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The Kansan, Concordia, Thursday, July 20, 1944, page 4:
Alice Elizabeth Dotson Doak Dies
Alice Elizabeth Dotson Doak, pioneer resident of Cloud county, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Sam Steele, near Glasco, early Tuesday morning, following a three weeks illness. She was 88 years old.
Alice Elizabeth Dotson was born January 4, 1856, at Doddridge, West Virginia. She came with her parents to Kansas in 1870.

She was married to George Doak, December 3, 1876. They lived on a farm in Arion township until 1912, when they moved to Concordia. Mr. Doak's death occurred Sept. 6, 1923, and Mrs. Doak continued to make her home here, at 807 East Seventh street, until last September, when she moved to the home of her daughter, Mrs. Sam Steele, near Glasco.

Surviving are these children: Watt V. Doak and Mrs. Daisy J. Copper, of Stockton; and Mrs. Nellie E. Steele, of Glasco. Also surviving are 11 grandchildren, 16 great-grandchildren and these brothers and sisters: J.B. Dotson, of Oakland, Calif.; J.S. Dotson, of Glasco; Charles Dotson, of Vining, Kans.; Mrs. A.R. Moore, of Kansas City, Mo., and Mrs. Mary Kessinger, of Spokane, Wash.

Funeral services were held Wednesday afternoon, at 2 o'clock, at the Wilson funeral chapel, in charge of Rev. Kent Bates, pastor of the Christian church. Burial was made in the Macyville cemetery.

In the early seventies several families, relatives or neighbors in Virginia, came to Cloud county, Kansas, to find farm homes in Arion township.
They brought with them the traditional spirit of hospitality of the southern people, to blend with the rugged individuality of Kansas pioneers, who were dependent only on their neighbors in times of distress.
In such a background of hospitality, friendliness, neighborly helpfulness, was the character of the young woman formed and remained steadfast and unchangeable throughout the years, to a beautiful old age.
To old-timers who had intimate contact with the pioneers, possessed of such characteristics, governing their daily lives throughout the years, their passing out of this life a well-earned heavenly reward, brings a note of bereavement.