This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: BABCOCK Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Am.2ADI/232 Message Board Post: THE OBSERVER-ENTERPRISE, VOUME 44, NO. 3 PLEASANTON, LINN COUNTY, KANSAS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 19, 1915 Wm. Babcock Died. William Weston Babcock, an old and highly respected citizen of Pleasanton, died at his home in this city Monday evening at 9:20 from a stroke of paralysis. He had been an invalid for some time owing to a previous stroke. Funeral services were held at the home of his son, Arthur, Wednesday morning, conducted by Rev. Geo. M. Boicourt, pastor of the M. E. church, of which deceased was a member--and a faithful worshipper until disability prevented his attending. After the services the remains were tenderly conveyed to the Pleasanton cemetery and laid to rest. Mr. Babcock was born in Vestal, Boone county, N.Y. on Sept. 12th, 1836; was united in marriage to Matilda Jones--on Nov. 1, 1873; moved to Kansas City Mo., in 1892 and came to Pleasanton in 1906. Besides his faithful companion and son, he is survived by two sisters, Mrs. Laura Birdsail and Mrs. Rebecca Burdick of New York. This paper joins with it's readers in expressions of sympathy to those bereaved.