7874. Another Guthrie pioneer passed over at 8:10 o’clock Monday morning when death called Eber L. Brown, for eighteen years a resident, and for fifteen years actively identified with the business interests of the city. The deceased had been a sufferer from Bright's disease the past two years. He was born in Illinois and raised in Kansas and came here in the early days from Holton, Kansas. He lived on a farm near the city for two years and then moved to town .... He was 67 years of age and an ardent member of the Odd fellow's lodge. The deceased leaves a wife and five children: Mrs. J. A. McElhinney, of Guthrie, Mrs. J. H. McElhinney, of Arkansas City; Mrs. Al Hough, of Winfield; Miss Lillian Brown, and Frank Brown of Ft. Smith, engineer on the Fort Smith & Western .... in charge of the I.O.O.F lodge ... the burial will be in Sunmit View .... Guthrie Daily. Mr. Brown was a brother of Chas. and Zara Brown of this city, and located at Ontario this county with his parents in 1859 and resided there until 1891. He has a brother still living there, Milton A. Brown. The Holton Recorder, January 4, 1912. .... The body was interred in the cemetery at Ontario. The Holton Recorder, December 21, 1911. Nancy E. Rounsaville was born August 31, 1834, in Indiana, and died at the home of her daughter in Guthrie, Okla., Feb. 26, 1912, aged 77 years, 6 months and 26 days. Her parents moved to Illinois while she was a child. Here she was married to Zara C. Brown, February 12, 1852. In 1859 this young couple came to Ontario in this county and brought land on which they lived, where she was left by the death of her husband, February 20, 1864, with a family of seven small children. She was married a second time to M. Blue in 1870. To this union was born a daughter. Mr. Blue died in 1884. Her children all grew to manhood and womanhood. Benton C. Brown died in Circleville, Dec. 1,1906, and Eber L. died in Guthrie, Okla., Dec. 13, 1911, leaving Milton A. of Ontario, Lillie Wolverton, of Guthrie, Chas. L. of Holton, Lizzie McDonald of Goff, Zara E., of Holton, and Carrie M. Lowe of Council, Idaho, Henry Rounsaville, of Fountain, Colorado, is the only surviving brother. The deceased joined the M. E. church while very young, at the age of seven ... the funeral services were held at the home of her son, Zara Brown .... laid to rest in the Pleasant Grove cemetery. The Holton Recorder, March 7, 1912. Mrs. N. E. Blue died Tuesday morning at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Bert Wolverton, at Guthrie, Okla. .... The Holton Recorder, February 29, 1912. Charles L. Brown died at his home in this city last Friday evening, May 10, at six o’clock. Mr. Brown, who has for the past year been one of the rural mail carriers, out of Holton, had been off duty less than two weeks before his death. Charles L. Brown was born, May 18th, 1860, at Ontario, Kansas, and most of his life was spent in this county. His education was received in his home school and at Campbell College, having been among the first students at this institution and later he was a successful teacher for a number of years in this county. He was married at Circleville, Kansas, to Miss Florence Bordner, June 16th, 1886. To this union were born seven children, Ralph, Helen, Paul, Carrie, Bernice, Charles Jr., and Dewey. Carrie died Dec. 19th, 1903, at the age of 12 years. Ralph died March 18, 1910, at the age of 22 years. The five remaining children are all at home with the wife and mother. He was one of a family of 8 children which two brothers and three sisters are living. Milton A., of Ontario, Lillie Wolverton of Guthrie, Okla., Lizzie McDonald of Goffs, Zara E. of Holton, and Carrie Lowe of Council, Idaho. Benton C. died in Guthrie Okla., Dec., 1896, Eber L. died in Guthrie, Okla., Dec. 18, 1911. His father died when Charles was but four years of age and his mother died February 26, 1912. He united with the Methodist church during the pasturage of Dr. Edwin Locke .... The Holton Recorder, May 16, 1912. (cont’d) 7874. (cont‘d) .... Interment was in the Holton cemetery. The Holton Signal, May 16, 1912. 1561 7875. The infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Purcell, living southeast of Holton, was buried Sunday in the Catholic cemetery. The Holton Recorder, January 4, 1912. 7876. With both legs crushed and internal injuries, Richard Hemphill, formerly a Central Branch brakeman with headquarters in Atchison, died Sunday morning in a hospital at Galveston, Texas. And when his parents Mr. and Mrs. Hemphill, of Netawaka, were informed that morning at the Atchison union depot of his death, a sad scene followed. Mrs. Hemphill became hysterical through grief, and Mr. Hemphill became almost hopelessly despondent under the shock. They had just arrived on the Central Branch passenger, where they were to take the train to Omaha, where they expected to spend Christmas with their married daughter, Mrs. Clarence George. It was a Christmas tragedy that visibly affected all the people in the union depot at the time. Mr. and Mrs. Hemphill did not go to Omaha, but remained here, at the Frank Oxendale home, until yesterday morning, when they went to Wetmore, to prepare for the funeral of their son. Their burial lots are at Wetmore, instead of Netawaka, where the older Hemphill has been the Missouri Pacific’s section foreman for many years. - Atchison Globe. The Holton Recorder, January 4, 1912. 7877. Soldier Valley. The following obituary of Mrs. J. B. Deardorf’s is taken from an Oklahoma newspaper. On last Sunday afternoon a large concourse of friends and relatives met at the home of J. B. Deardorf to pay the last respects to the wife of Mr. Deardorf who quietly fell asleep at Geary, December 15, 1911. Deceased was born in Goshen, Elkhart county, Indiana, October 17, 1852, being at the time of her death 59 years, 1 month and 28 days old. In 1871 she with her parents moved to Circleville, Jackson county, Kansas. November 13, 1873, she was married to J. R. Deardorf, of Circleville, Kansas. To this union six children were born, Minnie, Vernon, Bertha, Eva, Laura and Harry, five of whom survive her, Bertha having died in infancy. In 1891 they moved to their present home, nine miles southeast of El Reno. In 1871 she was converted and joined the M. E. church at Circleville, Kansas, and remained there for two years. Having moved into a neighborhood where there was not a M. E. class she united with the United Brethren church and remained a member for twelve years. When she moved to Oklahoma, she again united with the M. E. congregation and lived a consistent member until the time of her death. The Holton Recorder, January 11, 1912. Olive Hill. Mrs. W. J. Fairbanks received a telegram Friday morning of the death of her sister-in-law, Mrs. Joshua Deardorff near El Reno, Okla. ... The Holton Recorder, December 21, 1911. Circleville. Mrs. Hal Biggert was called to Oklahoma by the death of her brother Josiah Deardorff last week. The Holton Signal, December 21, 1911. 7878. Garner. Mrs. Alma Hodges departed this life, Dec. 28, 1911. She had lived here all her life. She was married to Morton Hodges in the year 1905. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. K. Eskridge. She leaves two children, one four years old and one 5 years old. Mrs. Hodges was laid to rest in the Steward cemetery .... The Holton Recorder, January 11, 1912. 7879. Campbell College Notes. Prof. Chas. Bisset has returned from California where he was called by the illness and death of his mother. The Holton Recorder, January 11, 1912. 7880. Elizabeth Rouse was born in Carrel county, Ohio, April 18, 1831 and died at her home in this city, Jan. 3, 1912, aged 80 years, 8 months and 15 days. The deceased grew to womanhood in her Ohio home, and was married to Barton Roby, who survives her, September 25, 1851. They moved to this, Jackson county, in 1868, where they have lived nearly forty-four years. Mrs. Roby was a member of the Methodist church for sixty years. Six children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Roby, three of whom died in infancy. Three daughters, Mrs. J. C. Goggerty of Oklahoma City, Mrs. W. A. Stream of Kansas City, Mo., and Mrs. O. F. Stoops of this city were present at the funeral ... the interment was in 1562 the Holton cemetery. Mr. Roby was a veteran of the war for the Union, and the deceased was an active member of the W. R. C. .... Pleasant Valley. Sim Roby and family attended the funeral of Mrs. Barton Roby, in Holton, last Tuesday. The Holton Recorder, January 11, 1912. .... she had been sick about a week with kidney trouble .... The Holton Recorder, January 4, 1912. Barton Roby was born in Carroll county, Ohio, Sept. 25, 1830, and died at his home in Holton Sunday, April 7, 1912, in the eight-second year of his age. He was married when he was twenty-one years old to the woman who was his faithful companion for sixty years and who preceded him in death only a few weeks ago. Three daughters survive the parent, Mrs. J. C.