FRYBERGER, POWERS "The Kansas City Star" (Missouri) Wednesday, August 25, 1897 BURNED HIS EYES OUT. Walter POWERS and his sister Nellie, 9 and 8 years old, visited their grandmother, Mrs. S. A. FRYBERGER, yesterday at 2700 Mersington avenue, and were left alone in the house while the grandmother went to sing and pray with the prisoners in the county jail. On a top shelf of a sideboard in the dining room was a bottle full of powder. Little Walter climbed up and got it and he and his little sister went into the yard to play with it. They dug a hole in the ground under a peach tree and poured in some powder and covered it with loose dirt. Walter struck a match, bent over the mine and touched it off. The flame and dirt puffed up into his eyes, singeing the flesh and filling his eyes with dirt. He screamed with pain and was totally blinded. Little Nellie started with him for their home, twenty-one blocks away. She led him by the hand and held a fan before his face to shade his blistered eyes from the hot sun. The doctor who is attending little Walter says he thinks the child's eyesight has been destroyed. Walter is a son of F. G. POWERS of 2736 Woodland avenue. ====================================================== (I have no connection with this family but I'd appreciate knowing if you found this posting helpful.) johnobrien@kc.rr.com ======================================================

ALEXANDER, CARROLL, HALPIN, HARRINGTON, LEWERS, McANANY, SPARKS, STEWART "The Kansas City Star" (Missouri) Friday, August 27, 1897 NEW POLICEMEN NAMED. At its session this afternoon the police board named the following new policemen: J. S. STEWART W. J. CARROLL Herbert LEWERS Arthur G. SPARKS D. J. HARRINGTON Robert ALEXANDER Thomas McANANY, a policeman, was appointed detective, in place of John HALPIN, promoted to inspector. ====================================================== (I have no connection with any of these people but I'd appreciate knowing if you found this posting helpful.) johnobrien@kc.rr.com ======================================================

"The Kansas City Star" (Missouri) Wednesday, August 27, 1897 MARY PUCKETT OUT OF JAIL Prosecutor Lowe Pities Her And Will Be Lenient Mary PUCKETT was released from jail this morning by Prosecutor LOWE. She is the young woman who was arrested for bigamy. Mr. LOWE had her brought to his office this morning and talked to her. She told very frankly that she was guilty. She thought her first husband had deserted her and married another man. When her first husband returned she went back to him and was living with him when arrested. "What will you do now if I turn you out?" asked Prosecutor LOWE. "Well, I'll go back to John." "John who?" "My husband, John PUCKETT." "Will he support you?" "Will he? He'll be glad enough to. We always got along well together. We are all poor enough, but John has been to see me twice since I've been in jail. Mama has been here once and my brother sent word that he'd do what he could for me." The prosecutor wrote out a bond for Mary to appear in court September 20, and she signed it, "Mrs. Mary PUCKETT." Prosecutor LOWE said: "The public welfare did not demand that this poor woman should go to the penitentiary; so I let her out of jail on her own bond to be in court September 20. She will be watched while she is out and if her conduct is good the case against her will be dismissed." Mary wept when she thanked Mr. LOWE for his kindness. Mary MONGLE was 13 years old when she married John PUCKETT in 1891. He went away to look for work in the coal mines two years after the marriage and she did not hear from him till two weeks ago when he unexpectedly returned. In his absence of three years, Mary had married John KENNEDY, a dog catcher. She returned at once to PUCKETT, who had a job digging in the Brush creek coal mine. KENNEDY caused her arrest for bigamy. The authorities at the jail pitied her from the first moment of her arrest. She was poor and ignorant and her grief was pitiful to see when she was locked in jail. When Cassimer WELCH, a deputy marshal, arrested Mary, KENNEDY, the second husband, was near at hand to gloat over her disgrace. He spoke to her insultingly and Marshal WELCH, whose sympathy was all for the frail little woman who had committed a crime in her ignorance of the law and as a lift out of poverty, shook his fist in the dog catcher's face and told him if he insulted her again he would punch him. The day after Mary was put in jail, KENNEDY came around to see her. He encountered Jailer Lum WILSON at the desk. "Who do you wish to see?" asked WILSON. "Mary PUCKETT." "Who are you?" "My name's KENNEDY." "Are you the fellow that had her arrested?" WILSON moved out from behind the desk and KENNEDY moved toward the door. He barely escaped a kick from WILSON's foot as he went through the door. "You come around here again and I'll lock you up," said WILSON. "The woman may be guilty, but I'm against you on general principles." ============================================ "The Kansas City Star" (Missouri) Monday, August 25, 1897 THE PLIGHT OF MARY PUCKETT Yesterday was the first Sunday that Mary PUCKETT ever spent in jail. The most of the day she lay on the cot in her cell, her face resting on her folded arms and sobs shaking her thin body. The bands of evangelists that visit the jail every Sunday came as usual and sang and prayed as loud and as long as they ever do, and the woman in these bands, most of whom are portly and well fed and well clothed, shook hands and talked consolingly with the thieves and burglars and other criminals in the cell in which the little woman lay sobbing to herself. It may have been because her cellmate was a big negress, who had a bad face and smoked an ill- smelling cob pipe, but whatever the reason, the missionaries spoke no word of comfort to the one woman in the jail who needed it most. Mary PUCKETT is only 20 years old. Her mother, Jane MONGLE, is a cripple. She lives at 1316 West Ninth street. She went to the jail to-day to see her daughter. She had hobbled all the way from the West bottoms because she hadn't 5 cents to pay car fare. When she saw her daughter in a cell she wept in a pitiful way and the daughter reached two bare arms out between the bars and put them around her old mother's neck and wept too. "Well, Mary," said the old woman as she raised her old face, discolored with tear stains. "I've seen Mr. LOWE and he says you've got to go to the penitentiary." Mr. LOWE is the prosecutor of the county. If he had his way in the matter he would be glad enough to see Mary go back to her husband and to her housekeeping on the banks of Brush creek, but its a serious crime that Mary is charged with, a penitentiary offence, and nothing can save her, because she admits her guilt. Mary was 13 years old when she married John PUCKETT in 1891. He was a coal digger, but he got out of work in 1894 and went away to look for it. He did not write to his wife and she thought he had deserted her. It was hard for her to make a living and when John KENNEDY offered to marry her last winter, she accepted him. That was bigamy, but she did not know it. KENNEDY was a dog catcher, who drank and beat his wife and made her go out and work to support him. Two weeks ago PUCKETT returned and offered to take back his wife. She flew to his arms. PUCKETT went to work digging in the Brush Creek coal mine and Mary cooked and washed for him in a tent on the creek bank. KENNEDY, the dog catcher, full of revenge swore out a warrant for Mary's arrest for bigamy and that is how she came to be in jail. If ever there was a penitent woman, Mary PUCKETT is one. "I want to go back to my first husband," she sobbed to-day. "He was always good to me and made me a good living." PUCKETT is at work and has hired a lawyer to defend his wife, but the proofs against her are plain. ====================================================== (I have no connection with this family but I'd appreciate knowing if you found this posting helpful.) johnobrien@kc.rr.com ======================================================

Death of: Celia Q. RAINEN Date: Thursday, September 8, 1994 Place: St. Joseph Health Center Age: 81 years Born: Joplin, MO Residence: Overland Park, KS Education: graduated in 1932, Joplin Business College Occupation: retired in 1948, was secretary of Rainen's Furniture Co. Affiliations: Member, Kehilath Israel Synagogue and its sisterhood Member of Hadassah Husband: Isadore RAINEN - died 4 January 1987 Survivors: Son: Michael J. RAINEN, Mission Hills, KS Son: William L. RAINEN, Prairie Village, KS Sister: Beatrice RUBIN, Overland Park, KS Grandchildren: 4 Services: Funeral - 11:30 a.m., September 11, Louis Chapel Burial - Kehilath Israel Blue Ridge Cemetery Reference: "The Kansas City Star" (Missouri) Saturday, September 10, 1994 ======================================================

Death of: Doris RAINEN Date: Tuesday, January 17, 1989 Place: Menorah Medical Center Age: 92 years Born: Russia Residence: southwest, Kansas City, MO Occupation: retired, co-owned the Rainen Furniture Store (1917 to 1983) Affiliations: Member, Kehilath Israel Synagogue and its sisterhood Member, past president of Greater Kansas City Chapter of Hadassah Husband: Max RAINEN - died 29 April 1932 Survivors: Son: Sidney RAINEN, Houston, TX Daughter: Esther GOLDMAN, Hollywood, FL Grandchildren: 9 Great-grandchildren: 13 Services: Funeral - 11 a.m., January 20, Louis Chapel Burial - Kehilath Israel Blue Ridge Cemetery Reference: "The Kansas City Times" (Missouri) Thursday, January 19, 1989 ======================================================

Death of: Sidney RAINEN Date: Wednesday, June 9, 1993 Place: hospital in Houston, TX Age: 76 years Born: Kansas City, MO Residence: Houston, TX (since 1982) Education: Bachelor's degree in business administration, University of Missouri-Columbia (1938) Occupation: retired, was co-owner of Rainen Furniture Co. (1945 - 1965) Military service: Army Air Forces veteran of World War II (rank of Major) Affiliations: Member, Temple B'nai Jehudah Member, Home Furnishing Manufacturers Representatives Association Member, Friends of Art, Houston, TX Survivors: Wife: Patti RAINEN, Houston, TX Son: Mitch RAINEN, Lenexa, KS Son: James RAINEN, Kansas City, MO Daughter: Lynne RAINEN JACOBS, Plainsboro, NJ Step-son: Mitch GALE, Overland Park, KS Step-daughter: Denise YONEMOTO, Houston, TX Sister: Esther GOLDMAN, Overland Park, KS Grandchildren: 7 Graveside services, 1 p.m., June 11, Kehilath Israel Blue Ridge Cemetery Reference: "The Kansas City Star" (Missouri) Thursday, June 10, 1993 ======================================================

Death of: Jack G. RAINEN Date: Friday, June 24, 1983 Place: Baptist Medical Center Age: 77 years Born: Russia Residence: 1219 W. 64th Terrace, Kansas City, MO Occupation: retired, was president of Rainen Furniture Co. Military service: Army Medical Corps veteran of World War II Affiliations: Member, Congregation Kehilath Israel Member of the Arari Club Survivors: Wife: Bertha S. RAINEN of the home Son: Marc RAINEN, Kansas City, MO Daughter: Mrs. Lana KLAYMAN, St. Louis, MO Brother: Isadore RAINEN, Kansas City, MO Brother: Sidney RAINEN, Houston, TX Sister: Mrs. Esther GOLDMAN, Miami, FL Step-mother: Mrs. Doris RAINEN, Kansas City, MO Grandchildren: 3 Services: Funeral - 3 p.m., June 26, Louis Chapel Burial - Kehilath Israel Blue Ridge Cemetery Reference: "The Kansas City Star" (Missouri) Friday, June 24, 1983 ======================================================

Death of: Isadore RAINEN Date: Sunday, January 4, 1987 Place: Menorah Medical Center Age: 75 years Residence: 1228 W. 69th Street, Kansas City, MO Occupation: owned Rainen's Furniture & Appliances stores Military service: Army Air Force veteran of World War II Affiliations: Member, Kehilath Israel Synagogue and its men's club Past member of board of directors, Bar H Ranch for Underprivileged Boys Member, B'nai B'rith and the Shalom Geriatric Center Father: Max RAINEN - died 29 April 1932 Survivors: Wife: Celia RAINEN of the home Son: Michael RAINEN, Mission Hills, KS Son: William L. RAINEN, Prairie Village, KS Mother: Doris RAINEN, Kansas City, MO Brother: Sidney RAINEN, Houston, TX Sister: Esther GOLDMAN, Hollywood, FL Grandchildren: 2 Services: Funeral - 10 a.m., January 6, Louis Chapel Burial - Kehilath Israel Blue Ridge Cemetery Reference: "The Kansas City Times" (Missouri) Monday, January 5, 1987 ======================================================

Death of: Max RAINEN Date: Friday, April 29, 1932 Place: Menorah Hospital Age: 51 years Residence: 3508 Chestnut, Kansas City, MO Survivors: Wife: Dorothy RAINEN of the home Daughter: Esther RAINEN of the home Son: Isadore RAINEN of the home Son: Sydney RAINEN, of the home Son: Jack RAINEN, 3216 E. 10th street, Kansas City, MO Services: Funeral - 2 p.m., May 1, H. Tigerman & Sons' funeral home Synagogue: 2:30 p.m., Sherith Israel D. Ludavitz Synagogue Burial - Blue Ridge Cemetery Reference: "The Kansas City Times" (Missouri) Saturday, April 30, 1932 ======================================================

"The Kansas City Times" (Missouri) Tuesday, January 11, 1921 DEATHS IN KANSAS CITY. Mott L. RHODES, 46 years old, died yesterday afternoon at his home, 3032 Michigan avenue. He was a metal worker employed by the Kansas City Terminal Railway Company. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Minnie RHODES; two daughters, Miss Madeline RHODES and Miss Dorothy RHODES of the home address; his mother, Mrs. Carrie J. RHODES, and a sister, Mrs. Addie WEYENETH, both of 2524 Kensington avenue, and a brother, Dwight RHODES, Los Angeles. Funeral services will be at 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon at the home. Burial will be in Forest Hill cemetery. ====================================================== (I have no connection with this family but I'd appreciate knowing if you found this posting helpful.) johnobrien@kc.rr.com ======================================================

"The Kansas City Times" (Missouri) Thursday, June 3, 1920 DEATHS IN KANSAS CITY. Miss Agnes A. RHODES, 85 years old, died yesterday at her home in Grandview, Mo. She is survived by two nieces, Mrs. P. D. SIMMONS, Guymon, Ok., and Mrs. L. J. DAVENPORT, 1429 Locust street, (Kansas City, Mo). Services will be at 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon at Forster's chapel; burial in Forest Hill cemetery. ====================================================== (I have no connection with this family but I'd appreciate knowing if you found this posting helpful.) johnobrien@kc.rr.com ======================================================

ANDERSON, AGGRO, CUSHING, HALEY, HARRIS, LEVERICH, RAPNER, SEACHREST, WEDDINGTON, WITCHLER "The Kansas City Times" (Missouri) Thursday, December 13, 1900 BIRTHS REPORTED. Lonigo & Mrs. AGGRO, 816 E. Fourth street, Dec 10, boy Peter H. & Louise ANDERSON, 211 E. Fifth street, Dec 1, boy William & Anna WITCHLER, 15 W. Missouri Ave., Dec 11, girl Roy & Lillie HARRIS, 43 Virginia Ave, Dec 4, girl Omer K. & Birdie M. LEVERICH, 1403 Forest Ave., Dec 9, boy J. W. & Alma HALEY, 314 E. Sixteenth St., Dec 2, girl A. & Mary J. RAPNER, 4339 Locust St., Dec 5, boy George W. & Frances WEDDINGTON, 2022 Summit St., Dec 10, girl W. D. & Elsie E. SEACHREST, 3305 Flora Ave., Dec 9, boy William A. & Nessie CUSHING, 713 Campbell St., Dec 10, boy (These are not all births for the period. Births were published when reported.) ====================================================== (I have no connection with any of these people but I'd appreciate knowing if you found this posting helpful. JohnOBrien@kc.rr.com) ======================================================

BASILE, BOYD, GIBBS, GRANPE, HARWOOD, LORD, POTTER, STEWART, TALIMAN, WHITE "The Kansas City Journal" (Missouri) Saturday, April 2, 1898 BIRTHS REPORTED. W. H. & Belle POTTER, 1416 Virginia, March 25, boy Mary E. TALIMAN, 1623 Campbell, March 27, girl Boyd H. & Pearl HARWOOD, 629 Tracy, March 28, girl R.M.C. & Anna R. LORD, Independence Ave & Michigan, March 28, girl George B. & Tenie GIBBS, 1428 East Eighteenth, March 29, girl Frank & Mary BASILE, 601 East Fifth, March 29, boy James & Filomene GRANPE, 108 Locust, March 29, girl Otto & Julia WHITE, 2414 McGee, March 30, girl George & Rose STEWART, 1604 West Fourteenth, March 30, girl William & Carrie BOYD, 2124 Mercier, March 30, boy (These are not all births for the period. Births were published when reported.) ====================================================== (I have no connection with any of these people but I'd appreciate knowing if you found this posting helpful. JohnOBrien@kc.rr.com) ======================================================

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"The Kansas City Times" (Missouri) Sunday, June 10, 1888 KILLED BY LIGHTNING Mrs. Harriet LEWIS of Quindaro, wife of Mr. Wesley LEWIS, a wealthy colored farmer, died at 1 o'clock yesterday morning from the effect of an electric shock received during the storm Friday night. Mrs. LEWIS had taken her little daughter to a "dug out" a few yards from the farm house at the approach of the storm, while her husband remained in the house. While the rain was coming down in torrents, the child hurried back to the house telling her father that her mother was ill. Upon reaching the "dug out," Mr. Lewis found his wife unconscious, the twitching of her limbs indicating that she had received a terrible shock. A physician was summoned but the woman died at 1 o'clock. Mrs. LEWIS was 50 years of age. ====================================================== (I have no connection with this family but I'd appreciate knowing if you found this posting helpful.) johnobrien@kc.rr.com ======================================================

"The Kansas City Star" (Missouri) Monday, August 23, 1897 Reuben GARNETT, who came to Kansas City in 1858, died yesterday afternoon at the Virginia hotel. He was 85 years old and had been ill several months. Mr. GARNETT was born in 1812 in Virginia, where he was engaged in business for several years. He came to Kansas City, intending to start a bank, but changed his plans on account of the war, which was then threatening in this part of the country, and found a position as book- keeper for the firm of Gilliss & Coates. Here he remained until the outbreak of the war, when he was forced, on account of his sympathy for the South, to leave the city. He returned to his farm in Saline county and remained there until 1871, when he returned to Kansas City. Though he took no active part in the war, his only son, William A. GARNETT, who died several years ago in Mobile, Ala., served in the Confederate army and was in several of the great battles. Reuben GARNETT, after his return to Kansas City, was bookkeeper to T. M. JAMES and, later, cashier for the Grand Avenue street railway, which ran horse cars between Kansas City and Westport. For the last five years he had been owner and proprietor of the Virginia hotel. Notwith- standing his advanced age, his mind was vigorous and active before his death. His wife, and three daughters survive him. Funeral services were held at the hotel at 10:30 o'clock this morning. Burial was in Elmwood cemetery. ====================================================== (I have no connection with this family but I'd appreciate knowing if you found this posting helpful.) johnobrien@kc.rr.com ======================================================

"The Kansas City Star" (Missouri) Monday, August 28, 1897 MADE HIM SIT DOWN. Charles ANDERSON complained at police headquarters yesterday that a conductor on the Fifth street Metropolitan line had pushed him into a seat on the grip car, wrenching and badly spraining his knee. Dr IUEN attended the injured man. ANDERSON said he boarded the train in Kansas City, Kas., to come to this side of the (state) line and while standing on the footboard was told by the gripman to take a seat. ANDERSON refused to sit, so the conductor took him by the shoulder and forced him down, wedging his knee in the seat in front. He had to be assisted from the train. Lathrop KARNES, claim agent of the Metropolitan system, said that he was investigating the case. ====================================================== (I have no connection with this family but I'd appreciate knowing if you found this posting helpful.) johnobrien@kc.rr.com ======================================================

"The Kansas City Star" (Missouri) Monday, August 28, 1897 Eugene O. SULLIVAN, a veteran of the civil war, died yesterday at his home, 1505 East Ninth street. He was a native of Limerick, Ireland, and came to this country when a young man. When the civil war broke out, Sullivan enlisted in the Eighteenth Missouri volunteers. In the battle of Shiloh, he was captured and confined in a Southern prison. He was exchanged, however, and sent home to St. Louis. A few weeks later SULLIVAN re-enlisted, and his wife, who survives him, secured special permission from the federal government to accompany her husband. She, with her two children, followed him all through the remaining years of the war, watching over him and caring for him. She was the only woman, except one other, in the camp. After the war, SULLIVAN returned to St. Louis, where he lived until four years ago, when he came to Kansas City. Funeral services will be held at 9 o'clock to-morrow morning at St. Joseph's church. Burial will be in Mount St. Mary's cemetery. ====================================================== (I have no connection with this family but I'd appreciate knowing if you found this posting helpful.) johnobrien@kc.rr.com ======================================================

"The Kansas City Times" (Missouri) Monday, October 7, 1907 HE RAN FROM HIS STEPFATHER. Charles DAVIDSON, 15 years old, was found on Union avenue, near the depot, yesterday morning by Patrick GLEASON, a patrolman. The boy, who had only five cents in money and no place to stay, was taken to police headquarters and put under the care of the matron. Charles said his father and mother were dead and that he had been living with his stepfather, J. W. CURTSINGER, a farmer, living near Argus, Ind. "My stepfather didn't treat me square," said the boy, "so I decided to come to Kansas City and find my brother, Edward C. DAVIDSON, who works in an ice cream factory here. I left home Monday morning on a freight train. I had a little money when I started, but spent it all for something to eat on the way. I got here Saturday morning. I tried all day Saturday to find my brother, but I didn't know which ice cream factory he worked in and couldn't find him." The police are trying to find the boy's brother. ====================================================== (I have no connection with this family but I'd appreciate knowing if you found this posting helpful.) johnobrien@kc.rr.com ======================================================

CARLSON, CUSLEY, EDWARDS, MAINES, WYCAUGH "The Kansas City Times" (Missouri) Friday, March 30, 1900 BIRTHS. Joseph and Mabel WYCAUGH, Ewing street, March 25, boy Burt and Emma MAINES, Eighth and Bellefontaine, March 24, boy Wesley and Sadie CUSLEY, 2919 Jarboe, March 27, girl W. J. and Mrs. EDWARDS, 1731 Michigan, March 27, girl Al and Mrs. CARLSON, 1214 Cliff, March 27, boy (These are not all births for the period. Births were published when reported.) ====================================================== (I have no connection with any of these people but I'd appreciate knowing if you found this posting helpful. JohnOBrien@kc.rr.com) ======================================================