Buchanan County, Missouri Genealogy Trails

Obituaries

ARMSTRONG - William A was born in Ohio on 7 Oct 1818. When about 10 years of age he moved to Ind, where he, on 10 June 1841, was married to Miss Louisa Morgan. The following fall he moved to Rushville, Buchanan co, Mo, where he continued to live until his death on 24 July 1877...In his views he was a thorough Methodist. The Church of his choice he ardently loved...His ear ever attentive to the cry of distress...He was one of the purest men I have ever known (eulogy). Gradually he sank into the grave. One son had preceded him to the grave. He left upon the shores of time a wife, a son and a dau. - A Falconer
(Source: Extract from "St. Louis Christian Advocate" newspaper printed on August 6, 1877. Transcribed by Barbara Z.)

JOSEPH A. BROWN, DEPT. SHERIFF OF BUCHANAN CO., DIED MAY 27, 1882.
(Source: St. Charles Journal, Jan. 1882. Submitted by Joanne Scobee Morgan)

Henry Gibson, 74, died yesterday morning at his home 604 1/2 Mary Street. Born in Louisville, Ky., he had been a resident of St. Joseph for the past ten years. He was a member of the Baptist Church.
Survivors include six daughters: Mrs. Harry Nelson, St. Joseph; Mrs. Lillian O. Ceski, Chicago; Miss Marie Gibson and Miss Rosella Gibson, both of Trenton, Mo.; Mrs. Delia (Della?) Chaney and Mrs. Annie Sheer, both of Chicago, and five sons, Orville Gibson, St. Joseph; Alvin Gibson and Robert Gibson, both of Chicago; J. T. Gibson, Joliet, Ill., and George M. Gibson, Fort Leonard Wood, Mo. The body is at the Clark mortuary."
(my husband Larry's Grandfather)
[Source: Given to Debbie Gibson by Kelly of RAOGK from a St. Joseph Newspaper]

Adolphus Musser attempted to commit suicide in St. Joe last Saturday by cutting his throat. He is a morphine eater, and has been in the insane asylum for some time. He is a brother of Col. R.H. Musser, late of the confederate army.
Richmond Conservator, Ray county, Mo, January 30, 1890 [submitted by Lisa 2009]

Charles R. Herrick
May 19, 1870
At St. Joseph, Mo., May 13, of congestion of the brain, Charles R. Herrick, aged 42 years, formerly of this city.
TAKEN FROM THE HENRY REPUBLICAN, IL - submitted by Nancy Piper -2009

Old Plainsman is Dead
St. Joseph, Missouri – Walter P. Sanders, 79 years old, died at his home here. He was an old plainsman and was engaged in many battles with Indians while freighting between St. Joseph and Denver before the days of railroads. (Wichita Searchlight, July 2, 1910, page 6. Submitted by Peggy Thompson)

Scalded Under a Thrasher
St. Joseph, Mo., July 16 – At Albany this morning, James Gillespie was crossing a bridge with a steam thrasher when the bridge broke and the engine fell to the ground. He was pinned under the heavy machine and slowly scalded to death.
(Guthrie Daily Leader; Guthrie, Oklahoma; July 17, 1894. Transcribed by D. Donlon; Transcribed as written)

Mrs. Ellen McFarland died Sunday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. J.B.Moss
[Source: The St. Joseph Observer, St. Joseph, Mo. September 1,1907 edition. Transcribed by: Melody Beery]

O.A. Bullock died at his home, 2725 Connell Avenue, early Sunday morning. He was 62.
[Source: The St. Joseph Observer, St. Joseph, Mo. September 1,1907 edition. Transcribed by: Melody Beery]

Mrs. Augusta Meyer, 79 years of age, mother of Hugo S. Meyer of this city, Arthur G. Meyer of New York and Miss Stella Meyer of this city died Tuesday morning.
[Source: The St. Joseph Observer, St. Joseph, Mo. September 1,1907 edition. Transcribed by: Melody Beery]

Robert D. Patten, 51 years of age died Tuesday morning.
[Source: The St. Joseph Observer, St. Joseph, Mo. September 1,1907 edition. Transcribed by: Melody Beery]

Mrs. Anna B. Letts, 74 years of age, wife of W.T. Letts of the Letts Cooperage Co. died Tuesday. She had lived in St. Joseph over 45 years.
[Source: The St. Joseph Observer, St. Joseph, Mo. September 1,1907 edition. Transcribed by: Melody Beery]

George R. Jones, who was steward at State Hospital No. 2 during the reign of the Kansas governor of Missouri, Herb Hadley, died at Oklahoma City Monday, where he had gone for his health.
[Source: The St. Joseph Observer, St. Joseph, Mo. September 1,1907 edition. Transcribed by: Melody Beery]

A man named James Harper of Nebraska shot himself dead on the streets at St. Joseph, Missouri, on the 25th. No cause assigned.
COLE CO. DEMOCRAT, Jefferson City, MO. 31 Oct, 1884 p1 c4. Typed by Joanne Scobee Morgan

Mrs. John Brandford, wife of a railroad man, attempted suicide at St. Joseph a few days ago, by taking morphine. Neighbors discovered her condition in time to summon a doctor, who saved her life. Her husband ran away and left her a week previously, and her daughter died recently. These are given as causes.
COLE COUNTY DEMOCRAT, Jefferson City, Fri., 12 August, 1887, p1. Typed by Joanne Scobee Morgan

Anna Maria Klippel
Newspaper: The Holt County Sentinel, Friday
Date: December 17, 1875
Submitters Name: Kathy McDaniel

Obit: OBITUARY
Death of Anna Maria Klippel
--The morning dailies of St. Joseph, of Sunday last, notice the death of our aged mother, which occurred in that city on Saturday Dec. 11, 1875, of apoplexy. The account as published is as follows:
It becomes our painful duty to chronicle the death of another of the landmarks of St. Joseph. We refer to old Mrs. Klippel, who departed this life, at the residence of her son-in-law, the late John P. Fink, on Saturday morning the 11th of December, after an illness of only two days, aged seventy-six years, two months and eighteen days.
Mrs. Klippel was a native of the village of Essenheim, Grand Duchy of Hessen Darmstadt, Germany. She emigrated to the United States in 1838, and settled with her family in Cincinnati, from whence in 1850 she removed to St. Joseph, where she was universally known and respected as a kind, christian woman. There is scarcely a family among the early settlers of St. Joseph but will remember grandmother Klippel and her good offices in waiting on children and their mothers. Mrs. Klippel was the mother of nine children, three of whom, as well as her husband, preceded her to the spirit land, and the fourth, her oldest son George, mysteriously disappeared over two years ago. The unknown fate of her son George Klippel was the cause of much distress of mind to her.
Mother Klippel was an acceptable member of the German branch of the M. E. Church in whose pale she died. Her funeral took place at 2 o’clock p.m., from the residence of the late John P. Fink, corner of Twelfth street an Frederick Avenue, from there the funeral proceeded to the German Church, corner Third and Robidoux streets where Rev. H. Kriege delivered an appropriate funeral discourse to a very large audience. Her remains were interred at the family burial on Mount Mora
cemetery.

Mrs. Emeline Greene
Newspaper: The Glasgow Weekly Times, Thursday
Date: September 3, 1857
Submitters Name: Kathy McDaniel

Obit: --Died. On the 25th ult., Mrs. Emeline Greene, consort of A. D. Greene, near Bloomington, Mo.

Name of Deceased: Mrs. Martha C. Crenshaw
Newspaper: The Glasgow Weekly Times, Thursday
Date: May 26, 1853
Submitters Name: Kathy McDaniel

Obit: --Died. In St. Joseph, on the 11th inst., Mrs. Martha C., consort of Anthony W. Crenshaw, in the 53d year of her age.