Kansas History and Heritage Project-Reno County

Reno County Deaths
1914 List of Deaths from the Hutchinson News


The list below, published at the end of the year, is incomplete, insofar as the number of deaths in 1914; deaths of "old settlers and prominent businessmen" were only listed, with few women and no children. This page was particularly difficult to read. The printing was very dark and "n" and "u" could look like an "o". The numbers were also hard to decipher--I apologize for any errors.

Will H. Mead, former assistant postmaster, Jan. 8

F. M. Durand, veteran soldier, Jan. 15

George Metzger, veteran printer, Jan. 16

James Taylor, assistant secretary, Retail Merchants' Bureau, Jan. 18

Don. A. Bucklin, pioneer resident, Jan. 26

Mrs. Mary F. McDermed, an old resident, Jan. 27

J. R. Van Zandt, pioneer hardware and implement dealer, Jan. 31

T. B. Totten, former merchant and veteran soldier, Feb. 10.

Mrs. E. R. Lord, Feb. 8

Jasper N. Perry, retired farmer, Feb. 9

James W. Griffith, old soldier, Feb. 9

Mrs. Susan J. Dade, pioneer resident, Feb. 11

Mrs. A. M. Buser, Feb. 12

Mrs. Levi Rayl, Feb. 13

Robert Oakes, retired farmer, Feb. 15

John Burnett, farmer, Feb. 14

W. W. Craib, railray brakeman, Feb. 14

Mrs. R. E. Conn, pioneer of Hutchinson, Feb. 16

Mrs. Effie J. Swim, Feb. 17

Mrs. J. P. Rowland, Feb. 28

Henry Wittorff, pioneer farmer, Mar. 3

Eli Disney, old soldier, Mar. 4

Henry S. Shuman, old soldier, Mar. 4

John Thomas, oldest settler in Reno County, Mar. 4

Mrs. Hanna M. Hale, pioneer resident, Mar. 31

Jack Carroll, veteran printer, Mar 3

Hi Dice, pioneer resident and business man, Mar. 6

A. T. Miner, real estate dealer, Mar. 6

John Harms, pioneer farmer, Mar. 31

Mrs. Elizabeth Kinkel, pioneer, Mar. 26

Mrs. Harriet L. Newton, Mar. 19

Mrs. Josephine Bixler, Mar. 20

Mrs. R. C. Stout, one of Hutchinson's first settlers, Mar. 17

Joseph W. Scott, civil war veteran, Mar. 17

Emerson Ingalls, real estate and insurance, Mar. 9

William T. Gillock, pioneer gardener, Mar. 14

George W. Warren, old soldier, Mar. 15

J. E. Higgins, Mar. ??

Frank D. Barnes, farmer, Mar. 27

George W. Hardy, former mayor and county treasurer, and pioneer merchant, Mar. 3

J. L. Penney, pioneer business man, Mar. 29

Edward McCoy, salesman, Apr. 27

M. H. VanBibber, pioneer settler, April 25

L P. Ballarrd, veteran traveling man, April 27

James A. Ray, veteran soldier, April 18

Edward A. Thompson, old soldier, April 18

Charles A. Rundle/Roudie, veteran farmer, April 21

W. E. Roach, retired merchant, April 21

Mrs. A. B. Burke, May 16

Albert Abbott, farmer, May 18

Luther H. Kreigh, sr., pioneer rancher, May 19

George Harbold, retired, May 20

Norval Yerkes, greenhouse man, May 25

Mel Rich, salesman, May 23

R. B. Miller, news agent, May 26

Mrs. John Tucker, May 26 (?)

Mrs. Lincoln S. Davis, May 28?26?

Mrs. C. C. Corcoran, May 29

C. ?. Clark, foreman of ranch, May 30

A. J. Hayden, salesman, May 30

Edward S. Handy, pioneer businessman and investor, May 19

Scott Craig, sales man, May 6

E. B.(D?), Clark, traveling man, May 6

James A. Grayson, pioneer of county, May 8

Kinsey Shaw, veteran farmer, May 10

T. B. Hatfield, M.P.R.R. clerk, June 6

Samuel Rinehard, pioneer citizen, June 9

Roy Hanson, salesman, June 12

J. W. Peyton, veteran U.S. Express Co. agent, July 16

Samuel Leman, painter, July 11

Levi Altenreid, early settler, June 19

Leslie R. Lawhead, soda ash employee

Richard Turner, fruit grower, June 30

Gould F. Bixler, member of city band, July 22

Mrs. Joseph Hill, July 23

A. O. Walters, soda ash employee, July 22

Mrs. Emma Conkling, pioneer, July 26

Grandma O'Leary, pioneer, July 8

Rev. J. C. Hall, pioneer Methodist minister, July 5 (?)

T. R. Colville, old resident, July 11

M. L. Frase, veteran hotel man, July 27

Harry Conaway, president of Motorcyle Club, July 20

C. F. Burton, veteran soldier, 30 years in regular army, July 27

Nathan Stahley, old resident, July 29

Curtis G. Lackey, farmer, July 30

J. M. Sassidy (?), clerk, Swift & Co., Aug. 1

E. M. Davis, former chief of police, Aug. 26

Wm. A. Briggs, druggist, Aug. 29

Don Porter, former traveling salesman, Aug. 12

Tom Cuthbertson, hotel manager, Aug. 16

C. T. Copenhaver, old soldier, Aug. 20

E. T. McGregor, veteran broom manufacturer, Aug. 24

James Bergins, retired farmer, Aug. 30

John E. Meek, former Rock Island agent, Aug. 31

I. B. Downie, veteran farmer, Sept. 18

J. Baugh, Hutchinson's oldest residents, 111 years of age, Sept. 16 (?)

A. H. Collins, salesman, Sept. 20

Miss Sarah Parks, Sept. 21

Mrs. Elizabeth Hirst, Sept. 26

J. I. Smith, old resident, Sept. 26

Clarence Empey, former merchant, Sept. 1

Lafayette Benthusen, detectives, Sept. 13

Ray E. Murphy, machinist, Sept. 17

Jonathan McMurray, one of Hutchinson's first residents, Sept. 7

Mrs. Samantha Macklin, pioneer, Sept. 9

J. H. Lawson, former pioneer resident and former state representative, Oct. 3

Milton Zimmerman, former county commissioner, Oct. 10/16?

Mrs. May Weeds, civil war nurse, Oct. 28(?)

Oran Freese, grain dealer, Oct. 13 (18?)

Wm. F. Weaver, carpet salesman, Nov. 11

Wm. Lewis, pioneer farmer, Nov. 23

Mrs. William Hayes, pioneer, Nov. 19

Gustav Gustafson, salt employee, Nov. 21

Eli Enfield, civil war veteran, Nov. 22

P. Westmacott, veteran lumber merchant, Nov. 29

Judge Wm. Whitelaw, pioneer attorney and former judge, Dec. 4

Wm. Potter, former county commissioner, Dec. 21

H. B. (D?) Owens, prominent cook, Dec. 2

Ed Lewis, former Hutchinson boy, Dec. 2

George McColm, Santa Fe employee, and former city fireman, Dec. 10

John H. Vohringer, poultry dealer, Dec. 11

Mrs. H. D. Freeman, resident here since 1871, Dec. 11

Wm. King, old soldier, Dec. 24

F. E. Fuller, salesman and former merchant, Dec. 22

Mrs. Arthur Priest, former Hutchinson young woman, Dec. 23

Wm. G. Spillman, old resident, Dec. 27

Mrs. L. H. Mitchell, Dec. 14

John M. Watson, traveling salesman Dec. 18 (?)

Wm. F. Weaver, carpet salesman, Nov. 11

C. E. "Ed" Sidlinger, pioneer pharmacist, Dec. 26





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