Charlotte's Corner - Vol. I, No. 6

Volume I, Number 6
100 Years Ago......
© 1999-2001, Charlotte Maness

Thursday, 4 May 1899
De Soto Weekly Facts
De Soto, Jefferson, Missouri

A little daughter of Geo. WARREN's about six years old was buried from the Christian church Sunday. Rev. NATIONS conducting the services. Her little body was followed to the GAMEL cemetery by a large number of friends.

Mrs. Rachel VAUGHN entered into rest Friday April 28, after a lingering illness, at the home of her grand-daughter, Mrs. William TERRY in Crystal City, aged 79 years. She was buried from the Southern Methodist church in this city in the GAMEL cemetery Saturday afternoon. Rev. JENKINSON conducted the funeral services in a beautiful and impressive manner. Grandma VAUGHN was a good woman, loved and respected by all who knew her. In her death the church has sustained a great loss. She was always among the first to meet the new preacher and bid him welcome, and in all charitable work she was not found wanting. She was a true Methodist. We have often heard her express her sentiments in these words: "I am a Methodist from the crown of my head, to the sole of my feet." While she so loved her own church and people, she was in love and charity with all good people. We extend our sympathies to her bereaved children and grandchildren. Their loss is her eternal gain.

Thursday, 11 May 1899
De Soto Weekly Facts
De Soto, Jefferson, Missouri

MRS. M. L. KERR DEAD - Mrs. M. L. KERR, wife of the pastor of the Presbyterian church at Lawson, died of consumption at the house of her father, H.S. POTTER, north of Palmyra. She had just reached there from Asheville, N.C., where she had been for her health.

REV. D.V. INLOW DEAD - Rev. D.V. INLOW, a well-known Baptist minister, died at his home near Philadelphia, this state. He was 79 years old, and is said to have married more couples than any othe preacher in northwest Missouri.

SERIOUSLY INJURED - Mrs. S.M. NAVE, a society leader and wife of a wholesale merchant of St. Joseph, was thrown from a phaeton by a frightened horse, and received a broken leg and severe internal injuries.

REV. SAMUEL COPE DEAD - Rev. Samuel W. COPE died at his home in Chillicothe of grippe and old age. He was 75 years old, and had been 50 years in the ministry.

Thursday, 18 May 1899
De Soto Weekly Facts
De Soto, Jefferson, Missouri

CIRCUIT COURT - C.W.B. SANDS, granted divorce from Owen SANDS and granted custody of their child.

Letetia McANALLY granted divorce from Walter D. McANALLY, with custody of child.

Eda M. RECOR granted divorce from Geo. T. RECOR and given custody of children.

Anton WURMSER, an old gentleman, who lived with his son, Jos. WURMSER, about two miles east of De Soto, died suddenly Sunday. He was 78 years of age and was born in Alsace, at that time a province of France. Coming to this country just before the Mexican war, he enlisted and served under General SCOTT. At the breaking out of the Civil war, he enlisted in the Union army where he served his adopted country a second time. No physician having been called in, the Coroner, Dr. TAYLOR, was called to view the body. There was no need of an inquest and the body was buried on the farm last Tuesday

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