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The Liberty Tribune 1859
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 1859.  Some the deaths did not occur in 
Clay County.  The date of publication is shown prior to the item(s).

Jan 14, 1859:
In St. Louis, on the 18th ult., at the residence of his mother, Mrs. Amanda S. 
Curtis, Louis F. Curtis, (formerly of Liberty,) aged 2? years, 10 months and 21 
days.

Jan 28, 1859:
Died, in this county on the morning of the 23d Mollie, infant daughter of Geo. 
W. and Mary Gordon.
Alas! such is life! But the little bud is gone
to bloom in a happier clime!
Beyond the flight of Time,
Beyond the vale of death,
There surely is some blessed clime
Where life is not a breath,
Nor life’s affections transient fire
Whose sparks fly upward to expire!”

Feb 11, 1859:
At the residence of his grandfather (Mr. C. Brashear) in this city on 6th 
inst., Eugene B., son of the late A.B. Hathaway, of Weston, aged 1 year, 11 
mos. and 6 days.
“As the bird to its sheltering nest,
When the storm on the hills is abroad,
So his spirit hath flown from this world of unrest
To repose on the bosom of God.”

In this city on the 7th inst., Anna Ross, infant daughter of B. and C.V. 
Roberts, aged 8 months.
Thus hath been borne from time to eternity, upon the wings of an Angel, the 
inestimable
Heavenly gift, around which, all the tender affections, of a fond father and 
mother lingered.  The conciousness, that thou art basking to the golden beams 
around the throne of God, constitutes the healing balm, and the only 
consolation to the hearts of the bereaved parents.

Feb 18, 1859:
In this city on the 17th inst., Elizabeth Drew, infant daughter of Samuel D. 
and Margaret W. Pitcher, aged 7 months.

From Los Angelos Star, April 19th, 1859.
Died – In this city on the 4th inst., Dr. Francie DeLeon.

On the 5th inst., R.M. Phillips, of Fannin co., Texas

At San Bernadino, on the 29th ult., Asa Estes, aged 50 years.

Feb 25, 1859:
In this city on the 18th inst., Nannie, infant daughter of Moses and Martha 
Dickson, aged 11 months.

In this city on the 18th inst., Walter G., son of Dr. Wm. Everett, aged about 9 
years.

In this city on the 19th inst., James L., infant son of M.H. and A.E. Barkley.

In this city on the 19th inst., Hugh, son of James H. and Susan E. Moss, aged 
about 14 months.
“His was the morning hour
And he has passed in beauty from the day
A bud, not yet a flower,
Torn in its sweetness from the parent spray,
The death-wind swept him to his soft repose,
As frost, in spring-time, blights the early rose.”

Mar 18, 1859:
In this county, on the 7th inst., from Congestion of the Lungs, William S., 
infant son of John and Amanda D. Arthur, aged six weeks and one day.
“Cease gentle Parents, cease to mourn,
Almighty God takes but his own,
Perhaps he saw destruction’s form,
And housed the Plant before the storm.”

Mar 25, 1859:
Died at the residence of her only Parent, on the 17th inst., after a painful 
illness of Pneumonia for 18 days, Fanny Fontenelle, daughter of John A. and 
A.T. Beauchamp, aged ten years and nine months.  
“She’s gone! that lovely flower, which late so fond I prest,
And than young heart that beat so quick hath hushed itself to rest;
Farewell, my little daughter; farewell my Fanny dear,
Oft from they father’s eye shall fall, the agonizing tear.
It cannot be! It cannot be thou never wilst return,
Nor can my clay-clogg’d spirit rise, to where those pale lights burn
But at they little tomb I’ll watch, ‘till each star fades away – 
Night! thou shalt witness all my grief, too sacred ‘twere for day.

Apr 8, 1859:
Did, in the vicinity of Smithville, on the 31st March, Serena Flemming, aged 60 
years, after a severe illness of nine days, which she bore with perfect 
Christian fortitude.  She was a member of the Christian Church for some twenty 
years.
“How happy are they who their Savior obey.”

Died – At the Female Institute, Miami, Mo., on Wednesday, the 23d inst., in the 
25th year of her age, Mrs. Emma A., wife of Prof. D.H. Lindsay.
Mrs. Lindsay was born in Madison county, Ky., immigrated to Clay co., Mo., in 
1849, and was married to her late husband in 1853.  They removed to Miami a few 
years since, and from that time to this have merited and received the kind 
regards of a large circle of friends.  Her death was by no means unexpected, 
having lingered with consumption, much beyond the expectation of her friends.  
Kind, gentle and affectionate, she won  the regards of all with whom she came 
in contact, and it will, no doubt, be a source of gratification to her 
relatives to know, that she had every attention in her declining moments, which 
could be rendered by dear friends, and died in the triumph of that faith which 
looks beyond the grave.  She leaves besides a tender husband and an interesting 
little daughter, many friends to mourn her early loss.  But it may truly be 
said that their loss is her eternal gain.   A NEIGHBOR.  

Apr 29, 1859:
In this county, on the 23d inst., Mrs. Alcy Leaky, wife of John Leaky, Esq., in 
the 71st year of her age.

In this county, on the 10th inst., Mrs. Ann M. McQuiddy, aged about 60 years.

The Boonville Patriot, of Saturday, gives an account of a case of hydrophobia 
which occurred in that county on the 7th inst.  A boy fourteen years of age, 
named Henry Lovel, was the victim.  A mad stone was applied to the wound but 
with no beneficial results.  It is stated that several dogs and hogs were 
bitten by the rabid animal.  

May 13, 1859:
In this county on the 6th inst., Mrs. Mary, wife of Henry Arnold, and daughter 
of Elder H. Searcy, aged about 25 years.

In this county, on the 6th instant, Josiah Swann, aged about 35 years.

Sa. – In our columns of week before last we announced the marriage of Mr. Wm. 
U. Wiley to Miss Mary Ellen Bell, of this city, and to-day we have the painful 
duty of chronicling the death of the young and lovely bride.  She died in 
Kansas City on Monday last, just two weeks from the day of her marriage.  Truly 
may it said:
“In the midst of life, we are in death.”
Her remains will be brought to this city for interment. – Lex. Expositor.

May 20, 1859:
In this city, on the 16th, Mr. Thomas Bowman, aged 72 years.

May 27, 1859:
Death of Mrs. Moore. – A dispatch from Arrow Rock conveys to us the sad 
intelligence of the death of Mrs. Lawrence Moore, daughter of Rev. R.S. Thomas, 
who died yesterday on board the Kate Howard while landing at Glasgow.  Mrs. M. 
had been afflicted for nearly two months, and was at the time of her death 
being conveyed to Columbia, where a large circle of relatives and friends 
reside.  She was accompanied by her husband and mother, on whose hearts will 
fall heavily the grief occasioned by her sudden demise.  Mrs. Moore was a most 
estimable lady, intelligent and amiable, in heart and profession a Christian.  
Her excellences are embalmed in the hearts of many who will alike mourn with 
fervent grief their loss. KC Metripolitan.

It gives us pain to hear of the death of Oliver Cunningham, Esq., formerly of 
this city, and, at the time of his death, a citizen of Richmond in Ray county.  
He was a ripe scholar, a most successful teacher of youth, and amiable in all 
the relations of life.  Had Mr. C. turned his attention to the Law, he would 
have become one of the most profound men in our country.  He had a strong mind, 
and one that could grasp and comprehend the most intricate subjects.  Peace to 
his memory.

Died – At his residence, in Clay county, on the evening of the 6th instant, 
Josiah Swann, in the 33rd year of his age.
In the character of the deceased there was a union of traits adapted to win the 
love, and command the respect of others.  In all the relations of life which he 
sustained, their combined influence was manifest.  As a citizen of the county, 
he gave promise of great usefulness.  Mr. S. had been for a number of years a 
member of the Reform Church.  His Christian course through life eminently such 
as to adorn the doctrine of God; and we are happy to know that he did not 
forsake him in the final conflict.  Throughout his painful illness not a murmur 
escaped his lips.  Just before he left this earth, he was calm and composed; 
not a doubt as to this future happiness, but all was “sunshine serene and 
bright.”  His wife and two sweet boys, left fatherless, were the only objects 
for which he desired to remain yet longer on earth.  He thought death no terror 
he was ready and willing to depart, and be with his Lord in Glory.  Mourn not 
for him dear friends and companions, for his spirit is at rest, be prepared to 
meet him when God calls you from this earth be ready as he was.
The grave is very deep,
The grave is very cold,
To lay our friends in to sleep,
But God calls them to rest in peace.  EOLA.

Jun 3, 1859:
Died, on the 24th ult., in this county, John Shackelford, in the 62 year of his 
age.

The Lexington Observer and Reporter announces the death of Dr. Elisha Warfield, 
which took place at his residence, near Lexington, on the 15th inst.

Since our last issue, our much esteemed and highly respected friend and fellow-
citizen, Oliver Cunningham, who has been ill for several days, departed this 
life.  His death was a source of universal pain and regret by the entire 
community.  He was esteemed and highly respected by all, everywhere, and by all 
was it said a good and useful citizen has died.  In all the relations of life, 
as a husband, father, Christian, friend, citizen and preceptor, he was most 
exemplary, kind and uniform in his walk and conversation.  We have known him 
long and known him well, and can therefore most cordially join in the general 
acclaim that “a good man has died,” we know that he is gone, but we will ever 
cherish his memory. – Richmond Conservator.

Jun 10, 1859:
A difficulty occurred at a drinking-house in this city on yesterday, between 
Patrick Cusick and Richard Moore, which resulted in the death of the former 
from a stab with a knife.

June 17, 1859:
Departed this life, at the residence of Rev’d B.T. Cake, Howard county, May 
19th, after a short and painful illness, Miss Nannie, daughter of I.E. and 
Elizabeth Price, aged 16 years.
Miss Nannie was absent from her home in Ray county, on a visit to her friends 
in Howard, when her guardian angel smiled upon her and invited her to her home 
in Heaven.  
The latter portion of her life was spent in the Christian Religion.  She 
professed religion and united with the Baptist Church, of which Church she 
remained a faithful and zealous member until her death.  She lived in the 
hearts of a happy family, giving them in her own life a bright example to 
follow.  She was indeed an affectionate daughter, a loving sister and devoted 
Christian.
May the Father of mercies, who tempers the wind to the shorn Lamb, send comfort 
to her bereaved friends, and be their shield and everlasting portion. – Glasgow 
Times.  H.S.E.

Jun 24, 1859:
Death of Mrs. Lusk. – Mrs. Abbie M. Lusk, wife of W.H. Lusk, editor of the 
Jefferson City Inquirer, died in that place, on the 9th inst., aged 26 years.

Dr. James W. Moss, a citizen of this State for nearly forty, and of this county 
for the last twenty years, died on yesterday at his residence, in his eighty-
third year.  His life has been characterized by the exercise of all the manly 
virtues, and his many acts of active benevolence greatly endeared him to his 
neighbors and friends.  He was a native of Virginia, was reared and educated in 
Kentucky, and removed with his family to Missouri in 1822.  Among his children 
is Mrs. John J. Crittenden.  St. Louis Republican.

The Hon. David Todd, a prominent and highly respectable citizen of this place, 
died on Thursday evening, the 9th inst., in the 74th year of his age.   He had 
been in declining health for several months, and for weeks past had lived from 
day to day in almost hourly expectation of the last summons.  
Judge Todd for forty years has been a prominent citizen of this State, and was 
well and personally known to the first settlers, with whom he shared the 
privations and encountered the perils of the earlier times.  So old and 
influential a citizen, and one who is so much identified with the history of 
the state, discharging for twenty consecutive years the duties of Circuit 
Judge, his term commencing during our territorial existence, ought not to pass 
away without a fitting review of his life and services.
Judge Todd was the son of Gen. Levi Todd of Fayette county, Ky., who settled in 
that State as early as 1776, and was the first Clerk of the County, which 
office he held until his death in 1807.  Judge Todd was the eldest of six 
brothers, and was born in Fayette county, Ky., on the 29th March, 1786, three 
years after the Peace with Great Britain.  For several years previous to the 
death of his father he aided, and for the most part conducted the business of 
the County Clerk’s office.  In 1807 he was one of the guard that conducted 
Blennerhassett to Richmond, Va., who, our readers will remember, was supposed 
to be implicated in the treasonable objects of Aaron Burr.  After this period 
he was a student at law under the instructions of the late Chief Justice Geo. 
M. Bibb, and Henry Clay.  While in the office of the former, the Hon. J.J. 
Crittenden was his fellow-student, with whom he formed a lasting friendship.  
In 1813, in the perilous crisis of the late war with Great Britain, he was 
elected to the Legislature of Kentucky, and the session following his term as a 
member, Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives; the interim being spent in 
the practice of the law.  In 1814 he was Captain of a company of Mounted 
Volunteers in Gov. Shelby’s Expedition to Canada, and displayed great gallantry 
at the Battle of the Thames, Oct 5th, 1814, at which the British under Gen. 
Proctor were defeated.  His Lieutenant was Joseph R. Underwood, since U.S 
Senator from Kentucky.  In 1815 he was again elected to the Legislature, and 
after the close of his term 1816 moved to Missouri and settled in Franklin, 
Howard county.  In 1817 he received from Gen. Wm. Clark, then territorial 
Governor, the appointment of Circuit Judge, which office he held until the 
admission of the State into the Union, after which he was re-appointed by 
Frederick Bates, the first Governor of Missouri under the Constitution.  At the 
of his first appointment, his Judicial Circuit was very large, embracing all 
the counties then organized North and West of St. Louis.  In 1828 he was a 
candidate for Governor and received a strong vote.  In 1831 he moved from 
Howard county to this place, united with the Presbyterian Church in 1834 under 
the ministration of Rev. Wm. Cochran, and retired from the Bench and resumed 
the active duties of his profession in 1836.
Such is a brief record of the eventful career of one of our most honored and 
distinguished citizens.. – Columbia Statesman.

Death of Rev. R.S. Thomas
Died at Fulton on the evening of the 12th inst., Rev. Robert S. Thomas, of 
Kansas City (formerly of this place) in the 54th year of his age.  The deceased 
was a native of Franklin county, KY.  He emigrated to Missouri in the year 
1827, and settled in Boone county, having married before leaving Kentucky, the 
2d daughter of the late Capt. Wm. Johnson.  From the time of his settlement in 
this county, he devoted himself to the high and honorable avocation of 
teaching, and continued to do so, until a short time, before his death.  In 
1821 he united with the Baptist church, and was ever regarded as a shining 
light, and an able divine in that religious organization.  For many years he 
was the beloved Pastor of the Baptist church in this place.  Before the 
establishment of the State University, he was a Professor in Columbia College, 
and was afterwards elected to fill the chair of Languages and Moral Science, in 
the University, the duties of which places he discharged whilst he held them 
with much credit to himself and entire satisfaction to the patrons of the 
Institution.  In the year 1853 having been elected President of William Jewell 
College, (an Institution formed by the benevolence of a lamented and 
distinguished citizen of Boone county,) he removed to Liberty and entered upon 
the duties of that office, and which he held until the year 1855, when he 
resigned and removed to the vicinity of Kansas City, in Jackson county, and 
established there a select school, over which he presided until a year before 
his death, when he assumed the Pastoral charge of three Baptist churches in 
Kansas City, and vicinity. – Columbia Statesman.

Jul 29, 1859:
In this city, on the 25th inst., Franklin, infant son of T. and Elizabeth Werry.

Aug 12, 1859:
In this city on the 10th Betty, infant daughter of J.R. Crabtree.

In this county on the 6th inst., Solomon Vance, in the 66th year of his age.

Aug 26, 1859:
In Platte City, of Hoopingcough, on the 17th inst., Martha Susan, daughter of 
B.F. and M.A. Hollingsworth, aged one year, four months and twenty-six days.

Sep 2, 1859:
In Johnson co., K.T., Dionysius, son of Joel and Mary E. Rice, aged about 10 
mos.

Died, at the residence of her father, James Berry, in Platte county, on the 
17th ult., Mrs. Angelina Tinsley, wife of Dr. Robert Tinsley.  Mrs. T. had 
suffered from ill health for several months, but all her suffering were borne 
with that Christian resignation and fortitude which has been so distinctly 
characteristic of her truly Christian life.  R.T.

Sep 9, 1859:
At the family residence near Liberty in Clay county, Mo., on the 18th ult., in 
the hope of a glorious immortality, Mrs. Elenor Clark, relict of the late Jos. 
Clark.
Mrs. Clark was born in Orange county, N.C. and emigrated thence in the year 
1826, with her husband and family, to Clay county, Mo., where she continued to 
reside till her death.  Having devoted herself to the Lord in early life, she 
was one of the pioneer Christians of the wilds of the west, and constituted one 
of the few first organized into a Presbyterian congregation at Bethel, in Clay 
county.
In all the relations of life Mrs. Clark was peculiarly distinguished for native 
gentleness and amiability of character, rendering her the devoted wife, - 
faithful mother and kind neighbor.
There was another sphere, however, in which her virtues shone more pre-eminent, 
and that was in her profession of Christianity.  Here she was indeed a lovely 
example of the influence of divine grace, in moulding the human character after 
the divine lineament of the immaculate Son of God, imparting the grace and 
ornament of Christianity to all the duties of life.  In the light of her pure 
life and holy example, she was blessed in training her family in such manner as 
to afford her departing spirit the comforting hope, that, with her sainted 
husband and children, who had gone before her, she would be made partaker of 
the ineffable bliss of a reunion of her household in the skies.
“My dearest friends, they dwell above,
Them will I go and see,
And all my friends, in Christ below,
Will soon come after me.”

In this county, on the 27th August, of Typhoid Fever, Mrs. Clamenra Brooks, 
widow of the late Van W. Brooks aged 45 years.

Sep 16, 1859:
In this city on the 11th Annie Catharine, daughter of Augustus and Eliza 
Bishop, Aged 1 year and 25 days.

Sep 23, 1859:
In this county on the 8th inst., Woodson J. Moss Gardiner, son of Thomas 
Gardiner, aged 15 years.

Sep 30, 1859:
In this county on the 19th inst., Benjamin L. Leitch, aged 33 years.

On the 18th inst., after an illness of ten days, at her residence in Platte 
county, Mrs. Margaret Jane, wife of Maj. L. Hinkle.  

Abraham Shafer, Esq. – It will be seen by reference to another column that the 
lawyers of Clay County, have expressed their regret at the death of the 
gentleman whose name heads this article, and it behooves us, as expressing the 
feelings of the people of old Clay, to say, what we know they feel, on this 
subject.
Mr. Shafer has been identified with the people of Clay County and their 
interests for more than a quarter of a century, and if we were called upon to 
write his Epitaph, we would inscribe upon his tombstone “ Those who knew him 
best, loved him most.”  He died at the residence of his brother, Josiah Shafer, 
on the 25th of September at half past nine o’clock, of chronic diarrahae, and 
was buried in the family burial ground, near Smithville.
Mr. S. was a profound Lawyer – of singular benevolence of character, in a word, 
a good man.  “Peace to his ashes!”

Oct 7, 1859:
Obituary. – Died near Shelbyville,Ky., on the 14th of September, Mr. Ephraim 
P.Jessee, of this county, in the 26th year of his age.
In him has expired one of the most moral, and deserving young men in all of our 
acquaintance.  Too much cannot be said in commendation of his character!  He 
annexed himself to the Christian church in Barry during last year (1858) from 
which time ’till his death, he lived in full discharge of Christian duties; and 
died in full assurance of faith; and with the Christian hope!  His dying advice 
to his friends, and relation was “Tell them to prepare to meet their God – That 
I have found this to be the great lesson of life!”  He was an example!  And if 
life and health had fallen to his lo’ – he would have left a mark, not easily 
erased by the billow of time!  But he has gone to receive his reward, which we 
doubt not is a crown of righteousness.    A. FRIEND.  

Oct 14, 1859:
On the 7th inst., Katy, infant daughter, of Geo. W. and Sarah Wymore.

On the 6th of October, William Luther, infant son of Eliza Jane and Lewis W. 
Teegarden, aged nine months and 14 days.

Oct 21, 1859:
Death of Gen. John Calhoun. – A gloom was cast over the city yesterday by the 
announcement of the death of Gen. John Calhoun, who was for the last three or 
four years Surveyor General of Kansas and Nebraska, and who was somewhat 
prominent during the difficulties in the unfortunate Territory of Kansas.  He 
breathed his last on Thursday morning at 12 ½ o’clock, at the Blakemore House, 
in this city, of inflammation of the stomach, after an illness of four weeks, 
two of which hew was attended by his family, who are overwhelmed with grief at 
the great affliction that has thus fallen upon them.  
Gen. Calhoun was a native of Massachusetts, about fifty-three years of age, and 
resided in Springfield, Illinois, practicing the profession of law, previous to 
his appointment of Surveyor General of Kansas and Nebraska, in which office he 
was superceded, a short time since by Gen. Burnett, the present incumbent.  He 
was also President of the Kansas Convention that formed the Lecompton 
Constitution, which was defeated, after a warm contest.  Gen. C. was a 
gentleman of great ability, and by his urbane manners and noble bearing 
endeared himself to a host of friends, who will, no doubt, be pained to hear of 
his death, and will, with his large and interesting family, shed a tear to his 
memory.  We understand that the body of the deceased will be kept three or four 
days awaiting the arrival of his brother, who has been telegraphed to and who 
is expected her daily. – St.Jo. Journal.

Oct 28, 1859:
In Plattsburg, on the 19th inst., Mrs. Martha Palmer, wife of A.W. Palmer, 
Esq., aged 24 years.  

Dec 2, 1859:
In this county on the 8th ult., Mr. George Wirt, Sr., aged 78 years.

Dec 9, 1859:
In this city on the 7th inst., Alvin L. son of Dr. Wm. A. and Juliet Morton, 
aged 5 years.

Dec 23, 1859:
Obituary. – Departed this life at his residence in Clay county, Thomas M. 
Morton, Sr., on the 22d inst., at the advanced age of 73 years - deceased was a 
native of Surry county, Va., and for many years a resident of Mason county, 
KY.  Whence he emigrated to this county in 1837.  He was one of the most 
intelligent and enterprising farmers in our county, although for many years he 
had labored under the disease of which he died – Consumption.  In all the 
relations of life he was an exemplary, high minded and useful citizen – the 
patron of schools and churches, charitable to the poor, and affectionate and 
kind to his family – by nature inclined to be religious, he had been a member 
of the Church for more than 40 years and died tranquilly, relying on the 
promises of his Savior.  He leaves a large family to mourn his loss.  





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