"W. N. Reece, 76, a resident of Atchison and Brown Counties for 72 years, died Saturday at his home in Everest. Mr. Reece was a retired farmer, and most highly respected citizen of northeast Kansas. Mr. Reece was born in Iowa, and came to northeast Kansas with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Reece, when he was four years of age. For many years he lived five and one half miles north of Effingham. He had lived in Everest twelve years when he passed away. Mr. Reece passed over the present town site of Atchison when there was only one building located there. He was a most interesting gentleman, and his stories of the early days of Atchison County were unusually interesting and exact. Surviving Mr. Reece are the widow: two sons, D. D. Reece of Kansas City, and H. T. Reece of Muscotah; sister, Mrs. Charles Smith of Atchison; two brothers, S. M. Reece of Oklahoma, and Wilson Reece of Goff, and six grandchildren and two great grandchildren.
The body was brought to Effingham for interment in the Evergreen Cemetery, and the Masons in charge. Mr. Reece was a member of that order in Effingham.
Nels Rece often spoke of remembering the Indian wigwams, which were about his father's farm and of seeing buffalo roaming the prairie. He hunted buffalo in western Kansas after he was grown. Not only was he one of the first white inhabitants of this section, but probably one of the longest, if not the longest continuous resident."
Effingham New Leaf, October 1925
The body was brought to Effingham for interment in the Evergreen Cemetery, and the Masons in charge. Mr. Reece was a member of that order in Effingham.
Nels Rece often spoke of remembering the Indian wigwams, which were about his father's farm and of seeing buffalo roaming the prairie. He hunted buffalo in western Kansas after he was grown. Not only was he one of the first white inhabitants of this section, but probably one of the longest, if not the longest continuous resident."
Effingham New Leaf, October 1925
"W. N. Reece, 76, a resident of Atchison and Brown Counties for 72 years, died Saturday at his home in Everest. Mr. Reece was a retired farmer, and most highly respected citizen of northeast Kansas. Mr. Reece was born in Iowa, and came to northeast Kansas with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Reece, when he was four years of age. For many years he lived five and one half miles north of Effingham. He had lived in Everest twelve years when he passed away. Mr. Reece passed over the present town site of Atchison when there was only one building located there. He was a most interesting gentleman, and his stories of the early days of Atchison County were unusually interesting and exact. Surviving Mr. Reece are the widow: two sons, D. D. Reece of Kansas City, and H. T. Reece of Muscotah; sister, Mrs. Charles Smith of Atchison; two brothers, S. M. Reece of Oklahoma, and Wilson Reece of Goff, and six grandchildren and two great grandchildren.
The body was brought to Effingham for interment in the Evergreen Cemetery, and the Masons in charge. Mr. Reece was a member of that order in Effingham.
Nels Rece often spoke of remembering the Indian wigwams, which were about his father's farm and of seeing buffalo roaming the prairie. He hunted buffalo in western Kansas after he was grown. Not only was he one of the first white inhabitants of this section, but probably one of the longest, if not the longest continuous resident."
Effingham New Leaf, October 1925
The body was brought to Effingham for interment in the Evergreen Cemetery, and the Masons in charge. Mr. Reece was a member of that order in Effingham.
Nels Rece often spoke of remembering the Indian wigwams, which were about his father's farm and of seeing buffalo roaming the prairie. He hunted buffalo in western Kansas after he was grown. Not only was he one of the first white inhabitants of this section, but probably one of the longest, if not the longest continuous resident."
Effingham New Leaf, October 1925
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