BRACKENRIDGE, THOMAS
Iola, Kas., Oct. 14 - Thomas Brackenridge, 91 years
old, a pioneer resident, was found dead in his armchair today. Death was due to heart disease. (The Kansas City
Star, October 15, 1911)
CORBETT, A. L.
Iola, Kas., July 28 - A. L. Corbett, 23 years old,
employed as a machinist by the Lanyon Zinc company was mangled by the machine this morning and died half an hour
later. He jumped off a beam on which he was sitting and fell between two cog wheels. He leaves a young wife. (The
Kansas City Star, July 28, 1902)
ELLIS, T. E.
T. E. Ellis, a building contractor of Humboldt,
Kas., died this morning at the University hospital. Not long ago he fell from a building in Humboldt and fractured
his skull and was brought to Kansas City for treatment. He was 41 years old. His body will be sent to Humboldt
for burial. (The Kansas City Star, June 9, 1900)
FUNSTON, EDWARD H.
Iola, Kansas, Sept. 11 - Former Congressman Edward
H. Funston, 75 years old, father of Brigadier General Frederick Funston, commanding the Department of the Philippines,
died last night at his home here of heart disease. He was in Congress twelve years in the late eighties and early
nineties, representing the Second Kansas district. (The Philadelphia Inquirer, September 12, 1911)
HOOPES, LETTIE L.
Lettie L. Hoopes, 34 years old, wife of Colfa Hoopes,
janitor of the Humboldt school, died last night at her home, 1016 Charlotte street. The body will be sent to Lawrence,
Kas., for burial. (The Kansas City Star, October 3, 1905)
KREADER, ELMER A.
Elmer A. Kreader, 49 years old, who formerly lived
on the Kansas side, died Tuesday at Humboldt, Ariz. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Edna L. Kreader of Humboldt;
two sons, Lester Kreader, Portsmouth, Va.; Lawrence Kreader, 564 Freeman Avenue, Kansas side, and one daughter,
Mrs. Pearl Carter, 564 Freeman Avenue, Kansas side. Services will be at 3 o'clock tomorrow afternoon at Gibson
& Son chapel. Burial will be at Mount Hope Cemetery. (The Kansas City Star, June 7, 1919)
MARTIN, A. S.
A. S. Martin of Iola Died While Having His Fortune
Told - Not satisfied with What a Card From A Machine Told Him - "You may marry twice, but you will have only
a small family. Any investment you will make in the ground will prove worth while."
This bit of uncertain prophecy and advice was part
of the reading on a fortune telling card which A. S. Martin of Iola, Kas., drew from a slot machine at Yale's Arcade,
720 Main Street, yesterday afternoon. A minute later he was stricken while in a fortune telling tent in the same
room and died before physicians arrived.
Martin and a young baker from Chicago entered the
arcade together and began a round of the penny slot machines. Martin first went to the fortune telling machine.
Mrs. Nellie Underwood, who read palms at Electric Park for several years has a fortune telling tent in the arcade.
He entered the tent.
"What can you tell me from that hand?"
he asked of the woman. He sat down and his face changed to a more serious look. "Can you tell me if there
is going to be a separation?" he asked.
Mrs. Underwood looked at his hand and told him
there was a good deal to be told in his palm. As she finished the sentence, Martin's head dropped forward and he
put his outstretched hand to his forehead.
Albert Dilts, manager of the arcade and W. J. Rogers,
a patrolman, carried the man to a rear room. They notified the city physician. When Dr. L. D. Twyman arrived from
the emergency hospital Martin was dead.
J. R. Murphy, office deputy for the coroner, sent
the body to O'Donnell's undertaking rooms. Letters, which bore the evidence of belonging to an oil man, were addressed
to Martin at Garnett and Iola, Kas. A membership book in the Modern Woodmen of America was among the letters. It
was from an Iola lodge. In his trousers pocket was $49.
Iola, Kas., July 21 - A. L. Martin formerly lived
in Iola, but now owns a bakery in Garnett. He has suffered two strokes of apoplexy and his mind was affected. He
was in Iola Monday consulting a physician. His children live here and his wife in Garnett. (The Kansas City Times,
July 22, 1909)
RAY, MR
Iola, Kan., Nov. 5 - Mrs. Annie Ray was arrested
late last night charged with murder in the first degree and is held in Allen County jail.
About two months ago Mrs. Ray sued for divorce and asked the court to issue a decree prohibiting Ray from coming
to the farm where they lived, adjoining Iola. The court issued the divorce, but finally modified it and allowed
Ray to go on the farm and care for the crops. Ray went to the house October 24 and there the old quarrel was revived.
Ray struck Mrs. Ray on the head. Mrs. Ray then
took a shotgun and as Ray was retreating shot him three times. Ray was taken to the hospital, where he died early
yesterday morning. Mrs. Ray is charged with willful and premeditated murder. (The Kansas City Times, November 5,
1913)
REED, DAUGHTER
Iola, Kan., March 30 - The 10 year old daughter
of Brock Reed died yesterday from heart disease, caused by overexertion in jumping the rope. (Kansas Weekly Capital
and Farm Journal, April 6, 1893)
RODGERS, MRS. F. H.
Iola, Kas., Aug. 27 - Forewarnings of death and
danger are not uncommon in meetings where the spirit of the Holy Ghost is present, according to Mrs. Ivah Golden,
who returned today from Topeka, where she was among the leaders in the state Pentecostal meetings just closed.
Mrs. Golden startled the meeting by saying the Lord had revealed to her that death should come to someone in the
meeting. Within three hours, Mrs. F. H. Rodgers, wife of a wealthy farmer near McLouth, died of heart disease.
A. H. Miller father of Mrs. Golden says his daughter has possessed the gift of prophecy from childhood.
"Around the farm," he said, "she
frequently warns of drought or flood or any danger and the warnings always have proved true. The prophecy at Topeka
was the first time however, that Ivah ever predicted the death of any one.
"When she uttered the prophecy Mrs. Rodgers
and Mrs. Orrie, neighbors north of Lawrence, looked at each other intently as though something had passed between
them. They immediately arose, went to their tents and began praying. It seems that in the prayer, Mrs. Orrie gained
the victory and consequently Mrs. Rodgers died. (The Kansas City Star, August 27, 1912)
SCOTT, FRANK
Iola, Kas., Sept. 27 - Frank Scott, 49 years old,
for twenty years cashier of the Allen County State Bank, died suddenly at his home here last night of heart disease.
He is survived by his wife and two children. Mr. Scott was widely known in Kansas banking circles. His only sister
resides in Kansas City. He had been ill since last Friday, but was not believed to be in a serious condition. (The
Kansas City Star, September 27, 1918)
SMITH, H. D.
Humboldt, Kas., May 10 - H. D. Smith Kansas pioneer
and founder of the Humboldt interstate, died of heart disease tonight. Mr. Smith at one time lived at Arkansas
City, where he founded the Arkansas City X-Ray. (The Kansas City Times, May 11, 1913)
TREGO, DR.
Iola, Kan., January 14, - Dr. Trego, medical examiner
for Allen county, dropped dead in Russel's drug store in Humboldt yesterday. He had just been talking of Hon. Butler's
death and said that was the kind of a death he wished to die. (Kansas Weekly Capital and Farm Journal, January
19, 1893)
WORKS, ROBERT M.
Iola, Kan., April 29 - Known as the "man who
loaned money to farmers but who never foreclosed a mortgage." Robert M. Works, one of the richest men in southern
Kansas, died at his home east of Humboldt, Kan.,today. He was 80 years old. (The Daily Oklahoman, April 30, 1911)
