JESSE D. ADAMS
The Severyite, Mar. 7, 1907
Died: Mar. 6, 1907
Deaths.
ADAMS—Wednesday March 6, 1907, at 7:05 a. m. at his home in the north part of Severy, Mr. Jesse D. Adams, aged 73 years, 5 months and 27 days.
The deceased was born Sept. 19, 1833, near Utica, N. Y., where he grew to manhood, going to Illinois in 1856 and settling at Frankfort, where he was married to Miss Bathsheba Ellis, June 11, 1865; they removed to Kansas in 1879, settling on a farm in Elk county south of Severy where they made their home until 1904 when they removed to Severy, which has been their home since. There were two sons born to this union, one dying in infancy, and one L. P. Adams living south of Severy. Mr. Adams was an old soldier having enlisted in the 15th Illinois cavalry in 1861 and was discharged the following year on account of sickness.
Mr. Adams was one of the early settlers here and has always been a good neighbor and friend, a hard worker and since coming to Kansas has accumulated considerable valuable farm property by his industrious life and honest methods. He leaves an aged wife and son and many relatives and friends to mourn his departure.
Mr. Adams has been a member of the Congressional church since 1888; was a Mason and a member of the Grand Army.
Mr. Adams has been sick during the past fifteen months and since last November has been confined to his bed, yet during all this time he has never complained and always appeared happy and had a good word to say to all who called in to see him.
The funeral services will be held from the house today at 2 p. m. by Rev. Rhoades and Rev. Gardner after which the remains will be interred in Twin Groves cemetery.
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DEWITT CLINTON KRONE
Independence Daily Reporter, Wednesday, April 27, 1921, Pg. 1:
D. C. KRONE IS DEADA Pioneer of This County Answers Death’s SummonsHAD PARALYTIC STROKEMr. Krone Resided on Farm in Sycamore Township Fifty Years
A Useful Life
Death last night called Dewitt C. Krone, one of the best known men in Montgomery County, after he had suffered for a week from a stroke of paralysis. After being stricken on Wednesday of last week, he was conscious only a part of the time.
Funeral services for Mr. Krone will be held tomorrow afternoon at 2 o’clock from the First Methodist church with the pastor, Dr. H. A. Gordon, in charge. Burial will be in Mount Hope cemetery.
Was a Pioneer
December 4, 1868, D. C. Krone took his claim in Montgomery county. He came to Kansas the same year he left the army and stopped for three years near the Neosho river between LeRoy and Neosho Falls. He was from Macon county, Illinois, where his birth occurred April 17, 1844.
Mr. Krone acquired a country school education and grew to maturity on the farm. In 1862 he enlisted in Company E, Forty-first Illinois Infantry, under Col. I. C. Pugh, the regiment being attached to the Army of the Tennessee. The principle engagements participated in by Mr. Krone were the Red River expedition, Siege of Vicksburg, Bentonville, Cold Water and March to the Sea, and on to the Grand Review in Washington, D. C. He was discharged at Louisville, Kentucky, and was mustered out July 28, 1865. Returning home, his trip to Kansas was soon made and his connection with Kansas development took place.
Family Raised Here
In 1868 Mr. Krone married Margaret J. daughter of John S. Lobaugh of Neosho Falls. The Lobaughs came to Kansas as pioneers from the state of Pennsylvania. The union of Mr. Krone and his wife, Margaret J., produced the following children, viz: Naomi, wife of Jacob S. Corzine of Taylorville, Ill., Katherine M., Mrs. Mabel Burke of Whistler, Oklahoma, and Walter W. of Sycamore. The mother of these children passed away April 9, 1880. Mr. Krone married Mary I. White, a daughter of Capt. Charles White of Longton, Kas. Two daughters only, have resulted from this marriage, viz: Edith Lucile and Ruth. The family are all members of the Methodist church. Mr. Krone served nearly forty years as a member of the district board of the Krone school. In politics he was a staunch Republican and was three times chosen as a delegate to the state convention.
On One Farm 50 Years
When Mr. Krone came to this county he selected, as his future home, a tract of land on Sycamore creek in section 22, township 31, range 15, where for fifty years he carried on farming with its attendant auxiliaries successfully and effectively. A few months ago he sold his farm and moved to this city to retire. He was a fine Christian gentleman in the fullest sense of the word. He was a landmark in his community and the Sunday school picnic at Krone’s grove was for many years an event which drew people from every part of the county.
South Kansas Tribune, Wednesday, May 4, 1921, Pg. 1:
OBITUARY OF D. C. KRONE
The death of DeWitt Clinton Krone, a widely known pioneer in Sycamore Township, living on the farm which he took a claim among the Osage Indians in 1869, occurred in his new home in Independence, April 26, 1921.
He was an Illinoisan, reared in Macon county on a farm, and when the effort was made to destroy the Union he early volunteered under the call of Abraham Lincoln and served with credit until he was discharged.
Returning home, he wearied of its monotony and when Comrade Carmean suggested a trip to Kansas, “D.C.” was ready for the trip. During 1868 he with his brother-in-law Sam Walker pioneered to Sycamore valley, and each took a claim and by Jan. 1869 Mr. Krone pitched his tent on a claim in the fertile valley of Sycamore which he improved, entered and owned until his death.
Mr. Krone was enterprising, industrious, and public spirited, and with him and others a Sunday School was organized and in time a “circuit rider” came and held preaching services. When the county organized school district No. 43 it was named “Krone” because of “D.C.’s” activities, and for nearly forty years he was a member of the school board and his home was often the home of the teacher, as well as of the preacher.
In politics, he was outspoken, positive and had wide influence in public affairs.
During the winter of 1869 Mr. Krone and his brother-in-law found their way to their claims among the Osage Indians, and it became their home until the infirmities of age compelled a rest, but Mr. Krone’s was of but a few weeks. The fertility of the valley and the timber were attractive and a settlement was made early, and it became one of the choice and prosperous ones of the county and Independence and Neodesha their towns.
In political affairs Mr. Krone was a Republican, a prohibitionist and a stalwart man often serving in the councils of the party conventions. And he stood for the best school obtainable, not only for No. 43, but in the big contest for the County High School, as he had been for the court house, jail and railroads, and his home for school activities.
Last July when Mr. and Mrs. Krone decided to move to our city, the neighbors, fully a hundred of them from near and far, gathered and old and young made it a memorable occasion, as through his activities they were widely known, and their moving was considered a serious loss.
In pioneer days he cleared a fine grove in his pasture and for a generation it has been the annual Sunday School picnic pleasure grounds in Sycamore valley every August and that township has maintained generally larger Sunday Schools than any other in the county.
Mr. Krone is survived by his wife Mrs. Isabel White Krone, and daughter Mrs. Naomi Corzine of Taylorville, Ill., Miss Katherine Krone, Mrs. J. H. Burke, a son Walter Krone, Mrs. Lucille Evans and Mrs. Ruth Newmaster; also a sister Mrs. J. D. Stevens of Taylorville, Ill., Mrs. E. R. Taylor and brother E. K. Krone of this city, and Charles L. Krone of Chandler, Okla.
The funeral was held at the First Methodist church in this city of which Mr. Krone and wife had united and was in charge of the pastor Rev. H. A. Gordon, who began his ministry at Krone School house on his first circuit twenty years ago, and his home when in the valley was at the Krone home, and the minister spoke with much feeling of his departed friend, who had done so much for him when he was a young minister on his first circuit, and was much an assistance then and since in his ministry. Rev. A. A. Horner of Longton was also in the pulpit, and spoke feelingly of his friend Krone who had been so loyal to him in yester-years in his ministry on the Sycamore circuit, and his old neighbor friend, R. M. Pasley offered prayer. The attendance was very large and the largest attendance from Sycamore and Independence farmers of any ever in the church, and there was also a large attendance of the Grand Army, the W. R. C., and their associate members and the church was filled, and the service was peculiar in that Mr. Krone had been so intimately related to public affairs of the church, schools, and other public affairs.
From History of Montgomery County, Kansas, By Its Own People, Published by L. Wallace Duncan, Iola, Kansas, 1903, Pg. 286-288: