(Note: his gravestone has incorrect birth year of 1869… actual is 1868. His father died sometime during the year 1868 as his probate record came from December 3, 1868. Thus Horace couldn't have been born in September 1869).
The Boise City News - Boise City, Oklahoma - July 20, 1933
Herbert L. Simpson was born in St. Lawrence County, New York, September 1st, 1868, and departed this life at the home of Rex Reeves in Clayton, N. M., July 14, 1933, age 64 years, 10 months, and 13 days. Death being due to a stroke of apoplexy, which he suffered on the evening of July 5, or a little more than a week ago as he rested from a day of toil on his ranch near Kenton, Oklahoma.
Mr. Simpson was the son of Samuel Simpson and Mary Hoyt Simpson, the father being a native of Vermont and serving with a regiment from that state in the Civil War. The first eighteen years of his life were spent on a farm in northern New York, where he attended rural schools of that community in company with his brothers and sisters, five in number, and all now deceased. As a very young man he felt the urge to be a pioneer and with his brother Charles, came west to Barber County, Kansas, where he worked for wages on a farm, getting twenty dollars per month, and board. In the course of seven or eight years he accumulated a modest capital and in 1893 joined the rush for land at the opening of the Cherokee Strip, in Northern Oklahoma and secured a homestead in the vicinity of Alva, in Woods County. Here he encountered the usual hardships of the farmer along the frontier of that day, but through it all kept building slowly but surely, remaining there until early 1905. On May 15, 1902 [1903] he was united in marriage to Miss Lizzie Naughton in Alva, she passing away in 1904 [April 11, 1905], leaving no children to the union. At the age of about 22 he united with the Baptist church.
In 1906 Mr. Simpson came to Union County, N. M., where for a time he worked on ranches for wages, and then with a modest capital, which he brought with him from Oklahoma, invested in land along Carrizozo Creek, some six miles southwest of Kenton. Here he immediately began the development of a model alfalfa farm and small stock ranch. In August, of 1906 he was united in marriage to Miss Eva Porter of Kenton, who assisted him to carry out his plans for a ranch home that anyone would be proud to own, and to which they added poultry lines with excellent results. To this union were born three children, Mrs. Lauren Sayre, Mrs. Sam Rutledge, and Carrol Simpson, all of Kenton, Oklahoma, and whom survive their parents, Mrs. Simpson having passed away on April 12, 1930. Two grandchildren also survive him.
Following the death of his wife, Mr. Simpson carried on the ranch with the assistance of his children, until May 14, 1932, when he was united in marriage to Mrs. Agnes Gillworth, who survives him. He was a true and loving husband and father, an excellent citizen and a neighbor with no equal, in all of the wide land. His home was always a pleasant place to go and in every sense of the word, he was one who loved his fellow man and filled with honor his place in the community, county and state. His passing is a real loss to this section of the country which he helped to build up and which he loved so well.
Funeral services were conducted Saturday afternoon, July 15, at the Methodist Church in Kenton, with Rev. R. B. Harris officiating and John C. Winchester, undertaker in charge, with interment in the Kenton Cemetery.
The great wealth of beautiful flowers and the large crowd of neighbors and friends which turned out to do him last honors, spoke plainly of the high esteem in which Mr. Simpson was held in this wide area where so many of his life's richest years had been spent.
The sympathy of the entire community goes out to his bereaved ones in their hour of sorrow.
The Boise City News - Boise City, Oklahoma - July 20, 1933
Herbert L. Simpson was born in St. Lawrence County, New York, September 1st, 1868, and departed this life at the home of Rex Reeves in Clayton, N. M., July 14, 1933, age 64 years, 10 months, and 13 days. Death being due to a stroke of apoplexy, which he suffered on the evening of July 5, or a little more than a week ago as he rested from a day of toil on his ranch near Kenton, Oklahoma.
Mr. Simpson was the son of Samuel Simpson and Mary Hoyt Simpson, the father being a native of Vermont and serving with a regiment from that state in the Civil War. The first eighteen years of his life were spent on a farm in northern New York, where he attended rural schools of that community in company with his brothers and sisters, five in number, and all now deceased. As a very young man he felt the urge to be a pioneer and with his brother Charles, came west to Barber County, Kansas, where he worked for wages on a farm, getting twenty dollars per month, and board. In the course of seven or eight years he accumulated a modest capital and in 1893 joined the rush for land at the opening of the Cherokee Strip, in Northern Oklahoma and secured a homestead in the vicinity of Alva, in Woods County. Here he encountered the usual hardships of the farmer along the frontier of that day, but through it all kept building slowly but surely, remaining there until early 1905. On May 15, 1902 [1903] he was united in marriage to Miss Lizzie Naughton in Alva, she passing away in 1904 [April 11, 1905], leaving no children to the union. At the age of about 22 he united with the Baptist church.
In 1906 Mr. Simpson came to Union County, N. M., where for a time he worked on ranches for wages, and then with a modest capital, which he brought with him from Oklahoma, invested in land along Carrizozo Creek, some six miles southwest of Kenton. Here he immediately began the development of a model alfalfa farm and small stock ranch. In August, of 1906 he was united in marriage to Miss Eva Porter of Kenton, who assisted him to carry out his plans for a ranch home that anyone would be proud to own, and to which they added poultry lines with excellent results. To this union were born three children, Mrs. Lauren Sayre, Mrs. Sam Rutledge, and Carrol Simpson, all of Kenton, Oklahoma, and whom survive their parents, Mrs. Simpson having passed away on April 12, 1930. Two grandchildren also survive him.
Following the death of his wife, Mr. Simpson carried on the ranch with the assistance of his children, until May 14, 1932, when he was united in marriage to Mrs. Agnes Gillworth, who survives him. He was a true and loving husband and father, an excellent citizen and a neighbor with no equal, in all of the wide land. His home was always a pleasant place to go and in every sense of the word, he was one who loved his fellow man and filled with honor his place in the community, county and state. His passing is a real loss to this section of the country which he helped to build up and which he loved so well.
Funeral services were conducted Saturday afternoon, July 15, at the Methodist Church in Kenton, with Rev. R. B. Harris officiating and John C. Winchester, undertaker in charge, with interment in the Kenton Cemetery.
The great wealth of beautiful flowers and the large crowd of neighbors and friends which turned out to do him last honors, spoke plainly of the high esteem in which Mr. Simpson was held in this wide area where so many of his life's richest years had been spent.
The sympathy of the entire community goes out to his bereaved ones in their hour of sorrow.
(Note: his gravestone has incorrect birth year of 1869… actual is 1868. His father died sometime during the year 1868 as his probate record came from December 3, 1868. Thus Horace couldn't have been born in September 1869).
The Boise City News - Boise City, Oklahoma - July 20, 1933
Herbert L. Simpson was born in St. Lawrence County, New York, September 1st, 1868, and departed this life at the home of Rex Reeves in Clayton, N. M., July 14, 1933, age 64 years, 10 months, and 13 days. Death being due to a stroke of apoplexy, which he suffered on the evening of July 5, or a little more than a week ago as he rested from a day of toil on his ranch near Kenton, Oklahoma.
Mr. Simpson was the son of Samuel Simpson and Mary Hoyt Simpson, the father being a native of Vermont and serving with a regiment from that state in the Civil War. The first eighteen years of his life were spent on a farm in northern New York, where he attended rural schools of that community in company with his brothers and sisters, five in number, and all now deceased. As a very young man he felt the urge to be a pioneer and with his brother Charles, came west to Barber County, Kansas, where he worked for wages on a farm, getting twenty dollars per month, and board. In the course of seven or eight years he accumulated a modest capital and in 1893 joined the rush for land at the opening of the Cherokee Strip, in Northern Oklahoma and secured a homestead in the vicinity of Alva, in Woods County. Here he encountered the usual hardships of the farmer along the frontier of that day, but through it all kept building slowly but surely, remaining there until early 1905. On May 15, 1902 [1903] he was united in marriage to Miss Lizzie Naughton in Alva, she passing away in 1904 [April 11, 1905], leaving no children to the union. At the age of about 22 he united with the Baptist church.
In 1906 Mr. Simpson came to Union County, N. M., where for a time he worked on ranches for wages, and then with a modest capital, which he brought with him from Oklahoma, invested in land along Carrizozo Creek, some six miles southwest of Kenton. Here he immediately began the development of a model alfalfa farm and small stock ranch. In August, of 1906 he was united in marriage to Miss Eva Porter of Kenton, who assisted him to carry out his plans for a ranch home that anyone would be proud to own, and to which they added poultry lines with excellent results. To this union were born three children, Mrs. Lauren Sayre, Mrs. Sam Rutledge, and Carrol Simpson, all of Kenton, Oklahoma, and whom survive their parents, Mrs. Simpson having passed away on April 12, 1930. Two grandchildren also survive him.
Following the death of his wife, Mr. Simpson carried on the ranch with the assistance of his children, until May 14, 1932, when he was united in marriage to Mrs. Agnes Gillworth, who survives him. He was a true and loving husband and father, an excellent citizen and a neighbor with no equal, in all of the wide land. His home was always a pleasant place to go and in every sense of the word, he was one who loved his fellow man and filled with honor his place in the community, county and state. His passing is a real loss to this section of the country which he helped to build up and which he loved so well.
Funeral services were conducted Saturday afternoon, July 15, at the Methodist Church in Kenton, with Rev. R. B. Harris officiating and John C. Winchester, undertaker in charge, with interment in the Kenton Cemetery.
The great wealth of beautiful flowers and the large crowd of neighbors and friends which turned out to do him last honors, spoke plainly of the high esteem in which Mr. Simpson was held in this wide area where so many of his life's richest years had been spent.
The sympathy of the entire community goes out to his bereaved ones in their hour of sorrow.
The Boise City News - Boise City, Oklahoma - July 20, 1933
Herbert L. Simpson was born in St. Lawrence County, New York, September 1st, 1868, and departed this life at the home of Rex Reeves in Clayton, N. M., July 14, 1933, age 64 years, 10 months, and 13 days. Death being due to a stroke of apoplexy, which he suffered on the evening of July 5, or a little more than a week ago as he rested from a day of toil on his ranch near Kenton, Oklahoma.
Mr. Simpson was the son of Samuel Simpson and Mary Hoyt Simpson, the father being a native of Vermont and serving with a regiment from that state in the Civil War. The first eighteen years of his life were spent on a farm in northern New York, where he attended rural schools of that community in company with his brothers and sisters, five in number, and all now deceased. As a very young man he felt the urge to be a pioneer and with his brother Charles, came west to Barber County, Kansas, where he worked for wages on a farm, getting twenty dollars per month, and board. In the course of seven or eight years he accumulated a modest capital and in 1893 joined the rush for land at the opening of the Cherokee Strip, in Northern Oklahoma and secured a homestead in the vicinity of Alva, in Woods County. Here he encountered the usual hardships of the farmer along the frontier of that day, but through it all kept building slowly but surely, remaining there until early 1905. On May 15, 1902 [1903] he was united in marriage to Miss Lizzie Naughton in Alva, she passing away in 1904 [April 11, 1905], leaving no children to the union. At the age of about 22 he united with the Baptist church.
In 1906 Mr. Simpson came to Union County, N. M., where for a time he worked on ranches for wages, and then with a modest capital, which he brought with him from Oklahoma, invested in land along Carrizozo Creek, some six miles southwest of Kenton. Here he immediately began the development of a model alfalfa farm and small stock ranch. In August, of 1906 he was united in marriage to Miss Eva Porter of Kenton, who assisted him to carry out his plans for a ranch home that anyone would be proud to own, and to which they added poultry lines with excellent results. To this union were born three children, Mrs. Lauren Sayre, Mrs. Sam Rutledge, and Carrol Simpson, all of Kenton, Oklahoma, and whom survive their parents, Mrs. Simpson having passed away on April 12, 1930. Two grandchildren also survive him.
Following the death of his wife, Mr. Simpson carried on the ranch with the assistance of his children, until May 14, 1932, when he was united in marriage to Mrs. Agnes Gillworth, who survives him. He was a true and loving husband and father, an excellent citizen and a neighbor with no equal, in all of the wide land. His home was always a pleasant place to go and in every sense of the word, he was one who loved his fellow man and filled with honor his place in the community, county and state. His passing is a real loss to this section of the country which he helped to build up and which he loved so well.
Funeral services were conducted Saturday afternoon, July 15, at the Methodist Church in Kenton, with Rev. R. B. Harris officiating and John C. Winchester, undertaker in charge, with interment in the Kenton Cemetery.
The great wealth of beautiful flowers and the large crowd of neighbors and friends which turned out to do him last honors, spoke plainly of the high esteem in which Mr. Simpson was held in this wide area where so many of his life's richest years had been spent.
The sympathy of the entire community goes out to his bereaved ones in their hour of sorrow.
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