Brown County KS Archives Obituaries.....Lyman, George  January 28, 1892
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The Kansas Democrat, Hiawatha, KS, February 4, 1892
                             CALLED TO HIS REST
On last Saturday our people followed to his last resting place the mortal 
remains of Grandfather Lyman.  He was buried at Old Fairview, Rev. Flickinger 
preaching the funeral sermon.  Father Lyman was probably the oldest person in 
our township, being almost 94 years old when he died.  He saw this century 
begin and lived almost to the end of it.  He loved to talk about the exciting 
times of the presidential election of Gen. Jackson to the presidency.  When 
your correspondent told him about the Johnstown calamity a few days after it 
happened, his strong memory went back to his younger days and described every 
turn of the fatal river and told how they used to drill there with militia.  
He was very industrious.  The neighbors here recollect how a few years ago 
when he could not do a day's work anymore he made himself useful by going from 
farm to farm with a lot of steel traps and caught gophers.  We all gladly gave 
him another bounty in addition to what the county gave, and we find since his 
visits ceased gophers have increased.  His five children and a large number of 
grandchildren and great grandchildren in sadness followed him to his grave.  
This is the third funeral in this neighborhood in the month of January.  "One 
by one we pass away."

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