Beloved Parents

 In loving memory

of beloved parents

Elijah Sims was born in 1839 in Clinton County, Indiana. He served during the Civil War, participating in the battles of Murphreesboro, Munfordville, and Shiloh. He remained in Indiana until 1878 when he came to Kansas and started a homestead where he remained until retiring in 1906 to Topeka.

Jeannetta Sims was born to Peter and Elmira DeMoss in 1846 in Clinton County, Indiana. Peter DeMoss also served in the Civil War. Jeannetta passed away in Turlock, California, where she and Elijah had taken up residence. She was survived by her husband and all 10 of their children.

Mount Hope Cemetery, Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas

The Sherman Plot

Bird D. "B.D." Sherman was born in Ohio in 1855. For a time, he apparently lived in Michigan and moved to Kansas sometime in the late 1800s settling in Hope, Kansas and then outside Solomon, Kansas. He and his family then moved to Topeka. He died of gall bladder complications in 1923 at the age of 68.

Henrietta Fisher Sherman was born in Monroe, Michigan in 1857. She married Bird at the age of 19 and they had 6 children. She died at the home of her daughter Elvira in North Topeka at the age of 86.

Lerue Sherman was born November 28, 1888 and died on his family's farm north of Solomon of rabies after being mauled by a dog while his family was visiting in Michigan. Lerue was originally interred in Prairie Mound Cemetery near Solomon but was moved to Mount Hope Cemetery in 1936. B.D. took the matter of the dog into his own hands.

Mount Hope Cemetery, Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas

Parsonage

 

Philip H. Parsonage was born in March 19, 1846 in Liverpool, England and immigrated to the United States in 1852. He came to Kansas in 1872 and settled in Eskridge on a farm. According to the U.S. Census in 1870, Parsonage was listed as living with William Dooley in Palmyra, Missouri. In 1880, he was listed as living in Wilmington Township in Wabaunsee County, Kansas. Philip married Mary shortly after arriving in Kansas with their first child, Flora, being born in 1875.

Philip retired from farming in 1914 and moved to Topeka to 1013 Morris Avenue, now Mulvane Street. His wife, Mary Southerland, was born in 1849 and spent most of her life in the Eskridge area. They had four children: Flora (1875 - 1929), May (1879 - 1972), and Jennie (1882 - 1971).

Their second child, son Elwood, was born February 25, 1877 in Wilmington Township in Wabaunsee County. He became a carpenter and died July 26, 1962 at a Topeka hospital.

Mount Hope Cemetery, Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas

Charles and Mahala Munns

 

Mahala Munns was born Mahala Silliman in New Genegus, Illinois on July 13, 1872. She then moved with her parents to Nevada, Iowa where she attended school, even attending the State College in Ames where she met Charles K. Munns. They married in Nevada on June 24, 1890 and had two children: Clyde Silliman Munns (1898 - 1936) and Lois (1899-2002).

Mahala had a sister, Alice, who married Alexander Jeffrey. The Jeffrey's lived in Topeka where Mahala would visit often. For several months leading to her death, Mahala suffered from a tumor and had two surgeries in Omaha. She died at her sister's home in Topeka on December 22, 1922, and, surprisingly, Mount Hope Cemetery in Topeka was chosen for Mahala's final resting place.

Charles K. Munns was born in April 1871 in Corning, Iowa. After the death of Mahala, Charles married Cora Alice Hill in 1924. She died in March of 1949. Charles died in Corning on February 17, 1962 and was brought to Topeka for burial.

Mount Hope Cemetery, Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas

Cemetery Saturday: Half-Day Cemetery

Half-Day Cemetery is located along NW 62nd Street in northern Shawnee County about a half mile southwest of the small town of Elmont. Elmont was founded in 1886 and was established on a gently rising hill, lending to its name. Elmont was hit by a flood in 1902 and a tornado in 1917. The town is situated on the east bank of Half Day Creek, which was named for a Potawatomi Chief. Today, Elmont consists of a couple dozen residences and Elmont Elementary School for the Seaman Unified School District.

OUR BABY

OLIVE OTTIE

KENNEDY

OCT. 25, 1897

FEB. 5, 1899

ISAAC ANTRIM

BORN

Sep. 22, 1825

DIED

Aug. 10, 1884

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GONE HOME

GERTRUDE L.

Dau. of

A. & H. VER PLANCK

DIED

June 1, 1880

aged

10 Yrs. 8 Mos.

5 Ds.

WILLIAM HOGBIN Sr

MISSOURI

SGT US ARMY

WORLD WAR I

AUG 15 1895     OCT 13 1968

IMOGENE

Wife of

WM. BARTRAM

DIED

Mar. 27, 1883

AGED

24 YRS. 2 MO & 4 D.

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R.C. NEWELL

Sep. 12, 1831

June 2, 1912

EMILY E. HIS WIFE

1843 - 1924

ROBT. K. LAWTON

1877    1934

Cemetery Saturday: Wilmington Cemetery

Wilmington, in southeastern Wabaunsee County, was founded in 1857 along the Santa Fe Trail. With a booming population and lots of businesses, Wilmington was projected to be a thriving community. In 1880, the railroad chose to go through the county four miles north of Wilmington causing many people and businesses to move there to the new town of Harveyville. Little remains of Wilmington today. The stone school and church, both built in 1870, and a couple of houses. The cemetery can be seen from the school on a small rise a quarter mile away.

Today, the schoolhouse site is a Boy Scouts of America camp site and is listed on the Kansas State Register of Historic Places. The school was consolidated in 1951.

In memory of

EMELY

Wife of

D.A. PRATT

BORN

July 23, 1856

DIED

Sep. 21, 1879

Aged

23y's 1mo.

JULIE E.P.

WIFE OF

E.H. MCMILLEN

MAY 6, 1842

FEB. 27, 1900

LILLIE

1877

E. HARRISON

1840 - 1929

THOMAS LEE BALDWIN

MAR. 17, 1878 - JULY 31, 1915

ANNIE L. BALDWIN

DEC. 10, 1881 - OCT. 15, 1960

ESTHER R. CHRIST

MAY 10, 1907

FEB. 8, 1909

OSCAR KING

JAN. 23, 1900

APRIL 16, 1922

SELINA MOWELL

1835 - 1918