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The Liberty Tribune 1860
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 1860.  Some the deaths did not occur in 
Clay County.  The date of publication is shown prior to the item(s).

Jan 6, 1860:
Near Columbia, Mo., on the 20th ult., Mr. Edmund Miller, (only brother of the 
editor of this paper,) aged about 31 years.  He leaves a family to lament his 
loss.

Wm. A. Linn, Collector of the Port of St. Louis, died a few days ago.  He was a 
son of the late Senator Linn.

Jan 20, 1860:
Jefferson City, Jan. 10 – Death of John C. Walker. – Special Dispatch to the 
Evening News. – Hon. J. C. Walker, member of the House from Cape Girardeau, 
died in this city, at two o’clock this morning.  Both branches of the 
Legislature accordingly adjourned this forenoon until tomorrow morning.

Jan 27, 1860:
In this county on the 20th inst., after a protracted illness, Mr. Sam’l K. 
Hopewell, aged about 68 years.

Near this city, on the 25th inst., Mrs. J. Cordelia Howard, wife of Col. John 
L. Howard, aged about 30 years.

Feb 3, 1860:
Died on the 22d inst., of inflammation of the brain, Fannie B., infant daughter 
of John H. And Sallie E. Moseby, aged 2 years and 5 months.
“The loved one has faded, the sunbeam has fled;
The bright eye is shaded the loved one is dead;
The kind pure hearted, the tender and true,
From our love has departed, with scarce an adieu.”

Feb 10, 1860:
In this city, on Sunday 5th inst., Charles Marshall, son of Robert S. and 
Margaret Adkins, aged 7 weeks and 1 day.
“Thus fades our sweetest comforts here,
Our dearest friends they disappear;
When the loud call from God is given,
They sleep in death to wake in Heaven.”

Feb 17, 1860:
In this county, on the 13th inst., Susan, daughter of Malry and Charlotte Ann 
Cave, aged about 18 months.

Feb 24, 1860:
In this county on the 9th inst., Mr. John Pfisterer, aged about 50 years.

Mar 2, 1860:
Died, in Stewartsville, on the 23d ult., Mr. Josiah G. Hardwick, (formerly of 
Clay county) in the 23d year of his age.

Mar 16, 1860:
In this county, on the 1st inst., Mrs. Almedie Estes, wife of Elisha Estes, 
Esq., aged about 41 years.

In this county on the 7th inst., Mr. Wm. H. Bentley, aged about 24 years.

Mar 23, 1860:
In this county, on February 27th, 1860, Nancy Piburn, aged 49 years.

In this county on the 15th inst., Alexander Cook, aged 34 years.

Mar 30, 1860:
In this city on Friday, March 23d Kate, daughter of Jas. H. and M.A. Ford, aged 
1 year 11 months and 5 days.
“Sleep little darling.  God to the
Was merciful.  Why should’st thou wake?
He who in love called thee above,
Peace to they weary spirit spake.”
But to the hearts that loved thee, thou art not,
Forever gone: to them thou could’st not die’
Nor thou their loneliness hast e’en forgot;
But oft thy loving presence lingers nigh.”   J.F.P.

Apr 27, 1860:
In this county on the evening of the15th inst., MR. S.O. Jessee, in the 56th 
year of his age.
Mr. Jessee removed from Shelby County Ky., about the year 1850.  He was a man 
of upright character, an enterprising farmer and worthy citizen.  He was 
perfectly resigned to die, and died with the Christian hope.  Truly do we 
sympathize with the bereaved widow and family and tender them our hear-felt 
condolence.  Truly they are left in a sad vale of tears, to bide their way 
through time, “till death shall call upon them to join him again.  Oh, may they 
be borne above the temptation of time; its demoralizations and evils.  That 
they may be prepared to go and meet him, when the summons shall come.  NEIGHBOR

In this county on Friday the 20th inst., Wm. Sweatnam, son of the late Hon. 
T.T. Sweatnam, in the 17th year of his age.

In this county, on the 22d inst., at the residence of her grandfather, Joseph 
Carson, Betty, infant daughter of W.P. & Eliza Jane Collins.

May 11, 1860:
In Lincoln county, on 24th April, Mildred Smith, consort of the late ??? Smith, 
aged about 64 years.

Jun 1, 1860:
In this county on the 25th ult., Mr. James Donaldson, in the 64th year of his 
age.

In this county on the 24th inst., Ernest, son of O.P. & Elizabeth Mitchell, 
aged 1 year, 8 months and 9 days.
“He faded in beauty, he faded in youth,
In the spring-tied of innocence, virtue and truth,
Like the bud that just opened, then chilled to blight
Like the bright star of even obscured by the night.

Died, in Bonham, Texas, on the 19th of May, of consumption, Mr. Caton N. Usher 
aged 22 years.  He was a printer, and worked in this office last summer.

Jun 8, 1860:
Died – On the 1st day of June, John Wirt, in the 77th year of his age.
Thus passed away one of our oldest and bet citizens.  Mr. Wirt was a native of 
Virginia and at an early age removed to Kentucky, and thence to Clay county, 
Mo., in 1830, where he continued to reside up to the time of his death. One of 
its earliest inhabitants, he has beheld the progress of our county almost from 
its first settlement; and he was known to most of the residents.  AS a citizen, 
he was distinguished, quiet industrious, honorable man.  To his worth as a 
neighbor and friend, the kind attention and anxious solicitude manifested 
during his last illness, by those who had an opportunity of knowing him best, 
is a sufficient testimonial.  He was ever kind, hospitable, and generous to a 
fault.  He was an affectionate husband and an indulgent father.  He leaves a 
widow, and a numerous progeny – children and grand-children, scattered 
throughout the State, to mourn his loss; but they mourn not as those who have 
no hope.  Before his death he gave consoling evidence that he had “made his 
peace with his God” – then let them weep mo more.  It grieves us sorely to part 
with those we have loved so long; but he has only paid a debt to which 
mortality is heir.  He has passed through this vale of tears, and we 
fondly ???? has been welcomed home with the glad ???.
“Prisoner, long detained below,
Prisoner, now with freedom blest;
Welcome from a world of woe,
Welcome to a land of rest!”

Jul 27, 1860:
In this city on Sunday the 22nd inst., Mr. John R. Peters, aged 62 years.

In Platte county on the 13th inst., Mrs. Julia Park, wife of Sampson Park, 
Esq., of Platte, aged 37 years.

Aug 3, 1860:
Died, at the residence of Daniel Monroe of Jackson county, Mo., on the 30th of 
July, 1860, of the Dropsy of the Chest, Francis Thorp, wife of the late Eld. 
William thorp, Minister of the Gospel and one of the first ???? to the State of 
Missouri, from KY.  Suffering much in an early day, from the ruthless hand of 
the wild Savage.  The age of our venerable old mother was 87 years 2 months and 
3 days-63 years of which time ws studiously spent in the service of her ?????? 
Redeemer, and finally died in the faith of God’s ?????.  Thus she leaves a 
bright example for her Brothers and Sisters and Children, and Friends – 

In this city on the 31st ult., Benjamin R. Corbin, aged about 80 years.

Aug 10, 1860:
Horrible Tragedy. – One day last week the citizens of Council Grove were thrown 
into a considerable excitement by a tragedy enacted in their midst.  Josiah 
Thayer, (alias Cye Smith,) shot his wife with a revolver, inflicting a severe, 
but not mortal wound, and afterwards killed himself.  The cause was jealousy, 
and the opinion of the neighbors is that the jealousy was not unfounded.

Aug 17, 1860:
In Bloomfield, Stoddard county, Mo., on the 3d inst., Geol L. Hodges, son of 
Judge W. V. Hodges, of this county, aged 26 years.

Died, in this county, on Tuesday the 14th Aug. 1860, of Typhoid Fever, Allen 
S., only son of Jas. P. and Sarah E. Withers, aged 18 months.
“Suffer little children to come unto me and forbid them not, for of such is the 
Kingdom of Heaven.” – Jesus.

Obituary. – Died, at his residence, in the city of Liberty, Clay county, Mo., 
Deacon John R. Peters, on the 22d July, 1860.  He was born in Woodford county, 
Kentucky,  on the 15th day of February, 1797 – being sixty-three and nearly 
five months old.  He moved to Liberty in 1825, when there was but few citizens 
or houses in the town – being a resident here nearly thirty-five years.  Here 
he reared a family of five pleasant, sensible, amiable daughters, four of whom 
are now professors of religion.  His mortal remains were removed to the farm, 
and family burying-ground of the late Richard Simms, (father-in-law.) A sermon 
was delivered by Eld. Henry Hill on the occasion, after which he was interred 
beneath the silent clod of the valley.
Bro. Peters joined the church at Glen’s Creek, Woodford co., Kentucky in 1820, 
was baptized by the well-known, and much respected Elder John Edwards.  He was 
the main and principal member in getting up and establishing the first Baptist 
church in Liberty, more than 32 years ago.  At his own dwelling, where meeting 
was kept up for some years, (being no public house in the place,) his house was 
the Baptist Hotel for years, and the family seemed to take great pleasure in 
having the company of the ministry and brethren with them.  Brother P. was a 
worthy Deacon of this church till he died; he but seldom missed meeting; he was 
thoroughly posted up in the doctrine of the Bible, and unyielding in those 
cardinal principles.  Such was his firmness, and yet his pleasantness among his 
brethren that he was much endeared to them all.  He was always a delegate to 
the annual associations, where his influence was always felt.  He was never 
known to warble or baulk in any matter of difficulty or importance, whether of 
doctrine or government.  His unwavering firmness won for him the character of 
a “Pillar in the Church.”  He was beloved by all his brethren, whether minister 
or laymen, and we deeply deplore our loss in society, and especially in the 
church at Liberty.
He was confined to his bed several weeks; when we first went to see him he said 
he was satisfied that he would bet up, in deed he said he had no anxiety to 
recover; that there was nothing here worth living for; and he wanted to depart 
and be with Christ; that he was willing and ready to go; that he never expected 
to be more ready than now; and as yet he could see no change necessary in his 
faith; that he was read to die on the faith that he had embraced forty years 
ago; that he had nothing to boast of or rely on for his salvation, but the 
finished righteousness of his dear Redeemer, and that Christ was his only hope 
in life or in death; and that he had committed to Christ his all against that 
day.  After this general conversation, he talked but little; it was laborious 
for him to talk, nor could he bear much loud talking.  He was always sober-
minded, and retained his senses to the last, and seemed to pass into Glorious 
Eternity without a murmur or struggle, whose light seemed to go out like a dim 
candle in the radiance of the noon-day sun.
Well may we say “Blessed are the Dead that die in the Lord.”  It was a deep 
affliction to his dear daughters, who were all there save one, surrounding the 
dying couch of a beloved Father.
Bro. Peters, by his happy turn of mind, was affable and social with his 
brethren, neighbors and acquaintances; his familiarity was such that all 
classes, male and female, in the church or out, young or old, were easy and 
pleasant in his company.  For years he was a magistrate in the city; the whole 
town seems much to regret their loss.  His dear children have lost a kind and 
affectionate father and benefactor.  The city has lost one of her most useful 
citizens.  The church has lost one of her Deacons and valuable, active member, 
whose place will be hard to fill; but our loss is his eternal gain.  The key of 
death has unlocked the gate of heaven, and he is ushered into the presence and 
likeness of a Glorious Redeemer – where the wicked cease from troubling, and 
the weary are at rest.  “Behold how the Christian dies,” he has gone up to the 
temple of God, and shall no more go out.  “Blessed and Holy is he that hath 
part in the second Resurrection, on such the second death hath no power.”  
Amen.           HENRY HILL.

Aug 24, 1860:
In this county on the 13th inst., Mrs. Elizabeth Wilson, aged 69 years.

Died, of Hooping Cough, on the 16th inst., at the residence of S.G. 
Hollingsworth, Eddie Gordon, infant son of D.S. and M.H. Gordon, aged four 
months.
Eddie is gone, to God above,
Where angels dwell.
‘Tis there he sings redeeming love,
And of his glories tell.
His little feet have never trod,
In paths of sin and shame;
And now he ever lives with God,
To praise his holy name.
And would you call him back again?
From that pure world of light,
Where holy angels ever reign;
So good, so pure, so bright.
No you must calmly him resign,
T God who calls him home.
And to his watchful care assign,
Till you are bid to come.           M.

Sep 7, 1860:
Rev. Benj. S. Ashby is Dead. – He was one of the oldest and most beloved 
citizens of this county, and had served the Methodist Episcopal Church South, 
in various and highly important trusts.  WE all feel his loss as a father and 
benefactor of his race.  And yet he died as his friends would wish him to – in 
the active service of religion.  He was holding an interesting protracted 
meeting in his old neighborhood near Brunswick.  On the night of the 30th, 
after all the other services were over, he kneeled down amid his brethren and 
their children, and while in fervent prayer, he suddenly ceased and died – died 
without a struggle.  We all apply the favorite chorus to his case.
“Fight in the field of battle – 
Die in the field of battle
And home to glory go.”    (Brunswicker.)

Sep 28, 1860:
At the residence of her father, Mr. Reuben Tillery, on Tuesday the 26th inst., 
Mrs. Martha Ann Jones, wife of Geo. W. Jones, Esq., of Platte County, and 
formerly of Rappahannock co., Va.  Mrs. Jones possessed to a great degree those 
virtues and graces which adorn and dignify her sex; and as a Christina she died 
in the full assurance of a blessed immortality.  The Righteous hath hop in 
their death. – David.

In this city on the 24th inst., Michael, son of Michael Castillo, aged about 
one year.

Oct 19, 1860:
Obituary. – Died at the residence of his father Lewis Sharp, Esq., in Clay 
county, on the 25th of September, 1860, James Sharp, aged 25 years.  The 
disease of which he died was stricture of the rectum, and from which he 
suffered severe pain and acute suffering with singular fortitude and 
resignation for the period of two years, during which time he submitted to two 
painful surgical operations.  Mr. Sharp was a young gentleman of amiable 
manners, and unblemished character, and his death cast a gloom over a large 
circle of friends and acquaintances. 

Obituary. – Departed this life on Thursday, the 4th day of October, 1860, 
Elijah Foley, (son of Henry and Mary Foley) in his 21st year.  He was born in 
Fayette county, Kentucky, but emigrated with his father to this county when 
quite a child.  He died of consumption, of which he had suffered for several 
years; and for some months had been confined to his bed – enduring the most 
intense sufferings, which he bore with Christian fortitude, and uncomplaining 
resignation.  He became a member of the Christian Church, in this city when but 
15 years of age, and was a devout Christina thence to his death, and surrounded 
by his weeping and sorrowing parents relations and friends, he quietly and 
triumphantly yielded up his spirit, trusting confidently in the promises of his 
Saviour.  If the prospects of a happy and glorious immortality, can console his 
mourning parents and relations for their loss, they might well cease to sorrow 
and be comforted, for his life was one of pure morality, and the brightest 
Christian piety – none knew him but to respect and love him, for his many 
virtues and bright example to the young.
Thy passing spirit gently fled,
Sustained by grace divine,
Oh! may such grace on us be shed,
And make our end like thine.
This slight tribute is from a member of the Church.     D.

Oct 26, 1860:
At the residence of her grandfather Warren Woodson, in Columbia, Mo., on the 
16th inst., at 3 o’clock p.m., Lucretia Bartlett, infant daughter of Prof. G.H. 
and O.A. Mathews.
“As vernal flowers that scent the morn,
But wither in the rising day;
Thus lovely was this infant’s dawn,
Thus swiftly fled her life away.
She died to sin; she died to care;
But for a moment felt the rod;
Then rising on the viewless air,
Spread her light wings and soar’d to God.”

Tribute of Respect.
Whereas Almighty God, in the unerring dispensations of his Providence, has been 
pleased to remove from this transitory state of existence our esteemed brother, 
Sylvester Warfield, who departed this life at his residence, I the town of 
Smithville, Clay county Mo., on the 14th inst., in the 48th year of his age, 
therefore, be it
Resolved, 1st.  That in this afflictive dispensation, we desire to acknowledge 
the wisdom and benignity of Jehovah, who, as the Great Author and giver of all 
life, possesses the undisputed right to call each one of us from this mortal 
scene whenever and in such manner as to him may seem best. 
Resolved, 2nd.  That we would implicitly bow in submission to the Divine Will, 
as indicated in this solemn event, and desire thereby to be forcibly impressed 
with the absolute necessity of promptly and faithfully discharging our 
respective duties in life, that when our mission on earth shall close, we may, 
like our departed brother, be transmitted to a state of eternal rest and 
happiness.
Resolved 3rd.  That our sincere and fervent condolence be tendered to the 
sorrowing relatives of the deceased – and while we feel that society has lost 
an active and useful member – our mystic fellowship a devoted follower, and the 
domestic circle an affectionate and beloved relation – yet our mutual loss, we 
trust, is his everlasting gain: the afflicted ones may therefore sorrow, but 
not as without hope.
Resolved 4th.  That as the officers and members of Centre Lodge of Free and 
Accepted Masons, we will wear the accustomed badge of mourning, and observe the 
prescribed and time honored rites of our order in attestation of our profound 
regard for our departed friend and brother.

Nov 2, 1860:
On the morning of the 21st, Florie H., infant daughter of Lizzia and Dolphin 
Drew, aged four months and five days.
“Thy days, sweet little babe! were few,
An angel’s morning visit;
That came and vanished with the dew,
‘Twas here! ‘tis gone- where is it.
Then – thou in Heaven, and we on earth,
May this one hope delight us;
That thou wilt hail our second birth,
When death shall re-unite us.
Where worlds no more can sever,
Lost, loved ones forever.”

From the St. Joseph Gazette, Oct. 26.
Distressing Accident on the Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad.
As the express train westward on the Hannibal and St. Joseph road, night before 
last, was approaching within a few hundred yards of Kidder, a station some 
forty miles east of this city, it came in collision with the eastern 
accommodation train, under about the following circumstances:  The 
accommodation train was a few minutes behind time, variously stated at from ten 
to fifteen minutes, and had just checked up preparatory to switching off to 
wait the passage of the express.  The engineer of the express, seeing the train 
not in a forward motion, inferred it was already on the switch, and did not 
discover his error, that it was on the main track, till it was too late to stop 
or even materially slacken his speed.  The collision was, therefore, fearful, 
literally grinding up the engines and shattering up the cars, and horribly 
mangling the leg of Johnny Abel, a lad some sixteen or eighteen years old, who 
was acting as fireman on the express train.  Numerous passengers were more or 
less bruised, but none seriously injured.  A train was dispatched from this 
city, which brought in the passengers, mail, &c, of the regular train.
The conduct of the engineer on the Express is commended as courageous and 
faultless.  Yet it is certain there was culpable delinquency somewhere, as at 
least one of the trains was out of time and must have disregarded the 
regulations provided in such exigencies.  We trust the matter will be strictly 
looked into.
Dr. Knode, a most skillful surgeon of our city, was dispatched for, and upon an 
engine fired up for his accommodation about 12 or 1 o’clock at night, sped to 
the relief of the wounded youth, Johnny Abel, reaching Cameron in an hour, 
making the fearfulspeed, with an inexperienced engineer, of nearly a mile a 
minute.  He found the poor boy fast sinking form his terrible injuries.  He 
bore his sufferings like a hero, but despite the Doctor’s skill died in less 
than an hour after his arrival, never sufficiently rallying to permit an 
operation.  When told that the loss of his limb was inevitable, his wailing for 
the condition he would leave his sister in – an orphan family living in 
Hannibal – was touching in the extreme.  With the heart of more than a brother, 
and the spirit of a true hero, he seemed only to think of the dependent and 
unprotected condition of his sisters, forgetting the insupportable suffering 
which speedily ended his life.

Nov 9, 1860:
In this county on 3rd inst., Mr. Samuel Hyatt, aged about 50 years.

Dec 28, 1860:
In Ray county, on the 15th inst., Mollie E., eldest daughter of John P. and 
A.M. Hubbell, aged 6 ½ years.












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