Barton County Kansas Obituaries Extracted From The Barton County Democrat, Great Bend, Kansas, 1915

1915 Obituaries from the Barton County Democrat, in Great Bend, Barton County Kansas.

HOTCHKISS, Charles C. Obituary

Charles Crittenden Hotchkiss was born in Hector, New York, in 1832, and died at the home of his brother Edward, in this city, last Thursday evening, February 4th, at 9:30 o'clock, aged 82 years, 2 months and 3 days. With his parents he removed to Michigan in 1834, where he grew to manhood, and where he secured his education in the schools and universities of that state, and later moved to Missouri where he took up the profession of teaching and where, in 1854, he was united in marriage to Miss Addie J. Buckland. To the union four children, two sons and two daughters, were born, one boy and one girl dying in early childhood, and the other children, Mrs. Anna May Probyn, of Lawrence, Mich., and Charles D. Hotchkiss, a traveling man who lives in Chicago, are left to mourn his death, together with his two brothers, Edward of this city and John C. Hotchkiss, of Des Moines, Iowa. His wife is also living and makes her home with her son in Chicago.

At the time of the outbreak of the Civil War, Mr. Hotchkiss was principal of the schools at Marysville, Mo., and on account of being a man who was a warm sympathizer with the Northern cause and being outspoken in his convictions, he was forced to leave that place and he then moved to Illinois, where he engaged in teaching and for a number of years was principal of the city schools at Loda, Ills. He was the possessor of a fine musical education and he later gave up his school work and conducted musical academies at both Des Moines and Fort Dodge, Iowa and was eminently successful in this line of work. Failing health forced him to give up his profession, however, and for several years he was traveling representative for the Kimball Piano Co., with headquarters in Chicago, until advanced age forced him to give up this arduous work. He came to Great Bend about seven years ago to make his home with his brother and since that time has been engaged in piano tuning and such work most of the time. About a year ago his health began to fail rapidly and for several months past he had been confined to his bed the greater part of the time. He was a man of exceptional ability and fine education and had led an exemplary and useful life, and while not enjoying a wide acquaintance in this community, was a man whom it was a pleasure to meet and know and was most highly regarded by all of his acquaintances, who unite in sympathy with the bereaved over his death.

Funeral services were held from the Congregational church Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock, and interment made in the cemetery at this place. [Barton County democrat, (Great Bend, Kan.), February 12, 1915]

SMITH, Ernest E., Obituary

ERNEST SMITH FUNERAL
Ernest E. Smith, who died at his home in Pawnee Rock Sunday night, was buried this afternoon from the Methodist church in that city. The services were conducted by Rev. Keyes, and the remains were laid to rest in the Pawnee Rock cemetery. [Barton County Democrat, (Great Bend, Kan.), Wednesday, February 17, 1915]