Date of death: 14 Jun 1911
Subject: Emma (Dersch) Vennekohl
Source: unknown St. Joseph newspaper, Jun 1911

The funeral of Mrs. Emma Vennekohl, wife of Henry Vennekohl, of Cosby, Mo., who died of apoplexy Wednesday evening after an illness of only a few hours, will be held from her home near Cosby at 3 o’clock this afternoon. The burial will be in the cemetery near the church of the Evangelical Zion association, near her home.

Mrs. Vennekohl was born and raised in St. Joseph and belonged to one of the pioneer German families of North St. Joseph. She lived here up to the time of her marriage. Her maiden name was Dersch and a number of relatives live here. Mrs. R. V. Nichols of St. Joseph is a sister of Mr. Vennekohl.

A number of St. Joseph people will go to Cosby this morning to attend the funeral.

Mrs. Vennekohl, who is survived by her husband and son, Clarence, was 47 years old.

Date of Death: 23 Aug 1876
Subject: Amos S. Vaux
Source: unknown, quoting St. Louis Evangelist

VAUX – Died, August 23d, 1876, Amos S. Vaux, of Typhoid fever. Our friends was a young man of great promise, much loved by all who knew him, a constant member of the Sabbath school and Bible class in Andrew county, Missouri.

He has gone, yes, gone forever,
From this world of sin and care;
Gone to dwell with angels ever
In a world that’s bright and fair.

How we miss our dear companion
Since he left our little band;
But we trust he is in heaven,
In that happy, better land.

Never was his seat found vacant
Until death called him to go;
And our class seems sad and lonely
Since he left us here below.

May we all prepare to meet him
When this changing life shall cease;
May we have a joyful meeting
In that home of blissful ease.

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: 8 May 1852
Subject: Josiah Vanschoiack
Source: Savannah Sentinel, Saturday, May 15, 1852, p. 2

Cholera- We regret to learn that this dread contagion is again on the trail of the emigration, and that Mr. Vanschoiack from this county, with whole families of emigrants, on the route from St. Joseph, have been swept off. It is also said, that several deaths occur daily in St. Joseph, but that the mortality appears to be confined principally among the emigrants. No case has yet been reported in this place….

Date of Death: 26 Jun 1905
Subject: Magdalena (Siegfried) Twedell
Source: Holt County Sentinel, 7 Jul 1905, p. 5

Mrs. L. E. Twedell, died at her home in Mound City, on Monday, June 26, 1905. she was 28 years of age and leaves a husband and two children. The body was taken to Amazonia, the deceased having formerly resided near there.

Date of Death: 23 Apr 1874
Subject: Edward Turpin
Source: Andrew County Republican, 1 May 1874, p. 1

Died. Turpin– On Saturday, April 23, 1874, at his residence on the East St. Joe road, three miles from Savannah, Edward Turpin, aged 67 years, 3 months and 5 days.

The deceased was an old citizen of Andrew county, having settled here in 1844. He was born in Kentucky, removed to Indiana when thirteen year[s] of age, whence he came to Missouri. Deceased was widely known in the county as a charitable, honorable man, and his death is mourned by a family consisting of an aged wife and five children. His remains were interred in the “Camp Ground” graveyard on Monday, the 27th.

Date of Death: 31 Jan 1916
Subject: Samuel Turner
Source: St. Joseph Gazette, 1 Feb 1916, p. 5

Samuel Turner, 89 years old, died early yesterday at his home, five miles north of St. Joseph, on the east Savannah road. He was a retired farmer and a widower, and is survived by three daughters, Fannie, Mildred and Martha Turner, who lived with him. The funeral will be from the house today at 2 o’clock. Burial will be in Savannah cemetery.

Date of Death: 30 Apr 1875
Subject: Rebecca (McElwain) Townsend
Source: Andrew County Republican, 7 May 1875, p. 8

Died. Townsend– On Friday morning last, at the old family homestead near Jimtown, Mrs. Rebecca Townsend, aged sixty-four years. She was for many years an active member of the Methodist church. She leaves six children to mourn the loss of as good and an affectionate a mother as ever the world saw: Thomas Townsend, of Andrew county; John and Edward Townsend of St. Joseph; Moses and George Townsend, of Troy, Kansas, and Wm. Townsend, now in California.

H. S. Townsend, member of the firm of Baird & Townsend, Marble & Granite Works, of Warrensburg, Missouri, was born March 17, 1857 in Andrew county, Missouri. He is the son of Jonathan and Kittie Ann (Landers) Townsend, the former a native of Indiana and the latter of Missouri. Jonathan Townsend was born June 17, 1827, and when 18 years of age came to Missouri from Indiana. He located in Andrew county when St. Joseph had but one store, which was conducted by a Frenchman named Rubidoux [sic], who traded with the Indians. Jonathan Townsend settled on a farm near Savannah and there spent the remainder of his life. To Jonathan and Kittie Townsend were born the following children: W. B., Whitesville, Mo.; F. M., Whitesville, Mo.; James S., Bolckow, Mo.; E. E., Savannah, Mo.; Mrs. John Roe, Savannah, Mo.; Mrs. Louisa J. Todd, who died in 1891; and H. S., the subject of this review. Mrs. Townsend died in 1861. Jonathan Townsend’s death occurred at the age of 90 years in Savannah, which had been his home for 20 years. Prior to moving to Savannah he had lived on his farm near that place 52 years. Mr. and Mrs. Townsend lived in the first home which he built for 52 years and in the 72 years they lived in but two different homes. The remains of both father and mother were interred in the cemetery at Savannah, Mo. The father served in the State Militia under Capt. D. C. Stotts during the Civil War. H. S. Townsend received his early education in the public schools of Andrew county, Mo. He later attended Lagrange College, Lagrange, Mo., for three years. Mr. Townsend entered the teaching profession after leaving college and for 15 years was engaged in teaching during the winter and farming in the summer time. Twenty-three years ago, in 1894, Mr. Townsend came to Warrensburg, and entered the dairy business. Fifteen years ago he went into partnership with J. B. Baird in the marble and granite business and in farming and stock raising. Baird & Townsend, Marble & Granite Works, are successors of the Farley Brothers. Four years ago they moved to their present location on East Pine street, where they have two display rooms, 24 x 118 and 24 x 30 feet in dimensions respectively. The firm employs 3 traveling salesmen and has an extensive business all over the state of Missouri and extending into adjoining states. Frequently carloads of stone are shipped to a single point in the state. They import granite and marble in the rough from quarries in Missouri, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Oklahoma, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine, besides obtaining some foreign shipments. This firm has undoubtedly the finest stock on hand of any company in western Missouri. Mr. Townsend is well known through out the state and is universally esteemed, possessing a pleasing personality which has won for him scores of friends. In addition to the granite and marble business, the firm is also engaged in farming and stock raising, owning a splendid stock farm ten miles south of Warrensburg. This farm comprises 169 acres and is devoted to dairy stock. In 1880, H. S. Townsend was united in marriage with Florence I. Clark, daughter of Silas and Marguerite Clark, of Andrew county, Missouri. Both parents of Mrs. Townsend are now deceased. To H. S. and Florence I. (Clark) Townsend have been born two children: Glenn, an only son, who died at the age of 13 months, who is interred in the cemetery at Warrensburg; and Nellie Grace, who is the wife of Harley Hoar, of Warrensburg. Mrs. Townsend is president of the Johnson County Women’s Christian Temperance Union and has held this office for the past five years. She was elected delegate to the national meeting of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union held at Seattle, Washington at the State meeting in 1915, but on account of illness was unable to attend. Mr. Townsend is affiliated with the Modern Woodmen of America, of which lodge he has been one of the officers in Warrensburg for many years, and with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of which he has been a member for the past ten years. He has been a deacon in the Baptist church for 12 years and superintendent of the Sunday School four years.

Source: History of Johnson County, Missouri, by Ewing Cockrell, 1918
Submitted: Monica Schirmer Eshelman

Date of Death: 19 Dec 1872
Subject: John Toles
Source: Andrew County Republican, 21 Feb 1873, p. 3

Died. On December 19, 1872, at Whitesville, John Toles, from Ohio, aged 72 years.

Date of Death: 26 Feb 1915
Subject: Oscar Todd
Source: Hamburg [IA] Reporter, 5 Mar 1915

Word was received here Friday of the death of Oscar Todd at Helena, Mo., following an illness of some weeks. Mr. Todd suffered from lung trouble, which caused his death. Mr. Todd will be well remembered here by many and was employed at the canning factory for several seasons. He was an exceptionally popular young man and was a trusted employe [sic] of the Waterloo Canning company.

Date of Death: 10 May 1891
Subject: Jarusha (Farris) Todd
Source: Savannah newspaper, 15 May 1891

The wife of Isaac Todd died on the 10th inst.

Date of Death: 25 Mar 1875
Subject: Japheth [Jephthah] Todd
Source: St. Joseph Daily Gazette, 28 Apr 1875, p. 4 col. 2

GONE TO HIS REWARD

Death of Japheth Todd, of Andrew County

Japeth Todd [sic], one of the oldest citizens of Andrew county, and a gentleman well known and highly respected throughout the Northwest, died last Sunday morning at his residence, about six miles distant from this city, after a protracted illness of several months. Mr. Todd was born in Estelle county, Kentucky, upon the 4th day of June, 1808. He removed with his parents to Missouri, while yet a child, and lived for a number of years in that large section of country lying north of the Missouri river, at time known as Howard county. Mr. Todd was married in 1838, and seven children were the offspring of the reunion. The mother was called away from earth about a month ago. The father did not long survive this sad bereavement. An insidious disease had for some time been preying upon his vitals, and the loss of his beloved wife hastened his final dissolution. Last Sunday morning he breathed his last, in the blessed hope of an eternity of bliss with the dear ones who had preceded him. Japheth Todd was a gentleman of the old school–an honest, honorable, upright, Christian man. To know him was to respect and love him. The loss of such a man cannot be too sincerely lamented.

Date of Death: 31 Mar 1875
Subject: Huldah A. (Todd) Todd
Source: St. Joseph Daily Gazette, 2 Apr 1875, p. 1 col. 3

Passing Away

On Wednesday, March 31st, another of the old citizens of the Northwest passed from life, and is now numbered with the dead. We refer to Mrs. Huldah A. Todd.

She was born in Estel county, Kentucky, on the 12th day of July, 1812, an in the year 1838 was married to Jeptha Todd. She had been a member of the regular Baptist Church for forty years. She leaves a family of seven children, four boys and three girls, only one of whom is married. One by one the links that bind the present prospects to the posts of privation are being severed, and soon the last one will be broken.

Date of Death: 26 Mar 1903
Subject: David Todd
Source: St. Joseph Daily News, 28 Mar 1903, p. 1

David Todd, 78, father of Richard Todd, died 6:40 last night at his home in Centralia, Mo. Mr. Todd had been a resident of this state for fifty years. He is survived by four sons and four daughters. They are Richard Todd of St. Joseph, Walter and Mrs. Anna Todd, Centralia, Mo., J. C. Todd, Topeka, William Todd, Chicago, Mrs. W. McCallon, Savannah, Mo., Mrs. T. Crawson, Mexico, Mo., and Mrs. James Young, Maryville, Mo.

The funeral was held this afternoon from the home of Richard Todd, 913 Ridenbaugh. The interment was in the family cemetery north of the city.

Source: St. Joseph Gazette, 28 Mar 1903, p. 3

David Todd of Centralia, Mo., died at his home at 7:00 p.m. yesterday. Mr. Todd is the father of Walter Todd, Richard Todd, and Mrs. Anna Thomas of this city. Richard Todd is a partner in the firm of Toss & Todd. The deceased is an old resident of Missouri and is well known throughout the state. He leaves four sons and daughters besides those mentioned. They are Mrs. James Young, Maryville, Mo., J. C. Todd of Topeka, Mrs. Fannie Crawson of Mexico Mo., William Todd, Chicago, Mrs. William McCallon of Savannah, Mo. The funeral will be from the home of Richard Todd, 913 Ridenbaugh at 1 o’clock this afternoon. Interment will be at Todd cemetery north of the city.

Date of Death: 14 Oct 1914
Subject: William Harvey Tilson
Source: Savannah newspaper, Oct 1914

William Harvey Tilson was born in Franklin County, Indiana, September 6, 1839, and died at his home in Rosendale, October 14, 1914. When seven years of age he came to Missouri with his parents and located near Savannah. He was married to Emaline Dobbs June 25, 1863. Of this union fourteen children were born, eight sons and six daughters, one son and one daughter dying in infancy. Seven sons and five daughters with the mother survive him. He moved to Nodaway County in 1880 and returned to Andrew County about 1892. Since that time this has been his home.

In August 1861 he enlisted in the State Militia and later on he re-enlisted in Company B, 61st Missouri Regiment, of which he was the captain. He was mustered out in the summer of 1865. He has been a member of the Christian Church for more than fifty years. The funeral was conducted from the Rosendale Christian Church by Rev. A. R. Hunt, and interment was in the Coffman Cemetery.

Date of Death: 31 Jan 1918
Subject: Emeline (Dobbs) Tilson
Source: Maryville MO newspaper, 1 Feb 1918

Mrs. Emiline Tilson, mother of W. R. Tilson of Maryville, died at 8:30 last night at the home of her daughter, Mrs. G. L. Markley, in St. Joseph, as the result of a long illness of paralysis. Funeral services will be held at 10 o’clock, tomorrow in St. Joseph. The body will be taken to Rosendale for burial.

Mrs. Tilson was over 70 years old and is well known in Maryville, having spent several months here at the home of W. R. and John Tilson. She is survived of twelve children, who are: W. R. Tilson, Maryville, Mrs. William Burks of near Pickering; Mrs. William Turner and Mrs. Samuel Pettigrew, Bolckow; John, Alice, James, Lester, Roscoe and Loren Tilson, and Mrs. G.L. Markley, all of St. Joseph.

Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Tilson and Mrs. William Burks left this afternoon for St. Joseph to attend the funeral.

Date of Death: 18 Mar 1913
Subject: B. Luther Tilson
Source: Savannah newspaper, 21 Mar 1913

Succumbs to Heart Trouble

B.L. Tilson Passed Away Tuesday Morning at His Home in Savannah

The remains of B. Luther Tilson were placed in the Savannah cemetery yesterday morning after a funeral at the residence, conducted by Rev. A. J. Quirin and Rev. C.C. Hatcher. He died at 10:20 a.m., Tuesday, March 18, 1913, aged sixty-eight years, eleven months and seven days after an illness of ten weeks confinement to his room and a year of poor health from heart trouble and a complication of diseases.

Mr. Tilson has lived in Savannah for the past six years and his happy disposition, kindliness to all and his abundance of good qualities make his departure a great loss but his personality will be remembered and continue indefinitiely to do good. He was born in Johnson County, Indiana, April 11, 1844, and came to AndrewCounty in 1847, his mother dying when he was three years old.

The late W. B. Allen and his wife raised him from this age and these good people also raised Mr. Tilson’s wife who was Anna Sitton, whose parents died when she was twelve years old and they took her. They were married in 1866 and six children with Mrs. Tilson survive, H. H. Tilson of Savannah, L.C. Tilson, A. D. Tilson, both of St. Joseph, E. B. Tilson of Concordia, Kans., Mrs. O.U. Lash of Moberly and Mrs. Alice VanZant of Savannah. They have four daughters and two sons who had proceded [sic] him to the land beyond. One daughter Mrs. Georgia Moffitt of Afton, Iowa, died about a year ago.

Mr. Tilson has been a Christian for over forty years, having been converted at a revival meeting at the old Glenwood school near his home. He united with the Methodist Episcopal church then and has been a member ever since. During the Civil War he served three years in the 36th Missouri regiment. For several years he kept store at Wyeth and at Rosendale and is respected and honored all over the county.

Date of Death: 14 Dec 1918
Subject: Callie Thompson
Source: St. Joseph Observer, 21 Dec 1918

Miss Callie Thompson of Bolckow was struck by a motor car driven by Dr. Thomas Redmond in front of the August Schwien residence on North Eleventh street Saturday evening and dragged by the car for some distance. When taken out, she was started for the hospital, but died on the way. A coroner’s jury on Monday failed to fix the blame. Miss Thompson was thirty-six years old. The body was buried at Cawood.

Date of Death: 12 Mar 1918
Subject: Elizabeth (Donaldson) Thomas
Source: St. Joseph Observer, 16 Mar 1918

Mrs. Elizabeth Thomas, who, could she have lived to June 1st, would have attained the century mark, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. J. E. Castle, 2637 State street, Tuesday morning. She was a relative of Chief Justice Marshall and of Vice President Marshall. The remains were taken to Cosby for burial Thursday.

Date of Death: 28 May 1875
Subject: David Henry Terhune
Source: Andrew County Republican, 11 Jun 1875, p. 8

Died. Terhune– At 12 o’clock, on Thursday night, May 27th [sic], 1875, at his father’s residence, near Savannah, Mr. David H. Terhune, son of John Terhune, in the 23rd year of his age.

The deceased was a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, and his life was a perfect exemplification of his faith. In the death of young Terhune, Andrew county list a promising citizen, and society an upright honorable member.

Date of Death: 15 Apr 1872
Subject: Amy Elizabeth Terhune
Source: Andrew County Republican, 19 Apr 1872, p. 3

Died. On Monday, the 15th instant, Miss Amy Elizabeth Terhune, daughter of John Terhune, Esq., of Jefferson township, one of our best and most respected citizens. Miss Terhune has been afflicted for a year past with diseased lungs. Though her sufferings have been severe, she bore it all with Christian fortitude, and passed peacefully to the “other shore, to away her friends who are left to mourn, but not as those without hope.”

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Date of Death: 28 Oct 1910
Subject: Thomas Taylor
Source: The Valley Falls [KS] New Era, 3 Nov 1910, Thursday, p. 8

Thomas Taylor was born Nov. 18, 1824 and died at the home of his son in this district Oct. 28, 1910, aged 85 years, 11 months and 8 days. Mr. Taylor was the father of seven children, five of whom are living: Mrs. Georgie Thatchery, Mrs. Euna Varner, John and Price Taylor of Bolckow, Mo. and Sterling Taylor at whose home he died. The mother died several years ago. Mr. Taylors body was taken to Bolckow Mo. for burial. Sylvester Taylor and two sons attended the funeral there Friday.

Date of death: Oct 1903
Subject: John Clayton “Clate” Taylor
Source: St. Joseph Gazette, 20 Mar 1904, p. 4

Through the identification of a bandit killed in a battle following the holdup of an electric train in the suburbs of Aurora, Ill., on the night in last October, as Clate Taylor of Nodaway Station, by Chief Frans and local detectives yesterday, it is believed that the responsibility of many of the holdups in the neighborhood of St. Joseph during the past year and of several near Council Bluffs and Lincoln, have been definitely placed to the credit of Taylor, Pate Crowe and their gang.

Although being suspected of complicity in nearly every train robbery in this part of the state and of many in adjoining states for a period of something like eight years, always escaping without arrest because of an apparent alibi, Clate Taylor, known to be a close friend of Pat Crowe, was nevertheless, for all that the Pinkertons could prove, a peaceful hard working farmer of Nodaway station. He met his death while attempting a job that the Pinkertons and the local officers believed too small for him to bother with.

With two other men, Thomas and James Conway, well known to the police of Chicago, Taylor held up the electric train just outside Aurora. They believed [sic] the passengers and the crew of all their valuables and returned to Aurora. A little later they boarded a train for Chicago. The train was overtaken by an electric car in charge of a squad of police at a substation and in the battle that took place, Taylor was killed.

Since that time the police in Aurora had been trying to secure an identification of the dead man whom his captured pals refused to identify.

Several days ago, Detective Pat Ryan, of the St. Joseph force, heard that Clate Taylor, well known to the police here, had been killed in Chicago.

Chief Frans at once began going through the files of the “Detective,” a police and secret service journal published in that city.

In the November issue he found a picture of the dead bandit, connected with the Aurora robbery. Ryan and the other detective pronounced it to be the picture of Taylor.

In the information accompanying the picture of the dead bandit was the fact that the revolver taken from the body was a blue steel 41-calbre Colt’s of improved pattern. It was also stated that the underwear of the man was marker “Reaner.” This convinced the officers more than ever that the man was Taylor. Charles Renner, for whose name “Reaner” might be a mispelling [sic], was known to be a close friend of Taylor’s and had frequently stayed at his home. The gun answered the same general description as that of the one taken from Renner. Chief Frans remembered that he had taken the number of the revolver carried by Renner at the time the latter was being held here for investigation in connection with the murder of James Piles, a Frederick Avenue saloon keeper several years ago. The number of the revolver was found to be 160,685. Chief Frans then wrote to Chief Charles Michels of Aurora, asking for the number of the revolver, and a reinspection of the name on the underclothing. Chief Michels was still convinced that the name on the garment was “Reaner” but gave the number of the revolver as 160,685, thus establishing beyond doubt that the gun was the one carried here by Renner.

Unconvicted of any crime, having been arrested, but never for a … offense, Clate Taylor, the farmer of Nodaway Station, was known to the Pinkertons as a … man. It was thought that he would not engage in a small undertaking. W… crime, it is believed, … Crowe. … [Several lines illegible] the “French Bottoms” … In … served a term in the state penitentiary for burglary of a st… Blockton. At that time he did … Pat … criminal used it.

When he settled at Nodaway Station, he married and … he met Pat … believed that Crowe … train robbery from … the country … man of ner… [Quite a bit of paragraph illegible]

It was not … Crowe would … Other persons sup… of the gang would … up saloons, and go after … Taylor, however, kept … crimes … occur.

Taylor, upon which … [paragraph illegible].

Source: St. Joseph Gazette, 22 Mar 1904, p. 5

The relatives of Clate Taylor will claim the body, which is now buried in a cemetery at Aurora, Ills.

George C. Taylor, a brother of the dead bandit, who lives in the French Bottoms, yesterday went over the descriptions and photographs of the man in the possession of Chief Frans, and said that he no longer doubted that the man was Clate Taylor.

Last night Chief Frans sent a telegram to Chief Michels of Aurora asking if the relatives might have the body.

If the reply is affirmative, George C. Taylor will probably start for Aurora today.

Source: St. Joseph Gazette, 24 Mar 1904, p. 5

Chief of Police Frans yesterday received a telegram from Chief Michaels [sic] at Aurora, Ill., stating that relatives of Clate Taylor, the bandit killed while engaged in the robbery of an electric train near that place last October, could secure the body by claiming it.

George T. Taylor, a brother of the dead man left today for Aurora. Whether the body will be brought here for burial he did not know. The parents of the dead man are anxious that the son be buried near St. Joseph. Before he left, Taylor was shown a photograph of the dead man and stated that without a doubt it was his brother.

Source: St. Joseph Gazette, 19 Apr 1904, p. 5

Brothers of Clate Taylor, who was shot at Aurora, Ill., while attempting to hold up a street car, yesterday secured a permit from Clerk Hartigan of the board of health to have the body brought to this city from Aurora. The laws of Illinois require such a permission, which was known at the time the body was exhumed about two weeks ago. The body will be brought here as soon as possible. Taylor was formerly a farmer in French Bottoms.

Source: St. Joseph Gazette, 24 Apr 1904, p. 4

The body of Clate Taylor, the bandit killed while attempting to hold up a street car in Aurora, Ill., reached the city yesterday and was buried in the afternoon from Heaton’s morgue, interment taking place in Green cemetery.

Taylor and a number of his relatives lived at the French bottoms and those who survive the bandit are respected citizens. When Taylor was killed at Aurora he could not be identified and it was not until his picture appeared in a police department publication [and] was recognized by some of the local patrolmen that it was known who he was.

His body had been buried at Aurora but his relatives immediately made preparations to have it exhumed and brought here.

Date of Death: 22 Mar 1903
Subject: George Taylor
Source: Holt County Sentinel, 3 Apr 1903, p. 4

Died at his home in Holt county March 22, George Taylor, he had reached the ripe age of 88 years, 11 months, and 20 days. Uncle George, as he was called, was one of Missouri’s pioneers having come here when but a boy. He was known as a consistant [sic] christian [sic] and Bible student and had for many years held membership in the Christian church. He was the father of twelve children, eight of whom with his companion have preceeded [sic] him, the remaining four were present at his funeral which was held in the Amazonia Christian church, March 23. The services were conducted by Elder J. H. Kent, when the body was laid to rest in Amazonia cemetery. J. H. K.– Savannah Democrat.