Washington County KS Archives Obituaries.....DAMON, Oliver Edwin  August 7, 1896
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The Washington Republican
Washington County
Friday
August 7, 1896

Oliver Edwin DAMON was born in Essex, Vt., July 1, 1852. He came to Wisconsin
with his parents in 1855. In the year of 1870 he came to Kansas. On the evening
of July 25th, 1896, he was injured by a cow, and lived only a few hours after.
He was married to Agnes NOBLE, Jan. 31, 1874, by whom was born to him five boys,
four of which survive him.
He became a Christian at the age of 16 and lived an earnest Christian life.
He was one of the Charter members of the Christian church of this place, and
held the office of deacon. The church sustains the loss of a kind brother and an
earnest Christian worker.
The funeral sermon was preached at the church July 27 by Charles S.L. BROWN, of
Vermillion, Kansas, after which he was laid to rest in the Washington cemetery.
May the virtues of faith, hope and love, comfort our sister and her family in
this their hour of great bereavement.
F.P. Franklin.
Card of Thanks.
We wish to express our thanks to the brethren of the Christian church, friends
and neighbors for their help, in acts of kindness, also for the consoling words
and sympathy in the time of our bereavement and death of our husband and father.
Mrs. Agnes Damon and family. 



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