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Bayard Kansas
A short history.
In 1910, Bayard was a station on the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railroad with a money order post office with one rural route, an express office, and some mercantile interests. It was a shipping point for the surrounding agricultural district. The population that year was reported as 50. A post office was opened in Front (an extinct town) in June 1886, but it was moved to Bayard in August 1887 and remained in operation until it was discontinued in April 1943.
In 1910, Bayard was a station on the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railroad with a money order post office with one rural route, an express office, and some mercantile interests. It was a shipping point for the surrounding agricultural district. The population that year was reported as 50. A post office was opened in Front (an extinct town) in June 1886, but it was moved to Bayard in August 1887 and remained in operation until it was discontinued in April 1943.
George A. McAdam.
Co. G, 74th OH. Infantry
The Moran Herald, Friday, May 13, 1910
Died: April 19, 1910
George A. McAdam was born in eastern Ohio, in 1840, and grew to manhood on his father’s farm; at the age of 21 he enlisted in an Ohio regiment, in which he served three years, and then reenlisted in the United States engineer corps service till the end of the Civil war. In 1866 he was married to Jane Anderson and moved west settling in Johnson county, Kansas, near the town of Gardner, where he was a very successful farmer. In 1881 he came to Anderson county, buying what is now the Isaac Booher farm, where he lived till 1903, when he removed to Allen county, near Bayard.
He died at the home of his daughter. Mrs. Fred Manley, at Mildred, on April 19, 1910-at the age of 70 years. Four sons John, William, Andy and Henry and four daughters Mollie Yelton, Rena Byerly, Lizzie Manley and Alice Lamunyon survive their father. For many years George A. McAdam was a leading citizen of this township and was always found identified with any move that might tend to improve the town or country.
In 1899 he was elected commissioner from the eastern district and served three years as such. It was during his term of office and due largely to his influence that the new court house of Anderson county was built. Since his removal to Allen county he has played an active part in the affairs of his neighborhood, and in 1908 was elected county commissioner of Allen county, which position he occupied at the time of his death.
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MARTIN L. DECKER.
Readers of the Register who have noted from time to time during the past few days, the report of his progressing illness, will not be surprised although very many of them will be pained, to learn of the death of Martin L. Decker, which occurred at his home, 211 N. Sycamore street, Iola, Kansas, at 5:45 this morning. The end came after several hours of unconsciousness and in the presence of all the surviving members of the family, except a daughter, Mrs. Ellen Balliet, of New York City, and a son, Mr. Grant Decker, of Leavenworth county, who were unable to be here. The funeral services will be held at the Baptist church tomorrow (October 9) at 3 o’clock in the afternoon and will be conducted by Rev. Mrs. Thorpe, under the auspices of the Odd Fellows.
Martin L. Decker was born in Wallertheim, Darmstadt, Empire of Germany, December 8, 1837. He was born in the same house with his father, John A. Decker, and with his grandfather. Both father and grandfather were wine growers, cultivating large farms planted to vineyards. John Decker was married to Philipina Weinheimer and Martin Luther was the third of eleven children. He emigrated to the United States in 1853 and on his sixteenth birthday, arrived in LaSalle county, Illinois. He crossed the Atlantic in the sailer Powhattan, bound from Rotterdam to New York, fifty-two days at sea. Young Decker stopped on a farm near Mendota, Illinois, and worked for wages three years. In 1856, in company with an uncle, he emigrated to Iowa, and then to Minnesota where at Austin he ran a sawmill until 1858. While in the mill he invented a machine for sawing eve troughs, probably the first one in existence, but which he never patented.
Mr. Decker entered Kansas in 1858 and preempted a piece of land near Goodrich, Linn county. In 1859, having sold his claim, he crossed the line into Allen county and worked on a farm on the Osage for Johnston Mann. In the spring of 1861 he enlisted in Company C, Third Kansas Cavalry, Colonel Montgomery. In 1862 the regiment was disorganized and Company C was transferred to the Ninth Cavalry. In its periods of marching and counter marching this regiment visited Ft. Riley, Kansas; Ft. Gibson, Indian Territory; Kansas City, Trading Post, Kansas; Lawrence, Kansas; Little Rock, Fort Smith, Duvall’s Bluff and campaigned on the White and Mississippi rivers. He was discharged from the service November 23, 1864, at Leavenworth, Kansas, having done his Whole Duty toward the flag of his adopted country.
December 8, 1864 Mr. Decker was married at Leavenworth City to Grace A. Thomas, and to them were born twelve children. After his marriage he farmed in Allen and Bourbon counties until the fall of 1867 when he removed to Leavenworth county, residing near Potter where he was a farmer and fruit grower until 1889. In that year he returned to Allen County and purchased the Mann farm in Osage township, two and one half miles east of Bayard. He resided upon this tract three years, then located to the town of Elsmore and engaged with a son in merchandising.
After three years residence in Elsmore he removed to Iola to assume duties of county treasurer, to which he had been elected in 1895. His administration of this office was so satisfactory that he was re-elected and served a second term. He then retired from active life and his time since then has been spent quietly at his home in Iola, except for a brief visit with one or the other of his children. Around his bedside when the end came were gathered his sons, M. L. Decker, Jr., of Leavenworth county; I. Decker, of Osage township; Henry Decker, of Bristow, Colorado; Walter and John Decker, of Collinsville, and his daughters, Mrs. Mary Glassell and Mrs. Elsie Freeman, of Iola, who, with their aged mother, will have the sympathy of all their friends.
Pages 502-503, History of Allen and Woodson Counties, Kansas: embellished with portraits of well known people of these counties, with biographies of our representative citizens, cuts of public buildings and a map of each county / Edited and Compiled by L. Wallace Duncan and Chas. F. Scott. Iola Registers, Printers and Binders, Iola, Kan.: 1901; 894 p., [36] leaves of plates: ill., ports.; includes index.
MARTIN L. DECKER, ex-Treasurer of Allen county, was born in Wallertheim, Darmstadt, Empire of Germany, December 8, 1837. He was born in the same house with his father, John A. Decker and with his grandfather. Both grandfather and father were wine growers, cultivating large farms planted to vineyards. John Decker was married to Philipina Weinheimer and Martin Luther was the third of eleven children. He emigrated to the United States in 1853 and, on his sixteenth birthday, arrived in La Salle county, Illinois. He crossed the Atlantic in the sailer Powhattan, bound from Rotterdam to New York, fifty-two days at sea. Young Decker stopped on a farm near Mendota, Illinois, and worked for wages three years. In 1856, in company with an uncle he immigrated to Iowa and then to Minnesota where, at Austin he ran a saw-mill till 1858. While in the mill he invented a machine for sawing eve-troughs, probably the first one in existence, but which was never patented nor followed up with a profit.
His entry to Kansas in 1858 was celebrated by the preempting of a piece of land near Goodrich, Linn county. In 1859, having sold his claim he crossed the line into Allen county and worked on a farm on the Osage, for Johnston Mann. In the spring of 1861 he enlisted in Company C, Third Kansas cavalry, Colonel Montgomery. In 1862 the regent was disorganized and Company C was transferred to the 9th Kansas cavalry. In its periods of marching and counter marching this regiment visited Ft. Riley, Kansas; Ft. Gibson, Indian Territory; Kansas City, Trading Post, Kansas; Lawrence, Kansas; Little Rock, Ft. Smith, Duvall's Bluff and campaigned on the White and Mississippi Rivers. He was discharged from the service November 23, 1864, at Leavenworth, Kansas, having done his whole duty toward the flag of his adopted country.
December 8, 1864, Mr. Decker was married at Leavenworth city to Grace A. Thomas, who was born in England November 22, 1846. She was a daughter of Thomas H. Thomas and Mary Evans, the former a Welchman and the latter an English lady. The Thomas' came to Kansas in 1856, from New York State, and settled in Douglas county, near Lawrence.
After his marriage Mr. Decker farmed in Allen and Bourbon counties till the fall of 1867 when he removed to Leavenworth county, residing near Potter where he was a farmer and fruit grower till 1889. The latter year he returned to Allen county and purchased the Mann farm, in Osage township two and a half miles east of Bayard. He resided upon this tract three years, then located in the town of Elsmore and engaged with a son in merchandising. After a three years residence in Elsmore he removed to Iola to assume the duties of county Treasurer.
Mr. Decker has always affiliated with the Republican party. This political relation is a matter in which he feels much warranted pride. The succession of events in the past forty years has shown that party to have been right on all great questions and to be right is to be patriotic. After a contest of a few weeks Mr. Decker was nominated for County Treasurer in 1895 and was elected the same year. He took possession of the office in October of the next year and held it four years. His administration covered one smooth, unruffled and uneventful period of two terms and was one of the many clean and efficient ones of the past dozen years. He was seldom away from his office, was gentlemanly and obliging to all and guarded with jealous care the receptacle of the people's funds
Mr. and Mrs. Decker's children are: Jesse P. Decker, of Elsmore; Emma, wife of John Amann, of Jefferson county, Kansas; Grant P. and Martin L. Decker Jr.; Thos. H. Decker and Isaac Decker, of Allen county; Henry F. Decker, late with the United States Volunteers in the Philippines. He enlisted in Battery F, Third Artillery, and served in the Cuban and Porto Rican campaigns. Spanish-American war, and later in Company F, 34th United States Volunteer infantry. Mary A., wife of R. Edward Glassel, residing in Joplin, Missouri; Elsie G., Ellen, Walter A. and John A. Decker. It will be observed that Mr. Decker has eight sons who, with himself, cast seven votes for William McKinley in 1900, being no doubt a record unequaled by any other family in Allen county.
Co. G, 74th OH. Infantry
The Moran Herald, Friday, May 13, 1910
Died: April 19, 1910
George A. McAdam was born in eastern Ohio, in 1840, and grew to manhood on his father’s farm; at the age of 21 he enlisted in an Ohio regiment, in which he served three years, and then reenlisted in the United States engineer corps service till the end of the Civil war. In 1866 he was married to Jane Anderson and moved west settling in Johnson county, Kansas, near the town of Gardner, where he was a very successful farmer. In 1881 he came to Anderson county, buying what is now the Isaac Booher farm, where he lived till 1903, when he removed to Allen county, near Bayard.
He died at the home of his daughter. Mrs. Fred Manley, at Mildred, on April 19, 1910-at the age of 70 years. Four sons John, William, Andy and Henry and four daughters Mollie Yelton, Rena Byerly, Lizzie Manley and Alice Lamunyon survive their father. For many years George A. McAdam was a leading citizen of this township and was always found identified with any move that might tend to improve the town or country.
In 1899 he was elected commissioner from the eastern district and served three years as such. It was during his term of office and due largely to his influence that the new court house of Anderson county was built. Since his removal to Allen county he has played an active part in the affairs of his neighborhood, and in 1908 was elected county commissioner of Allen county, which position he occupied at the time of his death.
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MARTIN L. DECKER.
Readers of the Register who have noted from time to time during the past few days, the report of his progressing illness, will not be surprised although very many of them will be pained, to learn of the death of Martin L. Decker, which occurred at his home, 211 N. Sycamore street, Iola, Kansas, at 5:45 this morning. The end came after several hours of unconsciousness and in the presence of all the surviving members of the family, except a daughter, Mrs. Ellen Balliet, of New York City, and a son, Mr. Grant Decker, of Leavenworth county, who were unable to be here. The funeral services will be held at the Baptist church tomorrow (October 9) at 3 o’clock in the afternoon and will be conducted by Rev. Mrs. Thorpe, under the auspices of the Odd Fellows.
Martin L. Decker was born in Wallertheim, Darmstadt, Empire of Germany, December 8, 1837. He was born in the same house with his father, John A. Decker, and with his grandfather. Both father and grandfather were wine growers, cultivating large farms planted to vineyards. John Decker was married to Philipina Weinheimer and Martin Luther was the third of eleven children. He emigrated to the United States in 1853 and on his sixteenth birthday, arrived in LaSalle county, Illinois. He crossed the Atlantic in the sailer Powhattan, bound from Rotterdam to New York, fifty-two days at sea. Young Decker stopped on a farm near Mendota, Illinois, and worked for wages three years. In 1856, in company with an uncle, he emigrated to Iowa, and then to Minnesota where at Austin he ran a sawmill until 1858. While in the mill he invented a machine for sawing eve troughs, probably the first one in existence, but which he never patented.
Mr. Decker entered Kansas in 1858 and preempted a piece of land near Goodrich, Linn county. In 1859, having sold his claim, he crossed the line into Allen county and worked on a farm on the Osage for Johnston Mann. In the spring of 1861 he enlisted in Company C, Third Kansas Cavalry, Colonel Montgomery. In 1862 the regiment was disorganized and Company C was transferred to the Ninth Cavalry. In its periods of marching and counter marching this regiment visited Ft. Riley, Kansas; Ft. Gibson, Indian Territory; Kansas City, Trading Post, Kansas; Lawrence, Kansas; Little Rock, Fort Smith, Duvall’s Bluff and campaigned on the White and Mississippi rivers. He was discharged from the service November 23, 1864, at Leavenworth, Kansas, having done his Whole Duty toward the flag of his adopted country.
December 8, 1864 Mr. Decker was married at Leavenworth City to Grace A. Thomas, and to them were born twelve children. After his marriage he farmed in Allen and Bourbon counties until the fall of 1867 when he removed to Leavenworth county, residing near Potter where he was a farmer and fruit grower until 1889. In that year he returned to Allen County and purchased the Mann farm in Osage township, two and one half miles east of Bayard. He resided upon this tract three years, then located to the town of Elsmore and engaged with a son in merchandising.
After three years residence in Elsmore he removed to Iola to assume duties of county treasurer, to which he had been elected in 1895. His administration of this office was so satisfactory that he was re-elected and served a second term. He then retired from active life and his time since then has been spent quietly at his home in Iola, except for a brief visit with one or the other of his children. Around his bedside when the end came were gathered his sons, M. L. Decker, Jr., of Leavenworth county; I. Decker, of Osage township; Henry Decker, of Bristow, Colorado; Walter and John Decker, of Collinsville, and his daughters, Mrs. Mary Glassell and Mrs. Elsie Freeman, of Iola, who, with their aged mother, will have the sympathy of all their friends.
Pages 502-503, History of Allen and Woodson Counties, Kansas: embellished with portraits of well known people of these counties, with biographies of our representative citizens, cuts of public buildings and a map of each county / Edited and Compiled by L. Wallace Duncan and Chas. F. Scott. Iola Registers, Printers and Binders, Iola, Kan.: 1901; 894 p., [36] leaves of plates: ill., ports.; includes index.
MARTIN L. DECKER, ex-Treasurer of Allen county, was born in Wallertheim, Darmstadt, Empire of Germany, December 8, 1837. He was born in the same house with his father, John A. Decker and with his grandfather. Both grandfather and father were wine growers, cultivating large farms planted to vineyards. John Decker was married to Philipina Weinheimer and Martin Luther was the third of eleven children. He emigrated to the United States in 1853 and, on his sixteenth birthday, arrived in La Salle county, Illinois. He crossed the Atlantic in the sailer Powhattan, bound from Rotterdam to New York, fifty-two days at sea. Young Decker stopped on a farm near Mendota, Illinois, and worked for wages three years. In 1856, in company with an uncle he immigrated to Iowa and then to Minnesota where, at Austin he ran a saw-mill till 1858. While in the mill he invented a machine for sawing eve-troughs, probably the first one in existence, but which was never patented nor followed up with a profit.
His entry to Kansas in 1858 was celebrated by the preempting of a piece of land near Goodrich, Linn county. In 1859, having sold his claim he crossed the line into Allen county and worked on a farm on the Osage, for Johnston Mann. In the spring of 1861 he enlisted in Company C, Third Kansas cavalry, Colonel Montgomery. In 1862 the regent was disorganized and Company C was transferred to the 9th Kansas cavalry. In its periods of marching and counter marching this regiment visited Ft. Riley, Kansas; Ft. Gibson, Indian Territory; Kansas City, Trading Post, Kansas; Lawrence, Kansas; Little Rock, Ft. Smith, Duvall's Bluff and campaigned on the White and Mississippi Rivers. He was discharged from the service November 23, 1864, at Leavenworth, Kansas, having done his whole duty toward the flag of his adopted country.
December 8, 1864, Mr. Decker was married at Leavenworth city to Grace A. Thomas, who was born in England November 22, 1846. She was a daughter of Thomas H. Thomas and Mary Evans, the former a Welchman and the latter an English lady. The Thomas' came to Kansas in 1856, from New York State, and settled in Douglas county, near Lawrence.
After his marriage Mr. Decker farmed in Allen and Bourbon counties till the fall of 1867 when he removed to Leavenworth county, residing near Potter where he was a farmer and fruit grower till 1889. The latter year he returned to Allen county and purchased the Mann farm, in Osage township two and a half miles east of Bayard. He resided upon this tract three years, then located in the town of Elsmore and engaged with a son in merchandising. After a three years residence in Elsmore he removed to Iola to assume the duties of county Treasurer.
Mr. Decker has always affiliated with the Republican party. This political relation is a matter in which he feels much warranted pride. The succession of events in the past forty years has shown that party to have been right on all great questions and to be right is to be patriotic. After a contest of a few weeks Mr. Decker was nominated for County Treasurer in 1895 and was elected the same year. He took possession of the office in October of the next year and held it four years. His administration covered one smooth, unruffled and uneventful period of two terms and was one of the many clean and efficient ones of the past dozen years. He was seldom away from his office, was gentlemanly and obliging to all and guarded with jealous care the receptacle of the people's funds
Mr. and Mrs. Decker's children are: Jesse P. Decker, of Elsmore; Emma, wife of John Amann, of Jefferson county, Kansas; Grant P. and Martin L. Decker Jr.; Thos. H. Decker and Isaac Decker, of Allen county; Henry F. Decker, late with the United States Volunteers in the Philippines. He enlisted in Battery F, Third Artillery, and served in the Cuban and Porto Rican campaigns. Spanish-American war, and later in Company F, 34th United States Volunteer infantry. Mary A., wife of R. Edward Glassel, residing in Joplin, Missouri; Elsie G., Ellen, Walter A. and John A. Decker. It will be observed that Mr. Decker has eight sons who, with himself, cast seven votes for William McKinley in 1900, being no doubt a record unequaled by any other family in Allen county.
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Carlyle Kansas.
A short history.
A great part of the settlement in Allen County during the year 1858 was in what is now Deer Creek Township, along and near Deer Creek. In the fall of 1857, a small colony had been formed in Parke and Johnson counties, Indiana, for the purpose of making a settlement, and building up a town, which was to be named Carlyle. After the selection of the site north of Deer Creek, in 1857, two young men, P.M. Carmine and R.V. Ditmars were left to build cabins. In the spring of 1858, the colonists began to arrive. Among the first were T.P. Killen, J.M. Evans, S.C. Richards, J.W. Scott, David Bergen, and H. Scott. The Carlyle colony selected 320 acres (1.3 km2) for a town site and proposed to build a church, schoolhouse and make other improvements calculated to insure the speedy building up of the proposed town.
Finding many difficulties in the way of making a prosperous town, the project was abandoned, and the site cut up into farms, which were soon opened. Though not successful in building a town, the colony prospered. A post office was secured, and a postal route established from Leavenworth via Hyatt, in Anderson County, Carlyle and Cofachique to Humboldt, in 1858. A church and schoolhouse was afterward built, a high school kept up, and part of the time there has been a store, while it had always retained the post office. Carlyle was well known and it had always been a prosperous and progressive neighborhood. When the Leavenworth, Lawrence and Galveston railroad (later the K.C., L. & S.K. R.R.) was built, Carlyle was made a station
The post office was finally closed in November 1988.
Peter M. Carnine.
Co. H, 9th KS. Cavalry
The Emporia Gazette, Friday, Dec. 6, 1918.
Died: Dec. 5, 1918.
Peter Marion Carnine died at his home, 1102 Congress Street, yesterday afternoon at 4 o’clock, of hardening of the arteries. Mr. Carnine had been in failing health for a year or more, and for the past few months his condition was critical. He was conscious until yesterday morning, and death came while he was asleep. Mr. Carnine was born in Johnson County, Indiana, March 4, 1835. He came to Kansas in 1857 and took a claim six miles north of Iola. He enlisted for service in the Civil War, in Company H, 9th Cavalry, in the fall of 1862, he was married to Miss Mary Susan Luyster, and in 1890 the Carnines moved to Emporia. Mr. Carnine was a charter member of the oldest Presbyterian Church in Southeastern Kansas, of Carlyle, and was an elder of that church until they left Carlyle.
Mr. Carnine united with the church when a young man, and lived every day the faith he professed. No man was more faithful to his church than he, no man more loyal to his friends, and his eight sons and daughters, fine, true men and women, attest to his devotion to his family, and to the fulfillment of his family, and to the fulfillment of his every obligation to them. The Carnine golden wedding celebration in 1912, was one of much joy and satisfaction to Mr. and Mrs. Carnine, when their children and grandchildren, their old friends and neighbors, came to rejoice with them. Mr. and Mrs. Carnine retained in their old age a remarkable degree of health and attended regularly to their duties in their home and in the community. For a year or more Mr. Carnine had been kept at home by failing health, and Mrs. Carnine was his constant companion.
Mr. Carnine is survived by Mrs. Carnine and their eight children, Mrs. E. W. Beeson, of Emporia; William Carnine, pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Vermillion; Mrs. Hattie Gordon, Ordway, Colo.; John Carnine, in Y. M. C. A. work at Fort Lawton, Seattle, Wash.; Mrs. Dell Buckingham, Yuba City, Calif.; Harry Carnine, of Burlingame; Charles Carnine, of Emporia; George E. Carnine, of Arco, Iowa; three sisters, Mrs. Joseph Handley, Mrs. Sarah Bergen and Mrs. Rachel Heln, all of Frankland, Ind., and one brother, John Carnine of Seattle, and seventeen grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held tomorrow afternoon at 3 o’clock at the Carnine home, 1102 Congress Street. Dr. R. B. A. McBride, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, of which Mr. Carnine, was a member, assisted by Dr. W. C. Templeton, of Winfield, will conduct the services, and interment will be made in Maplewood Cemetery, N. B. Haynes, S. Altman and L. P. Munson, of the eldership of the First Presbyterian Church, and J. H. Ray, Charles Harris and J. R. B. Edwards, of the Grand Army, will be the pall-bearers. Mrs. J. M. Parrington, Mrs. John Hoffer, E. N. Evans and E. E. Anderson will have charge of the music.
Side Note. Peter Marion Carnine, enlisted October 19, 1861, mustered in January 16, 1862, Residence Carlyle, Mustered out January 16, 1865, DeVall's Bluff, Ark.
A great part of the settlement in Allen County during the year 1858 was in what is now Deer Creek Township, along and near Deer Creek. In the fall of 1857, a small colony had been formed in Parke and Johnson counties, Indiana, for the purpose of making a settlement, and building up a town, which was to be named Carlyle. After the selection of the site north of Deer Creek, in 1857, two young men, P.M. Carmine and R.V. Ditmars were left to build cabins. In the spring of 1858, the colonists began to arrive. Among the first were T.P. Killen, J.M. Evans, S.C. Richards, J.W. Scott, David Bergen, and H. Scott. The Carlyle colony selected 320 acres (1.3 km2) for a town site and proposed to build a church, schoolhouse and make other improvements calculated to insure the speedy building up of the proposed town.
Finding many difficulties in the way of making a prosperous town, the project was abandoned, and the site cut up into farms, which were soon opened. Though not successful in building a town, the colony prospered. A post office was secured, and a postal route established from Leavenworth via Hyatt, in Anderson County, Carlyle and Cofachique to Humboldt, in 1858. A church and schoolhouse was afterward built, a high school kept up, and part of the time there has been a store, while it had always retained the post office. Carlyle was well known and it had always been a prosperous and progressive neighborhood. When the Leavenworth, Lawrence and Galveston railroad (later the K.C., L. & S.K. R.R.) was built, Carlyle was made a station
The post office was finally closed in November 1988.
Peter M. Carnine.
Co. H, 9th KS. Cavalry
The Emporia Gazette, Friday, Dec. 6, 1918.
Died: Dec. 5, 1918.
Peter Marion Carnine died at his home, 1102 Congress Street, yesterday afternoon at 4 o’clock, of hardening of the arteries. Mr. Carnine had been in failing health for a year or more, and for the past few months his condition was critical. He was conscious until yesterday morning, and death came while he was asleep. Mr. Carnine was born in Johnson County, Indiana, March 4, 1835. He came to Kansas in 1857 and took a claim six miles north of Iola. He enlisted for service in the Civil War, in Company H, 9th Cavalry, in the fall of 1862, he was married to Miss Mary Susan Luyster, and in 1890 the Carnines moved to Emporia. Mr. Carnine was a charter member of the oldest Presbyterian Church in Southeastern Kansas, of Carlyle, and was an elder of that church until they left Carlyle.
Mr. Carnine united with the church when a young man, and lived every day the faith he professed. No man was more faithful to his church than he, no man more loyal to his friends, and his eight sons and daughters, fine, true men and women, attest to his devotion to his family, and to the fulfillment of his family, and to the fulfillment of his every obligation to them. The Carnine golden wedding celebration in 1912, was one of much joy and satisfaction to Mr. and Mrs. Carnine, when their children and grandchildren, their old friends and neighbors, came to rejoice with them. Mr. and Mrs. Carnine retained in their old age a remarkable degree of health and attended regularly to their duties in their home and in the community. For a year or more Mr. Carnine had been kept at home by failing health, and Mrs. Carnine was his constant companion.
Mr. Carnine is survived by Mrs. Carnine and their eight children, Mrs. E. W. Beeson, of Emporia; William Carnine, pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Vermillion; Mrs. Hattie Gordon, Ordway, Colo.; John Carnine, in Y. M. C. A. work at Fort Lawton, Seattle, Wash.; Mrs. Dell Buckingham, Yuba City, Calif.; Harry Carnine, of Burlingame; Charles Carnine, of Emporia; George E. Carnine, of Arco, Iowa; three sisters, Mrs. Joseph Handley, Mrs. Sarah Bergen and Mrs. Rachel Heln, all of Frankland, Ind., and one brother, John Carnine of Seattle, and seventeen grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held tomorrow afternoon at 3 o’clock at the Carnine home, 1102 Congress Street. Dr. R. B. A. McBride, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, of which Mr. Carnine, was a member, assisted by Dr. W. C. Templeton, of Winfield, will conduct the services, and interment will be made in Maplewood Cemetery, N. B. Haynes, S. Altman and L. P. Munson, of the eldership of the First Presbyterian Church, and J. H. Ray, Charles Harris and J. R. B. Edwards, of the Grand Army, will be the pall-bearers. Mrs. J. M. Parrington, Mrs. John Hoffer, E. N. Evans and E. E. Anderson will have charge of the music.
Side Note. Peter Marion Carnine, enlisted October 19, 1861, mustered in January 16, 1862, Residence Carlyle, Mustered out January 16, 1865, DeVall's Bluff, Ark.
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Elijah T. Read.
PIONEER CITIZEN AND BUSINESS MAN PASSED AWAY AT HIS HOME HERE SUNDAY MORNING AFTER BRIEF ILLNESS. HAD LIVED HERE SINCE 1868,
The flag at half mast in the court house yard Tuesday, told, not only of the passing of another of the brave defenders of the Union during the Civil war, but it told also of the departure from this life of one of the best citizens that Oswego, or any other city, ever claimed. It’s folds hanging limp, half way up the pole, pronounced the benediction upon the earthly existence of E. T. Read, whose death occurred at his home here at 10:15 o’clock Sunday morning, February 20th.
The announcement that death had claimed him was a distinct shock to the entire town. Friends hurrying to their various places of worship, heard the words as it passed from lip to lip, and genuine sadness settled over the town that the deceased had know and loved for almost half a century.
He was seized with an attack of la-grippe a few weeks ago, but had recovered sufficiently to be up town, and was generally supposed to recover nicely. Just a few days before his death, was on the streets and assured his friends that he was gaining strength and hoped to be able to go fishing in a few days. Friday and Saturday he was not so well, and Sunday morning after he had eaten breakfast, was taken with a violent spell of coughing, during which a blood vessel was ruptured near the heart, and he expired almost immediately. Funeral services were held from the family home, Tuesday afternoon at two o’clock in charge of C. R. Mathis, pastor of the Baptist church, and interment was in Oswego cemetery. The funeral was largely attended and the flowers were banked in profusion in the death chamber bore mute attestation of the esteem with which he was held.
Elijah T. Read was born Dec. 24, 1841, at Vernon, Indiana. Was converted in early life and united with the Baptist church, continuing always an active and influential member. In August 1861, he enlisted in Co. H, 26th Ind. Vol. Inft. Serving with credit until the end of the war, during which time he attained the rank of lieutenant. At Vernon on May 31, 1864, he was united in marriage to Sarah V. Vawter. For four years they lived in Vernon, where he engaged in the hardware business. In 1868 they emigrated to Oswego, coming by boat to Kansas City, and overland from there, being a pioneer here in the truest sense. He embarked in the hardware business here, continuing uninterruptedly until a few years ago, he retired in order to better care for Mrs. Read, who had become an invalid. His business here prospered but in all the years he had never sued a debtor and never lost a friend, although he is said to have had thousands of dollars worth of outlawed bills by reason of his generous trait of character. He was a charter member of the First Baptist church and threw the first shovel of dirt for the new building at the consecration of the grounds. At his death he was a deacon and trustee.
To Mr. and Mrs. Read were born four children: Bert Read of Bartlesville, Mrs. Virginia Reamer of Kansas City. Mrs. Read proceeded him to the grave last June. He was a member of the A. O. U. W. and M. W. A. Fraternities, in which he carried insurance to the amount of $4,000. The pall bearers were old friends and business associates, and were J. W. Marley, Scott Taylor, Judge Thompson, F. A. White, R. A. Hill and A. Kaho. It was heard over and over again, that he died without an enemy on earth, and many of those who had known him best and longest stated that they had never heard a soul speak aught against him, and that they had never known him to speak ill of another.
Ordinarily this might be taken to mean that he was not a man of force, but he was; but his life was so clean and his regard for the opinions of others so broad, that differing viewpoints never engendered friendships. N. H. Burt, President of the Great Western Stove Co., in a letter of condolence to the family, stated that he first met Mr. Read in 1869, sold him the first bill of goods he ever sold as a then traveling salesman. That the high regard he formed of him then, was only augmented by all their subsequent years of business dealings, and this is typical of the expression from all of his business associates.
Those present from out of town at the funeral were Mrs. Roscoe Reamer, Kansas City; Mrs. Mabel Roberts, formerly Mrs. Smith Read, Mrs. Lena Stotts, of Columbus, who was a life long friend, and who was present at the wedding of Mr. and Mrs. Read; and James Dunlap of Carlyle, Kas. One sorrowing friend was Uncle Joe Nelson, of this city, now 90 years of age. Mr. Read was a former pupil of his and they had known each other and been good friends for 65 years.
William Cutler wrote the following information:
E. T. READ, hardware merchant, was born at Vernon, Jennings Co., Ind., December 24, 1841. He enlisted in August, 1861, in Comapny H, Twenty-sixth Indiana Volunteer Infantry; served two years and one month, and was in all the engagements of his command during that period. He enlisted as a private, but for about a year prior to leaving the army he was Second Lieutenant. He was discharged on account of disability caused by sickness. Returned to Indiana and remained until he came to Oswego, in the fall of 1868. He has served as a member of the Board of Education, and is now serving a second term as Alderman of the Second Ward.
He is a member of the Baptist Church. He was married at Vernon, Ind., May 30, 1864, to Sarah Vawter, a native of that place. They have four children - Virginia, born at Vernon, Ind.; Smith Howard, born at Oswego, Kan,; Daisie Belle, born at Oswego, Kan,; and Bert, born at Oswego, Kan. Mr. Read has been engaged in the hardware business since 1864. His brothers, Merritt and John S. Read, were associated with him here for several years, the widow and children of John S. being now interested in the business. When Read Bros, began business here, they had a small frame building 22x40 feet. The present store is brick, 24x100 feet, two stories, with a brick warehouse 24x28 feet, one story.
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Elijah T. Read.
PIONEER CITIZEN AND BUSINESS MAN PASSED AWAY AT HIS HOME HERE SUNDAY MORNING AFTER BRIEF ILLNESS. HAD LIVED HERE SINCE 1868,
The flag at half mast in the court house yard Tuesday, told, not only of the passing of another of the brave defenders of the Union during the Civil war, but it told also of the departure from this life of one of the best citizens that Oswego, or any other city, ever claimed. It’s folds hanging limp, half way up the pole, pronounced the benediction upon the earthly existence of E. T. Read, whose death occurred at his home here at 10:15 o’clock Sunday morning, February 20th.
The announcement that death had claimed him was a distinct shock to the entire town. Friends hurrying to their various places of worship, heard the words as it passed from lip to lip, and genuine sadness settled over the town that the deceased had know and loved for almost half a century.
He was seized with an attack of la-grippe a few weeks ago, but had recovered sufficiently to be up town, and was generally supposed to recover nicely. Just a few days before his death, was on the streets and assured his friends that he was gaining strength and hoped to be able to go fishing in a few days. Friday and Saturday he was not so well, and Sunday morning after he had eaten breakfast, was taken with a violent spell of coughing, during which a blood vessel was ruptured near the heart, and he expired almost immediately. Funeral services were held from the family home, Tuesday afternoon at two o’clock in charge of C. R. Mathis, pastor of the Baptist church, and interment was in Oswego cemetery. The funeral was largely attended and the flowers were banked in profusion in the death chamber bore mute attestation of the esteem with which he was held.
Elijah T. Read was born Dec. 24, 1841, at Vernon, Indiana. Was converted in early life and united with the Baptist church, continuing always an active and influential member. In August 1861, he enlisted in Co. H, 26th Ind. Vol. Inft. Serving with credit until the end of the war, during which time he attained the rank of lieutenant. At Vernon on May 31, 1864, he was united in marriage to Sarah V. Vawter. For four years they lived in Vernon, where he engaged in the hardware business. In 1868 they emigrated to Oswego, coming by boat to Kansas City, and overland from there, being a pioneer here in the truest sense. He embarked in the hardware business here, continuing uninterruptedly until a few years ago, he retired in order to better care for Mrs. Read, who had become an invalid. His business here prospered but in all the years he had never sued a debtor and never lost a friend, although he is said to have had thousands of dollars worth of outlawed bills by reason of his generous trait of character. He was a charter member of the First Baptist church and threw the first shovel of dirt for the new building at the consecration of the grounds. At his death he was a deacon and trustee.
To Mr. and Mrs. Read were born four children: Bert Read of Bartlesville, Mrs. Virginia Reamer of Kansas City. Mrs. Read proceeded him to the grave last June. He was a member of the A. O. U. W. and M. W. A. Fraternities, in which he carried insurance to the amount of $4,000. The pall bearers were old friends and business associates, and were J. W. Marley, Scott Taylor, Judge Thompson, F. A. White, R. A. Hill and A. Kaho. It was heard over and over again, that he died without an enemy on earth, and many of those who had known him best and longest stated that they had never heard a soul speak aught against him, and that they had never known him to speak ill of another.
Ordinarily this might be taken to mean that he was not a man of force, but he was; but his life was so clean and his regard for the opinions of others so broad, that differing viewpoints never engendered friendships. N. H. Burt, President of the Great Western Stove Co., in a letter of condolence to the family, stated that he first met Mr. Read in 1869, sold him the first bill of goods he ever sold as a then traveling salesman. That the high regard he formed of him then, was only augmented by all their subsequent years of business dealings, and this is typical of the expression from all of his business associates.
Those present from out of town at the funeral were Mrs. Roscoe Reamer, Kansas City; Mrs. Mabel Roberts, formerly Mrs. Smith Read, Mrs. Lena Stotts, of Columbus, who was a life long friend, and who was present at the wedding of Mr. and Mrs. Read; and James Dunlap of Carlyle, Kas. One sorrowing friend was Uncle Joe Nelson, of this city, now 90 years of age. Mr. Read was a former pupil of his and they had known each other and been good friends for 65 years.
William Cutler wrote the following information:
E. T. READ, hardware merchant, was born at Vernon, Jennings Co., Ind., December 24, 1841. He enlisted in August, 1861, in Comapny H, Twenty-sixth Indiana Volunteer Infantry; served two years and one month, and was in all the engagements of his command during that period. He enlisted as a private, but for about a year prior to leaving the army he was Second Lieutenant. He was discharged on account of disability caused by sickness. Returned to Indiana and remained until he came to Oswego, in the fall of 1868. He has served as a member of the Board of Education, and is now serving a second term as Alderman of the Second Ward.
He is a member of the Baptist Church. He was married at Vernon, Ind., May 30, 1864, to Sarah Vawter, a native of that place. They have four children - Virginia, born at Vernon, Ind.; Smith Howard, born at Oswego, Kan,; Daisie Belle, born at Oswego, Kan,; and Bert, born at Oswego, Kan. Mr. Read has been engaged in the hardware business since 1864. His brothers, Merritt and John S. Read, were associated with him here for several years, the widow and children of John S. being now interested in the business. When Read Bros, began business here, they had a small frame building 22x40 feet. The present store is brick, 24x100 feet, two stories, with a brick warehouse 24x28 feet, one story.
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JOHN WALTER SCOTT.
Surgeon 4th KS. Infantry & Surgeon 10th KS. Infantry.
JOHN WALTER SCOTT was born near Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, August 29, 1823. His father was Alexander McRay Scott, who was born at Alexandria, Virginia, August 19, 1800. His mother was Mary Dean, who was born in New Jersey or Pennsylvania in 1799. His paternal grandfather was John Scott, who migrated from Belfast, Ireland, soon after the Revolution, landing first at St. Thomas, West Indies, but soon after going to Norfolk, Virginia, and thence to Alexandria. His paternal grandmother was Margaret Kenna, the daughter of an English sea captain. Nothing farther is known of the paternal line, except that "in the beginning" one "John," a ship joiner, migrated from Scotland to the ship yards at Belfast, Ireland, and was there called "John, the Scot," to differentiate him from other Johns, which name, of course, soon became John Scott, which it still remains. The John Scott who migrated to America was a shoemaker by trade. He was killed by lightning when about sixty years of age. His wife died in Indiana about 1853, of old age. Alexander Scott, the father of our subject, was a machinist and mechanic, although he always lived on a farm. He died at the age of sixty-four in Bloomington, Illinois, of cerebro spinal meningitis. His wife has previously passed away in Kentucky at the age of forty-four, of malarial fever.
Surgeon 4th KS. Infantry & Surgeon 10th KS. Infantry.
JOHN WALTER SCOTT was born near Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, August 29, 1823. His father was Alexander McRay Scott, who was born at Alexandria, Virginia, August 19, 1800. His mother was Mary Dean, who was born in New Jersey or Pennsylvania in 1799. His paternal grandfather was John Scott, who migrated from Belfast, Ireland, soon after the Revolution, landing first at St. Thomas, West Indies, but soon after going to Norfolk, Virginia, and thence to Alexandria. His paternal grandmother was Margaret Kenna, the daughter of an English sea captain. Nothing farther is known of the paternal line, except that "in the beginning" one "John," a ship joiner, migrated from Scotland to the ship yards at Belfast, Ireland, and was there called "John, the Scot," to differentiate him from other Johns, which name, of course, soon became John Scott, which it still remains. The John Scott who migrated to America was a shoemaker by trade. He was killed by lightning when about sixty years of age. His wife died in Indiana about 1853, of old age. Alexander Scott, the father of our subject, was a machinist and mechanic, although he always lived on a farm. He died at the age of sixty-four in Bloomington, Illinois, of cerebro spinal meningitis. His wife has previously passed away in Kentucky at the age of forty-four, of malarial fever.
John W. Scott's maternal grandfather was Samuel Dean, a Revolutionary soldier in the New Jersey line. He afterwards served under "Mad Anthony" Wayne in the Indian wars and was severely wounded in the hip, making him lame the remainder of his life. He was probably of Danish descent and was a farmer. He died at the age of eighty-six from the effect of his wounds. Nothing more is known of the family on this side. John W. Scott was the oldest child of Alexander and Mary Dean Scott. He had three brothers, Samuel, William and Harmon, and five sisters, Martha, Mary, Jennie, Margaret and Hannah. When John Scott was three years of age his father bought a farm adjoining the Braddock Field property, near Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, and there most of his childhood was spent.
He worked on the farm in summer and in the winter attended such schools as the uncertain condition of the country afforded, in this way acquiring the rudiments of a fair English education. In 1840 he went with his father to Gallatin county, Kentucky, where he worked on a farm and in a saw mill for three or four years. The work proved too heavy for him and his health giving way he secured a position as private tutor in the family of Dr. William B. Chamberlain, in Warsaw, Kentucky. He taught the children of his employer the rudiments of English and received from him in return a smattering of Greek, Latin and mathematics. He afterward taught school in various portions of the county during the winters and read medicine with Dr. Chamberlain.
In 1846-7 he took a course of medical lectures at the Starling Medical College, Columbus, Ohio, and in the spring of 1847 began the practice of his profession at Hopewell, Indiana. After practicing there for two years he took another course of lectures at the above college from which he graduated in the spring of 1849, returning at once to his practice in Indiana. December 13, 1849, he was married to Maria Protsman, the neice[sic] of his former preceptor, Dr. Chamberlain, and continued in the practice of medicine at Hopewell and Franklin, Indiana, until 1857 when he came to Kansas.
He bought an original interest in the townsite of Olathe, which had just been located, and in connection with one Charles Osgood, built the first house erected on the townsite. In the fall he returned to Indiana and the following spring brought his family to Olathe. Owing to the unsettled condition of the country and the scenes of violence that were continually occurring in the town Olathe was not then a desirable place of residence, and so in June of 1858 Dr. Scott removed with his family to Allen county and took up a claim near Carlyle where he lived for the next sixteen years.
In the fall of 1859 he was elected to the Territorial legislature which met at Lecompton and afterwards adjourned to Lawrence,—the first Free State legislature. He was re-elected in 1860 and was chosen Speaker of the House. In 1861 he was elected a member of the first State legislature, and in the absence of the Speaker presided during most of the session. During this session Fort Sumpter was fired upon, and at its close most of its members entered the Union army. Dr. Scott enlisted in the Fourth Kansas Volunteer Infantry and was elected surgeon.
He served with the Fourth during the fall and winter of 1861-2 being in charge of the general hospital at Fort Scott. When the Third and Fourth regiments were consolidated and became the 10th Kansas he became the surgeon of that regiment and served until May, 1863, when he resigned on account of the long and serious illness of his wife. In the fall of the same year, his wife's health having been restored, he re-entered and served to the end of the war, returning then to his Carlyle farm.
He worked on the farm in summer and in the winter attended such schools as the uncertain condition of the country afforded, in this way acquiring the rudiments of a fair English education. In 1840 he went with his father to Gallatin county, Kentucky, where he worked on a farm and in a saw mill for three or four years. The work proved too heavy for him and his health giving way he secured a position as private tutor in the family of Dr. William B. Chamberlain, in Warsaw, Kentucky. He taught the children of his employer the rudiments of English and received from him in return a smattering of Greek, Latin and mathematics. He afterward taught school in various portions of the county during the winters and read medicine with Dr. Chamberlain.
In 1846-7 he took a course of medical lectures at the Starling Medical College, Columbus, Ohio, and in the spring of 1847 began the practice of his profession at Hopewell, Indiana. After practicing there for two years he took another course of lectures at the above college from which he graduated in the spring of 1849, returning at once to his practice in Indiana. December 13, 1849, he was married to Maria Protsman, the neice[sic] of his former preceptor, Dr. Chamberlain, and continued in the practice of medicine at Hopewell and Franklin, Indiana, until 1857 when he came to Kansas.
He bought an original interest in the townsite of Olathe, which had just been located, and in connection with one Charles Osgood, built the first house erected on the townsite. In the fall he returned to Indiana and the following spring brought his family to Olathe. Owing to the unsettled condition of the country and the scenes of violence that were continually occurring in the town Olathe was not then a desirable place of residence, and so in June of 1858 Dr. Scott removed with his family to Allen county and took up a claim near Carlyle where he lived for the next sixteen years.
In the fall of 1859 he was elected to the Territorial legislature which met at Lecompton and afterwards adjourned to Lawrence,—the first Free State legislature. He was re-elected in 1860 and was chosen Speaker of the House. In 1861 he was elected a member of the first State legislature, and in the absence of the Speaker presided during most of the session. During this session Fort Sumpter was fired upon, and at its close most of its members entered the Union army. Dr. Scott enlisted in the Fourth Kansas Volunteer Infantry and was elected surgeon.
He served with the Fourth during the fall and winter of 1861-2 being in charge of the general hospital at Fort Scott. When the Third and Fourth regiments were consolidated and became the 10th Kansas he became the surgeon of that regiment and served until May, 1863, when he resigned on account of the long and serious illness of his wife. In the fall of the same year, his wife's health having been restored, he re-entered and served to the end of the war, returning then to his Carlyle farm.
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Elsmore Kansas.
A short history.
The old town of Elsmore, which for several years was the center of attraction for the citizens of Elsmore Township, was located farther west, not far from Big Creek. On August 25, 1888, after the route of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas R.R. from Kansas City to Parsons had been definitely settled, N.L. Ard, J.L. Roberts, J.A. Nicholson, W.D. and H.W. Cox, and O.P. Mattson, purchased 20 acres where the present town of Elsmore stands and platted the town. It soon became a popular trading center and shipping point for that section of the county, and in 1909 was incorporated. In 1910 it reported a population of 216 and had a money order post office first opened in November 1866, with two rural delivery routes, a bank, several good stores, some small manufacturing enterprises, telegraph and express facilities.
Martin L. Decker.
Co. C, 9th KS. Cavalry
The Iola Daily Register, Wednesday, Oct. 8, 1913, Pg. 8.
Readers of the Register who have noted from time to time during the past few days, the report of his progressing illness, will not be surprised although very many of them will be pained, to learn of the death of Martin L. Decker, which occurred at his home, 211 N. Sycamore street, Iola, Kansas, at 5:45 this morning. The end came after several hours of unconsciousness and in the presence of all the surviving members of the family, except a daughter, Mrs. Ellen Balliet, of New York City, and a son, Mr. Grant Decker, of Leavenworth county, who were unable to be here. The funeral services will be held at the Baptist church tomorrow (October 9) at 3 o’clock in the afternoon and will be conducted by Rev. Mrs. Thorpe, under the auspices of the Odd Fellows.
Martin L. Decker was born in Wallertheim, Darmstadt, Empire of Germany, December 8, 1837. He was born in the same house with his father, John A. Decker, and with his grandfather. Both father and grandfather were wine growers, cultivating large farms planted to vineyards. John Decker was married to Philipina Weinheimer and Martin Luther was the third of eleven children. He emigrated to the United States in 1853 and on his sixteenth birthday, arrived in LaSalle county, Illinois. He crossed the Atlantic in the sailer Powhattan, bound from Rotterdam to New York, fifty-two days at sea. Young Decker stopped on a farm near Mendota, Illinois, and worked for wages three years. In 1856, in company with an uncle, he emigrated to Iowa, and then to Minnesota where at Austin he ran a sawmill until 1858. While in the mill he invented a machine for sawing eve troughs, probably the first one in existence, but which he never patented.
Mr. Decker entered Kansas in 1858 and preempted a piece of land near Goodrich, Linn county. In 1859, having sold his claim, he crossed the line into Allen county and worked on a farm on the Osage for Johnston Mann. In the spring of 1861 he enlisted in Company C, Third Kansas Cavalry, Colonel Montgomery. In 1862 the regiment was disorganized and Company C was transferred to the Ninth Cavalry. In its periods of marching and counter marching this regiment visited Ft. Riley, Kansas; Ft. Gibson, Indian Territory; Kansas City, Trading Post, Kansas; Lawrence, Kansas; Little Rock, Fort Smith, Duvall’s Bluff and campaigned on the White and Mississippi rivers. He was discharged from the service November 23, 1864, at Leavenworth, Kansas, having done his Whole Duty toward the flag of his adopted country.
December 8, 1864 Mr. Decker was married at Leavenworth City to Grace A. Thomas, and to them were born twelve children. After his marriage he farmed in Allen and Bourbon counties until the fall of 1867 when he removed to Leavenworth county, residing near Potter where he was a farmer and fruit grower until 1889. In that year he returned to Allen County and purchased the Mann farm in Osage township, two and one half miles east of Bayard. He resided upon this tract three years, then located to the town of Elsmore and engaged with a son in merchandising.
After three years residence in Elsmore he removed to Iola to assume duties of county treasurer, to which he had been elected in 1895. His administration of this office was so satisfactory that he was re-elected and served a second term. He then retired from active life and his time since then has been spent quietly at his home in Iola, except for a brief visit with one or the other of his children. Around his bedside when the end came were gathered his sons, M. L. Decker, Jr., of Leavenworth county; I. Decker, of Osage township; Henry Decker, of Bristow, Colorado; Walter and John Decker, of Collinsville, and his daughters, Mrs. Mary Glassell and Mrs. Elsie Freeman, of Iola, who, with their aged mother, will have the sympathy of all their friends.
Pages 502-503, History of Allen and Woodson Counties, Kansas: embellished with portraits of well known people of these counties, with biographies of our representative citizens, cuts of public buildings and a map of each county / Edited and Compiled by L. Wallace Duncan and Chas. F. Scott. Iola Registers, Printers and Binders, Iola, Kan.: 1901; 894 p., [36] leaves of plates: ill., ports.; includes index.
MARTIN L. DECKER, ex-Treasurer of Allen county, was born in Wallertheim, Darmstadt, Empire of Germany, December 8, 1837. He was born in the same house with his father, John A. Decker and with his grandfather. Both grandfather and father were wine growers, cultivating large farms planted to vineyards. John Decker was married to Philipina Weinheimer and Martin Luther was the third of eleven children. He emigrated to the United States in 1853 and, on his sixteenth birthday, arrived in La Salle county, Illinois. He crossed the Atlantic in the sailer Powhattan, bound from Rotterdam to New York, fifty-two days at sea. Young Decker stopped on a farm near Mendota, Illinois, and worked for wages three years. In 1856, in company with an uncle he immigrated to Iowa and then to Minnesota where, at Austin he ran a saw-mill till 1858. While in the mill he invented a machine for sawing eve-troughs, probably the first one in existence, but which was never patented nor followed up with a profit.
His entry to Kansas in 1858 was celebrated by the preempting of a piece of land near Goodrich, Linn county. In 1859, having sold his claim he crossed the line into Allen county and worked on a farm on the Osage, for Johnston Mann. In the spring of 1861 he enlisted in Company C, Third Kansas cavalry, Colonel Montgomery. In 1862 the regent was disorganized and Company C was transferred to the 9th Kansas cavalry. In its periods of marching and counter marching this regiment visited Ft. Riley, Kansas; Ft. Gibson, Indian Territory; Kansas City, Trading Post, Kansas; Lawrence, Kansas; Little Rock, Ft. Smith, Duvall's Bluff and campaigned on the White and Mississippi Rivers. He was discharged from the service November 23, 1864, at Leavenworth, Kansas, having done his whole duty toward the flag of his adopted country.
December 8, 1864, Mr. Decker was married at Leavenworth city to Grace A. Thomas, who was born in England November 22, 1846. She was a daughter of Thomas H. Thomas and Mary Evans, the former a Welchman and the latter an English lady. The Thomas' came to Kansas in 1856, from New York State, and settled in Douglas county, near Lawrence.
After his marriage Mr. Decker farmed in Allen and Bourbon counties till the fall of 1867 when he removed to Leavenworth county, residing near Potter where he was a farmer and fruit grower till 1889. The latter year he returned to Allen county and purchased the Mann farm, in Osage township two and a half miles east of Bayard. He resided upon this tract three years, then located in the town of Elsmore and engaged with a son in merchandising. After a three years residence in Elsmore he removed to Iola to assume the duties of county Treasurer.
Mr. Decker has always affiliated with the Republican party. This political relation is a matter in which he feels much warranted pride. The succession of events in the past forty years has shown that party to have been right on all great questions and to be right is to be patriotic. After a contest of a few weeks Mr. Decker was nominated for County Treasurer in 1895 and was elected the same year. He took possession of the office in October of the next year and held it four years. His administration covered one smooth, unruffled and uneventful period of two terms and was one of the many clean and efficient ones of the past dozen years. He was seldom away from his office, was gentlemanly and obliging to all and guarded with jealous care the receptacle of the people's funds.
Mr. and Mrs. Decker's children are: Jesse P. Decker, of Elsmore; Emma, wife of John Amann, of Jefferson county, Kansas; Grant P. and Martin L. Decker Jr.; Thos. H. Decker and Isaac Decker, of Allen county; Henry F. Decker, late with the United States Volunteers in the Philippines. He enlisted in Battery F, Third Artillery, and served in the Cuban and Porto Rican campaigns. Spanish-American war, and later in Company F, 34th United States Volunteer infantry. Mary A., wife of R. Edward Glassel, residing in Joplin, Missouri; Elsie G., Ellen, Walter A. and John A. Decker. It will be observed that Mr. Decker has eight sons who, with himself, cast seven votes for William McKinley in 1900, being no doubt a record unequaled by any other family in Allen county.
The old town of Elsmore, which for several years was the center of attraction for the citizens of Elsmore Township, was located farther west, not far from Big Creek. On August 25, 1888, after the route of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas R.R. from Kansas City to Parsons had been definitely settled, N.L. Ard, J.L. Roberts, J.A. Nicholson, W.D. and H.W. Cox, and O.P. Mattson, purchased 20 acres where the present town of Elsmore stands and platted the town. It soon became a popular trading center and shipping point for that section of the county, and in 1909 was incorporated. In 1910 it reported a population of 216 and had a money order post office first opened in November 1866, with two rural delivery routes, a bank, several good stores, some small manufacturing enterprises, telegraph and express facilities.
Martin L. Decker.
Co. C, 9th KS. Cavalry
The Iola Daily Register, Wednesday, Oct. 8, 1913, Pg. 8.
Readers of the Register who have noted from time to time during the past few days, the report of his progressing illness, will not be surprised although very many of them will be pained, to learn of the death of Martin L. Decker, which occurred at his home, 211 N. Sycamore street, Iola, Kansas, at 5:45 this morning. The end came after several hours of unconsciousness and in the presence of all the surviving members of the family, except a daughter, Mrs. Ellen Balliet, of New York City, and a son, Mr. Grant Decker, of Leavenworth county, who were unable to be here. The funeral services will be held at the Baptist church tomorrow (October 9) at 3 o’clock in the afternoon and will be conducted by Rev. Mrs. Thorpe, under the auspices of the Odd Fellows.
Martin L. Decker was born in Wallertheim, Darmstadt, Empire of Germany, December 8, 1837. He was born in the same house with his father, John A. Decker, and with his grandfather. Both father and grandfather were wine growers, cultivating large farms planted to vineyards. John Decker was married to Philipina Weinheimer and Martin Luther was the third of eleven children. He emigrated to the United States in 1853 and on his sixteenth birthday, arrived in LaSalle county, Illinois. He crossed the Atlantic in the sailer Powhattan, bound from Rotterdam to New York, fifty-two days at sea. Young Decker stopped on a farm near Mendota, Illinois, and worked for wages three years. In 1856, in company with an uncle, he emigrated to Iowa, and then to Minnesota where at Austin he ran a sawmill until 1858. While in the mill he invented a machine for sawing eve troughs, probably the first one in existence, but which he never patented.
Mr. Decker entered Kansas in 1858 and preempted a piece of land near Goodrich, Linn county. In 1859, having sold his claim, he crossed the line into Allen county and worked on a farm on the Osage for Johnston Mann. In the spring of 1861 he enlisted in Company C, Third Kansas Cavalry, Colonel Montgomery. In 1862 the regiment was disorganized and Company C was transferred to the Ninth Cavalry. In its periods of marching and counter marching this regiment visited Ft. Riley, Kansas; Ft. Gibson, Indian Territory; Kansas City, Trading Post, Kansas; Lawrence, Kansas; Little Rock, Fort Smith, Duvall’s Bluff and campaigned on the White and Mississippi rivers. He was discharged from the service November 23, 1864, at Leavenworth, Kansas, having done his Whole Duty toward the flag of his adopted country.
December 8, 1864 Mr. Decker was married at Leavenworth City to Grace A. Thomas, and to them were born twelve children. After his marriage he farmed in Allen and Bourbon counties until the fall of 1867 when he removed to Leavenworth county, residing near Potter where he was a farmer and fruit grower until 1889. In that year he returned to Allen County and purchased the Mann farm in Osage township, two and one half miles east of Bayard. He resided upon this tract three years, then located to the town of Elsmore and engaged with a son in merchandising.
After three years residence in Elsmore he removed to Iola to assume duties of county treasurer, to which he had been elected in 1895. His administration of this office was so satisfactory that he was re-elected and served a second term. He then retired from active life and his time since then has been spent quietly at his home in Iola, except for a brief visit with one or the other of his children. Around his bedside when the end came were gathered his sons, M. L. Decker, Jr., of Leavenworth county; I. Decker, of Osage township; Henry Decker, of Bristow, Colorado; Walter and John Decker, of Collinsville, and his daughters, Mrs. Mary Glassell and Mrs. Elsie Freeman, of Iola, who, with their aged mother, will have the sympathy of all their friends.
Pages 502-503, History of Allen and Woodson Counties, Kansas: embellished with portraits of well known people of these counties, with biographies of our representative citizens, cuts of public buildings and a map of each county / Edited and Compiled by L. Wallace Duncan and Chas. F. Scott. Iola Registers, Printers and Binders, Iola, Kan.: 1901; 894 p., [36] leaves of plates: ill., ports.; includes index.
MARTIN L. DECKER, ex-Treasurer of Allen county, was born in Wallertheim, Darmstadt, Empire of Germany, December 8, 1837. He was born in the same house with his father, John A. Decker and with his grandfather. Both grandfather and father were wine growers, cultivating large farms planted to vineyards. John Decker was married to Philipina Weinheimer and Martin Luther was the third of eleven children. He emigrated to the United States in 1853 and, on his sixteenth birthday, arrived in La Salle county, Illinois. He crossed the Atlantic in the sailer Powhattan, bound from Rotterdam to New York, fifty-two days at sea. Young Decker stopped on a farm near Mendota, Illinois, and worked for wages three years. In 1856, in company with an uncle he immigrated to Iowa and then to Minnesota where, at Austin he ran a saw-mill till 1858. While in the mill he invented a machine for sawing eve-troughs, probably the first one in existence, but which was never patented nor followed up with a profit.
His entry to Kansas in 1858 was celebrated by the preempting of a piece of land near Goodrich, Linn county. In 1859, having sold his claim he crossed the line into Allen county and worked on a farm on the Osage, for Johnston Mann. In the spring of 1861 he enlisted in Company C, Third Kansas cavalry, Colonel Montgomery. In 1862 the regent was disorganized and Company C was transferred to the 9th Kansas cavalry. In its periods of marching and counter marching this regiment visited Ft. Riley, Kansas; Ft. Gibson, Indian Territory; Kansas City, Trading Post, Kansas; Lawrence, Kansas; Little Rock, Ft. Smith, Duvall's Bluff and campaigned on the White and Mississippi Rivers. He was discharged from the service November 23, 1864, at Leavenworth, Kansas, having done his whole duty toward the flag of his adopted country.
December 8, 1864, Mr. Decker was married at Leavenworth city to Grace A. Thomas, who was born in England November 22, 1846. She was a daughter of Thomas H. Thomas and Mary Evans, the former a Welchman and the latter an English lady. The Thomas' came to Kansas in 1856, from New York State, and settled in Douglas county, near Lawrence.
After his marriage Mr. Decker farmed in Allen and Bourbon counties till the fall of 1867 when he removed to Leavenworth county, residing near Potter where he was a farmer and fruit grower till 1889. The latter year he returned to Allen county and purchased the Mann farm, in Osage township two and a half miles east of Bayard. He resided upon this tract three years, then located in the town of Elsmore and engaged with a son in merchandising. After a three years residence in Elsmore he removed to Iola to assume the duties of county Treasurer.
Mr. Decker has always affiliated with the Republican party. This political relation is a matter in which he feels much warranted pride. The succession of events in the past forty years has shown that party to have been right on all great questions and to be right is to be patriotic. After a contest of a few weeks Mr. Decker was nominated for County Treasurer in 1895 and was elected the same year. He took possession of the office in October of the next year and held it four years. His administration covered one smooth, unruffled and uneventful period of two terms and was one of the many clean and efficient ones of the past dozen years. He was seldom away from his office, was gentlemanly and obliging to all and guarded with jealous care the receptacle of the people's funds.
Mr. and Mrs. Decker's children are: Jesse P. Decker, of Elsmore; Emma, wife of John Amann, of Jefferson county, Kansas; Grant P. and Martin L. Decker Jr.; Thos. H. Decker and Isaac Decker, of Allen county; Henry F. Decker, late with the United States Volunteers in the Philippines. He enlisted in Battery F, Third Artillery, and served in the Cuban and Porto Rican campaigns. Spanish-American war, and later in Company F, 34th United States Volunteer infantry. Mary A., wife of R. Edward Glassel, residing in Joplin, Missouri; Elsie G., Ellen, Walter A. and John A. Decker. It will be observed that Mr. Decker has eight sons who, with himself, cast seven votes for William McKinley in 1900, being no doubt a record unequaled by any other family in Allen county.
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Charles D. Smith.
Co. F, 133rd IND. Infantry
The Erie Record, Apr. 16, 1909, Died: Apr. 10, 1909.
Last Saturday morning there occurred one of the greatest tragedies that has been enacted in Erie for many months. C. D. Smith, one of the respected citizens of the town was found dead on the second floor of his barn. He had taken his own life by cutting his throat with a razor. When he was found at noon his lifeless body was surrounded by a pool of blood and he had probably been dead for two hours or more.
The body was first discovered by the man’s daughter, Mrs. Anna Ashford of Elsmore, who had been visiting here. It was at the noon hour and dinner had been waiting for several minutes. Finally Mrs. Ashford went to the barn in search of her father and was almost overcome by the discovery she made. Her brother C. F. Smith, was in the house and as soon as he learned of his father’s fate rushed to the barn but soon returned only to verify the report that his father was dead. As soon as help could be summoned the body was removed to a building across the alley and the outward traces of the deed removed before the body was taken to the home.
Nothing could have given a greater surprise to the people of Erie. Among his acquaintances there were few who had suspected that Mr. Smith’s mind was suffering from any great burdens. He was attending daily to his duties as local oil inspector, which occupied a considerable amount of his time. He was naturally genial and apparently happy, although recently he had been more quiet and reserved than usual. On several occasions recently the members of the family had noticed that he had been acting strangely and his condition had been the cause of much worry to them, but their fears were never known to the public.
It is quite evident now that Mr. Smith was in a demended condition and that for some time he had been developing a plan to take his own life. About two weeks before his death he had consulted a prominent attorney here who, in his criminal practice had made a study of the different forms of insanity. Mr. Smith asked about all the forms of insanity and seemed particularly interested in the description of the symptoms by which they were known. It is the opinion of the relatives and friends that Mr. Smith felt that a mental feebleness was coming upon him and could not bear the though of losing his mind. His mental unrest was doubtless further increased by a threatened renewal of paralysis from which he suffered about two years ago. Considering these things and other evidences of mental trouble that had been noticed by the family, it is believed that Mr. Smith became deeply despondent and took his life as the only means of escape from a condition of insanity and helplessness.
Saturday morning, Mr. Smith had made his usual trip down town to get his morning mail and on his return stopped at the Alderson Brothers hardware and furniture store where he selected and purchased a new razor. Evidently he had gone from there directly to his own barn where he climbed to the second floor and immediately put the razor to the use for which it was purchased. When the body was discovered the razor was laying under the hand that had directed the stroke and its case was in his coat pocket. The cost had never been removed from the razor handle. The dead man’s throat was deeply cut and the wound extended from one ear to the other. There was a cut across the left wrist also. The theory is that this wrist wound was made first, and Mr. Smith, fearing that death by this process would be too slow resorted to cutting his throat.
Mrs. Smith was so shocked by the news of her husband’s death that for several hours her condition alarmed the other members of the family. She required constant medical attention for some time but is now able to be up again.
Funeral services were conducted at the home Sunday afternoon. Reverend A. S. Gwinn of the Baptist church made a short address and the remainder of the services were in charge of the G. A. R. Post of which he was a member. The remains were taken to the Erie cemetery for burial.
Charles Dallis Smith was born in Putnam county, Indiana, June 19, 1844, and died April 10, 1909, aged 64 years, 10 months and 10 days. He was united in marriage to Elizabeth Ferguson April 18, 1867. To this union were born five children, all of whom together with the wife survive him. The sons are Clarence W. Smith of Erie, Walter L. Smith of Coffeyville, and Clyde F. Smith of Erie, and the daughters are Mrs. Nellie S. Garvin of Erie and Mrs. Anna E, Ashford of Elsmore. In 1861 C. D. Smith enlisted in the Union army and served with Company F. 133rd Indiana Volunteer Infantry, until the end of the struggle. He had a brilliant military record and took a great deal of pride in the possession of a letter from President Abraham Lincoln in which reference was made to his military service. After the war he learned the mercantile business and in 1872 engaged in business for himself. In 1871 he was appointed postmaster at Manhattan, Indiana, and held the office until 1884, when he resigned and moved west locating in Erie. He was associated with John R. Garvin in the mercantile business here for a number of years but retired about four years ago.
Charles D. Smith.
Co. F, 133rd IND. Infantry
The Erie Record, Apr. 16, 1909, Died: Apr. 10, 1909.
Last Saturday morning there occurred one of the greatest tragedies that has been enacted in Erie for many months. C. D. Smith, one of the respected citizens of the town was found dead on the second floor of his barn. He had taken his own life by cutting his throat with a razor. When he was found at noon his lifeless body was surrounded by a pool of blood and he had probably been dead for two hours or more.
The body was first discovered by the man’s daughter, Mrs. Anna Ashford of Elsmore, who had been visiting here. It was at the noon hour and dinner had been waiting for several minutes. Finally Mrs. Ashford went to the barn in search of her father and was almost overcome by the discovery she made. Her brother C. F. Smith, was in the house and as soon as he learned of his father’s fate rushed to the barn but soon returned only to verify the report that his father was dead. As soon as help could be summoned the body was removed to a building across the alley and the outward traces of the deed removed before the body was taken to the home.
Nothing could have given a greater surprise to the people of Erie. Among his acquaintances there were few who had suspected that Mr. Smith’s mind was suffering from any great burdens. He was attending daily to his duties as local oil inspector, which occupied a considerable amount of his time. He was naturally genial and apparently happy, although recently he had been more quiet and reserved than usual. On several occasions recently the members of the family had noticed that he had been acting strangely and his condition had been the cause of much worry to them, but their fears were never known to the public.
It is quite evident now that Mr. Smith was in a demended condition and that for some time he had been developing a plan to take his own life. About two weeks before his death he had consulted a prominent attorney here who, in his criminal practice had made a study of the different forms of insanity. Mr. Smith asked about all the forms of insanity and seemed particularly interested in the description of the symptoms by which they were known. It is the opinion of the relatives and friends that Mr. Smith felt that a mental feebleness was coming upon him and could not bear the though of losing his mind. His mental unrest was doubtless further increased by a threatened renewal of paralysis from which he suffered about two years ago. Considering these things and other evidences of mental trouble that had been noticed by the family, it is believed that Mr. Smith became deeply despondent and took his life as the only means of escape from a condition of insanity and helplessness.
Saturday morning, Mr. Smith had made his usual trip down town to get his morning mail and on his return stopped at the Alderson Brothers hardware and furniture store where he selected and purchased a new razor. Evidently he had gone from there directly to his own barn where he climbed to the second floor and immediately put the razor to the use for which it was purchased. When the body was discovered the razor was laying under the hand that had directed the stroke and its case was in his coat pocket. The cost had never been removed from the razor handle. The dead man’s throat was deeply cut and the wound extended from one ear to the other. There was a cut across the left wrist also. The theory is that this wrist wound was made first, and Mr. Smith, fearing that death by this process would be too slow resorted to cutting his throat.
Mrs. Smith was so shocked by the news of her husband’s death that for several hours her condition alarmed the other members of the family. She required constant medical attention for some time but is now able to be up again.
Funeral services were conducted at the home Sunday afternoon. Reverend A. S. Gwinn of the Baptist church made a short address and the remainder of the services were in charge of the G. A. R. Post of which he was a member. The remains were taken to the Erie cemetery for burial.
Charles Dallis Smith was born in Putnam county, Indiana, June 19, 1844, and died April 10, 1909, aged 64 years, 10 months and 10 days. He was united in marriage to Elizabeth Ferguson April 18, 1867. To this union were born five children, all of whom together with the wife survive him. The sons are Clarence W. Smith of Erie, Walter L. Smith of Coffeyville, and Clyde F. Smith of Erie, and the daughters are Mrs. Nellie S. Garvin of Erie and Mrs. Anna E, Ashford of Elsmore. In 1861 C. D. Smith enlisted in the Union army and served with Company F. 133rd Indiana Volunteer Infantry, until the end of the struggle. He had a brilliant military record and took a great deal of pride in the possession of a letter from President Abraham Lincoln in which reference was made to his military service. After the war he learned the mercantile business and in 1872 engaged in business for himself. In 1871 he was appointed postmaster at Manhattan, Indiana, and held the office until 1884, when he resigned and moved west locating in Erie. He was associated with John R. Garvin in the mercantile business here for a number of years but retired about four years ago.
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James W. Cox.
Co. C, 33rd ILL. Infantry.
Linn County Republic, Friday, Mar. 7, 1913, Pg. 1
Vol. 29, No. 48
James W. Cox was born January 10, 1844, in McLean county, Ill. His father was George W. Cox, son of William Cox, of Norway, Me, who traced their ancestors back to Wales.
J. W. the eldest of five children, was reared on his father’s farm. He attended school in the state of Maine and was a student at the State Normal, Ill. When the Civil War broke out he enlisted in Co. C, 33rd Illinois infantry, in 1861. His health became impaired through hardships incident to the service. A tubercular deposit in the apex of his right lung gave him an honorable discharge at St. Louis in 1863. He was then only 18 years of age.
About one year after this his mother died.
There seems to have been a great tie of affection broken at her death. He became a church member at this time in life. His health regained, he returned to the State Normal, Ill, and secured an education as good as the curriculum of that time afforded. He taught school two years. September 5th, 1867, he was united in marriage at Bloomington, Illinois, to Mary E. Turpin. Four children, all living, were born to this union, Jennie Broady, L. Zanner, Viola Crozier of Covina, Calif., and Aura C. Curry. Two brothers and one sister survive him, Henry W. Cox and Chas. S. Cox, of Elsmore, Kansas and Mrs. Mary Bower Smith, of Stillwater, Okla.
After his marriage he lived on a farm for six years near Kappa, Ill. In 1874 he moved to Savonburg, Kansas, and engaged in farming and stockraising. In 1881 he represented his district in the state legislature. In 1882 he moved to Blue Mound, and with his brother, C. S., was engaged in the hardware business when the store was destroyed by fire in 1883. He then bought the farm five miles northwest of town, which he has since owned. He has made Blue Mound and vicinity his home for over 30 years. About ten years ago, when his health became impaired he ceased his life long business activities and has been under a physician’s care here and elsewhere, most of the time since.
Seven years ago he realized the frailty of human life and spent much seriousness on things eternal. He then united with the Baptist church in Blue Mound and was a regular attendant at all religious services as long as his health permitted, which was until only the last few weeks.
He has been a member of the National Military Home, Leavenworth, Kans., since 1909. Most of the last three years he has been a patient in the hospital ward. In the late fall 1912, his physical health was failing so fast that his physician decided to transfer him to the National Hospital in Washington, D. C., as there remained a chance to cure him, where the government requires the highest efficiency of its physicians and nurses. Six weeks were spent before it was determined his case was incurable. The last six weeks he failed rapidly with chronic heart and kidney trouble.
On February 17th, 1913, aged 69 years, 1 month, 6 days, his spirit ascended to the God who gave it, and to the mother, fifty years gone, he has answered, “I’ll be there.” His remains were brought to Blue Mound, Saturday, February 22nd where funeral services were held at 2 o’clock that afternoon by Rev. Moles Ellsworth. Interment was made in the Pleasant View cemetery.
Side note. James W. Cox, Rank PVT. Company E Unit 33 IL. U. S. INF., Residence PRINCETON, BUREAU CO, IL., Age 22, Height 5' 10, Hair LIGHT, Eyes BLUE, Complexion LIGHT, Occupation FARMER, Joined When JAN 1, 1862, Period 3 YRS., Muster In MAR 5, 1862. REENLISTED AS A VETERAN, MUSTERED OUT AS CORPORAL.
James W. Cox.
Co. C, 33rd ILL. Infantry.
Linn County Republic, Friday, Mar. 7, 1913, Pg. 1
Vol. 29, No. 48
James W. Cox was born January 10, 1844, in McLean county, Ill. His father was George W. Cox, son of William Cox, of Norway, Me, who traced their ancestors back to Wales.
J. W. the eldest of five children, was reared on his father’s farm. He attended school in the state of Maine and was a student at the State Normal, Ill. When the Civil War broke out he enlisted in Co. C, 33rd Illinois infantry, in 1861. His health became impaired through hardships incident to the service. A tubercular deposit in the apex of his right lung gave him an honorable discharge at St. Louis in 1863. He was then only 18 years of age.
About one year after this his mother died.
There seems to have been a great tie of affection broken at her death. He became a church member at this time in life. His health regained, he returned to the State Normal, Ill, and secured an education as good as the curriculum of that time afforded. He taught school two years. September 5th, 1867, he was united in marriage at Bloomington, Illinois, to Mary E. Turpin. Four children, all living, were born to this union, Jennie Broady, L. Zanner, Viola Crozier of Covina, Calif., and Aura C. Curry. Two brothers and one sister survive him, Henry W. Cox and Chas. S. Cox, of Elsmore, Kansas and Mrs. Mary Bower Smith, of Stillwater, Okla.
After his marriage he lived on a farm for six years near Kappa, Ill. In 1874 he moved to Savonburg, Kansas, and engaged in farming and stockraising. In 1881 he represented his district in the state legislature. In 1882 he moved to Blue Mound, and with his brother, C. S., was engaged in the hardware business when the store was destroyed by fire in 1883. He then bought the farm five miles northwest of town, which he has since owned. He has made Blue Mound and vicinity his home for over 30 years. About ten years ago, when his health became impaired he ceased his life long business activities and has been under a physician’s care here and elsewhere, most of the time since.
Seven years ago he realized the frailty of human life and spent much seriousness on things eternal. He then united with the Baptist church in Blue Mound and was a regular attendant at all religious services as long as his health permitted, which was until only the last few weeks.
He has been a member of the National Military Home, Leavenworth, Kans., since 1909. Most of the last three years he has been a patient in the hospital ward. In the late fall 1912, his physical health was failing so fast that his physician decided to transfer him to the National Hospital in Washington, D. C., as there remained a chance to cure him, where the government requires the highest efficiency of its physicians and nurses. Six weeks were spent before it was determined his case was incurable. The last six weeks he failed rapidly with chronic heart and kidney trouble.
On February 17th, 1913, aged 69 years, 1 month, 6 days, his spirit ascended to the God who gave it, and to the mother, fifty years gone, he has answered, “I’ll be there.” His remains were brought to Blue Mound, Saturday, February 22nd where funeral services were held at 2 o’clock that afternoon by Rev. Moles Ellsworth. Interment was made in the Pleasant View cemetery.
Side note. James W. Cox, Rank PVT. Company E Unit 33 IL. U. S. INF., Residence PRINCETON, BUREAU CO, IL., Age 22, Height 5' 10, Hair LIGHT, Eyes BLUE, Complexion LIGHT, Occupation FARMER, Joined When JAN 1, 1862, Period 3 YRS., Muster In MAR 5, 1862. REENLISTED AS A VETERAN, MUSTERED OUT AS CORPORAL.
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William M. Mattocks.
Co. I, 9th MO. S. M. Cavalry.
The Moran Herald, Friday, Aug. 4, 1905, Pg. 1&6, Died: July 27, 1905.
The death of William Mattock which occurred at his home south of Moran Thursday of last week of which the HERALD had time for only brief mention, removes one of the earliest settlers of Allen county. Although the writer has been acquainted with the deceased for a number of years he feels he could not give as authoritative a biography as was published in the history of Allen and Woodson counties by Duncan & Scott a few years ago which says:
Standing out conspicuously as a pioneer upon our eastern border and as a trusted and trusted and tried citizen of Allen county is William M. Mattock of Marmaton township. The day when he was not among us takes us back to the Civil war era upon close of which the soldiers of the Union scattered to homes throughout the length and breadth of the United States. Many of them sought the fertile and unsettled portions of our frontier, chief of which latter was the domain of the eastern Kansas, and our subject was among the number. He drove, with his family across, the border into Allen county in 1866, and was the third settler to build a cabin in what is now Marmaton township. He entered the south-west quarter section 24 of township 25, range 20 and the settlers who were his neighbors then and are here still are the Colbert sons, the Harclerodes, John Sapp and Henry O. Rogers.
The Porters lived further south but have long since gone. All of eastern Allen county was included in Humboldt township after the war. Elsmore was the first to be cut off, in 1868, and Marmaton the second, about 1871. Mr. Mattock was in the Humboldt district at first but next year little “Stony Lonesome,” midway between Humboldt and Iola, was erected and he was attached to that district. His first two votes were cast in Humboldt, distance to the polling place not sapping the voter of his enthusiasm any more than now.
The original home of Mr. Mattock was McLean county, Illinois. He was reared there, but born in Richland county, Ohio, September 1, 1840. His father, Jacob Mattock, was born in Pennsylvania in 1815, left with his father, Daniel Mattock, at eight years of age and settled in Richland county, O. The Mattocks are descended from the French and German races who came to America in colonial times. An only brother of Jacob Mattock was killed, with his family in the Spirit Lake Indian massacre, in Minnesota, many years ago. Jacob Mattock was married in Ohio to Eliza McConkie, a daughter of Wm. McConkie, who emigrated from Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania. Two children were the result of their marriage, viz: Wm. M. our subject, and Mrs. Mary Swineheart, who died in McLean county, Illinois. Mrs. Jacob Mattock died in the same county in 1866.
In the spring of 1860 Jacob Mattock took his family into Cooper county, Missouri, where he died the same season. The following year his son enlisted in the 9th Missouri Cavalry, Company I, and served the first year as a scout with different commands. His company officer was Capt. Eaton and his regimental commander , Col. Williams. Mr. Mattock was promoted from sergeant of his company after the first year to Acting Sergeant Major of the regiment. He served in the south-western department and was dealing with bushwhackers quite all the time. The Price Raid furnished a few engagements, like the Big Blue, which the 9th Missouri Cavalry got into, but beyond these the only excitement of the regiment was raised when a band of guerrillas or a detachment of rebels was encountered and brought into a fight.
Mr. Mattock’s service covered Missouri, Arkansas and eastern Kansas, and his exposure during these years brought on him attacks of rheumatism from which he has suffered much torture all the years since the war.
William Mattock was reared chiefly in a small town in Ohio. He was schooled at Newville and acquired sufficient learning to render him competent to transact the ordinary business of life. He was married in July, 1865, to Maria J., a daughter of C. S. S. Starkey, who came to Kansas with our subject in 1886. His two children are Dr. J. A. Starkey, of Waynesville, Illinois and Mrs. Mattock.
Mr. Mattock’s children are Emma A., wife of J. W. McFarland, Katie, wife of J. W. Sigler; J. A. Mattock, all of Marmaton township, and L. D. Mattock of Chanute.
Mr. Mattock was elected Trustee of his township first early in the ‘70s and has filled the office sixteen years, and only retired when his health would not permit him to serve longer. He is one of the staunch Republicans of Allen county and for many years, it was an unusual thing when he was not on the Marmaton delegation to any county convention.
William M. Mattocks.
Co. I, 9th MO. S. M. Cavalry.
The Moran Herald, Friday, Aug. 4, 1905, Pg. 1&6, Died: July 27, 1905.
The death of William Mattock which occurred at his home south of Moran Thursday of last week of which the HERALD had time for only brief mention, removes one of the earliest settlers of Allen county. Although the writer has been acquainted with the deceased for a number of years he feels he could not give as authoritative a biography as was published in the history of Allen and Woodson counties by Duncan & Scott a few years ago which says:
Standing out conspicuously as a pioneer upon our eastern border and as a trusted and trusted and tried citizen of Allen county is William M. Mattock of Marmaton township. The day when he was not among us takes us back to the Civil war era upon close of which the soldiers of the Union scattered to homes throughout the length and breadth of the United States. Many of them sought the fertile and unsettled portions of our frontier, chief of which latter was the domain of the eastern Kansas, and our subject was among the number. He drove, with his family across, the border into Allen county in 1866, and was the third settler to build a cabin in what is now Marmaton township. He entered the south-west quarter section 24 of township 25, range 20 and the settlers who were his neighbors then and are here still are the Colbert sons, the Harclerodes, John Sapp and Henry O. Rogers.
The Porters lived further south but have long since gone. All of eastern Allen county was included in Humboldt township after the war. Elsmore was the first to be cut off, in 1868, and Marmaton the second, about 1871. Mr. Mattock was in the Humboldt district at first but next year little “Stony Lonesome,” midway between Humboldt and Iola, was erected and he was attached to that district. His first two votes were cast in Humboldt, distance to the polling place not sapping the voter of his enthusiasm any more than now.
The original home of Mr. Mattock was McLean county, Illinois. He was reared there, but born in Richland county, Ohio, September 1, 1840. His father, Jacob Mattock, was born in Pennsylvania in 1815, left with his father, Daniel Mattock, at eight years of age and settled in Richland county, O. The Mattocks are descended from the French and German races who came to America in colonial times. An only brother of Jacob Mattock was killed, with his family in the Spirit Lake Indian massacre, in Minnesota, many years ago. Jacob Mattock was married in Ohio to Eliza McConkie, a daughter of Wm. McConkie, who emigrated from Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania. Two children were the result of their marriage, viz: Wm. M. our subject, and Mrs. Mary Swineheart, who died in McLean county, Illinois. Mrs. Jacob Mattock died in the same county in 1866.
In the spring of 1860 Jacob Mattock took his family into Cooper county, Missouri, where he died the same season. The following year his son enlisted in the 9th Missouri Cavalry, Company I, and served the first year as a scout with different commands. His company officer was Capt. Eaton and his regimental commander , Col. Williams. Mr. Mattock was promoted from sergeant of his company after the first year to Acting Sergeant Major of the regiment. He served in the south-western department and was dealing with bushwhackers quite all the time. The Price Raid furnished a few engagements, like the Big Blue, which the 9th Missouri Cavalry got into, but beyond these the only excitement of the regiment was raised when a band of guerrillas or a detachment of rebels was encountered and brought into a fight.
Mr. Mattock’s service covered Missouri, Arkansas and eastern Kansas, and his exposure during these years brought on him attacks of rheumatism from which he has suffered much torture all the years since the war.
William Mattock was reared chiefly in a small town in Ohio. He was schooled at Newville and acquired sufficient learning to render him competent to transact the ordinary business of life. He was married in July, 1865, to Maria J., a daughter of C. S. S. Starkey, who came to Kansas with our subject in 1886. His two children are Dr. J. A. Starkey, of Waynesville, Illinois and Mrs. Mattock.
Mr. Mattock’s children are Emma A., wife of J. W. McFarland, Katie, wife of J. W. Sigler; J. A. Mattock, all of Marmaton township, and L. D. Mattock of Chanute.
Mr. Mattock was elected Trustee of his township first early in the ‘70s and has filled the office sixteen years, and only retired when his health would not permit him to serve longer. He is one of the staunch Republicans of Allen county and for many years, it was an unusual thing when he was not on the Marmaton delegation to any county convention.
Humbolt Kansas.
A short history.
Humboldt, named after Baron von Humboldt, was founded in 1857. Germans migrating from Hartford, Connecticut, began organizing a colony during the winter of 1856–57. They arrived in Lawrence, Kansas, in March 1857, and at the townsite on May 10, 1857. Orlin Thurston, a young attorney, moved to Humboldt during the summer of 1857 and put up a steam sawmill; he began sawing wood and building houses on the prairie side of town. The first frame building was erected by J.A. Coffey; and in May 1858, W.C. O'Brien opened the first gristmill in the county. The United Brethren Denomination erected the first church in 1859.
The city was organized as a village in 1866 and incorporated as a city of the second class by the act of February 28, 1870. In October 1870 the Leavenworth, Lawrence & Galveston railway was run through Humboldt, the railway is currently a short line owned by BNSF Railway. Humboldt was the Allen county seat for seven years, from 1858 until 1865, when Iola became the seat. Humboldt won two contentious legislative elections to become the seat in 1858 and 1860, but another election in 1865 in the midst of the American Civil War resulted in the re-location of the county seat to Iola. The legitimacy of this election was questioned by Humboldt residents due to low turnout arising from soldiers fighting the War. Some residents claim that the county seat was "stolen". Iola effectively secured the seat by donating 100 lots to the county to aid in the construction of public buildings and subsequently raising funds to build a courthouse. County seat wars of this sort were common in Kansas and the American West.
As there is so little space on this page, and as Humbolt has so much information I will limit my research to those at rest in their fine cemetery. There will be information on all these names. Those of you who find a name of interest can write to me and I will be glad to sent it to you.
1. William H. Andrews, Co. K, 19th OH. Infantry.
2. John A. Hottenstein, 13th U. S. C. Infantry.
3. Isaac Nigh, Mexican War Veteran and Civil war veteran in Co. G, 115th ILL. Infantry.
4. Elnathan Wert, Co. B, 120th IND. Infantry
5. Samuel J. Stewart, Captain, Co. H, 10th KS. Infantry.
6. Dominicus Goodwin Abbott, Co. E, 101st ILL. Infantry.
7. Stephen Smith Speakman, Co. H, 91st IND. Infantry.
8. John T. Shields, Co. B, 46th IND. Infantry.
9. William Wakefield, Surgeon, 9th KS. Cavalry
10. William T. McElroy, Co. D, 196th OH. Volunteer Infantry
11. Ezra R. Russell, Co. I, 83rd ILL. Infantry & Assistant Surgeon, 28th U. S. C. Infantry.
12. Samuel J. Stewart, Captain, Co. H, 10th KS. Infantry.
13. Richard R. Redfield, Co. H, 177th OH. Infantry
14. Robert Silas Foster, Co. G, 113th OH. Infantry.
15. Addison Sleeth, Co. G, 52nd IND. Infantry.
16. John Hibbs, Co. I, 40th IND. Infantry.
17. Robert Silas Foster, Co. G, 113th OH. Infantry.
18. JOHN DAY, Co. K, 31st IND. Infantry.
19. William Cunningham, Indpt. Battery G, PA. Heavy Artillery.
20. Henry Shurfeld, Co. K. 21st Mo. Vol. Infantry.
21. Justin O. Hottenstein, Co. G, 20th ILL. Infantry.
22. Travis Adams, Co. I, 14th OH. Infantry
23. William Beadles, Co. K., Ill., Mexico War.
24. Nathan C. Withington, Battery E, 1st ILL. Light Artillery.
25. Richard Hobart-1, Co. C, 16th ILL. Infantry.
26. Richard Hobart-2, Co. C, 16th ILL. Infantry.
27. Louis Dornemann, Bugler, Co. M, 8th PA. Cavalry.
28. Henry D. Smith, Co. I. 10th., Kansas Infantry.
29. John J. Meyers Co. K., 102, ILL. Infantry.
30. Henry H. Michael, Co. C. 105th, Pennsylvania Infantry.
31. Charles Peck, 1st., Ky., Batty.
32. George H. Fox, 2nd., Lieut. 103 U. S.-?
33. G. W. Moon, Co. B., 69th., Ohio Infantry.
34. Robert G. Harrison, Co. B, 120th IND. Infantry, Assistant Surgeon.
35. William Cunningham, Indpt. Battery G, PA. Heavy Artillery
36. Elisha Coy, Sergeant Co. K. 8rh., Ohio Infantry.
37. Jacob L. Barnett, Co. I, 25th OH. Infantry.
38. William Burnett, Co. E, 41st ILL. Infantry
39. Leander Baxter, Co. B, 10th MN. Infantry
40. Benjamin F. Nigh, Co. I, 146th ILL. Infantry.
41. Benjamin F. Nigh-1, Co. I, 146th ILL. Infantry.
42. Nathan C. Withington, Battery E, 1st ILL. Light Artillery.
43. George Worick, 5th., Wis., Light Artillery.
44. Samuel E. Downs, Co. C, 107th ILL. Infantry.
46. J. J. Barndollar, Co. C, 133rd PA. Infantry.
47. George H. List, Co. A and F, 20th ILL. Infantry
48. Joseph L. Denison, Co. E, 9th KS. Cavalry.
49. George H. List, Co. A and F, 20th ILL. Infantry.
50. Joseph L. Denison, Co. E, 9th KS. Cavalry.
Humboldt, named after Baron von Humboldt, was founded in 1857. Germans migrating from Hartford, Connecticut, began organizing a colony during the winter of 1856–57. They arrived in Lawrence, Kansas, in March 1857, and at the townsite on May 10, 1857. Orlin Thurston, a young attorney, moved to Humboldt during the summer of 1857 and put up a steam sawmill; he began sawing wood and building houses on the prairie side of town. The first frame building was erected by J.A. Coffey; and in May 1858, W.C. O'Brien opened the first gristmill in the county. The United Brethren Denomination erected the first church in 1859.
The city was organized as a village in 1866 and incorporated as a city of the second class by the act of February 28, 1870. In October 1870 the Leavenworth, Lawrence & Galveston railway was run through Humboldt, the railway is currently a short line owned by BNSF Railway. Humboldt was the Allen county seat for seven years, from 1858 until 1865, when Iola became the seat. Humboldt won two contentious legislative elections to become the seat in 1858 and 1860, but another election in 1865 in the midst of the American Civil War resulted in the re-location of the county seat to Iola. The legitimacy of this election was questioned by Humboldt residents due to low turnout arising from soldiers fighting the War. Some residents claim that the county seat was "stolen". Iola effectively secured the seat by donating 100 lots to the county to aid in the construction of public buildings and subsequently raising funds to build a courthouse. County seat wars of this sort were common in Kansas and the American West.
As there is so little space on this page, and as Humbolt has so much information I will limit my research to those at rest in their fine cemetery. There will be information on all these names. Those of you who find a name of interest can write to me and I will be glad to sent it to you.
1. William H. Andrews, Co. K, 19th OH. Infantry.
2. John A. Hottenstein, 13th U. S. C. Infantry.
3. Isaac Nigh, Mexican War Veteran and Civil war veteran in Co. G, 115th ILL. Infantry.
4. Elnathan Wert, Co. B, 120th IND. Infantry
5. Samuel J. Stewart, Captain, Co. H, 10th KS. Infantry.
6. Dominicus Goodwin Abbott, Co. E, 101st ILL. Infantry.
7. Stephen Smith Speakman, Co. H, 91st IND. Infantry.
8. John T. Shields, Co. B, 46th IND. Infantry.
9. William Wakefield, Surgeon, 9th KS. Cavalry
10. William T. McElroy, Co. D, 196th OH. Volunteer Infantry
11. Ezra R. Russell, Co. I, 83rd ILL. Infantry & Assistant Surgeon, 28th U. S. C. Infantry.
12. Samuel J. Stewart, Captain, Co. H, 10th KS. Infantry.
13. Richard R. Redfield, Co. H, 177th OH. Infantry
14. Robert Silas Foster, Co. G, 113th OH. Infantry.
15. Addison Sleeth, Co. G, 52nd IND. Infantry.
16. John Hibbs, Co. I, 40th IND. Infantry.
17. Robert Silas Foster, Co. G, 113th OH. Infantry.
18. JOHN DAY, Co. K, 31st IND. Infantry.
19. William Cunningham, Indpt. Battery G, PA. Heavy Artillery.
20. Henry Shurfeld, Co. K. 21st Mo. Vol. Infantry.
21. Justin O. Hottenstein, Co. G, 20th ILL. Infantry.
22. Travis Adams, Co. I, 14th OH. Infantry
23. William Beadles, Co. K., Ill., Mexico War.
24. Nathan C. Withington, Battery E, 1st ILL. Light Artillery.
25. Richard Hobart-1, Co. C, 16th ILL. Infantry.
26. Richard Hobart-2, Co. C, 16th ILL. Infantry.
27. Louis Dornemann, Bugler, Co. M, 8th PA. Cavalry.
28. Henry D. Smith, Co. I. 10th., Kansas Infantry.
29. John J. Meyers Co. K., 102, ILL. Infantry.
30. Henry H. Michael, Co. C. 105th, Pennsylvania Infantry.
31. Charles Peck, 1st., Ky., Batty.
32. George H. Fox, 2nd., Lieut. 103 U. S.-?
33. G. W. Moon, Co. B., 69th., Ohio Infantry.
34. Robert G. Harrison, Co. B, 120th IND. Infantry, Assistant Surgeon.
35. William Cunningham, Indpt. Battery G, PA. Heavy Artillery
36. Elisha Coy, Sergeant Co. K. 8rh., Ohio Infantry.
37. Jacob L. Barnett, Co. I, 25th OH. Infantry.
38. William Burnett, Co. E, 41st ILL. Infantry
39. Leander Baxter, Co. B, 10th MN. Infantry
40. Benjamin F. Nigh, Co. I, 146th ILL. Infantry.
41. Benjamin F. Nigh-1, Co. I, 146th ILL. Infantry.
42. Nathan C. Withington, Battery E, 1st ILL. Light Artillery.
43. George Worick, 5th., Wis., Light Artillery.
44. Samuel E. Downs, Co. C, 107th ILL. Infantry.
46. J. J. Barndollar, Co. C, 133rd PA. Infantry.
47. George H. List, Co. A and F, 20th ILL. Infantry
48. Joseph L. Denison, Co. E, 9th KS. Cavalry.
49. George H. List, Co. A and F, 20th ILL. Infantry.
50. Joseph L. Denison, Co. E, 9th KS. Cavalry.
51. Tindall S. Stover, Co. D, 31st ME. Infantry
52. Israel Beck, Militia.
53. Orpheus S. Woodward, Captain of Company F, 83rd PA. Infantry.
54. Jacob H. Shurtz, Co. G, 51st ILL. Infantry.
55. Benjamin F. Everett, Battery M, 2nd Heavy Artillery, 112th PA. Infantry.
56. Protas B. Blume, Co. B, 14th IND. Infantry
57. Waldo Pixley, Co. K, 1st IA. Infantry & Co. A, 60th ILL. Infantry.
58. Albert Troester, Co. E, 10th MO. Infantry.
59. Joseph B. Jackson, Elgin Battery, ILL. Volunteer Light Artillery.
60. John H. Record, Co. A, 1st MD. Infantry.
61. Evan Callentine, Co. D, 21st Illinois Infantry and Co. D, 1ST Mississippi Marine Brigade.
62. Grasson DeWitt, Co. F, 110th ILL. Infantry.
63. Grasson DeWitt-1, Co. F, 110th ILL. Infantry
End Of Part One.
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