Items of genealogical interest in the Springfield daily news and the Springfield leader of Springfield, Greene County, Missouri for 1927, Part 1, Part 36

Author: Hall, William K. (William Kearney), 1918-
Publication date: 1927 v. 1
Publisher:
Number of Pages: 798

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- Nm Agnes Hincheilif (wife). Mra. Jess Hinchsilff (mother).

"1'Str."Jess . Hinghalitt (father)." ;} M ... and - Mm. Guy, Hinchaliff and

.. Mr. and Mrs. D.' O. Hoffman and family. Mr. and Mrs. Chester Hochaufr, Mr. And Mrs. Foster, mother-in-law. Hr. L. U. Bhartdan, i.

sub. and Mrs. L. 6. Sheridan Mr. and Mrs. N. E. Sheridan. Mr. and Mrs. Paul MiNy. . Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Sheridan. Mr and Mrs. C. W. Sheridan. Ama. IL Rom, (grandmother).

IN MEMORIAM.

in memory of Louise O. Messick. who passed to the great befound two years ago today. All to ourselves we think of you. ' Think of the things we weed to do. Think of the things we used to say. Think of each happy yesterday.

Bometimes we eigh; sometimes we

amlle. But we keep each olden, golden while On memory's golden file. EDNA MESSICK. HARRY MESSIOK. WILBERT MEABICK.

CARD OF THANKS. wish to thanks the many friends and neighbors for their assist- ance and sympathy during the sick -! news and death of our beloved wife and. mother and also wish to express . our gratitude for. the beautiful floral offertngt. MR. J. D. HOOD, . MR. AND MRS. J. H. OBRYANT AND FAMILY, . '' :

MR. AND MRS. O. H. HOOD AND . FAMILI - MRS. K. H: HOOD AND BON

MIBS KATHERINE RUTH M'CANN. daughter of Mr. And Mrs. John t. McCann, &M Lat . Obestout street, whowe engagmeent to Mr. Peter Ham- lin Jones of Chicago has been an- nounced.

MALULAGE LICKKIMS. Frank H. Ktrich of Webb City and Myrtle Houghawat of Jepita, . Raymond George af Dixon and Our- rie Tully of Crociate.

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MONDAY MORNING, MARCH 14, 1927 -- DAILY NEWS

Page 1: David T. Carrier died .** D. W. Waymire died of gunshot wounds.'

Page 2: Mrs. J. A. Criger died .** William Brebner died .** Mrs. M. E. Massie died .* Robert G. Myers died .** James P. Winn died .** W. H. Whittaker died .**

Wantedto Alleged Can

HE SURVIVES FORTWEE AFTER GHASTLY CUI

Killer, Fearing Vengeance Hands of : Pursuing Poser Committed Suicide After 'Tip. by Telephone

GUNSHOT wound suffered near ly' a week ago al the hands of" Robert Hemphill. Stone county diesperado, caused the death of It Ir. Wasmire. Crane town marshal at 8:45 o'clock. yesterday morning : 'n the Springfield Raptist hospital The man responsible for Way. mire's death already had peld the supreme penalty.' Visioning death W the Hands of: itment Both by the "almating of the" officer. Hemphill sent a bullet through his con heart a few hours after/ encounter with Waymira

it ì. Crane during the past two years. He had been a oltiesa of Crane for 13 years. during most. of which time he was a member of the child Follows luise. He also the a member of the Church of Find.

Funeral arrangements have not been completed, but the funeral will be at Crane, with Interment in the Sinmunle cemetery there. Mem- hers of the trane Odd Fellows lodge will officiate at the service.

SLAYER KILLED SELF 1

The Crane officer was shot with- out warning by young Hemphill Last Tuesday morning. The shoot- Ing occurred at the home of HAN" rison Hemphill, two. miles west es. Crane where" Waymiro "and" other officer had sono to arran Robert Hemphill on a charge peoda Ing in Baxter Springs Kan.

The desperado ned from tiene of the shooting. "dropping In" casually at the home of Bab: Lusk. near, Marlonylle, a. S hours later. Warned by a tobe- shana call to a member of the luk familly that an avenging ...... was pursuing Waymire's as- .sunt Hemphill rushed out of ir hours. confessed to Robert luck and ended bis life in a car; ner of the Lust barn

DAVID T. CARRIER, FATHER OF MRS. C. G. MARTIN, DIES

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nicht for" At."Elmo .. Tonhal 1 erb got Chananorth. after rocely! ing with of the death of her father. David;T, Cartier, it at the home of his daughter, are. F.W. Kung of Roanoke, Va. Saturday night. =

WIFE AT BEDSIDE

·Waymire and MTW

Xr, Maymiro at the the

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. son, i Dari Warmira Cranes sietera; Mrs. Clara McDonald Mrs. Warsh Ford, and two' brothe' ers. Frank and John Waymira Mr. Waymira had been marche! -

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DEATHS

MRS. J. A. CRIGER Funeral services for Mio. I .A. I'llBe. : ) who aled at her haine Fundland Friday , church at : 2 o'clock noon. Mrs. Criger sucoumbed M

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Brother. 14, who died yesterday morning .t his home, 1803 Caot Cherry street. will be conducted as 8:10 n'clock Tuesday afternoon at the family tradenice.

Interment will i'm In Greenlawn

the Klingtes I'ndestaking . com.

Mr. Hrobner is survived by his aldow. there daughters, 'Mrs. S. I.

Wherthan' 'of Mpringdudrande J. J. Harper of Oklahoma, three grandeblir

Funeral mersiers for Mrs. 'M. K. Malm is, widow of DT. h. U. Massin ! of Huguyiun ZAP died ; Saturday"

Moniphin. ' Tenn .- were conducted vesterdes affection at Huntsville

Wie Mussle In survived by com daughters. Nro. R. L." Mas

then eller Site. I'M Think of Hunta. ville, alise Kite Manche and More. I Lewis, both of Stringhle.

ROBERT G. MYERS ..... ... . M. and Mrs. Albert Myorn : 519 Past Hatne street, died at the

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from the hour and buttlal : I've with cemetery

JAMES P. WINN

James P. Winn. 11, died your day , morning,at nett strict after a long linesde Mr. Winn la survived by a .k Buchard W

l'alline. till "off"Hurtighold: Mrs.

l'iban, Mount" ; Howe, 'ul.) Hatthe, Fontlar. Mich .. 'and Mrs. Fr.' 'Adams of Unry, Ind. Internet will be ' It: Hazelwood e

........... 1.1. non. l'uneral analgements have not been com- Vieled.

W. H. WHITTAKER

'It WillIcher. w. Los Hled March's nimireling to tidlaed by . bids relatives here Mr: Whittaker iwas 8 years old.

i Hin ol; hun unusbler Mother

Italdent of the city he was proprietor! i'm primary aleveille attended the I Hagen . linh and had many: firenda life. the and his wife cale: brated these solden wedding estiver. mary just previous. to her death. --

I'harles ABchwellaer.

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MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 14, 1927 -- LEADER

Page 1: D. W. Waymire died .** Buford E. Wells drowned .**

Page10: Marriage license: Josh Young and Lucille Hunt, both of Springfield. Mrs. M. E. Massie died .** Mrs. Lottie J. Compton died .**

Mrs. J. A. Criger died .** Mrs. Nancy J. Mitchell died .*

Mrs. Nannie E. Archias died .** Myers infant died .** William Brebner died.' James P. Winn died .** David T. Carrier died .**

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John Lewis Handley died .** Mary Cole sues to divorce Earl Cole. They were married in March 1918. Anderson infant died .**

FROMWOUND

Funeral Services Were Held. This Afternoon For D. W. Waymire. . :

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Funeral services were held at 2 p. in; today"att the 't'rune Presbyterian church for D' W. Waymire. do Jean eld. city marshal of Crane, who died at 8:48 a. m. Sunday at the Spring- field Baptist hospital as a result of . . bullet, wound' received Tuesday when he attempted to arrest Ray- mond Smith, 22, near Crane.

Services were conducted by the Odd Fritas lodge at Crane, Internient and made in the Masonic cemetery unde: ::. e direction of the W. E. Hit- tor: L'ndertaking. company.

. Nr. Waymire had been city marshal at Grane; fortthe past two years. He' had' resided is that town for 23 years and during most of that time was a member. of the Odd Fellow's lodge.

Hell's auraised by the widow. A daughter, Mm" E" L"Carr .. (Tane. . a01. |: Eart.], Waymire." Crunt: two sin- ters. Mra. Clara McDonald and Mis. Barah Ford, "and' two brothers. Frank and John Waymire. .

-Last Tuesday morning. Marshal Crane and Deputy William Miller drove to the home of Harrtson Hemp- bill, about three miles west of Crane. In search 'of young Smith. a grand- son of Hemphill. and Elza Biro. 8mlth drew a revolver and shot the marshal. He then fled. Bisco made Bis: caospe in the excitement but" . aster surrendered, and was released.

Smith managed to elude & posse and stopped at the home of Robert Lusk, uear Marionville. late in the/ afternoon. A few minutes after ' Smith arrived, the family was poll-' fied of the attray by telephone. but ! were not told who did the shooting. ---

Smith weut to the barn and told Is :: Luat he shot the Crane marshal. The young man then drew a revolver and shot himself in the heart. A prisse was nearing the Lusk home at the time.

Waymire was brought to the local hospital and it was found the bullet ! had pierced his Intesulnes .in ten dif- ferent places. i!' :

' The body: was taken" overland 'to Crane| yesterday; by ; the "Alma , Lob- meyer funeral' home, ') -

AT JOPLIN PAR

Young Farmer Loses Life on Opening Day of Resort Season.

JOPLIN!"NO" March 16-(A. B. Wildcat' park.'south of bere was scene of the first drowning of the son yesterday on the occasion of Its opening day.' Buford Z. Wells, & Joy I lin high school graduate, residing von ' a farw near here, was drowned when a canoe in which he was riding with Raymond' Wadkins of Joplin Forer turned. : " .... ,

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Wells was :21 years of age and at excellent ; swimmer. The body lound' about ten, feet from the scene of thei mishap ; an hour afterward. Shoal creek."on . which the park" is I situated. | was. slightly swollen .and, muddy.' 'Wadkins could give no. rma+ soni for, the: upset or . Wells' inability to : swim i to, the nearby shore. . He ' explained that he was exhausted by his! efforts. to save himself .; , Boch were' fully dressed. '

DEATHS

Funeral " services" for Mrs .; M .. . Massie, 70.) widow .of.Dr. F. O. Masele. of Huntsville." Art" who died Batur. day at her home In Memphis, Tenn .. I were held Sunday afternoon at Iuntaville. She le ourrived. by four daughters,, Mra. K. L. Magers of this city. Min. K. M. Folk of Huntsville. Miss Kate Massie And Mrs. C. B. Lewis, both of Memphis.

: COMPTON FUNERAL.

Funeral services for Mrs. Lottie J. Mrdled-Tuesday. at the home of ber aqu. Markus J. Comptou. il' s. a. yerday"at" Mount Olive church. Burial was under direction of the Alma Lohmeyer funeral home.

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FRA |SI MYERS INFANT. .Funeral ' services | were " held p. m. today at the home for Robert O. Myers, 2-montha-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Myers. 1619 Kast Blaine street. who died at the home at 7 p. m. yesterday. Burial was In Clear Creek cemetery under direction of the Klinguer funeral home.

WILLIAN BRENNER.

is Funeral 'services for William Brab- Ber. M. who died Saturday morning at his home. 1903 Last Cherry street. ww be held at 2:30 p. m. tomorrow at the family residence. Burial will ৳ In Oreenlawy cemetery under the Mesotien of the Klingner fubarel home. Mr. Brebner is survived by hle widow. three daughters, Mrs. J. L. luce' of Pennsylvania, Mrs. M. T. Sherman of Springfield and Mrs. J. L. Harper of Oklahoma, and three granddaughters.

JAMES P. WIXN.

Funeral services for James P. Winn. 77. who died' yesterday morning at his home. 920 Benr.ett arenue. after a lingering illness, will be held at 2:30 p. m. Tuesday at the Kimgnar Funeral chapel. Burial will be in Hazelwood cemetery. Mr. Winn la aurvived by a son. Richard Winn. of Pasadena, Cal .; ux daughters. Mrs. L. A. Abbott, Mrs. Frank Payne and Mrs. J. W. Collins, all of Springfield; Mrs. Tony Urban, Mount Rose, Cal .: Mr. C. C. Racine. Pontiac. Mich .. and MrL' Fred Adamus uf Gary. Ind.

.DAVID T. CARKIER. 1

Mrs. C. O. Martin of Country Club Place left springfield last night for St. Elmo, Tenn .. a suburb of Chalta- nooga, after receiving word of the death of her father. David T. Currier. 82, at the home of his daughter. Mra. P. W. Kling- of Roanoke. Va., .Satur- dav night.

Mary " Date" aratant " start date .? piataulft charges. the defendant !! indignities. abuse and failure to :pm- vide support. They married in March. 1018. and separated In Sep. lamber of last year. : 216 41.

JOHN LEWIS HANDLEY.

Funeral services. for John Lewia ! Handley. 68. who died yesterday aft- ; ernoon at his home. 717 North Clay avenue. will be held at 3p. m. w- marrow. Rev I, R Grant will offi- ciate and burial will be In Lincoln i Memorial cemetery under the direc- tion of the H. "> Campbell Under-

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CHIGER FUNERAL ..

Funeral services for Mrs J A (1- ger. 70, who died at her home In ! Fordland Friday, were held at 2 p. nl. . Jenterday. Burial was at Fordland. : Mr. Liter had been ill for eight. years as a result of an allack of flu. 1

MITCHELL' SERVICES.

Funeral "services for Mra.' Nancy J. Mitchell. 68, who died Friday after- noon at the home of her unlighter. Mra. Bessie: Dickey, 570 West Webster street, after ibrist illnate, ware baid - at'11 a. m." yesterday. » Burial was in Wesley Obepal cemetery under direc- tion of the Klingner funeral home.

NANNIE E. ARCHIAS.

Funeral cervione were held at 2:30 p. m. yesterday at the Alma Loh- meyer funeral home for Mrs. Nannie ". Archies, 40 years old. who died Friday morning at the home of her daughter, Mrs. William J, Bayers, 506 Loren avanue. Rev. Lewis Hale, pae- tor of the First Baptist church. of- ficiated and : burial . was in : Maple Park competery, MEN

ANDERSON FUNERAL"

Funeral services were held' at 10:30 a m.todas for the infant all of Mr .. and Mrs. Feier Anderson. 1050 Bouch Douglas avenue." who died, yesterday" afternoon at 1:30. "Burial was in Fata terson cemetery under direction of W. P. Campbell . Undertaking company.

MARRIAGE LICEN .... Josh Young and Lucille Hunt, both Springfield. - ---

TUESDAY MORNING, MARCH 15, 1927 -- DAILY NEWS

Page 1: Mrs. John D. Selby committed suicide .**

Page 11: Card of thanks for kindness at time of death of "our husband, father and broehter," signed by the family of the late M. C. Rickman.

Lodge members are to attend the funeral of William Brebner.

Page 12: Mrs. Ella V. Russell died .** Orville Brown died .** Fred Smith died .** William Brebner died .** James P. Winn died .**

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HER-MINEY

COMMITS SUICIDE

Fancied Financial Woes and Jul. Health -- Inapires> Woman 10 Twice Shoot "Self - After Slashing Her Wrist

HUSBAND FINDS BODY IN LOCKED BATHROOM

Had Suffered Nervous Break- down . and Oriented- After Son's · Marriage. - Say Kin: Prominent Judge's Daughter

GOADERb HAR

elon over the recent marriage of her.

ter' of'a proitsout fortit of' umden county. Yended |ber lite;drfinatican yesterday afternoon "in" the bath room of her home ( 14 Normal street."

Returning home from ble work as gardener ati fiets. Teachers college. at 4:45'o'clock yesterday afternoon. Mrs. Belby's husband found the doors of his 'home' locked against him, and window " chades drawa. Alarmed, he run around the house. notload the batartiom" window Na:

1. FIRST OUTS WRIST

· Lying te

bathrocta ? Door. a bullet wound i her head and another just below be heart, "wantthe body of his wife. On the floor bealde'her lay a .32 calibre. automatio royalver. two champi emptyz

"A"trail of blood led from the bath room to Mra. Selby's bedroom and to a chair before. her dressing table. A scattering of razor blades on the dresser and a tiny gash on Mra. 8e1. by's left wrist spoke allently of as- tion which preceded the shooting. a - Brooding. it' is"belleved. over . in- vestments of;her husband and son. thewoman carly" yesterday after,- noon" decided"to" end her life by slashing. her wrists. Alone. sht wandered through the house, flock, Ing. doorn' and drawlop chodno

ing doors and driving pad ;Then; she . returned'sto_ her room. seated herself before the mirror. of her dressing table" and toyed ment- nily with the thought .of death. .. She reached for a razor blade; pricked her wrist slightly.+"The pain . was 100 Freat

SHOOTS .SELF AGAIN

"She lose again. found an auto- matie pistol kept by her husband and iturned to the dreaming tatie Holding the revolver against her iett side. she pressed the trigger. The bullet. steel-jacketed. ' passed cienr through her body, missing the heart a fraction of an icch.

The trall of blood told of her alet's trough an ady ining hall to tic batllovm, where she fired the sec- ' and what. The bullet passed through her skull and probably she died in - Istantiy. ·

After an investigation last night. 1

Jewell Windle said the Shandling way "a clear case of sul- c.de."

+ TELL OF FRETTING -

. Possibility that Mrs. Selby had not been killed by her own hand med. however, until the core- ner found the small slush on her urfat'nnd razor blades in her room belleved Mra; Both clair case of suicide."

EMr: Selby 'sald he left tho home ichortistime. after" 1 o'clock"yes. torday afternoon and did not re- turn until the time he discovered the tragedy."

i'd just as soon be dead" as; en - dure these worries," Mrs."Selby is Isaid"to have remarked to her hus- band as he left yesterday .after- nuhn for the college. His wife had bern brooding much of late, rela- :ives said.

BOY MISSED BODY -

The shooting occurred apparently betore 3 o'clock. At that time Mrs. Val Mason. 75: Kickapoo avenue, a sister. attempted without success to reach Mrs. Selby by telephone. short time later a youth who rooms at the Selby home returned home from school and attempted to enter the place. lle found the basement door unlocked. went to hla room and left the home through the basement again without dis- covering the tragedy.

Fancled Anancial worries, an 11- logical fear of poverty and laxbil- Ity to regard tho reparation from BEL NO. TWO ON PAGE SIX

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here'son in the" propes bined to "make" Mes. Selby " tem- "porarily Minanne. in the opinion of Val Mason, the woman's brother- Inin w.

FEARED INVESTMENT

Ho wald Mr. and Mrs. Selby had purchased a farm near Linn Creek. Mo .. for their son, and that Mrs. Selby had persisted in regarding the expense of stocking the farns as a dangerous Investment.

Neighbors, were unable"to recall ; hearing 'shotmint the' Selby home yesterday afternoon. They said 'Mis. Selby . had appeared 'distant ":nl worried for several inonthe. and that they had seen little of her during that time.

Mrs. Selby's- son. Frank S. Selby. now at Hun ('reek, was a student at State Teachers college for sev- rral years. He married In Decem- 'ber. . 1926 ..

--- Mrs & the was a member of a prominent t'a'nden county family. Her father. William A. Stanton. how dead, was an extensive land owner. a well - known attorney iand at one time judge of the Cam- den county court. Mr. and Mrs. Selby had realded here six years.

Mrs. Selby {is survived by her husband and son: four platers. Mrs. Val - - Mason nichtnur ;field. Mrs. Agnes Bu White of Denver. Col: Mrs. R. F. Crampton, Spring- 1 f.eld. Hll .. and Mrs. . Whitley Bryant of Spokane. Wych: four brothers. Jackson t' Stanton. Kansas City

. tronglay, Mo: George W. Stanton and John H' Stanton of Toronto.

Funeral arrangements have not ' een completed. The body les nit the Alma lohmeyer' funeral home.

DEATHŠ

ORVILLE BROWN

tville Brown" of Kansas City. formerly a resident of Springheld; died yesterday; in Colorado Springs. i Col., according to word received by friends hele. Mr. Brown Is sur - ' vived lose his wife, mother father and two brothers: , Funeral kerv - Ires will be conducted at the Brown home. : 310. Ruby avenue. Kansas

Pastor of Ozarks Dies THE OriOn

. Mrs. Ella V. Russell Ti years of age. died at her home in-Everton Mo .. yesterday morning after " an fulness of several months. Funeral services will be held at:the Presby- wrlan church in" Fevtron this aft- ernoon at 2 o'clock. ,with burial in "Tire cemetery at that town.'.

Fi Mrs. Russell wai the wife of. the Reverend W. R. Russell, widely known "ploneer" minister "of the Ozarks. The Reverend Russell bo- came : pastori.of the? Presbyterian church at Everton in 1487 and con- Unbed . in't that . work , until; about four years ago when he retired from' . the ; ministry atfer 50 . years' wirvios, "and" herand Mrs. Russell mado 'their home in ' Everton dur- ing""all (that : time.' " The - Reverend and Mre. Russell: were married .54

F : Mra. . Russell itook an active part In the work of the church and af- Allated. organizations as long as her health would yum !. and who also formerly active .In bitrol work. having been a Bacher for a number of years.

FRED, SMITH

& Fred Smith.5. "died' at 6:13

7o'clock" yesterday 'afternoon" Thome 1110 West "Atlantic Street

Hacering - Winges, Matth #ff survived. by/ hts .tools, Mra Deyo Voyles"of this city,'two brothers and a sister. "Funeral'ar ... rangements barn" not been com. pleiny, The body to held at the Herman Lohmeyer' funeral home.

WILLIAM BREBNER

Funeral " services for William" ; Brebner, it, who died Saturday morning at his home. 1303 Lust Cherry street will be conducted at 2:30 o'clock this afternoon at the family residence. Buriai will be in Greenlawn contery under the !- reetlon the Kingner funeral home. ,

. JAMES P. WINN

Funeral hershey for James IWInn. 77. who died Sunday morn Ing at hila lor .. 920 Bennett ave- nur. will to. conducted at 2:30 velock this afternoon at the Kling- ner funeral chat-1. Burial will be In Harclwe :

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band

The family of the late I. E. Ede

United Lodge No. L. A. A- M., will meet in apecial communication this after- . G noon at 1:30 o'clock for the purpose of attending the funeral of our late Brother. William Brobner. All Master Miasans are Invited. M. F. AMITH, Becy. -

TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 15, 1927 -- LEADER

Page 1: Mrs. John D. Selby committed suicide. **

Page 3: There is a poem in memory of Arthur L. Shackelford.

Page 7: William Brebner died .**

Page 14: J. S. Claiborne died at Monett.

Ralph E. Copeland sues to divorce Mary H. Copeland. They were married in February 1923.

Orveille Brown died .*

James P. Winn died .**

Mrs. Ella V. Russell died .**

Mrs. Thomas McDonald died .**

J. M. Doyle died .** Mrs. E. C. Williams died.'

Fred Smith died .**

Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Beshears of 601 West Brower street announce the birth of a daughter Sarah Ruth on February 23.

Lillie M. Roach sues to divorce Patrick Roach. They were married in 1918.

Memoriam

In loving remembrance of our darl-

etford, who've thậm from us four years ago today. March 18, 1923.

When the evening chedows are falling and we are all alone. to our hearts comes a longing. if 1 be only could come home. Oftentimes our hearts bath wandered . ... to a grave not far away. Where we laid our darling boy. Just four years ago today.

is come but ' pot forgotten, never 'from' our minds to fade; Our lonely hearts will linger around the grave where be is lald. God took his home; It was his will. but"in our hearts we love him

His memory le as fresh today as In the .bour be was laid away.

Badly missed by mother, dad. brother, sister and little daughter.

BIRTHS *. 1 -1.

Mr.".and Mrs. W. E. Beshears, -. of '601 West Brower street, Announce the birth of a daughter. Sarah Ruth. on

FUNERAL SERVICES HELD . FOR WILLIAM BREBNER .

Funeral services were held at 2:30 : p. m. today at the family home. 1303 Cherry atrest. for William. Brebuer. former imanager of the Marblehead Lime company, who died Saturday morning. The services were conduct- - ed by Rer. John. Crockett. Services at . the crave were conducted by .the Ma. : sonic bodies Acting an pallbearers were H. Brooksbank, Lou Sharp, E. M. . Wilhott. Arch McGregor. W. P. Keltner and T. K. Gardner. Burlal was in Arpenlawn cemetery .. ... it Mr; Brebner was born July. 8, 11863 ... in Frazierbury, county of "Aberdeen," Scotland." After completing his edu- loation be taught'schoel for two years ¡and then -shipped as an apprentice on ia wwwi miling from London to Byd-i

twenty years on the sea and otrating the globe four times, Mr. Brebner landed in the United States In 1880. He entered the employ of the Marble- bead Lime company in 1800.

. Mr. Brebner was married in Octo- ber. 1885. at Fulton. Mo., to Miss Mary Elizabeth Wright. Three daugh- i tera were born to the union, who. } with the widow, survive. They are' Mro. J. L. Ince of Nach Girard: Pa .. Mrs M. T. Bherman, of the home ad- drew, and Mrs. T. J. Harper of Okla- boms.

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Mr. Brebner was a member of the Tabernacle Presbyterian , church, United Lodge No. S. A. F. and A. M. ¡ St. John's' Commander. the Shrine. and the Boottial, Rite of St. Louis.

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FALSE WORRY f LEADS WOMAN TO KILL SELF -

Mrs. John D. Selby, 448 Nor- mal Street. Found Dead in Bathroom by Husband.

False worry over the family finan . cial ; condition, ; extending . ow; period of three years, and which ap- parently had become au hallucina- ton. yesterday resulted in the death of Mra: John D. Belby, is years old, by suicide "in the bathroom of her home at the Normal street.

./Her body . was found about & o'clock yesterday afternoon by Mr. Belby when he returned from work. Upon reaching bis home be discovered . that the door was locked and all' of the l shades had been drawn. He found ; the bathroom window partly open. ! and entered, the room through the podes to find his wife lytog; then tower of the Door with bullet !! Found her head andmother which passed through her body just beneath the heart. Beside her body on the floor lay . . 32 caliber auto- matic revolver. .

It is believed that Mrs. Belby fired --- the first. shot in the bedroom, 'as a ! trail of blood led frun her dresser! -

; to the bathroom, and there also .e. a pool of blood on the floor is the bedtount, and following the first shot, ;

which was not mortal "she entre -

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Items of genealogical interest in the Springfield daily news and the Springfield leader of Springfield, Greene County, Missouri for 1927, Part 1, Part 36

Author: Hall, William K. (William Kearney), 1918- Publication date: 1927 v. 1 Publisher: Number of Pages: 798

Author: Hall, William K. (William Kearney), 1918-
Publication date: 1927 v. 1
Publisher:
Number of Pages: 798