Barton County Kansas Obituaries Extracted From The Barton County Democrat, Great Bend, Kansas, 1910

1910 Obituaries from the Barton County Democrat, in Great Bend, Barton County Kansas.

CONNELLY, T. J., Obituary

About a year ago a man was found in the brush and weeds along the road near the Dr. White farm in Liberty township. He proved to be a traveling tin tinker and had been beaten into insensibility and had crawled quite a distance out in the brush to a point in the road where he could be found. He had evidently been camping out and had received his injuries from the soldering irons that he carried in his kit of tools but by whom was never discovered. He was brought to town and treated at the hospital but never regained his senses so that he could tell how it occurred. He was a poor man evidently and no motive could be assigned for the merciless assault which must have been done by some heartless brute. There was considerably work done in trying to locate the man that committed the crime but nothing was found out about it. The man's name was probably T. J. Connelly, as certain papers found on him indicated. He was finally sent to the state hospital but never recovered his mind. He died at the state asylum at Topeka, November 21, 1910. [Barton County Democrat, (Great Bend, Kan.), Friday, December 2, 1910]

MOEDAR, Pauline, Obituary

Pauline Moedar, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Moedar of the Odin neighborhood, died Sunday morning afer an illness of only a few hours. She was taken sick Friday night and died at seven the next morning. The funeral was held Monday morning from the church at Odin. [Barton County Democrat, (Great Bend, Kan.), Friday, December 2, 1910]

SMITH, Elizabeth, Obituary

Mrs. John G. Smith died at her home a few miles west of Pawnee Rock, Tuesday, December 20, after an illness of about ten days, of pneumonia, aged sixty-eight years. She was born in Knox county, Tennessee, March 3, 1842, and was married to John G. Smith in 1862, and moved to Rush county, in 1878. In 1903 they moved to their present home place, where she has since made her home. She leaves three sons and three daughters to mourn the loss of a kind and loving mother.

Funeral services were held at the home yesterday morning at 11 o'clock, conducted by Rev. Robertson, of the M.E. church, and the remains were laid to rest in the Pawnee Rock cemetery beside her husband. - Herald. [Barton County Democrat, (Great Bend, Kan.), Friday, December 30, 1910]

THIL, Infant Girl, Obituary

The little eighteen months old baby girl of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Thil of the Dubuque neighborhood died last Friday and was buried Sunday. [Barton County Democrat, (Great Bend, Kan.), Friday, December 2, 1910]