Date of Death: 25 Sep 1904 Subject: William A. Simerly Source: Holt County Sentinel, 21 Oct 1904, p. 8 The murder of William A. Simerly on his farm near Fillmore, September 25th, 1904, was committed by Joseph Simerly, his 19 year old cousin, who is now in jail in Savannah. The murderer has made a…
Date of Death: 7 Nov 1912 Subject: Rachel (Lance) Simerly Source: Savannah Reporter, Nov 1912 Mrs. Rachel Simerly died at her home in Fillmore, November 7, at the age of 78 years. The funeral services were held in the M. E. Church in Fillmore and interment was in the Fillmore cemetery.
Date of Death: 13 Jul 1916 Subject: Errett Simerly Source: Holt County Sentinel, 8 Jan 1917, p. 1 Oscar W. Simerly and son, Errett, were killed by lightning, July 13, near Oregon.
Date of Death: 6 Sep 1884 Subject: Daisy Simerly Source: Savannah Reporter, 12 Sep 1884 Fillmore, 9 Sept.) William Simerly’s little girl, aged 18 months, died, last Saturday morning, with catarrhal fever. The funeral, which took place at the M. E. Church, Sunday, was attended by a large concourse of people. The sorrowing relatives received…
Date of Death: 18 Jun 1905 Subject: Mary Ann (Lefler) Shunk Source: Holt County Sentinel, 30 Jul 1905, p. 5 Mary Ann Shunk died at the home of Grant Napier in Holt county, Sunday, June 18, 1905, at the age of 82 years, 6 [sic] months and 11 days. The remains were buried in the…
Date of Death: 30 Jul 1910 Subject: Emily (Adams) Shirley Source: Holt County Sentinel, 12 Aug 1910, p. 2 Mrs. Emily Shirley was born in Indiana, in November, 1823, and died in Forest City, July 30, 1910, aged 47 years. She was sick only a few days and was willing to go with the message…
Date of Death: 13 Aug 1909 Subject: Thalia (Kelley) Shipley Source: Holt County Sentinel, 27 Aug 1909, p. 1 Our sympathy goes out to Judge Henry S. Kelley, in the loss of his daughter, which is made doubly sad in that she gave her hand in marriage to George W. Shipley, only a month ago,…
Date of Death: Jan 1914 Subject: William F. Shewmaker Source: Savannah Reporter, Friday, 23 Jan 1914, p. 4, column 4 The remains of William Shoemaker, who died near Portland, Ore., last week, arrived here Wednesday and were buried in the Helena cemetery Thursday.
Date of Death: 16 May 1894 Subject: Rebecca (____) Holt Shawgo Source: The Democrat, 18 May 1894 [Died] at the home of her son, Solomon Holt, 2 miles west of Savannah, Mo., May 16, 1894, of dropsy, Mrs. Rebecca Shawgo aged 81 years and 16 days. Mrs. Shawgo, or better known as grandmother Holt, has…
Date of Death: 18 Mar 1919 Subject: Mary (Ryan) Shannon Source: St. Joseph Observer, 22 Mar 1919 Mrs. Mary Shannon, thirty four years of age, died at her home at Rochester, Andrew county, Tuesday afternoon.
Date of Death: 2 Nov 1875 Subject: William M. Shanks Source: Andrew County Republican, 5 Nov 1875, p. 8 The numerous friends of Judge William M. Shanks, one of our County Judges, will be surprised to hear of his sudden death from pneumonia, which took place at Rochester, on Tuesday last. Judge Shanks was a…
Date of Death: 1 May 1907 Subject: Margaret Ellen (Proffit) Shaiffer Source: Holt County Sentinel, 10 May 1907, p. 2 Mrs. Lincoln Shafer, after a long and protracted illness, died at her home near Richville, on Wednesday, May 1, 1907, in the 46th year of her age. She was a most excellent Christian lady, and…
Date of Death: 10 Dec 1895 Subject: Lewie Shaiffer Source: Holt County Sentinel, 13 Dec 1895, p. 6 The infant son of Lincoln Shaiffer and wife died on Tuesday last, December 10, 1895, from membraneous croup after a brief illness. The remains were buried at Fillmore on the following day.
Date of Death: 16 Sep 1871 Subject: Henry W. Selecman Source: Holt County Sentinel, 29 Sep 1871, p. 2 Henry W. Selecman died at his residence in Andrew county, Sept. 16, 1871, in the 75th year of his age. He was one of the pioneers of that county, having come to the Platte Purchase in…
Date of Death: 6 Aug 1921 Subject: Herald Seckels Source: St. Joseph Observer, 20 Aug 1921 Thursday afternoon Harold Seckles [sic] at some half-ripe grapes and some watermelon. He and his brother went to the field to get a half gallon of gasoline from the tank in which Mr. Seckles keeps the gasoline for the…
Date of Death: 13 Jul 1873 Subject: George H. Scudder Source: Andrew County Republican, 25 Jul 1873, p. 3 Died. Of brain fever, on Sunday, July 13, Georgie, infant and only son of Micaiah and Emalinda Scudder, of Amazonia, Andrew county, Missouri, aged ten months and twenty-four days. A sun-beam has left our home circle….
Date of Death: 17 Jan 1914 Subject: Georgia Beatrice Scott Source: Savannah Reporter, 23 Jan 1914, p. 1, column 3 Infant Daughter Dies. Georgia Beatrice, the infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Scott died Monday morning, January 17. Interment was made in the Lower Neeley cemetery. The parents wish to thank their neighbors…
Date of Death: 24 Feb 1906 Subject: Myrtle Edna Schweikhardt Source: Holt County Sentinel, 9 Mar 1906, p. 5 A terrible accident occurred Friday, February 23, 1906, at the home of I. E. Schweikhardt, 10 miles west of Bolckow. Mrs. S. had just finished washing and taken a boiler of hot suds from the stove…
Date of Death: 22 Dec 1902 Subject: August Schuster Source: Holt County Sentinel, 26 Dec 1902, p. 5 Col. August Schuster, a retired capitalist, at one time heavily interested in various enterprises in Northwest Missouri, died at Raton, New Mexico, Monday of this week. He will be buried at Savannah, today, Friday.
Date of Death: 5 Nov 1918 Subject: Charles Scheub Source: Holt County Sentinel, 15 Nov 1918, p. 6 Charles Scheub, the son of Mr. Christ. Scheub, living about three and a half miles southeast of New Point, was born in Holt County, Missouri, May 10th, 1900, and died in a hospital at Loveland, Colorado, November…
Date of Death: 30 Jun 1920 Subject: Gottfried Schenk Source: St. Joseph Observer, 3 Jul 1920 Gottfried Schenck [sic], a well known farmer residing near Amazonia, died Tuesday night.
Date of Death: 2 Jan 1875 Subject: Winnie Sayers Source: Andrew County Republican, 15 Jan 1875, p. 8 From the Moberly (Randolph Co.,) Daily, “Little Winnie,” an interesting daughter of Mr. Newton Sayers of this city, died this morning, (Jan. 2) of dipheoretic croup. This is the third affliction of this kind through which the…
Date of death: 7 Apr 1905 Subject: Mrs. Rosa Lee Sanders Source: St. Joseph Gazette, 8 Apr 1905, p. 2 Mrs. Rosa Lee Sanders, aged 23 years, wife of George W. Sanders, died yesterday morning at the residence of her sister, Mrs. Martha Copeland, 513 South Tenth street. The funeral will be conducted from the…
Date of Death: 11 Jun 1905 Subject: F. A. Sarver Source: Savannah Reporter, 15 Jun 1906 F. A. Sarver died at his home south of Rosendale, Monday evening. He was born in 1833. The funeral was preached at the Fairview church by Rev. A. R. Hunt Tuesday and the remains were placed in the McGlaughlin…
Date of Death: 18 Jun 1876 Subject: Amanda E. (Rhoads) Russell Source: Andrew County Republican, 22 Jun 1876, p. 1 Died. In this place, at four o’clock P.M. on Sunday, June 18, 1876, Mrs. Amanda E. Russell, wife of J. B. Russell. The deceased was one of our most respectable citizens, honored and respected by…
Date of Death: 25 Sep 1916 Subject: Alexander Fleet Russell Source: Holt County Sentinel, 6 Oct 1916, p. 2 The entire county was shocked Monday evening to hear that A. F. Russell had died suddenly. He had been to Savannah that afternoon preparing for his hog sale on October 24. He left town about 4…
Date of Death: 12 Dec 1914 Subject: Mildred Alice (Massie) Ruhl Source: Holt County Sentinel, 25 Dec 1914, p. 3 Alice Ruhl nee Alice Massie, died of heart failure, at her home, in the vicinity of Lebanon, Missouri, December 12, 1914. Mrs. Alice Ruhl, nee Alice Massie, daughter of John C. and Susan Massie, aged…
Date of Death: 19 Jun 1912 Subject: Mary (Waltman) Ruhl Source: Holt County Sentinel, 28 Jun 1912, p. 2 In the death of Mrs. Mary Ruhl, at the residence of her son, May V. Ruhl, near Rosendale, Andrew county, June 19, there was removed from the activities of this life a woman who had been…
Date of Death: 27 Oct 1904 Subject: John Timothy Ruhl Source: Holt County Sentinel, 4 Nov 1904, p. 6 Frank J. Ruhl and wife, and his father-in-law, John Alborsold [sic], of near Amazonia, were in Oregon, Tuesday of this week, interviewing Collector Stock and shaking hands with friends. Frank, it will be remembered, is a…
Date of Death: 24 Jul 1911 Subject: Hayden William Ruhl Source: Holt County Sentinel, 4 Aug 1911, p. 8 Hayden William Ruhl, son of E. F. Ruhl, was born November 23, 1886, in Sumner county, Kansas. At the age of five years, he with his parents moved to Missouri, where he lived in Andrew and…
Date of Death: 26 Dec 1872 Subject: William Early Rucker Source: Andrew County Republican, 3 Jan 1872, p. 3 (From the St. Joe Herald) The year that is just going out will have taken with it by death, a greater number of the pioneer citizens of this section of Missouri, than any previous year in…
Mrs. Bridget Root, seventy years old, a widow, died at 3 o’clock yesterday afternoon at a local hospital, after an illness of several months. She was a native of Ireland and had lived in St. Joseph twenty years. Her late residence was in Walker’s addition. A brother, P. H. Wood, lives on the Amazonia road…
Date of Death: 1 Jul 1917 Subject: William [Wilhelm] E. Romang Source: St. Joseph Observer, 7 Jul 1917 William E. Romang died at the home of his son near Cosby Monday, aged 75 years.