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Date of death: 20
May 1920
Subject: Charles
Bennett
Source: unknown, written by his brother Andrew
Charles Bennett
was born in Beauharnois County, Province of Canada, October 17, 1838; died at his home in King City, May 20, 1920. He was the third member of a family of
thirteen children, all of which grew to manhood and womanhood before a death
occurred in the family. The father died in Canada in the year 1865. The family moved to Missouri in the spring of 1867. The mother lived to
the ripe old age of 93 1/2 years. Eight of the family are
still living. The older brother lives in Kansas City, Kansas; two sisters are in Wisconsin; one sister is in St. Joseph; one brother in Stanberry, and two sisters
and one brother in King City.
Charles Bennett was married on Empire Prairie, MO, January, 1881, to Mrs.
Susie McComb, (nee Susie Nugent), who brought to
the home a son by a former marriage, Thomas Leroy McComb,
now a resident of Kansas City, Mo. To this union were born four children,
three of whom survive him. Andrew, who lives on the old homestead; Anna
Troup, who lives at Maysville, Mo., and Mrs. Winnie Spiking of King City. Joseph preceded him to the great beyond, February
21, 1918. He is
also survived by a host of friends who will miss his genial spirit of
friendship. Mr. Bennett was baptized in infancy in the Roman Catholic church,
of which his parents were members. But coming to Missouri when the country
was new and churches far apart, he never identified himself with any church,
but lived a clean, christian life, and to the
knowledge of the writer who knew him as well as one man can know another, an
unchaste or covetous thought was never retained in his mind, and if he had
any debt to pay in the future it will be for the sin of omission and not that
of commission. He never doubted the future, believing that he was going into
the hands of a God of justice who knew him as he really was.
The funeral was held at the Star Chapel church on Empire Prairie, Sunday,
May 23, 1920, at 11 a.m., and the internment was in the cemetery
there.
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Date of death: 19
Jul 1905
Subject: Alice Mary
(Claxton) Crouch
Source: [Savannah Reporter], 28 Jul 1905
Alice Mary Claxton was born in London,
England, Feb. 8, 1852, came to America
with her parents in June, 1870, and lived on a farm four miles west of King
City, until Jan. 19, 1876, when
she was united in marriage to Arthur Crouch and settled on a farm on Empire
Prairie, where she resided until her death, which occurred July 19, 1905,
after suffering from cancer of the stomach.
Seven children were born to them, six of whom are living in Empire
vicinity. She leaves a husband, three
sisters and two brothers and a host of friends and relatives to mourn her
death. She was a faithful and
consistent Christian; joined the Methodist church when a girl, and holding
her membership at the time of her death at Star Chapel church. She was a member of the W. C. T. U. of
Empire for a number of years. The funeral was preached by her pastor, Rev. A.
D. Davis, Friday, July 21. The remains were interred in the Star [Chapel
cemetery.]
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