Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1918 — MRS. A. O. YEOMAN. [ARTICLE]

MRS. A. O. YEOMAN.

The following article was taken from The Leader-Courier, of Kingman, Kansas, dated March 1, 1918: “Mrs. A. O. Yeoman, one of the pioneers of Kingman county, passed to her reward at the family home in Kingman, Friday, February 22, 1918. Funeral services were held at the hoine Monday afternoon, conducted by Rev. Fly, of Cleveland, assisted by Rev. E. O. Cole, of Kingman, and interment was at Walnut Hill, in the family burial plot. “Deceased had been in ill health the past few years, and had suffered greatly but through it all she had been resigned and uncomplaining, and thanks to a merciful Providence, her last hours were painless and she passed away as if in peaceful and restful sleep.

“Mrs. Yeoman and her bereaved husband were members of the pioneer crowd that settled in East Ninnescah township, coming to this city when it was yet new, and settlers few and widely scattered, dating their initial settlement back to the month of March 1878, or lacking but a few days of forty years when they settled on a homestead, near the present site of Alameda, which they occupied for some fortyfive years ,before moving to this city. The Yeoman home was noted for and wide for the open-handed hospilality tendered everyone entering its doors, and these pioneers had much to do with the formative period in the secular and social affairs of that neighborhood. As early day neighbors with men and women of a similar character and mould, they settled there about the same time as the Boroughs families, John Day, Ike Morgan, Henry Fowler, I. N. McCurtain, Col. Weiler, and others, men and women who builded the foundation of the splendid community that has developed and grown in the years that have intervened, from that day to this, and in their passing, the things that they did, remain as lasting monuments.

“A friend of the deceased has furnished the Leader-Courier the following additional obituary of this good woman: “Mary Ellen Moore, daughter of W. E. and Diana Moore, was born in Jasper county, Indiana, January 2, 1856, and there grew to womanhood. “She was married to Alfred Ogle Yeoman, Nov. 11, 1877. The following March they came to Kansas and settled on a homestead southeast of Kingman, where they lived until thirteen years ago when they retired from active work and moved to the city of Kingman, where they resided until her death. “Besides her husband, she leaves to mourn her loss, three daughters, Mattie J. French, of Hutchinson; Edna E. Johnson, Norwich; Jennie B. Gurtner, of this community, and one son, John G; Yeoman, who resides on the old homestead. Besides her own family, she leaves two brother, and two sisters, Mr. A. O. Moore, of Rensselaer, Ind., and W. J. Moore, of Mitchell, South Dakota, Mrs. W. I. Morgan, of this city and Mrs. H. E. Parkinson, of Rensselaer, Ind. One sister and one brother have preceded her into the great beyond. k

“For several years she had been in failing health and a year ago last October, she suffered a stroke of paralysis and from that time she struggled bravely to regain her lost strength, and while with constant effort she had been able to Ward off impending failure, her onee great vitality gave way, her death occurring Friday, February 22, at 3:40 o’clock, at her home in Kingman.

“In her girlhood she became a member of the M. E. church and from the days of the early settlers to the time of her death she continued a sincere and earnest worker in the cause of her God and welfare of humanity in the faith of their mother and had four grand-children to mourn her loss. “In her death the world has lost a noble soul, Whose deeds will still live as an inspiration to all who knew her. Never was her own work too urgent nor her own interests so dear that she did not let her own task go unfinished to be of service to another.

While her life has been a blessing and an inspiration to all who knew her God has ceen fit to call her into another life; where aches and pains shall not lessen the sweetness of her soul. God in His own sweet time has seen fit to add another star to His Kingdom, and what seems loss to us who are left behind, is gain to those that see as she has seen and who live as she has lived. “Some of the out-of-town relatives present at the funeral were Mr. and Mrs. Ed Parkinson, Ad Parkinson and daughter, Jane, of Rensselaer, Ind.; Ed French and family of Hutchinson; Mr. and Mrs. Aaron Johnson, Norwich and Mr. and Mrs. Sam Gurtner of Alameda, Mr. and Mrs. John Yeoman, Alameda, and Mr.