- Caroline Shaffer Stout waqs born in Pekin, Illinois, March 3, 1859 and passed away at the home of her daughter Gertrude Stout Phillips (Mrs. Claude), Salinqa, Kansas, April 24, 1949.
She was a ppioneer of Lincoln County, having come to that county sisty-five years ago, as a bride. She was married to Nathan A. Stout, at Carthage, Mo., April 1884. They settled on the Glendale Ranch, south-west of Tescott, Kansas, where they lived for two years. Later they moved to the Babb place joing the Sunrise School lot, where they lived while the house was being built on the home place. Moving there, they resided and raised their family. This was and still is known as "The Farm of Artisan Wells."
There were six children. All grew to womanhood and manhood. Nellie A. Stout Vawter, who died Feb. 27, 1920 at Serbert, Colorado; Helen Stout Bloyd, Lamar, Colo9rado; Gertrude Stout Phillips, Salina Kansas; Beulah Stout Oliver, Corpus Christie, Texas; Joseph Leroy Stout, St. Louis, Missouri; Arthur J. Stout, Chicago, Illinois. Also surviving her are twenty-one grandchildren, twenty-eight great-grandchildren, and one great-great-grandchild.
She passed from this life, April 24, 1949. Funeral services were held Wednesday, April 27, 1949 at 2 o'clock at the Guy R. Ryan & Sons Mortury, Salina, Kansas. Reverand F.W. Prather officiating. Internment was in the Monroe Cemetery, south of Beverly at 4:00 p.m., April 27, 1949.
- 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
- Caroline (called Callie) Shaffer was born in Pekin, Peoria County, Illinois March 3, 1859. Her father was in the Civil War. Caroline remembered her father coming home from the war and working in the coal mines near their home. She used to carry his lunch to the mine at noon. We do not know about her father after that. There were 6 brothers and sisters in the family: Caroline, William P., Lula, Mary Julia and a younger brother. After their father was gone, their mother was unable to care for all of them and work for a living so she gave the two younger ones away to separate families. Caroline lost track of them. She later learned where Julia was. Julia lived in Iowa after she was married, but they never learned where the little brother lived. Aunt Gertrude Stout Phillips wrote, "Mother (Caroline) went to see her sister Julia after we children were old enough to be left with Daddy. We children never saw any of our grandparents."
Callie, her mother, and possibly her sister, Lula, moved to Avilla, Mo. when Callie was about 14 years old. She started working for families then, and her mother died soon after. The mother is buried in a cemetery about 3 miles north west of Avilla. Callie worked at the farm home of Dr. Sheffield and probably met Nathan there. Nate Stout worked there for a time after he moved from Ill. Later Callie moved into Avilla and worked for the family who owned the general store.
In 1932, Art and Lottie Lightfoot Stout took his parents to Avilla, Mo. where Callie had lived. They visited Dr. Sheffield, who was then 95, but he remembered Callie and Nate from 50 years earlier. Caroline wanted to visit the cemetery where her mother is buried, but the fence line road was too muddy.
Caroline married Nathan Stout on April 11, 1884 in Carthage, Mo. There is a bit of a mystery here. I have a copy of their marriage license and it has the names as Nathan A. Stout and Caroline Corrier (not Shaffer). Neither Gertrude or Art had any explanation for this--neither remembered hearing the name "Corrier." It could have been an error on the part of the county recorder.
Something that could hqave had a bearing on this name puzzle, is that in at least 4 of their letters to each other in late 1883, Caroline and Nate wrote about who to ask to be witnesses to go with her to Carthage about something that was to come up for a hearing in the spring of 1883. I have been unable to find out what this hearing was about. Another letter from Jerry Celand, Caroline's brother-in-law, mentiones that Callie should see a lawyer to see about her land, that the old man just got it away from her by a crooked deal. Whether or not any of this has to do with the name on the marriage certificate, or about her father, we don't know.
Married names of the Shaffer children were: Caroline Stout; William P. Shaffer or Paola, Kansas; Lula Celand of Jerico, Mo.; Julia Basel of Latty, Iowa; and Mary Shaffer of Boise, Idaho. Mary married a Mitchell Shaffer--no relation. Lula married Jerry Cleland or Cealand August 3 1883 in Cedar, Mo.
Callie was a cheerful person, able to meet most situations with a smile, according to her son, Art.
She died April 24, 2949 at Gertrude Stout Phillip's home at 129 S. Connecticut in Salina, Kansas. Pneumonia was the cause of death. She was buried on April 27, 1949 in Monroe Cemetery in Beverly, Kansas.
Source: Dee Ann Harman Bishopp
- Caroline pieced and gave to mother (Arthola Bloyd Harman) a red quilt. She pieced it around 1928. They were in Palacio, Tex. for the winter, and she was working on the quilt top but ran out of red material, so sen sent Nate to town to buy some more. In Palacio there wasn't much to choose from, so he took what he could get. That's why the quilt that I have was two shades of red. Caroline also made another quilt top about the same time and wanted to give one to Nellie Bloyd (Deeter) and one to Arthola. The two girls drew straws to see who got which one, and mother got the red one. Mother never got the quilt top stitched so Grandma Bloyd (Helen Stout Bloyd) quilted it for me in the 1950's.
Jean Oliver Allen has a Stout heirloom quilt, quilted by Caroline Stout. She said it is made from cotton they grew 20 miles north of the Mason-Dixom Line. Perhaps they grew the cotton near Carthage, Mo.
Ione Bloyd Saulmon told me in 2003 that Caroline grew her own cotton when they stayed at Palacio, Texas. She carded it and made the batting out of it to put inside the quilt. So apparently it was the cotton batting she did herself, not the fabric for the quilt itself.
Source: Dee Ann Harman Bishopp
- As for Caroline Shaffer Stout's side of the family, Art Stout says he always understood that Caroline's ancestry was 1/2 German and 1/2 French. Helen Stout Bloyd said it was the Frnech ancestry in her that caused her to tan so easily. Shaffer is German for a shepard.
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Our Family History
1859 - 1949 (90 years)