Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 180, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1913 — BARKLEY. [ARTICLE]

BARKLEY.

Misses Nettie Reed and Myrtle Biggs, of Medaryville, have been visiting Miss Bessie Baughman. They returned home last Monday. Miss Bessie Baughman gave a party to the young people. About 45 were present and a very enjoyabel time was reported. The last quarterly conference of the Barkley M. E. church will be held next Sunday, Aug. 3rd. Preaching and communion in the morning. Basket dinner at noon and quarterly conference in the afternoon. Dr. A. T. Briggs will conduct the services. Everybody invited.

Former Resident of This City Died in Washington. Levi Clouse received the following account of the death of Edmon McCurtain, his cousin, who Is also a nephew of S. N. Nichols and F. M. Parker, and related to the McCurtain families of this county, and who was a resident of this county when a boy. The obituary Was copied from a Kingman, Kama, paper, and is as follows: The funeral of Edmon McCurtain, who died at his home near Davenport, Wash., Saturday, July 12, 1913, was held at the home of his mother-in-laW, Mrs. E. J. Lecklider on Sugar street, Sunday morning, at 9:30. The service was in charge of Rev. D. T. Broadus, of the Church of Christ of Wichita. Interment was made in’Cleveland cemetery. Edmon McCurtain was born in Jasper county, Ind., December 13, 1864, where he resided with his parents until 1879, when they moved to Kingman county. At the age of twenty years,, he, with another brother, went to the Pacific coast, spending two years near Aberdeen, Chehalis and Olympia, Wash., after which he returned to his home in Kansas, where he engaged in farming tor a number of years. He was married to Nellie O. Lecklider May 6, 1894. In February, 1895, a son, Lawrence Eugene, *was born, who died In infancy. In 1896 the family moved to Denver, Colo., where he engaged in different lines of business. The greater part of the time he was receiving clerk of the Hurlburt Grocery Co. In 1907 he with his family moved to Davenport, Wash., where he lived at the time of his death. He leaves to mourn his death, his wife and two daughters, Hazel Olive and Mary Edith, aged 17 and 15. Also three sisters and ten brothers, he being the first of fourteen children to pass away. At the time of his death he was a member of the Modern Woodman, in which order he carried insurance. He was president of the Davenport union of the F. E. and C. U. of A. , . .. - ‘ ..'X ’