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Date of death: 5
Oct 1921
Subject: Lucy
(Earls) Petree
Source: Savannah Reporter, 7 Oct 1921
The body of Mrs. Lucy Petree was
buried in the Antioch cemetery
yesterday afternoon. She was 84 years
old and had spent the summer with her son Frank and family at Oregon.
Mrs. Petree was taken to the
hospital in St. Joseph about a
week ago and died there Tuesday morning.
The body was taken to Oregon
where the funeral was preached yesterday.
Mrs. Petree grew up at Savannah
and was the daughter of Weed Earls and she [was] married to Benjamin Petree, another pioneer of the county, who died in 1901
and was buried at the Antioch
cemetery.
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Date of death: 16 Apr
1897
Subject: Benjamin Petree
Source: Savannah
Reporter, 23 Apr
1897
Died, At his
resident on Clay township, Friday morning, April 16, 1897, at 8:30, Judge Benjamin Petree,
aged 63 years, 2 months and 12 days.
Buried at Antioch at 2 p.m. on
Saturday, April 17.
Benjamin Petree was a man of sterling, upright principles, and in
an active and eventful life maintained a character for honor, probity and
sound judgement [sic] second to no man in the
county. Thrown early on his own
resources, he acquired the habit of self-reliance, industry and careful and
impartial discrimination in practical and public matters in the highest
degree. He was born in Franklin county, Indiana, and came to Andrew county
with his parents and family in 1843.
In 1849 he went with his father to California, and remained there in the gold mines
until 1857, when he returned to Savannah, purchased a farm east of the city, and in
1860 married Miss Lucy Earls, daughter of Jonathan Earls, the first Treasurer
o Andrew county. He served in the
Eighteenth Missouri regiment in the last war, taking part in General
Sherman's great march through Georgia and the Carolinas, returning home in
July, 1865, and labored diligently on his farm until 1876, when he traded for
the larger farm in Clay township, where he continued to live up to the time
of his departure for the great beyond.
In 1880 he was elected a County Judge, serving two years. Five sons, two daughters and his faithful
wife survive him. In the last few
years his health has been so poor he was able to do very little work, and
during the winter it became evident he had but a few short months to
live. An honorable and pure man, a
faithful husband, a dutiful and loving father, and an unswerving friend to
truth and right, his loss is deplored by all good people, and his life is an
example for those who would leave an honored name among the people where they
have lived a long and useful life.
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