Harper County KS Archives Obituaries.....HICKS, Bolen November 25, 1921 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ks/ksfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Jim Laird jlaird@bellsouth.net August 5, 2007, 10:34 am The Harper Advocate Harper County Thursday December 1, 1921 Bolen Hicks. Bolen HICKS was born in Indiana, November 7th, 1842, and died in Harper, Kansas, November 25th, 1921, at the ripe old age of 79 years and 18 days. He moved with his parents to Iowa when he was a small boys and came with his family to Harper in 1877, soon after the town site was laid out. He operated a livery barn and dealt extensively in horses for thirty years. The livery barn was located on Central Avenue where the Bulldog Garage now stands. Mrs. Hicks died April 20th, 1919. A daughter, Mrs. PHYE died some years ago. The only child living is Frank, who lives in Harper and has a position with the Standard Oil Company. There are two grandsons, Cliff and John Phye and eight grand-children, all of whom live in Harper. In the passing of Mr. Hicks an old land mark is removed. He came to Harper by team and has been familiar with everything that has ever happened here. For many years his Livery Stable was an Inn. For a long time Harper was the terminal of the railway and the stages led out from here. He was a charter member of the I.O.O.F. lodge. Mr. Hicks was honest and reliable in every way. He had the deepest respect for everything that was good. He will be greatly missed in the community. Funeral services were held Saturday afternoon at 2:30 p.m. at the home of Cliff Pyhe, Rev. J.C. Fisher in charge. Burial was made in the I.O.O.F. Cemetery. ==== KS-FOOTSTEPS Mailing List ==== File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ks/harper/obits/h/hicks1180ob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/ksfiles/ File size: 2.0 Kb