Butler County KS Archives Obituaries.....Stansbury, Abraham April 1, 1904
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The Walnut Valley Times, April 1, 1904
The Walnut Valley Times
April 1, 1904

IN MEMORIAM

Died, March 13 after many weeks of sickness and suffering patiently borne, 
Abraham Stansbury, aged 83 years, 3 months, 7 days. He passed away at the home 
of his daughter Mrs. Maggie Lucas in El Dorado. John Stansbury, of Kansas 
City, Raye Stansbury of Osawatomie, Kansas, Louis Stansbury of Washington 
(state) his sons, Mrs. M.M. Branard of Perry, Oklahoma and Mrs. Maggie Lucas, 
his daughters mourn a devoted husband and father.

All were present in the last hour except Louis, he was unable to come. Abraham 
Stansbury was born in West Virginia, moved to Pennsylvania then to Illinois in 
1863; and thense to Kansas in 1872, since then, witnessing and participating 
in her marvelous development and the peopling of the mighty west. For 60 years 
he was an active member of the Methodist Church, always faithful, hopeful and 
happy he looked forward to the end with the blessed hope that he who noteth 
even the sparrow’s fall would be a lump to his feet in the dark hour of death.

Loving hands cared for him but he said “I want to go”. Who can tell of their 
bright and their dark hours, their struggle – defeats, victories, 
disappointments; of sunshine and shadow blended? None save The Father into 
whose blessed presence his sorrowing ones saw him vanish. He suffered in his 
last tedious days on earth, brave to the end, and then peacefully, gently as a 
chill falling asleep upon its mother’s breast the trails of this life faded 
from his consciousness and he awoke over the border in that mystic country in 
that better, brighter, happier land than this.

Oh, we get so tired here; think of his 83 years! And so this father in Israel 
gladly laid his body down in the shadow to rest. Truly “his works do follow 
him.”


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