Macon County, Missouri...Part of Genealogy Trails

Obituaries
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Name of Deceased: Thomas J. Gorham
Newspaper: The Glasgow Weekly Times, Thursday
Date: February 10, 1853
Submitters Name: Kathy McDaniel

Obit: --Died. At his residence in Macon county, on the 29th ult., Thomas J. Gorham, aged about 49 years, leaving a wife and five children to mourn their irreparable loss.
[Banner and Bloomington papers please copy.

Funeral services for Mrs. Gustav F. Bok 78, who died at her home in Ten Mile, Sunday night, were held Tuesday in Pleasant Grove church by the Rev. Victor H. Grimm. Augusta Bork was born in Chatsworth ILL. July 5, 1867, the daughter of Mr.a nd Mrs. Ernest Lunghus. Her husband Gustav F. Bork, to whom she was married over 60 years died in Febraury 1933. Surviving are three sons, Roy, Ernest and Wilbert and a daughter Miss Pearlie Bork. Burial was in Liberty Cemetery.
The Quincy Herald-Whig Thursday February 14, 1946 Pg 3. Transcribed by Christine Walters

Name of Deceased: Mrs. Virginia Harper
Newspaper: The Glasgow Weekly Times, Thursday
Date: September 24, 1857
Submitters Name: Kathy McDaniel

Obit: --Died. On the 9th, Mrs. Virginia, consort of A. T. Harper, of Macon county, aged 24 years.

Name of Deceased: David R. Jenkins
Newspaper: Unknown
Date: ca.9-11-1931

Obit: I have looked for an obituary but cannot find one, I know David was murdered 9-10-1931. I believe he lived with his widowed mother in Ethyl Mo. Macon co. Any info would be appreciated.

Name of Deceased: Peter Powell
Newspaper: Glasgow Weekly Times (Glasgow, Mo.) Thursday,
Date: July 19, 1849
Submitters Name: Kathy McDaniel

Obit: OBITUARY.--Middle Fork, July 14, 1849.
Departed this life last night, at his residence, in Macon County, Mo., Mr. Peter Powell, in the 75th year of his age, from an attack of gout, of which he had been afflicted for twenty years; formerly of North Carolina. Mr. Powell has left a large family of children to lament the loss of a kind parent, and the neighborhood has lost an honest and most obliging citizen.
North Carolina papers please copy.

Name of Deceased: Mrs. James Vaughn
Newspaper: Warrenton Herald
Date: July 17, 1901
Submitters Name: laura

Mrs. James Vaughn died a Excello, Mo., last Tuesday of consumption. Her remains were sent to Wright City for interment in the city cemetery, which took place on Wednesday. The bereaved relatives have our sympathy in their sad affliction.