SEDGWICK COUNTY, KANSAS
OBITS
A six year old son of John Renner of near Wichita, Kansas, was attacked by hogs yesterday and killed. – Chicago Herald, May 12, 1891. This will be sad news to the friends and relatives in this county (Shelby County, IL). "Our Best Words", May 16, 1891 p 5 1 - Submitted by Judy Edwards
BEACHY, CYRUS M.
Cyrus M. Beachy, 82, chairman of the board and general manager of Steffen Ice and Ice Cream Company, died suddenly
at his home, 3751 East Douglas. Born in Somerset County, Pennsylvania and came to Newton, Kansas, when a young
man and to Wichita from Newton in 1905. Survived by his wife, Anna, a grandson, Owen McEwen, a granddaughter, Ellen
McEwen, and a niece, Mary Purdum. (The Wichita Eagle, Monday, February 19, 1945)
DeBENARDI, ALBERT, JR.
Albert DeBenardi, Jr., 51, former Wichitan and dramatic critic for the Denver Post, died of a heart attack yesterday.
He was born in Warrensburg, Missouri and was the son of the late Albert DeBenardi, former official of the Kansas
City, Mexico and Orient Railway. (The Wichita Eagle, Wednesday, April 18, 1945, page 2)
JACKSON, CHARLES WALTER
Charles Walter Jackson, 87, early day Wichita business man, died yesterday in Kansas City, Missouri. Born in Moline,
Illinois, August 2, 1858. He was married to Anna Harriet Kuhn at Albany, Illinois in 1885. Came to Wichita in 1887.
Organized the Western Biscuit Company in Wichita in 1905 (now the Southwest Cracker Company). Left here in 1908
to join the Loose Brothers Cracker and Candy company in Kansas City, Missouri. He retired 20 years ago. Wife, Anna
died in 1914 and in 1915 he was married to Susanne Stout Martin. He is survived by her son, Errol B. Jackson, Los
Angeles, California, a daughter, Mrs. Hal M. Black, 3417 Country Club Place, and a sister in Oklahoma City. (The
Wichita Eagle, Friday, January 12, 1945, page 5)
KLEINHEIM, CHARLES
Charles Kleinheim, 84, retired Santa Fe engineer died at his home at 532 North Market. He was born in Paterson,
New Jersey, October 16, 1860, and had lived in Wichita the past 51 years. He moved here from Mulvane. Started working
for the Santa Fe Railroad in 1875, in the offices in Topeka. Later he became a fireman on the first locomotive
the company purchased for use as a "helper" locomotive to give trains an extra boost to top the Whitewater
hill near Peabody. Later became engineer, and retired after 50 years and ten months when he stepped down from the
cab of Number 46 on the Wichita and Western line when it pulled into the station Saturday morning, December 4,
1925, making its last run on all passenger service between Pratt and Wichita. That same evening, as Number 45,
the engine and cars made the run west to Pratt, where the train was broken up for service on other lines.
He was married to Mollie A. Jocobs in Wichita on October 1, 1903. Survived by his wife and two sons, Erwin Kleinheim,
at home and S. E. Kleinheim, Albuquerque, New Mexico. To be buried in Old Mission Mausoleum. (The Wichita Eagle,
Saturday, January 27, 1945, page 5)
LASSEN, W. H. "BILL"
W. H. "Bill" Lassen, 48 prominent Wichita oil man and son of the late Henry Lassen, died in an automobile
accident at 1:30 a.m. seven miles west of the city limits on U.S. Highway 54. He was enroute to his home known
as the Winkler estate, southwest of Goddard. He had been in the oil business in Wichita since 1922 and a resident
of Wichita since 1907. Survived by his wife, Mary Elizabeth, three sons, Evan Glenn (8), Buster Bill (16), and
Todd White (17), and one daughter Marylynn (19), two sisters, Mrs. C. A. Comley and Mrs. R. Ward Magill and one
brother, J. T. McInnis. Another son, Private Harry Lassen, 20, was killed in action in Germany last November 24.
(The Wichita Eagle, Wednesday, April 11, 1945, page 2)
MADDEN, JOHN SR.
John Madden, Sr., long time Wichita attorney, died yesterday. He resided at 227 South Esteele. Born in Muncie,
Indiana February 12, 1856. Moved with parents to Florence, Kansas in 1866. Came to Wichita from Parsons, Kansas
in 1916. Married Mary Ellsworth, June 22, 1878 in Kansas City, Missouri. She died about 20 years ago and he married
the former Grace Maister in Kansas City in 1927. Survived by wife, a son, John Madden, Jr., attorney of 357 North
Fountain, two daughters, Mrs. Roy F. Bailey, Salina and Mrs. Nana Cooper, San Diego, California, two brothers,
eight grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. To be buried in Old Mission Mausoleum. (The Wichita Eagle, Tuesday,
February 27, 1945, page 1)
MURDOCK, PEARL JANE
Pearl Jane Murdock died at her home yesterday in Los Angeles. She is the sister of Victor and Marcellus Murdock
and part owner of the Eagle. (The Wichita Eagle, Friday March 30, 1945)
Funeral services for Pearle Jane Murdock, sister of Victor and Marcellus Murdock and one of the owners of the Eagle,
will be held at the Gill Mortuary at 2 p.m. Saturday. She died at her home in Los Angeles last Thursday. Burial
in Old Mission Mausoleum. (The Wichita Eagle, Thursday, April 5, 1945)
Funeral services on Saturday for Pearl Jane Murdock. In addition to a daughter, Mrs. Victoria Brown of Los Angeles,
she is survived by a grandson, Britton Brown of the United States Marines, and a nephew, Marsh Murdock, of Wichita.
(The Wichita Eagle, Monday, April 9, 1945, page 2)
NEVINS, MASON C.
Mason C. Nevins, 76, well known Wichita builder and real estate man, died yesterday. He resided at 1555 Fairmount.
Born in Hastings, Michigan, May 14, 1868. He came to Wichita in early 1890s. Married the former Adeline Wilson
of Wichita on May 5, 1903. Survived by wife, three daughters, Mrs. Noel Van Hayes, 1516 Fairmount, Mrs. Charles
T. Whitney, 937 Buffum, and Mrs. Jack Grubb, Jr., New Orleans and seven grandchildren. (The Wichita Eagle, Friday,
January 12, 1945, page 2)
WEAVER, ARDON W.
Ardon W. Weaver, 37, Junction City, son of the late J. W. Weaver and brother of Dr. T. Walker Weaver, died at Norton
yesterday. He had been ill for several months. Survived by wife and two sons, Jim and Bill at Junction City, his
mother, Mrs. J. W. Weaver, who lives northwest of Wichita, and eight brothers and sisters, T. Walker, J. M., R.
W., Lee, and Miss Letha Weaver and Mrs. H. P. Lent, all of Wichita, Mrs. Helen Coufel of Kansas City and Mrs. Elsie
Arnold of Seattle. (The Wichita Eagle, Friday, April 6, 1945, page 5)
Ralph Barnett, 83, of 610 E. 37th St. S., retired employee of Linwood Creamery, services at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday in Broadway Mortuary with Rev. James D. Gray, Bethany United Methodist Church officiating .
Burial will be in Greenwood Cemetery, Oatville, Kansas. He died Saturday. Survivors include his widow, Lois; daugher, Mrs. Betty Zeiner, Wichita, and sister, Mrs. Florence McKinney, Upland, Calif. Alexander Garrett, Post No 7253 of Derby, Kansas, will conduct VFW Graveside rites. Large parking area adjacent to the mortuary for the convenience of friends. (The Wichita Eagle, May 15, 1972, Submitted by Nancy Willis)
LONGTON, Kan.—Clarence Haddon, 86, died Wednesday afternoon after an illness. Services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at Senter Muivane Mortuary in Muivane, Kan. Burial will be in the El Paso County Cemetery in Durby, Kan. He is survived by three daughters, Dr. Edith Cox of Greenville, Mrs. Opal Bailey of Wichita, Kan. and Mrs. Lee Furry of Seattle, Wash. [Delta Democrat-Times, Greenville, MS - 12-27-1973 - submitted by Brenda Wiesner]
KANSAS PASTOR TAKEN IN DEATH
The Rev. H.J. Moody, 79, a Methodist minister in the central Kansas area for the past 40 years, died Tuesday morning in a local hospital.
A resident of Enterprise at the time of his death, the Rev. Mr. Moody had been retired from active work since 1942. Throuout his active life in the church, he had been a member of the Central Kansas Conference of the Methodist Church.
He is survived by his widow Mrs. Sadie Moore Moody, of the home; two sons, Dwight Moody of Independence, Mo., and Waldo Moody of Ottawa, Kas. and a daughter, Mrs. Tacy Hanson of McCracken, Kas.
Funeral services were held Wednesday afternoon at the First Methodist Church in Hutchinson with the Rev. Chester A. Miles officiating. (The Wichita Beacon, Dec. 29, 1948, pg. 17, submitted by Ruth I. Stude)
MOODY, TACY MANBECK S.
Mrs. Tacy Manbeck Moody, 68, of Cassaday, Kas., died at Wesley Hospital here shortly after 8:45 p.m. following
a 10-day illness. Mrs. Moody was brought to the hospital August 19.
Born in New Rumley, Ohio, February 13, 1873, Mrs. Moody had been a resident of Kansas approximately 45 years. Mrs. Moody and her husband, the Rev. H.J. Moody, had lived near Hutchinson until about a year ago, when they moved to Cassaday.
Survivors, besides the Rev. Mr. Moody, include two sons, D.L. Moody, district manager for the Ford Motor Company, of Wichita, and L.W. Moody of Ottawa, Kas., a daughter, Mrs. Tacy Hanson of McCracken, Kas., and a sister, Mrs. C.B. Mills of Kansas City, Mo.
Funeral services for Mrs. Moody will be held at the Johnson and Johnson Mortuary at Hutchinson at 2:30 p.m. Friday. The services will be conducted by Dr. Chester Miles of Wichita and burial will be at Hutchinson. (Wichita Beacon, Aug. 28, 1941, pg. 4, submitted by Ruth I. Stude)
Mrs. Maude Shaffer, age 44, died this morning in a local hospital. Her home was
at 1121 Larimer. She was born in Mulvane in 1880, and was a member of the Presbyterian Church. Surviving are her
husband, Arthur L. Shaffer; two sons; W.E. Shaffer of Enid and Paul Shaffer of Wichita; a daughter, Velma Shaffer,
Wichita; three brothers: S.L., E.N. and D.E. Bishop, Belle Plaine; and a sister, Mrs. B.C. Duval, Pensacola, Fla.
Funeral services will be held at 2 o'clock Thursday afternoon at the City Undertaking Company. (Wichita Evening
Beacon, April 23, 1925, submitted by Kisha Blair)
Note: She is buried at El Paso Cemetery. Correction note at the end of her obit, her brothers were S.O. Bishop
(not S.L.) (I sent you his obit for Sumner County) and P.E. Bishop. The next obit that belongs to her mother confirms
that. - Kisha Blair)
Pioneer Woman Dies As Results Of Burns
Mrs. Amanda C. Bishop Passes Saturday at Peck
Mrs. Amanda C. Bishop, early day settler of the New Salem neighborhood southwest of Mulvane, and who resided for more than 30 years on what is now the Newt Abercrombie farm, but still known to the older residents as "the old Bishop farm," died at about 6 o'clock Saturday morning of last week, at her home in Peck.
Mrs. Bishop was past 90 years old and for the past few years had lived in Peck, where her granddaughter, Mrs. John Nelson, and Mr. Nelson and family lived with her and cared for her. She had been in feeble health for a time, and about 3 o'clock Saturday morning, November 7, she arose and attempted to make a fire. Pinned over her night dress she wore a cape, which caught on fire while she was working with the stove. She called to Mr. and Mrs. Nelson and got into her bed and covered herself with the bed coverings to smother out the flames. The flames were very quickly extinguished, but not before they had badly burned the aged woman about the left side of her body from her shoulder to her thigh and her arm and hand. The burns resulted in her death just a week and three hours later.
Amanda C. King, youngest daughter of Stephen and Ellen King, was born June 13, 1841 in Loyport City [sic], Iowa, and was 90 years, five months and one day old at the time of her death. She was married, in Iowa, to Elias Bishop, in 1862. Sixteen years later Mr. and Mrs. Bishop and their family moved from Iowa to Kansas, living first near Wichita, and Clearwater, then moving onto the farm three and a half miles southwest of Mulvane which was their home for so long. She was born and reared in the Lutheran church, and at the age of 80 years in 1921, she was baptized and became a member of the Church of Christ of Belle Plaine. To Mr. and Mrs. Bishop were born five children, three sons and two daughters. Four of these survive to mourn her passing. They are E.N. Bishop and S.O. Bishop of Belle Plaine, P.E. Bishop of Woodward, Okla., and Mrs. B.C. (Rose) Duvall of Pensacola, Fla. Also she is survived by several grandchildren and great grandchildren.
Funeral services were conducted at 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon, in the Church of Christ at Belle Plaine, with Rev. L.C. Utley, pastor, officating [sic]. A quartet composed of Miss Zelma Zimmerman, Mrs. J Bryon Cain, L.C. Utley and Waverly Zimmerman, sang "Rock of Ages" "Nearer My God to Thee" and "The Old Rugged Cross". Pallbearers were Ernest and Erwin Bradley, Frank Martin, O.T. Dodew, Frank Speer and Tom Blankenship. Interment was made in the family plot in Derby Cemetery. (The Mulvane News, November 19, 1931, Submitted by Kisha Blair)
Mrs. Nora Alice Walker, age 35, of 2223 Fairview, died Tuesday evening at a local hospital. She came to Wichita 18 years ago and was a member of the Wellington Place Baptist Church. Surviving are her husband, Orval Walker, an employe [sic] of the Dold Packing Company; two daughters, Sylvia and Bonnie; three sons: Kenneth, Leslie, and Orval; a sister , Mrs. Tony Fugit of Alva, Okla.; and a brother, Clarence Ovitt. The body is at the Wichita Undertaking Company. (Wichita Evening Beacon, April 23, 1925, Submitted by Kisha Blair)
Mrs. Catherine Schnitzler, age 85, for 20 years a resident of Colwich, died early this morning. She is survived by an adopted daughter, Miss Lena Tonner. Funeral services will be held in the Catholic Church at Colwich at 9:30 Friday morning. The Flanagan & Bourman Undertaking Company is in charge. (Wichita Evening Beacon, April 23, 1925 Submitted by Kisha Blair)
H. C. Tucker, physician and surgeon, farmer, Section 14, P. O. Derby was born in Chester County, Pa., in 1833, son of John and Mary A. Tucker. He married in 1861, Miss Mary J. Clark, daughter of Justin and Mary Minnick Clark. They have two children, Marietta and Robert H. Mr. Tucker was educated at New Philadelphia and New Hagerstown, Ohio, commenced the study of medicine in 1855 with Dr. E. P. Buel, attended lectures at the National Medical College in Washington, D. C., in 1858 and 1859, and commenced the practice of medicine in 1859. He was in the War of the Rebellion, enlisting in 1864, in the One Hundred and Sixty-first Ohio Volunteer, Company A. He was made Assistant Surgeon of the Regiment, served in that capacity until September 1864, when he was mustered out of the service. He came to Kansas in 1871, and located on his farm which he still owns. He has been engaged in farming and the practice of medicine since that time. He also owns a residence and drug store at El Paso. He is a member of the Presbyterian Church, and of Wichita Lodge, No. 99, A, F. & A. M., of El Paso Lodge, No. 112. I. O. O. F., and of Encampment. No. 53, of the Old Settlers' Association. He has been Postmaster of El Paso for eight years. (Buried in El Paso Cemetery, Derby, Sedgwick, KS) From Culters History of Kansas - Note: City of El Paso, Kansas name was changed to Derby Submitted by Kyle M. Condon)
Ichabod P. Garriss, of Mulvane, Kan., a retired farmer and pioneer, is a native
of North Carolina, where he was born in Wayne county, on March 14, 1842.
His parents were Wiley and Elizabeth (Pearson) Garriss, both natives of North Carolina. Joshua Garriss, the father
of Wiley, came from England at an early date and settled in North Carolina, where he lived and died, Wiley also
spending all his life in the same state. The mother also died at the same place. Ichabod P. Garriss lived in his
native state until March 12, 1868, when he moved to Willow Springs, Kan., where he remained until 1871. Before
coming to Kansas and while living in North Carolina he was conscripted in the Confederate Army, Company K, North
Carolina Infantry, and served until May, 1865. In 1871 Mr. Garriss came to Rockford township, Sedgwick county,
and laid the foundation of a house on Section 13. In the fall of 1872 he preempted this 160 acres and moved on
the place. He paid 25 cents per tree and hauled the logs twelve miles and built his home. He lived on this farm
until 1901, when he retired from farming and moved into Mulvane, where he has a pleasant home and enjoys the rest
he has earned. On October 18, 1861, Mr. Garriss married Miss Elizabeth Bradbury, who was born in North Carolina.
Mr. and Mrs. Garriss had one daughter, Mrs. Cora McCullough, born on March 18, 1866, and who now lives in Rockford
township. On August 2, 1902, Mrs. Garriss died, and on December 7, 1903, Mr. Garriss married Mrs. Annie M. Greene,
who was born in England, a daughter of James O. and Thirza (Meade) Pearce, both of whom were natives of England,
and came to Holden, Mass., in 1849. They lived at different times in Rhode Island and Connecticut, and then came
to Douglas, Kan., where they died. Mrs. Garriss was married first March 8, 1864, to Albert A. Greene, and came
to Kansas in 1872 to Rose Hill, Butler county. Mr. Greene died March 14, 1898. Albert A. Greene was a soldier in
the Union Army in the First Rhode Island Cavalry, Company D, and served till the close of the war, when he received
his honorable discharge. Mr. Garriss passed through all the trials and hardships of frontier life and has earned
the rest he is now taking. He is a Liberal in politics and both he and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal
Church. (Gravestone shows spelling of Garriss other references are Garris. (This is the only known confederate
solider buried in the El Paso Cemetery. Mrs. I. P. Garris is also buried here) (Submitted by Kyle M. Condon)
Obit: AUGUSTANS' sister dies
Carmond Maxine Edgington, 59, of Grenola, a Cessna Aircraft employee and sister
of Sherdian Perkins and Alvin Perkins, both of Augusta, died Monday. Services are scheduled for 10 a.m. Thursday
at Resthaven Mortuary. Survivors include her husband, Clifford; sons, Marvin, Jimmy and Dennis, all of Wichita;
daughter, Connie Stone of Derby; mother, Elsie Perkins of Wichita; brothers: Sherdian H. Perkins and Alvin Perkins
of Augusta, and Sherral Perkins of Lenora: a sister, Bonnie Teter of Billings, Mont.; and 5 grandchildren. (Submitted
by Arletta Wilson)
LEARD, JULIA
MURDERED BY AN INDIAN
An Oklahoma Woman Cruelly Slain by a Seminole
Wichita, Kan., Jan. 5. - Mrs. Julia Leard, a white woman was murdered by a Seminole
Indian yesterday evening four miles east of Maud, Oklahoma Territory. The crime was committed in the presence of
the woman's children. Early in the afternoon Mrs. Leard had frightened the Indian away, threatening him with a
rifle. Later she stepped out of doors carrying her baby, and the Indian stole into the house, securing the rifle
and attempted to shoot her, but the cartridge failed to explode. The Seminole then attacked her with the butt of
the gun, clubbed her to death and ravished her body. He hurled the baby into the house through the open door.
Several Indians have been arrested, but the murdered woman's 8 year-old-daughter, the oldest of her family has
been unable to identify any of them as the murderer. There is great excitement in the vicinity. (Topeka Weekly
Capital, January 7, 1898, page 3)
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