Obituary

Obituary

Medicine Lodge Cresset

Feb 27, 1903

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Died: At his home in Deerhead, Sunday, February 22, 1903, Thomas C. Stewart, brother of M.F. Stewart. Mr. Stewart was born in Virginia, December 31, 1842. Age 60 years, 1 month and 32 days. The cause of death was pneumonia and heart trouble. He came to Kansas in February 1886, where he has lived for seventeen years. he leaves a wife and three children, George, Ross and Mrs. G.W. Phillips. Mr. Stewart was a man w ho lived as he thought right. He has left behind him many warm friends. The funeral services were held at Lake City, Rev. Young officiating. The many friends of the Stewart family extend sympathy. Mr. Stewart is survived by four brothers and three sisters.

The Barber County Index

Feb 25, 1903

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Died: The death of Tom C. Stewart, of Deerhead, occurred on Sunday morning, February 22, 1903. It was very sudden. Pneumonia was the cause of death. He was sick only a few days. Funeral services were held on Tuesday at Lake City. The deceased was about 60 years of age. He was a native of West Virginia. He has resided in Barber county for many years and was especially well known in the western part. Uncle Tom was a man of genial nature and a warm heart. He leaves a wife, two sons and a daughter - George and Ross Stewart and Mrs. G.W. Phillips. The bereaved family have our deepest sympathy.

Mar 4, 1903

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Thomas Camden Stewart, born December 31, 1842, in Jackson county, West Virginia, died February 22, 1903, at Deerhead, Barber county, Kansas. Until he grew to manhood, he spent his life upon his father’s farm near Ripley, West Virginia. When 21 years of age, he enlisted in the Confederate army and served four years. On January 17, 1879, he was married to Alvira M.Greer, of Ripley, West Virginia. In January, 1887, Mr. Stewart and family removed to Missouri where he resided 2 years. From there he removed to Barber county, Kansas, where he spent the remainder of his life. Thomas Stewart was a man of exceptionally good nature and treated every one with whom he came in contact with respect and gratitude. His home was and is one that has always extended the glad hand to neighbors and travelers. He was a man who tried to live right and do as he thought best and tried to please everyone with whom he had business relations. Uncle Tom, as he was familiarly called among his friends and acquaintances, was always one of the first to extend a lending hand to the sick and helpless. He is survived by a wife and three children - George and Ross Stewart and Mrs. G.W. Phillips, of Sharon township - and four brothers, M.F. Stewart, of Deerhead; Creed, of West Virginia; Mint of Texas, and Grigg, of Pickerinton, Ohio, and three sisters, Mrs. Bettie Davis, Mrs. Hester Starcher and Mrs. Elizabeth Brown, all of West Virginia., all of West Virginia.

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