Barry County Missouri Obituary Winslow A. Bashe 1852 - 1910 
Source: Scrapbook bought at the estate sale of Vivian Roller by Ted W. Roller


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W.A BASHE DEAD The last tick has been sent over the wire; the last train
order has been given; tho last flag, has been displayed  by  him,  until
this trough train enters that grand and central depot,  in  tthat  grand
haven of rest where Jesus Christ and the Great Conductor, will  announce
the destination,  Heaven,  and  Winslow  A.  Bashe,  will  be  rewarded,
according to services rendered. He died at his home  in  Seligman,  Dec.
23, 1910 of pneumonia, aged 58 years, ? months and 20 days. He was  born
in Germany, May 3, 1852, and came to the U.S., of America and located at
DeSoto , Iowa, where he and Miss Clara Ault were  married  in  1872,  he
united with the Christian  Church,  and  continued  his  faith  in  that
church, to the day of his death. In 1870, he was in the  employ  of  the
Frisco road at Verona, as telegraph operator; in 1880, he  was  sent  to
Exeter, as agent, and had been agent twice at that place  and  twice  at
Seligman; he was also agent at Chester, Ark., for  sometime.  He  was  a
strict and thorough businessman, as was evident by his  long  connection
with the Frisco road, and his word was his bond. He was a  man  of  very
strong convictions and when he made up his mind, his ideas were there to
stay. He was liberal with charity  for  the  needy  and  placed  a  high
standard of morality in every community, where ever he had  resided.  He
believed in the uplifting of his fellow man  and  quietly  worked  along
that line.

Those that were the closet to him in life, speak of  his  many  valuable
traits of character, in the highest degree.

He was a Noble Grand of Seligman Lodge I.O.O.F., and that lodge with the
assistance of Washburn, Cassville, Butterfield and Purdy lodges, he  was
laid to rest in Maplewood Cemetery at Exeter, Sunday afternoon, after an
able funeral service  delivered  by  Rev.  Geo.  S.  Yarbrough,  of  the
Christian Church, before a vast concourse  of  sorrowing  neighbors  and
friends.

The ties of earth are broken, to be welded in Heaven