Edward Earl Gates I



Edward Earl Gates I



            Edward Earl Gates was born in Whitestown, Oneida County, New York, November 23, 1839.  He married Emma L. Thurston from Watertown, Jefferson County, New York, July 2, 1862.  She was born in England, July 12, 1840.  They were blessed with six children.  Two died as infants.  The oldest living child was Alfred Russell, who was born in Hamilton, Madison County, New York, and their second child was Nina Emma who was born in Trenton, Oneida County, New York.

They moved their home and business from Oneida County New York (footnote Hill Onidah is mentioned twice in the Book of Mormon, Alma 32:4 where Alma taught a multitude of people and Alma 47:5, called the Place of Arms) to Brookfield, Linn County, Missouri between July 1867 and July 1870, wagon load at a time.  Three children were born to them there.  Rupert, who died at two days old, Allen Leonard also died within the first year after his birth, and Lamont Addison who lived a long life.  Opal Iona (this is my great aunt Opal who passed down the heirloom letter) was born at Shariton, Missouri, August 9, 1875.  Emma Thurston Gates died, October 12, 1879, when little Opal was only four years old.

            After the grieving for Emma, E.E. married a beautiful, good, and lovely woman of Swedish descent, Augusta Gorman.  Augusta is the daughter of Charles Gorman and Fredrica Peterson Gorman, born October 4, 1881 or 1882.  She was a wonderful organist and a religious Methodist.  Nina and Opal sang in the choir when they were old enough.


Augusta Gorman Gates



On the ranch in Marceline, Linn County, Missouri, Augusta and Edward were blessed with four sons:  Edward Earl who became a rancher (Ed Yates), Mark Gorman, a doctor, Clarence Lee, a businessman, and their youngest, Mercer H. in memory of his mother's family.



Inset, Mercer. Back row Lamont Addison, Nina, Opal
Front row Mark Gorman, Clarence Lee and
Edward Earl II



Mark drowned when he was hunting with some other doctors.  Mercer died from tuberculosis after being gassed by Germans in World War I.

Edward was a cobbler by trade, and spent years making women’s fancy shoes.  He was a fine shoe maker and harness maker, his son told me.  He was a small man, but knew jujitsu and could defend himself.  He also played violin.  Grandad told this about his father.  When they fed the stock in winter, it was so cold, ice caked on their face.  Edward came in where Augusta had a warm fire to thaw himself out over the stove, eat, and go back out.  Grandad was just a boy, but he was always with his fathers. His dad said, "That little kid is the best hand I've ever had."



Edward Earl Gates I in his shop in LaHarpe, KS



In August 2004, I, Naomi, traveled through Kansas where Edward Earl Gates I and William Sigler lived and were buried.  I visited the the Iola, Kansas library and found their obituaries on microfilm.  This news article gave many details about their live, including the fact that Edward Earl Gates, rose out of sleep to tell the family he was saved right before he passed away. 

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This short notice in the Iola Register, about Edward Earl's death, dated Thursday Evening, October 15, 1925:

            Friends of Mr. E.E. Gates will be sorry to learn of his serious illness and will hope for his speedy recovery.

I also found the obituary for E. E. Gates:

            Edward Earl Gates was born in New York Mills, N.Y., November 23, 1839, and was united in marriage to Miss Emma Thurston, July 1864.  To this union were born three sons and two daughters.  The living are: Alfred I. Gates, Utah; Mrs. Nina E. Shriver, Bolivar, Mo.; Lamont A. Gates, Mont.; Mrs. Opal I. Bibens, Kincaid, Kansas.

His wife, Emma Thurston, died October 12, 1879.

            Edward Earl Gates was united in marriage with Miss Augusta J. Gorman, October 4, 1884.  To this union were born four sons, Edward E. Gates, (Grandad) Saguache, Colo.; Mark D. Gates, Santa Monica, Calif.; Clarence Gates, Colorado Springs, Colo.; Mercer H. Gates, Santa Monica, Calif.

             When about 24 years old Brother Gates was converted and united with the Baptist church.  After   moving to Bolivar, Mo., he united with the Methodist Episcopal church and remained a member until death, living a consistent Christian life.  He was a faithful husband, a devoted father, a real friend, and enjoyed the esteem and respect of his neighbors.

            His hold on God and hope of immortality was very strong.  The paralytic stroke which he sustained about a year ago made it very hard for him to talk, but he tried to talk at the end which was caught a sentence at a time.  He said, "I am saved," then asked each one present if they were saved.  Later he expressed a wish for the salvation of his sons and said, "I'm glad it is over," and then said goodbye, "God bless you" and was gone.  Quietly and peacefully the end came at 7:35, Tuesday evening, October 13, 1925, aged 85 years, 10 months and 20 days.

The funeral services were conducted by his pastor, Rev. W. L. Morris in the LaHarpe Methodist church, Thursday at 2:30 p.m., and interment was in the LaHarpe cemetery.

This notice also appeared:

                                                                                                           

The sympathy of the many friends of Mrs. E. E. Gates goes out to her in her bereavement in the loss of her dear husband who passed away October 13, 1925.

This notice appeared in the "LaHarpe News Notes" in the Iola Register, Friday Evening, October 16, 1925:

Funeral services for Mr. E. E. Gates, whose death occurred Tuesday night about 8 O'clock, were held Thursday afternoon at 2:30 p.m. from the home, with the Rev. W. L. Morris officiating, and burial was made in the LaHarpe cemetery.



Augusta Gorman Gates



Edward Earl Gates I, died October 13, 1925 in LaHarpe, Allen County, Kansas. Augusta Gorman Gate's, Grandad Ed Gates (Yates) mother, died February 20, 1939 in Los Angeles, California where she was living with her son, Clarence.  We have two beautiful photographs of her.  One as a young woman and the other when she was older.



 

            My great grandfather, Ed Yates (Edward Earl Gates, Jr.) who we children called Grandad, said, "I never knew a harder working man than my father, Edward Earl Gates." 





Edward Earl Gates II (Ed Yates)


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The Gormans - The Swedish Connection

By Naomi Lewis

            



Fredrica Christina Peterson



Fredrica Christina Peterson, the second daughter of Peter Fredrikson and Brita Carolina Svensdotter, was born March 3, 1828 in Vimmerby, Kalmar, Sweden.  Her older sister is Anna Stina Petersdotter who was born March 3, 1826.

           On December 29, 1849, she married Carl Johan Gardman by pastor A. Lindal in Vimmerby, Kalmar, Sweden.

 

                        The men in Carl's father were military man who served many years in the Swedish Army.  The King of Sweden, wishing to reward one of his ancestors for valiant service, changed his name from Johnson to Gardman.

                       After their first daughter, Christine Caroline, was born, the couple left Kalmar, the garden county of Sweden, for New York.

           

            My mother, Betty Louise Gentry, corresponded with their Grandson, Charles Gorman in Laddonia, Missouri. He is my great grandfather Edward Earl Gates' Cousin.  I pieced this story together from items sent to Mom by Charles Gorman who must have been named after his Grandfather. 

           Charles Gorman was born Carl Johan Gardman, June 18, 1824 in Malilla, Kalmar, Sweden to Jonas Peter Gardman and Christina Sophia Hellgren. 

            Charles and Fredrica settled in Chautauqua County, western New York, where Augusta, Levi, Martin, Frank, Albert, Emma, and Ellen, were born.  About 1861, when Charles was 37, they left Lake Chautauqua for a farm he bought in Laddonia, Audrain County, Missouri.  The Civil War broke out, so it appears Charles went back to New York, and enlisted at Mayville with his friends in Company H, 112^th Regiment of the Regiment of Infantry Volunteers of New York, on August 30, 1862.  He followed in his ancestor’s footsteps, becoming a military man. 



Charles Gorman



           Charles was in Suffolk, Virginia in 1863, then Fortress Manor, Virginia in June of 1864 soon after the "Battle of Cold Harbor."  He was present at the different battles around Petersburg, Virginia.  He was discharged at Buffalo, New York, July 3, 1865.  (Mary and Fanny were born in Missouri after the war).

            When Charles left for the war, Fredrica had eight children to raise and a farm to run.  She taught the native women to bake light bread, they only knew how to bake biscuits.  She also taught them to make corn pone.

            Fredrica sent one of her daughters, Ellen, at the age of ten, to live with a family in Mexico, Missouri, 20 miles from Laddonia.  They all had their picture taken at Graham studios before the war.  For some reason, no one went to get her back.  She worked hard, and by the time she finished high school and college, her health wasn't very good.

            Ellen married Mr. Charles Wheeler.  It was a struggle to feed so many mouths as the children came along, and Mrs. Wheeler also lived with them.  It is said they were as poor as "Job's turkey."  The record mentions an Aunt May coming through to visit on her way to Laddonia and asked to take Ellen's oldest daughter who was five, with her.  She had a wonderful time.  Her Uncle Frank and Uncle Levi took her with them everywhere they went, hand in hand.  They went to town every day to pick up the mail, they fed the hogs, and milked the cows.  She couldn't talk enough about them when she returned.

While Charles was in the war, he wrote a letter to Christine Caroline:

In the field.

June 8^th, 1864

Aficenate Doter,

            I received your letter dated May 29^th.  Was glad to hear that you and the rest of my family ware injoying good health.  My health is very good—much better than could be expected under the present circumstance.

            It is nearly six weeks a go that we started on the present campaign and I do not think that we have one nights wrest since that time.  We had a pretty severe ingagement the other day.   It was the hardest that I had been in since I had ben in the sirves, but thank God I came out safe.  The regiment lost pretty severely in cilld and wonded.  One hundred fifty eight kild, wonded, and missing.  Amonste them our commander, Cornel Drake.  He was wonded on the battle field and since died.

            Your father wishes you to read the letters to your mother for he can not get eney one to write Swede for him for the Swede boys that were in the reg't are cild or wonded.  I have not much time to tell you at this time only that the ware may come to a speedey close and that I may be prmeted to return home agin.  Please write as often as convenent.

           

            Charles died May 20, 1897 in Laddonia, Audrain County, Missouri.  After his death, Fredrica received a pension of $6.00 a month from the government for his military service.  His brother, Adolf Fredrik Gorman stood up for Fredrica after Charles' death:

                                                                       

State of Iowa

Webster County

            I, Adolf F. Gorman, being duly sworn do say upon oath that I am a resident of Webster county, Iowa.  That my Post Office address is Gowrie, Webster County, Iowa.  That I am 57 years of age, that I was born in Sweden and that I am a brother of Charles Gorman, late a private of Company H, 112 Regiment, New York Volunteers.

            That my brother died in May 1897, in Laddonia, Missouri.  I further certify that my said brother, Charles Gorman and Fredrica Peterson were married in Vimmerby,     Sweden, in the year AD 1850 and that I was present at the time of their marriage and that neither one of the parties had been previously married and that they lived together as man and wife until his death.

            I further certify that my Sister-In-Law, Mrs. Charles Gorman, has not remarried since the said Charles Gorman's death.  This was witnessed on September 18^th, 1897.

Fredrica died December 2, 1917 in Laddonia, Missouri.

            I, Naomi, visited Laddonia in 1976 and saw the flat, rich fields meant for growing corn.  There was a lake, but the picture I took didn't do it justice.  It was just a moment in time, but I was forever connected to a piece of my history and kindred--the Gorman family.  I came home to Provo, Utah, and hired a genealogist to search for the family in Sweden and she found them back into the 1730's in the Kalmar Lan or county of Sweden.  Charles Gorman was born Carl Johan Gardman.  His daughter August Gorman is Grandad Edward Earl Gates (Ed Yates) mother.  Grandad couldn't say enough good about his mother.  A picture of her hung on his bedroom wall all the time I knew him.  He died May 11, 1980 at 96.



Augusta Gorman



          

          I found the following ancestors of Fredrica Christina Peterson at the Family History Center in Salt Lake City during the summer of 2006.  These are the ancestors of Augusta Gorman, Edward Earl Gates wife.  (The histories were translated from the original texts by Margarita Choquette at the Family History Center in Salt Lake City, Utah).

DE BESCHE

            Wathier De Besche is the first known De Besche.  He was alive in 1397 and was of Dutch nobility.  He lived at Liege, Belgium.  His wife was Johanna De Borne.

            His son was named Henrik.  Henrik was alive in 1448 and was married to Maria Montage.  His son was also named Henrik and was alive in 1488.  His wife's name was Johanna De Roxelle.  Their son, Vilhelm De Besche, was an architect for the elector of Koln.  Vilhelm died October 8, 1567.  He's buried in St. Lambert's Church.  I don't know yet where that is.

            Vilhelm's son was Gillis De Besche.  He was born  August 24, 1548 in Liege, Belgium.  He was living in 1606 in Nykoping, Ostergotland, Sweden.  He was married to Helena De Besche, a relative, also born in Liege, Belgium.  We are descended through Gillis' third son, Hubert De Besche who was born in 1582.

            Hubert studied architecture and mining.  He was an architect and merchant.  He was made a nobleman by Kaiser Fredrick III.  Hubert was called by King Carl the 9^th from Liege, Belgium to Sweden.  He went into business with Louis de Geer.  They built foundaries and made the best steel in Europe.  Their process burned off more sulpher, so it was highly regarded and sought after.  Hubert owned a factory where they made canons.  He was the contractor who built Grupsholm, a big castle.  In Dec of 1609, he was building the German Church tower in Stockholm.  In 1613-1618, he was the contractor who built the Stockholm Castle.  He had a special privilege.  He didn't have to pay customs.  He was a contractor at the harbor of Stockholm and built Nykoping Castle in Ostergotland, Sweden.  Hubert is buried at Tuna Church in Sodermanland.  His gravestone has the coast of arms with three fish.  He was married to Maria Rochet from Languedoc, France.  She's buried under the same stone as her husband.

            We are descended through their son, Gillis De Besche, who was born, July 26, 1624 in Guldsmedshyttan, Lindesbergs, Orebro, Sweden.  Guldsmedshyttan translated means, goldsmith's hut.  That can't be bad.  He was naturalized in 1692 and was a Lord of Works.  Gillis was the wealthiest plant owner in Sweden at the time.  He died August 1, 1709 in Tunaberg, Sodermanland and is buried in St. Nicolai Church in Nykorping, Ostergotland, Sweden.  His wife was Christina Moller.

            Their son Isak De Besche, was born February 26, 1663 in Navekvarn, Bjorkviks, Sodermanland, Sweden.  He owned a big manor.  Isak died April 10, 1719 in Nykoping, Ostergotland, Sweden and is also buried at St. Nicholai Church, Nykoping, Ostergotland, Sweden.  His wife was Christina Sabina von Berchner, his step-mother's sister's daughter.  They had seven children.  Our ancestor is Gerard Georg De Besche, born March 12, 1702 in Ottinge, Lofta, Kalmar, Sweden, his wife was Maria Christina Ehrenkrona.  Their daughter Ulrica Juliana De Besche, married Lieutenant General Carl Henrich Klingspor, the highest ranking officer in the Kalmar, Sweden Regiment.

KLINGSPOR

            There was a Knight in the 1200s in Livland (Ancient Estonia and Latvia) mentioned in medieval transactions in Holstein and Hamburg northern Germany.  The first Klingspor we have record of is Stafan Hermansson von Klingspor, who lived in 1460.  His coat of arms was a black wild boar on a field of red.  His wife was Brigitta von Donhoff.  His son was Mattias von  Klingspor from Klingsporhof later of Probstinghof, Uexkulls, Riga, Latvia, who was a councilor in Poland and was alive in March of 1536.  He died August 22, 1538.  His wife was Margareta von Bergen.

            Mattias' son was Stefan von Klingspor from Klingsporhof in Ambotten, Riga, Latvia.  He was alive in 1563.  His son, Johan von Klingspor was of Bandimirshof and came to Sweden in 1563 as a Page for Catharina Jagellonica, the Polish Princess, daughter of Adolph Gustav II.

            Stafan's son was Johan von Klingspor, born in 1578 in Livland or the current Estonia/Latvia.  He is buried at Vallentuna church outside Stockholm.  He was married to Margareta von Buddenbrock.  Their son and our ancestor was Major General Staffan Klingspor, born August 26, 1611 in Uppsala, Sweden.  This was either the beginning or continuation of a very high-born military family.

            Major General Staffan Klingspor became a naturalized Swede in 1633.  He conquered Lund which is the southern strip of what is now Sweden, but was once shared with Denmark.  He was in the Polish war in 1650.  He was distinguished by extraordinary bravery.  Ballsta, a large farm or manor came to him along with Wolslava, a village in Ingermanland county, where Petersburg is now in Russia.  He was buried with great pomp at Ridderholm Church, in Vallentuna, an island off Stockholm.  Here there are 16 coat of arms of our ancestors.  He was buried in an expensive copper coffin.  In 1855, his coffin was opened and he was still perfectly preserved.  He was wrapped in white silk and black velvet and wore a silver ring.

            Staffan's son, Christian Ludvig Klingspor is our ancestor.  Christian Ludvig was born Sept 1, 1657  in Uppsala, Sweden, and died January 2, 1699 in Jonkoping, Ostergotland, Sweden.  He is buried in Bankeryds Church in Jonkoping.  His wife was Henrica de Moucheron whose father was a court chancellor.  The de Moucheron family originated at Castle Boulay in Normandy, France.

            Their son and our ancestor, is Staffan Klingspor, born May 1, 1690.  He died July 25, 1766 in Lidhem, Locknevi, Sweden where his coat of arms hangs.  He was wounded in the Battle of Halsingborg.  He was married to Ursula Christina von Stegling.

            Their son was Lieutenant General Carl Henrich Klingspor.  He was born January 9, 1715 in Askeryd, Askeryd, Sweden.  He died in Vimmerby, Kalmar, Sweden in 1774.  Carl Henrich was married to Ulrica Juliana De Besche. He Was the highest ranking officer in the Kalmar Regiment.

            We are descended through their son, Lieutenant Fredrick Wilhelm Klingspor who was born August 3, 1769 in Winketomta, a large manor near Vimmerby, in Kalmar County, on the south east coast of Sweden.  He married about 1797 to Stina Mansdotter.  We are descended through their son, Peter Aberg Fredrickson who was born August 16, 1798 in Grinderum, Frodinge, Kalmar, Sweden. Peter Fredrickson died April 22 1834 at Winketomte.  He married Brita Carolina Svensdotter, December 10, 1825.  She was born March 13, 1804 in Vimmerby, Kalmar, Sweden.

            Peter and Brita's daughter, is our Fredrica Christina Peterson, born March 3, 1828 in Vimmerby, Kalmar, Sweden. Fredrica Christina, married Charles Gorman and immigrated to the United States where she died on December 2, 1917 in Laddonia, Audrain, Missouri.


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Edward Earl Gates (Ed Yates) and Lizzie Sigler

Edward Earl Gates II (Ed Yates)

Edward Earl Gates, the younger, was the first child of Augusta Gorman and Edward Earl Gates.  He was born on a farm in the timberland of Marceline, Missouri where he lived for fifteen or sixteen years, before moving to Iola, Allen County, Kansas, where his Dad built a shoe shop.

           

           In his own words:  When I was a little boy, I contracted pneumonia and three doctors gave up on me, but my sainted mother would not give up.  She pulled me through.  She gave me a Bible and I read it.  It said things would happen in the world and as I see things happen, they come back to me.  There’s still a lot I don’t understand about God and religion, but we have to get back to the old Bible, it’s bound to get worse.  Men have got to believe what the Lord has told us, it’s all right there.  We’re going to be in war before we’re through, and there will be tidal waves and earthquakes.  “I’ve been good sometimes,” (He says with a twinkle in his eye.  He was a kidder).

           

            I visited my grandfather, Charles Gorman’s farm in Laddonia, Missouri once when I was a boy.  You really work on a farm.  I think that’s what we’re here for, to work.  You can have what you want if you work a little.

  I leased a piece of land and farmed awhile, then worked for some German farmers harvesting wheat and alfalfa.  I was small built but strong.  I returned to the folks and we moved to LaHarpe, Allen County, Kansas where I worked on ranches.  I always loved horses and outdoor life.  My dad bought a farm near LaHarpe and it joined the land of the Siglers.  That’s how I met Sarah Elizabeth, "Lizzie" Sigler.  We courted a couple of years then on July 16, 1905, we married.

We moved to Humbolt, Allen County, Kansas where I rented a farm.  Our first child, Herschel, was born there.  He was a natural at building mechanical things and he later married a wonderful wife, Emma Meining.  Lizzie and I had twins, Glen and Gladys in LaHarpe.

My dad got involved in real estate and invested in Colorado land.  He gave me a farm near Center, Alamosa County, Colorado, but it was an alkali place and I didn’t bother to farm it.  Instead, I went to freighting spuds with a team of superior mules.

Next, I went into timbering—ran a saw mill for seven years, thirty miles or so from Center.  We had Wayne, Dale, and William (Billy) there.  The saw mill burned to the ground during my absence and we moved to Center.  Dale died there in 1921.

I was a cowboy for others for awhile, got myself a cattle business started, and we moved to Saguache in about 1923—the old Forbes place, close to high range.  Then I started a cattle business over in Gunnison.  By now Elizabeth and I didn’t have a marriage and she wouldn’t move to Gunnison in 1925, so we called it off.  I gave her the cattle business and I moved south to Douglas, Arizona. Divorce was such a stigma in those days, that I changed my name to Yates.  Later, when Wayne came to be with me, he called himself Yates too. 
  

In Douglas, I was a cowboy for a large outfit.  Then I ran a service station and hamburger place awhile.  I planned to start a cattle ranch in Mexico, but the Mexicans had one of their revolutions and my partner and I left for safer territory.  I didn’t have enough money to start ranching alone, so went up to the Arizona strip to a tiny water-hole called Grapevine (Seven Springs).  This strip of land lies between Nevada and Utah.

On October 22, 1931, my daughter Gladys’ husband, Otto Meining, died of double pneumonia, and she and her daughter, Betty Louise, came to live with me at Seven Springs.  I spent many years at Tassi on the Arizona strip.  This is where Wayne and I built a house out of adobe and stone.  It was cool in the summer and warm in the winter.  The walls were thick.  Adobe is a good insulator.  We gravity fed water from the spring on the hill behind us and that gave us running water in the house.  We had a shower and a flushing toilet in the bathroom, but we never had electricity until about the time we left Tassi.

Lizzie died April 17, 1958, in Monte Vista, Rio Grande County, Colorado.  Betty Louise drove up to her grandmother's funeral, and did a great deal to mend the feelings between the children of my family who were split after Lizzie and I broke up.



Sarah Elizabeth (Lizzie) Gates


 What Ed doesn't say about himself and what this sketch of his long life doesn't express, unless one looks between the lines, has to do with his good heart.  His grandson, Ken, told me about the time he was bit by a cennepede.  It was his grandfather, Ed, who stayed up all night working with him to get the poison out of his system or he would have died.

A picture of his mother, Augusta Gorman Gates hung on his bedroom wall all his later life that his great granddaughter knew him and talked about her with tenderness to whomever would listen.

Ed was a generous man.  When his daughter, Gladys, and granddaughter, Betty, lost their husband and father to pneumonia, he gave them a home and upon Gladys' arrival in St. Thomas, gave her one of his prized horses, a palomino she named Polly.  Ed helped his great granddaughter through college and always took the time to talk to her and tell her the stories of his life when she came home from school.

He was a brave man, not afraid of lonliness, out on the desert where he ran cattle until he was nearly 80.  He could still play guitar in his 90's, sitting on the edge of his bed at their place in Mesa, Colorado.  He worked with the cattle into his 90's.  He and Gladys dug and built an underground fruit cellar in his 90's.

In August 2004, I Naomi, traveled through Missouri on my way to New York.  I decided to visit Marceline, Missouri, where Grandad was born.  On the way, I drove through such a storm of insects that I couldn't keep the windshield cleared off.  It was unnerving and creepy to say the least.  The area was rich in insect life.  Marceline was a small town, part of which was on a hill.  I stayed the night in the only motel with maybe six rooms for rent.  There was a convenience store where I bought supper, a sandwich.   The next morning I searched for a car wash to wash the insects off the windshield.  The car wash was near the rail road tracks and I watched as a train came through.  I waited a long time to see if another one came, but another didn't come while I was there.  Missouri is a rich farm country and I was glad I was able to see the country where Grandad grew up and where his father, Edward Earl Gates and mother, Augusta Gorman settled for awhile.

Not much is known of Lizzie Sigler's family, but on this trip east in the summer of 2004, I also made a stop at the Iola, Kansas library where I found some notices on microfilm.



William Sigler (Photo courtesy of Ken and Betty Gates)

Thirteen children were born to William Sigler and Margaret Dozier: Albert R., Luther, Lee Roy, John William, Henry Franklin, Emma, Mary Malscene, Margaret (Mattie), Sarah Elizabeth who married Edward Earl Gates, II (Ed Yates), Cynthia Ann, Salina Jane, Martha Alice, and Lora Belle.

This notice appeared in the Iola Register in the "South Lone Elm" notes by Mrs. Emma Stout, dated November 11, 1924.

Mrs. E. E. Gates and baby son (Elizabeth Sigler Gates and Herschel) from Colorado called by the sickness and death of our father, is visiting relatives around here now. 

L.V. Stout and Lute Sigler spent about all of last week helping take care of her father.

From a card of thanks:

We wish to thank the friends and neighbors for their kindness to us during the illness and death of our dear father, also the pastor and singers—the Sons and Daughters of William Sigler.

A further notice:

            Mrs. Lizzie Gates of Langerita, Colorado, and Mrs. Mary Kaiser of Corwin, Kansas, were called here by the illness and death of their father, William Sigler.

Grandpa Sigler passed away Friday night and was laid to rest in the Fairview cemetery near Mildred, Sunday afternoon.  For several years he has been failing in health and was almost blind.  His son, Lute, lived with him on the old home place and has cared for him faithfully during his declining years.

 

Everything was done for him that could be done to make him comfortable and lessen his pain, but another old soldier has heard the call of the Great Commander, and has joined his comrades, and loved ones will miss their father.  We extend our sincerest sympathy and trust they will find comfort in the promises given in the Book of Books.

Many around Bayard attended the funeral of William Sigler Sunday afternoon at Fairview.  Mr. Sigler came to this section in 1879, and was well known to all the older settlers.  Of his family who survive, his daughter, Mrs. A. P. Riggs, who lives near Bayard.

            The sympathy of all is extended to the sons and daughters.  The funeral of Mr. Sigler was attended by a great number of old friends, and many neighbors of his sons and daughters who paid their last respects to one who had lived here so many years.

Mr. Sigler's later years have been spent with his son, Luther Sigler west of Mildred.

 

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