Philip Parker Everhart died at his home in Marysville township last Sunday, October 9, 1898 of heart failure, aged 74 years, 10 months and 28 days. His health had been poor for seven years and at times, life was despaired but he always rallied till this last attack. The burial in Hillsdale last Monday was one of the largest funerals in years. Rev. H.D. Hogan, of the M.E. Church South, conducted the services at the church and cemetery.

Mr. Everhart was born in Loudoun County, Virginia, November 11, 1823. He was married in Virginia, February 27, 1849 and his wife survives. They raised a family of four sons and five daughters. Silas C. Everhart lives in Ness County; Mrs. Dora Smiley in Kansas City; Mrs. Elizabeth Schwarzell, Excelsior Springs, Mo.; Mrs. Mary Louise Hornbuckle, on the home farm near Paola; George William in Middle Creek township; Mrs Ella Mann, Kansas City; Charles Wesley, Daniel Asbury and Mrs. Emma Reynolds, West Port, Missouri.

With his family, Mr. Everhart located near Lexington, Mo. in 1850 and from there he moved to what is now the suburbs of Kansas City. In 1887 he came to this County and purchased the old E.W.P. Mayo Farm of 275 Acres a few miles North of this city. Here he lived till the end. He was a man of heroic mold, Courage, Honesty and goodness of heart. The hospitality of the true Virginian was a trait of his character. He was an old School Baptist and did right always for right's sake. His life is a worthy example for worthy children. He saw much from Jackson's election in 1882 and the panic of '37 to Harrison's coon skin and hard cider campaign in 1849, the victory of Lincoln in '60, the civil war, peace and the Democratic party again in power, to Bryan's defest and the blue and the gray fighting side by side against a foreign foe.

To his good wife, the ministering angel of his life and watchful septinel at his death, we extend sympathy in this the hour of deep distress; and to all the kith and kin we offer condolence in behalf of a community that loves and honors the Everhart name.

Published in the Paola, Kansas Paper: The Miami Republican - October 12, 1898