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THE ATCHISON COUNTY MAIL, Rock Port, Mo, July 15, 1880 Watson - jottings - A.L. Steirs former school teacher of this place, visiting from Bellville, Kansas. Jacob Sanders moving to Colorado... G.G. Beck visiting old home in Michigan.... Dr L.S. Munsell's wife and children visiting relatives and friends in Caldwell County [Missouri].... Zach Dozier, will run boarding house for railway workers at Tarkio Valley.... John Laney and family visiting relatives and friends at Warrensburg [Missouri].... Mary Holland (Miss), visiting grandmother, Mrs Sutherland, in St Joseph [Missouri].... It is thought that a depot on the Tarkio Valley Rail-road will be located on the land recently purchased by David Rankin near Fanning's bridge, and that the town will grow up there. Eighty acre tract of Charley Fanning farm sold to David Rankin...$37.50 per acre.... Miss Leola Mann to Rochester, New York to school.... Frankie, little son of Mr and Mrs Lafe Johnson of Benton twp, died.... Mrs Dozier, the step mother of Z.T. Dozier and Mrs John Wright of this city, died at the residence of the latter on Tuesday morning. Her remains were sent to Forest City and will be taken from there to White Cloud, Kansas for interment. Babe of Mr and Mrs Corby Kern, died.... Babe of Mr and Mrs Abe Foutch died.... Obituary - William Spears was born in Mason county, Pennsylvania, March 18th, 1791, and died at Rock Port, Mo., July 7, 1880, aged eighty-nine years, three months and twenty days. When only ten months of age his parents moved to Hamilton county, Ohio, where he was married on July 14th, 1811. He moved to Cincinnati in 1812 when that now flourishing city of several hundred thousand inhabitants was only a collection of a few log huts. He remained there two years and then removed to Rush county, Indiana where he served on the first jury ever empaneled in that county. By his first wife he had five children three of whom are now living. His wife having died he was married again in 1830, his second wife being the mother of the late Judge James M. Templeton and Mrs E.D. Scammon. by his last wife he had five children, only one of whom, O.G. Sparks of this city, is now living. His last wife died, in December last since which time his health has not been so good as formerly. Deceased was a member of the Christian (Newlight) church and was a consistent christian. He was also a member of North Star Lodge A.F. & A. Masons, situated at this place and was buried with the solemn and impressive ceremonies of that order. Having moved to this county in 1843 and to this city about ten years later he was closely identified with the prosperity of the county as well as the upbuilding ot the town, and many were the reminiscences, with which he was wont to entertain his friends, not only of the early history of our county and town but of the portions of Ohio and Indiana in which he resided. He was purely a Western man. Having lived on the frontier during the greater portion of his long and eventful life he had formed a taste for the life of a pioneer that never forsook him, and even within the last year he has indulged his passion for hunting, fishing, trapping and other sports congenial to the frontiersman. He was for a number of years a Justice of the Peace, his decisions always being characterized by the greatest fairness and judgment. Indeed his life was characterized by many noble deeds and his death has caused a sadness among all of those who knew him so long and well and respected him so highly. His remains were interred in Green Hill Cemetery on last Thursday, being followed to their last resting place by a large concourse of sorrowing friends and relatives. ~~~~~~ Watson Jottings - This vicinity is being visited again with Diphtheria. A number of cases have already proved fatal, and others are not expected to live. Mrs Taylor, who a few months since lost her husband, has had three of her little children taken away within the past week. A little child of a Mr Hughes, living at Sonora, died last Saturday and was buried Sunday. The disease in its present form seems to baffle the skill of our most eminent physicians. Why it is thus is yet unsolved but we can say that it is by no means a lack of the proper diligence upon the part of the attending physicians. Hon. A.S. Campbell and fmily went to Manstau Springs, Colorado for Mr Campbell's health....hopefully he is getting better.... Watson Jottings - Quite a number of our citizens celebrated the 5th at Nebraska City [Nebraska] last Monday. Among the number were W. H. Dean, Wm. Hall, Mrs K.K. Dyche, Mrs N.N. Green, Miss Lola Martin, Elijah Goodwin and family, and ye correspondent. Don Cameron. Ad - Charles Neidhart the proprietor of the Brownville Marble Works can furnish Amercian and Italian Marble, Monuments, Tombstones... Court - John Buckmiller,deceased, George Bishof, administrator; Charles Fanning, deceased, Isaac Frampton, admin; Mamie and Ferdinand Giannini, M. Giannini, guardian; Mary P. Hawkins, George P. Hawkins, guardian; Malissa T. Baker, Charles Baker, guardian; W. Harvey Hall, William M. Lindsley, guardian; Cynthia Lindsley, William M. Lindsley, guardian; Zerilda York, deceased, Charles York, admin; John W. Bushong, deceased, Sylvester Hall, admin; Emma Norris, A.B. Cox, guardian; Irwin Mears, deceased, Margaret Mears and John Neal, admin; N.Y. Woolsey heirs, M. McKillop curator; Harry & Alfred Lyford, J Holliway, curator; Elizabeth Shelly, Thomas Gooch, guardian; Charles Powers, deceased, Mary Powers, admin; Mrs Lovina Massock, Lena Bertram, guaridan; Jas and Columbia? Oslin, Martin Oslin, guardian. THE ATCHISON COUNTY MAIL, July 22, 1880 Miss Amy Richards, of Peru, Neb is visiting the family of her Uncle, Harry Baker of this city. Center Point will have her first circus next week, and is justly proud in consequence. Clover Sickler, who has been living in the Black Hills for the last five or six years, is visiting friends and relatives here now. Joe Millsaps, of the Missouri bottom north of Phelps, lost a child by flux on last Saturday. It was buried on Sunday at the cemetery near Union City. Linden correspondence - Mr Peter Muntz, who moved to Kansas over a year ago has returned to Linden and is building himself a dwelling and a blacksmith shop. He says Kansas is a good place to keep powder dry.... Dr Nestor has moved his family into town. He occupies the house that Chas Tate lived in. Mr Tate has moved to Nebraska. Wedding in the Woods. On Thursday of last week the 15th inst., a quiet wedding took place at the "Forest Home" of Wm Kern in the northeastern part of the county. The contracting parties were J.P. McElroy J.P., (familiarly known as "Sport's Cousin") and Miss Lizzie Kern. Rev M.A. Gault tied the knot. Old Sport now has another cousin by the laws of collateral consanguinity. It is to be hoped that Tosso et al of literary fame will bury the hatchet and come with us in extending congratulations to the happy young couple.... THE ATCHISON COUNTY MAIL July 29, 1880 Clover and Jeff Sickler left on last Thursday for Twin Lakes, Colorado. Watson Items - Mrs Wm Blades of this place died strangely sudden on Sunday evening inst. Her daughter, Mr Dr Harris has been in a critical condition since the death of her mother....A child of Alva Brainard's died on Sunday....A bright and lovely little daughter of Mrs Carter's died very unexpectedly a few days ago.... DIED. In Rock Port, Mo., July 26, 1880, Mrs Martha Bradley, aged 70 years, 3 months and 27 days. Mrs Bradley, who was the mother of Alpheus and Peter Hill and Mrs Wm P. Beck , of this county, was born in Prince Edward county, Virginia, March 29th, 1810, and was at the time of her death aged 70 years, 3 months and 27 days. She was married to Jim Hill December 17, 1832, and moved to this county in 1847 and has resided here ever since. Upon the death of her husband she was again married to Wm H. Bradley, by whom only one child, Wm Bradley of Council Bluffs, is living. She became a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian church soon after she came to this country and has always lived the life of a consistent christian. Having lived in this county ever since it was a broad expanse of wild prairie, she has seen it grown into one of the wealthiest and best settled portions of the State, and has drawn around her many friends who join with the sorrowing relatives in mourning her death, for although she had passed the allotted four score and ten and had by a long life of righteousness fully prepared for the journey to the realms of eternal life, her death causes a gloom to settle over those who knew and loved her that will only break away in the contemplation of the thought that she has joined the angel hosts which render eternal praise to God in the Highest. DIED. On Saturday, July 17th, 1880, after a brief illness at their home in WaKeeney, Kansas, Frank M., the youngest son of Mr and Mrs Stephen J. Osborn. The dull pile of magnificent ruins which stands opposite Scott City and which used to style itself the "Athens of the West" and whose glory departed when steamboats ceased to carry Mormon converts Zionward, gave a spasmodic kick last week upon the arrival of a new ferry boat, which will be used exclusively for the accommodation of Kansas emigrants....Brownville had a celebration.... Political discussion at Manitoba Lake Park, two miles north of Corning, Mo....gives program for the discussions.... Blanchard, Ia items. C.C. Chambers has been working in Thayer, Kansas this summer.... Court. Adolph Bertram collecting debt from Abner S. Wolf a non-resident of Atchison county.... Court. Williams divorce, Cindrilla vs William. |