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The Liberty Tribune 1869
DEATHS IN THE LIBERTY TRIBUNE, CLAY COUNTY, MISSOURI

The following death notices appeared in The Liberty Tribune, Liberty, Clay 
County, Missouri during the year of 1869.  Some the deaths did not occur in 
Clay County.  The date of publication is shown prior to the item(s).

Jan 8, 1869:
On the evening of January 3d, 1869, at the residence of E.V. Ringo, in St. 
Louis, Miss Sarah A. Compton, aged 28 years, daughter of Dr. Jas. H. Compton, 
of Clay county, Mo.

In this county on – inst., Mrs. Mary A. Haynes, wife of Henry Haynes, aged 
about 20 years.

The life of Prof. James H. Robinson, who died in St. Joseph a short time since, 
was insured for $5,000 and the money has been paid to his widow.

Mrs. Olivia C. Rush, consort of Rev. Wm. M. Rush, and eldest daughter of the 
Hon. James H. Birch, died in St. Joseph on the 24th Dec., in the 41st year of 
her age.  

A difficulty occurred on the evening of the 25th ult., at a dance in Fishing 
River township, between James and Edw. Turner, (brothers) and Alvis Munkres and 
S. Banister, which resulted in the death of Munkres and the wounding of 
Banister.  The latter it is thought will get well.  The messrs. Turner 
surrendered themselves the next day to the proper officers, and were examined 
before Justices B.B. Corbin and Henry Smith, and held to bail in the sum of 
$1,000 each. 

James Callahan, the oldest citizen of Bourbon county, Kentucky, died a few days 
ago, at the remarkable age of 105 years and 8 months.  He had been a consistent 
member of the Baptist church for 75 years; and a life-long democrat.

Jan 15, 1869:
Died in Richmond, Va., on the 20th of December, 1868, Mr. Mosby Clark, an old 
Revolutionary soldier, aged one hundred and twenty-one years.

Jan 22, 1869:
Mrs. Frank Flood, wife of Noah H. Flood, formerly of Fulton, died in 
Sacramento, California, on the 24th Dec.  

Jan 29, 1869:
Died, at the family residence, Jan. 22d, at 9 o’clock and 15 minutes, Mrs. 
Almeria Gwinner, wife of Frederick Gwinner, in the 40th year of her age.
“And I heard a voice from Heaven, saying unto me, write, Blessed are the dead 
which die in the Lord from henceforth; Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may 
rest from their labours; and their works do follow them.”

Feb 5, 1869:
Near Plattsburg, Mo., on the 21st inst., Eliza Belle, wife of Wm. F. Parker, of 
Clinton county, and youngest daughter of Alexander Judy, of Clay county.  

Mr. Gilbert Weed, formerly a conductor on the C.B. & Q. R.R., and who was 
injured over two weeks ago by an accident on the road, died at Macon, Mo., on 
Wednesday evening last, from the injuries received.  

Feb 12, 1869:
Died in this city on the 4th inst., Mrs. Sarah A. Roberts, wife of David 
Roberts, aged about 48 years.
An estimable and Christian woman has gone to her long rest.  Those who knew her 
best loved her most, for she was remarkable for her retiring modesty.  Her most 
intimate friends alone can truly realize how much they will miss her, or how 
deep are the wounds made by her death.  She had been a member of the Baptist 
Church for many years, and exemplified the truth of religion in her life.  She 
is gone, but it is a privilege weeping husband, brothers, sisters and relatives 
which you should fully appreciate, to have such a link to bind your souls to 
heaven.
“Roses bloom and then they wither,
Cheeks are bright, then fade and die;
Shades of light are wafted hither,
Then like visions hurry by.
Quick as clouds at evening driven,
O’er the many colored west;
Years are bearing us to heaven
Home of Happiness and rest.”

Died, at her son-in-law’s, Martin Courtney’s, in Centerville, in this county, 
on the morning of the 3d of February, 1869, Margaret Warren, wife of Charles 
Warren, in the 77th year of her age.
She was a member of the Regular Baptist church, and had served in the cause of 
her Master about 38 years; during which time, she has set an example worthy of 
imitation, to those around her; proving her Faith by her works, and that there 
was a reality in the religion she professed.  Relying on free Sovereign and 
unmerited Grace, treasured in the Lord Jesus Christ for life and salvation.  
She has fought the good fight of Faith, hence there is a crown laid up for her 
of exceeding weight of Glory, in the Kingdom of Christ.  She was a kind 
companion, affectionate mother, a good neighbor, kind and motherly in all the 
relations of life.  She has left her aged husband, children, grand-children, 
great grand-children, with many friends, to mourn her loss; but they should not 
sorrow as those that have no hope; for if we believe that Jesus died and rose 
again; even so them also that sleep in Jesus will God bring with Him.  
Therefore comfort one another with these words:
“Blessed are the dead that die in the Lord, henceforth; they may rest from 
their labors, and their works do follow them”
Her funeral will be preached by Elder Henry Hill on the 2d, Sunday in March, at 
the Brick Church in Centerville.
Come my dear friends and mourn with me,
In my afflicted state,
I am bereaved as all may see,
Of my dear loving mate.
My loss is great – to lose my mate,
I am like the lonesome dove,
I go alone and sigh and mourn,
My dear and absent love.
Why should I lament my case,
Since God has thought it best
To take her soul from hence away
To its Eternal rest.                              A. Friend

Feb 19, 1869:
Died in Liberty, Mo., on the 15th of De. ’68, Mrs. Mary A. Garrett, in the 42d 
year of her age.
Long and painful was her suffering, but with Christian patience did she endure 
all. She was a devoted member of the Baptist church.  An exemplary Christian 
for many months was deprived of the privilege of attending church.  although 
greatly afflicted not discouraged, though sometimes cast down not forsaken.  
Like Job would of her exclaim ‘tis good for us to be afflicted.  Afflictions 
spring not from the ground, but is often sent upon us by a kind father to wean 
our affections from this earth and enable us to place them upon things above.  
Were our natural sun to site cloudless shedding his rays upon our homes of 
prosperity and peace, our mind would become sensual and selfish, and we would 
never as much as raise our heads toward Heaven in acknowledgement of the hand 
that bestowed the blessing.
The pallid hand of Death has again visited our little household and borne from 
earth to Heaven, our dear, our idolized mother; she who guided our tottering 
steps – she, who taught our infant lips to lisp the endearing names of father 
and mother, has been called home to God.  Our loss is her eternal gain; but 
still there is an aching void, a desolate chamber in the temple of affection.  
Sad to our agonizing hearts, when her freed spirit, weary of pains and 
suffering, winged its flight to its immortal home.  Rest, sweet mother, rest in 
thy silent bed till the resurrection morn we shall be brought together again to 
part no more.  May we all who knew and loved thee, so live here below, when 
that messenger comes look with an eye of faith and view our Heavenly home, our 
parting words may be as thine – “open the door – open the door.
For years our happy little band,
By affections chain was bound,
Till death, who from an unknown land,
Its way into our circle found,
And bore our idol hence.

We the bereft ones love to think,
And know our mother is in Heaven,
Yet from the chair we miss the lisp,
Which by afflictions storm was riven,
And tore from our embrace.

Yes, we miss thee, dearest mother,
Dearest blessing God has given,
But husband, child, friend or Brother,
Will strive to meet you above in Heaven,
Where sorrows never come.                           B.G.   

Feb 26, 1869:
Died, on the 19th day of February, 1869, Gertrude Irene Hall, aged 15 years and 
15 days.
She with her cheerful smile and winning ways – endeared to all who knew her, 
and idolized by her family and her relatives – was deemed by an allwise God, 
too pure and fragile to battle with the tempestuous waves of life, and hence 
was borne on angle’s wings to realms of unutterable bliss, while yet in the 
purple flush of life’s morning.
How often do we see the home circle cherish and pet one of a numerous 
household, without the rancor of jealousy from any one, and all seem nearer and 
dearer to each other from loving the same object.  That one is as a bond to 
unite hearts that otherwise might be estranged in the world’s wide field of 
action.  It is a sweet spirit which steals over the heart when torn and 
bleeding by the turmoils of strife and makes the remembrance of our childhood’s 
home an oasis in the Sahara of life.
Such an one was little Gertie to her family – beautiful and pure – her gentle 
spirit entwined itself into every fibre of our beings, and with a wicked 
idolatry perhaps, we worshiped the “gift more than the giver.”
We vainly ministered to her, all that our weak hands could do, or medical skill 
could suggest – and though we saw her grow weaker day by day – how hard it was, 
when Death came, to give her up.  It seemed we could have watched and waited 
always, if she could have been spared to us – but God ordered it 
otherwise, “perhaps” (us her pastor said) “he gave that bright pure spirit – 
that bud of promise a while to engage our tenderest affections and then draw 
them from earthly things to hoard them as treasures in Heaven.
Perfectly rational and conscious to the last – she requested a book belonging 
to the school Library to be returned just before she died.  It seemed she 
wanted to leave everything in order.
Calling for her minister just before she died, we regret that he did not arrive 
in time – yet with clasped hands and the windows of Heaven opened wide, we feel 
assured that she found the way.
Disconsolate mother and weeping brothers and sisters – we must – heeding her 
own sweet words, “I’m satisfied,” school our grief and seek the only true 
Comforter – remembering that:
She is gone to a happier home than ours,
Beneath the light of more radiant skies,
And her path is bright with more lovely flowers,
Than in the sweet summer e’er met thine eyes.

She dwells where the fields can never fade,
Where night comes not, nor day is dim;
Where the glory of God is the sun, and the shade
Is thy shadowing wing of the Cherubim.
                                                                 S. & A. 

Death of a Representative.
Information was received by Senator Morrison, this evening, of the death on the 
16th inst., at Gayosa, Pemiscott county, of Dr. James A. McFarlane, the 
Representative from that county,  He took his seat in the House at the 
beginning of the session, but left some two weeks since in consequence of 
illness.  He died of pneumonia.
He was formerly Sheriff of Pemiscott county, and represented that Democrats in 
the last General Assembly.  His death will be announced in the House tomorrow 
by Mr. Waide, of Mississippi county, and an adjournment will probably follow.

Mar 5, 1869:
Obituary. – Died on the second day of February, at the residence of Mr. Francis 
Brock, of Ray county, Miss Martha Frances Brock, daughter of Madison and 
Elizabeth Brock, aged twenty three years and four months.  
She was taken off at this early age by that tell destroyer consumption, which 
she bore with a Christian fortitude and patience, and although she was not 
connected with the visible Church of Christ she gave assurance to her friends 
that she had a good hope of a blessed Immortality.  She was, as we trust led by 
Divine grace through affliction to see herself a sinner and to feel her need of 
a Savior; and while disease was wearing and wasting her body she fled for 
refuge to the sinner’s Friend. some weeks before her death she said to the 
writer who was visiting her, that she had obtained forgiveness of sins and 
peace of soul and that she loved Jesus her Redeemer with all her heart.  She 
was indulging a strong hope of Immortality and when Death called her away was 
calmly and submissively awaiting his summons; she rests in hope of a better 
Resurrection.
Her race is run, her life id done,
Her sun is now gone down,
I hope the Lord will her reward
With an immortal crown.
She has left three sisters, and three brothers as well as very many devoted 
relatives and friends to mourn their loss and cherish her memory, but we mourn 
not as those who have no hope.  May that hand that has afflicted them sustain 
them under this afflicting dispensation and comfort them with as good a hope as 
she had is my prayer. 
Thou are gone to the grave, we no longer behold thee,
Nor tread the rough paths of the world by thy side,
But the wide arms of mercy were spread to enfold thee,
And sinners may hope since the Savior hath died.

Thou art gone to the grave, but we will not deplore then.
Though sorrow and darkness encompass the tomb,
For Jesus hath passed through its portals before thee,
And the lamp of his love is thy light through the gloom.

Funeral services at the residence of Mr. J.B. Holton of Clay county conducted 
by J.W. Luke, Minister of the Gospel. 

Death of David S. Miller.
It is with feelings of the deepest regret that we announce the death of Mr. 
David S. Miller, at his residence in this city on Sunday last.  He died very 
suddenly of disease of the heart.  He had been in bad health for some time, but 
was not, as we believe, regarded as in present danger.  Mr. M. had been a 
citizen of our county some sixteen years, and had by his public spirit and 
gentlemanly deportment endeared himself to all who enjoyed his acquaintance.  
He was a fine business man, courteous and obliging, and possessed of far more 
than ordinary intellect and general information.  The best evidence of the high 
esteem in which he was held by this people, is that we never during all his 
long residence in our midst heard a person speak of him in terms other than the 
highest respect.  He was aged about 35 years, a native of Virginia, and a 
nephew of Madison and D.D. Miller, Esqs.  He leaves a wife and four children, 
who have the warmest sympathy of this community in their great bereavement.  
Peace to his ashes.  

Mar 19, 1869:
“Her Sun Set Whilst it was yet Noon.”
Death comes to us – to all classes, at all hours, even those most unexpected 
and unseemly, to mortals.  It smites alike the trembling Patriarch and the rosy 
faced infant, - the man of full years, in the midst of his busy plans, and the 
young maiden, in the very morn of her active life.  Death’s Angels know no 
obstacles, no excuses; but of them and it, we can sing with the poet:
“Death, like other Tyrants
Delights to smite, what smitten
Most proclaims the pride of power,
And arbitrary nod.”
A Father on the right, a mother on the left, a son her, a daughter there, a 
vacant chair is at every table, a woe sits by every hearth-stone, the shadow of 
the wing of the Angle of death hovers over all, and we pause, consider and 
enquire, why loved ones must be lost to us, and no answere comes to the aching 
heart, save “Our Heavenly Father doeth all things well.”
Our thoughts thus run, by the death, in our City last Saturday evening, at the 
residence of our friend, S.A. Craddock, Esq., of Miss Sarah A. Roane, formerly 
of Virginia, aged about twenty-six years.
Miss Roane arrived in this city, about two weeks ago, for the purpose of 
teaching school here.  On the Sunday following, she was taken sick in church, 
and went from there to her room, where she agonized until last Saturday evening 
when she died.
She was denied the blessing of the Turk, of “dying among her kindred,” but no 
parental hand could have been gentler of kinder than those of her friends, Mr. 
and Mrs. Craddock, and soft hands, though not of relatives, laid her gently 
away in the cemetery of the of the West Liberty Church in Callaway County, of 
which church she was a consistent member, to rest until the morning of the 
resurrection.
The deceased was possessed of beautiful form and features, well balanced in 
mind , highly educated, and adorned by all the Christian graces.  She was a 
descendant of one of the most ancient and respectable families in Virginia, and 
after whom, the county of her residence, Roanoke, was named.
She graduated with the highest honors in 1860, from Albamarle Female Institute, 
Charlottesville, Va., one of the best literary Institutions of the country.
In all the relations of life, she was blameless, kind – affable – patient – 
loving; as a Christian, faithful – humble – ardent and consistent; always at 
her post, cheerful in the performance of duty; - and interested, in all that 
promised well to her kind.  She died in the faith, in which she lived; having 
the “hope, that entereth, into that within the vale” and which made her passage 
across the River, cheerful and fearless.
Just as Spring time came, she died, over her soon the daisies will bloom, but 
on the other side of the River, will her pure spirit enjoy the full fruition of 
that “hope which through life, to her was a rejoicing.
Our young friend is dead! to her new made grave, a thousand stricken hearts, 
will be bound, by chords of pure and holy love!  She is dead, but her works 
live after her.
“Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord, for their works do follow them and 
theirs is eternal Life”
Miss Roan was one of the teachers in Liberty Female College in 1868.

Death of John Terrell. – Mr. John Terrell died at his residence near this city 
on Saturday last, aged about 75 years.  He had been a citizen of Clay county 
for near or quite forty years, and was a man of strong sense, spotless 
reputation, and universally esteemed by his fellow citizens.  He served with 
distinction in the war of 1812, and always manifested a lively interest in the 
prosperity of his country.  He was buried with Masonic honors.  A good man has 
gone to his long rest.  

Hon. James Guthrie, late United States Senator from Kentucky, and Secretary of 
the Treasury under Gen. Pierce, died in Louisville on the 13th inst.

Mrs. Stonestreet, the widow of Henry Stonestreet, who was killed by young Lee, 
at Lee’s Summit, some months since, was buried beside the remains of her 
husband, on the 9th inst., in the cemetery at Independence. 

Apr 2, 1869:
Near this city on the 31st ult., very suddenly, Mrs. Lucy J. Dulin, wife of 
John E. Dulin, aged about 40 years.

Mr. Gabriel Turner, a native of Kentucky, but a resident of the Territory and 
State of Missouri since 1818, died at his residence in Marion county, on the 
24th inst., aged 74 years, 1 month and 10 days.  In the year mentioned his 
father and family removed to the what is now Marion county.  Hannibal did not 
then have a locality or a name, and the country was only inhabited by Indians, 
with here and there an adventurous French trader.

Died in Missouri City on the 15th ult., Richard James, only son of Elder W.H. 
and Nannie F. Winfrey, aged 11 years.  

Jacob L. Sharp, for the last forty-five years clerk of the circuit and county 
courts of Montgomery county, died recently the 76th year of his age.

Apr 9, 1869:
In this county, on the 3d, Bartley, son of B.F. and Mary E. Estes, aged about 2 
years.

Death of John T. Pollard, Esq.
In this week’s issue of the Sentinel we have to perform the sad duty of 
announcing the death of John t. Pollard, its proprietor and senior editor.
After more than two months illness of typhoid fever, he died on Sunday morning, 
the 28th ult., at about 7 o’clock A.M.
He was not considered dangerously ill until about ten days pervious to his 
death.  The best medical skill was brought into requisition, and at times high 
hopes of his recovery were indulged by his friends, alas! but to end in gloomy 
anticipations, and finally to be overwhelmed by is death.
His loss is deeply felt in our community.  To his immediate associates it is a 
source of unfeigned sorrow, and to his family an irreparable calamity; for he 
was a worthy citizen, a true friend and a husband and father in the dearest and 
holiest acceptation of those terms.
We feel that we need make no apology when we say that among the last 
intelligible ideas he conveyed, was the recognition of the hand of a brother in 
token of friendship – of the kiss of his wife as the seal of affection, and of 
Christ as his Saviour by the utterance of the words, “Jesus” and Heaven,” in 
audible though stammering accents.
He was buried with Masonic honors on the day following his death.
Mr. Pollard was born in Owen county, Kentucky, in the year 1833; came with his 
father to Missouri when quite a boy; remained with him in Monroe county, 
alternately attending school and working on a farm.  At this period of his life 
he acquired a passion for reading and study, and finally became a student and 
teacher at William Jewell College.  He studied law and was admitted to the bar 
in 1859.  He located at Harrisonville, Cass county, in this State; became a 
member of the Baptist Church, and, demeaning himself as a consistent Christian, 
was chosen to the office of a Deacon in that church a short time before his 
death.  He was engaged in the practice of his profession at the breaking out of 
the war, and was married to Mrs. E.E. Snyder, of Harrisonville, in June, 1861.  
After the close of the war, in 1865, he returned to Harrisonville, and in 
February, 1867, left that place and located at Independence.  He became the 
proprietor of the Independence Sentinel in October 1867, and up to the time of 
his last illness was actively engaged in the performance of the duties of his 
responsible position.
Though he had to contend with a feeble constitution, and was often troubled 
with ill health, his life was one of active usefulness; battling manfully 
against these infirmities, he was struck down in the prime of life by the 
remorseless hand of death, and, as it would seem to us, prematurely gathered to 
his fathers.  But thou, O, God, doest all things well, and we bow submissively 
to thy chastening rod. – Independence Sentinel.

Tribute of Respect.
Whereas, It hath pleased an all wise God, to remove from our companionship our 
venerated and much loved Brother, John Terrill, who departed this life at his 
residence in Clay County, on the 13th day of March, A.D., 1869.
Therefore Resolved, That in the death of Brother Terrill, Freemasonry has lost 
one of her brightest ornaments, this lodge a faithful member, and his family a 
kind and indulgent father.
Resolved, Bro Terrill was a man of pure heart and of blameless life.  In his 
long career as a man and a mason, extending over a period of a half century of 
Masonic life, he has never done anything that would cause the blush of shame to 
suffuse the cheek of relative, neighbor or friend.  He was always ready to the 
needy, or to relieve the distressed.
Resolved, That we tender our condolence to the bereaved family of Bro. Terrill, 
in this their great affliction, and we commend to them the consolation of that 
religion which assures us and them of a happy re-union beyond the grave.
Resolved, That the family of our deceased Brother, be furnished a copy of these 
resolutions, and that a copy be sent to the Liberty Union, and the Liberty 
Tribune and Missouri Freemason for publication.
Sam’l Hardwick,  A.J. Calhoun,  D.J. Adkins,  W.H. Woodson.

Apr 30, 1869:
Col. John A. Poindexter, a well known Southerner during the war, died at his 
residence, in Randolph county, on the 14th inst.

May 7, 1869:
On the evening of the 20th ult., the wife of a man named John Boltin, residing 
in Christian county, near the line of Taney, was murdered it is supposed by her 
husband.  The older children, five in number, had gone to church in the 
vicinity, leaving Boltin, his wife and an infant child at home.  When next 
seen, Mrs. Boltin was found dead in a creek near the house.  Boltin himself was 
found missing.  The indications were that he had dragged his wife to the creek 
and thrust her in, holding her by the ankles till she drowned.  A son of 
Boltin, eighteen years of age, is suspected of being implicated in the murder.

Mr. James Winn, an old and worthy citizen, died at his residence in Clinton 
county, on the 28th ult., aged about 70 years.

May 21, 1869:
Died in Georgetown, Colorado Territory, April 23d, 1869, Mrs. Emelie R., wife 
of Dr. George W. Buchanan, formerly of Ray county, Mo.  

May 28, 1869:
Death of Hon. P.L. Edwards. – We learn from a private letter received by Wm. 
Bernard, from his brother in California, that Hon. P.L. Edwards, former 
resident of this city, and a member of the bar here, died some three weeks 
since, in the golden State.  He has a large number of friends and relatives in 
this section, who will be pained to learn of his death. – Richmond (Mo.) 
Conservator.

Jun 4, 1869:
In this county on the 2d inst., Miss Lucinda Courtney, daughter of A.C. 
Courtney, aged 16 years.

In this county on the 12th ult., of brain fever, Elizabeth, daughter of the 
late Jesse and Sarah Stollings, aged 8 yrs, 2 month2 and 20 days.

Jun 18, 1869:
Tribute of Respect.  Euphronean Hall, June, 4, 1869.
At meeting of the Euphronean Society of Liberty High School for Young Ladies, 
held in the Society Hall on the 4th day of June, 1869, the committee heretofore 
appointed to draft resolutions expressive of the feelings of the Society 
relative to the death of Miss Lucinda Courtney, a member thereof, reported the 
following, which were unanimously adopted, to–wit:
Whereas, by the mysterious wisdom of an All-wise and merciful Providence, our 
beloved friend and class mate, Miss Lucinda Courtney, has been removed from our 
midst by the ruthless hand of death; therefore
Resolved, That in the death of our dearly esteemed friend, this Society has 
lost a useful member, and our School a kind hearted and obedient student.
Resolved, That in this severe bereavement of an afflicting providence, we 
tender to the family and friends of the deceased our heartfelt sympathy.
Resolved, That as a token of our love for the deceased, the members of this 
Society will wear the usual badge of mourning for thirty days.
Resolved, That the Recording Secretary of this Society is instructed to furnish 
a copy of these Resolutions to the family of the deceased; also a copy to the 
Editor of the :Liberty Tribune” for publication.
Ella McCoun., J.B. Brining,  Ella Campbell, Bettie Dale.  Committee.

Jun 25, 1869:
Miss Georgie Sparks, born June 3, 1841, Died June 5th, 1869, after an illness 
of 9 weeks, born with Christian patience and fortitude.  Not a member of any 
church, yet with a christian’s hope that seemed to anchor her soul hard by the 
Throne of God.  “By grace are ye saved through faith.”  The light of the 
household, in the freshness of womanhood, her vitality rapidly burned to the 
socket, and when the promises of happiness were brightest and all around was 
joyous with hope, the light was extinguished forever, the body low down in the 
cold, cold grave, where all distinctions are done away, and the spirit winged 
its way to join that innumberable throng which forever shouts “Hosanna to the 
Lamb of God” around the Great White throne where all is light and life, and 
love, and the “dead in Christ” are crowned with Glory.                Cora.

Jul 2, 1869:
Died on 7th June, at Stewartsville, Mo., Mrs. Mollie F. Saunders, daughter of 
Wm. T. Onan, Esq., of this county.

Died at his residence in Jackson county, on the 22d ult., Mrs. Mary E. Monroe, 
wife of W.N.O. Monroe, aged 32 years.  

Jul 16, 1869:
In this city on the 25th of June, 1869, Walter, son of R.T. and E.K. Jones, 
aged about 2 years 8 months.
“How blessed are they whose transient years
Pass like an evening meteor’s flight!
Not dark with guilt’ nor dim with tears
Whose course is short, unclouded, bright.”

Jul 23, 1869:
Wm. Gillis, one of the pioneer citizens of Kansas City, died on Tuesday last, 
aged 72 years.

Jul 30, 1869:
Sad Accident. – A little child of Mr. Thomas Clay, of Clinton county, while 
playing around, fell into a tub of water and was drowned before any knowledge 
of its danger was know to any of the family.  This should be a warning to those 
who allow tubs of water to stand about where children may fall into them.

Aug 13, 1869:
Died on the 11 inst., Jesse N., only son of George and Aggie Dale, aged 2 
years, 6 months and 8 days.

Wm. Galloway, an estimable citizen, died at his residence near this city, on 
the 1st inst., in the 42d year of his age.

Aug 20, 1869:
In Memoriam.
Died on the 17th inst., at the residence of his father in this city, John a. 
Major, Esq., in the 23d year of his age.
Neither the ardent love of kindred, nor the appliances of science, nor the 
affection of friends, nor all these united, can shield a shining mark from the 
dart of death.  When the inevitable hour comes, the strong cords that bind us 
heart to heart with those who are most dear to our souls, must be sundered, the 
beloved object must go to its long home and know the calm, sweet sleep of the 
grave.  We realize the truth of this in the death of John a. Major, Esq. He 
died young – in the early dawn of a hopeful manhood-and before the cares and 
griefs of life had embittered his heart, or had eradicated the sweet 
aspirations which lead the soul to paradise.  He died not on a foreign strand, 
nor on some lone rock of the ocean, but where, of all places, he would have 
wished – in the home of his youth, in the midst of all that is most delightful 
in the final hour, and nursed by the parental hands that for his sake knew no 
weariness.  Can we but believe that his gentle spirit, released form its long-
suffering tenement of clay, up-borne by the prayers and intercessions of those 
most near to him as well of the chosen servants of Jesus, and elevated by its 
own meekness, took its flight too the realms of eternal glory?  He left behind 
no enemies to execrate his memory, but only those who can say that he was kind, 
just and true, and that he ever bore himself, among the youth of the country, 
in a courteous and gallant manner. Adieu to him, and let us hope that on the 
morning of the resurrection he will welcome us in shining 
robes.                      D.

Sep 3, 1869:
In this city, on the 28th of August, Lora P., daughter of James E. and Maggie 
Lincoln, aged 3 years and 12 days.

Mrs. Ruth Ewing, widow of the late John D. Ewing, died on the 1st inst., near 
this city, aged about sixty years.  She was a most estimable lady, and will be 
sincerely mourned by all who knew her.

Elder Jacob Coons, of the Christian Church, died in Mexico, on Monday last.  He 
preached two discourses on Sunday, before Monday, 1 o’clock, his spirit took 
its flight to the bosom of Him of whose cause he was so devoted an advocate.

Robbie, son of Col. L.M. Lawson, of St. Joseph, died at the residence of Capt. 
O.P. Moss, near this city, on Saturday last, aged about two years.  We deeply 
sympathise with the distressed parents.

Sep 17, 1869:
Death of Miss Ida Bird.
Died, at the residence of her brother-in-law, Jas. E. Lincoln, Esq., Liberty, 
Mo., on the 11th day of September, 1869, Miss Ida Bird, aged 16 years, 4 months 
and 19 days, daughter of Greenup and Catherine Bird, Chillicothe, Mo.
The deceased removed to this city with her parents in the spring of the year 
1866, and continued to reside her until some two or three weeks ago, when she 
went to Liberty, Mo., for the purpose of prosecuting her education at the 
Liberty High School, under charge of Prof. Hughes.  Shortly after her arrival 
at Liberty, she was stricken with disease and in a few short days thereafter, 
she was snatched away from earth by the fell destroyer.
How mysterious – how inscrutable are the ways of Providence.
When the old or middle-aged are called away, our short-sighted reason can, in 
some measure at least, appreciate the visitation, but when the young in the 
full bloom and vigor of youth, are suddenly removed from the scenes of this 
life, our poor reason staggers at the severe dispensation, and our agonized 
hearts are reluctant to yield in submission to the will of Him, “who does all 
things well.”  
No mere words of panegyric can do more than justice to the precious memory of 
the dear young lady, who forms the subject of this sketch.  She was gifted with 
a mind of more than ordinary strength and brilliancy, but it was not this alone 
that made her the idol of her sorrowing relatives and friends.  It was the rare 
graces of the heart that threw a halo of beauty and loveliness over her 
character and drew to her the love and affection of all who knew her.  She was, 
by nature, mild and genial in her disposition – kind and affectionate to all; 
and to all these shining qualities of mind and heart, it is unspeakably 
consoling to remember, that she added the graces of the Christian.  Sometime 
during last winter, she became a member of the M.E. church, South, in this 
city, and from that time forward, constantly exemplified in her daily walk and 
conversation the beauty and reality of the profession she had made.
But now she is gone!  She is missed from her class in Sabbath School and from 
the Church, upon both which she was a constant attendant; she is missed from 
the circle of her numerous and sorrowing friends and associates; she is missed 
from the hearth stone of her afflicted parents, brothers and sisters; but yet 
Ida Bird is not dead!  She still lives, and has only been taken and like a 
lovely flower, transplanted, to bloom, I the freshness of immortal youth, amid 
the felicities and joys of that upper and brighter world. – Chillicothe  Paper.

Prof. George H. Matthews died at his residence in Columbia, Mo., on Sunday 
last, aged about 55 years.  He was Professor of Languages and English 
Literature in the State University for many years, and was a brother-in-law of 
Col. J.H. Moss.

Sep 24, 1869:
A man by the name of Wm. Bruner, a marble workman, was found dead in his room 
on Wednesday morning last – supposed to have died from intemperance.  He had 
been working for Mr. John N. Estes, of this city for a long time, and was a 
fine workman.  He was a Pennsylvanian.  

Suicide of Judge E.M. Samuel.
We take the following telegram from the Daily Kansas City Times:
St. Louis, Sept. 22d – E.M. Samuel, President of the Commercial Bank, committed 
suicide this morning by cutting his throat.
Mr. Samuel lived in this county for near thirty-five years previous to 1865, 
when he removed to St. Louis, and he has many friends and relatives in this 
county who will hear of his sad end with deep regret.  HE was a man of far more 
than ordinary ability.  He leaves an interesting family who have the warm 
sympathies of this community.  May he rest in peace.  The remains will arrive 
her this morning and be buried this evening.

Oct 1, 1869:
Died, in this county, on the 10th isn’t., Mrs. Susan Rollins, aged about 55 
years, wife of the late Lee Rollins.

Samuel Ruffner, the proprietor of Ruffner’s Liniment, died at the residence of 
his son in Independence, on the 25th ult., aged 75 years.  He had resided in 
Clay county for the last six years, and was a most excellent citizen and good 
man.  He has gone to receive the reward of a well spent life.  

Oct 15, 1869:
Died, in this city on the 5th of Oct., 1869, Davie E., son of Wm. and Ann 
Dougherty, aged 17 months.  

Elder Wm. M. Jenkins, one of the purest men of Clay county, died some days ago 
after a short illness.  He had been for many years, a teacher and leader in the 
Old Baptist Church, and was aged about sixty years.

We regret to announce the death of Mrs. Palmer, wife of Dr. C.N. Palmer.  She 
leaves a husband and several small children, to mourn their irreparable loss.

Mr. Samuel Wymore, an old and highly esteemed citizen, died at his residence 
near this city, on Sunday last, aged about 70 years.  

Oct 29, 1869:
Died in this county, at his late residence, on the 25th inst., Willis H. Winn, 
after an illness of nearly seven years, aged 74 years.

In this county, on the 1st day of October, 1869, Mrs. Harriet Brooks, wife of 
Abijah Brooks, deceased, aged 71 years.  Moved to Missouri in 1825 from Clark 
Co., Ky.

In this county, on the 19th Oct., 1869, Mrs. Amanda Grimes, wife of L. Grimes, 
aged about 27 years.

Nov 5, 1869:
Mr. Beverly T. Lampton, an old and worthy citizen, died at his residence in 
Platte county on the 19th, aged about 53 years.  He was a brother of the late 
Hon. B.L. Lampton, of this county.  

Nov 12, 1869:
Died, on the 7th of November 1869, Lewis Albert, son of Wm. B., and Elizabeth 
Arnold, aged about six years.
Farewell! Farewell! – The hand of the Lord has again, for the third time, 
visited a once happy family and summoned from its midst one of its most beloved 
and ever cherished members, that of the son of Wm. b. and Elizabeth Arnold, in 
the sixth year of his age, leaving behind a sweet little sister never to know 
the love of her darling little brother Albert.
He was indeed an affectionate little child beloved by all who knew him.  He was 
the only son of his parents and was doted on, and perhaps idolized by them, but 
Jesus the great shepherd of the sheep saw proper to take this little lamb to 
himself.  He is now in heaven waiting the arrival of his parents.  Weep not 
fond parents for your little boy, for his body now rests by his little sisters, 
and his spirit has returned to him who gave it.
Oh, may the Father of mercies cheer the now lonely mansion of the disconsolate 
and weeping family, and pour into their wounded spirits the balm of 
consolation.  How happy the thought that the separation is not eternal, that 
there is a time to come of reunion when happy friends in joy will meet again, 
in a brighter and more glorious realm of light where one sad thought can never 
come, nor pain nor ought but joy eternal.
“The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away, blessed by the name of the Lord.”    
M.A.W.

Dec 3, 1869:
Died, in this city on the 22d inst., Maggie Jones, daughter of Capt., J.H. 
Rickards, aged about three years.
“Gone to sleep, with her tender smiles
Froze on her silent lips
By the farewell kiss of her dewy breath
Cold in the clasp of the angel Death
Like the last fair bud of a failing wreath,
Whose bloom the white frost nips”

“Hearts – where the darling head hath lain,
Held by Love’s shining ray
Do you know that the touch of her gentle hand
Doth brighten the harp in the unknown land
Oh, she waits for you with the angel band
Over the starry way.”

From an article by Col. H.S. Miller, chief local editor of the Kansas City 
Journal of Commerce about his trip to Liberty and Kearney.
We were grieved to learn that Capt. J.H. Rickards, the late sheriff of Clay 
county, had lost his only child, a beautiful and sprightly little girl of three 
years of age.  In the early part of last week, little Maggie hurt her foot by 
running a splinter into it.  The pain threw her into the lockjaw, and one 
convulsion followed until she died.  During her short illness, Capt. Rickards, 
who resides in Southern Kansas, was repeatedly written and telegraphed for.  He 
is a widower, and this sudden bereavement will fall with crushing weight upon 
his fond, lonesome heart.  He left his darling rosy with health and childish 
happiness, he returns to find her with the angels, and nothing left to remind 
him of her liveliness but cold, pale clay.
Lay aside her little playthings,
Wet with a father’s tears
How he’ll miss his darling Maggie,
All the coming weary years!
Fold the dainty little garments,
That she never more will wear,
For her angel feet are waiting
Up above the golden stair. 

Dec 10, 1869:
Died, on the 5th inst., Sidney Wiley, son of W.C. and Sydney Ellis, aged two 
years and six months.

Dec 24, 1869:
Died – At his residence, in Clay county, on Friday evening 10thg inst., Elbert 
Waller Esq., in the 57th year of his age.
Death could not have dealt in this community, a blow more widely felt and more 
deeply deplored than that we have just recorded.  Here, where he has so long 
lived, was so well known, so highly esteemed, so universally respected and 
beloved, his memory needs no Eulogist, yet as we contemplate his exceeding 
worth, it becomes impossible to speak in measured terms, either of his value or 
our own loss.
“Quis sit desiderio Aut puder aut modus tam chari capitis!”
The hiatus lift in our society by his decease, is indeed irreparable and we 
deplore his loss, not simply as a private affliction but as public calamity.  
Wide as was the circle of relatives and friends which surrounded him, yet not 
to that alone did he narrow the generous sympathies of his large heart.  Every 
unfortunate found in him a friend, he lent a ready ear to every tale of woe, 
and gave freely both sympathy and material aid.  ‘Tis needless to dwell further 
on our loss – to apply the words of an eminent writer: “The subject is beyond 
writing upon, beyond cure or ease from reason or reflection, beyond all but one 
thought – that is the will of God.”                   Amicus.

In this city, on the 22d inst., Mauzey Q. A., son of Col. Wm. H. and Cora 
Woodson, aged about six months.

Obituary.
To the W.M. Wardens and Brethren of Clay Lodge, No. 207 A.F., and A.M.
The undersigned committee appointed to prepare and report suitable resolutions 
on the death of brother Thomas B. Abernathy respectfully submit the following:
Whereas, by the decree of an inscrutable Providence, this Lodge has lost one of 
her most honorable, virtuous, and Christina members in the death of brother 
Thomas B. Abernathy who died at his residence in Prospect Hill, Clay county, 
Mo., Nov. 6th, 1869, and Whereas this Lodge, feeling so sensibly this great 
bereavement, therefore Resolved, that in the death of brother Thomas B. 
Abernathy this lodge has lost a true and devoted brother, and society a worthy 
and useful member.  Resolved that his Lodge extends its heartfelt sympathy and 
consolation to the bereaved widow who has thus lost a kind, affectionate and 
worthy husband.  Resolved that a copy of these resolutions be presented to the 
widow of brother Thos. B. Abernathy, and that they be published in the Liberty 
Tribune.
G. W. James,  S.W. Cummons,  W.H. Waers,  Committee
Greenville, Mo., Dec. 11th 1869.
At a regular meeting of Clay Lodge No. 207, A.F. and A.M., held at Greenville, 
Mo., Dec. 11th, 1869, the foregoing was unanimously adopted
Rob. H. Finch, W.M.          Attest, W.H. Waers, Sec’y

We regret to announce the death of Mr. Nicholas Mosby, aged about 75 years.  He 
was a most excellent citizen, highly esteemed by his acquaintances.  He left a 
large estate.  The old patriarchal settlers are rapidly passing away.










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