Andrew Jackson Gabhart was born in Mercer County, Kentucky on 23 June 1818. He married Lucetta Brady in Mercer County, Kentucky on 24 September 1839. He was the first settler of Oak Hill, Clay Co., Kansas. Here is an obituary from "Clay County Democrat";
August 31, 1888
Our farmer friend, N. Z. McFadden, Oak Hill, reports the death of an old Kansan, Andrew Jackson Gabhart, somewhere in the Walla Walla valley, W. T., some days ago. No particulars given other than that he was sick no more than nine days, and was buried in the place where he died. "Father Gabhart," as he was called by his many friends, came to Kansas in its territorial days, was a "Free State" man, at Lawrence at the time that Quantrill, the bloodiest murderer of his day, made his fiendish raid on that city. Mr. Gabhart settled in Clay County, where Oak Hill now is, in 1866. His wife died last year, and he, being lonely, went last spring to his son in W. T., where he died. Robust in health, energetic in business, open and frank in character, faithful to his friends, simple in manner, and undismayed by peril or disaster, he was a model type of the old settler that made Kansas great even in her infancy. He built the stone building now used as a jail in 1868. From the time it was instituted, he was an honored member of Clay Center Lodge, No. 134, A. F. & A. M.
August 31, 1888
Our farmer friend, N. Z. McFadden, Oak Hill, reports the death of an old Kansan, Andrew Jackson Gabhart, somewhere in the Walla Walla valley, W. T., some days ago. No particulars given other than that he was sick no more than nine days, and was buried in the place where he died. "Father Gabhart," as he was called by his many friends, came to Kansas in its territorial days, was a "Free State" man, at Lawrence at the time that Quantrill, the bloodiest murderer of his day, made his fiendish raid on that city. Mr. Gabhart settled in Clay County, where Oak Hill now is, in 1866. His wife died last year, and he, being lonely, went last spring to his son in W. T., where he died. Robust in health, energetic in business, open and frank in character, faithful to his friends, simple in manner, and undismayed by peril or disaster, he was a model type of the old settler that made Kansas great even in her infancy. He built the stone building now used as a jail in 1868. From the time it was instituted, he was an honored member of Clay Center Lodge, No. 134, A. F. & A. M.
Andrew Jackson Gabhart was born in Mercer County, Kentucky on 23 June 1818. He married Lucetta Brady in Mercer County, Kentucky on 24 September 1839. He was the first settler of Oak Hill, Clay Co., Kansas. Here is an obituary from "Clay County Democrat";
August 31, 1888
Our farmer friend, N. Z. McFadden, Oak Hill, reports the death of an old Kansan, Andrew Jackson Gabhart, somewhere in the Walla Walla valley, W. T., some days ago. No particulars given other than that he was sick no more than nine days, and was buried in the place where he died. "Father Gabhart," as he was called by his many friends, came to Kansas in its territorial days, was a "Free State" man, at Lawrence at the time that Quantrill, the bloodiest murderer of his day, made his fiendish raid on that city. Mr. Gabhart settled in Clay County, where Oak Hill now is, in 1866. His wife died last year, and he, being lonely, went last spring to his son in W. T., where he died. Robust in health, energetic in business, open and frank in character, faithful to his friends, simple in manner, and undismayed by peril or disaster, he was a model type of the old settler that made Kansas great even in her infancy. He built the stone building now used as a jail in 1868. From the time it was instituted, he was an honored member of Clay Center Lodge, No. 134, A. F. & A. M.
August 31, 1888
Our farmer friend, N. Z. McFadden, Oak Hill, reports the death of an old Kansan, Andrew Jackson Gabhart, somewhere in the Walla Walla valley, W. T., some days ago. No particulars given other than that he was sick no more than nine days, and was buried in the place where he died. "Father Gabhart," as he was called by his many friends, came to Kansas in its territorial days, was a "Free State" man, at Lawrence at the time that Quantrill, the bloodiest murderer of his day, made his fiendish raid on that city. Mr. Gabhart settled in Clay County, where Oak Hill now is, in 1866. His wife died last year, and he, being lonely, went last spring to his son in W. T., where he died. Robust in health, energetic in business, open and frank in character, faithful to his friends, simple in manner, and undismayed by peril or disaster, he was a model type of the old settler that made Kansas great even in her infancy. He built the stone building now used as a jail in 1868. From the time it was instituted, he was an honored member of Clay Center Lodge, No. 134, A. F. & A. M.
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