Death Notices from Atchison County KS

Territorial Newspapers, 1854-1861

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The list below are from exerts that appeared in the KANSAS HISTORICAL QUARTERLY, Aug 1950, No 3 and pertain only to those that either lived or died in Atchison County. 

ATKINSON, WILLIE, son of R. L. & F. P., aged 10 mos., 6 days, d. Feb. 27, 1860, of dropsy. (Atchison, Freedom's Champion, Mar. 3.)

BAY, AMY, wife of Hugh, aged 34 yrs., d. in Shannon Township, Oct. 28, 1859, of congestion of lungs. (Atchison, Freedom's Champion, Nov. 5.)

BELT, THOMPSON W., husband of Maria, d. at Weston, MO, Jan. 23, 1855. (Atchison, Squatter Sovereign, Feb. 20.)

BOUSER, GEORGE, formerly of eastern Tennessee, aged 62 yrs., d. in Atchison, May 15, 1860. (Leavenworth, Kansas Weekly Herald, June 9.)

BRAGG, DR. JOHN M., aged 31 yrs., accidentally shot while hunting near Kickapoo, Oct. 21, 1857. (Atchison, Squatter Sovereign, Oct. 31.)

CHAFEE, HIRAM, killed in brawl at Atchison, July 14, 1860. (Leavenworth, Daily Times, Jul. 21.)

COOK, MARTHA JANE, dau. of Milton & Cynthia T., aged 1 yr., 7 mos., d. on West Walnut, Butler Co., Sept. 7, 1860. (Emporia, Kansas News, Sept. 8.)

CRAWFORD, MARY A., formerly of Brownsville, PA, d. Sept. 18, 1858, of bilious fever. (Atchison, Freedom's Champion, Sept. 25.)

CUNDIFF, MRS. M. A., wife of W. H. II., dau. of Larkin Maddox, d. at Pleasant Hill, MO, Sept. 8, 1855. (Atchison, Squatter Sovereign, Sept. 25.)

DICKEY, WILLIAM, of firm o£Holladay & Dickey, born April 8, 1819, Fredericksburg, VA, d. at Weston, MO. (Atchison, Squatter Sovereign, Feb. 20, 1855.)

ELWELL, CHAS. ROBERTSON, son of Dr. J. B., aged 6 mos., 3 wks., d. at residence of Capt. Kipp, Platte County, MO, Mar. 30, 1856. (Atchison, Squatter Sovereign, April 15.)

EVINGTON, DR. J. G., struck by lightning, May 25 or 26, 1859. (Atchison, Union, June 4; Freedom's Champion, May 28.)

FEE, JOHN, d. in this territory, opposite St. Joseph, of cholera. (Atchison, Squatter Sovereign, Sept. 24, 1855)

FOSTER, --, dau. of Mr. Foster, keeper of Atchison Hotel, aged 14 yrs., d. Nov. 21, 1856. (Atchison, Squatter Sovereign, Nov. 22.)

GAYLORD, WILLIAM LEWIS, of Buchanan County, MO, aged 57 yrs., d. Aug. 23, 1859. (Atchison, Freedom's Champion, Sept. 3)

GIST, WM. H., d. at Atchison, Jan. 8, 1861. (Leavenworth, Daily Times, Jan. 12.)

GREEN, JAMES FARQUHAR, formerly of this city, aged 29 yrs., 11 mos., d. at Marseilles, France, Feb. 19, 1859. (Atchison, Freedom's Champion, April 2.)

GREENE, MARY ALVA, dau.. of James W. & Susan A., aged 3 yrs., d. at residence of James Cunningham, Parkville, MO, Dec. 28, 1855. (Atchison, Squatter Sovereign, Jan. 22, 1856.)

HELWIG, MRS. RACHEL, wife of John, aged 28 yrs., d. at Monrovia, May 24, 1859. (Atchison, Freedom's Champion, May 28.)

IRVINE, FANNY H., wife of Judge William L., d. in Buchanan County, MO, May 5, 1859, of consumption. (Atchison, Freedom's Champion, May 7.)

LEHMAN, FREDERICK E., aged 32 yrs., d. at Atchison, July 15, 1860, of disease of the heart. (Lawrence, Republican, July 26.)

LEMON, E. A., wife of William C., formerly of Auburn, N. Y., d. Aug. 13, 1858, of typhoid. (Atchison, Freedoms Champion, Aug. 21.)