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Intelligencer 1891-1893

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WALKER

1 Jan 1891 3/1 & 2. At 2:45 o'clock Friday afternoon, Dr. W. V. Walker passed away to the life beyond....The doctors think death was caused from paralysis of the heart....Wellington V. Walker was born December 9, 1853 in Owen County, Kentucky. He chose the practice of medicine for a profession and graduated from the Louisville College of Medicine. In 1880 he married Miss Blanch J. Gary and immediately left for Missouri. ...In 1884 Dr. Walker was elected a member of Hardin College Board....Mrs. Walker survives her husband and with her are four bright children - two girls and two boys, the eldest 9 years of age and the youngest not yet one....Mr. Gary, brother of Mrs. Walker, and four brothers of the deceased arrived from Kentucky Sunday to attend the funeral ....

MAXWELL

1 Jan 1891 4/2. Mrs. James Maxwell. The subject of this sketch was born Oct. 27, 1864, in Audrain County, Missouri, and died December 25, 1890. Her maiden name was Nellie Douglass. She was united in wedlock to James Maxwell of Rush Hill, Missouri, Nov. 1, 1883.

CHAUNCEY

1 Jan 1891 6/1. News was received here today of the death in St. Louis County of Austin Chauncey, formerly a member of the telegraph corps of the union depot. Consumption was the cause.

CROWDICE

1 Jan 1891 6/1. Daniel Crowdice, aged 36 years, died of pneumonia at his home, seven miles north of Vandalia, Friday evening at 5 o'clock.

FREELIN

1 Jan 1891 8/1. The infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Freelin died yesterday afternoon and was buried today.

PRIOR

1 Jan 1891 8/1. The three-year-old son of Frank Prior, four miles west of town, died of membranous croup last evening and was buried today.

BYRNS

8 Jan 1891 1/1,2,3,4 & 5. The home of Mrs. John H. Byrns, four miles west of Mexico, was the scene Tuesday morning of a double tragedy...Fielder T. Byrns, hopelessly insane, bent on taking his own life...the crazed man slashed a razor across the throat of his wife, completely severing her windpipe. He then cut his own throat...Fielder Byrns and his wife (Lina) and two children (Walker, 7 and Lettie, 5) were making their home temporarily with their mother.... Geo. Byrns, a brother of Fielder ... Mrs. Oslin, his mother-in-law...Mrs. Samuel Brown, an aunt... M. S. Bush, of Sturgeon...Mr. Bush's wife is an aunt of Fielder Byrns....There are six children beside Fielder, two sons and four daughters. (lengthy account)

8 Jan 1891 8/5. S. M. Silver was in the city today getting the particulars of the Byrns tragedy. Mrs. Silver is a double cousin of Mrs. Fielder Byrns.

22 Jan 1891 5/1....we are deeply grateful to our kind neighbors and relatives who so tenderly cared for our dear brother and sister-in-law in their darkest hour of affliction....Signed, William F. Byrns and family

22 Jan 1891 6/2. Fielder Byrns, who cut his wife's throat on the 6th and then his own, died last Wednesday....

PASQUETH

8 Jan 1891 1/5. Mrs. William C. Pasqueth...passed away at 4:45 last evening of heart trouble....Mrs. Pasqueth's maiden name was Reid. She was married in Baltimore, Maryland, Oct. 3, 1887, to Wm. C. Pasqueth. She leaves a bright little daughter, Hattie, aged eighteen months, and a broken hearted husband....Mrs. Pasqueth's father, Wm. H. Reid, Esq. died of heart trouble about three weeks ago. Her mother passed away a little over a year ago. Mrs. Pasqueth was not yet 25 years of age.

BRUCE

8 Jan 1891 4/4. Benton City, Mo., Jan. 6th - Mrs. Bruce, who died December 4, was in her 76th year. She was born in Henry County, Virginia, June 15th, 1825, and came to Missouri with her parents forty years ago. They located in Warren County where the deceased lived until nine years ago when she moved with her two sons to Audrain....She was a sister of Alex Moore of Warren County....the interment took place at Benton City....

TRIMBLE

8 Jan 1891 4/4. J. W. Trimble, father of Wood Trimble of this city, died at his home near South Fork Sunday.

MONKERS

JONES

8 Jan 1891 4/5. Worcester, Mo. Jan. 1. A Mrs. Jones of near Centralia, sister of Mrs. Monkers, was suffering at the same time with the same disease, cancer, and died only two hours after her sister. Both bodies were interred in the same grave at Centralia. Sad, indeed. they were sisters of William, Jeff and Luther Atkins....

HARDISTY

8 Jan 1891 8/2. Mrs. J. H. Hardisty, who lived northeast of town, died at 7 o'clock Sunday morning. The remains will be interred in the cemetery in this city....

WINSCOTT

8 Jan 1891 8/5. Harold, the three-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Winscott of Sturgeon, died at 7:30 Saturday evening of what was supposed to be hydrophobia....The remains were interred at Mt. Pisgah...

MITCHELL

15 Jan 1891 6/1. Jesse Mitchell, 3-year-old son of J. T. Mitchell, cashier at Bank of Centralia, died suddenly on the 7th inst. of spinal meningitis.

CROW

15 Jan 1891 6/1. Died, at her home one half mile west of Mt. Carmel, Mrs. Sarah Crow, wife of W. J. Crow on the 3d of January, at 6 o'clock a.m. Deceased was an estimable woman and beloved by all.

MOSLEY

15 Jan 1891 6/2. Dinah Mosley, colored, died Thursday at the house of her son, Robert Mosley, in Cedar township, Boone County. She had well authenticated documents to prove she was 134 years old. She claimed to have been born in Virginia in 1757.

PRESTON

15 Jan 1891 8/1. Miss Martha Preston, aged 59 years, died at the home of her brother-in-law, Wm. Bedell....

CARSON

22 Jan 1891 1/5. Wm. Howard (Bud) Carson died at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Carson, in St. Louis Sunday of consumption. The remains were brought to Mexico Monday for interment....Deceased was born and raised in Mexico and was well known here. For the past five or six years he has made his home in Tacoma, Washington. He was 29 years of age and was married four years ago in that city to Miss Bower, who survives him. Deceased was a brother of Mrs. Richard Graham of this city.

CREASY

22 Jan 1891 6/4. Mrs. Creasy, wife of Wm. Creasy, died Wednesday of inflammatory rheumatism after an illness of five weeks. She was forty-two years of age, the daughter of Wm. Bradley....

SMITH

22 Jan 1891 8/1. Flurnoy Smith, little grandson of E. P. Smith, who lives near Molino, died Monday night at 8 o'clock of scarlet fever.

TILLEY

22 Jan 1891 8/2. Two negro boys, Chuck Tilley and Andy Ramy, quarreled at Jefferson yesterday over a trivial matter, when the latter drew a revolver and shot the former three times, killing him instantly.

SEARS

29 Jan 1891 4/6. Eld. M. J. Sears, President of the Baptist Publishing Co. of this city, died at his residence in Huntsville, last Tuesday....He was 59 years of age....

OWINGS

29 Jan 1891 6/2. James W. Owings, brother of Judge D. R. Owings of this city, died at the home of his son-in-law, Samuel T. Sharp, in Montgomery City Wednesday morning, Jan. 21, 1891. Deceased was a native of Kentucky but had resided in Montgomery City for over 20 years and in the county many years longer.

HENDERSON

29 Jan 1891 7/2. A telegram was received from Los Angeles, California, Saturday announcing the tragic death in that city of Miss Hattie Henderson, sister of James Henderson of Fulton. A spirited horse which she was driving became frightened and ran away, overturning the buggy and throwing her out, her head striking against the curbside, producing almost instant death.

5 Feb 1891 8/2. The remains of Miss Hattie Henderson...were interred at Auxvasse Church Sunday....

WRIGHT

5 Feb 1891 1/3. Mrs. Josiah Wright departed this life January 29th at 11 o'clock p.m. She was nearly 67 years old, and a member of the Methodist Church nearly fifty years....

GREGG

5 Feb 1891 2/3. South Ralls - Died, a small child of Nelson Gregg, on the 19th.

LAUGHLIN

5 Feb 1891 5/3. A. Atkinson received a telegram from Winchester, Va. last Friday announcing the death there of Henry C. Laughlin. His sisters, Mrs. Atkinson and Miss Nadie Laughlin, had been advised of his illness....Deceased was also a brother of Keenan Laughlin of this city. The remains will be interred in Winchester, Va.

WARREN

5 Feb 1891 4/3. Died, at Muscogee, Ind. Ter., on Saturday, Jan. 31, Miss Kate Warren, sister of Mrs. J. E. Ross of this city. The remains will be interred in Bellfontaine Cemetery, St. Louis, where her father, mother and brother are buried. ....Deceased was a teacher in Harrell Institute at the time of her death. Miss Warren lived in Mexico a few years ago...

ISAACS

5 Feb 1891 7/2. David Isaacs, one of the oldest and wealthiest pioneer citizens of Howard County, died last week, aged 65 years. He was one of a party of fourteen who emigrated from Kentucky in 1819 to the then wilds of Missouri and erected Head's Fort, near Rocheport.

HUBERT

5 Feb 1891 8/1. Mrs. Louis Hubert, one of the leading women on Bean Creek, died Friday evening. She leaves a large family of children.

WILLIS

5 Feb 1891 8/2. Died, in Marion county, Mo. January 30th, Mr. J. B. Willis, aged 73 years. Deceased was a brother of H. P. S. Willis of this place.

SUTTER

5 Feb 1891 8/2. John Sutter, an old resident, died last Tuesday. Charles Sutter and brother of St. Louis, nephews of the deceased, were with their uncle during his last hours.

DONNELLY

5 Feb 1891 8/2. Miss Anna Donnelly, who lived out at Hardin Park, died Tuesday after a lingering illness. Services will be held at the Catholic Church at 10 o'clock. Deceased was 26 years of age.

SWAIN

12 Feb 1891 6/1. Mrs. A. G. Swain, sister of Mrs. J. C. Buckner, died in Shreveport, La. last Friday. Mrs. Hyde, who was visiting her daughter, Mrs. Buckner, was called to the bedside of Mrs. Swain over a week ago.

GUY

12 Feb 1891 8/1. Mrs. Clara Guy, sister of Mrs. Sallie Wright of this city, died of consumption in Fulton, Mo. Friday 4th, 1891. She was loved by all who knew her.

NEVANS

19 Feb 1891 8/1. The four year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Morse Nevans of Hastings, Michigan, died at the residence of Dr. Fritts Saturday afternoon.

GANTT

19 Feb 1891 8/2. C. C. Gantt, a brother of P. H. Gantt, and for many years a prominent citizen of Audrain, died suddenly at Brownwood, Texas, Thursday. He was engaged in merchandising in Martinsburg for many years.

DAY

19 Feb 1891 8/2. Walter Day, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lum Day, who lived west of town, died of pneumonia at 4 o'clock last Monday. Deceased was 18 years of age and a promising young man. Funeral services were held at Hopewell Church Tuesday morning....

PILCHER

26 Feb 1891 2/1. The Paris Appeal. Deacon Noah E. Pilcher, of Long Branch Church, died Feb. 13, aged 62 years, 1 month, 17 days; born in Virginia, converted in early life and joined the Baptist Church. While a young man, emigrated to Missouri and located in Platte County, afterward removed to Monroe County and united with Long Branch Church in 1858. In January, 1860, was united in marriage with Miss C. A. Dowell, to whom were born eight children, seven of whom survive him. In 1872 he was ordained deacon, which office he held until death....

CALVERT

26 Feb 1891 5/1. South Ralls - Irvin and George Calvert were summoned to the deathbed of their only brother, Irattie Calvert of Monroe County, last week.

KILGORE

26 Feb 1891 5/2. Notes from Pike - Mrs. Kilgore near Ashland died very suddenly Sunday morning. She was 50 years old a lady respected by all who knew her. Her remains were interred at Concord Church near Curryville Monday.

BROWN

26 Feb 1891 8/2. Phillip J. Brown, an old and highly respected colored man, living two miles west of Mexico, died suddenly Saturday night of heart disease. He came here from Kentucky about eleven years ago....

DYE

26 Feb 1891 5/5. A son of James Dye, who lives at Vandalia, was killed by lightning near that place Monday afternoon. The boy was returning from the field where he had been repairing a wire fence and the wire stretcher which he carried in his hand it is supposed attracted the lightning. He was killed instantly.

5 Mar 1891 2/3. Vandalia Leader....Young Walter Dye was about 17 years of age and in company with his two brothers was at work on his father's farm Tuesday....

PITTS

26 Feb 1891 6/1. Mrs. John Pitts, aged 70 years, died at her home near Vandalia, Feb. 18th.

ROYALL

Mrs. Parnelia Royall, aged 90 years, died at Columbia Feb. 18th. She was one of the oldest residents of that town.

FISHER

26 Feb 1891 7/1. Postmaster Beatty received a telegram Friday from Wm. C. Gamble, who is at Columbia, which announced the death of Dr. M. M. Fisher... his aged mother and other relatives, including the relatives of Mrs. Fisher from this county, were with him at the time of death. Dr. Fisher was one of Missouri's greatest educators. He was born in Park County, Ind. Oct. 8, 1834. His father, Judge Jas. M. Fisher, was born in Ohio in 1810....Dr. Fisher was married three times, his last wife, who was Miss Eliza Gamble, daughter of Judge John W. Gamble of Audrain County, together with several children, survive him. L. J. Fisher, a prominent citizen of St. Louis, is a brother....

WILCOX

5 Mar 1891 2/1. Salt River Items - Henry Wilcox, the mail carrier from Mexico by way of Gant to Youngers in Boone County made his regular trip on Thursday the 19th, and got wet in the rain, took sick the next day with pneumonia and died the 26th after six days of severe suffering.

FORD

26 Feb 1891 7/3. Joe Kendall...states that Frank Ford, who was sojourning at Greenville, Miss., died last Tuesday of consumption. Mr. Ford left here some time since for the south in the hope that a change of climate would benefit his health which was then declining rapidly. Mrs Ford, it will be remembered, died in Kentucky a year or more ago. Both were well known in Audrain where Mr. Ford had made his home for twenty years or more.

BLACK

5 Mar 1891 2/1. Salt River Items - Old Doctor Black died Feb. 21st and was buried at Concord Feb. 23rd.

DAY

5 Mar 1891 6/1. C. C. Day, who lived west of town, died of pneumonia at 1 o'clock Thursday. His son died of the same disease a few days ago,. The cold that caused his father's death was contracted at the son's funeral.

PEASE

5 Mar 1891 8/1. L. M. Pease, formerly of this city, died at his home in Englewood, New Jersey, Saturday, of cancer of the stomach.

GILLHAM

5 Mar 1891 8/2. Died, of pneumonia, March 2nd at 7 o'clock a.m., Margaret J. Gillham, aged 74 years and 8 months. ----

NEWKIRK

12 Mar 1891 7/2. Mrs. Newkirk, wife of Joseph Newkirk, who lives southeast of town, died Friday afternoon of pneumonia and was interred in the cemetery in this city Saturday. Mr. Newkirk is also ill of the same disease....

WILSON

2 Mar 1891 8/1. Wilburn French Wilson, who lived 7 miles southeast of town, died Sunday and was buried Monday.

SCOTT

12 Mar 1891 8/2. The remains of Mrs. Kate Scott, who died at her home near Laddonia Sunday morning, were interred Monday afternoon in the cemetery at Wellsville....

MATTHEWS

12 Mar 1891 8/5. Rev. Dr. Matthews, Rector of St. Paul's Church, died at his home on East Liberty street at 9:15 o'clock Sunday morning...the immediate cause of his death was typhoid pneumonia....Rev. Matthews was a native of Ireland, born in the city of Dublin Jan. 5, 1844, and in which city obtained his education....The remains were taken to Van Buren, Ark. for interment. Rev. Matthews leaves a wife and four children, two boys and two girls.

SCHOWENGERDT

19 Mar 1891 1/5. Ernst Schowengerdt...died at his home in Warrenton Friday. Mr. Schowengerdt was of that sturdy class of Germans who along in the forties left their native land to seek a home among the people of America....He began life without a dollar. He died the wealthiest citizen of his county. His large family of children has been handsomely provided for, each one of whom has been given a splendid farm in Montgomery County. ....His youngest son, Frank...succeeds his father in the mercantile business in Warrenton.

KEARNS

19 Mar 1891 5/6. The remains of Moses Kearns, who died at his home in Benton City Friday evening, were interred in the Catholic burying ground in this city Monday, services conducted by Rev. Father Dempsey. The cause of his death was rupture caused by heavy lifting. Deceased was well known here, having been a resident of the county for the past twenty-five years or more. An interesting family survives him.

JESSE

19 Mar 1891 6/1. A little child of Wm. Jesse, just west of town, died Thursday.

CUNNINGHAM

19 Mar 1891 6/2. Miss Clemma Cunningham, a sister of Mrs. James A. Logan of Washington, D.C., died near Centralia Thursday of inflammation of the brain, aged 47 years. She has been living in Boone for about seven years. The place of interment will probably be in Washington, D.C.

MATTHEWS

19 Mar 1891 6/2. The Columbia Herald, referring to the death of Rev. J. A. Matthews, says: In Mexico Sunday, March 8, Rev. J. A. Matthews, rector of the Episcopal church at that place, aged 47 years....

BUEKER

19 Mar 1891 6/3. Huntsville, Mo., March 13 - The jury in the case of the State vs. Reinhard Koch, charged with murder, has just brought in a verdict of not guilty. This case was brought to Huntsville from Warren county on a change of venue. Koch kept a hotel and saloon at Holstein in Warren county. Bueker was a farmer in the community....He talked about Koch's wife and was disposed to make trouble between them. Koch ordered him to leave the premises. Bueker started to do so. As he was in the act of mounting his horse the trouble was renewed and Koch, losing his self-control, shot Bueker and killed him....

SMITHEY

19 Mar 1891 8/1. The eleven-year-old son of Wm. Smithey died Tuesday afternoon of pneumonia.

BARTON

26 Mar 1891 1/1....During last September, Dixie Barton, a carpenter, arrived in Mexico from Pulaski County. Barton is about 25 years of age and married...Barton lived in east Mexico for some time, but recently occupied the Rodman residence three doors south of the southeast corner of Hardin Park....Barton has not been well for the past month but continued to work... Dr. Adams pronounced the case small pox....

GARNER

26 Mar 1891 1/4....William Garner breathed his last yesterday morning....Dr. Watts, who was first called to see the patient and was with him a few minutes before he died, is positive he died of hydrophobia....(lengthy article)

DARNELL

10 Apr 1891 8/1. The funeral of Henry Darnell, who died in Raton, N.M. was held at Vandalia Tuesday, Rev. J. S. Jesse of this city conducting

the service.

HOCKADAY

26 Mar 1891 6/6. Isaac Hockaday, of Fulton, died Tuesday. Banker Hockaday of Columbia and his wife went over to Fulton yesterday to attend the funeral. Judge Hockaday, brother of the deceased, adjourned court at Fayette and came down yesterday. Deceased was one of the leading citizens of Callaway County.

CULWELL

26 Mar 1891 6/1. Joeph Culwell, aged 61 years, died at his home near Vandalia, Wednesday.

BLAIN

26 Mar 1891 6/3. Councilman A. F. Reid Thursday received a letter from his son, Charles, conveying the intelligence of...the death of a little 7-year-old cousin. Charles Reid is with his uncle, W. H. Blain, at Visalia, California....The little 7 year-old-son of Mr. Blain was...run over and killed by the horses.

BASS

26 Mar 1891 8/2. Mrs. Bass, wife of L. N. Bass, died last Monday after a lingering illness....

MARTIN

26 Mar 1891 8/6. Died. At her home in Santa Maria, Calif. on March 8, 1891, Mrs. Sarah Martin passed from this life. Deceased, with her husband, Thomas J. Martin, were among the pioneer settlers of Audrain County. They left here to settle in California in 1865. Mrs. Martin was a sister to Mrs. Gideon Williams and Mrs. James Sims, now residents of this county, and mother of Mrs. John H. Hayden, formerly of Mexico....

LAWRENCE

2 Apr 1891 2/3. Died, at Calwood, Callaway county, on the 23d inst, Mrs. Dr. T. M. Lawrence. The deceased was 24 years of age and was married on the 4th of last December. She was a niece of Mrs. Hannah Hood and has many friends in the Beaver Dam neighborhood....

2 Apr 1891 5/4. Beaver Dam items. We were a little shocked when we heard of the death of Mrs. May Lawrence...

HORD

2 Apr 1891 4/4. Died, at Greenton, Lafayette county, Mo. March 24, 1891, Mrs. Mary D. Hord, aged 61 years. The deceased was born near Georgetown, Scott county, Ky. and was the only surviving daughter of the late Mrs. Caroline Gorham....She removed to Missouri in 1868 in which she passed the remainder of her life....She leaves her husband, E. L. Hord, one brother, S. K. Gorham of Scott county, Ky. and her only child, Mrs. (Richard) Ella Hord Strobhart....She was interred at Mexico, Mo.....

SMITH

2 Apr 1891 6/2. Lucian B. Smith, of Washington, who was visiting at Laddonia with his family some four weeks ago, returned to his home about the first of March, had the misfortune to lose his 16 months old boy with measles contracted here.

HEAD

2 Apr 1891 6/4. Miss Emma Head, who died in Moberly, was well known in this city where she often visited relatives, Mrs. L. A. Powell being her aunt....

MARSHALL

2 Apr 1891 7/3. From the Columbia Statesman - Died, in Columbia, Mo. March 23, 1891, suddenly of paralysis of the brain, Mrs. Mary J., wife of Mr. Wm. Marshall, in the 61st year of her age. Mr. Marshall and family formerly lived in Audrain county and moved here last week to educate two sons at the university...she was interred in the Columbia cemetery.

WHEATLEY

2 Apr 1891 8/2. Wm. Wheatley, who formerly lived in this city, died in St. Louis on the 30th. The remains were brought to this city for interment.

BROWN

9 Apr 1891 1/4 - Capt. J. W. Brown, formerly in the hotel business here, died in St. Louis Sunday morning from la grippe....The remains were brought here Tuesday and interred with Masonic honors.... Previous to his residence here, Mr. Brown lived in Callaway where he was well known. He was a brother-in-law of J. M. Menefee of this city.

DERMODY

9 Apr 1891 7/2. Mrs. Dermody, wife of Jerry Dermody, died at the home of her father east of town April 1st at 10 o'clock in childbirth.... Friday funeral services were held at St. Brendan's church....Mrs. Dermody, who was married to Jerry Dermody about a year ago, was an excellent woman.

VARNON

9 Apr 1891 7/2. From the Monroe City Democrat - Mrs. Varnon, wife of Dr. Varnon, died in this city Tuesday, March 31, of consumption. The remains were taken to Mexico April 1 for interment there, Odd Fellows escorting the body to the depot. Dr. Varnon moved here but a few months ago from Mexico and engaged in the grocery business.

16 Apr 1891 1/2. From the Monroe City Democrat - Mrs. Ida T. Varnon, wife of Dr. C. T. Varnon, born in Audrain county, Mo., Aug. 16, 1861, died at their home in Monroe City March 31, 1891, aged 29 years, 7 months and 15 days. Mrs. Varnon was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Baker....

FLETCHER

9 Apr 1891 8/1. The six-months-old child of James Fletcher, just west of town, died Saturday and was buried Sunday.

PRYOR

16 Apr 1891 2/1. Courtney, the eighteen year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Pryor died Saturday, April 4, of pneumonia.

ROBERTSON

16 Apr 1891 4/4. Prairie View - John, Bob and George Brown attended the funeral of their venerable uncle, Benjamin Robertson, at Fulton on Sunday last.

RICKETTS

16 Apr 1891 1/1. Mr. S. P. Emmons received a telegram Tuesday morning from Maj. Ricketts stating that Mrs. Ricketts died Monday night. The remains will be brought to Mexico....About a year ago it became evident that M__. Ricketts could

only live a few years at most. In the hopes of prolonging her life, she was taken to Canon City, Colo., Major Ricketts and their daughters, Julia, Lena and Mamie, accompanying her....

23 Apr 1891 6/2. The funeral services of Mrs. H. A. Ricketts was held at the M.E. church, South, last Friday....The remains were interred at the city cemetery....Mrs. Ricketts was 45 years of age, being born on her father's farm in the old Callaway settlement in Warren County, March 12, 1846. When a girl of 20, her father located in Mexico and two years later on May 5th, 1868, she was married to Maj. H. A. Ricketts....Among the relatives and friends attending the funeral in addition to Mr. and Mrs. Redman Callaway are Mrs. J.D. Ray of St. Louis, sister of Maj. Ricketts....

RUDDER

16 Apr 1891 6/1. Talbot Rudder, age 13 years, son of Jason Rudder, died at his home near Thompson April 10th of consumption. The remains were interred at Thompson Saturday.

LOVEJOY

16 Apr 1891 6/2. The other day Abijah Lovejoy of Centralia, Mo. cutting timber, rushed in to save his little son from a falling tree and his own head was crushed. The child was badly bruised.

MELLOWAY

16 Apr 1891 6/2. John Melloway, aged eighteen years, son of George Melloway, living one mile south of Horseshoe Lake, six miles southwest of Columbia, was instantly killed by a stroke of lightning Wednesday morning.

WILLIAMS

16 Apr 1891 6/3. Strother M. Williams died at his home on Clark Avenue at 12:30 Thursday night.... Mr. Williams was a native of Virginia....He leaves four children, two daughters and two sons....

WILLIAMS

16 Apr 1891 8/1. W. W. Williams, father of J. V. Williams, died at Westport, Mo. Sunday and was buried Tuesday.

GUTHRIE

23 Apr 1891 1/1. Joel Guthrie received a telegram from Kentucky Sunday which announced the death by arsenical poison of B. F. Guthrie, his cousin, and brother of Mrs. Fannie Campbell of Youngs Creek. The poisoning occurred at the residence of Albert Herr at Lindon, a small station near Louisville, where 75 guests had assembled Wednesday to witness the marriage ceremony of William Snook and Miss Fannie Belle Herr, the latter also a cousin of Joel and Caleb Guthrie of this city. A wedding dinner followed the ceremony and every one of the guests, which included men, women, and children, were poisoned....Nearly everything that was placed upon the table was left in a spring house overnight. 'Dr. John Howard and myself (Dr. Chenoweth, a prominent physician of Louisville) made a chemical analysis of the salad. We found no arsenic but ptomaines in abundance.'....

30 Apr 1891 4/2 - A letter from Mrs. Fannie Crawford, of Youngs Creek, now in Louisville, Ky., to Joel Guthrie of this city, states that Mrs. B. F. Guthrie died on the 23rd at 4:30. Mrs. Gray, her sister, in the same house, is not expected to recover....

SLACK

SCOTT

23 Apr 1891 3/3. Died, in Fort Worth, Texas, April 15, 1891, Mrs. E. J. Slack, wife of Maj. Thomas Slack and sister of J.M. and F.S. Riley of this city. Deceased formerly lived here....She will be laid to rest this morning (16th) beside her daughter, Mrs. J.C. Scott, who preceded her many years ago....

DUDLEY

23 Apr 1891 4/3. Fulton, Mo., April 20 - Robert Dudley, a well-to-do farmer, who resides near Shamrock in this county...went to the farm of his brother, James Dudley, six miles east of Fulton on a visit. Last night he arose from his bed, caught his horse, and left without saying anything to the family...found him on the bank of a small stream with his throat cut.

MOORE

23 Apr 1891 5/2. Callaway Cullings - The sale of the effects of David Moore, deceased, was well attended. The proceeds of the blacksmith tools amounted to $400. Mrs. Moore will remain with her brother, Mr. Wm. Bailey.

CLARK

23 Apr 1891. Laddonia Matters - Charlie Clark of Martinsburg died last Sunday and was buried by the Masons Tuesday. He leaves a wife, Mrs. Bettie Clark, and a son, Lou Clark, of this place; he also leaves several grand children.

30 Apr 1891 6/2. Uncle Charlie Clark, who died in Martinsburg, was born in Sullivan County, Tenn. Jan. 28, 1813. In 1842 he emigrated to Missouri, settling in Ralls County and in 1855 he came to Audrain....

REED

23 Apr 1891 6/1. Frank Reed, aged 78 years, father of Mrs. May of Farber, died on the 11th. He had been in feeble health all winter but was seriously ill only a short time.

PINDALL

30 Apr 1891 7/3. Clarksburg, Mo., April 22 - General Evan Shelby Pindall, who died last week at the residence of J.N. Ball in Audrain County, was ...born December 5, 1801 in Morgantown, Monongalia County, W. Va. The family was noted for their military record. His grandfather was at Washington at Braddock's defeat; his father served the last four years as an officer in the Revolutionary War and he, himself, served as Captain and Colonel of both infantry and cavalry ....His wife, Drusilia Morgan...belonged to the renowned Colonel Morgan's family of West Virginia. He was the father of six children - Colonel L.A. and Maj. X. J. Pindall of the Confederate army, Mrs. John Ball, Mrs. Frank Wilfley, Miss Hannah E. and Ethelbert Pindall.

BERRY

GOODNIGHT

YEAGER

30 Apr 1891 7/3. From the Paris Appeal - Henry L. Berry died April 17, aged 80 years, 8 months and 7 days. Born in Madison County, Virginia, in 1810, emigrated to Missouri in 1834 and settled in Monroe County, moved to Audrain County in 1840, married in 1837 to Nancy Goodnight by whom nine children were born. She died in 1853. He was married in 1855 to Mary Yeager, by whom 11 children were born; she died October 1880. At this time nine of his children are living....

ROBNETT

30 Apr 1891 8/1. Noah Robnett, a central Missouri pioneer, died at his home near Columbia Saturday evening.

BUGANT

30 Apr 1891 8/1. William Bugant was killed by the accidental explosion of a dynamite cartridge Saturday at a quarry near Columbia....

TRIMBLE

7 May 1891 1/4. Mrs. Trimble, wife of David Trimble, was found dead in a chair at her home at the foot of Monroe street at 11 o'clock last Saturday....About 9:30 her husband came up town at her request to get something to eat and when he returned at 11, his wife was dead....Mrs. Trimble came to Mexico from Kentucky about twenty-five years ago. She was the mother of A. M. Trimble of the Washington Street Second Hand store. The funeral occurred Sunday.

SANDIDGE

7 May 1891 1/6. M. C. Sandidge, Recorder of Deeds of Saline county, died at his home near Marshall April 30, of cancer of the stomach.

SNOOKS

7 May 1891 6/2. William Snooks, one of the victims of the Kentucky poisoning, died in Cincinnati Thursday. Mr. Snooks was the bridegroom.

WILBURN

7 May 1891 8/2. The remains of the two year old child of Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Wilburn, which died in Montgomery City, were brought to Mexico Monday for interment. Mr. and Mrs. Wilburn formerly lived here.

HARTMAN

14 May 1891 4/3. New Florence, Mo., May 10. A little child of John Hartman, living south of this place, was left playing on the bed alone. When the mother returned she found it hanging by its chin to the footboard, dead. In attempting to get out, it had hanged itself.

WATTS

14 May 1891 8/1. Died, Saturday, May 9, of congestion of the stomach, little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Watts. Remains were interred Sunday at Liberty church.

NORRIS

21 May 1891 1/1....several killed by the cyclone in the Norris neighborhood. A baby of Mr. and Mrs. S. S. Norris was among the killed. The house was blown to splinters....

DEMPSEY

21 May 1891 3/3 - Mrs. Dempsey, mother of Father Dempsey, died suddenly Thursday of heart trouble. She was in her sixtieth year and was an estimable lady. The remains were Friday taken to Bloomfield, Ill. for interment....Sarah Dempsey was born in the county of Antrim, Ireland, and came to America when 14 years of age. Funeral services were held at St. Brendan's church last Friday, conducted by Father Dempsey, assisted by Father Haar of Martinsburg and Father Straubinger of Moberly....

DOUGAN

21 May 1891 6/1. Mary Dougan, wife of Wm. Dougan of this city, died in Curryville Wednesday and was buried Thursday. She was 58 years of age and a good woman.

KUNKEL

DOERGE

ROGERS

HUNT

28 May 1891 1/1 & 2. The sickening details of Wednesday's cyclone tell a tale of horror which the imagination can hardly picture....Those killed outright are: Balsen Kunkel, Sophia Doerge (daughter of John Doerge, aged 6), Homer Rogers (aged 15), H. C. Hunt....

LEET

28 May 1891 5/4. Laddonia Matters. The sad news was telegraphed here this morning that Archie Leet was dead. He was for a long time telegraph operator here....

28 May 1891 8/2. Charlie Clark received a telegram from Kansas City Tuesday announcing the death of Archie Leet, formerly of Laddonia.... Deceased leaves a wife and two children.

CAPPS

28 May 1891 6/1. Mrs. John Capps of Santa Fe, who died of consumption, was buried at South Fork Thursday.

TANNEHILL

28 May 1891 6/1. Dr. C. J. Tannehill, of Brownwood, Texas, brother-in-law of Mrs. Judge Macfarlane and Mrs. P. E. Locke, died last Thursday. The telegram didn't state cause of death. Mrs. G. B. Macfarlane left Thursday by way of Jefferson City for Brownwood, Texas.

BARTH

28 May 1891 8/1. Joseph Barth Monday received the sad intelligence of the death of his father in Germany.

McDOWELL

28 May 1891 8/2. Mrs. George McDowell, of Martinsburg, died Saturday and was buried at Benton City Sunday. Mrs. McDowell left a two weeks old babe and four other children....

HARRISON

4 Jun 1891 5/3. Callaway Cullings - Last Sunday was set apart as Children's Day at Pleasant Grove church, but the exercises were postponed owing to the burial of Mrs. Chas. Harrison. Mrs. Harrison moved to St. Louis a few weeks ago. She had been very low with consumption for some time....Mrs. Harrison is a daughter of James Satterfield. She leaves one child, a husband and three sisters.

DAVENPORT

4 Jun 1891 6/1. Died, at her home near Thompson Friday evening, Mrs. John Davenport.

PRATT

4 Jun 1891 6/1. Mrs. Pratt, who lives near Rush Hill, died Tuesday night in child birth. The remains were interred at Rush Hill church. the funeral was preached by Eld. Hill.

HURDLE

4 Jun 1891 6/1. John Hurdle, brother of Hardy Hurdle, one of Audrain's oldest citizens, died in the Insane Hospital at Fulton, May 13th, of la grippe. He had been an inmate of the asylum for fourteen years. His parents were Thomas and Mary Hurdle, who died in this county many years ago. Deceased was in his 50th year.

WILSON

4 Jun 1891 6/2. Died, at his home in the vicinity of Rush Hill, May 26th, Jacob Wilson, aged 63 years. He had been a consistent member of the Christian church for many years....

ENGLE

4 Jun 1891 8/2. Be careful how you pare your corns. Jacob Engle of Warrenton died Sunday from the effects of a small wound on the foot made by a knife ten days ago while paring a corn. The wound became inflamed, grew rapidly worse and finally caused his death by blood poisoning.

MUMPOWER

4 Jun 1891 8/2. David Mumpower, father of Rev. J. A. Mumpower of this city and Prof. T. G. Mumpower of Central College, Fayette, Mo. died in Chillicothe Friday at the age of 77.

SHUMATE

JOHNSON

8 Jun 1891 3/1. Henry W. Johnson was hanged in Emory, Texas, Monday, for the murder of Col. Wm. Shumate, his friend and benefactor....The murdered man was the father of Mrs. Bud Luckie of this city and at one time was a respected citizen of Audrain county....

PATTERSON

18 Jun 1891 5/2. Callaway Cullings - A good citizen gone. The sad duties of paying the last tribute of respect to the dead drew a large crowd to Pleasant Grove church at which time the funeral of Charlie Patterson took place....

HALL

18 Jun 1891 5/5. After a prolonged illness, Mrs. Laura W. Hall died at her residence on Liberty street at 1:30 yesterday....Mrs. Hall was a Miss Lakenan....She was in her 29th year and leaves four little children.

SCHOOLER

25 Jun 1891 6/3. Centralia Guard - Mrs. Jos. Phillips of Audrain passed through here Sunday en route for home, having been at the home of her mother, Mrs. Fannie Hodge, in Columbia several weeks, attending at the bedside of her sister, Mrs. Lulu Schooler, who died the 11th inst. and was interred at Hickory Grove cemetery.

HULTZ

VAWTER

2 Jul 1891 1/3. Marshall Hultz, who, in Boone county three years ago, shot and killed Allen Vawter, his neighbor, in a quarrel, took his own life at Columbia Tuesday by cutting his throat.

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KEETON

2 Jul 1891 4/5. Mrs. Celia Keeton, the venerable mother of W. L. Keeton of near Thompson, died at the home of her son Tuesday in her 82d year. Mrs. Keeton spent 55 years of her life in Audrain, coming to the county with her husband, Thomas Keeton, from Kentucky, before this county was organized....

HARRISON

2 Jul 1891 5/3. Callaway Cullings - A little fourteen months old child of Mr. Chas. Harrison, who resides in St. Louis, was interred at the cemetery at Pleasant Grove the 22d.

JOHNS

2 Jul 1891 8/1. Capt. Johns, prominent Grand Army man, died suddenly of heart failure at Clarksville Monday.

CLARK

2 Jul 1891 8/1. Twins were born to Mr. and Mrs. Henry Clark, near Benton, Saturday. The son died but the daughter and mother are both doing well.

SIMS

9 Jul 1891 1/3. James M. Sims, a pioneer settler of Audrain, died at his home three miles northeast of Mexico Sunday, of an affection of the kidneys. Mr. Sims was 63 years of age and had lived in Audrain since he was 18. He was born in Boone in 1828 and after his father's death in 1842, young Sims went to Howard county where he remained 4 years. He then came to Audrain and entered 240 acres of land on Skull Lick....On the first of Feb. 1849, Mr Sims. married Miss Louisa Goatley, then of Boone co....Mrs. Sims is the sister of Mrs. Gideon P. Williams and Mrs. Thomas J. Martin. There were born to Mr. and Mrs. Sims eleven children of whom there are now living, Mrs. Wm. Hensley, of Jackson co.; Mrs. Charles Dingle, of California; Mrs. Charles Lewis, Mrs John A. Lewis, Elias W., Jefferson D., James D. and Miss Louise of Audrain....The interment took place last Monday at the city cemetery.

CAUTHORN

9 Jul 1891 1/2. Mr. B. R. Cauthorn received a telegram from Corvallis, Oregon, last Monday, announcing the death of his brother, Senator Thomas E. Cauthorn at 3 p.m. Sunday. Senator Cauthorn was a native of Missouri, having been born in this city in 1849. When 16 years of age he went to Oregon....He leaves a wife and three children.

23 Jul 1891 5/1 ....He was born in Mexico, Missouri Aug. 31, 1849; came to Oregon with his father's family in 1865; was married in 1870 to Miss Sarah Jeffries. A few years of his life was spent in Washington Territory....

VANNOY

9 Jul 1891 2/3. Nathaniel Vannoy, 8 years old, while driving a horse from the field at his home, several miles northwest of Bowling Green, Wednesday afternoon, fell off and became entangled in the trace chains, frightening the horse...his head was mashed to a pulp under the horse's hoofs.

WEINAND

9 Jul 1891 8/1. Mrs. Chas. Weinand, wife of Chas. Weinand Jr., died Friday near Young's Creek and was buried here Saturday.

HAWKINS

9 Jul 1891 8/2. St. Louis Chronicle - Jas. Hawkins, one of the Custom House custodians force, who was body servant to General John McNeill during the war and who was the first man wounded at Fulton, Mo. died Monday morning, nearly 60 years of age.

RICHARDS

16 Jul 1891 1/6. Entered into life eternal, Sunday morning at 5 o'clock, Mrs. Editha Richards, aged 67 years. Mrs. Richards was born in Lynchburg, Virginia, where she and Mr. Richards were married 47 years ago....Her husband and only child, Mrs. Wm. Llewellyn....

16 Jul 1891 8/1. Editha Talliaferro, daughter of Maj. A. Talliaferro of Amherst co., Va. died in Mexico, Mo. July 12th, 1891, aged 67 years and 9 months.

DYE

16 Jul 1891 4/5. Wm. Dye, a brakeman on the C & A, was killed at Bowling Green last Tuesday in attempting to jump from one train to another. He was thrown under the wheels and ground to death.

EUBANKS

16 Jul 1891 6/1. The infant child of James Eubanks died last evening of brain fever.

HARPER

16 Jul 1891 6/4. Thomas H. Harper, son of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Harper, died at 3 o'clock last Friday....

Deceased was 46 years of age. He was born in Warren county but has lived in Audrain since 1863. He leaves a wife who was the daughter of Dr. Wm. H. Lee, and two children - W. L., who is 22 years of age and lives in Kansas City and Pattie, aged 17....the remains were conveyed to the city cemetery for interment.

HADSELL

16 Jul 1891 8/1. J. H. Hadsell, aged 60 years, died at his home near Vandalia Monday of brain trouble.

RAY

16 Jul 1891 8/4. Maj. Ricketts Monday received a telegram from St. Louis which stated that the wife of Gus Ray, well known here, died Sunday night and would be buried in Paris, Ky. Tuesday.

WORSHAM

16 Jul 1891 8/4. Mrs. Worsham, wife of James Worsham, died Tuesday afternoon of consumption. Mrs. Worsham had been an invalid for a number of years....the remains were interred at Littleby Church yesterday afternoon.

VAUGHN

23 Jul 1891 1/3. News of the tragic death of Thomas Vaughn, who lives 16 miles north of Mexico, reached here yesterday. Mr. Vaughn had been working a young mule....a long rope had been placed about its neck....On this occasion the rope became wound about Mr. Vaughn's leg unnoticed by him and...the mule...bounded away throwing Mr. Vaughn to the ground and dragging him until he was dead. Mr. Vaughn was a cousin of Dr. Vaughn of that section and also cousin of Frank Vaughn, the mule dealer. Deceased was about 35 years of age and married....

STERRETT

23 Jul 1891 2/1. From the Perry Enterprise - At the home of her sister, Mrs. J. W. Trimble, near Santa Fe, on Friday evening, July 10th, 1891, Miss Ann Sterrett, aged 73 years. "Aunt Ann", as she was called by all who knew her...had become about blind and was helpless almost as a child.

JACKSON

23 Jul 1891 1/6. J. B. Jackson, who died Saturday evening of consumption, were interred Sunday at New Hope church, in which neighborhood deceased lived upon a farm for many years previous to his residence in Mexico....Mr. Jackson was a native of Audrain. He was born on a farm two and a half miles from the spot where the body now rests, forty seven years ago, being among the first children born in the county. His father settled on the farm in 1833. Deceased leaves a wife and six children, the oldest being Rufus, aged 15.

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RUSSEL

23 Jul 1891 6/1. Col. Frank T. Russel, an old citizen of Boone County, died in Columbia on the 15th, aged 72 years.

BUCHANAN

23 Jul 1891 6/1. Miss Maud Buchanan, daughter of James Buchanan of Santa Fe, died Wednesday July 15, aged 19 years.

CAPPS

6 Aug 1891 2/3. Died, in Monroe County near Santa Fe, Mo., Lillian Stephenson Capps, infant daughter of John Capps, aged four months and 5 days. It has been but a little while since we recorded the death of the mother....

WALDEN

6 Aug 1891 8/4. Mrs. Anna Walden, mother of Mrs. I. J. Sims and Mrs. Ben Sims, died of paralysis Friday evening at the residence of Capt. Clem, west of town. She was about 65 years of age, one of the oldest residents of Audrain....

TOALSON

SMITH

13 Aug 1891 8/1. Bazzie Toalson, nephew of B. L. Locke of this city, and Frank Smith, both aged 10 years, were drowned in the river at Jefferson City Saturday evening.

RANDOLPH

13 Aug 1891 8/1. Miss Randolph, daughter of O. L. Randolph, died of typhoid fever Sunday and was buried at Laddonia Tuesday....

CLUSTER

20 Aug 1891 2/4. Middletown Chips says, "Rev. Albert Cluster died on the 10th of July at Kirksville, Mo. He was a former resident of West Prairie, where he spent the days of his youth. At the close of the war he was discharged and soon after entered school at Louisiana under the supervision of Prof. Barwick. He had been in the ministry of the M. E. Church for about fifteen years." ....Deceased was a cousin of A. B. Cluster of this city.

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TRIPLETT

27 Aug 1891 1/6. Saturday night John Triplett, who lived near Clark, filled up with liquor and started home. On his way, he fell in with a tramp and they decided to pass the night in a box car....About 3 o'clock Triplett...decided to go home....he started up the track...he was struck by the train and cut to pieces. Triplett was a married man, his wife being the daughter of Mrs. McBride, who lives near Centralia.

WILSON

27 Aug 1891 3/4. Mrs. Nannie O. Wilson, aged 79, died Thursday morning in Louisiana after a lingering illness. The deceased was the widow of Asaph Wilson and mother-in-law of Capt. W. H. Morrow....She leaves four children, all residents of Louisiana.

EMMETT

27 Aug 1891 6/1. Yesterday afternoon while adjusting a belt in the machinery of the Rockbridge Distillery near Columbia, Ed Emmett, aged 18 years, son of the proprietor, was fatally injured. This is the only distillery in Boone County and was opened last Friday.

HENLEY

27 Aug 1891 8/1. Rev. A. E. Rogers preached the funeral of Miss Gertrude Henley at Fulton Saturday.

SPOTTUCK

27 Aug 1891 8/1. Mrs. Matilda Spottuck died Saturday at the home of J. D. Lewellen, five miles south of Vandalia. She was in her 84th year.

HICKMAN

9 Sep 1891 1/4. J. T. Hickman died suddenly at the old Hickman farm, four miles south of Mexico, at 3 o'clock last Tuesday of congestion of the brain....Mr. Hickman was about 38 years of age. He leaves a wife and two children, one boy of seven and the other an infant....

BEEMAN

9 Sep 1891 2/3. Mr. and Mrs. John Beeman of Monroe County left Mexico a few weeks since on a visit to Kentucky friends. Last Thursday Mrs. Beeman's father, R. G. Yowell, received a telegraph message stating that his daughter was dangerously ill....received a second dispatch saying that Mrs. Beeman was dead. The remains arrived here Friday on the noon train.

MACFARLANE

10 Sep 1891 1/6. Mrs. Catherine Macfarlane died Sunday morning Sept. 6th at the home of her son-in-law, Mr. Otho McCrackin, near Fulton, Mo., aged 95 years. She was buried at Richland Church, Callaway County, Monday. Her son, Judge G. B. Macfarlane, was with her at the time of her death. Mrs. G. B. Macfarlane and sons, and Miss Irnie Macfarlane, left last Monday to attend the funeral.

ANDERSON

10 Sep 1891 6/2. Benjamin Anderson, one of the oldest and most respected citizens of Boone County, died at his home in Columbia August 27th. Mr. Anderson had been a resident of Boone since 1836. He was 75 years of age and died of cancer of the face.

NICHOLS

10 Sep 1891 6/2. Mrs. Belle Nichols, wife of James P. Nichols, brother of Dr. Nichols of this city, died in Moberly Friday night from the result of grippe, contracted a year ago....

GATSON

10 Sep 1891 8/1. Wm. Gatson died in Vandalia Saturday and was buried Sunday.

DODGE

10 Sep 1891. Thomas R. Dodge, editor of the Vandalia Graphics, died Sunday of diabetes.

DAHLEM

18 Sep 1891 8/2. The remains of William Dahlem, son of John Dahlem, who died Sunday of dropsy, were interred Monday. Deceased was 15 years of age. Funeral services conducted by Rev. A. S. Middleton.

ADAMS

17 Sep 1891 5/5. Died, Sept. 12th, in this neighborhood (Bean Creek) at the home of the Steffins, Lula, little daughter of Mrs. Ella Adams.

17 Sep 1891 6/1. Lula Adams, a little two-year-old girl who lived with her uncle, Wm. Steffins, northeast of Mexico, died last Saturday.

CURRY

17 Sep 1891 5/6. Vandalia, Mo., Sept. 12 - W. J. Curry, a prominent farmer and stock raiser, died of typhoid fever yesterday eight miles north of here yesterday. His child died six days ago and his wife is not expected to recover.

ROBERTSON

17 Sep 1891 7/2. James R. Robertson, father of George Robertson of this city, died in Moberly on the 8th of dropsy. Deceased was a Tennessean but had lived in Randolph County for 25 years.

GORDON

17 Sep 1891 8/1. Hiram Gordon, a prominent farmer, died at his home 7 miles north of Vandalia Saturday, in his 70th year.

CONNER

17 Sep 1891 8/1. F. P. Conner, editor of the Centralia Courier, died Wednesday, Sept. 9th, of typhoid fever.

GIBBONS

24 Sep 1891 1/6. Patrick Gibbons was run over and killed by the cars near Martinsburg Saturday night....Deceased was a farmer and lived one mile from Martinsburg.

WHITE

24 Sep 1891 1/6. Died, at her home in Perry, Ralls County, Mo. Sept. 18, 1891, after a brief illness of typhoid fever, Mrs. Minnie L. White, wife of Dr. J. T. White and daughter of James M. and Maria Beagles, of Mexico, Mo., aged twenty-two years and fourteen days. The early years of childhood were spent on her father's farm near Worcester, Mo....On the 29th of November, 1888, she and Dr. J. T. White were married and made Perry their home....Mexico's cemetery holds in trust all the mortal but Jesus has taken to himself the immortal spirit of our loved one.

BRADLEY

24 Sep 1891 1/6. W. T. Bradley, one of the oldest citizens of Audrain, died at his home in this city Sunday night of kidney affection. Mr. Bradley was a native of Virginia, coming to this state when eighteen years of age. Some 5 years later he married Miss Sallie Jesse, who with five children, W.T. Jr., J.S., J.R., D.L., and Mrs. Jos. Pollard, survives him. W. T. Bradley is merchandising at Eureka Springs. The remainder of the children live in Audrain. There are five children dead.

KNIGHT

24 Sep 1891 4/5. Charles Knight, the veteran ticket agent of the Wabash at Moberly, dropped dead yesterday in the National Park.

WORLEY

24 Sep 1891 5/6. Mrs. Worley, wife of Charles Worley, an employee of Mexico Fire Brick works at Warrenton, died in the latter city last Friday and the remains were brought to Mexico Saturday and taken to Auxvasse for interment.

GRAHAM

24 Sep 1891 1/3. Charles Graham deliberately put a pistol to his head Tuesday morning and blew out his brains. Graham lived five miles north of Mexico on a farm owned by his wife.... John Logan, a colored man who had been working on the farm for the past few weeks, and who lives nearby, gave this account. '...I ran and called to Miss Octavia to come quick, that her pa had shot himself....' Mr. Graham was a native of Ohio, born in 1835 and was married in 1870, since which date he has lived in Audrain. He leaves a widow and one child, a daughter 20 years of age....The remains of Charles Graham were interred in the cemetery in this city yesterday.

1 Oct 1891 1/1-Joseph D. Thompson, Williamsville, Wayne county, Mo. is the name and address of the son of Charles Graham by his marriage with Malinda Compton in 1866....In last Saturday's Globe Democrat, young Thompson read the account of Charles Graham's death and the revelation concerning the dead man's former marriage at Fredericktown....

MALLORY

1 Oct 1891 6/4. Mrs. Henrietta Mallory died at her home near Rowena Thursday after a long illness. The remains were interred at Long Branch Friday afternoon. Deceased was the mother of Mrs. Joseph Weimer of this city.

JEFFERS

1 Oct 1891 8/4. Troy, Mo., Sept. 27. Rev. John Jeffers, pastor of the colored Methodist church at this place, formerly of Mexico, Mo. committed suicide in a stall at the Fair Grounds this morning by shooting himself over the right ear with a revolver....

HORR

8 Oct 1891 6/1. Mrs. Q. D. Horr, sister of Mrs. J. C. Buckner of this city, died at Enterprise, Miss. Sept. 28th.

BOTTS

15 Oct 1891 6/3. Squire Thomas A. Botts died at his home northeast of Mexico at 3 o'clock Friday morning Oct. 9th....The funeral took place at Bethel church at 11 o'clock Saturday morning. Squire Botts was in his 63d year. He came to Audrain in 1857 and settled on the farm on which he lived. He married Miss Virginia Chowning of Tennessee, and to them were born ten children, all of whom are living and reside in this county. Mrs. Theo. Cauthorn and Mrs. Christopher Creigh and Thomas C. are married; W. W. is practicing law in Mexico, while Ashby, Miss Lida, Miss Cassie, Miss Tannie, Miss Lena and Miss Benie are still at home.

ROBBINS

16 Oct 1891 8/2. Mrs. Robbins, wife of W. D. Robbins of Worcester, this county, died at 10 o'clock last Tuesday....She leaves four children, who with her husband and many friends, mourn her loss. She was buried at Rock Hill cemetery at 10 o'clock Wednesday.

CARRICO

16 Oct 1891 8/2. The funeral of Joseph Carrico, who died Monday, was held at the Catholic church at 10 o'clock yesterday, conducted by Father Dempsey. The deceased recently laid out an addition to the city of Mexico, realizing handsomely from the sale of lots. He leaves a wife, one daughter and several grown sons.

WOODLAN

22 Oct 1891 1/1 & 2. William Woodlan, formerly of this city, died at his home in Kirksville Sept. 30th....Mr. Woodlan was born in St. Louis county Sept. 12, 1828. He grew to manhood in Warren county and on January 2, 1867, was married to Miss Hattie Fullington of Montgomery county. For 15 years Mr. Woodlan resided in Mexico. The last five years of his life were spent in Warrenton, he moving to Kirksville only a few weeks before his death.

NICKENS

22 Oct 1891 2/4. Tom Nickens, a well known colored man of this city, was found dead in the woods seven miles northwest of Mexico last Friday ....It seems that Nickens went squirrel hunting Thursday and during the day accidentally shot himself....

HALLEY

22 Oct 1891 1/3. R. E. Hisey yesterday afternoon received the following telegram from Dr. J. J. Halley, dated at Fulton. "My sister accidentally killed with your team. Come over and take the team back."....Dr. C. R. Halley and his brother, Norman, who is a student at the Fleet school, left Mexico at 10 o'clock yesterday morning for Buck Halley's south of Auxvasse, where they were to meet Dr. J. J. Halley and their sister, who teaches school in that section, and all were to go to Fulton to attend the wedding of their brother, Thomas....It is learned that the team ran away with a surrey, in which there were four persons seated, while on the way from Fulton to Carrington. It was Miss Georgie Halley that was killed.

WILLIS

22 Oct 1891 4/5. Dick Willis, well known in this city, died at his home in Centralia Monday. Mr. Willis was a leading citizen of his town. The funeral took place Tuesday.

HEPLER

22 Oct 1891 5/5. Arthur Hepler, aged 18 years, died at his home in the northeastern part of the city Tuesday of typhoid fever. The remains were interred yesterday afternoon at Sun Rise church.

DOCKERY

22 Oct 1891 6/1. Miss Mahala Dockery, sister of Congressman Dockery, died of paralysis at Chilicothe last week.

COOPER

22 Oct 1891 6/1. Uncle Daniel Cooper, colored, supposed to be over 100 years of age, died last week. He was faithful and honest and had the confidence of both white and black.

MARTIN

29 Oct 1891 1/2. Dr. Watts of this city says that Mrs. Moss, who was injured in the runaway near Auxvasse, will probably survive her injuries. Her daughter, Mrs. George Martin, died a few minutes after the accident. The two children, Ada and Estelle, were both injured....A heavy farm wagon got away from the driver, Chas. Henderson, colored, and ran away, running into the buggy and completely demolishing it....

BROOKS

29 Oct 1891 1/4. The remains of S. M. Brooks, who died in Fulton Tuesday, were brought to Mexico Wednesday and will be interred today....

BROWN

29 Oct 1891 4/6. Mr. James Brown died at his home on East Love street Tuesday night at half past ten o'clock....He leaves a wife and three children to mourn his loss....

HEIZER

29 Oct 1891 5/5. Union and Vicinity. Lon and Joe Heizer have been at the bedside of their mother who died Tuesday at her home in the vicinity of Molino....

POLLARD

29 Oct 1891 6/1. Mr. Pollard, father of J. M. Pollard of this city, died in Illinois Oct. 21.

BAKER

29 Oct 1891 6/1. Jasper Baker was accidentally shot and killed by his brother while hunting near Huntsville last week.

WHALEN

29 Oct 1891 7/2. The remains of Mrs. Whalen, mother of Mrs. Mary Hoban, who died near Bowling Green on the 21st were brought to Mexico next afternoon for interment....

YOHN

29 Oct 1891 8/2. A six-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Yohn died Saturday of scarlet fever....

ROBINS

5 Nov 1891 5/3. Worcester and Vicinity - Died, last Friday, infant child of Dan Robins, whose wife was recently buried at Rock Hill.

McMURRAY

5 Nov 1891 5/3. Callaway Cullings - A telegram was received Saturday stating Mr. McMurray had died very suddenly of apoplexy. He was a son-in-law of Mrs. Alex McPheeters.

HEIZER

5 Nov 1891 6/3. Perry Enterprise - "Aunt Polly" Heizer died on the 26th of October at her home in Audrain County, aged 74 years. Funeral services were conducted by Dr. Drew. Aunt Polly was the oldest of 16 children and was a sister of Mrs. Jas. Smiley and Mrs. W. C. Bates, also of Mrs. John M. and Washington Kerr of this vicinity.

ALFREY

12 Nov 1891 1/2. News of the suicide of Thomas M. Alfrey, formerly of this county and now of Siloam Springs, Ark., were received by R. C. Gibbs and J. S. Alfrey, son of the deceased....Mr. Alfrey was well known and highly respected in Audrain County where he followed bricklaying and contracting for a number of years. He left Audrain for Arkansas in 1880. (lengthy article)

GUTHRIE

12 Nov 1891 1/3. Joel Guthrie, after an illness of several weeks, died Tuesday morning at 5:50. Death resulted from a carbuncle from which he suffered greatly....of late years and at the time of his death was Mexico's leading coal dealer.

HEPLER

12 Nov 1891 1/4....I wish space to express my sincere thanks to the neighbors and friends who gave me such kind assistance during the illness and death of my son, Arthur M. and daughter,

Clara W....Respectfully, J. M. Hepler

GARRETT

12 Nov 1891 1/6. Lizzie May, 6 year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Garrett, died last night of tonsilitis.

McCORMICK

12 Nov 1891 8/1. The remains of Levi McCormick, age 73 years, who died Friday, were interred Sunday. His death was the result of grip contracted a year ago.

IIAMS

12 Nov 1891 8/1. Mrs. Isaac Iiams, formerly of Worcester, but for the past year a resident of St. Louis, died in the latter place this week.

STUART

19 Nov 1891 1/1 & 2. Thaddeus Stuart died at the home of his son, Roy, in Moberly last Tuesday.... Mr. Stuart was a brother of Judge Stuart, President of the Savings Bank....The remains were interred at Oakland Cemetery....Judge and Mrs. Wm. Stuart of this city went up to attend the funeral....Mr. Stuart was born in Clark County, Ky. Feb. 24th, 1824. He married Miss Susie Whaley June 30th, 1857, and in 1859 moved to Audrain County, Mo., where he has since lived until October last when he located near Moberly. He leaves a wife and one son, Roy, who is a dairyman here....

BYRNS

19 Nov 1891 6/2. John Byrns, one of the oldest and most respected citizens of Audrain, died in the asylum for insane at Fulton Thursday. The remains were brought to Mexico for interment. He was sixty-six years of age and had been confined in the asylum for a little over a year.

VEERKAMP

12 Nov 1891 8/2. Emil Veerkamp, brother of J. P. Veerkamp, died at Rush Hill Sunday....

19 Nov 1891 5/1. On Saturday, November 7th, '91, Emil K. (Krause) Veerkamp died near Shamrock, Mo. Deceased had resided in St. Louis for the past year where he had taken sick with that dread disease, typhoid malaria....Emil was born in Lincoln County, Mo. on the 9th day of December, 1871, and was 19 years, 10 months and 28 days of age....He leaves parents, four brothers, and many friends to mourn his death. His remains were followed to Littleby Cemetery, three miles west of Rush Hill.

HARLOW

19 Nov 1891 7/5. Frank Harlow died at his home in Highland last week of typhoid pneumonia. He had resided here only a short while, coming to Audrain from Monroe County where his parents reside.

BROWN

26 Nov 1891 2/4. A young man named Brown, son of old Dr. Brown, of Brown's Station, Boone county, committed suicide in Columbia last Friday by taking morphine....Young Brown was desperately in love with a Miss Conley who did not reciprocate his affections and believing he could not live without her killed himself. Young Brown was a medical student of great promise. His brother was driven to suicide a little over a year ago by excessive drink.

HORN

26 Nov 1891 4/6. A dispatch from Paris, Mo., dated Nov. 21 says: William C. Horn, a citizen of this place, committed suicide this morning about 11 o'clock by hanging....

BYBEE

26 Nov 1891 4/6. Miss Maud Bybee, daughter of J. S. Bybee, who lives west of Mexico, died last Friday of typhoid fever, aged 18 years. The remains were interred at Salt River Church Sunday....

26 Nov 1891 5/6. Died, of fever, on Friday, Nov. 20th, 1891, Miss Maud, daughter of John and Eliza Bybee.

MILDRED

26 Nov 1891 6/1. Thos. Mildred received a telegram Friday from Waynesburg, Pa. announcing the death of his mother at 6:30 this morning. Mrs. Mildred was in her 87th year.

PAINTER

26 Nov 1891 8/1. Dr. S. S. Painter, father of Prof. G. W. Painter of Benton City, died at his home near Woodstock, Shenandoah County, Va. on the 17th inst. of paralysis.

CRAIG

26 Nov 1891 8/1. The remains of Charley Craig, who died at the home of his mother on West Monroe street Tuesday, were interred yesterday. He was 30 years of age.

3 Dec 1891 3/2. A Card of Thanks. Mrs. M. E. Craig and son, H. E. Craig, wish to return thanks to their many friends who, in their son's and brother's last illness, were at his bed side....

DUDGEON

26 Nov 1891 8/2. Thomas Dudgeon, one of the leading farmers of the county, died Sunday of an affection of the kidneys. He had been ill several weeks. The remains were interred at Rock Hill Church Monday. Deceased was about 65 years of age.

FINKS

3 Dec 1891 1/6. Joel A. Finks, of Long Branch, died at the home of his son, John H. Finks, Monroe City, Nov. 23d, of paralysis. Mr. Finks was in his seventy-sixth year. He was a native of Virginia and came to Missouri fifty-seven years ago. Six children survive Mr. Finks. His daughters, Mrs. G. H. Randall and Mrs. John H. Berry, live in the vicinity of Long Branch; George lives in Hannibal; James T. at San Francisco, Ca., Joel (illegible) at Rowena and John H. at Monroe City.

MENEFEE

3 Dec 1891 5/3. Mrs. Menefee, wife of Buford Menefee, and mother of J. I. Menefee of St. Louis, died at her home in the eastern part of town Friday evening. The remains were interred at Montgomery City Sunday.

SCHIEFFER

3 Dec 1891 8/1. Frank Schieffer, a teamster, died Tuesday evening of pneumonia.

17 Dec 1891 7/1. B. F. Schieffer, who died in this city Dec. 1st, was a son of Henry and Hannah Schieffer, and was born in this county Dec. 16, 1857. He spent his entire life in this county. At the age of seven he had a spell of typhoid fever which left him a cripple and a sufferer, although a patient one, for life. January 9, 1881, he was married to Miss Mollie Bybee....He was buried at Midway, this county.

BRIGHT

3 Dec 1891 8/2. Joseph M. Bright died at his home near Hatton Sunday morning....The remains were interred at Pleasant Grove Church Monday.

10 Dec 1891 1/6. Joseph Michael Bright, age 47 years, died at his home in Hatton, Callaway County, Nov. 30, 1891, of organic heart disease. Mr. Bright was the founder of Hatton....He was the son of the late Washington Bright and was married to Miss Annie Holt, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Elijah Holt, about 15 years ago....

BRIDGFORD

17 Dec 1891 1/2. Charles Luckie received a telegram...announcing the death of William Bridgford, formerly of this city, but for the past few years a resident of St. Louis. He was the father of Dr. Emmet Bridgford and Dr. Joseph Bridgford, both at present residents of St. Louis. He was also a brother-in-law of J. W. and J. R. Luckie and Mrs. Mary Sims. Deceased was a native of Monroe County....

CARTER

17 Dec 1891 1/6. The two-year-old child of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Carter died at noon Monday. The child fell into a kettle of boiling water Saturday and was frightfully burned. It was the only child of the parents....

31 Dec 1891 2/3. Card of Thanks. We desire to thank our many friends and neighbors who were so kind to us in our late affliction and sad death of our little Jewell. (Signed) Mr. and Mrs. R. Carter

WILLIAMS

17 Dec 1891 2/1. Gideon P. Williams died at his home 5 miles northwest of Mexico at 5 o'clock on the afternoon of Dec. 9th. Mr. Williams was an old landmark. He was born in North Carolina May 2, 1817 and came to Audrain before the county was organized. He entered the land upon which he lived at the time of his death, the only transfer being the patent he received from the government. In 1838 Mr. Williams married Miss Elizabeth Goatly, of Audrain....Mrs. Williams and five children survive the husband and father: Wm. A., who lives in Oregon, Mary E. Fox, F. M., E. T., and G. G. live in Audrain....during the summer he became troubled with blood poisoning and it soon became evident that the end was near....the interment was made in Trinity cemetery.

BARRY

17 Dec 1891 6/1. Wm. Barry, who formerly lived on a farm near Thompson, died in St. Louis last week.

HAMILL

24 Dec 1891 1/3. The remains of Rev. E. J. Hamill, at one time pastor of the Liberty Street M. E. Church in this city, and father of Prof. H. M. Hamill, at one time superintendent of Mexico schools, were interred at Marshall, Ill. Sunday... Rev. Hamill was nearly 80 years old....

CLANTON

17 Dec 1891 2/1. Mrs. Diana Eleanor Clanton died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. J. W. Daniel, in this city...Dec. 9th, 1891. Mrs. Clanton was....born in Harrodsburg, Kentucky, August 11, 1820....She came to Missouri when 10 years of age....She was the daughter of Hal and Elizabeth Speed and in 1840 married Charles A. Day. By this marriage she had 5 children, only one of whom, Mrs. Daniel, survives. In 1858 she married N. S. Clanton and three children were born of this union, Mrs. John Wayne and Mrs. Hiram Threlkeld of Audrain and Samuel (illeg.) Clanton of Calif....

14 Jan 1892 7/1 - Mrs. Diana E. Clanton departed this life at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Anne M. Daniel....The deceased was the youngest of six children. Her parents emigrated to Kentucky at an early day from North Carolina. She was a grand daughter of Capt. Hal Speed, who fell at the battle of Genefor Court House, N. C., while leading the North Carolina patriots in action. She was first cousin to Gen. James Speed, Attorney General in Mr. Lincoln's cabinet, on side of her father, and first cousin of Gen. Speed S. Frey of Danville, Ky. and to the wife of Dr. Graham....In 1831, deceased, with her mother, in the family of Macon Mosby, with other emigrants came from Mercer co., Ky. and settled in Callaway county on Tate's Prairie, Mr. Grant, James Mosby, and James Buchanan and others settling in the same neighborhood....In October, 1842, at the residence of Mason Mosby in Osage county, Mo. deceased was united in marriage to Charles A. Day of Portland, Mo....In about the year of 1852, Mr. Day died and in 1858, deceased was married to Mr. N. S. Clanton, who died 19 years ago....(lengthy tribute) signed: Joseph Mosby, Vienna, Mo.

ARMISTEAD

24 Dec 1891 1/3. Mrs. Josephine Armistead died suddenly at the home of her husband, Joseph Armistead, three miles west of town, Sunday evening...of la grippe. Mrs. Armistead was the daughter of Mrs. Myers of this city and the sister of John Myers of this city, Wm. Myers of the county and Mrs. J. B. Armistead of the county....

31 Dec 1891 4/4. Mrs. Mary Josephine Armistead, wife of Joseph Armistead, was born in Woodford County, Illinois, Dec. 19th, 1836, and died at her home near Mexico Dec. 20th, '91. In 1840 she moved with her parents to Audrain County....In 1858 she was united in marriage to the husband who survives her. Three years after her marriage, she moved to Texas, spending seven years in that state, returning to this state in 1868. she was the mother of five children, four of whom still remain....

DICKMAN

24 Dec 1891 1/6. Much sickness at Worcester. ....Mr. and Mrs. Dickman lost a little child last week, which died from the effects of la grippe.

SCHLEPPY

24 Dec 1891 3/3. P. S. Schleppy, proprietor of the hotel south of the Union Depot, died a few

minutes after 3 o'clock Thursday of consumption.

24 Dec 1891 1/6. Card of Thanks. Mrs. Lizzie Schleppy, whose husband died Dec. 17, and R. B. Schleppy, the only brother of the deceased, wish to publicly express their gratitude....

MORRISON

24 Dec 1891 2/2. Mrs. Wm. Hanly of this city, has just received news of the death of her father, J. B. Morrison, who died in Chicago on the 16th, in his 82d year. He was born in Callaway County, Mo. and left that county in 1832 with his father and located in Galena, Ill. His father established salt works at Cote Sans Dessein in Callaway County in 1808....

ROBINSON

31 Dec 1891 4/5 & 6. Died, at his home near Salt River Church, in Audrain County, on the 24th of Dec. 1891, Dr. Thos. Robinson, born March 15, 1840, was married March 10, 1869, to Miss Laura Reed....

31 Dec 1891 6/2 - ....The remains were interred at Mt. Zion Church in Boone, Saturday.

DAVIS

31 Dec 1891 1/3. Mrs. Savilla Davis died at the home of her son-in-law, F. S. Reilly, at 11:45 yesterday morning. Mrs. Davis was in her 63d year. She came to Missouri from Alabama shortly after the war and has resided in Mexico a number of years....Besides her daughter, Mrs. Reilly, she has two sons in this county, T. P. and O. R. Davis, who reside in the vicinity of Martinsburg.

FULLINGTON

31 Dec 1891 1/5. Died, at his residence on Wade Street Monday morning, John Fullington....He leaves a wife and grown son, Ernest, and daughter, Nora....Wm. Fullington was a native of Missouri, born in Herman, Gasconade County, 54 years ago....the remains were interred in the cemetery in this city with Masonic honors.

SHURTZ

31 Dec 1891 5/1. Bean Creek Budget. A little child of Mr. Shurtz's was buried at the German church last Sunday.

CALLAHAN

31 Dec 1891 6/1. Died, in Benton City, on the 24th, Mrs. Callahan, wife of J. E. Callahan. The remains were interred in this city on Christmas Day, services conducted by Father Dempsey.

FLOYD

CLARK

7 Jan 1892 1/5. Green Floyd, aged 65 years, died at his home near Rush Hill Sunday. He contracted a cold at the funeral of Ben Clark a few days ago which developed into pneumonia resulting in death. Mr. Floyd was one of the pioneers of the county, having lived here fifty years.

CREWS

7 Jan 1892 1/5. Mrs. Crews, the mother of C. B. and Henry Crews, died of pneumonia resulting from the grip, at the home of her son, Henry, near Rush Hill Sunday. She was in her 90th year.

NULL

7 Jan 1892 1/5. J. S. Null, aged 85 years and 11 days, died in Mexico Sunday morning....Deceased was born in East Tennessee, December 25th, 1806, and came to Missouri when 2 years of age, settling with his parents in Lincoln county where he resided until 1885 when he came to Mexico to live with his children. He was the father of ten children, only 6 of whom are now living. They are G. B., Rebecca and Mrs. George Bayliss of this city, Mrs. A. Ellis of California and Mrs. Johanna Bray of Lincoln county.

POTTS

7 Jan 1892 1/6. Mrs. Margaret J. Potts, the venerable mother of Joseph A. Potts, died at her home in this city shortly after noon Monday. Mrs. Potts was a resident of Audrain for nearly half a century....Five children survive her - J. A. Potts and Miss Sallie Potts of this city, Robert and William of the county and Dr. John S. Potts of California. Mrs. Potts was a Miss Spence and was born in Boone county, this state, in 1820. She married John Potts in 1837. Mr. Potts then resided in Callaway but the following year moved to Audrain where he resided until his death in 1864....The funeral took place at the family residence on Promenade street....

SMITH

7 Jan 1892 1/5. Milton Smith, aged 80 years, died at his home six miles east of Mexico last Tuesday....He is the father of John, Joseph and Henry Smith, all of whom own and live on farms near Littleby Station. The remains were interred at Rock Hill church. Mr. Smith came to Audrain from Kentucky about 12 years ago....

TORREYSON

7 Jan 1892 2/3. Mrs. Rebecca Torreyson died at the home of her step-son, T. T. Torreyson, near Laddonia, Dec. 31st. She was 88 years of age. The remains were interred in the cemetery in this city....

WIGGINTON

7 Jan 1892 1/4. From The Wellsville Optic News. Died, in Linneus, Mo., Dec. 21st, 1891, Mrs. Mamie Day Wigginton, aged 24 years and 5 days. Mrs. Wigginton was the only daughter of Capt. A. J. Day and was born in Wellsville. She lived in this city up to the time of her marriage....Mrs. Wigginton was a wife of a few short months, having been married June 3d, 1891, at which time she left

her native city for Linneus, the home of her husband....

CREWS

7 Jan 1892 5/4. Miss Susie Crews, sister of J. B. and Henry Crews, died of grip at the house of the latter Tuesday....

11 Mar 1892 1/5. Died, Jan. 5th, 1892, Miss Sue A. Crews. Born Jan. 29th, 1848 in Boone county, Mo., and came to Audrain county Oct. 25th, 1877....Her remains were interred in the Mexico cemetery by the side of her beloved mother....

FISHER

7 Jan 1892 6/1. John D. Fisher of Sturgeon died Friday night. His wife died the morning of the same day. Victims of grip.

RAILEY

7 Jan 1892 6/2. Mrs. Elizabeth Railey, aged 71 years, died at the residence of B. F. Doan last Saturday at 4 o'clock. The remains were buried in the edge of Monroe county Sunday.

WOLFENBARGER

7 Jan 1892 8/4. Mrs. Rube Wolfenbarger (nee Salling), sister of George Salling, a graduate of Mexico Public Schools, died in Perry last Monday of la grippe. She leaves a husband and a baby 8 days old. Mrs. Wolfenbarger was well known in Mexico.

BARNABY

14 Jan 1892 1/2. The remains of Austin A. Barnaby, who died at Huntsville, were brought to Mexico Saturday and interred at Young's Creek Sunday. Deceased had been teaching school near Huntsville. He was raised on Young's Creek, where his parents still reside.

PATER

14 Jan 1892 6/1. Jack Pater, the first white man to establish a store at "Old Franklin", Howard county, Mo., died Thursday, aged 91 years.

SCHEAFFER

14 Jan 1892 1/5 & 6. Mrs. Scheaffer, mother of Mrs. Mike Gorth, formerly of this city but now of California, died at her home on Wade street Thursday and was buried Sunday. Mrs. Scheaffer was born in Germany on Jan. 7th, 1803 and died Jan. 7th, 1892, and was therefore 89 years old to a day. Dr. Scheaffer, a son, arrived from Chicago to attend the funeral. The old lady lived with her grand-daughter, Miss Caroline Gorth.

HARRIS

14 Jan 1892 3/4. Dr. T. J. Baskett received a note from Fulton Thursday which announced the death in that town of Thomas B. Harris, one of the leading citizens of Callaway county. He was about 75 years of age. The cause of his death was pneumonia resulting from grip....He was an uncle of Mrs. T. J. Baskett of this city.

YOUNG

14 Jan 1892 6/4. Union and Vicinity - Mrs. Young, wife of J. W. Young, died at her home Jan. 9. She was buried Monday at New Hope church cemetery.

CLINE

14 Jan 1892 6/4. Union and Vicinity - Charles Cline, the 14-year-old son of Lewis Cline, died at his home Jan. 5 of diabetes. His remains were interred at the Mexico cemetery.

LANDER

14 Jan 1892 6/2. John R. Luckie received a telegram Saturday which announced the death in Bloomington, Ill. of C. W. Lander, brother of Mrs. Luckie of this city, who is the mother of J. R. and J. W. Luckie. He was in his 94th year. He was a native of Clark co., Ky. and emigrated to Illinois in 1834. Mrs. Luckie of this city is in her 92d year.

21 Jan 1892 2/4. Samuel Lander, aged 93, brother of Mrs. Luckie of this city (mother of J. W. & J. R. Luckie) who died recently in Bloomington, Ill., belongs to a long-lived family. The grandfather, Henry Lander, came from England and lived to be 114 years of age. J. P. Coil, formerly of this city, now of Dennison, Texas, married a daughter of Samuel Lander.

ROBINSON

14 Jan 1892 6/3. Mrs. Maria Robinson died suddenly at the residence of A. Griggs at 1:10 Saturday morning. Mrs. Robinson was in her 83d year....Mrs. Robinson was a native of Winchester, Ky. and came to Missouri in 1830, locating in Boone county. In 1855 she moved to Audrain.... Mrs. Robinson leaves seven children, B. H., John T., R. L., M. H., A. G., H. C. and Mrs. N. Hamerly. Three children are dead, Mrs. Charles Armstrong, Mrs. B. T. Dawson and Edward L....

EUBANKS

14 Jan 1892 7/2. Hon. A. C. Eubanks, formerly of Audrain county, died at Milan, Mo. on the 7th, being suddenly stricken with pneumonia....

BOTKIN

14 Jan 1892 8/2. J. B. Botkin returned Monday from Galena, Ks. where he had been to visit his brother whose illness was announced in this paper. His brother died shortly after he arrived there and was interred at Hutchinson, Ks.

STEWART

21 Jan 1892 1/3. Judge Wm. H. Stewart died at his home, three miles south of Mexico, at 2:30 p.m. Saturday....His daughter, Miss Mary, was taken sick but will survive. Judge William H. Stewart was a native of Kentucky, being born in Montgomery county, that state, Sept. 3rd, 1821. On Sept. 17, 1846, Judge Stewart was married in Kentucky to Miss Julia A. Couchman of Cave Ridge, Bourbon county. In 1853 Judge Stewart came to Missouri and settled in the place where he died....In 1876, Judge Stewart was elected to the County Court Bench....

21 Jan 1892 8/2....The remains were interred in the Mexico cemetery. Richard, of Denison, Texas, and Miss Mollie Stewart, the only surviving children, attended the funeral.

THROCKMORTON

21 Jan 1892 1/4. Mrs. Throckmorton, wife of Uncle Dick Throckmorton, died on the 13th at her home south of town and was buried at Beaver Dam....Mrs. Throckmorton had lived in Audrain 60 years, having been born while her parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Boomer (sic), were on their way to Audrain from Illinois. She was married to Mr. Throckmorton on the 18th of April, 1855, and was the mother of nine children....

COX

21 Jan 1892 1/5 & 6. Calvin, the younger of the Cox brothers, who was taken to the asylum at Fulton about ten days ago, died at the asylum Saturday night. The doctors there pronounced his insanity and death the result of la grippe. Joshua Cox, it will be remembered, became insane and four days later, his brother, Calvin, became afflicted with the same malady.

BARNETT

21 Jan 1892 6/1. Maud, the three-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Will Barnett, died on the 14th and was buried on the 15th at the family burying ground near Powell's Ford.

CHUBBUCK

21 Jan 1892 6/2. J. A. Potts Saturday received a telegram from Levi Chabbuck which stated that the latter's mother died Friday night at Kidder, Mo.

MURRAY

21 Jan 1892 1/3 & 4. Douglass Murray died at his home on Littleby at 3 o'clock Monday afternon. The funeral took place Tuesday at Rock Hill Baptist church. Mr. Murray was a native of Virginia, having been born in Loudon county February 17, 1825. During the year of his birth,

Mr. Murray's parents moved from Virginia to Tennessee and 12 years later came to Missouri, locating in Monroe county. Five years later in 1842, the family moved to Audrain and the subject of this sketch spent the remainder of his life in that portion of the county in which he died. There were eight children in the Murray family and the only survivors are Samuel C. Murray and Mrs. C. Ragsdale of this city....In 1850 Mr. Murray went to California returning in the course of two years....In 1868 he married Miss Anna Logan, daughter of James Logan of Mexico. They had three children, Mrs. Robert Crawford, Miss Lizzie and William A., all of whom are now at the old homestead on Littleby....(Compiler's Note: Douglass Murray is buried at Littleby Baptist cemetery.)

HALE

28 Jan 1892 1/6. S. C. Hale, who died Saturday at his home south of Laddonia, was buried Monday....

KELLEY

28 Jan 1892 2/3. P. T. Kelley, for a number of years city weighmaster, died at 9:15 a.m. Thursday at his home on West Love street....He was in his 55th year. He leaves a large family....

MOORE

HALLADAY

HOLLIDAY

28 Jan 1892 4/3. Two old landmarks died in Montgomery on the 23rd - Mrs. Theodosia Moore, aged 78, mother-in-law of Hon. Pitman Smith, and Beverly Watkins Halladay, aged 94 years.

28 Jan 1892 7/1. Beverly Holliday died in Wellsville Friday.

WATSON

28 Jan 1892 4/3. Miss Mattie, aged 18 years, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. B. A. Watson, of Columbia, died Friday evening, January 22, 1892.

HEISKELL

28 Jan 1892 2/3. Rev. C. J. Heiskell, well known in this vicinity, died suddenly of pneumonia at Chrisney, Indiana, last Thursday. About two years ago he married Mary, the oldest daughter of Isaac Miller, of north Audrain.

11 Feb 1892 3/3. Died...Jan. 21, 1892, the Rev.

C. J. Heiskell....Mr. Heiskell was, at different times, pastor of the Presbyterian church at Brunswick and at Benton City and Bethel, in this county....The remains were taken to his old home and interred in the cemetery at Memphis, Tennessee.

MARTIN

28 Jan 1892 1/1 & 2. A most deplorable tragedy, the killing of Thomas Martin by his son, Jethro, occurred at Martinsburg Tuesday evening....Mr. Martin, who lived in Martinsburg, was a Baptist preacher and was an inoffensive old man....Sheriff Adams, Coroner Rothwell, and Prosecuting Attorney Jesse...began investigating the affair. Only two witnesses were examined, Mrs. Martin, wife of the dead man, and S. S. Martin, a son. Mrs. Emma Martin, wife of deceased, testified: Mr. Martin and I have been married two years. He was 64 years old last August. He had four children by his first wife, two of whom, Simon Martin and Emma Wilburn, live in the county....Deputy Sheriff Will Adams was in Martinsburg at the time of the murder and at once took steps to catch the murderer... Shelt Riley came up from Martinsburg late Wednesday and it is his opinion that the murderer has been located at High Hill....

4 Feb 1892 1/1....The remains of the murdered man were interred at West Cuivre church....

KENNAN

28 Jan 1892 4/5. Mrs. Kennan, mother of Mr. E. C. Kennan of Laddonia, was buried at New Harmony, Pike county, Friday.

RODGERS

28 Jan 1892 6/1. Miss Rodgers, who died near Santa Fe on the 20th of pneumonia, aged about seventeen years, was buried in the cemetery in this city on the 21st. Funeral services were held at the Catholic church.

JONES

28 Jan 1892 7/1. John Jones, who died in Boone county on the 18th and was interred at Red Top, was the father of Mrs. Geo. Naylor, of Audrain.

MURRAY

BERRY

LAKENAN

28 Jan 1892 3/1 - The recent death of Douglass Murray has served to recall the death of his brother, John E. Murray, while attempting to cross the Mississippi river in 1863. Many of our citizens will remember the unhappy event in which two of the ­­best citizens of Audrain, together with

young Cale Berry of Callaway lost their lives. Joseph Lakenan, father of Joseph _ ? _ Lakenan, of the firm of Lakenan and Barnes of this city.... John E. Murray, Caleb Berry of Callaway, a cousin of Caleb Berry of Audrain....Samuel C. Murray, who is now a resident of Mexico, thus details...the particulars of the tragedy: "A party of us," said Mr. Murray, "was over in Pike county, Illinois, recruiting for Price's army in 1863....Our party was composed of my brother, John E. Murray, and Joseph Lakenan of Audrain, Caleb Berry of Callaway, Dr. Angel of Boone and myself....When we arrived at Cincinnati Landing, nine miles below Hannibal on the Illinois side, about the middle of July '63, we found a couple of men with a skiff...subsequently proved to be Federal soldiers

.. ..brother John, Lakenan and Berry were on their horses starting to swim the river....The current was very swift and the crossing hazardous....All three of the men were heavily armed and it was impossible for them to swim....Dr. Angel remained on the island and escaped capture.

MAGEE

28 Jan 1892 6/2. Nellie Margaret, the infant daughter of Elder Samuel Magee, died at...Hale City, Mo., on the 21st., aged 1 year, 2 months and 8 days....

GALBREATH

28 Jan 1892 6/2. Uncle Daniel Galbreath died at Worcester Thursday night....He made his home with two daughters who conduct a store at Worcester.

11 Feb 1892 8/4. Card of Thanks. Worcester, Mo., Feb. 9. We wish space in your paper to express our sincere thanks to all the kind neighbors and friends for their assistance in the brief illness and death of our father. (signed) Maggie B. Galbreath. Carrie Galbreath.

CRUMLEY

28 Jan 1892 8/1. Dr. Crumley, who married Miss Linda Ferrill at Fulton during the fall of '90, died at his home, Chattanooga, Tennessee Tuesday.

GARRET

28 Jan 1892 8/1. Died, at his home south of Middle Grove, Tuesday, of heart disease, J. T. Garret, aged 42 years.

WATKINS

28 Jan 1892 8/1. Mrs. A. K. Yancy received a telegram last Tuesday announcing the death of her oldest brother, Mr. Claiborne Watkins, Sr. of Richmond, Va.

POWELL

28 Jan 1892 8/5. Doc Powell, aged 63 years, died Sunday at his home near Santa Fe and was interred ...at Rising Sun church, north of town....Doc Powell was a brother of Jeff Powell..

COOPER

4 Feb 1892 1/4. County Court. The account of Dr. C. A. Rothwell, coroner, $19.25 for inquest over the body of Elijah Cooper, colored, was allowed.

HOUSE

REDDING

11 Feb 1892 4/6. From The Callaway Gazette. A somewhat strange coincidence happened west of town last night. On Tuesday, January 25, a child of Mr. and Mrs. Omar House died. The family started a son of Oscar House's to near Vandalia to communicate the sad news to the family of Mrs. House's sister, Mrs. Redding. While on the road he met a messenger from the latter household, who was conveying the news of Mrs. Redding's death--both deaths occurring at the same hour....

MOORE

4 Feb 1892 5/6 - Our Neighbors. Scott Moore, aged 27, accidentally shot and killed himself near St. Aubert, Callaway county, Monday.

HENDRICKS

4 Feb 1892 4/6. Items from South Ralls. Mrs. Edna Hendricks, aged 80 years, and her daughter, Mrs. Mary Hendricks, aged 49 years, both died the same week from pneumonia. The mother the 18th and the daughter the 15th of January.

WOLFF

WOLF

4 Feb 1892 2/2. Paris Mercury. The oldest person, perhaps, in the state, died at Tulip, this county, last Friday, at the residence of H. Lepper, of la grippe. "Aunt" Vina Wolff, colored, aged 122 years, passed away on that day. She was born in South Carolina in the year 1770. Her first master's name was James Branham and lived near Augusta. He was a soldier in the Revolutionary War....About the year 1784 she was sold and taken to Alabama, near Mobile, where she married in 1788....In 1840, Henry Wolff, a mule trader from this county, bought her, with others, in New Orleans and brought her to this county, where she has since lived with the Wolff family. When she left Alabama in 1840 her mother was still living at the age of 97 years....She was buried near Middle Grove.

4 Feb 1892 6/1. Nina Wolf, a colored woman, said to be 125 years old, recently died in Saling township. She distinctly remembered events of 100 years ago.

HENDERSON

4 Feb 1892 5/6. Our Neighbors. The remains of James S. Henderson, aged 22 years, who died of pneumonia near Hatton Sunday were buried at Concord Wednesday.

BLEUM

4 Feb 1892 6/1. George A. Bleum, the piano tuner, who has several times visited Mexico, died in Hannibal on the 27th, of diabetes, aged 65 years.

CREED

11 Feb 1892 6/1. Mrs. E. Creed, aged 40 years, died at Hatton on the 4th.11 Feb 1892 7/4.

Hatton Siftings. Mrs. Ellen Creed, wife of E. S. Creed, died February 4th, of pneumonia. She was a daughter of Judge Hugh Tincher. She leaves six children....

POWELL

4 Feb 1892 6/4. Mrs. Powell, wife of Uncle Billy Powell, who for many years lived at the home of her late son, Doc Powell, in Monroe county, died on the 28th. The remains were interred at Rising Sun church.

McCLINTIC

4 Feb 1892 6/4. Moses McClintic, an old and respected citizen of Callaway, died at Hatton, Tuesday. He was a native of Callaway....

4 Feb 1892 8/3. Moses McClintic was born near Lewisburg, Greenbrier county, West Va., Oct. 12, 1822, moved with his father, Archibald McClintic, to Missouri and settled in Callaway county in 1830; became a member of the Methodist church in 1832; he was twice married, first to Sarah Price in 1847; to them one child was born, a son; he lost both his wife and child in 1842. His second marriage was to Mary Black, Jan. 26, 1854; to them five children were born, who with the mother still survive--Mrs. C. H. Patterson, Mrs. Milton Patterson, J. O. McClintic, Miss Annie McClintic and Mrs. Charles H. Fry. He died on Jan. 26th, 1892, on his 38th wedding day....Saline and Monroe papers, please copy.

BRONSON

4 Feb 1892 7/1. Our Neighbors. Says the Vandalia Graphic: Mrs. Bronson, aged 70 years, died of pneumonia at her home, south of town, Wednesday, Jan. 28. Her remains were sent to Richmond, Vermont for burial.

BARR

4 Feb 1892 7/1. Mayor A. F. Barr, of Monroe City, died last Tuesday, Jan. 26, of pneumonia....He was 74 years old.

WADE

4 Feb 1892 8/3. C. P. Wade died at his home in the northwestern part of the city at 2:05 p.m. Tuesday....Mr. Wade has been a resident of Mexico for many years, being originally from Kentucky. His wife preceded him to the grave 6 years. He leaves eight children--Mrs. J. E. Moore, Mrs. J. H. Bickley, Mrs. Robert Cauthorn, Misses Sallie and Carrie Wade, and Edward, Jesse and Charles Wade. Deceased was born in Montgomery county, Ky., in 1820 and moved to Missouri and located in Mexico in 1853. He married Miss Cordelia P. Hopewood of his own county and state shortly before moving to Missouri....

PEARSON

4 Feb 1892 8/4. Edgar Pearson died at the home of his grandmother, Mrs. Whaley, on East Liberty street, at 3 o'clock Wednesday. The deceased was in his 20th year....His mother died of consumption

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HOWLETT

11 Feb 1892 1/1 & 2. The community was shocked yesterday to learn that Miss Alice Howlett, a Hardin College pupil, had committed suicide.... (lengthy account)

BUCKNER

11 Feb 1892 1/3. The death of Mrs. Alice Adams Buckner, wife of Charles A. Buckner....Mrs. Buckner's life as girl and woman have virtually been spent in Mexico....

BOTTS

11 Feb 1892 5/2. The Hannibal Journal Feb. 10th, contains the following concerning the death of J. E. Botts, who, for a number of of years, was in the dry goods business in this city. At five minutes to 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon, J. E. Botts....Deceased was born and raised here....

BROWN

11 Feb 1892 8/1. Mrs. Ham Brown died at her home near Concord, aged about 80 years.

BAKER

11 Feb 1892 6/4. William O. Baker, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Baker, died in Leavenworth, Ks., Feb. 12, of tonsilitis. The remains were brought to this city for interment. Deceased was the second son of Mr. and Mrs. Baker, 12 years old....

LOVE

11 Feb 1892 7/3. This tribute of respect and love is in memory of Mrs. James Love, wife of Prof. James Love, now of Liberty, Mo., who so recently passed to the life beyond. Mrs. Love was a native of Massachusetts and her maiden name was Miss Lucy Ward....She came to Missouri in 1842, locating at Concord, Callaway county and engaged in teaching....On the 5th of November, 1846, Prof. James Love and Miss Lucy Ward were joined in marriage....A short time after their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Love moved from Fulton to Mexico, Mo., and engaged in teaching...for many years....

FAGAN

11 Feb 1892 7/4. Our Neighbors. Uncle Harry Fagan died at Perry, Feb. 6th. His wife and two wards also died in the last six weeks.

DUNCAN

25 Feb 1892 5/1. Dr. Wm. H. Duncan, who died in Boone county recently at a ripe old age, was the uncle of E. T. Smith, of this city.

DYE

25 Feb 1892 8/1. James Hollopeter received word that Mrs. Margaret Dye, of Brighton, Iowa, was dead. Deceased was the mother of Mrs. Hollopeter.

BENTLY

25 Feb 1892 8/1. Robert W. Bently dropped dead Monday at the Stark nursery grounds near Louisiana. He was 60 years old and leaves four children. He went to Louisiana five years ago from Montgomery City, Mo.

STONE

JUDY

BERRY

25 Feb 1892 8/2. Capt. J. W. Judy received a telegram Tuesday announcing the death that morning of his niece, Mrs. Robert Stone, at Kansas City... The remains will be taken to Carlyle, Kentucky.

3 Mar 1892 5/2 & 3. The death of Mrs. Robert L. Stone was especially sad.. She left six little children, five girls and one boy. The eldest is a girl of twelve years, and the youngest is also a girl, only two weeks old....Mrs. Stone was a daughter of Milford Berry of Moorefield, Ky., and was born October 1860. Eighteen years later during the month of her birth she married Robert L. Stone. In 1884 they came to Missouri and spent four years on the farm near Worcester. In the fall of 1888 they moved to Kansas City....

McGEE

25 Feb 1892 8/6. Paris, Mo., Feb. 22. James L. McGee died in this county Friday, aged 93 years, 6 months and 19 days. Mr. McGee moved here from Kansas in 1826. He was the father of seventeen children, eleven of whom survive him.

GIBBS

3 Mar 1892 1/3. Miss Annie Gibbs, daughter of R. C. Gibbs, died Feb. 29, 1892. She was born Oct. 20, 1867, near Mexico, Audrain county, Mo., where she lived during her early childhood. In the fall of 1881 she, with her parents, moved to Benton county, Ark....the summer of 1891, when with her father she returned to Mexico, Mo....the body was laid to rest in the Mexico cemetery. The departed loved one leaves a father and three brothers to mourn her loss....

STOCKTON

3 Mar 1892 1/4. Richard T. Stockton died at his home in south Mexico Saturday evening....Mr. Stockton, who was 75 years old, was born in Flemingsburg, Ky., where he grew to manhood....In 1856 he moved with his family to Bloomington, Ill., and in 1868, he emigrated to Boone county, this state. In 1881, he became a resident of Audrain county. He leaves a wife, daughter, Mrs. Thomas Helm and four sons, A. C. and F. W. of St. Louis, Fayette, of Memphis and F. P. of Mexico....

ROBINSON

3 Mar 1892 5/4. On the night of Feb. 21st, 1892, the angel of death again visited the sorrowing family and again claimed for its own "the household pet". Reed was the youngest son of the late Dr. T. B. Robinson, was six years, five months and nine days old....a large crowd gathered at Mt. Zion church and...he was laid to rest by the side of his father to await resurrection morn.

WILLINGHAM

3 Mar 1892 6/1. The infant child of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Willingham died Saturday morning of la grippe....

SANFORD

3 Mar 1892 8/2. The two year old son of John Sanford died Tuesday of penumonia. The remains will be interred today (Thursday) at New Hope church.

McCLURE

3 Mar 1892 8/1. James A. McClure, aged 90, and for 40 years a Justice of the Peace, died in Louisiana Sunday.

AZDELL

3 Mar 1892 8/4. Died, on Saturday, Feb. 26th, 1892, George Elbie, infant son of J. M. Azdell and wife....sixteen months old....Funeral services preached at Littleby Baptist church...body was interred in the cemetery near the church....

TURNER

10 Mar 1892 1/2. Mrs. Turner, wife of Samuel Turner, died Sunday morning at her home in the southern part of town....She was 52 years of age ....

CREWS

10 Mar 1892 1/5. Died on January 3, 1892, of la grippe, Mrs. America P. Crews....Mrs. Crews was born April 24, 1807. She was the daughter of Dr. Larkin Bohannon of Madison county, Ky., and came to Missouri in her 9th year with her father who settled near Columbia, Boone county. In her 19th year was married to Mr. Robert Crews. Nine children blessed this union; six survive....Mr. Crews died in 1850 while on his way to California.

JESSE

10 Mar 1892 1/2. Mrs. Mary Ann Jesse died Sunday at 12:20 o'clock at the home of her son, W. J. Jesse, three miles northwest of Mexico. Had she lived till May, she would have been 90 years of age. She was the wife of Eld. W. M. Jesse....Her husband preceded her to the grave 35 years. Mrs. Jesse came to Missouri from Cumberland county, Va., where she was born in 1833, locating near Stephens Store in Callaway county. The year following she came to Audrain county. Nine children, six sons and three daughters, survive her. They are W. J., Royal and Samuel, who live in Audrain; James, David and Columbus, residents of Benton county, Ark.; Mrs. Sallie Bradley and Caroline Day of Audrain, and Mrs. Mary Oslin of Iowa. The remains were interred at the Jesse burying ground, west of town, at two o'clock Monday afternoon.

MOORE

10 Mar 1892 2/4. The Troy Free Press, referring to the death of J. C. Moore, father of Hiram N. Moore of this city, who died Feb. 28, says: Deceased was born in Lincoln county, Tenn. in 1833, coming to Missouri with his parents when an infant. Was married to Miss Mary E. Ripley, of St. Louis in 1855, who, with five children, Misses Lizzie, Hattie and Nettie, and Messrs. Shepard W. of West Virginia and Hiram N. of Mexico, Mo., survive....

STEIGER

10 Mar 1892 8/1. Mrs. Steiger, daughter of T. B. Harris of this city, died in Moberly Monday and was buried Tuesday.

FULLENWIDER

10 Mar 1892 8/1. Mrs. David Fullenwider of Waveland, Indiana, died at her home Monday, Feb. 29. Deceased was a sister of Mrs. Joel Guthrie.

FOLLY

10 Mar 1892 8/2. The funeral of John Folly, aged 64 years, who died suddenly of pneumonia on north Wade street Sunday evening....

SULLIVAN

10 Mar 1892 8/2. The remains of A. J. Sullivan, who died Monday, were interred Wednesday. Funeral services were held at St. Brendan's church....

10 Mar 1892 8/3 - Andy Sullivan died Monday afternoon at his home on West Liberty street....He was section boss on the C. & A. and proprietor of the Sullivan House....

MASON

10 Mar 1892 5/6. Enoch Mason, brother of W. J. and J. W. Mason, of this city, died at his home six miles north of town Tuesday, of apoplexy.... Deceased, who was a son of Eld. Wm. Mason, deceased, was born in Bourbon county, Ky., September 8, 1840, and came to Missouri in 1858. He leaves a wife and two children, Alicia and William, aged 12 and 14. Deceased also leaves two sisters, Mrs. James O'Bannon and Mrs. Arnold, of Ky.

JUDY

17 Mar 1892 1/3. A telegram was received Sunday announcing the death of Mrs. David Judy in Millersburg, Ky. She was a sister-in-law of J. A. Judy, aunt of J. C. Ringo and granddaughter of Mrs. Wm. Conway, all of this city. The remains were interred at Millersburg Monday.

SMITH

17 Mar 1892 1/8. Miss Smith, daughter of Renfro Smith in the northern part of the county, died Saturday and the remains were interred Sunday.

BYBEE

17 Mar 1892 3/2. Harry Bybee, son of Major Mart Bybee, died at the residence of Robert Armstrong, 6 miles north of Mexico, Thursday at 10 o'clock. Mr. bybee was 24 years old....The remains were interred Saturday at Salt River church....

25 Mar 1892 3/2. John Henry Bybee (Harve), son of John S. and Eliza Bybee, died on Thursday morning, March 10th, 1892, of typhoid fever, at the home of his brother-in-law, R. J. Armstrong, seven miles northeast of Mexico. Deceased was 23 years, 5 months and 27 days old, having been born in Audrain county, Missouri, September 12th, 1868.... expressed a desire to be first taken to his father's home near Thompson, then to be buried by the side of his sister, Maud, at Salt River church ....His family are heartbroken over his death, having lost two other members with the same disease Nov. 20th last....

GOOCH

17 Mar 1892 3/4. The Centralia Guard has received a letter from Versailles, Ky., which states that John Gooch, formerly of that place, committed suicide by shooting himself three times with a revolver....John Gooch was a bright youth, just budding into manhood. He worked for W. H. Gooch, his uncle, in Centralia for about four months.... He was also a nephew of Mrs. P. J. Barron.

TOMLINSON

17 Mar 1892 7/2. News was received here last Saturday that Dave Tomlinson had died at the asylum at Fulton that morning....He leaves a wife, whose maiden name was Floyd, and several small children.

POWELL

17 Mar 1892 7/3. Macon, Mo., Mar. 9 - Wm. Powell, a well-known farmer of this county, died today, twenty-three hours after having received a fright. ....some robbers came to the front and back doors, saying they wanted his money and would have it. Mr. Powell, who had not walked for a long time, jumped out of bed...while his plucky daughter fired a revolver twice, scaring the thieves away and calling the attention of two sons not far distant....He was 78 years old and one of the landmarks of Macon count