| Obit For | William E. Poor |
|---|---|
| Headline | Wm. E. Poor Dead - An Old and Highly Respected Citizen of Near Wheaton Died Saturday. |
| Text | Again and again it becomes our duty to write of the death of another good citizen of Barry County in the person of Wm. E. Poor at the home of his son William at Fairview, early Saturday morning, May 4, at the age of about 76 years; his remains were interred Sunday at Muncey Chapel near Wheaton, amid a large number of old friends. He was born in Kentucky and came to Southwest Mo., in 1866, and stopped awhile in Newton County, and in 1869, he came to Barry County and located at Muncey Chapel near Wheaton; Mrs. Poor died last year; she was a sister of Judge and Allen Gardner of Wheaton. He was a zealous member of the M. E. Church, South. (*Note: Incorrect: Allen B. Gardner was her nephew - son of John Milton Gardner, Cynthia Gardner Poor's brother.*) He leaves the following sons and daughters to mourn his death; Wm., of Fairview, Milton of near Wheaton, Mrs. Sofrona Frank of Oklahoma, Mrs. Ellen Johnson and Mrs. Ada Steele of Texas; also several grandchildren. He was a man of generous impulses and never forgot the hospitable ways of the pioneer. The stranger, even though a beggar, never failed to find food and shelter if he sought it at his hands, and he was at home by the bedside of the sick and delighted in all kinds of neighborly offices. He had filled the various relations of his life, as son, husband, father, brother and friend and filled them well. Who could do more? Suffice it to say, he lived nobly and died peacefully at an advanced age; the stern reaper found him, "as a shock of corn, fully ripe for the harvest." |
| Newspaper or Funeral Home | Cassville Democrat |
| Date | Sat. May 11, 1912 |
| Death Cert Link | - |
| Resource | - |
| Submitted by | Kande Charsha |
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