Adams County,  Ritzville, WA  

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Adams County News, Jan. 6, 13, 1904, issues missing from files

Adams County News, January 27, 1904, issue

Jones Infant
	The four month's old baby of Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Jones died Monday morning at nine
o'clock. The funeral was held from the residence on College hill this afternoon at 3 o'clock.

Adams County News, February 24, 1904, issue

Another Pioneer Called
	Malcom Reed, an old and respected citizen, died at his home on College hill on the early
morning of February 25, 1904. (date may be in error as it appeared in the newspaper dated one day
before the death) The deceased was born in Virginia seventy-four years ago and has resided in this
county twenty-seven years and for the major part of the time has been engaged in the stock
business, was always fairly successful and had accumulated considerable property. He leaves a
wife and two little girls which comprise the family. He was a man of strong convictions and a
positive mind and had little patience with wrong doers or evil persons, which his long experience
upon the western frontier tended to make firmer in his declining days. Death was caused by heart
trouble and though Mr. Reed had been gradually failing for some time, his demise came rather  
unexpected. He had seen hard service in the Civil war and his name was upon the pension rolls.
Few pioneers were better known throughout this part of the northwest. He has passed into the ever
lasting silence, the mystery and the peace of death. There remains nothing but to say of him  
that he did his part faithfully and well, fair and kind to his deserving fellow man, always
making himself an element seemingly vital to the welfare of his community more particularly in
the earlier days of this country some twenty five years ago when it took sturdy, determined men
to withstand the depredations of the outlaw and savage who were then in the ascendency in many
portions of the unsettled northwest and with whom the stockman had to seriously contend. With him
it is all over, his earthly trials are ended. Good bye, old friend, may you sleep eternity away
in the rest that knows no ending. The funeral will occur Friday, Feby. 26, 1904, at 2 p.m. under
auspices of Ritzville lodge No. 101, F.& A.M. this city of which the deceased was a member.
Services at the First Congregational church, Rev. F. Vernon Jones, the pastor, officiating.  

Adams County News, March 2, 1904, issue

Henry Kanzler
	Henry Kanzler, the elderly father of the Kanzler brothers, George H. and John Kanzler of
this county, passed away Monday at a ripe old age. The funeral was held this afternoon and was
one of the largest ever held in the town. Services took place at the First German Congregational
church of Zion conducted by Rev. Gottlieb Schuerle. The deceased was among the Russian-Germans,
who first reached this county in a colony and formed the little settlement a few miles west of
town about 1880.

Mrs. Benj Leonard
	Mrs. Benj Leonard, mother of Thos. B. Leonard, died at the home in Silverton, Oregon,
this afternoon at one o'clock announcement coming by telegraphic message. The lady was in her
84th year and the cause of death advanced years and dropsy. With her husband who survives her
they crossed the plains in 1851 and settled on the old homestead which they have occupied for
the last 53 years.

Adams County News, March 23, 1904, issue

Bertha Roth
	Died - At the residence, North H street, Monday, March 21, 1904, Bertha, eldest daughter
of Contractor and Mrs. Benj Roth, aged 16 years and 5 days. Death ensued from inflammation of the
bowels. Friday Miss Roth was on the street as well as usual and in the best of health. Her  
sickness was of only thirty-six hours duration. Funeral services were held yesterday afternoon
at the church, and in spite of the cold raw weather many were in attendance. The remains were
laid at final rest in Spanjer cemetery on the hill.