[ANDREWS, DONALD EDWARD]
Daily Democrat-Forum (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, October 13, 1910, [p. 1]
Death of a Little Child
Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Andrews, living three miles southwest of Maryville, were bereaved of their four-weeks-old son, Donald Edward, Wednesday afternoon. The funeral services were held at the family home Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock by the Rev. W. J. Parvin of the M. E. Church South. Burial in Oak Hill cemetery.

[ANDREWS, JOSEPH JESSE "JOE"]
Maryville Daily Forum (Maryville, Missouri), Monday, February 12, 1945, p. 5
Hopkins
Funeral services were held Monday afternoon at the Christian church for Joe Andrews, 72, who passed away at his home Friday night, following a long illness due to heart trouble. A mixed quartet composed of Mrs. Wren Peve, Mrs. Bertha Jeffers, Robert Gill and Charles Turner, with Mrs. P. H. Peterson pianist, furnished the music. Pallbearers were O. L. Mutti, Beryl Calkins, Olin Pistole Ora Friend and Galen Ulmer and Galen Turner. Flowers were in charge of Mrs. E. L. Mayfield, Mrs. William Weir and Miss Darlene Killam. Burial was in the Hopkins cemetery.

He is survived by his wife, Anna B. Andrews; one son, George Ellis Andrews, Brady, Tex., and one daughter, Helen Belle Cox, of El Segundo, Calif.; seven grandchildren and three brothers, Allen E. Andrews, Coin, Ia.; S. E. Andrews, Long Beach, Calif., and Frank R. Andrews, Hopkins.

[ANDREWS, JOSEPH JESSE "JOE"]
Maryville Daily Forum (Maryville, Missouri), Monday, February 12, 1945, p. 5
Hopkins
Lt. and Mrs. Ellis Andrews and children, Delores, Norman, Jimmie and Elaine returned to their home at Brady, Tex., after attending [the] funeral for his father, Joe Andrews.

[ARGO, ELVIRA HORTENSE]
Daily Democrat-Forum and Maryville Tribune (Maryville, Missouri), Saturday, August 18, 1923, [p. 1]
Alvira Argo Dies After Short Illness
Alvira [Elvira Argo, 16-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Argo, four and a half miles west of Skidmore, died at her home at 2 o'clock this morning of summer influenza. Miss Argo played at the church near her home at the services last Sunday. She did not become ill until late Monday. She is survived by her father and mother, four brothers, Virgil, Ivan, James, all at home and Merlin, who is on a vacation trip in South Dakota and three sisters, Alta, Della, and Myrtle, all at home. No funeral arrangements will be made until Merlin is heard from.

[ARGO, ELVIRA HORTENSE]
Daily Democrat-Forum and Maryville Tribune (Maryville, Missouri), Monday, August 20, 1923, [p. 1]
Alvira Argo Funeral Held This Morning Funeral services for Miss Alvira Argo, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Argo, living four and a half miles west of Skidmore, who died Saturday morning of summer influenza, were held at 11 o'clock this morning at the Burr Oak church. The pastor, the Rev. G. D. MacDougal, officiated, and burial was made in the church cemetery. Merlin Argo, a brother, who was spending his vacation in South Dakota returned home for the funeral.

[ARGO, ELVIRA HORTENSE]
Skidmore News (Skidmore, Missouri), Thursday, August 23, 1923, [ p. 1]
Elvira Hortense Argo, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Argo, was born December 13, 1907 and passed away at the family home August 18, 1923, at the age 15 years, 8 months and 5 days.
She was converted and became a member of the M. E. Church at Burr Oak about four years ago. Since that time she has been an active member taking part in all church activities.
She had a very loving and affectionate disposition. All things she considered worth doing, she did well.
She leaves to mourn her loss, her mother and father, three sisters, Alta, Della and Myrtle; four brothers, Virgil, Ivan, Merlin and James, all of whom are at home.
Also grandparents, J. T. Hays, of Maryville, and Mr. and Mrs. T. B. Argo of Skidmore; her uncles, Milton R. and Pearl C. Hays, and Clarence Argo of Skidmore, Ed C. Hays of Mullen, Nebr., and James Argo of Quitman; her aunts, Mrs. M. R. and Mrs. Pearl C. Hays of Skidmore, Mrs. Z. R. Alexander of Elmo, Mo., Mrs. Elvira Dawson and Mrs. B. F. Jones of Maryville, Mrs. Lucy Wright of Shenandoah, Iowa, Mrs. Anna Willets of Mound City, Kans., and Mrs. Goodlow Carter of Horace, Kans., and many cousins and friends.
Funeral services were held at the Burr Oak church Monday morning with the pastor Rev. D. G. MacDougal in charge. Interment was in the Burr Oak cemetery."

[BELCHER, MELVINA ADELINE]
Daily Democrat-Forum and Maryville Tribune (Maryville, Missouri), Wednesday, August 8, 1923, [p. 1]
Belcher Services to Be Tomorrow at Residence
Mrs. Ervin Belcher, 75-year-old resident of Maryville died yesterday evening at 8:30 at her home on East First street, death being due to dropsy and heart trouble. Funeral services will be held at 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon at the residence conducted by Dr. C. C. James. Burial will be in the Oak Hill cemetery, east of Maryville. She is survived by six sons, Virgil, Luther, Rastus, Jimmie, Ed, and John, all of Maryville, and one daughter, Mrs. C. M. Workman of Adrain, Mo.

[BELCHER, MELVINA ADELINE]
Daily Democrat-Forum and Maryville Tribune (Maryville, Missouri), Saturday, August 11, 1923, p. 3
Obituary – Melvina A. [deline] Belcher was born August 9, 1849, in Virginia and died August 7, 1923. In 1868 she was united in marriage to Rufus K. [endrick] Belcher, who died nine years ago. To this union ten children were born. One son, Samuel, and two daughters, Mrs. Jennie Lynch and Mrs. Viola Belcher, preceded her in death. Those surviving are E. R. Belcher, with whom she made her home; James F., Edward A., John T., Luther G., and Virgil K. [endrick] Belcher, all of Maryville, and one daughter, Mrs. Rosa Workman of Adrian, Mo. The latter was unable to attend her mother's funeral. Eleven grandchildren and three great grandchildren also survive. She united with the Methodist Church when quite young and asked all the children to meet her. The pallbearers were her six sons. The funeral was held August 9 at the home of her son with whom she lived, conducted by Dr. C. C. James. Burial was in Oak Hill cemetery, east of Maryville.

[BELCHER, VIRGIL KENDRICK]
Maryville Daily Forum (Maryville, Missouri), Friday, April 30, 1965, [p. 1]
Virgil K. Belcher Dies At St. Francis Hospital
Virgil Kemdrick [Kendrick] Belcher, 70, Maryville, died at noon today at St. Francis Hospital, following an illness of two years. He was a retired laborer.

Mr. Belcher who served in World War I, was born Dec. 23, 1894 in Nodaway County to Rufus and Melvina Adeline Belcher. He was preceded in death by his wife, the former Miss Alice Rowlett.

He is survived by several nieces and nephews. Services will be held at 3 p. m. Monday at Price Funeral Home. Burial will be in Hillcrest Cemetery, Skidmore.

The body is at Price's.

[BRADY, JOHN CHRISTOPHER]             [GAA, JOSEPH]
Daily Democrat-Forum and Maryville Tribune (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, August 2, 1923, p. 4
Funerals of Brady and Gaa Tomorrow
Mr. Gaa and Son-in-law Died Within an Hour of Each Other—Burials at Conception

Funeral services for John P. [Christopher] Brady and his father-in-law, Joseph Gaa, who died within an hour of each other yesterday morning at their homes in Conception Junction will be held tomorrow morning. Separate services will be conducted, and burial will be in St. Columba cemetery.

Mr. Brady died yesterday morning at 10 o'clock after a weeks illness of complication of diseases. He was fifty-seven years old and has lived his entire life in and near Conception Junction. He is survived by his widow and two sons, Leonard and Lawrence, at home, and five brothers, Monsignor James P. Brady and Lawrence Brady of St. Joseph, and William, Sarf and Tom, all of Conception Junction and three sisters, Mrs. Mary Keeler of Kansas City, and Mrs. Clem Myers and Miss Rosa Ann Brady, who are at home.

Mr. Gaa was seventy-six years old and is survived by eight children, Frank and Albert Gaa of Omaha, Neb., Edward of Auburn, Wash., Mark of Webster, N. D., Miss Emma Gaa of St. Joseph, Mrs. J. P. Brady of Conception Junction and Eleanor and Mike Gaa, at home. He is also survived by a brother, John Gaa of Columbus, Ohio.

[COLEMAN, ADOLPHUS "DOWL"]
Maryville Daily Forum (Maryville, Missouri), Friday, October 25, 1946, [p. 1]
Word has been received in Hopkins of the death Monday of Adolphus ("Dowl") Coleman, 72 years of age, at a hospital in Los Angeles, following a heart attack.

He was born in Nodaway county, the oldest son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Robert Coleman of Hopkins. He had farmed near Hopkins until 40 years ago when he moved to Colorado and later to Los Angeles.

He is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Nellie Lyman and Mrs. Beatrice Becker, Los Angeles; three brothers, Walter Coleman, Santa Barbara, Calif., and Ed and Lew Coleman of the Hopkins community; six sisters, Mrs. May Dowling, Mrs. Chloe Sehrizner [Scrivner], Mrs. Maude Sweeney, Mrs. Bertha Church and Mrs. Helen Solomon, Los Angeles; and Mrs. Floyd Swaim, Hopkins and one half-sister, Mrs. Docia Gordon, Denver, Colo.

The body will be cremated in Los Angeles. The ashes will be brought to Hopkins later.

[COLEMAN, CLAY RUSSELL]

Maryville Daily Forum (Maryville, Missouri), Monday, March 16, 1936, p. 8
Clay Coleman Dies
Ol Coleman of Hopkins received word this morning telling of the death of his brother, Clay Coleman, a former resident of Hopkins, which occurred at Los Angeles. Particulars of the death were not learned; however, it was stated that Mr. Coleman had been ill for some time.

Other survivors living at Hopkins, besides Ol Coleman, are two sisters, Mrs. Floyd Swaim and Mrs. Mayme Dowling and three brothers, Ed, Walter and Lew Coleman.

[COLEMAN, CLAY RUSSELL]
Los Angeles Times (Los Angeles, California), Monday, March 16, 1936, p. 8
COLEMAN. Clay Russell Coleman. Remains at the chapel of W. A. Brown, 1815 South Flower street.

[COLEMAN, CLAY RUSSELL]
Los Angeles Times (Los Angeles, California), Tuesday, March 17, 1936, p. 40
COLEMAN. The funeral services of Clay Russell Coleman will be held today at 1 p. m. from the Little Church of the Flowers, Forest Lawn Cemetery, W. A. Brown, funeral director.

[COLLINS, MARY FARLEY]
Daily Democrat-Forum and Maryville Tribune (Maryville, Missouri), Saturday, August 4, 1923, [p. 1]
Sister of Mrs. Wm. Donahue Dies
Mrs. William Donahue of Maryville received word of the death of her sister, Mrs. Mary Collins at Denver, Colo. Mrs. Collins died yesterday morning. The brothers, J. P. Farley of St. Joseph, N. J. Farley of Kansas City, and John Farley of Pleasant Hill, Mo., and a sister, Mrs. James Brady of Clyde, left last night for Denver to attend the funeral. Mrs. Donahue just returned from Denver.

[COLLINS, RHODA J. BROOKS]
Daily Democrat-Forum and Maryville Tribune (Maryville, Missouri), Saturday, August 11, 1923, p. 4
Graham Resident Dies in St. Joseph Hospital
Mrs. John Collins of Graham died at 3:15 o'clock this morning at the Sister's Hospital in St. Joseph, where she was taken about three weeks ago. Death was caused by spinal paralysis. She was forty-one years old and is survived by her husband, two daughters, Ida and Eva and two sons, Russell and Charles Collins, all of Graham. Other surviving relatives include a sister, Mrs. C. W. Treadway of California; and two brothers, Will Brooks and Don Burguess. The body arrived in Quitman today for burial. Plans for the funeral will not be completed until relatives are heard from.

[COLLINS, RHODA J. BROOKS]
Daily Democrat-Forum and Maryville Tribune (Maryville, Missouri), Monday, August 13, 1923, p. 4
Services for Mrs. Collins Held Today
Funeral services for Mrs. John Collins of Graham, who died Saturday morning in a St. Joseph hospital, were held at 1 o'clock this afternoon at the residence in Graham, conducted by the Rev. W. C. Francisco. Burial was in Kyle cemetery.

[COLLINS, WALTER S.]
Maryville Daily Forum (Maryville, Missouri), Saturday, October 26, 1946, [p. 1]
W. S. Collins Dies
Word has been received by Eber Collins, Hopkins, stating his brother, Walter S. Collins, died Monday afternoon following a stroke suffered while working in his garden at his home in Monrovia, Calif.

Mr. Collins was 80 years old and was the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Edward Collins. He had lived in the Hopkins community until 48 years ago when he moved to California. He formerly owned the farm south of Hopkins known as the Walter Coleman farm.

He is survived by his wife; two sons, Van Collins, Monrovia; and George Collins, Los Angeles; two brothers, Lincoln Collins, Monrovia; and Eber Collins, Hopkins, and a sister, Mrs. Eunice Otis, Conway, Ark.

[COOPER, HARRY W.]
Daily Democrat-Forum and Maryville Tribune (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, August 16, 1923, [p. 1]
Death of Harry W. Cooper at Price, Utah
Husband of Mrs. Grace Avery Cooper Died Monday—Burial in Winterset, Ia.
Word has been received by Maryville friends of the death of Harry W. Cooper, which occurred at noon Monday at his home in Price, Utah. Mrs. Cooper, with the body, left Price Tuesday night for Winterset, Ia., the former home of Mr. Cooper, where the funeral will be held. Mr. Cooper was the owner and publisher of the News-Advocate and Price had been his home for about nine years. Mrs. Cooper was formerly Miss Grace Avery and she was born and reared in Maryville. Mr. Cooper's death was due to tuberculosis.

[CORCORAN, CORA A. SHAW]
Daily Democrat-Forum (Maryville, Missouri), Friday, October 14, 1910, p. 3
Death of Mrs. Corcoran
Mrs. William Corcoran of Clyde died at six o'clock Friday morning at her home in Clyde. Mr. Corcoran was about 35 years of age and was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Shaw of the community. She is survived by her husband and six young children. Funeral arrangements have not yet been made. Mrs. Corcoran had not been sick long.

[COTTRELL, MARY ESTELLE BAGBY]
Daily Democrat-Forum and Maryville Tribune (Maryville, Missouri), Monday, August 20, 1923, p. 4
Mrs. Clarence Cottrell Dies In Rochester
Mrs. Clarence Cotterell [Cottrell], forty-one years old, died at 6 o'clock yesterday morning in Rochester, Minn. She was taken there four weeks ago for treatment at the Mayo Sanitarium and underwent an operation last Wednesday. The body will arrive in Conception Junction late this afternoon and will be taken to the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. [ames] R. [obert] Bagby near Skidmore, in the Price motor hearse. Accompanying the body will be Mr. Cottrell and son, Everett, and Mrs. Walter Iddings, sister of Mrs. Cottrell, who were at her bedside when she died. No funeral arrangements have been made.

[COTTRELL, MARY ESTELLE BAGBY]
Daily Democrat-Forum and Maryville Tribune (Maryville, Missouri), Tuesday, August 21, 1923, [p. 1]
Cottrell Body Arrives; Funeral Is Tomorrow
The body of Mrs. Clarence Cottrell of Skidmore, who died Sunday morning at the Mayo Sanitarium in Rochester, Minn., following an operation last Wednesday, arrived in Skidmore at 12 o'clock last night. Funeral services will be held at 10:30 o'clock tomorrow morning at the home of Mrs. Cottrell's parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Baby, east of Skidmore, conducted by the Rev. G. W. Trotter, pastor of the M. E. Church, South. Burial will be in the Groves cemetery. The body was accompanied to Skidmore by Mr. Cottrell and son, Everett, and Mrs. Walter Iddings of Skidmore, sister of Mrs. Cottrell.

Mrs. Hattie Shell of Pittsburg, Kan. and Mrs. Emma Hoxworth of Chicago.

[DUFF, SARAH JANE LARMER]
Daily Democrat-Forum and Maryville Tribune (Maryville, Missouri), Friday, July 6, 1923, [p. 1]
Mrs. Sarah J. Duff Dies Last Night
Was 91 Years Old—Born in Lee County, Virginia
Funeral Services Today Had Lived in Ravenwood For Number of Years—Survived By Three Children
Mrs. Sarah J. Duff, 91 years old, died at her home in Ravenwood at 7:30 o'clock last night.

Funeral services were held this afternoon at the Methodist Church in Ravenwood and were conducted by the Rev. G. W. Burnett and burial was in Monroe cemetery.

Mrs. Duff is survived by three children, nine grandchildren, two great grandchildren. The children are Mrs. William Abshire, Maryville; Thomas Duff of California and Samuel Duff of Ravenwood.

Mrs. Duff was born in Lee County, Virginia in 1832. In 1861 she was married to Martin Van Buren Duff also of Virginia. He died in 1875.

Besides her three children, Mrs. Duff is survived by nine grandchildren and two great grandchildren. The grandchildren are: Mrs. Frank Steel, Maryville; Mrs. Charles Russell, Maryville; Mrs. Orlan Moss, Maitland; Miss Elizabeth Abshire, Milwaukee, Wis.; Miss Cassie May Abshire, Maryville; Miss Ethel Duff, Miss Charlotte Louise Duff, William Duff and Baby Duff, all of California.

The two great grandchildren are Winford Orlan Moss, Maitland, and Virginia Lee Russell, Maryville.

Mrs. William Abshire of Maryville is the only daughter. She is an invalid and had not seen her mother for nine years. Mrs. Abshire is confined to her bed all the time. Her mother was too feeble to visit her daughter here.
[Note; Virginia, Select Marriages, 1785-1940, gives the marriage date as November 20, 1862 in Lee County, Virginia. The last name is also spelled Larimer.]

[EDMONDS, ERI]
Daily Democrat-Forum (Maryville, Missouri), Friday, January 28, 1916, [p. 1]
Rev. Eri Edmonds Dead
Hopkins Minister, 81 years Old, Passes Away
Had Been in Methodist Ministry 40 Years, Preaching in All Northwest Missouri—Funeral Sunday
Rev. Eri Edmonds died at his home in Hopkins this morning at 10 o'clock, after an extended illness of one year. Rev. Edmonds was 81 years old and had been in the Methodist ministry for the last forty years, preaching all over northwest Missouri.

He is survived by his wife and two daughters and one son. They are Mrs. E.[dward] H. Herbert of Hopkins; Mrs. H. [arry] C. [lifford] Goodson of Woodman, Col., and O. [mar] A.[den] Edmonds of Kansas City.

The funeral services will be held Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Methodist church in Hopkins, conducted by Rev. McNamee. Burial will take place in the cemetery there.

[EDMONDS, ERI]
Bedford Times-Republican (Bedford, Iowa), Thursday, February 3, 1916
HOPKINS – The funeral services of Rev. Eri Edmonds, who died here last Friday, were held at the Methodist Episcopal church Sunday at 11 o'clock, all the other congregations dismissing for the services. Rev. Dr. Bently of St. Joseph, a life long friend of the deceased, preached the funeral sermon. Rev. McNamee, pastor of the Methodist Episcopal church, Rev. Weaver of the Presbyterian church, Rev. Robb of the Christian church, also assisted at the services. Mr. Edmonds was 81 years old and had spent 47 years in the ministry in northwestern Missouri. He leaves a wife and three children, Mrs. Ed Herbert of Hopkins, Mrs. H. C. Goodson of Colorado Springs, and O. A. Edmonds of Kansas City. Mr. Edmonds was a member of the Odd Fellow lodge, that organization attending the services. Burial at Hopkins cemetery.

[EDMONDS, ERI]
Bedford Free Press (Bedford, Iowa), Tuesday, February 8, 1916
HOPKINS – The funeral of the late Rev. Eri Edmonds was held from the First Methodist Episcopal church at 10:45 last Sunday, conducted by Rev. Dr. Bentley of St. Joseph, assisted by Rev. McNamee. Deceased was 81 years old and had been in the ministry since 1861.

[EDMONDS, MARY TABITHA ATTERBERRY]
Maryville Daily Forum (Maryville, Missouri), June 9, 1936, [p. 1]
Mrs. Eri Edmonds, Former Hopkins Resident, Dies
Word has been received at Hopkins of the death of Mrs. Eri Edmonds, 84 years of age, which occurred yesterday morning at Topeka, Kan. Mrs. Edmonds formerly resided at Hopkins, her husband having been a Methodist minister there at one time. He died twenty years ago.

Funeral services will be held at 11 o'clock Wednesday morning at the Methodist church in Hopkins.

Mrs. Edmonds is survived by two daughters, Mrs. H. [arry] E. [Clifford] Goodson, Colorado Springs, Colo., and Mrs. E. [dward] J. Herbert, Muskogee, Okla., and one son, O. [mar] A.[den] Edmonds of Kansas City.

Relatives living at a distance who will come to attend the services are Mr. and Mrs. Goodson and son of Colorado Springs, and another son, Clifford, of New Orleans, Mrs. Herbert and son, Donald, Mr. and Mrs. O. A. Edmonds and son, Norman, and J. F. Robb of Kansas City.

[GEX, ELIZABETH FRANCES "BETTY" BURRIS]
Daily Democrat-Forum and Maryville Tribune (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, July 5, 1923, [p. 1]
Mrs. Robert B. Gex Dies in St. Joseph
Graham Woman Ill For Two Years—Funeral Services To Be At Residence Tomorrow
Elizabeth Burris Gex, wife of Robert B. [rooking] Gex of Graham died at 12:15 o'clock Wednesday morning in a St. Joseph hospital where she was taken last Friday. She was operated on Friday night and again Monday. Mrs. Gex has been in ill health for the past two years, although she has never been bedfast. A complication of diseases was the cause of her death.

Funeral services will be held at the home, near Graham at 2:30 o'clock tomorrow afternoon conducted by the Rev. S. D. Harlan of Bedford, Ia. Pallbearers will be W. B. Mountjoy, John A. Gex, Robert B. Gex, Jr., Hal Catterson, Lewis Gex and Will B. Gex. Burial will be in Graham cemetery.

Mrs. Gex was born in Hughes township, January 19, 1859. She was the daughter of William and Fannie Burris. She was reared and educated in this county and on December 15, 1874 married Robert B. Gex. They have made their home since that time on a farm, three miles east of Graham.

Mrs. Gex is survived by her husband and nine children, Mrs. W. B. Mountjoy, John A. Gex, Mrs. J. M. Wilson, Will B. Gex, Mamie Gex, Robert B. Gex, Jr., all of Graham, Mrs. Hal Catterson of Maryville, Mrs. Robert T. Mills of Memphis, Tenn., and Lewis Gex of Ghent, Ky., who were all at her bedside at the time of her death. A brother, William A. Burris of Omaha, Neb. was also there. Another brother, Giles S. Burris of Louisville, Miss., was unable to come. She is also survived by nineteen grandchildren.

[GEX, ROBERT BROOKING]
Maryville Daily Forum (Maryville, Missouri), Saturday, December 21, 1935, [p. 1]
R. B. Gex, Early Settler, Is Dead
Prominent Farmer and Stock Raiser Dies at Home Near Graham
Robert B. [rooking] Gex, age 85, one of the early settlers of Hughes township, died at 12:15 o'clock this morning at his home four miles northeast of Graham. He had been bedfast since last March. He was a prominent farmer and stock raiser.

He came to Nodaway county in 1872 from Kentucky and lived in Hughes township until 1905 when he moved back to Kentucky. In the spring of 1910 he returned to his former place in Hughes township, where he had since lived.

Mr. Gex was born in Gallatin county, Ky., October 26, 1850. His father was John Gex, also a Kentuckian who, in his early business career took flatboats loaded with produce to New Orleans. His mother was Henrietta R. Brooking, a native of Clark county, Kentucky. Mr. Gex was one of five children.

Mr. Gex's farming activities made him one of the best-known farmers in the southwestern section of the county and at one time he owned one thousand acres of land in the county in addition to the farm in Kentucky, consisting of four hundred and forty acres, and owned three sections of land in Texas, comprising nine hundred and thirty-eight acres in Lipscomb county.

Mr. Gex was married in Hughes township, December 15, 1874, to Elizabeth Burris, a native of Nodaway county. Her parents were William and Fannie (Saunders) Burris. They celebrated their golden wedding anniversary in 1924.

They were the parents of ten children, seven of whom survive. They are: Mrs. W. B. Mountjoy, northeast of Graham; Mrs. Halbert Catterson, Maryville; Mrs. J. M. Wilson, Graham; John A. Gex, living in Texas; Will B. and Robert B. Gex, jr., Graham and Louis Gex, living at the old homestead in Kentucky. There are twenty-five grandchildren and five great grandchildren.

Mr. Gex was a member of the Christian church.

Funeral services will be held at 2 o'clock Monday p. m. at the Gex home.

[GEX, ROBERT BROOKING]
Maryville Daily Forum (Maryville, Missouri), Monday, December 23, 1935, p. 8
Grandsons Are Pallbearers at Services For R. B. Gex
Funeral services for Robert B. Gex one of the early settlers of Hughes township who died early Saturday morning, were held at 2 o'clock this afternoon at the residence four miles northeast of Graham. Rev. R. C. Yadon, pastor of Bethany church, officiated. Burial was in Graham cemetery.

Six grandsons acted as pallbearers. They are Robert Mountjoy, Brooking Gex, Halbert and Lorace Catterson, Bob Gex and Anthony Gex.

Mr. and Mrs. R. T. Mills of Memphis, Tenn., and Louis Gex of Ghent, Ky., were among out-of-county relatives who attended the funeral.

[GREELEY, GRACE LOUVADA "VADA" BROWN]
Maryville Daily Forum (Maryville, Missouri), Tuesday, December 24, 1935, [p. 1]
Mrs. David Greely, Age 38, Dies at Hospital Here
Mrs. David Greely, age 38, died at 2 o'clock this morning at St. Francis hospital where she was taken yesterday morning.

Mrs. Greely, whose maiden name was Grace Brown, was born at Prescott, Ia., October 17, 1897, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harper Brown. She was 5 years old when the family moved to Corning, Ia. On February 12, 1919, she was married to David Greely and later the couple moved from Corning to Braddyville, Ia., where they lived for one year. Then they moved to a farm seven miles southwest of Burlington Junction where they had since lived.

Surviving are the husband; five children, Geraldine, Robert, Richard, James and infant daughter, Grace; her father, Harper Brown and six sisters and a brother, all of whom live at Corning, Ia.

Funeral arrangements have not been completed.

[GROWNEY, ELIZABETH GERTRUDE FARNON]
Daily Democrat-Forum and Maryville Tribune (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, August 9, 1923, [p. 1]
Mrs. Growney Dies at Home in Conception
Mrs. John Growney, fifty-five years old, died yesterday evening at her home near Conception, death being due to a complication of diseases. Besides her husband she is survived by nine children, five daughters, Mary, Margaret, Elizabeth, Catherine and Agnes, and four sons, Philip, William, Charles and John, Jr., all at home. No funeral arrangements have been made.

[HAMMOND, HARRY]
Daily Democrat-Forum and Maryville Tribune (Maryville, Missouri), Monday, August 20, 1923, [p. 1]
Death of Harry Hammond in Oklahoma
Harry Hammond, a former resident of Nodaway county, died Friday morning in Oklahoma City, Okla., according to word received by relatives here. Death was due to lung trouble which followed an illness of flu last spring. Burial took place Saturday at Britton, Okla. Until a few years ago Mr. Hammond lived near Skidmore and for the last eighteen months he and his wife, who survives, had been attending a school of chiropractic in Oklahoma City. Mr. Hammond owns a farm which adjoins Higgins, Texas. Emerson Hammond, living southwest of Maryville, is a nephew of Mr. Hammond, and William E. Hammond of Skidmore is a brother.

[HARDESTY, ADONIJAH]
Daily Democrat-Forum and Maryville Tribune (Maryville, Missouri), Friday, July 6, 1923, [p. 1]
A. Hardesty Dies at Union, Mo., July 4
Word was received in Maryville yesterday of the death of A. Hardesty on July 4 at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Lucy Case in Union, Washington. Funeral arrangements have not yet been made. He was born in McDonough county, Ill., January 21, 1841, and moved to Henderson county in 1863 and lived there for nine years. He then moved to Nodaway county and has made his home here until a year ago when he went to Union, Wash., to live with his daughter.

In 1862 he was married to Miss Virginia Penny and seven children were born to them. Mr. Hardesty is survived by three sons, William H. Hardesty of Tacoma, Wash., and Alvery A. Hardesty of Maryville and four daughters, Mrs. L. L. Ward of Fairfield, Nebr., Mrs. George Masters of Maryville, Mrs. George Craig of Maryville and Mrs. Lucy Case of Union, Washington.

[HITCHCOCK, WILLIAM JASPER]
Daily Democrat-Forum and Maryville Tribune (Maryville, Missouri), Monday, August 20, 1923, [p. 1]
Hitchcock Funeral at Skidmore Today
Funeral services for William J. [asper] Hitchcock were held at 11 o'clock Sunday morning at the Christian Church in Skidmore, conducted by the Rev. Reuben Barrett. Burial was in the Masonic cemetery in Skidmore. Mr. Hitchcock died Friday at his home, northwest of Skidmore, following an illness of a complication of diseases. He was sixty-seven years old and is survived by his widow and one daughter, Miss Nellie Hitchcock at home. Three brothers, Lincoln and A. F. Hitchcock of Skidmore, and Barney Hitchcock of Topeka, Kan., also survive. Mr. Hitchcock had lived near Skidmore most of his life. He was a member of the Masonic Lodge and members of that order had charge of the service at the cemetery.

[HUFF, ISABELLE WILHELMINA MITCHELL]
Daily Democrat-Forum (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, November 3, 1910, [p. 1]
Dies At Age of 98
Mrs. A. R. Huff Passed Away Near Wilcox Oldest in the County
Funeral Services Are to Be Held Friday and Burial to Take Place at Quitman
Mrs. Isabelle Huff died Wednesday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. J. F. Haller, near Wilcox, after a few weeks' sickness. Mrs. Huff was 98 years old and has been making her home with her daughter for the past four months.

Mrs. Huff was born near Lynchburg, Va., in 1812, and moved from there to Indiana. From Indiana they moved to Knoxville, Ia., where they lived until 1871, when they came to Nodaway county and moved on a farm near Quitman.

Her husband died in 1884 and since that time Mrs. Huff made her home with her grandson, W. E. Lynn, at St. Joseph, and about four months ago came to Wilcox to visit her daughter, Mrs. Haller, where she was taken sick.

Four daughters and one son survive, who are: Mrs. Marion Huff of San Francisco, Mrs. O. K. Dike of Chicago, Mrs. John A. Logan of Quitman and Mrs. Haller of Wilcox, and William P. Huff of Yates, Okla. Mrs. John Porter of this city is a granddaughter of Mrs. Huff and left Thursday morning for Wilcox to attend the funeral services, which are to be held Friday morning. Burial will take place at Quitman.

[JACKSON, WILLIAM W.]
Daily Democrat-Forum (Maryville, Missouri), Tuesday, December 13, 1910, [p. 1]
Old Resident Dead W. W. Jackson Died Tuesday Morning
Was Born in Feb. in 1833
Funeral to Be Held Wednesday Afternoon at 2:30 O'Clock—Lived Here Since 1867
William W. Jackson, one of the well-known old residents of Maryville, passed away at his home on South Main street Tuesday morning at 10:30 o'clock.

Mr. Jackson had been sick a long time from a complication of diseases and his death was not unexpected. He was a great sufferer but bore it all with a patience and fortitude that was indeed remarkable. He was one of the old and substantial business men of Maryville.

The funeral services will be held Thursday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock.

William W. Jackson was born in Chester county, Pennsylvania, near Philadelphia, February 23, 1833. He grew to manhood on his father's farm, his birthplace, and was educated in the neighborhood schools. As his father kept a blacksmith shop on his farm he learned the trade. When Mr. Jackson became of age he engaged in the merchandise business for two years at Cochransville, Pa., after which he gave his entire attention to farming.

On the 28th day of January 1857, he married Miss Rebecca Andrews of Chester county, Pa., who survives him. They had one son, Wilmer A. Jackson, who died in Maryville about twenty years ago.

In 1864 they moved to Marion, Linn county, Ia., where Mr. Jackson conducted a livery and sale barn. They came to Maryville in 1867 and engaged in the same business, retiring only when he sold out to J. H. Gray.

Mr. Jackson was a devout member of the First Presbyterian church. He was of quiet, retiring disposition and was very devoted to his old friends. He was a great lover of music and whiled away many pleasant hours, especially in the past few years, with his violin, which he used with the skill of an artist in playing the old sweet songs of long ago. He took a lively interest in educational matters and had served as a member of the Maryville school board.

Mr. Jackson is survived by two brothers and a sister, who live at Vinton and Sioux City, Ia. He was also distantly related to Dr. J. B. Morrison and Howard McCommon of this city.

[JACKSON, WILLIAM W.]
Daily Democrat-Forum (Maryville, Missouri), Friday, December 16, 1910, [p. 1]
Funeral Services of W. W. Jackson
The funeral services of the late William W. Jackson were held at 2:30 o'clock Thursday afternoon at the family home on South Main street and were conducted by Rev. A. M. Reynolds of St. Joseph, a former pastor of the First Presbyterian church of Maryville, who was a close friend of the Jackson family. He was assisted by Rev. W. J. Parvin of the M. E. church, South.

Rev. Reynolds read the 14th chapter of John and based a most beautiful tribute to his departed friend on the contents of that Scripture and all derived blessing and comfort from the service.

Several beautiful selections were sung by a choir composed of Mrs. W. F. Woodard, Mrs. C. D. Leffler, Miss Helen Leffler, F. M. Petty, W. H. Crawford, Fred Lewis and H. J. Becker.

Burial took place in Miriam cemetery. The pallbearers were Martin A. Lewis, J. Lawson Scott, Charles Wadley, Roy Curfman, William Wells and John Dempsey.

Out-of-town relatives who attended the funeral were Mrs. Carrie Baxter of Red Oak, Ia., a niece of Mrs. Jackson, also her sister-in-law, Mrs. Mary Andrews of Kansas City, and a niece by marriage, Mrs. Anna Andrews of Enid, Okla.

[JENSEN, ELVA BESSIE MCCLURG]
Daily Democrat-Forum and Maryville Tribune (Maryville, Missouri), Tuesday, July 3, 1923, [p. 1]
Mrs. C. A. Jensen Dies Last Night
Had Been In Ill Health For Some Time—Funeral To Be Held Thursday At Church
Mrs. Elva McClurg Jensen, wife of Charles A. Jensen, Maryville merchant, died at 10:10 o'clock last night at the family residence, 322 West Fifth street. Death was due to a complication of diseases. She has been in ill health since the third of January.

Funeral services will be held at 2:30 o'clock Thursday afternoon at the First Presbyterian church conducted by the Rev. S. P. Allison. Burial will be in Miriam cemetery.

Elva McClurg Jensen was thirty-eight years old. She was born on a farm near Maryville and has always lived here. Her parents, who are both dead, were Mr. and Mrs Thomas McClurg. She is survived by her husband and two daughters, Ruth and Mildred. Four brothers, H. H. McClurg of Rea, Mo., J. R. McClurg and T. L. McClurg, both of Pickering, and Sam McClurg of Maryville and four sisters, Mrs. William Hoover of Billings, Okla., Mrs. William Stewart of Fairfax, Mrs. W. T. Doyle and Mrs. Lillie Martin, both of Maryville, also survive.

[KING, LAURA E.]
Daily Democrat-Forum and Maryville Tribune (Maryville, Missouri), Wednesday, August 8, 1923, p. 6
Miss Laura King Dies, Following Operation
Body Taken To Home Near Orrsburg Today—Services Friday A. M.
Miss Laura E. King died at 4:20 o'clock this morning at St. Francis Hospital following an operation for acute appendicitis last Thursday morning. She had been ill for two days prior to the operation and death was due to advanced general peritonitis. The body will be taken this afternoon to the home of Miss King's parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. [ames] M. King, northeast of Orrsburg. Funeral services will be held at 10 o'clock Friday morning at the Baptist Church in Orrsburg. The pastor, Elder Walter Cash of St. Joseph, will officiate and burial will be in the church cemetery.

Miss King was born October 27, 1884 and her birthplace was the present home of her parents near Orrsburg. She was an experienced milliner and had been engaged in that business for several years.

Besides her parents, she is survived by the following brothers and sisters: A. T. King, Pickering; L. A. King, L. L. King, and Mrs. W. H. West, Ravenwood; C. E. King, Homewood, Kans., M. O. King, Blue Rapids, Kan., O. C. King, Santa Fe, New Mexico; and Mrs. Joseph Birkenholz, living near Maryville.

Mr. and Mrs. C. E. King arrived at noon yesterday and M. O. King came last night from Blue Rapids, Kans., O. C. King of Santa Fe is a travelling salesman and had not been located.

[LOVELL, MATILDA E. RAY]
Daily Democrat-Forum and Maryville Tribune (Maryville, Missouri), Saturday, August 11, 1923, p. 4
Mrs. Lovell Dies After Several Months Illness
Mrs. F. D. Lovell, colored, died this morning at 4:30 o'clock at her home following a several months illness. She was operated on last fall and since that time has been in failing health. She is survived by her husband, one sister, Mrs. Sophie Madison of St. Louis, who was with her at the time of her death. Two sons, George Lovell at home and Clarence Lovell of St. Louis also survive.

Funeral services will be held at 2:30 o'clock tomorrow afternoon at the A. M. E. Church, conducted by presiding elder, M. S. Bryant of Liberty, Mo. Burial will be in Oak Hill cemetery,

[MCLAUGHLIN, SUSAN A.]
Daily Democrat-Forum (Maryville, Missouri), Friday, October 21, 1910, p. 2
Died at County Farm
Mrs. McLaughlin, an inmate of the county poor farm, west of town, died there last night of tuberculosis. She was 64 years old. Her daughter, Susan McLaughlin, is also an inmate of the county farm. Burial will take place Saturday.

[MANLEY, WAYNE]
Daily Democrat-Forum and Maryville Tribune (Maryville, Missouri), Saturday, August 11, 1923, p. 4
Services for Wayne Manley will be Monday
Verne Manley received word yesterday that his brother, Wayne Manley of Clewiston, Fla., was killed by a tractor there Thursday. No particulars of the accident are known. The body is on its way to Maryville, accompanied by the family and will arrive here tomorrow night. Funeral services will be held at the Ed Hamlin home Monday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock conducted by the Rev. R. E. Snodgrass.

Mr. Manley was born February 26, 1903 in Maryville. The family moved away from here in 1906. He is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Manley, Clewiston, Fla., two sisters, Mrs. Homer Taylor, Clewiston, Fla., and Miss Vancene, at home, a half-sister, Mrs. Ed Hamlin, Maryville, a half-brother, Verne Manley, also of Maryville and two brothers, Kenneth of Huron, South Dakota, and Merville, at home. His grandmother, Mrs. J. M. Manley of Maryville also survives.

[MERGEN, MARY EDNA HOGAN]
Daily Democrat-Forum (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, December 8, 1910, [p. 1]
Mrs. Peter Mergen Died Thursday
Mrs. Peter Mergen died Thursday morning about 5 o'clock after a long and painful illness. The funeral arrangements have not yet been made, as it is not known at what time a sister of Mrs. Mergen, Mrs. Ada Roberts of Buffalo, N. Y., will be able to reach Maryville. The funeral will not be held before Sunday and probably not until Monday.

Mrs. Mergen, whose maiden name was Mary E. Hogan, was a native of the state of Illinois. Her parents were Joseph B. and Harriet C. Hogan, and with them she came to Hickory county, Missouri, and then to Nodaway county, first locating near Guilford and later east of Conception, where the family lived for many years and was well known.

Mrs. Mergen was a devout Catholic and a member and a member of the Fraternal Aid society. About twenty years ago Mrs. Mergen went into the business of floral culture and the Mergen greenhouses on North Main street, were for many years made famous in this section through her work and fidelity to the business.

[MERGEN, MARY EDNA HOGAN]
Daily Democrat-Forum (Maryville, Missouri), Friday, December 9, 1910, [p. 1]
Mergen Funeral Monday Afternoon
The funeral services of the late Mrs. Peter Mergen, whose death occurred Thursday morning, will be held at her late home, 508 North Mulberry street, Monday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock and will be conducted by Dr. Homer M. Cook, pastor of the Tabernacle Baptist church of Kansas City, who will be assisted by Rev. Lee Harrel of the First Baptist church of this city.

The body will lie in state on Sunday from 10 a. m. until 4 p. m.

Relatives of Mrs. Mergen who arrived in Maryville Thursday night are her brothers, James, John and Thomas Hogan of Kansas City, a sister, Mrs. Bryden of Kansas City and her husband, and her sister, Mrs. Thomas Babbitt and Mrs. Fred Howell of Kansas City; also, two nieces of Mr. Mergen, Miss Bertha Jackson and Miss Gertrude Sullivan of Omaha.

[MERGEN, MARY EDNA HOGAN]
Daily Democrat-Forum (Maryville, Missouri), Tuesday, December 13, 1910, [p. 1]
Funeral Services Were Held Monday
The funeral of Mrs. Peter Mergen was held at the Mergen home, 508 North Mulberry street, Monday afternoon, conducted by Rev. Homer M. Cook of Kansas City. Burial took place in Miriam cemetery. Relatives of Mrs. Mergen who attended the funeral, were her brothers, James, John and Thomas Hogan of Kansas City, two sisters, Mrs. J. B. Brooks and Mrs. Bryden of Kansas City and her nieces, Mrs. Thomas Babbitt and Mrs. Fred Howlett of Kansas City and also two nieces of Mr. Mergen, Miss Bertha Jackson and Miss Gertrude Sullivan of Omaha.

The pallbearers were W. C. Pierce, George B. Baker, Edward L. Ferritor, Charles L. Parcher, James B. Robinson and John W. Airy.

[MILLER, ELIJAH TYNER]
Maryville Daily Forum (Maryville, Missouri), Monday, February 9, 1953, [p. 1]
Elijah Tyner Miller Dies in California
Elijah Tyner Miller, 86-year-old retired farmer, who had resided with his daughter, Mrs. Charles Massie of Hopkins, died at 9:10 a. m. Sunday in a hospital at Covina, Calif., near Puente, Calif., where he had resided two months with a daughter, Mrs. H. C. Shearer.

Mr. Miller was born Aug. 14, 1866 in Andrew county, Mo., and was married to Etta Ellen Hodges, who died in 1943. He was a member of the Good Hope Methodist church.

Other survivors in addition to the two daughters are one son, Emmett Miller, Hannibal, Mo., one sister, Mrs. B. W. Smallwood, Vinton, Ia., one brother, Elbert Miller, Kelso, Minn.; seven grandchildren and three great grandchildren.

Funeral services will be held at 2 p. m. Wednesday at the Hopkins Methodist church. Burial will be in the Hopkins cemetery. The body will arrive at the Price funeral home tonight.

[MILLER, ETTA ELLEN HODGES]
Maryville Daily Forum (Maryville, Missouri), Wednesday, October 6, 1943, p. 6
Mrs. Etta Miller Dies; Funeral to Be Friday
Funeral services will be held at 2 o'clock Friday afternoon at the Christian church in Hopkins for Mrs. Etta Ellen Miller, 73 years of age, of near Hopkins, who died at 5:10 o'clock this morning at the St. Francis hospital where she had been a patient five weeks. Dr. W. H. Hansford, pastor of the Methodist church of Hopkins, will officiate. Burial will be in the Hopkins cemetery.

Mrs. Miller was born February 24, 1870, in Monroe county, Ind., the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. E. [zekiel] W. Hodges. She was married November 26, 1891, to Elija[h] T. [yner] Miller and had resided near Hopkins forty-three years. She had been ill eight weeks. Mrs. Miller was a member of Good Hope church, near Hopkins.

Besides her husband, she is survived by one son, Emmett T. [yner] Miller, Hannibal; two daughters, Mrs. Marie Shearer, Puente, Calif., and Mrs. Pauline Massie, Hopkins; two sisters, Mrs. Leman Morehouse, Hopkins, and Mrs. Lou Morehouse, Bakersburg, Okla.; three brothers, Tom Hodges, Blackfoot, Idaho; Raymond Hodges, Fort Supply, Okla., and Curtis Hodges, Nampa, Calif., and seven grandchildren.

[MILLER, ETTA ELLEN HODGES]
Maryville Daily Forum (Maryville, Missouri), Saturday, October 9, 1943, p. 6
Rites for Mrs. Miller
Funeral services were held yesterday afternoon at the Christian church in Hopkins for Mrs. E. T. Miller, who died Wednesday. Rev. W. H. Hansford, pastor of the Methodist church of Hopkins, officiated. Burial was in the Hopkins cemetery.

Pallbearers were Orla, Fay and Andrew Morehouse, Edgar and Abe Miller and Ray Proctor.

Flowers were in charge of Beverly, Margie, Ruth and Carole Morehouse, Patty Anderson, Carolyn Massie, Mary, Dennis and Eugene Clymens, Dwayne O'Dougherty, Hubert O'Dougherty, Gene, Jack and Max Morehouse and Billy Joe Miller.

Music was furnished by Miss Darlene Guthrie, Mrs. Milton Engle, Lawrence Wiley and Rev. Hansford, accompanied by Mrs. Wiley, who sang, "Beautiful Isle of Somewhere" and "Good Night, Good Morning."

[MILLER, JOHN WARD]
Daily Democrat-Forum (Maryville, Missouri), Tuesday, December 13, 1910, [p. 1]
J. W. Miller Dead Died Monday Night At St. Francis Hospital
Eighty-Four Years Old Funeral Services to Be Held Wednesday in the First M. E. Church
John Ward Miller, an old resident of this city, the father of Mrs. John M. Signs, died at St. Francis hospital Monday night, December 12, from blood poisoning, which he contracted a little over two weeks ago from a slight scratch on one hand while with Mrs. Signs on her ranch near Coyle, Okla.

Mrs. Signs started to Maryville at once with her father and by the time they reached here, November 27, his hand and arm were so badly infected that he was taken to St. Francis hospital for treatment. His advanced years prevented his rallying from the attack, and after great suffering he passed away Monday night.

The funeral services will be held Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the First M. E. church, conducted by Dr. J. S. Ford, the pastor, if he recovers sufficiently from his present indisposition.

Mr. Miller was 84 years old. He was born in Granby, Oswego county, N. Y., on the 21st day of September 1826. He was reared on a farm and attended the common schools. He began when quite young to learn the cooper's trade, which he followed about seventeen years. He went to Oswego, N. Y., in 1849 and located on a farm he purchased near there. He married Harriet L. Stevens of Oswego on November 19, of the same year. They moved to the city of Oswego later and then to Morristown, N. Y. In 1857 they moved to Plano, Ill., where Mr. Miller engaged in the lumber business for fourteen years. He then moved to Whiteside county and engaged in farming eight years. In 1878 in the month of March, Mr. Miller came to Nodaway county and purchased 160 acres of land adjoining Maryville on the south, where he and his family resided until ten years ago, when he and his wife moved to their home on South Main street, which is now occupied by Mrs. Rebecca Gray. Mrs. Miller's death occurred about five years ago and since that time he has divided his time with his three children, Mrs. John Signs of Maryville, Frank Miller of Oklahoma City, Okla., and Mrs. Edward E. Mighells of Aurora, Neb., all of whom were with him during his last illness and at the time of his death.

Mr. Miller was a kind and generous husband, father and neighbor. He became a member of the First M. E. church in his youth and remained a consistent and faithful member to the time of his death.

[MILLIGAN, JANE TOMLINSON SNOW]
Daily Democrat-Forum (Maryville, Missouri), Saturday, December 10, 1910, [p. 1]
Mrs. Crosby's Mother Died
Mrs. Jane Milligan, mother of Mrs. Sarah Crosby of Maryville, died Tuesday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Peter Maurer of Graham, and was buried Wednesday afternoon. The funeral services were conducted by Rev. E. W. Osborn of the Methodist church at Graham, assisted by Rev. J. Russell Jones of the Presbyterian church. Mrs. Milligan's maiden name was Jane Tomlinson and she was born July 17, 1825, at Deavertown, Morgan county, O. She was twice married, the first time to John Snow in 1843, who died in 1845. In 1848 she married John Milligan, who died in 1896. She was a consecrated Christian from early girlhood. Four daughters survive, Mrs. Sarah Crosby of Maryville, Mrs. Peter Maurer of Graham,

[MOON, ORA BELLE PARSONS]
Daily Democrat-Forum and Maryville Tribune (Maryville, Missouri), Monday, August 6, 1923, [p 1]
Mrs. C. C. Moon Dies at Hospital this P. M.
Mrs. Chris C. Moon, forty-six years old died at the St. Francis hospital at 2:30 o'clock this afternoon. Uremic poisoning was the cause of her death. Besides her husband she is survived by one sister, Mrs. S. E. Moon of Maryville and two brothers, H. L. Parsons of Burlingame, Kan., and E. E. Parsons of Marion, Ia. No funeral arrangements have been made.

[MOON, ORA BELLE PARSONS]
Daily Democrat-Forum and Maryville Tribune (Maryville, Missouri), Tuesday, August 7, 1923, p. 6
Services for Mrs. Moon will be Tomorrow P. M.
Funeral services for Mrs. C. C. Moon, who died yesterday afternoon at St. Francis hospital, will be held at 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon at the Christian Church in Pickering. The Rev. R. E. Snodgrass of Maryville will officiate. Burial will be in White Oak cemetery.

[O'BRIEN, MATT]
Daily Democrat-Forum and Maryville Tribune (Maryville, Missouri), Friday, August 17, 1923, [p. 1]
Matt O'Brien Dies Suddenly Today
Died At Council Bluffs, Ia., At 9:30 O'Clock
Had Been In Ill Health Was Bridge Gang Foreman For the Wabash—Too Up His Work After Sickness Two Weeks Ago
Word was received this morning by Mrs. Matt O'Brien, 315 North Vine, that her husband, Matt O'Brien, dropped dead of heart failure at Council Bluffs at 9:30 o'clock this morning. Mr. O'Brien was employed as a bridge gang foreman for the Wabash Railroad there. The body will be returned to Maryville this evening. No details of Mr. O'Brien's death was contained in the message.

Mr. O'Brien had been in ill health for some time and it was only two weeks ago that he returned to his work. Word of his death came as a great shock to his wife.

Mr. O'Brien is survived by his wife and three children. They are: Father William O'Brien, assistant pastor of the church at Hannibal, Mo., Mrs. Albert Binter, Independence, Kan., and Mrs. Paul Jans of Detroit, Mich. Father O'Brien will arrive in Maryville tonight and the other children are expected as soon as possible.

Mr. O'Brien was about 63 years old.

[O'BRIEN, MATT]
Daily Democrat-Forum and Maryville Tribune (Maryville, Missouri), Saturday, August 18, 1923, [p. 1]
O'Brien Services Monday Morning
The body of Matt O'Brien, who died suddenly yesterday morning at Council Bluffs, Ia., arrived in Maryville last evening. Funeral services will be held Monday morning at 9 o'clock at the St. Patrick's Church, conducted by Father Niemann, with burial in St. Patrick's Cemetery.

Father William O'Brien, assistant pastor of the church at Hannibal, Mo., arrived in Maryville this morning. A daughter, Mrs. Paul Jans of Detroit, will arrive tomorrow morning. No word has been received from Mrs. Albert Binter of Eldorado, Kan., another daughter. Other relatives here are Mrs. Muria Fay of Burlington, Ia., a sister of Mrs. O'Brien and Miss Nell Connor and brother of Dennison, Ia., cousins of Mr. O'Brien.

[O'BRIEN, MATT]
Daily Democrat-Forum and Maryville Tribune (Maryville, Missouri), Monday, August 20, 1923, p. 4
Five Priests Assist in O'Brien Services
Funeral Held at 9 O'Clock this Morning—Father William O'Brien Was Celebrant
The funeral services of Matt O'Brien, who died at Council Bluffs Saturday morning, was held at the St. Patrick's Church this morning.

The sermon was preached by the Reverend Henry F. Niemann, pastor of the St. Patrick's Church. Father Niemann was assisted in the funeral services by five priests from out of town.

The Reverend Father William O'Brien of Hannibal, the son of the deceased, acted as Celebrant. The Reverend Richard Felix of Conception Abbey officiated as Deacon. The Rev. A. A. Lehman acted as Sub-Deacon. Ignatius Lehman of Conception was the Master of Ceremonies. Mr. Lehman is a student in the Kendrick Seminary of St. Louis, the same school which Father William O'Brien attended.

The visiting Priests were the Reverend Ruggle of Conception, Father Ambrose of Clyde, and Father Lawrence of St. Mary's Church

Burial was made at the St. Patrick's cemetery.

The honorary pallbearers were E. L. Ferritor, George Hulet, E. M. Andree, W. M. Andree, E. R. Henry and Lester Turnbell. E. L. Ferritor of Maryville is a lifelong friend of Mr. O'Brien. George Hulet of Maryville is a former member of a railroad crew of Mr. O'Brien. E. M. Andree and W. M. Andree of Moberly, E. R. Henry of Sumner, and Lester Turnbell, Blanchard, Ia., are also members of the crew of workmen of Mr. O'Brien's at the time of his death.

The active pallbearers were Thomas Cunningham, Henry Heitman, Charles McCaffrey, Fred Diss, Michael Cain and Fred Jamison.

[OWENS, FRANK, 1846-1923]
Daily Democrat-Forum and Maryville Tribune (Maryville, Missouri), Friday, August 3, 1923, p. 4
Frank Owens Dies at Kansas City Today
Former Maryville Resident Will Be Buried At Camden Point On Sunday Afternoon
Frank Owens, a former resident of Maryville and this county, died this morning at the Christian Church hospital in Kansas City, according to a message received by James B. Robinson from Miss Mabel Owens. The telegram said the funeral would be held at Camden Point, Mo., at the Christian Church at 3:30 o'clock Sunday afternoon.

Mr. Owens was struck by an auto in Kansas City on July 6 and sustained several injuries. He was taken to the Christian Church hospital.

Mr. Owens was sheriff and also county treasurer of this county a number of years ago. He moved from here about nine years ago. He was 77 years old and was survived by one daughter, Miss Mabel Owens.

[PARTRIDGE, SARAH MAPS]
Daily Democrat-Forum and Maryville Tribune (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, August 2, 1923, [p. 1]
Partridge Services at the Home Tomorrow
Funeral services for Mrs. Hiram Partridge, who died this morning at 6 o'clock at her home, 1403 East Second street, will be held tomorrow afternoon at the residence. Burial will be in the Swinford cemetery, south of Arkoe.

Mrs. Partridge has been in poor health for a number of years. She took the flu last March and since that time has gradually failed. She was sixty-five years old and is survived by her husband, two brothers, Isaac C. Maps of Isabel, Ill., and William T. Maps of Owasin, Okla, and two sisters, Mrs. Ella Jones of Sidell, Ill., and Mrs. Mellisa Edwards of Morley Station, Ill.

[RANKIN, DAVID]
Daily Democrat-Forum (Maryville, Missouri), Wednesday, October 19, 1910, [p. 1]
David Rankin Dead
Millionaire Farmer of Tarkio Passed Away Tuesday
Largest Corn Raiser And Cattle Feeder in the World—His Death Was Very Sudden
Tarkio, Mo., Oct. 18. – David Rankin, millionaire farmer, said to be the biggest corn raiser and cattle feeder in the world, died at his home in Tarkio at 4 o'clock this afternoon. Death came as the result of a stroke of paralysis. His wife died a few weeks since and this may have hastened his end.

Mr. Rankin was born in Sullivan county, Indiana, May 25, 1825, and was 85 years old at the time of his death. He is survived by his sons, W. F. Rankin and John Rankin, Jr., and two daughters, Miss Esther Rankin of Tarkio and Mrs. J. H. Hanna, of Riverside, Cal.

Mr. Rankin was largely responsible for the endowment of Tarkio college, a Presbyterian church institution to which he gave thousands of dollars. He was also president of the First National Bank of Tarkio, president of the Midland Manufacturing Company of Tarkio and owned a controlling interest in the Tarkio light plant. His land holdings aggregate 23,000 acres, most of which is in Atchison county.

[REED, JESSIE ALBERT]
Daily Democrat-Forum and Maryville Tribune (Maryville, Missouri), Monday, August 6, 1923, p. 4
Reed Services to be Held at B. J. Tuesday
J. [essie] A. [lbert]Reed died at 5 o'clock Sunday morning at his home near Quitman, following an illness of seventeen weeks. Inflammation of the brain, which was superinduced by an illness of flu last winter, was the cause of death. The funeral will be held at 2:30 tomorrow afternoon at the Methodist church in Burlington Junction and the Rev. Ernest P. Taggart of the Christian Church will officiate. Members of the Masonic Lodge will assist in the service. Mr. Reed was 47 years old and had lived near Burlington Junction and Quitman for a number of years. For the last six years the family had occupied the farm of J. Ed Costello of Maryville located near Quitman. His widow and five children, four sons and one daughter, survive. They are Horace, Harry, Alton and William Reed and Bessie Reed, all living at home.

Other immediate relatives are three sisters, Mrs. Ruth Bentley, Carmen, Okla., Mrs. Anna Wherry, Beatrice, Neb.; and Mrs. Mattie Bollinger, Dayton, Ohio; and one brother, Walter Reed, Beatrice, Neb. Mrs. Bentley and Mr. Reed will attend the funeral.

[REED, JESSIE ALBERT]
Daily Democrat-Forum and Maryville Tribune (Maryville, Missouri), Tuesday, August 7, 1923, p. 5
Obituary – Jessie Albert Reed, born Warren County Ohio, September 18, 1875, died at Quitman, Missouri, August 5th, 1923, age 47 years, 10 months, 18 days. He was united in marriage, January 26th, 1898 to Nellie Noaks; to this union, six children were born, Horace Winfield, Harry George, Alton LeRoy, William Clarkson, Bessie Ella and Homer Chester deceased.

Jessie A. Reed was converted and became a member of the Methodist Church at the age of 17 years and during his connection with the church he has been a devout Christian worker, always willing and ready for anything that would advance the cause and better the community in which he worked. He was a kind, loving husband and father, and it was a common remark among those who knew the family, that they were the most devoted to each other, always together, sharing each other's joys and sorrows, of a jovial disposition with a friendly smile for everyone he met, he will be sadly missed as a husband and father, and the community will miss him as a good citizen, but Our Heavenly Father has prepared a place for him, and this is a consoling thought for the bereaved family, friends and community, for he has lived a life that wins eternal peace.

Funeral Tuesday at 2:30 p. m. at M. E. Church at Burlington Junction, interment, Ohio Cemetery at Burlington Junction.

[SAFLEY, BELLE ZORA BOYER]
Maryville Daily Forum (Maryville, Missouri), Monday, June 5, 1933, p. 4
Mrs. Belle Safley Dies in Bedford at Age of 74
Mrs. Belle Safley, age 74 years, who had lived in the Hopkins and Bedford vicinities for twenty years, died at 9:30 o'clock Sunday morning at the home of a brother in Bedford. Although funeral arrangements have not been completed it was thought today services would be held at 2 o'clock Tuesday at the Christian church in Hopkins, conducted by Rev. Leslie Cobb of Bedford, assisted by Rev. B. F. Harmon of Hopkins. Burial will be in the Hopkins cemetery.

Mrs. Safley was born in Belmont county, Ohio. She is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Joe Andrews of Hopkins, a sister, Mrs. Elizabeth Ackley of Bedford, Ia., a brother, J. D. Boyer of Sellersburg, Ind., and five sons, Merve of Hopkins and Oliver, Bert, Lester and Alfred of Bedford.

[SAFLEY, BELLE ZORA BOYER]
Bedford Times-Press (Bedford, Iowa), Thursday, June 8, 1933, p. 4
Mrs. Belle Safley Dies at Son's Home
Mrs. Belle Safley died at the home of her son, Oliver Safley northwest of Bedford Sunday morning after an illness of a few days. The funeral services were held at the Church of Christ in Hopkins Tuesday afternoon, conducted by Leslie R. Cobb of Bedford and assisted by Rev. B. H. Harmon of Hopkins. Burial was in the Hopkins cemetery.

Mrs. Safley was born November 27, 1858 in Belmont county, O. When a small child she moved with her parents to northeastern Iowa, where on January 22, 1880 she was married to W. [illiam] A. [nderson] Safley of Tipton, Iowa. In the year 1894 they moved to Taylor county and with the exception of the year 1906 which she spent in Bruce, Wisc., this had been her home since that time. Mr. Safley died five years ago.

They were the parents of seven children, one son, John, having died in 1912. The remaining children are Melvin Safley and Mrs. Anna Andrews of Hopkins, Mo., Oliver, Elbert, Lester and Alfred [Alford] Safley of Bedford. She is also survived by a sister, Mrs. Elizabeth Ackley of Bedford, a brother, J. D. Boyer of Sellersburg, Ind., fifteen grandchildren and five great grandchildren.

Mrs. Safley united with the Church of Christ when a young woman.

[SAFLEY, BELLE ZORA BOYER]
Clarinda Herald Journal (Clarinda, Iowa), Monday, June 19, 1933, p. 6
Mrs. Belle Safley Buried in Hopkins
The Safley Brothers, who formerly lived near Clarinda, recently lost their mother, Mrs. Belle Safley passing away June 4th at her home near Bedford. The funeral services were held June 6th at the Christian church at Hopkins, Rev. L. B. Cobb of Bedford conducting the service, assisted by Rev. B. H. Harmon. She was 74 years of age at the time of her death. The family had made their home in Taylor County since 1884 with exception of one year. She was the mother of Mervin Safley and Mrs. Anna Andrews and Alfred Safley of Bedford. Her husband had preceded her five years ago. The Safley boys will be remembered chiefly for their high grade of Belgians which they raised and showed at the Clarinda fair for so many years.

[SAFLEY, LESTER EARL]
Bedford Times-Press (Bedford, Iowa), Thursday, August 4, 1955, [p. 1]
Lester Safley Dies While Fishing
Lester E. Safley was drowned while fishing Friday morning, July 29, at the pond on the Wilbur Novinger farm west of Bedford. From the shore, Ben Shannon, Safley's fishing companion, attempted a rescue after Safley fell from a boat into water over his head. After futile attempts to rescue Safley from the shore Shannon went to the Novinger farm home a half mile from the pond to summon help.

Sheriff Harry E. Lucas immediately took the county's aquatic search and rescue kit to the scene of the tragedy when summoned. Lucas recovered the body 10 or 12 feet from shore in water over his head.

Lester Earl Safley was born at Tipton, Cedar county, Iowa, May 21, 1884 and died at the age of 71 years, two months, eight days. He was the son of William and Belle Safley.

He moved to Taylor county with his parents in 1894. In 1906 he moved to Bruce, Wisconsin and was married to Myrtle Dotson on December 25, 1907. To them one son was born, Ora Earl, who passed away in infancy.

In the fall of 1908 they returned to Taylor county, where he spent the remainder of his life. He farmed until his health failed him four years ago and he moved to town. He joined the Christian church at an early age.

He is survived by his wife, Myrtle; three brothers, Oliver Safley of Conway, Alford Safley of Bedford, Merve Safley of Hopkins; one sister, Mrs. Anna Andrews of Hopkins. Two brothers preceded him in death.

[SAFLEY, ORA EARL]
Bedford Free Press (Bedford, Iowa), Tuesday, July 15, 1913, [p. 1]
The two months old child of Mr. and Mrs. Lester Safely [Safley], west of town died last Thursday.

[SAFLEY, ORA EARL]
Bedford Times-Republican (Bedford, Iowa), Thursday, July 17, 1913, p. 3
Ora Earl, the infant son of Mr. and Mrs. L. [ester] E. [arl] Safely [Safley], died at the home Thursday, July 10, after a short illness. The funeral services were held at the home Friday and the interment was in the Hopkins cemetery.

[SAFLEY, WILLIAM ANDERSON]
Bedford Times-Republican (Bedford, Iowa), Thursday, April 5, 1928, p. 2
William A. Safley – William A. [nderson] Safley was born near Tipton, Ia., April 20, 1856, and died at Hopkins, Mo., March 30, 1928, aged 70 years, 11 months and 21 days. On the 22nd day of January 1880 he was united in marriage to Miss Belle Boyer of Stanwood, Ia. To this union seven children were born, as follows: M.[ervin] G. [ilbert] Safley of Hopkins, Mo., E. lbert] L. [awrence] Safley, L.[ester] E. [arl] Safley, O. [liver] F. [remont] Safley and A. [lford] C. [lifford] Safley of Bedford, Ia., and Mrs. J. [oseph] J. [esse] Andrews of Hopkins, Mo. One son, John W. Safley, preceded him in death in the year 1912. Thirty-five years ago, he moved from Tipton, Ia., to Taylor County, Iowa, where he had resided ever since, except for two and one-half years that he had spent in Wisconsin. Six children, his wife, two brothers: Alfred Safley of Tipton, Ia., and John Safley of Cushion, Ia., and fourteen grandchildren mourn his going. Also, in addition to these, many relatives and friends. He was always kind and considerate of his family. He was very patient in his long suffering. A short time before his death he confessed his Savior and was baptised.

[SCHUMACHER, JULIA]
Daily Democrat-Forum (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, November 3, 1910, [p. 1]
Died Thursday A. M.
The Death of Miss Julia Schumacher After A Long Illness
Funeral Services to Be Held Saturday Morning at St. Mary's Catholic Church
Miss Julia Schumacher, daughter of N. Schumacher, died about 6 o'clock Thursday morning, after a painful illness of two years. Her death was not unexpected by herself or her family. In fact, the young woman had herself prepared her family for her death, as she had frequently talked with them during the past few months of the approaching end of her earthly life, with the calm assurance of one who is prepared for such a change.

The funeral services will be held at St. Mary's Catholic church Saturday morning and will be conducted by Rev. Father Anselm, who had been the life-long friend and spiritual adviser of Miss Schumacher. Several relatives and friends from a distance are expected to attend the funeral. The body will lie in state at the Schumacher home Friday.

Miss Schumacher grew to womanhood in our city, and her many social gifts won her many admiring friends. She was educated in the convent schools of Maryville and Conception and being especially talented in music she gave considerable time and study in cultivating her musical gifts. She was a beautiful singer and since quite a young girl had been the leading soprano in St. Mary's choir, until ill health compelled her to give it up. She was very generous in aiding musical efforts by other churches and assisted whenever she could.

Miss Schumacher also became recognized as a very successful business woman while in the employ of the Alderman Dry Goods company, where she remained for several years until her health failed. Her obliging courtesy to all made her very popular with the trading public and she was missed by many when she severed her relations there.

Everything possible was done to save her life. She spent several months at Rochester, Minn., under the care of the Drs. Mayo, taking treatment for a spinal trouble she suffered from for years that was superinduced by an attack of spinal meningitis she suffered at the age of 5 years. She seemed to grow better for some time and was apparently on the way to perfect health, but her own hopes and those of her family were often deceived and at last she gave up to her fate in sweetest submission. She had much to live for, and the loving attentions she received daily from friends in flowers, fruit, books and letters made her life very happy and attractive, and she tried hard to live. Her mother passed away a little over a year ago and this second bereavement to the family is indeed hard to bear.

Miss Schumacher is survived by her father, N. Schumacher, three sisters, Mrs. Conrad Yehle, Miss Lenore and Miss Rose Schumacher and five brothers, John P. Schumacher of St. Joseph, Lawrence, Edward, Anselm and Frank Schumacher.

[SHANKS, SARAH A. CAMPBELL]
Daily Democrat-Forum and Maryville Tribune (Maryville, Missouri), Monday, August 20, 1923, p. 4
Mrs. Joe Shanks Dies Early This Morning
Mrs. Joe Shanks, of Kansas City, a former resident of Maryville, died at 5 o'clock this morning at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Floyd Babcock. She had been ill only a short time of uremic poisoning. The body will be brought to Maryville for burial and accompanied by relatives, will arrive here tomorrow noon. Arrangements for the funeral will not be completed until after the arrival of the funeral party. The body will be taken to the home of Mrs. Celia Frazee, 324 East Fourth street, a sister in law. She was about 67 years old and resided here until twelve years ago. Mr. Shanks died three years ago. Besides the daughter, at whose home she died, she is survived by the following children, William S. Shanks, St. Joseph; and Mrs. Jesse Thompson, Kansas City. Other surviving relatives are two brothers and one sister, James Neal, Pickering, Joshua Neal, Shenandoah, Ia., and Mrs. George Ingerson, Pasadena, Cal. One grandson, Lewis Anderson, who is in the navy, also survives.

[SHANKS, SARAH A. CAMPBELL]
Daily Democrat-Forum and Maryville Tribune (Maryville, Missouri), Tuesday, August 21, 1923, [p. 1]
Funeral of Mrs. Shanks Will be Tomorrow
Funeral services for Mrs. Joe Shanks, who died yesterday morning at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Floyd Babcock, in Kansas City, will be held at 2 o'clock Wednesday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Celia Frazee, 324 East Fourth Street, a sister in law. The Rev. B. F. Cline of the M. E. Church, South, will officiate and burial will be in Oak Hill cemetery. The body arrived in Maryville at noon today and was accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. Babcock, Mr. and Mrs. William B. Shanks of St. Joseph, a son and daughter-in-law, and Henry Neal of Kansas City, a brother.

[SHROYER, JOHN R.]
Daily Democrat-Forum and Maryville Tribune (Maryville, Missouri), Monday, July 2, 1923, p. 5
Obituary – John R. Shroyer, son of C. [harles] P. [reston] and Lovinia Bell Shroyer, was born May 7, 1867 in Mercer County, Ill., and parted his life at his home in Golden, Colo., May 21, 1923 at the age of 56 years and 14 days. Surrounded by the family, neighbors and kind friends of the community who provided every available comfort in his last hours of life.

He came with his parents to the state of Missouri in his boyhood days and settled on a farm 2 ¾ miles west of Gaynor in 1873. He was married to Sallie Graham in 1895. Besides his wife he leaves his father, C. [harles] P. [reston] Shroyer, Eckley, Colo., four sisters, two brothers, Mrs. Clara Barks and C. W. Shroyer, Las Animas, Colo., Mrs. Laura Florea, Hopkins, Mo., Mrs. Anna Hantz, Pickering, Mo., Frank Shroyer, Denver, Colo., Mrs. Pearl Barrett, Shambaugh, Iowa; also one adopted son, Ernest Shroyer and one son, Brice Shroyer by a former wife, one grandson, Harold Frances Shroyer of Monmouth, Ill, mourn his loss.

He has always been so patient during his eight weeks of sickness and has always been in good health all his life. But he kept his suffering to himself and had so many friends wherever he lived. How hard it is to give up our loved ones, but we all know his sufferings are ended and he is at rest; and the transport of the calm and beautiful sun's rays on a bright and beautiful May morning, nothing dimmed by his hope of the eternal life. Husband is gone, brother is gone, companion is gone, son is gone. Shall we meet him when life's scenes are closing? Will our faith look up to the Father of lights? Let us be faithful and go on step by step to the great  beyond where sorrows are ever o'er.

[SIMMONS, RALPH]
Daily Democrat-Forum (Maryville, Missouri), Tuesday, December 13, 1910, [p. 1]
Takes His Own Life Parnell Man Takes Carbolic Acid
Found Dead in St. Joe
Ralph Simmons, Unable to Find Work, Becomes Discouraged and Took His Life
Discouraged because he was unable to find employment and under the influence of liquor, Ralph Simmons, 29 years old, formerly a fireman on the Kearsarge, in the United States navy, committed suicide yesterday afternoon by drinking two ounces of carbolic acid at the home of his aunt, Mrs. C. A. Cox, 508 North Sixth street, says Tuesday's St. Joseph Gazette.

Simmons, whose father, Charles Simmons is a proprietor of a general merchandise store at Parnell, Mo., came to St. Joseph from Parnell Sunday morning. He went to this aunt's house and engaged a room. Yesterday morning he left the house, telling some other roomers that he was going to look for work. He returned about noon, declaring he was unable to find employment. It was noticed then by persons in the house that he was under the influence of liquor.

C. A. Cox passed through Simmons' room early in the afternoon and he noticed that the man was breathing hard. Thinking about it a few minutes later he decided to see if anything was the matter. When he went back into the room Simmons was dead. On the table was a bottle that had contained carbolic acid.

Coroner C. F. Byrd was called immediately and after an investigation ordered the body sent to Heaton's morgue, where an inquest will be held this afternoon. Coroner Byrd was unable to find any note or anything in Simmons' possession that would indicate why he took his life.

Charles Simmons, father of the suicide, gave it as his opinion last night over long-distance telephone that his son's action resulted from a long spree.

"Ralph didn't have to worry about not having any money and he didn't have any love affairs, the elder Simmons told a Gazette reporter. "I expect he got despondent after drinking a great deal."

The father will go there today and after the inquest will probably take his son's body to Parnell for burial.

[SMALLWOOD, BARZILLA WISTER]
Maryville Daily Forum (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, November 18 1937, [p. 1]
B. W. Smallwood, Retired Methodist Pastor, Dies
Barzilla Wister Smallwood, 77 years of age, a retired Methodist minister, died at 1:15 o'clock this morning at his home in Hopkins. He had been ill the past several months.

Funeral services will be held at 2 o'clock Saturday afternoon at the residence in Hopkins, conducted by Rev. Paul Barton, pastor of the Hopkins Methodist church. Burial will be in the Hopkins cemetery.

Mr. Smallwood was born November 2, 1860, at Kokomo, Ind. He had lived at Hopkins since 1915.

He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Julia Smallwood; a stepdaughter, Mrs. Helen Conder, Vinton, Ia.; and two sons, Harry A. Smallwood, St. Joseph, and Melville R. Smallwood, Wichita, Kas.

[SMALLWOOD, BARZILLA WISTER]
Maryville Daily Forum (Maryville, Missouri), Tuesday, November 23, 1937, p. 5
HOPKINS NEWS
Mr. and Mrs. Milt Smallwood of Omaha and Mr. and Mrs. Harry Smallwood of St. Joseph helped care for their father, B. W. Smallwood, who died Thursday morning.

[SMALLWOOD, HARRY ALONZO]
St. Joseph Union-Observer (St. Joseph, Missouri), Friday, March 4, 1938, p. 3
Harry Smallwood Dies in Veterans' Hospital; Was President of Sign Painters
Harry A. [lonzo] Smallwood, who was president of Sign, Scene and Pictorial Painters' Local No. 922, died last Friday morning at the U. S. veterans Hospital at Wadsworth, Kan. He had been ill for some time and he underwent an operation a week prior to his death.

Funeral services were held Monday afternoon at the Fleeman Funeral Home, and burial was in Memorial Park Cemetery. Members of Local 922 attended the service in a body. Officiating at the service was the Rev. E. L. Robison, pastor of the Huffman Memorial Methodist Church, of which Mr. Smallwood was a member. A military service was conducted by Macdonald-Dugger-Duncan Post No. 11 American Legion, of which Mr. Smallwood was a member. He played the trombone in the American Legion band.

Mr. Smallwood served in Company K, 139th Infantry, 35th division, during the World War. He was overseas a year.

Mr. Smallwood was forty-four years old. He was a commercial artist and his home was at 2712 Sacramento Street. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Lydia Smallwood, two daughters, Elaine and Maxine, at home; a brother Melvin Smallwood, Wichita, Kan. and his stepmother, Mrs. Julia Smallwood, Hopkins, Mo.

[SMALLWOOD, HARRY ALONZO]
Bedford Times-Press (Bedford, Iowa), Thursday, March 3, 1938, p. 3
Harry Smallwood Dies
Wife Was Former Siam Girl—Many Attend Last Rites
Harry Smallwood of St. Joseph, 44, passed away Friday morning at the veterans' hospital in Fort Leavenworth, Kans., the result of an appendicitis operation and complications.

Mr. Smallwood was formerly a Hopkins boy and eighteen years ago was married to Miss Lydia Fine, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Perry Fine of Siam. Two daughters, Elaine and Maxine, with their mother are left to mourn the loss of a devoted husband and father.

Funeral services were held Monday afternoon in St. Joseph and burial was in Memorial Park cemetery at St. Joseph.

Relatives attending from this community were Mr. and Mrs. Conlin Jobe, Mr. and Mrs. Ray Fine, Mr. and Mrs. Elza Fine, Mr. and Mrs. Perry Fine. Also Mr. and Mrs. Orville Horner of Shenandoah, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Renfro of Sidney, and Mr. and Mrs. Claude Pace of Hillsdale, Wyo.

[SMALLWOOD, JULIA MILLER MCKEE]
Maryville Daily Forum (Maryville, Missouri), Tuesday, March 15, 1960, p. 2
Mrs. Julia Smallwood Dies At Vinton, Ia.
Mrs. Julia M. Smallwood, 95, a longtime resident of Hopkins, died at 8:30 p. m. Friday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. W. L. Conder, Vinton, Ia., where she had been living. She suffered a long illness.

She was born June 16, 1865, at Savannah, the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Abraham Miller. She moved to Hopkins with her parents when she was a small child. Mrs. Smallwood was a member of the Methodist Church.

She was first married to Martin McKee, who died in 1903. She later married D. [Barzilla] W. [ister] Smallwood who died in 1937. Mrs. Smallwood moved to Vinton, Ia., from Hopkins in 1938.

Surviving besides her daughter are a stepson, Melville R. Smallwood, St. Joseph, grandchildren and great grandchildren.

Services were held Monday at Vinton and another service was held this afternoon at the Wray Memorial Methodist Church, Hopkins. Burial was in the Hopkins Cemetery.

Swanson Funeral Home was in charge of the services at Hopkins.

[SMITH, JENNIE SCHENCK]
Daily Democrat-Forum and Maryville Tribune (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, July 5, 1923, [p. 1]
Mrs. Jennie Schenck Smith Dies June 22
Mrs. Jennie Schenck Smith, a sister of Miss Katherine Schenck of Kansas City, formerly of Maryville, died Wednesday, June 22, at a sanitarium in Clarinda, Ia. The body will be brought to Maryville, which was the home of the Schenck family for many years and will be interred in Oak Hill cemetery.

[SPEAR, MOSES]
Daily Democrat-Forum and Maryville Tribune (Maryville, Missouri), Friday, July 6, 1923, [p. 1]
Moses Spear, 89, Dies at Ravenwood
Moses Spear, 81 years old, died at his home in Ravenwood this morning at 5 o'clock following a short illness. He is survived by his wife, Ellen A. Spear, three sons, C. M. Spear of Hollywood, Calif., T. A. Spear of Chadron, Neb., R. E. Spear of San Pedro, Cal., and three daughters, Mrs. Artie Gamble of Large Graff, Mont., Mrs. Mary E. Godeon of Chicago, Ill., and Mrs. Holly Moigham of Superior, Nebr. No funeral arrangements have been made. Mr. Spear had lived in Nodaway County about sixty-seven years, having come here from Nodaway County.

[STRICKLER, LLOYD LEE]
Daily Democrat-Forum and Maryville Tribune (Maryville, Missouri), Tuesday, July 3, 1923, [p. 1]
Lee Strickler Dies Today at K. C. Hospital
Maryville Resident Had Been Ill For Over Year—Body To Be Brought Here For Funeral
Word was received in Maryville today by relatives of the death of Lee Strickler, who has been ill in the Christian Hospital at Kansas City. Mr. Strickler died at 12:15 o'clock today, following an illness of more than a year. James B. Cummins left for Kansas City this afternoon and will return with the body tomorrow. No funeral arrangements will be made until then.

Lee Strickler was 27 years old and is survived by his wife, his parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Strickler of Skidmore and a sister, Miss Gertrude Strickler, attending college here. All were at his bedside at death.

Mr. Strickler was associated with the Sisson Loan and Title co., for about a year and half before the war. He was in government service for a year and later was in a detention camp in Florida. After the war, he was with Sisson until last July when his health failed and he was forced to give up his position. He was in St. Francis Hospital here and a few months later was taken to the Christian hospital in Kansas City where he died. He was operated on for an abscess of the hip and several blood transfusions were made.

[STRICKLER, LLOYD LEE]
Daily Democrat-Forum and Maryville Tribune (Maryville, Missouri), Thursday, July 5, 1923, [p. 1]
Strickler Funeral at Church Tomorrow
Body to Lie in State at Westfall Home—V. F. W. and American Legion in Charge
The funeral services for Lee Strickler, who died Tuesday in a Kansas City hospital following an illness of over a year, will be held at the First Christian Church at 2:30 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. The services will be in charge of the James Edward Gray Post of the American Legion and the Seth Ray David Post of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and will be conducted by the Rev. R. E. Snodgrass, if he arrives from Colorado. Military services will be conducted at the grave by these patriotic organizations and the pallbearers will be selected from both posts.

The pallbearers will be: Kyle Phares, John G. Mutz, Leonard Gray, Dr. R. C. Person, Dr. E. C. Braniger and Floyd Pope.

The music will be given by a mixed quartette, composed of Mrs. F. P. Robinson, Miss Sadie Neal, John G. Mutz, and E. E. Lunsford. Mrs. F. P. Robinson will sing, "In the Garden."

The body will lie in state at the home of Mrs. Strickler's parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Westfall, 1322 East Third street, from 12 o'clock to 2 o'clock preceding the funeral. Burial will be in Miriam Cemetery.

The Men's Bible Class of the First Christian Church will attend the funeral in a body. Mr. Strickler was one of the most active members of the class before his illness and contributed many cartoons to the class paper, "The Radio."

The Sisson Loan & Title Co., where he had been employed for more than two years prior to his illness, will be closed for the funeral.

[SWINFORD, SARAH MARGARET LUCAS]
Daily Democrat-Forum (Maryville, Missouri), Wednesday, December 14 1910, [p. 1]
Death From Acid
Mrs. W. H. Swinford Died Tuesday Night at Midnight
Was Self-Administered Failing Health Had Affected Her Mentally—Returned from Oklahoma Two Weeks Ago
Mrs. William H. [enry] Swinford passed away Tuesday night at 11:15 o'clock at the home of her father-in-law, George W. Swinford, on South Main street, from carbolic acid poisoning, administered by her own hand, as the result of melancholia, from which she had been a sufferer for some time.

The news was a sad shock to the many friends of the family when Mrs. Swinford's death became known Wednesday morning. Although she had been in failing health for the past two years and had been under the constant care of the family physician, Dr. A. B. Allen, the gravity of her mental condition was not realized by her family. Since Mrs. Swinford's health began failing they had not lived long at a time at their home, ten miles southeast of Maryville, but had divided their time between the home of their daughter in Oklahoma and that of Mr. Swinford's parents in Maryville.

It was noticed that Mrs. Swinford's health failed very perceptibly after the marriage and departure of their daughter, Miss Jessie Swinford who was their only child. Miss Jessie, it will be remembered, was united in marriage to Andrew C. Vickery, a young lumberman of Arkoe, the night of her graduation from the Maryville high school in May 1909. The ceremony followed the graduation exercises at the home of the bride's grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Swinford, with whom she had made her home while attending school, in the presence of relatives and the graduating class, and was an unusually happy wedding. The bridal couple soon left for their new home in Texas.

The mother, deprived of the bright, happy companionship of her only child, grew despondent and it was not long until, in company with Mr. Swinford, she went to Ralston, Okla., and visited for some time with her daughter and her husband, who had changed their residence from Texas.

While there Mrs. Swinford grew sick and was brought home by her husband to his father's home. This was a year ago. Soon after their arrival Mrs. Swinford's sickness developed into typhoid fever and she did not recover until late in the spring. Mr. Swinford also contracted the disease, and both were dangerously sick for several weeks. Both recovered nicely, however, and Mrs. Swinford seemed as well as ever she was.

The latter part of August Mr. and Mrs. Swinford went to Oklahoma to visit their daughter and Mrs. Swinford became sick again and they returned about two weeks ago. Dr. Allen was called and found her suffering from mild melancholia. She was constantly in fear that some unforeseen disaster would overtake her daughter, and the combined efforts of all her family to release her of such a morbid belief had no lasting effect, but no one dreamed that she would attempt to take her life, as she had never said a word that would indicate she thought of such a thing.

Tuesday morning Mr. Swinford and his father went to Bedison on business and spent most of the day at the home of a son-in-law, Gabe Purcell, returning in the evening. Wearied from the long cold drive Mr. Swinford went immediately to sleep after retiring Tuesday night about 9:20, Mrs. Swinford retiring at the same time. He was awakened some time after by Mrs. Swinford getting up. He spoke to her and said, "What is it, mamma; do you want anything?' She replied that she was only going to the bath room and he went to sleep again as she had been feeling unusually well for a few days. He did not hear her when she returned to bed and has no idea how long it was after she went to the bath room that he was awakened by her strangled breathing. She was lying in the bed as usual, but when he called to her she made no reply. Turning on the light he saw that she was dying. He summoned his parents and sister, Miss Irene Swinford, and called Dr. Allen, who arrived in fifteen minutes, but Mrs. Swinford had passed away before he reached the Swinford house.

A bottle containing carbolic acid was found in one corner of the bath room. The bottle was not labeled and was half filled with water. Dr. J. H. Todd, the coroner, was called, and summoning a jury composed of J. F. Montgomery, R. B. Montgomery, J. F. Roelofson, John Z. Curnutt, Orson Clark and W. J. Montgomery, the following verdict was rendered.

"We, the jury, find from the evidence that Mrs. Sarah Swinford came to her death by drinking carbolic acid, by act of her own hand.

Mrs. Swinford was about 46 years of age and was a woman of most gentle, sweet, kindly disposition. Tuesday morning, after Mr. Swinford left for a day's trip to the farm, she went uptown to attend to some shopping. Going into the Orear Drug Store she asked Mr. Orear, who came to wait on her, for ten cents worth of carbolic acid. Mr. Orear asked her, as the law requires, if she knew it was a deadly poison, and she said she did. Struck by her fine womanly appearance and with an unaccountable feeling that he should not sell her the acid, he asked if she lived here and what she wanted with the acid. She said her home was in the country and that she was going to use it as a disinfectant.

Mr. Orear went to the back of the store and put the acid in the bottle and labeled it and the wrapper and returned to where Mrs. Swinford was standing, feeling yet more certain that he should not give her the acid. Again, he asked her where she lived, and she said she was staying in town. He then asked her to sign her name in a record he keeps of poison sales. She refused, and he then told her he could not let her have it and she quietly passed out of the store. It is not known where she obtained the poison.

Mrs. Swinford was a sister of George Lucas, living four and a half miles southeast of Maryville and of Thomas Lucas of near Long Island, Kan. She was born and reared in this county and was one of the best and truest of Christian women.

Her grief-stricken family and friends have the sincerest sympathy of all in their deep sorrow.

The funeral services will be held Friday or Saturday at Swinford church, southeast of Maryville, due announcement of which will be made.

[SWINFORD, SARAH MARGARET LUCAS]
Daily Democrat-Forum (Maryville, Missouri), Friday, December 16, 1910, [p. 1]
Returned Home for Funeral
Mrs. W. S. Swinford and little grandson, Truman Pasch; Mr. and Mrs. Dwight Swinford and baby daughter, Cornelia Alice, of Arkoe, and Mrs. A. C. Thompson of Barnard returned to their homes Thursday evening, having been called to Maryville by the death of their relative and friend, Mrs. W. [illiam] H. [enry] Swinford of South Main street, who died Wednesday night. They attended the funeral and burial services at noon Friday at Swinford church, near Arkoe, conducted by Dr. L. O. Bricker.

[SWINFORD, WILLIAM HENRY]
Maryville Daily Forum (Maryville, Missouri), Tuesday, August 16, 1955, p. 2
Former Resident Dies In Vicksburg, Miss.
W. [illiam] H. [enry] Swinford, former resident of Maryville, died yesterday at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Andrew Vickery, Vicksburg, Miss.

Mr. Swinford was born Mar. 13, 1866 and was preceded in death by two wives and one grandchild.

Survivors include his daughter at whose home he died; two sisters, Miss Irene Swinford, Long Beach, Calif. and Mrs. Ernest Lyon, Maryville; two great grandchildren and several nieces and nephews.

Funeral services and burial will be at Vicksburg tomorrow.

[ULMER, JAMES]
Maryville Daily Forum (Maryville, Missouri), Monday, February 12, 1945, p. 5
Hopkins
Services for James Ulmer, who died last week were held at the Swanson Funeral Home February 10. The Rev. W. H. Hansford, Pastor of the Methodist church, conducted the service. Mrs. Wren Peve sang and Mrs. W. E. Turner accompanied at the piano. Pallbearers were S. F. Mendenhall, Lyle Ulmer, Walter Ulmer, Mack Ulmer, Ray Ulmer and Roy Ulmer. Burial was in Hopkins cemetery.

[WEBB, CHARLOTTE SOFIA "LOTTIE" OLIVER]
Daily Democrat-Forum and Maryville Tribune (Maryville, Missouri), Monday, July 2, 1923, p. 6
Services for Mrs. Webb Held This Afternoon
Funeral services for Mrs. Lottie Webb, who died at her home, 803 East Fourth street yesterday, were held at the house this afternoon. The Rev. T. J. Puckett will conduct the services and burial will be in the Burlington Junction cemetery,

Lottie Sofie Webb was born November 26, 1869. She is survived by her husband, J. [ohn] M. [Harrison] Webb and four sons, Carl Webb of Maryville; Am Webb of Randolph, Iowa, Mark Webb of Burlington Junction and Dan Webb of Maryville; and three daughters, Delpha Webb, Roberta Webb and Mrs. Elsie Williams, all of Maryville. Two brothers, Elmer Oliver of St. Joseph and Clint Oliver of N. D. and a sister, Mrs. Polly Miller of Cook, Colo., also survive.

[WEBB, JAMES HARRISON]
Maryville Daily Forum (Maryville, Missouri), Friday, June 25, 1954, [p. 1]
John Webb Burlington Dies At 7 O'Clock Today
John Webb, 87, resident of the Burlington Junction community his entire life, died at 7 o'clock this morning at the St. Francis hospital, where he had been a patient for a few days.

Mr. Webb, whose wife preceded him in death 24 years ago, is survived by three daughters Mrs. Levi Johnson, Burlington Junction; Mrs. Chester Williams, Twelve Mile, Ind., and Mrs. James Dale, Bloomfield, Colo.; three sons, Amil Webb, Shenandoah, Van Webb, Omaha and several grandchildren.

The body is at the Price funeral home and funeral arrangements have not been made.

[WEBB, JAMES HARRISON]
Maryville Daily Forum (Maryville, Missouri), Monday, June 28, 1954, p. 2
Funeral Services Sunday For John H. Webb
Funeral services for John H. Webb, Burlington Junction, who died Friday, were held at 4 o'clock Sunday afternoon at the Methodist church in Burlington Junction. The Rev. Hugo Rolens conducted the services and burial was in the Ohio cemetery

Douglas Hill, accompanied by Mrs. Hill sang "In the Garden" and "Beyond the Sunset."

Active pallbearers were John Bevins, Mark Hiles, Billy Miller, Clyde Shadduck, Mason Jones and Elva Shipley. Honorary pallbearers included Charles Bears, Lute Fast, Fletcher Dalbey, sr., Ed Ward, Loren Asbell and Henry Browning. Flowers were in charge of Mrs. Dale Buckalew, Mrs. Byron Jones, Mrs. Charles Kempf and Mrs. Judith Shipley.

[WEBB, JAMES HARRISON]
Maryville Daily Forum (Maryville, Missouri), Wednesday, June 30, 1954, p. 3
Attend Funeral Service
Relatives attending the funeral services for John Webb, Sunday, June 27, at the Methodist church in Burlington Junction were his three daughters: Mrs. Chester William and Mr. William, Twelve Mile, Ind., Mrs. James Dale, Bloomfield, Colo., and Mrs. Levi Johnson, Burlington Junction; three sons, Mark Webb, Kokomo, Ind., Mr. and Mrs. Van Webb, Omaha and Mr. and Mrs. Amil Webb, Shenandoah, and several grandchildren including Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Johnson, Denver, Colo.