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| 51 | Most of Josiah and Mary Pierce Farnsworth's sons have military records. Joseph was called Judge Joseph Farnsworth. | FARNSWORTH, Joseph (I496)
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| 52 | Most of Josiah and Mary Pierce Farnsworth's sons have military records. Josiah, the 1st born sone, probably later lived in the state of New York. He was one of Captain Samuel Howe's company for the relief of Fort William Henry in 1757. | FARNSWORTH, Josiah (I491)
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| 53 | Most of Josiah and Mary Pierce Farnsworth's sons have military records. Josiah, the 1st born sone, probably later lived in the state of New York. He was one of Captain Samuel Howe's company for the relief of Fort William Henry in 1757. Ebenezer was captured by Indians near Charlestown, New Hampshire and taken to Canada. Later he was taken to England and then sent home. Later, he joined in an expedition that was sent against Canada, during the war with France. Still later, he served in the Revolutionary War against England. James settled in Charlestown, New Hampshire. He was on the roll of Captain Humphrey Hobbs' company of rangers in 1748, that fought the Indians in June of that year, 12 miles west of Fort Dunbar. He was a member of the company of Captain Phineas Stevens for the defence of No. 4 in 1750. He was also one of the grantees under New Hampshire. He was a lieutenant, captain and general in the Revolutionary War. Thomas lived at Lunenburg, Massachusetts and New Ipswich, New Hampshire. At the first town meeting of Ipswich on September 13, 1762, he was one chosen as surveyors of highways. The town was incorporated on September 9, 1762. The first town military training was in 1771 and Thomas was listed as drummer. He was one of those who went to Cambridge at the time of the Battle of Lexington. He was there 8 days. Joseph was called Judge Joseph Farnsworth. | FARNSWORTH, Josiah (I443)
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| 54 | Most of Josiah and Mary Pierce Farnsworth's sons have military records. Thomas lived at Lunenburg, Massachusetts and New Ipswich, New Hampshire. At the first town meeting of Ipswich on September 13, 1762, he was one chosen as surveyors of highways. The town was incorporated on September 9, 1762. The first town military training was in 1771 and Thomas was listed as drummer. He was one of those who went to Cambridge at the time of the Battle of Lexington. He was there 8 days. | FARNSWORTH, Thomas (I495)
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| 55 | Nathan Stout (called Nate)was born March 11, 1859 in Hamilton, Minnesota. Nate was the only child of Joseph B. Stout's 1st marriage to Amanda. Later Joseph B. remarried and Nate had some half-brothers and half-sisters. Joseph, Amanda and Nate moved to Cobden, Union County, Illinois and lived in a small log house about 3 miles north west of Cobden. Nate's mother, Amanda, died when he was still young, probably around 1864-69. She is buried about to miles west in what is now an abandoned cemetary in Union County. In 1992, we walked t6hrough several old cemeteries in that area but didn't find her grave. After Amanda's death, Nate and his father moved in with a family who had a large two-story log house, just across the road from their original home. Nate lived there until he went west to Missouri in 1879 and on to Kansas where he worked as ranch manager on the Glendale Ranch for 3-4 years. (His Uncle Jared Stout owned part of this ranch.) While he worked on the ranch, Nate bought the 1st quarter section of what became the Nathan Stout place. In 1930 Nathan's son Art and his wife Lottie Lightfoot Stout took Nate and Callie to Cobden, Illinois to visit Nate's boyhood home. Relatives of the same family still lived in the big log house where Nate and his dad had stayed, and the Stouts had Sunday dinner with them. They also visited the cemetery where Nate's mother Amanda is buried. The trip was a highlight for Nate, but he could hardly understand why their favorite swimming hole looked so small. Nate and Caroline "Callie" Shaffer were married April 11, 1884 in Carthage, Missouri. They lived on the farm near Beverly, Kansas and raised their family there. They retired in about 1916. Their farm and 2 dry-land pastures took care of them financially. They began spending their winters on the Gulf, at Palacios, Texas, and continued for 21 consecutive years. It wasn't an expensive arrangement and was one that they very much enjoyed. Art Stout told me, "Dad was a born fisherman and mother was never happier than when she had a fishing pole in her hand. Creek, pond or Gulf, it didn't really matter." They moved into town (Beverly) about this time, but kept the farm and pasture land and leased it out. My great-grandpa Nathan Stout died on my 1st birthday, October 2, 1939, so I don't remember him, but he must have been a talented man. Mother (Arthola Bloyd Harman) said he played the fiddle well, and she especially liked to hear him play "Red Wing". He would whittle and carve most any piece of wood he found. We have a monkey that he carved from a peach seed and also a "sea bean" he polished. He put hooks on them to use for necklaces for the girls and watch fobs for the boys. I always thought the beans were something he found near and ocean, but Kaye Martin (Beulah Frankie Stout Oliver's daughter) says they are buck-eyes and said she heard Nate partially polished them by carrying them around in his pocket. They rubbed together and were polished. Many of the family have walking canes he made and carved. He used most any stick or tree branch to make the canes. One started out as a partially burned stick and the burned area is still visible. Bie;aj Stpit P;over's daughters, Jean Allen and Kaye Martin said that often when Nate finished work in the fields or during a break, he would crawl under the wagon and carve the bottom so the underside of the wagon was a work of art! I have a little gold heart locket that Nate and Callie gave me when I was born. Beulah Oliver told that during one hard winter there wasn't much to eat, so the kids would put a bit of bread on a fish-hook and toss it out the door. When a bird ate the bread, the kids would pull it in and they cooked and ate the wren breasts. Nathan bouth and sold and worked and made out well. He was one of the first in the county to buy a car--in 1904. Nate didn't think girls needced to go on to school, so after Beulah graduated from 8th grade, she taught school for a year, then went to nurses training for a year. She alternated between teaching and nurses training for 3 years until she became a nurse. She met Jerry Oliver when she was his nurse when he was hospitalized with appendicitis when he was in the army. MONEY IN THE CELLAR: After Nate's death, they discovered money hidden in the cellar. Nate had evidently hidden it over the years, and even Caroline didn't know of it. Before they went anywhere, Nate would cover the cellar door with blankets, "In case it rains," he would say. It was an outside cellar, not connected to the house. It had a sloping door and Nate secured it with both a padlock and hand hasp plus a couple of nails--he never forgot the two nails--whenever they were to be gone for any period of time. It was evident that something was there that he valued, but everyone assumed it was the canned fruit and things of that sort. When Nate died all the kids came home, as as they had limited time, they wanted to take care of things. They knew their Dad had postal savings bonds, so they had the banker open his lock box, but there was nothing in it of any value. They knew he had assets somewhere. Art kept remembering the old plug cut tobacco box his father kept things in, but it didn't seem to be around. They looked for it all over the house, and checked the barn. Finally they looked down in the cellar, but found nothing. However, there was firewood stacked on one side of the cellar which had been there for years. They used out of it now and then during rainy weather when the other wood was wet. So finally they started unstacking the wood, and back about the middle of the pile they found the box. Inside were several tobacco tins stuffed with bills. There were $14,000 in bills of all denominations, all of them old bills, none of the new ones that came out in the 1930's. The kids decided to see a banker friend about what to do with it. He told them there was no tax problem and deposited it. They never found any bonds or savings certificates. Nate had probably used them instead of money to live on during his final years. They still had all 3 dry-land farms, too. Art Stout kept the tobacco box, and I saw it when we visited them in 1978. It is red and about 20" long and 4 1/2" high. An incident happened after they found the money that the family had a lot of laughs over. "A nice neighbor, just a little bit tetched" lived in the house east of theirs. It was late in the evening when the money was found, so they pulled the window shades and stretched the bills out on the kitchen table in denomination piles to count. It was unusual for them to pull the curtains, living in the country as they did. The next day the neighbor saw Beulah and she said, "Don't worry, I'll never tell anybody." Apparently, she had seen the blinds drawn, so she came over and looked around them to see what was going on. Jean (Oliver) Allen, daughter of Beulah Stout Oliver, said that when Nathan died, each of his children got $2,000 and Callie had $12,000 for the rest of her life. Jean Allen went to school on $500 of that money. Another detail about Nathan that Kaye Martin told: If there was something mathematical to figure out, Nathan would tell the answer right away but didn't know how he got it. When someone else would figure it our on paper, he was proven correct. Dee Ann Harman Bishopp | STOUT, Nathan Agustus (I250)
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| 56 | Nellie Anna Stout Vawter and Helen Stout Bloyd had a double wedding at their parent's home on a pretty spring Easter sunday, March 31, 1907. The girls had similar wedding dresses and cut bouquets of lilacs from the yard to put in the house for the wedding. Source: Dee Ann Harman Bishopp | STOUT, Nellie Anna (I252)
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| 57 | Nellie Anna Stout Vawter and Helen Stout Bloyd had a double wedding at their parent's home on a pretty spring Easter sunday, March 31, 1907. The girls had similar wedding dresses and cut bouquets of lilacs from the yard to put in the house for the wedding. Source: Dee Ann Harman Bishopp | STOUT, Helen (I243)
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| 58 | Nellie Stout Vawter died at age 35 of pneumonia. Her husband died 7 years later at age 42 "of a broken heart". They had 4 baby boys who died at birth. Now we know that Nellie was RH negative. Nellie and Ernest Vawter were teachers in Kansas and farmed in Flagler, Colorado during the summer. In winter he hunted cayotes and cured their pelts. Source: Alma Vawter Anderson, Nellie and Ernest's daughter. | STOUT, Nellie Anna (I252)
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| 59 | O. Judson and Sophronia were married in Buffalo, Iowa, also known as Buffalo Grove, by James B. Ward, Justice of the Peace. Buffalo G5rove no longer exists but was near Aurora, Iowa. | FARNSWORTH, O. Judson (I265)
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| 60 | O. Judson and Sophronia's second child, Cora, was born in Iowa. Before she was born, Judson left with a wagon train which was headed for California. He went along because he was the only one who knew how to drive a six-horse team on the train. He was to be gone only 2 or 3 days--long enough for him to teach someone else how to drive the team. But they talked him into going with them the whole distance. So he sent word back home that he was going on, not knowing that Cora was expected. There wasn't a gun on the entire wagon train, and they were never molested by Indians. However, Judson believed that they might all have been killed one night if they had had a gun. The horses were frightened by something moving around in the dark out on the prairie. They would have shot at this object if they had possessed a gun. Judson always believed that the object on the prairie was an Indian in a buffalo robe, and if they had killed him, there would have been an Indian attack. As it was, they kept control of their horses and after awhile, the object left. This happened in 1864 and Judson returned home by ship via the Isthmus of Panama to New York City and then overland by train to Iowa. He was gone nearly two years and Cora was over a year old when he got home. The family moved to Oklahoma in 1893 when Oklahoma was opened to settlement. Judson freighted in Oklahoma and never carried a gun even then, although nearly everyone else carried guns in those days. The above story was related to me by W. Harlow Farnsworth, the son of Asher Farnsworth and the grandson of O. Judson and Sophronia Farnsworth. Harlow remembers both his father and Aunt Cora telling him about these incidents. Source: Dee Ann Harman Bishopp | FARNSWORTH, O. Judson (I265)
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| 61 | O. Judson and Sophronia's second child, Cora, was born in Iowa. Before she was born, Judson left with a wagon train which was headed for California. He went along because he was the only one who knew how to drive a six-horse team on the train. He was to be gone only 2 or 3 days--long enough for him to teach someone else how to drive the team. But they talked him into going with them the whole distance. So he sent word back home that he was going on, not knowing that Cora was expected. This happened in 1864 and Judson returned home by ship via the Isthmus of Panama to New York City and then overland by train to Iowa. He was gone nearly two years and Cora was over a year old when he got home. | FARNSWORTH, Cora E. (I555)
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| 62 | O. Judson Farnsworth and his wife Sophronia C. Farnsworth were 1st cousins. | FARNSWORTH, O. Judson (I265)
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| 63 | Obituary At her late residence six miles from this city, Sophronia C., wife of Judson Farnsworth, died April 20, 1888 of cancer in the breast, after a painful illness of fourteen months. Mrs. Farnsworth was born in Fairfield, Vermont, October 14, 1833. She came with her parents to Buchanan County, Iowa in 1855. In January 1856, she united in marriage. October 1870, with her family, she came to Lincoln County, Kansas. In May 1885,she moved with her family to Atchinson County, Kaqnsas and remained there until March 19, 1888. By her request, she was brought back to Lincoln County, Kansas, to die among her friends. In early life she sought the Savior and united with the Baptist church. Later she united with the Methodist Episcopal church. She was a true Christian, ever trusting in her Savior. She was much loved and respected by all who knew her. She was an affectionate companion and a kind mother. She leaves a husband and five children (three daughters and two sons) to mourn their loss. The funeral services took place at the Methodist church, conducted by Rev. C.W. Caseley. Text, 1st Cor., xv55. The remains were interred in the Lincoln Cemetery. Lines Dedicated to the Memory of Mrs. S.C. Farnsworth While spring winds move with gentle tough Each opening bud and leaf, We bend above her slumb4ering dust With hearts made sore by grief. We mourn a friendship stong and true Now sundered wide by fate, And o'er the broken links that bound Man's holiest estate. We weep, but all our tears and sighs Cannot remold the past, Or bring to life the form we loved, Her labors closed at last. But on our hearts with loving deeds Bright memory's pages glow. That gained a joyful welcome home When done with scenes below. And round her bed, with gently hand, Peace spreads her robe of white. Whiole angel spirits waft her soul Above on wings of light. A Friend. | FARNSWORTH, Sophronia C. (I266)
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| 64 | Old family records say Theora County, but there is no such county. However there is a Peoria County just across the river from Pekin. | SHAFFER, Caroline (I251)
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| 65 | Salina Union J. Farnsworth, 75 Years of Age Died Last Evening J. Farnsworth, one of the oldent settlers of Lincoln County, died in this city yesterday afternoon about 4 o'clock at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Russell Montgomery, Gypsum Avenue, East Side. The cause of death was cancer. He suffered much with this dread disease but his death was quiet and he passed away as thought he had just fallen asleep. The deceased was 75 yhears and 5 months old. He moved to Lincoln County in 1870 and at this time there was little else save the hut of the pioneer who trapped the buffalo and other wild game which abounded in Kansas in the early days. He remained there facing the hardships until the county changed from a wild stretch of buffalo grass to a fertile country with rich farms and dotted with thriving towns. His wife prceeded him to the better land in 1888. He leaves to survive him five children, namely Mrs. R. E. Bloyd, of Beverly; Mrs. Phillip Snyder, of Oklahoma; Mrs. Russell Montgomery, of Salina; Asher Farnsworth and Ed Farnsworth. He is also survived by his sister, Mrs. E. H. Doolittle, of Lincoln. All of these relatives were present at his bedside when death came. The remains were sent to Lincoln this afternoon where they will be laid to rest. --------------------------- Obituary Judson Farnsworth died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Russell Montgomery, Salina, Kansas, September 11, 1906--aged 75 years. He was born in Franklin County, Vermont and came to Lincoln County, Kansas in 1870, and settled near BVashan. He went to Oklahoma at the time of "The Run" and has lived there. The deceased is survived by five children--three daughters and two sons. The daughters are Mrs. R. E. Bloyd of Beverly, Kansas; Mrs. Philip Snyder of Oklahoma; and Mrs. Russell Montgomery of Salina. The sons are Asher and Edgar of Ellsworth and his sister, Mrs. E.H. Doolittle of Lincoln. Rve. C.C. Woods conducted the funeral services at his daughter's home in Salina, and Revs. Smith and Bradbury at the M. E. church, Lincoln. Text, "Whosoever shall give you a cup of water to drink in My name, because you belong to Christ, verily I say unto you, he shall not lose his reward." Judson Farnsworth was a man of few words and very kind and hospitable. H.C.B. | FARNSWORTH, O. Judson (I265)
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| 66 | Samuel was the 8th child of Matthias and Mary Farr. Three of Samuel's sons and some others were given a grant of land and began and organized Charlestown, New Hampshire in 1740. They experienced much Indian trouble there, including capture. Tow of them were captured by Indians at different times and the other was killed during an Indian ambush. He was ovcertaken by Indians, but was resisting. A soldier fired at the Indians, but his Farnsworth instead. Samuel himself became an early settler of "Turkey Hills" which is now called Lunenburg, Massachusetts. | FARNSWORTH, Samuel (I465)
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| 67 | Sarah Nutting Farnsworth, Matthias, Jr.'s widow, remarried to John Stone December 16, 1698. Sarah was the daughter of John and Sarah Nutting. John Nutting was an original proprietor of Groton, holding a "17 acre" right and lived directly north of the place where James Brook crosses the Groton Main Street. His house was one of the most ancient of the garrisons of the town and not very far from the garrison house of Captain James Parker. Parker was on the south side of the brook, Nutting on the north. | NUTTING, Sarah (I446)
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| 68 | Sophronia and Judson Farnsworth were 1st cousins. Gustavus Farnsworth was Judson's father and Gustavus' brother, David, was Sophronia's father. | FARNSWORTH, Sophronia C. (I266)
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| 69 | Sophronia was living in Atchinson County, Kansas but asked to be brought back to Lincoln when she died. She came back to Lincoln County March 19, 1888 and died in April. | FARNSWORTH, Sophronia C. (I266)
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| 70 | STONE FENCE POSTS Because trees were somewhat scarce, early Kansas settlers quarried limestone and "broke out" posts for their fences.There are still alot of the old limestone fence posts in Lincoln County around Lincoln and Beverly, and a lot of old stone buildings like the court house in Lincoln. Today, the stone posts are making a comeback of sorts, as people are using stone posts for their businesses and on the lawns of their homes for their house numbers or names. The stone-work on the old Stout home is very nice and well-preserved. We bought a stone bookend in Lincoln that has a minature rock post and barbed wire fence on it. Source: Dee Ann Harman Bishopp | STOUT, Nathan Agustus (I250)
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| 71 | STOUT FAMILY ORIGINS: Stout (English) means a bold, strong, valient, proud man. Gertrude Stout Phillips thought the Stouts were Scotch and english. Art Stout said he had understood that his dad, Nathan Augustus Stout, was at least partly Scotch and possibly Welch. When Art was in Englandc, he met an English barrister (lawyer) named Earnjest Frank Stout, who said he was Welsh. He said that all the Stouts in England came there by way of the Orkney and Shetland Islands following the invation by the Normans. He said that even today, those two island groups have a large percentage of people named Stout and that most of the Stouts who came to England settled in Whales. | STOUT, Cornelius Agustus (I409)
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| 72 | The child, Rebecca, daughter of Matthias, Jr. and Sarah Nutting, was drowned in the well at Watertown, May 19, 1692. She had been sent to her aunt Mary Thatcher for safety during the Indian raids at that time. | FARNSWORTH, Rebecca (I483)
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| 73 | The following incidents involving O Judson Farnsworth were related by Judson and Sophronia's son, Asher Judson Farnsworth, to his son, Harlow Farnsworth of Ponca City Oklahoma and Harlow shared them with me. Asher always said that his father, a freighter could unhitch a six-hourse team and take care of them as quick as most good men could care for a pair of horses. Judson never carried a gun while freighting and alwasy told his children, "A gun will only get you into trouble." He never liked it when Asher wore a six-shooter, as was the custom of nearly everyone in that country then. Judson always claimed he could swim farther than he could walk. One story that Asher told happened while the family lived at Atchinson, Kansas. One Sunday, stakes were set in a bayou in the Missouri River bottoms, 1/2 a mile apart. Asher saw his father swim 10 times around the stakes--10 miles. Another incident happened while the family lived about six miles west of Ponca City, Oklahoma. they raised corn on Salt Creek near Fairfax, Oklahoma. Fairfax is in Osage County, 30 miles east of Ponca City and across the Arkansas River. In those days the river ran full all summer and wasn't considered crossable then, as there were no bridges. One 4th of July morning, Judson said, "Asher, go hitch up the team to the buggy. We'll go see the corn today." Asher replied that the river was up too high to cross, but Judson told him, Z"I never said anything about the river. I said we were going to see the corn. Now go hitch up." Asher did as he was told and when they came to the crossing, his father didn't hesitate any more than we would crossing a river bridge today. They turned the seat cushion up on edge and sat on the back of the buggy seat with their feet on the seat and across the river they went. One year, soon after Sophronia's death, Judson hired out to a circus to help haul them overland from town to town. While they were with the circus, Asher remembered a lawyer from Chicago visited Judson to get him to sign papers to start a lawsuit over land in Chicago. Judson would have nothing to do with it. | FARNSWORTH, O. Judson (I265)
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| 74 | The of Bashan, Kansas, where Patty died is no longer in existance. It was in Elkhorn township, Lincoln County, 5 miles east of Lincoln, Kansas. | FARNSWORTH, Patty (I428)
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| 75 | The of Bashan, Kansas, where Patty died is no longer in existance. It was in Elkhorn township, Lincoln County, 5 miles east of Lincoln, Kansas. | FARNSWORTH, Patty (I428)
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| 76 | There is some confusion about when Benjamin was born. He may have been the 7th child instead of the 4th. Descendents of Benjamin and Mary Prescott may claim descent from Alfred the Great of England. | FARNSWORTH, Benjamin (I461)
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| 77 | Two of the children of L. David and Barbara died of diptheria in 1878. They were Margretta Jane, age 7, and David L., age 14. they and their parents are buried in Lincoln, KA. | FARNSWORTH, L. David (I553)
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| 78 | WILLIAM P. SHAFFER Caroline Shaffer Stout's Brother William Phillip Shaffer was born near Peoria, Ill, February 3, 1863 and passed away at his home near Osawatomie, Kas., April 8, 1949, being at the time of his death, 83 years, 2 months and 5 days old. During his early life he was engaged in business in Kansas City, Mo. On November 28, 1905 he was united in marriage to Miss Jennie Cracroft. In 1907 he came to Miami county making his home on a farm four miles northeast of Osawatomie where he had resided until the time of his death. He leaves to mourn his passing his faithful wife, one sister, Mrs. Callie Shaffer Stout, sever nieces and a host of friends. Mr. Shaffer was active in the affairs of his community and served as commissioner of this county for eight years. For the past several years he had held his membvership in the Methodist Episcopal church in Osawatomie. In time of need and sickness, he offered a helping hand. It can truthfully be said he was a "good neighbor," The memory of kind and generous deeds will forever live in the hearts of his friends. Thus closes the pilgrimage of another man who lived beyond his three-score and ten, and for the past 40 years spent a quiet, unpretentious life in this community. Funeral services were held at the Eddy Funeral Home, Osawatomie, Thursday, April 11, 1946 at 2:30 p.m.,. Rev. Max Barnes officiated. Singers were Mrs. Esther Teeter, Mrs. Gertrude Price and Paul Larson of Kansas City, Mo. The songs used were "Abide With Me," In the Garden," and "Rock of Ages." Pallbearers were Floyd Jenkins, Charles Knoche, Charles Lynn, Dike Dickerson, Donald Omery and Alfred Miller. Internment was in New Osawatomie cemetery. Uncle Will Shaffer was the only relative that Caroline and Nathan's children all knew. Each fall he would make a trip to visit and he and Nate would have a two day hunting expedition for quail and prarie chichens, which were very plentiful. Source: Dee Ann Harman Bishopp | SHAFFER, Caroline (I251)
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