Date of Death: 2 Aug 1902
Subject: Samuel O. Daily
Source: unknown, clipping, Aug 1902

At the residence of his brother, Judge Charles M. Daily, Samuel O. Daily died on Saturday, August 2, aged 51 years, 9 months and 27 days. The funeral took place from the residence of C. M. Daily at 10 o’clock Monday morning, August 4. Interment at the Daily cemetery.

Born near Greensburg, Decatur county, Indiana, October 5, 1850, he came with his parents in the spring of 1858, and settled on the present homestead. On the 23rd of December, 1874, he was married to Mary E. Smith. To this union, seven children were born, five of whom are living.

Date of Death: 3 Jan 1910
Subject: Samuel Gates Daily
Source: unknown, clipping, Jan 1910

Samuel Gates Daily, son of Samuel O. and Mary Daily, died at his mother’s residence Monday, Jan. 3, 1910, of Bright’s disease. He was confined to his bed some three weeks. The deceased was born in Andrew county at the old Daily homestead, Oct. 14, 1887, and was the youngest of seven children, four of whom with the mother survive him, namely: Frank Daily of Union Star, Mrs. Alice Lauber of St. Joseph, Mrs. Bettie Rea of Savannah and William A. Daily of Savannah. He professed a hope in Christ and united with the Methodist church in Superior, Neb., some four years ago. Funeral services were held at the Methodist Church, South, Wednesday, conducted by Rev. W. L. Scarborough, assisted by Revs. J. R. Blythe and M. DeWitt, after which the body was laid to rest in the Daily Cemetery on the farm of Judge C. M. Daily, his uncle, and near his boyhood’s home. The floral tributes were beautiful. The relatives were all present to pay their last tribute of respect, and many other kind friends, as Gates was well known and beloved.

Date of Death: 29 Apr 1872
Subject: Margaret (Dysart) Crowley
Source: Andrew County Republican, 3 May 1872, p. 3

Mrs. Crowley, wife of Mr. G. W. Crowley, died at her residence on Monday evening, from the effects of a cancer, from which she had been a long sufferer.

Date of Death: 19 Jul 1905
Subject: Alice Mary (Claxton) Crouch
Source: [Savannah Reporter], 28 Jul 1905

Alice Mary Claxton was born in London, England, Feb. 8, 1852, came to America with her parents in June, 1870, and lived on a farm four miles west of King City, until Jan. 19, 1876, when she was united in marriage to Arthur Crouch and settled on a farm on Empire Prairie, where she resided until her death, which occurred July 19, 1905, after suffering from cancer of the stomach. Seven children were born to them, six of whom are living in Empire vicinity. She leaves a husband, three sisters and two brothers and a host of friends and relatives to mourn her death. She was a faithful and consistent Christian; joined the Methodist church when a girl, and holding her membership at the time of her death at Star Chapel church. She was a member of the W. C. T. U. of Empire for a number of years. The funeral was preached by her pastor, Rev. A. D. Davis, Friday, July 21. The remains were interred in the Star [Chapel cemetery.]

Date of Death: 31 Jul 1888
Subject: John W. Crank
Source: Holt County Sentinel, 3 Aug 1888, p. 1

Sheriff J. W. Crank, of Andrew county, who accidentally shot himself in the abdomen one day last week while cleaning a revolver, died ond [sic] Tuesday from the effects of the wound.

Date of Death: 15 Jul 1919
Subject: Wiley F. Cox
Source: St. Joseph Observer, 19 Jul 1919

Wiley F. Cox, a well known farmer of the Avenue City neighborhood, died Tuesday.

Date of Death: 24 Dec 1920
Subject: Isabel (Chambers) Cox
Source: St. Joseph News-Press, Dec 1920

Mrs. Isabel Cox, wife of O. G. Cox, died at her home on 2nd st. rd. on Dec. 24, 1920. She is survived by her husband, four sons, five daughters. Sons are Charles Cox, W. J. Cox, Robert Cox, Herald [sic] Cox; daughters: Mrs. Olive Ryland, Mrs. Louis [sic] Waddles, Isabel Cox, Alice, Florence and Mabel Cox. Funeral Tuesday afternoon at 2:30 from the Green Valley Church.

I am sending a photo of my ggrandmother’s brother and his wife. The surname is COWGILL. His first name is either Marcellus (Mark), Jasper (Jap), or George. I don’t know where they lived but this photo was taken in Savannah, Mo. so I am assuming they lived in that area. Any information would be appreciated.

Charlotte Iker Feb 16 2001

Date of Death: 22 Apr 1874
Subject: Alfred H. Courtney
Source: Andrew County Republican, 1 May 1874, p. 1

Died. Courtney– On Wednesday, April 22, 1874, at his residence in Rochester township, of spinal meningitis, A. H. Courtney.

Mr. Courtney was also an old citizen of the county, and widely known and respected, having lived her twenty-eight years.

Divorces from Andrew County Court Records Book No. 1, transcribed and submitted by Monica Schirmer Eshelman.

“These are from the [Andrew County] Court Records Book #1 Index, meaning alphabetically A-D, and I transcribed every single divorce from that book myself.

“Information in columns F and G are actually my own notes; the maiden names are almost all given from my records, not on the Index. (Unless her maiden name was restored, and then it was given in the record itself.) Column G is explanatory notes.”

It will doubtless always be a question as to who was the first white settler In Brown County. Edward B. Cornellson, an honored and respected citizen of Reserve was certainly one of the first and there is certainly no man living in the county today who was here when Mr. Cornellson marked his claim on Walnut Creek. He first came to the county [i]n 1854, and marked his claim and then returned to Missouri for his family, returning the next spring when the actual settlement was made.

Mr. Cornelison, or uncle ‘Ed” as every one calls him, was born in Madison County, Ky , Jan. 8th 1826. His grandfathers on both his father’s and mother’s side were soldiers in the Revolutionary war, the one serving in North Carolina, and the other In Delaware. Both emigrated to Kentucky after the war where the parents of Mr. Cornelison were born.

On Nov. 26, 1846, Mr. Cornelison was married in Madison County, Ky. to Miss Elizabeth A. Gillispie, also a native of the blue grass state, having been born near Richmond, May, 5th, 1830. They at once emigrated to Andrew County. Missouri, where they lived until 1855, when they moved to Brown County. They continued to live on their Brown County homestead until 1894 when they moved Into town of Reserve Here Mrs. Cornelison died Nov. 21, 1895 and was laid to rest In the Hart cemetery. She was held in high esteem by her neighbors and was greatly beloved by her family, to whom she had been a faithful wife and mother. Both Mr. and Mrs. Cornelison have been members of the Christian church for many years and Mr. Cornelison is the senior elder of the church. Four sons were born to Mr. und Mrs. Cornelison; John, Frank, a merchant at Reserve, Robert, who is in the grain business at Reserve, Henry, who died at the age of 23 years and William, who is engaged in the grocery business at Fairfield, Nebr. Mr. Cornelison has been a successful farmer and business man He has added to his original homestead until it has grown to 480 acres. It is mostly upland and Is in a high state of cultivation, well improved and with a good orchard. There is also a hundred acres of native timber on the place. In politics, Mr. Cornelison has always been a Democrat. He served a year as treasurer of Padonia township and was Justice of the peace for six years. In 1880, he was his party nominee for county commissioner and in 1884 for the legislature but his party was in a hopeless minority. He cared little for political honor but rather preferred to give his attention to his business affairs. It is nearly half a century now since he first saw Brown County and now surrounded by his friends and neighbors who honor and respect him, he can look back upon a well spent life for he has always been a valuable and useful member of the community.

Source: Annals of Brown County, Kansas, Harrington, 1905, p. 454
Submitted: Monica Schirmer Eshelman

Date of Death: 22 Aug 1921
Subject: William R. Cordry
Source: St. Joseph Observer, 27 Aug 1921

William B. [sic] Cordry, a world war veteran, died at his parents’ home on East Savannah road Sunday night.

Date of Death: 21 Sep 1872
Subject: Robert Conover
Source: Andrew County Republican, 27 Sep 1872, p. 3

Colonel Robert Conover, Sheriff of Andrew county, died of consumption at his residence in this city, last Saturday evening, September 21, 1872. His remains were interred in the cemetery near the city on Sunday afternoon, under the auspices of the Masonic Fraternity, of which he was a member, and were followed to the grave by a large concourse of his neighbors and friends. The deceased was born at Shelbyville, Indiana, on the 14th of May, 1839, and was therefore several months over thirty-three years of age. Mr. Conover served in the Union army throughout the late war, entering as private early in 1861, rapidly rising to Lieutenant and Adjutant, then Major, Lieutenant Colonel, and at the time the regiment (the Sixteenth Indiana Infantry) was mustered out, in August, 1865, he held the commission of Colonel of his regiment. In the fall of 1865 Colonel Conover took up his residence in this city, where he engaged in the clothing and real estate business. Before leaving Indiana, however, he married Miss Laura Sprage, of that State, who died the next year and her remains taken back to Indiana for interment. On the 8th of February, 1871, Colonel Conover was married to Mrs. Emma Terrell, of Andrew county, by whom he had one child, and who are both left to mourn his loss. The deceased was elected Sheriff in 1870, which position he has filled with generation acceptation up to the day of his death. We were not intimately acquainted with the Colonel, but we are informed that he was very highly respected and honored by a large circle of personal friends throughout the county.

Date of Death: 3 Jan 1875
Subject: George Washington Comegys
Source: Andrew County Republican, 15 Jan 1875, p. 8

At half-past twelve o’clock, on Monday morning, 3d inst., George Washington Comegys, breathed his last at his residence, in the southern part of the county. The funeral took place at one o’clock P. M. Monday, at the Fairview church, near his late residence, and the remains were interred in Fairview Cemetery. The funeral discourse was delivered by Rev. Mr. Parker, of St. Joseph.

Date of Death: 14 Jul 1878
Subject: William Colville
Source: Holt County Sentinel, 26 Jul 1878, p. 2

From the Savannah Reporter– We regret to announce the death of William Colville, an old, sterling and upright citizen of Empire Prairie, who died at his home last Sunday.

Date of Death: 20 Dec 1905
Subject: Robert M. Cole
Source: Holt County Sentinel, 29 Dec 1905, p. 5

Captain Robert M. Cole, one of the pioneers of Andrew county, died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. C. H. Spicer, in Fillmore, on Wednesday last, December 20, 1905, aged 68.

Date of Death: 11 Jun 1921
Subject: John B. Cole
Source: St. Joseph Observer, 18 Jun 1921

John B. Cole, fifty-two years of age, one of the employes [sic] of the St. Joseph Stone Co., whose quarry is near Savannah, died at a local hospital early Sunday morning, as the result of the explosion of a dynamite blast Saturday. The remains were taken to Amazonia Monday where services were held and the remains buried Monday afternoon.

Date of Death: 6 Mar 1906
Subject: George Washington Cole
Source: Holt County Sentinel, 16 Mar 1906, p. 4

George Washington Cole died at his home, one-half mile south of Cumberland Ridge, Tuesday, March 6, 1906, aged 65 years. The funeral was held Thursday and the remains placed in the Cumberland Ridge cemetery. Mr. Cole was a street-car conductor in St. Joseph until last fall, when he purchased his farm, built a house to live in, retired and died with Bright’s disease.– Savannah Reporter.

Date of Death: 1 Mar 1917
Subject: Daniel Coffman
Source: St. Joseph Observer, 7 Apr 1917 and Holt County Sentinel, 16 Mar 1917, p. 7 (exact)

Savannah was only three years old when Daniel Coffman, who died recently at that place, came with his father to live on a homestead in that locality. Having living continuously in Andrew county since 1844, Mr. Coffman died March 1, aged 88 years, and survived by fifty-four descendants. The Savannah Reporter speaks of this venerable man as one of the strong characters, inseparably associated with the building of Andrew county.

Date of Death: 14 Jun 1919
Subject: Vincent Amos Cobb
Source: Holt County Sentinel, 20 Jun 1919, p. 1

The many friends of Dr. and Mrs. C. L. Evans will sympathize with them in the sad and sudden death of her brother, V. A. Cobb, which occurred in Savannah, Saturday last, June 14, in a most shocking manner. Of a family of thirteen children, Mr. Cobb’s death is the first one of these to occur, and is the second death in this large family, the father having been called several years ago.

Mr. Cobb was 52 years of age, and a farmer near Savannah, and proprietor of an ice and feed business in that city. He was a bachelor, and lived with his mother, preferring to care for her and to stay with her in her declining years.

Mr. Cobb was instantly killed last Saturday, June 14, 1919, when a team of mules attached to a load of ice became unmanageable, and he was thrown under the wheels of the wagon. Mr. Cobb had lived in Savannah and vicinity forty-five years, and was possessed of considerable wealth.

Saturday morning, Mr. Cobb had gone with some of his men to the ice-house, more than a mile north of Savannah, to haul in ice. There were two wagons, and he was riding in the second wagon. The team frightened, and in an effort to aid the driver, Cobb grasped the lines just as the team broke loose from the wagon. He was jerked to the ground, and the wheels of the wagon passed over his body.

The dead man was a native of England. He was a member of the Masonic lodge, of Savannah; of St. Joseph Council No. 9, Royal and Select Masons; Hugh de Payens Commandery, Knights Templar, and Moila Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S., St. Joseph.

His mother, Mrs. H. B. Cobb, of Savannah, and eight sisters and four brothers survive– Mrs. Mary Griffith, Mrs. G. W. E. Scott, Mrs. Etta Reece, Mrs. B. L. Ralph, Mrs. O. V. Sells, all of Savannah; Mrs. C. L. Evans, Oregon, Mo.; Mrs. A. T. Clark, Clarinda, Iowa; Mrs. E. H. Williams, Chillicothe, Mo.; C. B. Cobb, Oluskee, Okla.; A. H. Cobb, Savery, Wyo.; E. A. and W. B. Cobb, Bedford, Iowa, all of whom, except A. H. Cobb of Savery, Wyoming, were present at the funeral. A niece, Mrs. R. A. Evans, of Fort Scott, Kansas, was also present.

Many floral tributes came from friends, and especially large pieces came from the Knights Templar, and Council No. 9, of St. Joseph. He was one of the oldest members of Hugh De Payne Commandery. Over 100 Masons and 100 Eastern Star members were in line to pay their last sad tribute to the memory of their dearly beloved brother.

The funeral was conducted at the First Baptist church in Savannah, at 2:30 o’clock, Tuesday afternoon of this week, with the Masons in charge of ceremonies at the cemetery, and an escort of Knights Templar from St. Joseph.

Date of Death: 30 Apr 1891
Subject: Jonathan Cobb
Source: Savannah Reporter, May 1891

Jonathan Cobb died at his home, 2 1/2 miles west of Savannah, at 10:15 o’clock, April 30, 1891, of paralysis. He was born near Gill’s Mills, Rowan county, Ky., Dec. 26, 1811. He moved with his parents to Montgomery county, Mo., in 1820, was married to Eliza J. Fergison, Sept. 13, 1838, and moved to the Platte Purchase Oct. 23 of the same year, when he pre-empted the land on which he has resided until his death. He was an old school Baptist. In politics he was always a staunch Republican. Mr. Cobb was the oldest resident of the Platte Purchase, and received a chair at Rosendale, several years ago, on account of that honor. He was buried in the Savannah cemetery from the Presbyterian church, Saturday, May 2, by Rev. Pollard, of St. Joseph. He leaves a wife and seven children living, four girls and three boys.

Date of Death: 18 Oct 1881 & 16 Oct 1881
Subject: Anthony Clemmens & Sarah (Jobe) Clemmens
Source: Savannah Reporter, 28 Oct 1881

Anthony C. Clemmens and wife, old, well known citizens of Platte township, died at their residence last week. The wife went first, and although there was said to be no really perceptible ailment from which Clemmens was suffering, the bereaved husband took to his bed, and begged those in attendance not to bury his aged partner until he died, and then bury them both together. The wishes of the grief stricken old man were heeded to, and in three hours less than two days after the death of Mrs. Clemmens, her faithful partner through the long pilgrimage of her life, had joined her in death and together they will enter the portals of heaven, where they will receive the rewards of a well spent life.

Date of Death: 31 Mar 1919
Subject: Sarah Elizabeth (George) Clemmens
Source: unknown, Apr 1919

Sarah Elizabeth George was born in Ohio, August 21, 1836. When ten years of age, she, with her parents, moved to Andrew county, Missouri, and settled southwest of Whitesville where she lived until her death which came after a long illness, Monday morning, March 31. On February 14, 1864, she was married to Jesse Clemmens and to this union three children were born, William of Omaha Nebraska, George L, living near the old home, and Edward L. of Hebron, Nebraska. She was a loving wife, a faithful mother, and a friend to all who knew her. Although her cross was heavy during some six years of her late life her Christian character shown out as the noon-day sun. No one met her but who was made stronger in his Christian faith. Hers was a well-rounded out Christian life. Besides the husband, three sons and a number of grandchildren, she leaves two sisters, Mrs. N J Ashley, who has so tenderly cared for her during her affliction and Mrs. Ella Eppler of Colorado, who hold her memory sacred. The funeral services were conducted from the Rea church by a former pastor, Rev. C. S. Crowder of Cameron, Missouri, assisted by Rev. E. O. Wells of Bolckow and R. F. George, a relative of the family from Newton, Kansas. The body was placed in the McLaughlin cemetery southeast of Wyeth.

Date of Death: 18 Oct 1881 & 16 Oct 1881
Subject: Anthony Clemmens & Sarah (Jobe) Clemmens
Source: Savannah Reporter, 28 Oct 1881

Anthony C. Clemmens and wife, old, well known citizens of Platte township, died at their residence last week. The wife went first, and although there was said to be no really perceptible ailment from which Clemmens was suffering, the bereaved husband took to his bed, and begged those in attendance not to bury his aged partner until he died, and then bury them both together. The wishes of the grief stricken old man were heeded to, and in three hours less than two days after the death of Mrs. Clemmens, her faithful partner through the long pilgrimage of her life, had joined her in death and together they will enter the portals of heaven, where they will receive the rewards of a well spent life.

Date of Death: 16 Oct 1917
Subject: A. J. “Jack” Clemmens
Source: St. Joseph Observer, 20 Oct 1917

A. J. (“Jack”) Clemmens, one of the former best known business men of Amazonia, died Tuesday. He was 80 years of age.