Daughter of John Shellhammer and Lovina Feese
Wife of Lester Heaton
Concordia Blade-Empire
Concordia, Kansas
Wednesday, March 17, 1917
page 1
Funeral Will Be Thursday
Mrs. Heaton Was One of the Earlier Settlers of This Section.
One by one, the men and women who helped to make this section of Kansas what it is today, are passing away, and the last one was Mrs. Lester Heaton, who died at her home seven miles west of Concordia yesterday afternoon. The funeral services will be held at the Fairview church Thursday morning at 11:00 o'clock and interment will be made in the Fairview cemetery.
Mrs. Heaton was born in Elkhart county, Indiana October 4, 1839 and when about five years of age she moved to Michigan with her parents. On April 14, 1858 she was married to Lester Heaton and after the war was over they resided in Michigan until the spring of 1869 when they moved to Kansas and settled near Fort Scott. They lived there for a year and came to this county, taking up a homestead in Buffalo township near Yuma. While they have not resided continuously on this homestead, the Heaton family has lived in that one township for 47 years. Republic and Jewell counties were settled later than Cloud county and the Heaton place became known for and wide as a stop for the travelers on their way to a new country. Many nights as many as fifty or sixty movers were entertained at this home, and during all her life Mrs. Heaton always had that hospitable spirit that seems so wonderful to the younger generation. A pioneer of the truest type, she was always willing to help a stranger as readily as a neighbor, and her loss is keenly felt.
She was the mother of eleven children, four of whom, with her husband survive. When the Missouri Pacific was being built through Cloud county one of her little boys was killed in the digging of the railroad well at Yuma. The same year another of her children died from swallowing a marble. But she was a true mother, and these tragedies only accentuated her love and care for those that are left. Her living children are Mrs. J.P. Jones, Mrs. Zua Van Sickle, H.G. Heaton, and Mrs. Florence Pae. One sister also is left to mourn her loss, Mrs. Adelia Hannum. "Aunt Mary" Heaton's was a place where all children liked to be, and she will be a pleasant memory to those who were the recipients of her home-like hospitality in the early days.
(transcribed by Judy Mayfield)
Wife of Lester Heaton
Concordia Blade-Empire
Concordia, Kansas
Wednesday, March 17, 1917
page 1
Funeral Will Be Thursday
Mrs. Heaton Was One of the Earlier Settlers of This Section.
One by one, the men and women who helped to make this section of Kansas what it is today, are passing away, and the last one was Mrs. Lester Heaton, who died at her home seven miles west of Concordia yesterday afternoon. The funeral services will be held at the Fairview church Thursday morning at 11:00 o'clock and interment will be made in the Fairview cemetery.
Mrs. Heaton was born in Elkhart county, Indiana October 4, 1839 and when about five years of age she moved to Michigan with her parents. On April 14, 1858 she was married to Lester Heaton and after the war was over they resided in Michigan until the spring of 1869 when they moved to Kansas and settled near Fort Scott. They lived there for a year and came to this county, taking up a homestead in Buffalo township near Yuma. While they have not resided continuously on this homestead, the Heaton family has lived in that one township for 47 years. Republic and Jewell counties were settled later than Cloud county and the Heaton place became known for and wide as a stop for the travelers on their way to a new country. Many nights as many as fifty or sixty movers were entertained at this home, and during all her life Mrs. Heaton always had that hospitable spirit that seems so wonderful to the younger generation. A pioneer of the truest type, she was always willing to help a stranger as readily as a neighbor, and her loss is keenly felt.
She was the mother of eleven children, four of whom, with her husband survive. When the Missouri Pacific was being built through Cloud county one of her little boys was killed in the digging of the railroad well at Yuma. The same year another of her children died from swallowing a marble. But she was a true mother, and these tragedies only accentuated her love and care for those that are left. Her living children are Mrs. J.P. Jones, Mrs. Zua Van Sickle, H.G. Heaton, and Mrs. Florence Pae. One sister also is left to mourn her loss, Mrs. Adelia Hannum. "Aunt Mary" Heaton's was a place where all children liked to be, and she will be a pleasant memory to those who were the recipients of her home-like hospitality in the early days.
(transcribed by Judy Mayfield)
Daughter of John Shellhammer and Lovina Feese
Wife of Lester Heaton
Concordia Blade-Empire
Concordia, Kansas
Wednesday, March 17, 1917
page 1
Funeral Will Be Thursday
Mrs. Heaton Was One of the Earlier Settlers of This Section.
One by one, the men and women who helped to make this section of Kansas what it is today, are passing away, and the last one was Mrs. Lester Heaton, who died at her home seven miles west of Concordia yesterday afternoon. The funeral services will be held at the Fairview church Thursday morning at 11:00 o'clock and interment will be made in the Fairview cemetery.
Mrs. Heaton was born in Elkhart county, Indiana October 4, 1839 and when about five years of age she moved to Michigan with her parents. On April 14, 1858 she was married to Lester Heaton and after the war was over they resided in Michigan until the spring of 1869 when they moved to Kansas and settled near Fort Scott. They lived there for a year and came to this county, taking up a homestead in Buffalo township near Yuma. While they have not resided continuously on this homestead, the Heaton family has lived in that one township for 47 years. Republic and Jewell counties were settled later than Cloud county and the Heaton place became known for and wide as a stop for the travelers on their way to a new country. Many nights as many as fifty or sixty movers were entertained at this home, and during all her life Mrs. Heaton always had that hospitable spirit that seems so wonderful to the younger generation. A pioneer of the truest type, she was always willing to help a stranger as readily as a neighbor, and her loss is keenly felt.
She was the mother of eleven children, four of whom, with her husband survive. When the Missouri Pacific was being built through Cloud county one of her little boys was killed in the digging of the railroad well at Yuma. The same year another of her children died from swallowing a marble. But she was a true mother, and these tragedies only accentuated her love and care for those that are left. Her living children are Mrs. J.P. Jones, Mrs. Zua Van Sickle, H.G. Heaton, and Mrs. Florence Pae. One sister also is left to mourn her loss, Mrs. Adelia Hannum. "Aunt Mary" Heaton's was a place where all children liked to be, and she will be a pleasant memory to those who were the recipients of her home-like hospitality in the early days.
(transcribed by Judy Mayfield)
Wife of Lester Heaton
Concordia Blade-Empire
Concordia, Kansas
Wednesday, March 17, 1917
page 1
Funeral Will Be Thursday
Mrs. Heaton Was One of the Earlier Settlers of This Section.
One by one, the men and women who helped to make this section of Kansas what it is today, are passing away, and the last one was Mrs. Lester Heaton, who died at her home seven miles west of Concordia yesterday afternoon. The funeral services will be held at the Fairview church Thursday morning at 11:00 o'clock and interment will be made in the Fairview cemetery.
Mrs. Heaton was born in Elkhart county, Indiana October 4, 1839 and when about five years of age she moved to Michigan with her parents. On April 14, 1858 she was married to Lester Heaton and after the war was over they resided in Michigan until the spring of 1869 when they moved to Kansas and settled near Fort Scott. They lived there for a year and came to this county, taking up a homestead in Buffalo township near Yuma. While they have not resided continuously on this homestead, the Heaton family has lived in that one township for 47 years. Republic and Jewell counties were settled later than Cloud county and the Heaton place became known for and wide as a stop for the travelers on their way to a new country. Many nights as many as fifty or sixty movers were entertained at this home, and during all her life Mrs. Heaton always had that hospitable spirit that seems so wonderful to the younger generation. A pioneer of the truest type, she was always willing to help a stranger as readily as a neighbor, and her loss is keenly felt.
She was the mother of eleven children, four of whom, with her husband survive. When the Missouri Pacific was being built through Cloud county one of her little boys was killed in the digging of the railroad well at Yuma. The same year another of her children died from swallowing a marble. But she was a true mother, and these tragedies only accentuated her love and care for those that are left. Her living children are Mrs. J.P. Jones, Mrs. Zua Van Sickle, H.G. Heaton, and Mrs. Florence Pae. One sister also is left to mourn her loss, Mrs. Adelia Hannum. "Aunt Mary" Heaton's was a place where all children liked to be, and she will be a pleasant memory to those who were the recipients of her home-like hospitality in the early days.
(transcribed by Judy Mayfield)
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