Pat, here's the site: http://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/resources/birthdeath/ John Kansas City, MO ----- Original Message ----- From: <RSan987272@aol.com> To: <MOJACKSO-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 8:08 PM Subject: [MOJACKSO] Kansas City Death Record > I am looking for a death record for John N. DARBY who died 23 December 1892 > and is buried in Elmwood Cemetery, Kansas City, MO. Several years ago I > thought I found a website where I could print out the information. Now I can't find > anything on it. (Old age does that to you.) > > Could somebody please help me with this? > > Thanks > Pat DARBY Sanchez

BURKE, CORRIGAN, PHILIPS, SHELBY, SMITH "The Kansas City Star" (Missouri) Saturday, October 16, 1897 DEATH OF A PIONEER. Thomas BURKE, for more than forty years a resident of Jackson county, died yesterday at his home, 2541 Michigan avenue. He lived here when Kansas City was only Westport landing and he saw the growth of the city from the beginning. Before the war, he was employed by Thomas and John CORRIGAN on the construction of the Missouri Pacific road, the first railroad built into Kansas City. When the war broke out, BURKE enlisted in the Fifth Missouri cavalry and served as a private for four years. Captain Henry SMITH was his commander and John F. PHILIPS, now Judge PHILIPS of the federal court, was in his regiment. BURKE took part in the battle of Westport, and helped drive back General Jo SHELBY when he attempted to raid and burn Kansas City. After the war he took up his trade of stone mason and followed it until seven years ago, when he was forced to stop work on account of a cancer which finally killed him. He was about 75 years old and was an Irishman by birth. ====================================================== (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, March 2, 1893 IN HIS HUNDREDTH YEAR. Thomas CADE, the oldest resident of Harlem and for forty years a resident in this immediate vicinity living either in Kansas City, Leavenworth, Weston or in Kickapoo county, Kansas, died at his home in Harlem on Monday and was buried in the family burying ground at Leavenworth yesterday. He was the father of Captain W. A. CADE, owner of the Missouri river ferry at this point, and leaves besides this son, a widow and three children and a host of grandchildren and great grandchildren. The children are: W. A. and Thomas CADE of Kansas City, Mrs. MALBY of Leavenworth and Mrs. WILLIAMSON of Holton, Kan. His widow, a hale and hearty little woman of 79, attended the funeral yesterday, but has been very much affected by her husband's death, as the couple had lived together for over sixty years. There is some dispute as to the patriarch, Thomas CADE's, age. He himself claimed that he was 99 and as his faculties were unimpaired up to within a week of his death, it would seem that he ought to have been authority on this point. The old family Bible of the CADEs contain these entries: "Thomas CADE, born July 25, 1798" "Margaret H. CADE, born January 26, 1814" It is admitted, however, that the names written in the family Bible by a relative long after many children had been born to the couple and the old man always claimed that the record was incorrect. "Father always said he was born on turnip day," said Captain CADE last night. "Turnip day is the day when old Virginia farmers used to plant turnips. It falls on August 25." But whether it was in 1793 or 1798, Thomas CADE was born in Virginia, and as a boy was wont to run barefooted over the rugged hills of his native county. The shoemaker, in his boy- hood days, came around in the fall, the farmers furnished the leather and the cobbler made shoes enough to last through the winter. If they didn't last they were all they got, anyway, for old Thomas CADE has often told his sons how he would run barefooted in the snow and experience no very great physical discomfort. There were caves from which warm air issued near his home, and when the boy's feet got cold, they would warm them in these caves. Leaving Virginia when a boy, his parents moved to Ohio, and here along the banks of the Ohio river Thomas CADE grew up to manhood. He married Margaret SUMMERS, and in Ohio his elder children were born. In his earlier years, Mr. CADE followed flatboating and later steamboating on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. He often told his children of the wonder and awe with which he gazed on the first steamboat he ever saw. He and his neighbors thought the boat was propelled up stream by steam from a nozzle in the stern which blew against the boat with terrific force and pushed it against the current, very much as a man would lift himself by his boot straps. The enterprising floatboatman had many narrow escapes from Indians when making excursions to some of the wilder parts of the country for lead and zinc ore, and once he met an enemy which was worse than the Indians and which is attracting a great deal of attention in these latter days. He went to New Orleans with a load of furs and produce and came back with the cholera. "He recovered," says Captain CADE in narrating the story, "but ever afterward he was subject to the severest cramps." The old man was a natural pioneer, one of that grand class of men who settled the wilderness all through this western country and made it to blossom as the rose. When the town of Ironton, O., was laid out it almost absorbed his farm. Civilization was treading on his toes and with his large family --- he had eleven children in all --- he removed to a place called Manda Furnace in Kentucky on the Ohio river. He still followed steamboating and flatboating at intervals and was wont to tell how, once upon a time when he was a boy, he was taken with the measles at St. Louis. St. Louis was then a straggling village along the river front. The old time cure was "Nannie tea," a decoction made from sheep dung. His sympathizing companions made him the "Nannie tea" and gathered the materiel for it on the rocky bluffs just back of the town where Third street now rears its masses of brick and marble. This was seventy-five years ago. In 1850, he steamed up the Missouri on the steamboat Minnesota, an old single engine side-wheeler and landed at Weston. Since that time, he had lived in this part of the country. His son, Captain CADE, carried the chain when the town of Leavenworth was laid out. "Old Man CADE" went up the Kaw river on the first boat that ever ascended that stream, the Excell, with Captain Charles K. BAKER. This was in the spring of '54 and it is noticeable that the Excell was the only boat that ever made any money on the Kaw. Too many boats went up the river that could not get back and the trade was abandoned. In 1873 he lived in Kansas City, but lost his money in one of the bank failures of that year of panic and again went back to Leavenworth. A year ago last October, he removed to Harlem. He was remarkably spry and well preserved for a man of his years up to the time of his last illness. He voted for Cleveland and Stone at the last election, this being the first vote he had cast since the "niggers" were enfranchised. He was a union man during the war, but declared he would never vote at the same polls with a colored man. He yielded to the arguments of his son at the last election. Although supplied with every want by his sons, the old man could not throw off old tendencies, and at every rise he liked to go to the river and catch drift wood, at which he was very expert. He would not live away from the river. Although run out by the high water a year ago and supplied with a comfortable cottage in Kansas City, he insisted on going back to Harlem as soon as the river subsided. ====================================================== (I have no connection with this family but I'd appreciate knowing if you found this posting helpful.) johnobrien@kc.rr.com ======================================================

Are counties abbreviated? Check the USGenweb site for Missouri Counties. ----- Original Message ----- From: <Tongiesue@aol.com> To: <MOJACKSO-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 6:48 AM Subject: [MOJACKSO] Counties > How do I go about finding the abbreviations for Missouri counties? > > Thanks. > > Sue > > > ==== MOJACKSO Mailing List ==== > NOTICE: Posting of virus warnings, test messages, chain letters, > political announcements, current events, items for sale, personal > messages, flames, etc. (in other words - spam) is NOT ALLOWED and > will be grounds for removal. Consideration for exceptions, > contact Kathleen Burnett kathleenburnett@earthlink.net > > ============================== > Search Family and Local Histories for stories about your family and the > areas they lived. Over 85 million names added in the last 12 months. > Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13966/rd.ashx >

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Sue, I've searched around and can't find anything. Why do you want to know? John ----- Original Message ----- From: <Tongiesue@aol.com> To: <MOJACKSO-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 5:48 AM Subject: [MOJACKSO] Counties > How do I go about finding the abbreviations for Missouri counties? > > Thanks. > > Sue >

How do I go about finding the abbreviations for Missouri counties? Thanks. Sue

Death of: Mary Agnes BARNHARD Date: Sunday, December 19, 2004 Place: Rosewood Health Center, Independence, MO Age: 106 years Born: Friday, April 29, 1898 Place: Bedison, MO Family: Husband: Milo BARNHARD, Sr - died in 1985 Son: Marine Kenneth BARNHARD - died on Saipan in 1944 (Silver Star) Father: Jacob HANSEN - deceased Mother: Kate ANDERSON HANSEN - deceased Siblings - 10 brothers & sisters - all deceased Survivors: Son: Milo BARNHARD, Jr. Daughter: Barbara J. GOSE Daughter: Judith S. SPILLMAN Daughter-in-law: Laurel BARNHARD Son-in-law: Warren GOSE Son-in-law: Pat SPILLMAN Grandchildren: 6 Great-grandchildren: 8 Great-great-grandchildren: 2 Private graveside service, December 23 Arrangements: Speaks Suburban Chapel Reference: "The Kansas City Star" (Missouri) Tuesday, December 21, 2004 ====================================================== (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) Friday, January 18, 1889 DID HE HAVE RABIES? A large white and yellow dog created quite a commotion yesterday afternoon by rushing madly down Eighth street near McGee, dragging a piece of heavy chain. He attacked everything that came in his path and succeeded in biting several persons. The most serious wound was that inflicted upon Clair COOK, a small boy living at 612 Oak street. The dog knocked him down, bit his left hand in several places and scratched his face slightly. The boy was taken to the office of Dr. HUTTON on Locust street, where all of the wounds were cauterized with the hope of preventing hydrophobia in case the dog should have had rabies. Officer BERTLE, who killed the animal had a narrow escape from his jaws. After the first shot at him, the dog made for the officer, and when the last ball left the muzzle of the revolver, it had only six inches to go before striking the animal. The ball entered his left shoulder and brought him to the ground. He got up again and ran about half a block, where the officer, having secured another pistol, overtook and killed him. The owner of the dog was bitten by the animal yesterday morning. He afterward muzzled the dog and tried to take him to the pound to be killed. The canine escaped near the Hannibal freight depot and made his way to East Eighth street. Several dogs were bitten and they will be watched with great interest by the persons who shared the same fate. ====================================================== (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) Sunday, February 14, 1915 IN MEMORIAM. In sad and loving memory of our darling boy, Richard E. DWYER, Jr., who died two years ago today, February 14, 1913: Oh, precious little flower That blossomed but to die, We sit alone in sadness And ask the reason why. Your little mission here in life So quickly must be o'er, But we shall meet again some day Where partings are no more. Sadly missed by Mother and Father ====================================================== (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 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 ======================================================

Does anyone know if there is a website, or anyplace else, that annulment records are available.

"The Kansas City Daily Times" (Missouri) Tuesday, April 4, 1882 JESSE AND HIS FAMILY. Jesse JAMES was about five feet eight inches in height, of a rather solid, firm and compact build, yet rather on the slender type. His hair was black, not overly long; blue eyes, well shaded with dark lashes, and the entire lower portion of the face was covered by a full growth of dark brown or sun browned whiskers, which are not long and shaggy, but are trimmed and bear evidence of careful attention. His complexion was fair, and he was not sun burned to any considerable extent, as the reader is generally led to suppose. He was neatly clad in a business suit of cashmere, of a dark brown substance, which fit him very neatly. He wore a shirt of spotless whiteness, with collar and cravat, and looked more the picture of a staid and substantial business man than the outlaw and robber that he was. The woman, his wife, is a neat and rather prepossessing lady, and bears the stamp of having been well brought up and surrounded by influences of a better and holier character than the reader would at first suppose. She is rather slender, fair of face, light hair, blue eyes with high forehead and marks of intelligence very strikingly apparent. She was clad in a neat fitting calico and at the time of the shooting was attending to her household duties in the kitchen. When she stood face to face with the awful deed and had realized what had really occurred, she took the matter in a cool and philosophical manner and acted as if she was not surprised at what had occurred, and that she lived in expectation of something of the kind occurring at any time. The two children, a little boy and girl, aged 4 and 7 years, were brought, neat and intelligent and seemed to grieve much over the deed which had in one short moment deprived them of a father's love and protection. ====================================================== (I have no connection with this family.) johnobrien@kc.rr.com ======================================================

"The Kansas City Star" (Missouri) Monday, August 28, 1897 SUES FOR HER OWN SUPPORT. Aunt Betsey CRUTCHFIELD, 88 years old, was assisted into the probate court to-day and seated in a rocking chair and then she told, in a feeble voice, the story of how the CRUTCHFIELD property in Westport was acquired and what interest she had in it. Aunt Betsey is the stepmother of T. F. CRUTCHFIELD, who died in June, leaving an estate worth $18,000 and a widow and two descendants to inherit it. During the later days of his life, T. F. CRUTCHFIELD had supported his stepmother, Aunt Betsey, but after his death the widow refused to do so because of an old grudge against Aunt Betsy. The friends of the old lady claim that she must be supported out of the estate because in reality, she earned the most of it and gave it to her son, T. F. CRUTCHFIELD, with the express condition that he must support her the rest of her days. Judge GUINOTTE of the probate court will not decide the matter to-day. ====================================================== (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) Sunday, June 9, 1889 NUPTIAL EVENTS. One of the most brilliant social events of the season occurred at Platte City on Wednesday at high noon in the marriage at the residence of the bride's parents in that place of Anna Extine NORTON, youngest daughter of ex-Chief Justice NORTON, to Mr. Henry W. HUISKAMP of Keokuk, Ia., Rev. J. L. LAWLESS of St. Joseph officiating. The elegant residence of Judge and Mrs. NORTON was lavishly and handsomely decorated with flowers and plants in tropical profusion in honor of the occasion, and was graced by many distinguished guests who had gathered to witness the important ceremony. Preceding the high contracting parties as they entered the parlor where the solemn words were spoken which united them for life, marched several lovely little children strewing flowers in their pathway while the soft notes of the wedding march filled the spacious apartments with their pleasing melody. The bride wore an elegant Faust Marguerite costume of imported silk mull with Brussels lace and long court train edged with an exquisite Grecian border over which was thrown the bridal veil, while a rich diamond necklace, the gift of the groom, encircled her throat. At the close of the impressive ceremony, the wedding party sat down to a delightful breakfast after which the time was spent in mutual congratulations until the departure of the happy couple on a special train which bore them to their future home at Keokuk, followed by the best wishes of all who were present. ====================================================== (I have no connection with this family but I'd appreciate knowing if you found this posting helpful.) johnobrien@kc.rr.com ======================================================

EPSTEIN, NELSON, SANDHAUS, ZUROVSKY Death of: Mrs. Rose ZUROVSKY Date: Monday, July 8, 1963 Place: Menorah Medical Center Age: 68 years Born: Russia Residence: 1295 W. 71st terrace, Kansas City, MO Survivors: Son: Jack ZUROVSKY, 1218 W. 51st street, Kansas City, MO Daughter: Mrs. Frances SANDHAUS of the home Daughter: Mrs. Gertrude EPSTEIN, 409 E. 72nd street, Kansas City, MO Brother: Harry NELSON, 5106 Baltimore, Kansas City, MO Grandchildren: 5 Services: Funeral - 10:30, July 8, Temple Kehilath Israel Burial - Kehilath Israel Blue Ridge Cemetery Reference: "The Kansas City Star" (Missouri) Monday, July 8, 1963 ======================================================

EPSTEIN, SANDHAUS, ZUROVSKY, ZUROW Death of: Max ZUROVSKY Date: Thursday, May 21, 1959 Place: Menorah Hospital Age: 68 years Born: Russia Residence: 1295 W. 71st street terrace, Kansas City, MO Former residence: St. Joseph, MO (prior to 1914) Occupation: Employed by Robert Keith Furniture Company Operated the M-Z Furniture Company Retired three years ago Survivors: Wife: Rose ZUROVSKY of the home Son: Jack ZUROVSKY, 1218 W. 51st street, Kansas City, MO Daughter: Mrs. Harold M. SANDHAUS of the home Daughter: Mrs. Samuel EPSTEIN, 409 E. 72nd street, Kansas City, MO Brother: Ben ZUROW Grandchildren: 5 Services: Funeral - 12:30, May 22, Kehilath Israel Synagogue Burial - Blue Ridge Cemetery Pallbearers: Harry NELSON Chester KAPLAN Joe MALLIN Dr. Jacob KRAFT Louis HAUSMAN Isadore RAINEN Reference: "The Kansas City Star" (Missouri) Friday, May 22, 1959 ======================================================

FENDER, PARSONS "The Kansas City Times" (Missouri) Saturday, May 15, 1920 Henry Edgar PARSONS, 66 years old, died yesterday at the home of his sister, Mrs. Edward FENDER, eight miles northeast of Independence on the Atherton road. Besides Mrs. FENDER he is survived by his wife, five sons, five daughters, his mother, three brothers and two other sisters. Funeral services will be held at the FENDER home at 1 o'clock this afternoon; burial in Mound Grove cemetery. ====================================================== (I have no connection with this family but I'd appreciate knowing if you found this posting helpful.) johnobrien@kc.rr.com ======================================================

PERNEY, PARSONS "The Kansas City Times" (Missouri) Monday, April 16, 1917 Marcus Warren PARSONS, 57 years old, a barber, died yesterday at his home, 412 Park Avenue. He came to Kansas City nine months ago from Topeka, Kas. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. R. A. PARSONS; a son, Ellie C. PARSONS; a daughter, Mrs. Emily PERNEY. The funeral will be at 2 o'clock this afternoon at Mrs. C. L. Forster's undertaking rooms; 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 ======================================================

FENDER, OGILVIE, PARSONS "The Kansas City Times" (Missouri) Tuesday, December 2, 1913 William Y. PARSONS of Holden, Mo., 79 years old, died Sunday at his home in that city. Funeral services were conducted at the home yesterday and the body was taken to Independence and buried in Mound Grove Cemetery. He was born in 1834, in Grant County, Indiana, and after living in Iowa, Kansas and at Nevada, Mo., moved to Holden six years ago. His wife, Mrs. Martha A. PARSONS, and seven children survive him. The children are: A. H. PARSONS of Independence, Mo. Henry E. PARSONS of Winchester, Ok. John L. PARSONS of Seattle, Wash. Mrs. Cordelia Isabelle OGILVIE of Nevada, Mo. Mrs. Retta L. FENDER of Holden, Mo. O. R. PARSONS of Independence, Mo. ====================================================== (I have no connection with this family but I'd appreciate knowing if you found this posting helpful.) johnobrien@kc.rr.com ======================================================