Gladys was the daughter of David and Edith Johnson Greever. She was b in 1888. Any information on whom she married would be appreciated. Thanks REba

Hey John, Thank you so much for Robert E. PETREE's obit, and the story of the tragic drowning of Chester CAMPBELL. The former is my mother's maternal grandfather, the latter her half-brother from her dad's first wife who died in 1902. I can't tell you how very much your help means to me. Simply put, thank you. Joyce, Dolores CO rjl@fone.net

"The Kansas City Journal" (Missouri) Monday, May 4, 1903 THE END OF A WASTED LIFE. Woman Often Given "Hours to Leave" Is Gone Permanently. Mrs. Mary SCHAEFER, 60 years old, died yesterday at the city hospital of general debility. No funeral arrangements have yet been made Mrs. SCHAEFER was a well known character in police court. She was a familiar figure on the streets, and there were few persons on South Grand avenue, and habitues of the police station who did not know her. She had been arrested more than 100 times in the past twenty years, the charge invariably being intoxication. Occasionally she was fortunate to escape punishment through the leniency of the police judge, but she served numerous terms in the work house. More than once she had been given a stated number of hours to leave the city, but those who have known her state that the first saloon was as far as she ever got. She was a victim of circumstances, and her downfall dates back thirty years or more. At one time she was prosperous, and the "wolf at the door" was unknown to her. Misfortune came thick and fast and she became a victim of strong drink, and from a high pinnacle in the social set, she gradually descended to the category of a rounder. Few policemen in Kansas City did not know her, and when she appeared in police court she was usually greeted with: "Well, Mary, I see you are back home." A number of her old-time friends called at a local undertaker's yesterday to take a last look at what was left of a wasted life. They merely shook their heads and in a sympathetic voice said: "She had a good heart, but was a victim of circumstances." ================================================= (I have no connection with this person but I'd appreciate knowing if you found this posting helpful.) =================================================

"The Kansas City Star" (Missouri) Sunday, July 11, 1915 BATHER DROWNS IN BLUE The second Blue River drowning tragedy came yesterday afternoon in the death of Chester B. CAMPBELL 15 years old, at Fourteenth Street and the Blue River. Chester and a companion, George M. SAUNDERS, 16 years old, had been swimming in the river most of the afternoon. A big tree trunk resting on the bank and extending over the water made an ideal sunning place to rest after exertion in the current. The two boys lay on the tree about 2:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon waving a cheery greeting to the police river patrol as the boat passed downstream. Twenty minutes later Thomas J. HIGGINS, in charge of the river patrol, was diving in twenty feet of water to recover the body of Chester CAMPBELL. The boy had fallen from the log into the water. Though a good swimmer, he failed to rise to the surface. LUNGMOTOR FAILED TO REVIVE HIM. SAUNDERS, his companion, had jumped into the river, but could not touch bottom. A "stepoff" ten to twenty feet deep from the bank to the middle of the stream made recovery of the body difficult. SAUNDERS then called for help. Patrolman HIGGINS and George FLANDERS of the Star Boat Company recovered the body by the use of steel-hooked poles twenty-four minutes after the boy fell in the water. They gave first aid treatment and were met by Dr. W. C. ANDERSON and C. H. BLACKMAN with the latter's lungmotor. After working forty-five minutes with the lungmotor, Doctor ANDERSON examined the boy and found evidence of heart failure. He said the shock of the fall in the water must have caused heart failure, making it impossible for him to swim. SECOND DEATH IN BLUE THIS YEAR. Chester CAMPBELL was the son of Joseph CAMPBELL, a mechanic, 1232 Winchester Avenue. He had been working until a week ago, when he gave up his job to rest. He had been swimming and canoeing in the Blue River every day this week. His father, a stepmother and two younger sisters survive. Burial wil l be Monday afternoon. A negro was drowned several weeks ago in the Blue River about four hundred yards from the site of the accident yesterday. Those two deaths make the toll of the Blue this year. ================================================= ----- Original Message ----- From: "roger.joyce lawrence" <rjl@fone.net> To: <KansasCity-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, April 27, 2003 4:30 PM Subject: [KansasCity] 1915 Obits Request > Chester B. CAMPBELL, d. July 10, 1915 - age 15, drowned in Blue River > > >

L. H.: I know I sent you some marriage information, but I don't recall if I sent you the following: Jackson County Marriage Index 1873 - Bernice MARTIN - Levi R. BURTON book B-7, page 120. You can get a copy of the marriage certificate for $2 from the courthouse. Provide them with the name and reference numbers: Jackson County, Kansas City courthouse 415 East 12th Street, Room 104 Kansas City, MO 64106 (phone 816-881-3048) e-mail address: records@gw.co.jackson.mo.us John Kansas City, MO ----- Original Message ----- From: "L H" <mshorn@webtv.net> To: <KansasCity-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 10:21 PM Subject: [KansasCity] Bernica Short, Morris, Martin, Burton > Hi John, I'm writing to see if one of these days, you might be able to > check on a marriage record for me. She had married John M. Morris in > 1860 and remarried an unknown Martin about 1868 or so. They had a son > James who was born in 1869. John, I see you're posting to the Newspaper > Abstracts for Missouri. You're terrific and I do not know when you > sleep! Bless your heart, and THANK YOU for all the help you give so > freely. Theres a chance they married in Leavenworth, but I'm hoping it > was Jackson. Thank you so much, Linda > > The mighty Oak tree was once a little nut that held its > ground...Remember Him > > > ==== KansasCity Mailing List ==== > KansasCity-L@rootsweb.com > List Administrator > Maureen Patt, ListMom > knitandspin@earthlink.net > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >

CAMPBELL, PETREE, SNYDER "The Kansas City Times" (Missouri) Monday, January 4, 1915 DEATHS IN KANSAS CITY. Robert E. PETREE, a retired carpenter, 86 years old, died at the East Side Hospital at 9 o'clock yesterday morning. Mr. PETREE had lived with his daughter, Mrs. Cora M. SNYDER, 1736 Cambridge Avenue. He had been in Kansas City about ten years, coming here from Utica, Mo. He is survived by Mrs. SNYDER, and one other daughter, Mrs. Joseph CAMPBELL, also living here. The funeral will be held at Mrs. CAMPBELL's residence at 2:30 o'clock this afternoon. The burial will be in Utica. ================================================= ----- Original Message ----- From: "roger.joyce lawrence" <rjl@fone.net> To: <KansasCity-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, April 27, 2003 4:30 PM Subject: [KansasCity] 1915 Obits Request > > Robert E. PETREE, d. January 3, 1915 - age 85 > > Thanks in advance for any help and, to join the chorus, welcome back. Joyce > Lawrence, > > > > ==== KansasCity Mailing List ==== > USGENWEB SEARCH ARCHIVES > http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ussearch.htm > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >

Dear Listers: I am hoping someone can be of help to me. My grandparents Wm. H. Hawbecker and his wife Ethel were living at 3004-3006 Grand Ave. in the 1920 Cenus. I would like to have a look up beginning with the 1916 1917-1918-1919-1920 City directories so that I may find out where they perhaps married. My grandmother had been married once before in 1912 and had a son born in 1913 and she left the first husband in March 1914 and went back to Canada and then back to Chicago where she met my step grandfather. I have been trying to loacte a marriage record for them but have had no luck. If any one can be of help I would greatly appreciate it. I will pay for any copies and postage Thank you Jean Payton 4951 Anchor Way New Port Richey, Florida 34652

"The Kansas City Times" (Missouri) Tuesday, November 14, 1916 DEATHS IN KANSAS CITY. Miss Josephine NEWENHAUS, known as Sister Frances, a teacher of music at the Ursuline Convent at Paola, Kas., died at the home of her mother, Mrs. Frances NEWENHAUS, 2222 Garfield Avenue, Kansas side, yesterday. She was a grandniece of the late Bishop L. M. FINK and a niece of Miss Anna FINK. She was 27 years old. She received her education at the convent at Atchison and herself entered the Ursuline order five years ago. She had been ill nearly a year and had spent the last few months at her mother's home. Besides her mother, she leaves two brothers, Joseph and Louis NEWENHAUS, and a sister, Miss Frances NEWENHAUS. ================================================= (I have no connection with this person but I'd appreciate knowing if you found this posting helpful.) ================================================= ----- Original Message ----- From: Rick & Lauren To: johnobrien@kc.rr.com Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2003 10:44 PM Subject: Newenhaus Hi John. My father-in-law is Theodore Newenhaus and I am trying to do some research on his family name. I came across your internet site of Kansas City deaths in November 1916 where Miss Josephine Newenhaus is listed. Please send me the obituary and/or death record. I would greatly appreciate it! Thanks. Rick Quagliata

COCKELL, GEELAN, McKELVIE, NEGUS, TITTSWORTH Death of: George Henry COCKELL Date: Friday, December 15, 1944 Place: at home Age: 51 Born: Toronto Residence: 4413 1/2 East Seventh, Kansas City, MO Occupation: employed 35 years by Kansas City Public Service Company Survivors: Wife: Blanche COCKELL of the home Daughter: Leanna COCKELL of the home Son: Earl COCKELL, 634 Spruce Father: Joseph COCKELL, 216 Orchard, Kansas City, KS Sister: Mrs. Eugene TITTSWORTH, 4411 East Seventeenth Sister: Mrs. James GEELAN, 4217 East Seventh Sister: Mrs. Ernest McKELVIE, St. Francis, Ontario Sister: Mrs. Alvy NEGUS, Diller, NE Brother: Joseph COCKELL, 1228 Bennington Brother: Ernest COCKELL, Belleville, Ontario Services: Funeral: 2 p.m., December 18, Earp Chapel Burial: Mt. Washington Cemetery Reference: "The Kansas City Times" (Missouri) Saturday, December 16, 1944 ================================================= (I have no connection with this person but I'd appreciate knowing if you found this posting helpful.) =================================================

CHAPMAN, SMITH Death of: Fred SMITH Date: Friday, December 15, 1944 Place: at home Age: 64 Born: Mason City, IL Residence: 3826 Indiana, Kansas City, MO Occupation: barber for 40 years Survivors: Wife: Grace A. SMITH of the home Sister: Mrs. C. A. CHAPMAN, 1111 Kimball, Kansas City, KS Brother: C. A. SMITH, Sedalia, MO Services: Funeral: 10 a.m., December 18, Newcomer Chapel Burial: Sedalia Reference: "The Kansas City Times" (Missouri) Saturday, December 16, 1944 ================================================= (I have no connection with this person but I'd appreciate knowing if you found this posting helpful.) =================================================

BARZEAL, COX, HULS, HUTCHINGS, THOMAS Death of: Polly Jane THOMAS Date: Thursday, December 14, 1944 Place: General Hospital, Kansas City, MO Age: 60 Residence: 609 West Fourteenth Survivors: Daughter: Mrs. Ruby BARZEAL of the home Daughter: Mrs. Nancy Irene HULS, 515 Warner Avenue Son: Leslie HUTCHINGS of the home Son: Pvt. Jesse Lee COX, overseas Son: Raymond HUTCHINGS Son: Frank HUTCHINGS Services: Funeral: 1 o'clock, December 18, Tigerman Chapel Burial: Maple Hill Cemetery Reference: "The Kansas City Times" (Missouri) Saturday, December 16, 1944 ================================================= (I have no connection with this person but I'd appreciate knowing if you found this posting helpful.) =================================================

MURRY, POTTS, SHAW Death of: Mamie POTTS Date: Thursday, December 14, 1944 Place: at home Age: 76 Cause: heart disease Residence: 2843 Troost, Kansas City, MO Survivors: Son: Jack POTTS, 807 Fairview, Fairmount, MO Son: Clarence POTTS, San Bernardino, CA Son: Cecil POTTS, North Kansas City, MO Son: Leonard POTTS, Lexington, MO Half-sister: Mrs. Katie MURRY, 4006 East Fifteenth Half-brother: Melvin SHAW, Independence, MO Services: Funeral: 2:30 p.m., December 17, Winkler Chapel, Lexington Burial: Lexington Reference: "The Kansas City Times" (Missouri) Saturday, December 16, 1944 ================================================= (I have no connection with this person but I'd appreciate knowing if you found this posting helpful.) =================================================

BROOKS, SPECTOR, STUDNA Death of: Samuel SPECTOR Date: Friday, December 15, 1944 Place: at home Age: 97 Born: Russia Residence: 3819 Bellefontaine, Kansas City, MO Survivors: Daughter: Mrs. Jennie STUDNA of the home Son: Morris SPECTOR, 2302 Prospect Son: Barney SPECTOR, 3308 Brooklyn Brother: Isaac SPECTOR, 3823 South Benton Sister: Mrs. Mollie BROOKS, Oakland, CA Services: Funeral: 1:30 p.m., December 17, Louis Chapel Burial: Sheffield Cemetery reference: "The Kansas City Times" (Missouri) Saturday, December 16, 1944 ================================================= (I have no connection with this person but I'd appreciate knowing if you found this posting helpful.) =================================================

"The Kansas City Times" (Missouri) Tuesday, September 26, 1911 WHEN HIS WIFE APPEARED The Police Stopped a Matrimonial Reclamation Scheme That Drew a Crowd. "And now at last I have you" in the most approved and realistic melodramatic style and intense earnestness held the attention of a good sized audience on Grand Avenue near Twelfth Street last night until Harry UNDERWOOD, a patrolman, rang down the curtain by escorting the participants to police headquarters. The plot of the story, as explained to Chief GRIFFIN, was this: Floyd YEAGER, Eighth and Locust streets, and his wife were separated about a year ago. Since then, Mrs. YEAGER has had another beau and Mr. YEAGER has had another sweetheart. The arrangement was satisfactory until about a week ago, when Mrs. YEAGER's beau departed for California. Mrs. YEAGER grew lonesome and longed to be loved, so last night when she saw her husband and his girl come out of a moving picture show, she sought to take possession of him. Her rival attempted to hold him by right of present possession, and Patrolman UNDERWOOD thought Chief GRIFFIN could act as referee better than anyone else. Chief GRIFFIN gave them some advice and warning and they were released. ================================================= (I have no connection with this person but I'd appreciate knowing if you found this posting helpful.) =================================================

BRADEN, BULKLEY, COFFMAN, DUNCAN, ELSTON, FISHER, FRANKLIN, FREET, GRIFFIN, GRIFFITH, HALE, HAZELL, JONES, LEWIS, McDONNA, PITTMAN, ROSENBERGER, WARWICK, WHITACRE, WILLIAMS "The Kansas City Times" (Missouri) Friday, August 4, 1911 NEW TEACHERS APPOINTED The following appointments of new teachers were made by the board of education last night: Anna H. JONES, principal of the Douglas School: Anna FRANKLIN Bernice O. WILLIAMS Agnes HALE Anna FISHER Florence GRIFFITH Betty LEWIS Lucy HAZELL Maude PITTMAN Mary BRADEN Lulu COFFMAN E. E. WHITACRE Lillian FREET Helen McDONNA Margaret ELSTON Harriet BULKLEY Lela WARWICK. William E. GRIFFIN was made principle of the Brooker Washington. Miss Anna DUNCAN is the new clerk for the Westport High School, and Miss Sophia ROSENBERGER, who for more than twenty years has been a teacher of English at the Central High School, was changed to the Westport High School. Fifty-five substitute teachers also were appointed. ================================================= (I have no connection with any of these people but I'd appreciate knowing if you found this posting helpful.) =================================================

"The Kansas City Times" (Missouri) Friday, August 4, 1911 PIPE THIEVES OUT IN A WAGON A vacant house at 717 Wabash Avenue, owned by H. C. PARMER, 719 Wabash Avenue, was broken into and the bathroom stripped of pipe worth about $40 yesterday. Two men were seen in a wagon in front of the house, but persons who saw them believed the robbers were workmen who had business at the house. Thirty minutes later a wagon of the same description, but carrying four men, stopped in the rear of the Missouri and Kansas Telephone Company branch office at Peery and Prospect avenues. Two pieces of lead pipe cable, 137 feet in length, were picked up by one of the men, put in the wagon, and the four drove away. ================================================= (I have no connection with this person but I'd appreciate knowing if you found this posting helpful.) =================================================

John, Would you by chance of access to an obit for May of 1982??? I don't have her exact date of death just May 1982. Her date of birth was 2 Nov 1888 and at the time of her death she lived in Shawnee Mission KS. She was my grandmothers closest friend and as kids we adopted her as our "Aunt Jo". We lost touch with her after my grandmother died in '74. Thanks a bunch in advance. I very much appreciate your dedication to this list, I look forward to reading your post nightly. Becky in southern CA

"The Kansas City Star" (Missouri) Saturday, November 8, 1890 THE CONTEST WITH GUNS. The Shooting Festival in Kansas City Next Week All the preparations are complete for the reception and entertainment of the Chicago sportsmen who will be here next week to try to redeem their laurels lost to Kansas City at Chicago several months ago. The Chicago visitors will arrive Monday morning and shooting will begin at Elliott's park Monday afternoon. There will be 6,000 or 7,000 pigeons killed in Kansas City next week, for besides the shoot between the teams of ten of Chicago and Kansas City, there will be a shoot between two other teams of ten from Chicago and Kansas City, Elliott's annual shooting tournament, Elliott's and Organ's shoot for the American field cup, and numerous other special shoots which will be arranged between the crack marksmen who will be in attendance. The shoot between the second teams of Chicago and Kansas City will begin as soon as the first match is finished. It is expected that the regular team shoot will be finished by Wednesday noon. Thursday evening the Chicago visitors will be banqueted at the Midland. In the team shoot, beginning with a Chicago man, the members of the two teams will alternate, each shooting at twenty-five birds, and then after having shot through the list will begin over again and shoot their second twenty-five. The two teams shoots alone will require 2,000 birds, and J.A.R. Elliott has for the past week been receiving large shipments of birds from Missouri, Kansas and Nebraska.

BALLINGER, BILLIKOPF, BINNIE, CORNFORTH, CRUISE, CUNNINGHAM, ENNIS, ERVIN, GIBBENS, GORDON, GOSNEY, HIGHLEY, MATTHEWS, McCLURE, MILLER, MITCHELL, PIERSON, POSTLEWAIT, POTTER, RITTER, ROCHE, ROOT, SEARS, SORTOR, STILLMAN, STONE, STUTSMAN, THACHER, TONDREAU, VAN ATTA, VANATTA, VOLKER, WARREN, WHITE "The Kansas City Times" (Missouri) Tuesday, August 22, 1911 THESE GET CITY JOBS. Results of Civil Service Examination Announced Last Night. The civil service board announced last night the winners in nine sets of examinations. The board of examiners for all except the examina- tion for pathologist in the city hospital were Jacob BILLIKOPF, H. R. ENNIS, W. C. ROOT, William VOLKER, and John H. THACHER. Dr. J. F. BINNIE prepared the examination for the pathologist. The positions and the winners follow: District Superintendents Under Board of Public Welfare: (salary $1,200 a year) Mrs. Kate E. PIERSON Mrs. Edith M. CRUISE James R. POSTLEWAIT Charles C. STILLMAN Otto S. ERVIN Lois CORNFORTH Jess O. STUTSMAN John W. WHITE William I. POTTER Clerk Municipal Farm: (salary $840 a year) Luther B. GOSNEY Clerk Employment Bureau: (salary $780 a year) Frank H. TONDREAU John R. ROCHE, Jr. Rolla F. BALLINGER Herbert T. HIGHLEY Social Workers for Provident Association: (salary $720 a year) Miss Clara E. MITCHELL Addie J. SORTOR Lois CORNFORTH Nellie L. WARREN Nancy S. GORDON Elizabeth SEARS Mrs. Emma A. MATTHEWS Superintendent of Recreation Department to Inspect Dances and Picture Shows: (salary $1,200 a year) Fred F. McCLURE Investigator Recreation Department: (salary $900 a year) William F. CUNNINGHAM Parole Officers of Juvenile Court: (salary $900 a year) Kate E. PIERSON William H. GIBBENS Albert H. MILLER Stewardess of Woman's Reformatory: (salary $600 a year) Catherine M. RITTER Pathologist in City Hospital to Succeed Dr. M. C. STONE, resigned: (salary $1,200 a year) Dr. John R. VAN ATTA An examination has been ordered to take place September 1 for gaspipe inspectors. ================================================= (I have no connection with any of these people but I'd appreciate knowing if you found this posting helpful.) =================================================

CRUSE, DALTON, DAWSON, LARGE, SIMRALL, TOPMAN "The Kansas City Times" (Missouri) Wednesday, August 2, 1911 PAID FOR HARLEM'S BLUSHES Justice Would Not Blink At Girl Bathers' River Gambols It cost two Kansas City girls just $31.75 apiece in Justice C. M. CRUSE's court yesterday afternoon to find out the style in bathing suits in Harlem. Monday afternoon, Grace DALTON, age 21, and Nellie LARGE, age 19, living at Fifth and Holmes streets, tiring of the noises and hurry of the busy city, crossed the big river on the steam ferry. They were accompanied by two young men. The peace and quiet of the little city across the way brought back memories of happy childhood spent where brooks babbled through daisy dotted meadows. The lure of nature permeated their thoughts, and all heated with tramping through sand and sunflowers, they sat down in the shade of the embankment of the Hannibal Bridge. The river looked cool, wet, inviting, but they were without conventional bathing suits. They hesitated; then they went swimming. A passenger train crept across the bridge. The passengers, spying the nymphs clad in gauze garments, scant of measure, crowded to the platforms and windows and expressed their joy at the sight in tones that brought half the population of Harlem to the scene. Shocked and scandalized at the lack of propriety, prominent citizens notified Earl DAWSON, deputy constable, who drove away the curious crowd, then ordered the party to dress and be arrested. The young men escorts did not go in swimming. They simply sat on the bank and applauded. Yesterday, Ernest SIMRALL, assistant prosecutor, arraigned the girls before Justice CRUSE. So much interest was taken in the trial that it was necessary to hold court in the hall over TOPMAN's lumber office. Pleas of childish delight and innocence, and that they thought they were properly clad, did not go before that court and both girls were fined. Their escorts paid the fine and amid threats of the crowd to publicly horsewhip them, they hurried to the ferry and departed. ================================================= (I have no connection with any of these people but I'd appreciate knowing if you found this posting helpful.) =================================================