The Emporia Gazette, 29 Sep 1919, Mon, Pages 1 & 2
MRS. PLUMB IS DEAD
Mrs. P. B. Plumb died last night at her home on the corner of Sixth Avenue and Union Street. For something over a month, she had been ill, having suffered two mild strokes of apoplexy, but for the past ten days she had been improving, and Saturday night was stronger than usual. The end came without suffering, but Sunday, her children knew that it was fast approaching.
Mrs. Plumb had lived in Emporia since she came here a bride in the spring of 1867. She had endeared herself to her circle of friends, and had been a faithful and useful member of the Congregational Church in Emporia for more than fifty years. With her in those first days in the sixties and seventies were four strong women whose characters more or less molded the Emporia of those formative years, Mrs. I. E. Perley, Mrs. Elizabeth Trask, Mrs. Elizabeth Storrs, and Mrs. A. P. Morse.
Those early days in Emporia were happy days for the Plumbs for then there six children were born: Mary A. Plumb, Amos B. Plumb, Thomas Ewing Plumb, Ruth E., now Mrs. Schuyler C. Brewster, of South Pasadena, Calif.; Caroline S., now Mrs. George D. Griffith, of Kansas City, and Preston B. Plumb, of South Pasadena, Calif. All the children survive except Thomas Ewing Plumb, who died in early childhood.
In the life of Preston B. Plumb, written by William E. Connelley, of the Kansas State Historical Society, we read this concerning Mrs. Plumb and her courtship and early married days: "In connection with his cattle business Colonel Plumb sometimes passed through Butler County on his way to the Indian country. By chance he became acquainted there with a widow from Ashtabula County, Ohio, who was anxious to dispose of her Kansas property and return to her former home. He aided in closing up her affairs. Through the friendship which resulted Colonel Plumb met her niece, Miss Carrie A. Southwick, living then with her mother near Ashtabula. Her father, Abijah Southwick, born at Salem, Mass., died in 1865. His ancestors were English Quakers who settled at Salem about the year of 1656, where they were persecuted because of their faith. They were banished, and a son and daughter ordered sold into slavery in Virginia or the Barbadoes to discharge fines imposed upon them. No shipmaster cruel enough to carry them away could be found, and they escaped this brutal decree. When the persecution subsided, the family returned to Salem. Abijah Southwick was a strong anti-slavery man, and his home near Ashtabula was one of the principal stations on the underground railroad in Ohio, as many as forty fugitive slaves at one time having been concealed, cared for, and safely forwarded. Colonel Plumb and Miss Southwick were married at the home of the bride's mother, Ashtabula County, Ohio, March 8, 1867. They went immediately to Emporia and began housekeeping in a 1-story, 3-room "box" house at he corner of Merchant Street and Second Avenue. One of the rooms was a lean-to kitchen. In this house they lived about three months, when they moved out to Plumb's claim, or preemption, their home for the next three years."
After returning from the farm, the Plumbs lived most of their years at the Corner of Sixth Avenue and Union Street, the site of their present home. The house that now stands there was developed from the original Plumb home in 1898. Mrs. Plumb had traveled extensively in the past two decades, but had always kept the center of her affections and the threads of her life tied in Emporia. She had been deeply interested in all the town's developments and has been a liberal giver to all good causes. She was a strong, earnest, public-spirited woman with a quick, exact mind. The fortitude and common sense, the courage and purpose developed by any pioneer woman who thrived and survived the early days of Kansas gave her a strength of character which marks the pioneers and which made her a woman of exceptional ability and wonderful strength. She and her kind are rarely developed by our modern times. The funeral will be held Thursday.
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Emporia Weekly Gazette, 9 October, 1919, Page 1
FUNERAL OF MRS. PLUMB
The funeral of Mrs. Carrie A. Plumb, who died Sunday night, was held at 3:00 Thursday at the Congregational Church. Rev. J. H. J. Rice conducted the services and pipe organ music was played by Mrs. J. F. Kenney. The music was taken from familiar hymns. The pallbearers were George D. Griffith, Schuyler C. Brewster, James P. Plumb, Albert Plumb, Ralph Edwards and F. K. Lewis.
The Woman's Relief Corps had charge of the services at the cemetery and both the W.R.C. and the G.A.R. Preston B. Plumb Post, attended the funeral. Interment was in Maplewood Cemetery.
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The Emporia Gazette, October 7, 1919, Tue
PLUMB WILL FILED
The will of Mrs. Preston B. Plumb was filed and admitted to probate yesterday. The will bequeaths the library, furniture, jewelry, and household effects to the three daughters, Miss Mary A. Plumb, Mrs. Ruth Plumb Brewster and Mrs. Caroline P. Griffith equally and also devises the Plumb residence on Sixth Avenue to the three daughters in equal shares.
All the balance of the estate is left in equal shares to the five surviving children, including Amos H. Plumb and Preston B. Plumb.
George Plumb and Amos H. Plumb are named as executors of the will and have been appointed by the probate court. The will provides that no bond be required of the executors and no inventory filed.
The will was dated February 16, 1912, and was witnessed by E. C. Ryan, W. H. Brooks, J. Mc. M. Taylor and M. C. Little. A codicil dated February 6, 1918 was witnessed by H. Dunlap, H. E. Peach, L. Jay Buck and Miss Frances Hornaday.
The estate consists of personal property estimated to be worth from $50,000 to $75,000 and real estate in the District of Columbia, Texas and Colorado.
The value of the estate is estimated between $200,000 and $250,000.
MRS. PLUMB IS DEAD
Mrs. P. B. Plumb died last night at her home on the corner of Sixth Avenue and Union Street. For something over a month, she had been ill, having suffered two mild strokes of apoplexy, but for the past ten days she had been improving, and Saturday night was stronger than usual. The end came without suffering, but Sunday, her children knew that it was fast approaching.
Mrs. Plumb had lived in Emporia since she came here a bride in the spring of 1867. She had endeared herself to her circle of friends, and had been a faithful and useful member of the Congregational Church in Emporia for more than fifty years. With her in those first days in the sixties and seventies were four strong women whose characters more or less molded the Emporia of those formative years, Mrs. I. E. Perley, Mrs. Elizabeth Trask, Mrs. Elizabeth Storrs, and Mrs. A. P. Morse.
Those early days in Emporia were happy days for the Plumbs for then there six children were born: Mary A. Plumb, Amos B. Plumb, Thomas Ewing Plumb, Ruth E., now Mrs. Schuyler C. Brewster, of South Pasadena, Calif.; Caroline S., now Mrs. George D. Griffith, of Kansas City, and Preston B. Plumb, of South Pasadena, Calif. All the children survive except Thomas Ewing Plumb, who died in early childhood.
In the life of Preston B. Plumb, written by William E. Connelley, of the Kansas State Historical Society, we read this concerning Mrs. Plumb and her courtship and early married days: "In connection with his cattle business Colonel Plumb sometimes passed through Butler County on his way to the Indian country. By chance he became acquainted there with a widow from Ashtabula County, Ohio, who was anxious to dispose of her Kansas property and return to her former home. He aided in closing up her affairs. Through the friendship which resulted Colonel Plumb met her niece, Miss Carrie A. Southwick, living then with her mother near Ashtabula. Her father, Abijah Southwick, born at Salem, Mass., died in 1865. His ancestors were English Quakers who settled at Salem about the year of 1656, where they were persecuted because of their faith. They were banished, and a son and daughter ordered sold into slavery in Virginia or the Barbadoes to discharge fines imposed upon them. No shipmaster cruel enough to carry them away could be found, and they escaped this brutal decree. When the persecution subsided, the family returned to Salem. Abijah Southwick was a strong anti-slavery man, and his home near Ashtabula was one of the principal stations on the underground railroad in Ohio, as many as forty fugitive slaves at one time having been concealed, cared for, and safely forwarded. Colonel Plumb and Miss Southwick were married at the home of the bride's mother, Ashtabula County, Ohio, March 8, 1867. They went immediately to Emporia and began housekeeping in a 1-story, 3-room "box" house at he corner of Merchant Street and Second Avenue. One of the rooms was a lean-to kitchen. In this house they lived about three months, when they moved out to Plumb's claim, or preemption, their home for the next three years."
After returning from the farm, the Plumbs lived most of their years at the Corner of Sixth Avenue and Union Street, the site of their present home. The house that now stands there was developed from the original Plumb home in 1898. Mrs. Plumb had traveled extensively in the past two decades, but had always kept the center of her affections and the threads of her life tied in Emporia. She had been deeply interested in all the town's developments and has been a liberal giver to all good causes. She was a strong, earnest, public-spirited woman with a quick, exact mind. The fortitude and common sense, the courage and purpose developed by any pioneer woman who thrived and survived the early days of Kansas gave her a strength of character which marks the pioneers and which made her a woman of exceptional ability and wonderful strength. She and her kind are rarely developed by our modern times. The funeral will be held Thursday.
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Emporia Weekly Gazette, 9 October, 1919, Page 1
FUNERAL OF MRS. PLUMB
The funeral of Mrs. Carrie A. Plumb, who died Sunday night, was held at 3:00 Thursday at the Congregational Church. Rev. J. H. J. Rice conducted the services and pipe organ music was played by Mrs. J. F. Kenney. The music was taken from familiar hymns. The pallbearers were George D. Griffith, Schuyler C. Brewster, James P. Plumb, Albert Plumb, Ralph Edwards and F. K. Lewis.
The Woman's Relief Corps had charge of the services at the cemetery and both the W.R.C. and the G.A.R. Preston B. Plumb Post, attended the funeral. Interment was in Maplewood Cemetery.
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The Emporia Gazette, October 7, 1919, Tue
PLUMB WILL FILED
The will of Mrs. Preston B. Plumb was filed and admitted to probate yesterday. The will bequeaths the library, furniture, jewelry, and household effects to the three daughters, Miss Mary A. Plumb, Mrs. Ruth Plumb Brewster and Mrs. Caroline P. Griffith equally and also devises the Plumb residence on Sixth Avenue to the three daughters in equal shares.
All the balance of the estate is left in equal shares to the five surviving children, including Amos H. Plumb and Preston B. Plumb.
George Plumb and Amos H. Plumb are named as executors of the will and have been appointed by the probate court. The will provides that no bond be required of the executors and no inventory filed.
The will was dated February 16, 1912, and was witnessed by E. C. Ryan, W. H. Brooks, J. Mc. M. Taylor and M. C. Little. A codicil dated February 6, 1918 was witnessed by H. Dunlap, H. E. Peach, L. Jay Buck and Miss Frances Hornaday.
The estate consists of personal property estimated to be worth from $50,000 to $75,000 and real estate in the District of Columbia, Texas and Colorado.
The value of the estate is estimated between $200,000 and $250,000.
The Emporia Gazette, 29 Sep 1919, Mon, Pages 1 & 2
MRS. PLUMB IS DEAD
Mrs. P. B. Plumb died last night at her home on the corner of Sixth Avenue and Union Street. For something over a month, she had been ill, having suffered two mild strokes of apoplexy, but for the past ten days she had been improving, and Saturday night was stronger than usual. The end came without suffering, but Sunday, her children knew that it was fast approaching.
Mrs. Plumb had lived in Emporia since she came here a bride in the spring of 1867. She had endeared herself to her circle of friends, and had been a faithful and useful member of the Congregational Church in Emporia for more than fifty years. With her in those first days in the sixties and seventies were four strong women whose characters more or less molded the Emporia of those formative years, Mrs. I. E. Perley, Mrs. Elizabeth Trask, Mrs. Elizabeth Storrs, and Mrs. A. P. Morse.
Those early days in Emporia were happy days for the Plumbs for then there six children were born: Mary A. Plumb, Amos B. Plumb, Thomas Ewing Plumb, Ruth E., now Mrs. Schuyler C. Brewster, of South Pasadena, Calif.; Caroline S., now Mrs. George D. Griffith, of Kansas City, and Preston B. Plumb, of South Pasadena, Calif. All the children survive except Thomas Ewing Plumb, who died in early childhood.
In the life of Preston B. Plumb, written by William E. Connelley, of the Kansas State Historical Society, we read this concerning Mrs. Plumb and her courtship and early married days: "In connection with his cattle business Colonel Plumb sometimes passed through Butler County on his way to the Indian country. By chance he became acquainted there with a widow from Ashtabula County, Ohio, who was anxious to dispose of her Kansas property and return to her former home. He aided in closing up her affairs. Through the friendship which resulted Colonel Plumb met her niece, Miss Carrie A. Southwick, living then with her mother near Ashtabula. Her father, Abijah Southwick, born at Salem, Mass., died in 1865. His ancestors were English Quakers who settled at Salem about the year of 1656, where they were persecuted because of their faith. They were banished, and a son and daughter ordered sold into slavery in Virginia or the Barbadoes to discharge fines imposed upon them. No shipmaster cruel enough to carry them away could be found, and they escaped this brutal decree. When the persecution subsided, the family returned to Salem. Abijah Southwick was a strong anti-slavery man, and his home near Ashtabula was one of the principal stations on the underground railroad in Ohio, as many as forty fugitive slaves at one time having been concealed, cared for, and safely forwarded. Colonel Plumb and Miss Southwick were married at the home of the bride's mother, Ashtabula County, Ohio, March 8, 1867. They went immediately to Emporia and began housekeeping in a 1-story, 3-room "box" house at he corner of Merchant Street and Second Avenue. One of the rooms was a lean-to kitchen. In this house they lived about three months, when they moved out to Plumb's claim, or preemption, their home for the next three years."
After returning from the farm, the Plumbs lived most of their years at the Corner of Sixth Avenue and Union Street, the site of their present home. The house that now stands there was developed from the original Plumb home in 1898. Mrs. Plumb had traveled extensively in the past two decades, but had always kept the center of her affections and the threads of her life tied in Emporia. She had been deeply interested in all the town's developments and has been a liberal giver to all good causes. She was a strong, earnest, public-spirited woman with a quick, exact mind. The fortitude and common sense, the courage and purpose developed by any pioneer woman who thrived and survived the early days of Kansas gave her a strength of character which marks the pioneers and which made her a woman of exceptional ability and wonderful strength. She and her kind are rarely developed by our modern times. The funeral will be held Thursday.
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Emporia Weekly Gazette, 9 October, 1919, Page 1
FUNERAL OF MRS. PLUMB
The funeral of Mrs. Carrie A. Plumb, who died Sunday night, was held at 3:00 Thursday at the Congregational Church. Rev. J. H. J. Rice conducted the services and pipe organ music was played by Mrs. J. F. Kenney. The music was taken from familiar hymns. The pallbearers were George D. Griffith, Schuyler C. Brewster, James P. Plumb, Albert Plumb, Ralph Edwards and F. K. Lewis.
The Woman's Relief Corps had charge of the services at the cemetery and both the W.R.C. and the G.A.R. Preston B. Plumb Post, attended the funeral. Interment was in Maplewood Cemetery.
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The Emporia Gazette, October 7, 1919, Tue
PLUMB WILL FILED
The will of Mrs. Preston B. Plumb was filed and admitted to probate yesterday. The will bequeaths the library, furniture, jewelry, and household effects to the three daughters, Miss Mary A. Plumb, Mrs. Ruth Plumb Brewster and Mrs. Caroline P. Griffith equally and also devises the Plumb residence on Sixth Avenue to the three daughters in equal shares.
All the balance of the estate is left in equal shares to the five surviving children, including Amos H. Plumb and Preston B. Plumb.
George Plumb and Amos H. Plumb are named as executors of the will and have been appointed by the probate court. The will provides that no bond be required of the executors and no inventory filed.
The will was dated February 16, 1912, and was witnessed by E. C. Ryan, W. H. Brooks, J. Mc. M. Taylor and M. C. Little. A codicil dated February 6, 1918 was witnessed by H. Dunlap, H. E. Peach, L. Jay Buck and Miss Frances Hornaday.
The estate consists of personal property estimated to be worth from $50,000 to $75,000 and real estate in the District of Columbia, Texas and Colorado.
The value of the estate is estimated between $200,000 and $250,000.
MRS. PLUMB IS DEAD
Mrs. P. B. Plumb died last night at her home on the corner of Sixth Avenue and Union Street. For something over a month, she had been ill, having suffered two mild strokes of apoplexy, but for the past ten days she had been improving, and Saturday night was stronger than usual. The end came without suffering, but Sunday, her children knew that it was fast approaching.
Mrs. Plumb had lived in Emporia since she came here a bride in the spring of 1867. She had endeared herself to her circle of friends, and had been a faithful and useful member of the Congregational Church in Emporia for more than fifty years. With her in those first days in the sixties and seventies were four strong women whose characters more or less molded the Emporia of those formative years, Mrs. I. E. Perley, Mrs. Elizabeth Trask, Mrs. Elizabeth Storrs, and Mrs. A. P. Morse.
Those early days in Emporia were happy days for the Plumbs for then there six children were born: Mary A. Plumb, Amos B. Plumb, Thomas Ewing Plumb, Ruth E., now Mrs. Schuyler C. Brewster, of South Pasadena, Calif.; Caroline S., now Mrs. George D. Griffith, of Kansas City, and Preston B. Plumb, of South Pasadena, Calif. All the children survive except Thomas Ewing Plumb, who died in early childhood.
In the life of Preston B. Plumb, written by William E. Connelley, of the Kansas State Historical Society, we read this concerning Mrs. Plumb and her courtship and early married days: "In connection with his cattle business Colonel Plumb sometimes passed through Butler County on his way to the Indian country. By chance he became acquainted there with a widow from Ashtabula County, Ohio, who was anxious to dispose of her Kansas property and return to her former home. He aided in closing up her affairs. Through the friendship which resulted Colonel Plumb met her niece, Miss Carrie A. Southwick, living then with her mother near Ashtabula. Her father, Abijah Southwick, born at Salem, Mass., died in 1865. His ancestors were English Quakers who settled at Salem about the year of 1656, where they were persecuted because of their faith. They were banished, and a son and daughter ordered sold into slavery in Virginia or the Barbadoes to discharge fines imposed upon them. No shipmaster cruel enough to carry them away could be found, and they escaped this brutal decree. When the persecution subsided, the family returned to Salem. Abijah Southwick was a strong anti-slavery man, and his home near Ashtabula was one of the principal stations on the underground railroad in Ohio, as many as forty fugitive slaves at one time having been concealed, cared for, and safely forwarded. Colonel Plumb and Miss Southwick were married at the home of the bride's mother, Ashtabula County, Ohio, March 8, 1867. They went immediately to Emporia and began housekeeping in a 1-story, 3-room "box" house at he corner of Merchant Street and Second Avenue. One of the rooms was a lean-to kitchen. In this house they lived about three months, when they moved out to Plumb's claim, or preemption, their home for the next three years."
After returning from the farm, the Plumbs lived most of their years at the Corner of Sixth Avenue and Union Street, the site of their present home. The house that now stands there was developed from the original Plumb home in 1898. Mrs. Plumb had traveled extensively in the past two decades, but had always kept the center of her affections and the threads of her life tied in Emporia. She had been deeply interested in all the town's developments and has been a liberal giver to all good causes. She was a strong, earnest, public-spirited woman with a quick, exact mind. The fortitude and common sense, the courage and purpose developed by any pioneer woman who thrived and survived the early days of Kansas gave her a strength of character which marks the pioneers and which made her a woman of exceptional ability and wonderful strength. She and her kind are rarely developed by our modern times. The funeral will be held Thursday.
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Emporia Weekly Gazette, 9 October, 1919, Page 1
FUNERAL OF MRS. PLUMB
The funeral of Mrs. Carrie A. Plumb, who died Sunday night, was held at 3:00 Thursday at the Congregational Church. Rev. J. H. J. Rice conducted the services and pipe organ music was played by Mrs. J. F. Kenney. The music was taken from familiar hymns. The pallbearers were George D. Griffith, Schuyler C. Brewster, James P. Plumb, Albert Plumb, Ralph Edwards and F. K. Lewis.
The Woman's Relief Corps had charge of the services at the cemetery and both the W.R.C. and the G.A.R. Preston B. Plumb Post, attended the funeral. Interment was in Maplewood Cemetery.
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The Emporia Gazette, October 7, 1919, Tue
PLUMB WILL FILED
The will of Mrs. Preston B. Plumb was filed and admitted to probate yesterday. The will bequeaths the library, furniture, jewelry, and household effects to the three daughters, Miss Mary A. Plumb, Mrs. Ruth Plumb Brewster and Mrs. Caroline P. Griffith equally and also devises the Plumb residence on Sixth Avenue to the three daughters in equal shares.
All the balance of the estate is left in equal shares to the five surviving children, including Amos H. Plumb and Preston B. Plumb.
George Plumb and Amos H. Plumb are named as executors of the will and have been appointed by the probate court. The will provides that no bond be required of the executors and no inventory filed.
The will was dated February 16, 1912, and was witnessed by E. C. Ryan, W. H. Brooks, J. Mc. M. Taylor and M. C. Little. A codicil dated February 6, 1918 was witnessed by H. Dunlap, H. E. Peach, L. Jay Buck and Miss Frances Hornaday.
The estate consists of personal property estimated to be worth from $50,000 to $75,000 and real estate in the District of Columbia, Texas and Colorado.
The value of the estate is estimated between $200,000 and $250,000.
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