Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 61, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1901 — MRS. FRED FUNSTON. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

MRS. FRED FUNSTON.

Wife of the Kansas Hero Who Captured Agulnaldo. Mrs. Fred Funston was Miss Mary Blankart, a San B’rancisco school teacher. When the Twentieth Kansas arrived en route to the Philippines the Kansas

general met her. fell in love, laid desperate siege, aud won her in a fortnight. The day after her wedding he sailed for Manila. She followed on the next transport.

MRS. FUNSTON.