Name of Deceased: Gladys Breshears
County Name: Johnson  State: Mo
Newspaper: The Index
Contributed by a Friend of Free Genealogy

Obit:    Gladys M. Breshears, 97, Warrensburg, Mo., died April 26, 2008, at the Warrensburg Medical Center.
   She was born August 4, 1910, in Preston, Mo., to Buford and Elizabeth Smith Bybee.  She attended grade school at New Haven near Preston and graduated from
Urbana High School in 1929.  She received a teaching certificate from Southwest Baptist College in Bolivar and taught school in St Clair and Hickory Counties. 
She Married Lowell Breshears in 1931 in Buffalo, Mo., and they lived on a farm near Fristoe for many years.  She was a former director of the Benton County
Council, a member of the Fristoe Saddle Club and Fristoe Good Neighbor Club and the New Home Missionary Baptist Church.  She was preceded in death by her
husband in 2002 and a son, Ronald Breshears, in 2004.
   Survivors include two sons, Voyn Breshears of Lone Jack and Neil Breshears of Stockton; nine grandchildren; and 11 great-grandchildren.
   Services will be at 1:30 pm Wednesday, April 30, at the Reser Funeral Home in Warsaw.  Burial will be in the South New Home Cemetery near Cross Timbers

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Name of Deceased: William M. Wolfenbarger
Newspaper: Unknown
Submitters Name: Sharon S Francis

Obit: W.M. Wolfenbarger Is Dead
Again the death angel has visited our community and claimed an old citizen, a good neighbor and a lovable friend, W.M. Wolfenbarger Uncle "Dick" as he was so
often called, was 73 years of age. Paralysis caused his deth. He was sick for several weeks, but he bore his suffering patiently.

To mourn his death he leaves two sisters, two brothers, a wife and eight sons and three daughters, the children all being married except one, and all were ready to do all that hands could do.
But God said, "Thy race is won here on earth, come up higher."

He found Christ and joined McKindree church at the age of 29 years, in which his steadfast faith in the Savior's love carried hime safely to the end of life's journey.

The funeral services were held at McKindree, where a large crowd was present to pay the last tribute of respect to his lifeless body, after which the remains were
taken and laid to rest in Mt. Tabor Cemetery.

Precious father he has left you; left you, yes, forever more,But he hoped to meet his loved ones on that bright and happy shore.
Lonely the house and sad the place since your father he is gone. But Ah! A brighter hoome than this in heaven is his own.
A Friend.

William M Wolfenbarger died Jul 1, 1915

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This article (unknown where published) concerns Brigadier General & later a Senator, Frances M. Cockrell. He was born in Missouri)

SENATOR COCKRELL IS DEAD
The End to the famous Missourian in his 82nd year

Served thirty years in the Senate, from which he retired in 1905, since when he has been in Government Work in Washington.

Francis Marion Cockrell, Thirty years a United States senator from Missouri, died Monday in his room in the Buckingham Hotel, Washington.
The body will be taken to Warrensburg, Mo. the old Cockrell home. He had read the morning papers and was eating a light breakfast when he fell back in the chair dead.
Senator Cockrell was 81 years old Oct. 1. He was elected to the Senate in 1875 and retired in 1905, when the Republican landslide for Roosevelt swept the state.
Roosevelt gave him a place President Roosevelt immediately offered Senator Cockrell a place either on the Panama commission or the Interstate Commerce Commission. Senator Cockrell chose the latter. He served one term. Upon the election of President Wilson he was made a member of the commission on ordinance and fortifications.
For seven years Senator Cockrell had made his home with a daughter-in-law, Mrs. Bessie Cockrell, at the Buckingham.
Only Sunday he asked her to take over his money affairs and handed her several cheeks. She replied: "it's Sunday, and I'm superstitious about doing business on Sunday."
Senator Cockrell laughted, and said: "Well, we will straighten these matters up tomorrow."

Wanted to be buried in Missouri
A few weeks ago when a friend had died, Senator Cockrell expressed a desire to be taken back to Missouri for burial when he died.
"My heart is back there in Missouri and when I die I want my resting place to be in that grand old state." he said.
"It won't make any difference to the dead, but I will have my friends around me."
Sort prayer service was held at the Confederate Soldiers' Home in Washington Tuesday, where many of the old comrades of Senator Cockrell live.
Forty years in Office
Senator Cockrell was born on his father's farm in Johnson Co., Missouri, Oct 1, 1834. His father, Joseph Cockrell, was the first sheriff of the county. He was a well-to-do man who had come from Kentucky. The name, Francis Marion, was suggested by an old slave of the family who had been much impressed with the story of the great Revolutionary hero. The boy went first to a log school-house, then to Hocker's Hill Academy near the Cockerill home and then to Chapel Hill College in Lafayette Co. He was graduated when he was 18 and the following year he was teacher of Greek and Latin there. At the close of that year Cockrell went to Warrensburg and read law in the office of C. O. Sillman and in 1855 was admitted to practice law and became a partner of Sillman.
Wounded Several Times
At the outbreak of the Civil War, Cockrell gave up his law practice and took sides with the Confederacy. He organized a company in Warrensburg, was made its captain, took part in a number of the hardest engagements of the war and rapidly rose to the rank of brigadier general. He served during the entire war.
At Franklin General Cockrell came out of the battle with bullets through one arm and both legs, one leg being broken, but he was not unhorsed.
He was blown into the air by the explosion of the General Grant's mines of Vicksburg and severely wounded. He was wounded in other engagements, but remained in the service. But no one ever heard Cockrell talk about his wounds or his service for the lost cause. The only wound later in evidence was a crooked finger on his right hand as a result of a wound from a shell, a fragment of the bursting shell striking his hand and breaking the finger at the joint. The surgeon dressed the wound told Cockrell the finger would be stiff ever after, and the general directed him to so set it that the finger would fit to his sword hilt, and also be in proper position when he held a pen or an apple.
Other notes:
He was the chairman of the committee on appropriations of the Fifty-third Congress; director of the Columbia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb. In 1874 he was the leading candidate for governor of Missouri but was beaten by Charles H. Hardin "that it would be bad politics to put an ex-Confederate at the head of the ticket." He was elected Senator the following year.
There is another rather long article about him. Don't know if something has already been submitted.

submitted by Ann Baughman - 2009

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Name of Deceased: Herman E. Colvin

County Name: Johnson

State: MO

Newspaper: The Sedalia Democrat

Date: May 25, 1977

Obit: Warrensburg - Herman E. Colvin, 62, died Monday at St. Luke's Hospital, Kansas City.  He was born July 2, 1914, in LaMonte, son of Frederick and Amanda Cox Colvin.  On Nov. 15 1943, he married Lillian Roberts, who survives of the home here.  Mr. Colvin was raised and attended school in Sedalia.  He moved to Warrensburg in 1932.  Other survivers include two step-daughters, Mrs. Ann Delaney of here; Mrs. John Roberta Penrose, Holden; one brother O. F. Colvin, Sedalia; and 14 grandchildren.  Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Thursday at the Sweeney-Phillips Funeral Home here with Rev. Dale Hoak officiating.  Burial will be in Memorial Gardens here.