Mr. John H. Floyd, was struck and killed by lightning. He had been to a neighbors to get a stalk rake, and was returning, and just as he had passed the school house about three-quarters of a mile from town, he was struck. The lines dropped and the horses ran about three-quarters of a mile before they were stopped. He only spoke once after he was found. It seems that the full force of the lightning didn’t strike him, as his clothes were not torn, nor was he bruised in any way, except a small place in his forehead. His little boy, who was with him in the wagon, and sitting on the rake, was bruised a little, and considerably shocked, but has entirely recovered. Mr. Floyd lived on a part of the Clayton Boyles place, several miles southeast of here. He leaves a wife and five little boys to mourn his loss. Deceased was buried at this place, Monday, the 23th.

“Speak Lord for thy servant heareth.”–Samuel.

Fred Fritz Flueckinger, emigrated to America, Mar. 14, 1883; located at Amazonia, near St. Joe, in Andrew county, Mo. He was a native of Hutwyl in Canton Berne, northwest part of Switzerland. He was born in 1845 and in 1869 married there Maria Sheidregger. They were farmers and members of the Reformed church.

John Flueckinger, grandfather of Fred, born 1785, lived and died in the membership of the same church at Hutwyl. Jacob Flueckinger, son of John and father of Fred Fritz, was born in 1815, was a silk weaver, lived at Hutwyl and was also a member of the same Reformed church. This German form of the name, Flueckinger, is found so early in the records of the Reformed church at Hutwyl as to suggest a very early settlement there of one or more families, soon after the Germans began to invade and occupy that portion of Switzerland.

Fred and Maria were the parents of six children, five of whom, Fritz, Emma, Alfred, Freda and John, were born at Hutwyl, and in 1883 accompanied their parents to Amazonia, Mo. Carl, the youngest, was born in Andrew county, Mo., and pursued an education that fitted him for the ministry of the Reformed church.

Source: The History and Genealogy of the Flickinger Families in the United States of America, by Robert Elliot Flickinger, 1927
Submitted: Monica Schirmer Eshelman

Date of Death: 24 Jul 1908
Subject: Nancy (Cox) Fletchall
Source: probably Savannah Reporter, Jul 1908

Fletchall, Mrs. George – died 24 July 1908 at her home, aged 80. She was born Nancy Cox, the eldest daughter of Daniel & Mary Cox, at Mt. Vernon, Ind., 6 Dec 1827. Came to Mo. with her parents. Here married George Fletchall near Weston, Mo., 23 Feb 1845. With her husband & near relatives moved to Worth Co., where 10 of her children were born. In 1867 she & her family moved to Andrew Co., where she lived until the fall of 1876, when she moved to St. Joseph. In the spring of 1898 she & her husband moved back to Andrew Co. & lived there until her death. Surviving children are – Eli, of Helena, Mo.; Mrs. M.A. Jackson, of Savannah, Mo.; Mrs. E. J. Quick, of Helena, Mo; D.C. of Springfield; A. Fletchall, of St. Joseph, Mo.; James of Boston, Mass; H. T., of Gold Field, Nev.; G. W., of Cavour, S. Dak. Funeral was at the home of her daughter, Mrs. E. J. Quick, near Helena. Burial at Bedford Chapel cemetery.

Date of Death: 26 Apr 1909
Subject: George Fletchall
Source: Savannah Reporter, 30 Apr 1909

George Fletchall was born October 26, 1824 in Posey county, Indiana, died April 26, 1909, at his home east of Savannah, aged 84 years, 6 months and 19 days. He was one of the early settlers of Andrew county. In 1845 he was married to Nancy Cox, who died a few months ago. He united in early life with the United Baptist church and for a number of years was a preacher of the gospel. His life came to a peaceful end at a ripe old age. He leaves eight sons and two daughters and hosts of friends. He was buried in Bedford Chapel cemetery by the side of his wife.

M. Dewitt

Date of Death: Apr 1892
Subject: Elijah Franklin Flemming
Source: unknown Andrew co. newspaper, Apr 1892

Died at his residence in Andrew county, Tuesday, April 5, 1892, Elijah Franklin Flemming aged 80 years, 9 months and 23 days.

Father Flemming was a native of Kentucky, emigrated to Indiana at the age of 16, where he resided until he reached the age of 44, when he removed to Andrew county, Mo., where he has since lived. June 8, 1843, he was united in marriage with Miss Sarah J. Francis, who has since shared his joys and his sorrows, and who now mourns his departure, yet sorrows “not as those who have no hope,” for he embraced Christianity when about 22 years of age, first uniting with the M. E. Church, and some ten years later, with the Christian Church. Ever true to his convictions of right, he died, as he had lived, a Christian.

They were blessed with nine children — six sons and two daughters now mourn the loss of a fond father, while one son preceded him to the land beyond, dying at the age of ten years, Those living are William C., George F., Lewis M., John and H. H. all of this county, and Thomas of Nodaway county, all of whom are well and favorably known as successful and enterprising farmers and stock dealers. The daughters are Mrs. Susan I. Vance, of Maitland, Holt County, and Mrs. Mary E. Stepp of Trenton, Grundy County.

After a brief service at the homestead, conducted by Elder W. A. Chapman, the body was lain to rest in the Bennett Lane Cemetery to await the resurrection of the Just.

Date of Death: 25 Oct 1897
Subject: infant of Thomas Fleming
Source: Holt County Sentinel, 29 Oct 1897, p. 4

Richville.– Thomas Fleming’s baby died, October 25, 1897.

Date of Death: 6 Dec 1898
Subject: infant of Thomas Fleming
Source: Holt County Sentinel, 16 Dec 1898, p. 2

Richville.– The infant child of Thomas Fleming died, Dec. 6th, 1898, and was buried in Fillmore cemetry [sic], Thursday.

Date of Death: 24 Jan 1878
Subject: Julius Payton Fimple
Source: Savannah Reporter, Jan 1878

Robert Fimple in Monroe township, went to the neighbors to clean some beans and hemp seed. Returning home his 9-year old boy was sitting in a tub on the sack. The wagon ran against a stump, threw the boy out of the wagon and two wheels ran over him. He lived a few minutes. His mother had died six years before. It was one of the saddest accidents.

Source: Savannah Reporter, Jan 1878

There was quite a sad accident happened, Thursday evening, which caused the death of one of Robert Fimple’s younger boys. The particulars are as follows: Mr. Fimple had been to Mr. Leidy’s to clean some beans and hemp seed, and was returning home. The boy was sitting on a tub on top of the sack, and when near Elizabeth Miller’s, one of the wheels struck a stump, and the boy was pitched out of the wagon, and two of the wheels ran over him. Mr. Fimple stopped the wagon as soon as possible, and picked the boy up. He only spoke a few words, and died in a few minutes. He was carried into Mrs. Miller’s house, where he remained till the next day, and then he was taken to Long Branch Cemetery and buried. He was the youngest child. His mother died some six years ago. He was a favorite and pet of the family.

Date of Death: 29 Apr 1872
Subject: Rhoda (Leonard) Ferguson
Source: Andrew County Republican, 3 May 1872, p. 3

We learn of the death, on Tuesday last, of Mrs. Ferguson, an aged and highly respected lady, near Bennett Lane, in this county.

Date of Death: 23 Jan 1913
Subject: Clara Ethel (Clark) Fancher
Source: Holt County Sentinel, 31 Jan 1913, p. 7

Ethel (Clark) Fancher, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Clark, was born the 15th of March, 1893. She was 19 years, 10 months and 8 days of age.

She was married to Willie Fancher, in July, 1909. To this union was born one child. Funeral services were conducted at the house, Jan. 26, by Rev. Sawyers, of Savannah. She was laid to rest in the Green cemetery, near St. Joseph.

She leaves a husband and sweet little girl, 16 months old; mother, father, two sisters, two brothers and a host of other relatives and friends to mourn her loss. (Ethel, how we miss thee.)

A dear one from us is gone, A voice we loved is still, A place is vacant in our home, Which never can be filled.

A Friend.

Dates of death: 10 May 1923 & 14 May 1923
Subject: Agnes Louise Etchison & Millard L. Etchison
Source: Savannah Reporter, 18 May 1923, p. 1, column 5

Two Children Die With Diphtheria

The daughter and son of Mrs. Gladys Huffman Russell died within a week of each other at the home of Mrs. Russell’s parents, R. A. Huffman and wife, in west Savannah.

Mrs. Russell had the disease first and her physician diagnosed it as tonsillitis. The children took it later and were brought to the home of the grandparents in Savannah and Dr. Myers was called. He immediately had the home quarantined as the children were both seriously ill with diphtheria and apparently nothing could be done to relieve them.

The little son, Millard Etchison, would have been four years old on August 3, passed Friday morning early, and burial was Friday afternoon with a prayer service at the cemetery by Rev. A. D. Seelig.

The little girl, Agnes L., was two years old on January 16, died Tuesday morning and her body was placed in the Savannah cemetery beside that of her brother that afternoon. Rev. H. R. Murphy was in charge of a service at the grave.

Date of Death: 8 Dec 1920
Subject: John R. Etchison
Source: Savannah Reporter, 24 Dec 1920

Former Resident Dies

John R. Etchison died in St. Joseph December 8, 1920, at his home, 2010 Boyd street. He was born May 4, 1849, on the Etchison farm near the Long Branch church, where he lived until 1885, when he moved to St. Joseph.

He leaves with Mrs. Etchison a son and three daughters, J. A. Etchison of St. Paul, Minn., Mrs. Ada Kelley of Colorado Springs, Colo., and Mrs. Sam Coffman of near Savannah, and five brothers, T. B. Etchison, W. D. and O. D., Isaac and I. D. of St. Joseph, and a sister, Mrs. Fannie Dorrell, of Savannah; three grandchildren and one great-grandchild. Interment was in the Long Branch cemetery.