Suggested edit: Source: Gossett, Emily Lee obituary, unknown newspaper yellowed newspaper clipping kept in a Bible, (?, Missouri), September 1961 pages 1 & 2.
Death Takes Pioneer at Age of 98.....
Mrs. Emily Gossett Robertson, 1935 Harvard, died last night at the Independence Sanitarium and Hospital at the age of 98.
She was taken to the hospital July 2, when she fell and broke her hip. She had not been able to leave the hospital, although for a time she appeared to make a remarkable recovery. She was the widow of John M. Robertson, who died in 1921.
She was born in Bath County, Kentucky, near Sharpsburg Sept. 17, 1863, the daughter of the Reverend and Mrs. Jacob Dunham Gossett. He was a "Hardshell" (Primitive) Baptist minister and preached for years at the churches at Big Shoal and Little Shoal in Clay County, Mo. He brought his family with five sons and three daughters to Jackson County in the spring of 1867.
The fall before, having sold his farm in Kentucky, he, with two sons, came here and bought the "Thompson Place," now known as "The Old Plantation" located on U. S.40 near the Blue Ridge Shopping Center. The house, set in the center of 320 acres along what is now Blue Ridge Blvd., was built in 1847 with slave labor by an early settler, William Thompson.
The walnut timbers were hewn from trees on the farm and the brick were fired on the place. A sixth son was born at the new home here, the late Claude S. Gossett, father of Mrs. Claudine Gossett Eager, who was a member of the Kansas City School Board and is the wife of Judge Henry I. Eager of the Missouri Supreme Court.
Mrs. Emily Robertson ---?--- (continued on page 2) ?-tized Emily Lee Gossett, went to the old Pitcher school with many other early settlers in the vicinity. It was then located on the Leads Road east of the Chevrolet-Fisher Body Plant in a grove of big maple trees, some of which are still standing.
Mrs. Robertson was very fond of flowers and had helped plant a vegetable garden and tended her flowers up to the time she fell and broke her hip. For many years she and her husband lived in Kansas City near Sixth and Troost Avenue. They also had a log cabin near 23rd and Blue Ridge Boulevard where they had a big garden. She enjoyed building and looked after the erection of three houses on Harvard Ave.
Her home was a favorite gathering place for relatives and friends and her fund of stories of Jackson County events seemed limitless. She was a steady reader up until she fell and broke her hip. She was the last of her immediate family, never having had any children.
She leaves surviving four nieces: Mrs. Roy K. Dietrich, 1211 West 68 Ter., Kansas City, daughter of the late Alfred N. Gossett, Mrs. Henry I Eager of Jefferson City; Mrs. Lester Cunningham, 5125 Swope Pkwy., Kansas City, daughter of the late Martin R. Gossett; and Mrs. Ernest Latham of Amarillo, Texas. She also left five nephews; Adam Hill, 9801 East 18th; Dr. William H. Hill, Excelsior Springs; Burnham Gossett, 9050 East 65th, Raytown, Edwin D. Gossett, 7220 Highland, Kansas City and Edwin Gossett, Pasadena, Calif.
Mrs. Robertson is also survived by a large number of great nephews and nieces, great-great nephews and nieces and some great-great-great nieces and nephews.
Funeral services will be held Monday at 2 p.m. at the Ott and Mitchell Chapel. Burial will be in Elmwood Cemetery.
Contributor: Dolores J. Rush (47849893)
Death Takes Pioneer at Age of 98.....
Mrs. Emily Gossett Robertson, 1935 Harvard, died last night at the Independence Sanitarium and Hospital at the age of 98.
She was taken to the hospital July 2, when she fell and broke her hip. She had not been able to leave the hospital, although for a time she appeared to make a remarkable recovery. She was the widow of John M. Robertson, who died in 1921.
She was born in Bath County, Kentucky, near Sharpsburg Sept. 17, 1863, the daughter of the Reverend and Mrs. Jacob Dunham Gossett. He was a "Hardshell" (Primitive) Baptist minister and preached for years at the churches at Big Shoal and Little Shoal in Clay County, Mo. He brought his family with five sons and three daughters to Jackson County in the spring of 1867.
The fall before, having sold his farm in Kentucky, he, with two sons, came here and bought the "Thompson Place," now known as "The Old Plantation" located on U. S.40 near the Blue Ridge Shopping Center. The house, set in the center of 320 acres along what is now Blue Ridge Blvd., was built in 1847 with slave labor by an early settler, William Thompson.
The walnut timbers were hewn from trees on the farm and the brick were fired on the place. A sixth son was born at the new home here, the late Claude S. Gossett, father of Mrs. Claudine Gossett Eager, who was a member of the Kansas City School Board and is the wife of Judge Henry I. Eager of the Missouri Supreme Court.
Mrs. Emily Robertson ---?--- (continued on page 2) ?-tized Emily Lee Gossett, went to the old Pitcher school with many other early settlers in the vicinity. It was then located on the Leads Road east of the Chevrolet-Fisher Body Plant in a grove of big maple trees, some of which are still standing.
Mrs. Robertson was very fond of flowers and had helped plant a vegetable garden and tended her flowers up to the time she fell and broke her hip. For many years she and her husband lived in Kansas City near Sixth and Troost Avenue. They also had a log cabin near 23rd and Blue Ridge Boulevard where they had a big garden. She enjoyed building and looked after the erection of three houses on Harvard Ave.
Her home was a favorite gathering place for relatives and friends and her fund of stories of Jackson County events seemed limitless. She was a steady reader up until she fell and broke her hip. She was the last of her immediate family, never having had any children.
She leaves surviving four nieces: Mrs. Roy K. Dietrich, 1211 West 68 Ter., Kansas City, daughter of the late Alfred N. Gossett, Mrs. Henry I Eager of Jefferson City; Mrs. Lester Cunningham, 5125 Swope Pkwy., Kansas City, daughter of the late Martin R. Gossett; and Mrs. Ernest Latham of Amarillo, Texas. She also left five nephews; Adam Hill, 9801 East 18th; Dr. William H. Hill, Excelsior Springs; Burnham Gossett, 9050 East 65th, Raytown, Edwin D. Gossett, 7220 Highland, Kansas City and Edwin Gossett, Pasadena, Calif.
Mrs. Robertson is also survived by a large number of great nephews and nieces, great-great nephews and nieces and some great-great-great nieces and nephews.
Funeral services will be held Monday at 2 p.m. at the Ott and Mitchell Chapel. Burial will be in Elmwood Cemetery.
Contributor: Dolores J. Rush (47849893)
Suggested edit: Source: Gossett, Emily Lee obituary, unknown newspaper yellowed newspaper clipping kept in a Bible, (?, Missouri), September 1961 pages 1 & 2.
Death Takes Pioneer at Age of 98.....
Mrs. Emily Gossett Robertson, 1935 Harvard, died last night at the Independence Sanitarium and Hospital at the age of 98.
She was taken to the hospital July 2, when she fell and broke her hip. She had not been able to leave the hospital, although for a time she appeared to make a remarkable recovery. She was the widow of John M. Robertson, who died in 1921.
She was born in Bath County, Kentucky, near Sharpsburg Sept. 17, 1863, the daughter of the Reverend and Mrs. Jacob Dunham Gossett. He was a "Hardshell" (Primitive) Baptist minister and preached for years at the churches at Big Shoal and Little Shoal in Clay County, Mo. He brought his family with five sons and three daughters to Jackson County in the spring of 1867.
The fall before, having sold his farm in Kentucky, he, with two sons, came here and bought the "Thompson Place," now known as "The Old Plantation" located on U. S.40 near the Blue Ridge Shopping Center. The house, set in the center of 320 acres along what is now Blue Ridge Blvd., was built in 1847 with slave labor by an early settler, William Thompson.
The walnut timbers were hewn from trees on the farm and the brick were fired on the place. A sixth son was born at the new home here, the late Claude S. Gossett, father of Mrs. Claudine Gossett Eager, who was a member of the Kansas City School Board and is the wife of Judge Henry I. Eager of the Missouri Supreme Court.
Mrs. Emily Robertson ---?--- (continued on page 2) ?-tized Emily Lee Gossett, went to the old Pitcher school with many other early settlers in the vicinity. It was then located on the Leads Road east of the Chevrolet-Fisher Body Plant in a grove of big maple trees, some of which are still standing.
Mrs. Robertson was very fond of flowers and had helped plant a vegetable garden and tended her flowers up to the time she fell and broke her hip. For many years she and her husband lived in Kansas City near Sixth and Troost Avenue. They also had a log cabin near 23rd and Blue Ridge Boulevard where they had a big garden. She enjoyed building and looked after the erection of three houses on Harvard Ave.
Her home was a favorite gathering place for relatives and friends and her fund of stories of Jackson County events seemed limitless. She was a steady reader up until she fell and broke her hip. She was the last of her immediate family, never having had any children.
She leaves surviving four nieces: Mrs. Roy K. Dietrich, 1211 West 68 Ter., Kansas City, daughter of the late Alfred N. Gossett, Mrs. Henry I Eager of Jefferson City; Mrs. Lester Cunningham, 5125 Swope Pkwy., Kansas City, daughter of the late Martin R. Gossett; and Mrs. Ernest Latham of Amarillo, Texas. She also left five nephews; Adam Hill, 9801 East 18th; Dr. William H. Hill, Excelsior Springs; Burnham Gossett, 9050 East 65th, Raytown, Edwin D. Gossett, 7220 Highland, Kansas City and Edwin Gossett, Pasadena, Calif.
Mrs. Robertson is also survived by a large number of great nephews and nieces, great-great nephews and nieces and some great-great-great nieces and nephews.
Funeral services will be held Monday at 2 p.m. at the Ott and Mitchell Chapel. Burial will be in Elmwood Cemetery.
Contributor: Dolores J. Rush (47849893)
Death Takes Pioneer at Age of 98.....
Mrs. Emily Gossett Robertson, 1935 Harvard, died last night at the Independence Sanitarium and Hospital at the age of 98.
She was taken to the hospital July 2, when she fell and broke her hip. She had not been able to leave the hospital, although for a time she appeared to make a remarkable recovery. She was the widow of John M. Robertson, who died in 1921.
She was born in Bath County, Kentucky, near Sharpsburg Sept. 17, 1863, the daughter of the Reverend and Mrs. Jacob Dunham Gossett. He was a "Hardshell" (Primitive) Baptist minister and preached for years at the churches at Big Shoal and Little Shoal in Clay County, Mo. He brought his family with five sons and three daughters to Jackson County in the spring of 1867.
The fall before, having sold his farm in Kentucky, he, with two sons, came here and bought the "Thompson Place," now known as "The Old Plantation" located on U. S.40 near the Blue Ridge Shopping Center. The house, set in the center of 320 acres along what is now Blue Ridge Blvd., was built in 1847 with slave labor by an early settler, William Thompson.
The walnut timbers were hewn from trees on the farm and the brick were fired on the place. A sixth son was born at the new home here, the late Claude S. Gossett, father of Mrs. Claudine Gossett Eager, who was a member of the Kansas City School Board and is the wife of Judge Henry I. Eager of the Missouri Supreme Court.
Mrs. Emily Robertson ---?--- (continued on page 2) ?-tized Emily Lee Gossett, went to the old Pitcher school with many other early settlers in the vicinity. It was then located on the Leads Road east of the Chevrolet-Fisher Body Plant in a grove of big maple trees, some of which are still standing.
Mrs. Robertson was very fond of flowers and had helped plant a vegetable garden and tended her flowers up to the time she fell and broke her hip. For many years she and her husband lived in Kansas City near Sixth and Troost Avenue. They also had a log cabin near 23rd and Blue Ridge Boulevard where they had a big garden. She enjoyed building and looked after the erection of three houses on Harvard Ave.
Her home was a favorite gathering place for relatives and friends and her fund of stories of Jackson County events seemed limitless. She was a steady reader up until she fell and broke her hip. She was the last of her immediate family, never having had any children.
She leaves surviving four nieces: Mrs. Roy K. Dietrich, 1211 West 68 Ter., Kansas City, daughter of the late Alfred N. Gossett, Mrs. Henry I Eager of Jefferson City; Mrs. Lester Cunningham, 5125 Swope Pkwy., Kansas City, daughter of the late Martin R. Gossett; and Mrs. Ernest Latham of Amarillo, Texas. She also left five nephews; Adam Hill, 9801 East 18th; Dr. William H. Hill, Excelsior Springs; Burnham Gossett, 9050 East 65th, Raytown, Edwin D. Gossett, 7220 Highland, Kansas City and Edwin Gossett, Pasadena, Calif.
Mrs. Robertson is also survived by a large number of great nephews and nieces, great-great nephews and nieces and some great-great-great nieces and nephews.
Funeral services will be held Monday at 2 p.m. at the Ott and Mitchell Chapel. Burial will be in Elmwood Cemetery.
Contributor: Dolores J. Rush (47849893)
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