Mrs. Emmelin J. Heiskell, a resident of Miami county for 64 years, and at the time of her death, the oldest living resident of the county, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. P. F. Latimer, in Louisburg, on Thursday morning, August 3rd. The cause of her death was intestinal trouble, and she had been ill only three days. She was 86 years old at the time of her death.
Emnielin J. Peery was horn August 28, 1830 near Terre Haute, Indiana, the daughter of William Peery and Hannah Lykins. She came to Miami county in the fall of 1852. With her brother, David Peery, she was brought to Miami county by Mr. David Lykins, an uncle, who was in Miami county as superintendent of the Baptist Indian Mission east of Paola. She arrived at Westpcrt Landing, now Kansas City, September 10, 1852 and came almost immediately to the mission near Paola.
Emmelin J. Peery was married in September 1853, to William A. Heiskell, who preceeded her to Kansas and was a trader among the Indians. He came from Virginia and was a member of the 1st Kansas territorial legislature. William A. Heiskell died in 1870. There were five children: Mrs. David Heenan, now of Wichita, Kansas, the youngest and Mrs. P. F. Latimer, of Louisburg, Kansas, the oldest and three who died in infancy Blanch. Nellie and Alberta. She Was a member of the Paola Congregational church at the time of her death.
This was a vast, unsettled region, inhabited principally by the Indians when Mrs. Heiskell came lure in 1852. She lived the hard life of the pioneers during those early years. During the first year of her residence In Kansas she attended school at Harrisonville, Mo., riding back and forth across country on horseback, between Harrisonville and Paola almost weekly. She often spoke of the terror she felt as a mere child at the strange isolated surroundings, the sight of so many Indians, and there were days of terror for her, she said, after her marriage when her husband , made periodical trips to Westport for supplies, leaving her practically alone and unprotected, as was necessary in those pioneer times.
Mrs. Heiskell was married at the Baptist Indian Mission one mile east of Paola, and for many years on her wedding anniversary Mrs. Heiskell visited the mission, several rooms of which remained standing until a few years ago.
For 19 years Mrs. Heiskell was librarian of the Paola Public Library and she gave to that work the same faithful and untiring service which was a characteristic of her life. Through storm and calm, thru winter's cold and summer's heat, she was always at her post day and night, at an age when most persons have retired from any sort of active service. She had an unusually keen mind, and was widely read, and her knowledge of books and happenings was wide-spread. Her information concerning the contents of the thousands of volumes which comprised the Paola library was almost unbelievable. No new book came to the library which she did not read, even after she was past sixty. A patron coming to the library had merely to give tier the faintest inkling of the contents of some Look of which he did not know the name, and she could tell him instantly the title and the author of the book. In the dark she could find a book on any shelf. Her work was her passion, and her nervous. energy a characteristic always, carried her years of active service in the community far beyond the normal. Her vitality was the surprise and admiration of her friends. At 85, in the home of the writer, last winter, she was able to read without glasses. She traveled about in her eighties on railroad trains with almost the same facility as, a person at forty.
Mrs. Heiskell had always said the end would come to her in August. Her husband, William A. Heiskell died in August, 1870 and each of her three children died in August. To her the month was one of peculiar portent, and she awaited its coming of late years with misgivings. And, as she had said, the end came.
Mrs. Heiskell was a niece of Dr. Johnston Lykins, the first mayor of Kansas City, a brother of David Lykins, who brought her, an orphan to Kansas. Both David Lykins and Dr. Johnston Lykins were missionaries to the Indians and both were educated in medicine. Mrs. Heiskell was a pioneer among pioneers and the Union cemetery at Kansas City and the Indian cemetery at Westport are marked by the graves of those who helped establish the civilization here about and who were related to her. She always visited these cemeteries In Kansas City, and she loved to talk of the pioneer days. When is the Kansas City Historical society, and on one occasion at 82 she traveled across Kansas City to see an old family Bible that contain some of her family history.
Two or three years ago an article appeared in the Kansas City Sunday Star in which Mrs. Heiskell told of the makeshifts of the pioneer days and the story was so interesting that it was copied in the New York Sun and other eastern papers. In this article Mrs. Heiskell told of the difficulties bridged by the pioneers. On finding herself without a rolling pin, she used an ear of corn. When her home became infested with mice, having no mousetrap she improvised a mousetrap with a saucer and a thimble.
Never breathed a purer spirit. She loved the world in which she lived. On going along a country road site would remark over and over again. "What a beautiful world." A tawny sunflower or a spirit of golden rod would attract from her admiring comment. She loved flowers and was working among them when stricken with her last illness. Her passion for those, she loved was never ending and to those who loved her, her death is a tragedy.
She died as she would have wished, in the morning, with the sunlight streaming in at the open window, with the long day ahead, full of blossoms and bird songs. And she was buried at noon in the Paola cemetery with night afar off, also as she would have wished, for darkness was her peculiar aversion. And the end came in the summer season when, also as she would have wished it, grass will cover "the scar which her decent into the earth has made," and the "carpet of the living becomes the blanket of the dead."
To her death will be a beautiful adventure because life was a beautiful adventure.
LESLIE E. WALLACE.
Burial in Paola Cemetery
Paola, Miami County, Kansas, USA
Transcribed by (Rich #46947058)
Note:
Last name variations found are Heiskill and Heiskelll
Common sources used:
www.familysearch.org
www.sos.mo.gov
www.newspapers.com
The Louisburg Herald (Louisburg, Kansas)
10 Aug 1916, Thu
Page 1
Emnielin J. Peery was horn August 28, 1830 near Terre Haute, Indiana, the daughter of William Peery and Hannah Lykins. She came to Miami county in the fall of 1852. With her brother, David Peery, she was brought to Miami county by Mr. David Lykins, an uncle, who was in Miami county as superintendent of the Baptist Indian Mission east of Paola. She arrived at Westpcrt Landing, now Kansas City, September 10, 1852 and came almost immediately to the mission near Paola.
Emmelin J. Peery was married in September 1853, to William A. Heiskell, who preceeded her to Kansas and was a trader among the Indians. He came from Virginia and was a member of the 1st Kansas territorial legislature. William A. Heiskell died in 1870. There were five children: Mrs. David Heenan, now of Wichita, Kansas, the youngest and Mrs. P. F. Latimer, of Louisburg, Kansas, the oldest and three who died in infancy Blanch. Nellie and Alberta. She Was a member of the Paola Congregational church at the time of her death.
This was a vast, unsettled region, inhabited principally by the Indians when Mrs. Heiskell came lure in 1852. She lived the hard life of the pioneers during those early years. During the first year of her residence In Kansas she attended school at Harrisonville, Mo., riding back and forth across country on horseback, between Harrisonville and Paola almost weekly. She often spoke of the terror she felt as a mere child at the strange isolated surroundings, the sight of so many Indians, and there were days of terror for her, she said, after her marriage when her husband , made periodical trips to Westport for supplies, leaving her practically alone and unprotected, as was necessary in those pioneer times.
Mrs. Heiskell was married at the Baptist Indian Mission one mile east of Paola, and for many years on her wedding anniversary Mrs. Heiskell visited the mission, several rooms of which remained standing until a few years ago.
For 19 years Mrs. Heiskell was librarian of the Paola Public Library and she gave to that work the same faithful and untiring service which was a characteristic of her life. Through storm and calm, thru winter's cold and summer's heat, she was always at her post day and night, at an age when most persons have retired from any sort of active service. She had an unusually keen mind, and was widely read, and her knowledge of books and happenings was wide-spread. Her information concerning the contents of the thousands of volumes which comprised the Paola library was almost unbelievable. No new book came to the library which she did not read, even after she was past sixty. A patron coming to the library had merely to give tier the faintest inkling of the contents of some Look of which he did not know the name, and she could tell him instantly the title and the author of the book. In the dark she could find a book on any shelf. Her work was her passion, and her nervous. energy a characteristic always, carried her years of active service in the community far beyond the normal. Her vitality was the surprise and admiration of her friends. At 85, in the home of the writer, last winter, she was able to read without glasses. She traveled about in her eighties on railroad trains with almost the same facility as, a person at forty.
Mrs. Heiskell had always said the end would come to her in August. Her husband, William A. Heiskell died in August, 1870 and each of her three children died in August. To her the month was one of peculiar portent, and she awaited its coming of late years with misgivings. And, as she had said, the end came.
Mrs. Heiskell was a niece of Dr. Johnston Lykins, the first mayor of Kansas City, a brother of David Lykins, who brought her, an orphan to Kansas. Both David Lykins and Dr. Johnston Lykins were missionaries to the Indians and both were educated in medicine. Mrs. Heiskell was a pioneer among pioneers and the Union cemetery at Kansas City and the Indian cemetery at Westport are marked by the graves of those who helped establish the civilization here about and who were related to her. She always visited these cemeteries In Kansas City, and she loved to talk of the pioneer days. When is the Kansas City Historical society, and on one occasion at 82 she traveled across Kansas City to see an old family Bible that contain some of her family history.
Two or three years ago an article appeared in the Kansas City Sunday Star in which Mrs. Heiskell told of the makeshifts of the pioneer days and the story was so interesting that it was copied in the New York Sun and other eastern papers. In this article Mrs. Heiskell told of the difficulties bridged by the pioneers. On finding herself without a rolling pin, she used an ear of corn. When her home became infested with mice, having no mousetrap she improvised a mousetrap with a saucer and a thimble.
Never breathed a purer spirit. She loved the world in which she lived. On going along a country road site would remark over and over again. "What a beautiful world." A tawny sunflower or a spirit of golden rod would attract from her admiring comment. She loved flowers and was working among them when stricken with her last illness. Her passion for those, she loved was never ending and to those who loved her, her death is a tragedy.
She died as she would have wished, in the morning, with the sunlight streaming in at the open window, with the long day ahead, full of blossoms and bird songs. And she was buried at noon in the Paola cemetery with night afar off, also as she would have wished, for darkness was her peculiar aversion. And the end came in the summer season when, also as she would have wished it, grass will cover "the scar which her decent into the earth has made," and the "carpet of the living becomes the blanket of the dead."
To her death will be a beautiful adventure because life was a beautiful adventure.
LESLIE E. WALLACE.
Burial in Paola Cemetery
Paola, Miami County, Kansas, USA
Transcribed by (Rich #46947058)
Note:
Last name variations found are Heiskill and Heiskelll
Common sources used:
www.familysearch.org
www.sos.mo.gov
www.newspapers.com
The Louisburg Herald (Louisburg, Kansas)
10 Aug 1916, Thu
Page 1
Mrs. Emmelin J. Heiskell, a resident of Miami county for 64 years, and at the time of her death, the oldest living resident of the county, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. P. F. Latimer, in Louisburg, on Thursday morning, August 3rd. The cause of her death was intestinal trouble, and she had been ill only three days. She was 86 years old at the time of her death.
Emnielin J. Peery was horn August 28, 1830 near Terre Haute, Indiana, the daughter of William Peery and Hannah Lykins. She came to Miami county in the fall of 1852. With her brother, David Peery, she was brought to Miami county by Mr. David Lykins, an uncle, who was in Miami county as superintendent of the Baptist Indian Mission east of Paola. She arrived at Westpcrt Landing, now Kansas City, September 10, 1852 and came almost immediately to the mission near Paola.
Emmelin J. Peery was married in September 1853, to William A. Heiskell, who preceeded her to Kansas and was a trader among the Indians. He came from Virginia and was a member of the 1st Kansas territorial legislature. William A. Heiskell died in 1870. There were five children: Mrs. David Heenan, now of Wichita, Kansas, the youngest and Mrs. P. F. Latimer, of Louisburg, Kansas, the oldest and three who died in infancy Blanch. Nellie and Alberta. She Was a member of the Paola Congregational church at the time of her death.
This was a vast, unsettled region, inhabited principally by the Indians when Mrs. Heiskell came lure in 1852. She lived the hard life of the pioneers during those early years. During the first year of her residence In Kansas she attended school at Harrisonville, Mo., riding back and forth across country on horseback, between Harrisonville and Paola almost weekly. She often spoke of the terror she felt as a mere child at the strange isolated surroundings, the sight of so many Indians, and there were days of terror for her, she said, after her marriage when her husband , made periodical trips to Westport for supplies, leaving her practically alone and unprotected, as was necessary in those pioneer times.
Mrs. Heiskell was married at the Baptist Indian Mission one mile east of Paola, and for many years on her wedding anniversary Mrs. Heiskell visited the mission, several rooms of which remained standing until a few years ago.
For 19 years Mrs. Heiskell was librarian of the Paola Public Library and she gave to that work the same faithful and untiring service which was a characteristic of her life. Through storm and calm, thru winter's cold and summer's heat, she was always at her post day and night, at an age when most persons have retired from any sort of active service. She had an unusually keen mind, and was widely read, and her knowledge of books and happenings was wide-spread. Her information concerning the contents of the thousands of volumes which comprised the Paola library was almost unbelievable. No new book came to the library which she did not read, even after she was past sixty. A patron coming to the library had merely to give tier the faintest inkling of the contents of some Look of which he did not know the name, and she could tell him instantly the title and the author of the book. In the dark she could find a book on any shelf. Her work was her passion, and her nervous. energy a characteristic always, carried her years of active service in the community far beyond the normal. Her vitality was the surprise and admiration of her friends. At 85, in the home of the writer, last winter, she was able to read without glasses. She traveled about in her eighties on railroad trains with almost the same facility as, a person at forty.
Mrs. Heiskell had always said the end would come to her in August. Her husband, William A. Heiskell died in August, 1870 and each of her three children died in August. To her the month was one of peculiar portent, and she awaited its coming of late years with misgivings. And, as she had said, the end came.
Mrs. Heiskell was a niece of Dr. Johnston Lykins, the first mayor of Kansas City, a brother of David Lykins, who brought her, an orphan to Kansas. Both David Lykins and Dr. Johnston Lykins were missionaries to the Indians and both were educated in medicine. Mrs. Heiskell was a pioneer among pioneers and the Union cemetery at Kansas City and the Indian cemetery at Westport are marked by the graves of those who helped establish the civilization here about and who were related to her. She always visited these cemeteries In Kansas City, and she loved to talk of the pioneer days. When is the Kansas City Historical society, and on one occasion at 82 she traveled across Kansas City to see an old family Bible that contain some of her family history.
Two or three years ago an article appeared in the Kansas City Sunday Star in which Mrs. Heiskell told of the makeshifts of the pioneer days and the story was so interesting that it was copied in the New York Sun and other eastern papers. In this article Mrs. Heiskell told of the difficulties bridged by the pioneers. On finding herself without a rolling pin, she used an ear of corn. When her home became infested with mice, having no mousetrap she improvised a mousetrap with a saucer and a thimble.
Never breathed a purer spirit. She loved the world in which she lived. On going along a country road site would remark over and over again. "What a beautiful world." A tawny sunflower or a spirit of golden rod would attract from her admiring comment. She loved flowers and was working among them when stricken with her last illness. Her passion for those, she loved was never ending and to those who loved her, her death is a tragedy.
She died as she would have wished, in the morning, with the sunlight streaming in at the open window, with the long day ahead, full of blossoms and bird songs. And she was buried at noon in the Paola cemetery with night afar off, also as she would have wished, for darkness was her peculiar aversion. And the end came in the summer season when, also as she would have wished it, grass will cover "the scar which her decent into the earth has made," and the "carpet of the living becomes the blanket of the dead."
To her death will be a beautiful adventure because life was a beautiful adventure.
LESLIE E. WALLACE.
Burial in Paola Cemetery
Paola, Miami County, Kansas, USA
Transcribed by (Rich #46947058)
Note:
Last name variations found are Heiskill and Heiskelll
Common sources used:
www.familysearch.org
www.sos.mo.gov
www.newspapers.com
The Louisburg Herald (Louisburg, Kansas)
10 Aug 1916, Thu
Page 1
Emnielin J. Peery was horn August 28, 1830 near Terre Haute, Indiana, the daughter of William Peery and Hannah Lykins. She came to Miami county in the fall of 1852. With her brother, David Peery, she was brought to Miami county by Mr. David Lykins, an uncle, who was in Miami county as superintendent of the Baptist Indian Mission east of Paola. She arrived at Westpcrt Landing, now Kansas City, September 10, 1852 and came almost immediately to the mission near Paola.
Emmelin J. Peery was married in September 1853, to William A. Heiskell, who preceeded her to Kansas and was a trader among the Indians. He came from Virginia and was a member of the 1st Kansas territorial legislature. William A. Heiskell died in 1870. There were five children: Mrs. David Heenan, now of Wichita, Kansas, the youngest and Mrs. P. F. Latimer, of Louisburg, Kansas, the oldest and three who died in infancy Blanch. Nellie and Alberta. She Was a member of the Paola Congregational church at the time of her death.
This was a vast, unsettled region, inhabited principally by the Indians when Mrs. Heiskell came lure in 1852. She lived the hard life of the pioneers during those early years. During the first year of her residence In Kansas she attended school at Harrisonville, Mo., riding back and forth across country on horseback, between Harrisonville and Paola almost weekly. She often spoke of the terror she felt as a mere child at the strange isolated surroundings, the sight of so many Indians, and there were days of terror for her, she said, after her marriage when her husband , made periodical trips to Westport for supplies, leaving her practically alone and unprotected, as was necessary in those pioneer times.
Mrs. Heiskell was married at the Baptist Indian Mission one mile east of Paola, and for many years on her wedding anniversary Mrs. Heiskell visited the mission, several rooms of which remained standing until a few years ago.
For 19 years Mrs. Heiskell was librarian of the Paola Public Library and she gave to that work the same faithful and untiring service which was a characteristic of her life. Through storm and calm, thru winter's cold and summer's heat, she was always at her post day and night, at an age when most persons have retired from any sort of active service. She had an unusually keen mind, and was widely read, and her knowledge of books and happenings was wide-spread. Her information concerning the contents of the thousands of volumes which comprised the Paola library was almost unbelievable. No new book came to the library which she did not read, even after she was past sixty. A patron coming to the library had merely to give tier the faintest inkling of the contents of some Look of which he did not know the name, and she could tell him instantly the title and the author of the book. In the dark she could find a book on any shelf. Her work was her passion, and her nervous. energy a characteristic always, carried her years of active service in the community far beyond the normal. Her vitality was the surprise and admiration of her friends. At 85, in the home of the writer, last winter, she was able to read without glasses. She traveled about in her eighties on railroad trains with almost the same facility as, a person at forty.
Mrs. Heiskell had always said the end would come to her in August. Her husband, William A. Heiskell died in August, 1870 and each of her three children died in August. To her the month was one of peculiar portent, and she awaited its coming of late years with misgivings. And, as she had said, the end came.
Mrs. Heiskell was a niece of Dr. Johnston Lykins, the first mayor of Kansas City, a brother of David Lykins, who brought her, an orphan to Kansas. Both David Lykins and Dr. Johnston Lykins were missionaries to the Indians and both were educated in medicine. Mrs. Heiskell was a pioneer among pioneers and the Union cemetery at Kansas City and the Indian cemetery at Westport are marked by the graves of those who helped establish the civilization here about and who were related to her. She always visited these cemeteries In Kansas City, and she loved to talk of the pioneer days. When is the Kansas City Historical society, and on one occasion at 82 she traveled across Kansas City to see an old family Bible that contain some of her family history.
Two or three years ago an article appeared in the Kansas City Sunday Star in which Mrs. Heiskell told of the makeshifts of the pioneer days and the story was so interesting that it was copied in the New York Sun and other eastern papers. In this article Mrs. Heiskell told of the difficulties bridged by the pioneers. On finding herself without a rolling pin, she used an ear of corn. When her home became infested with mice, having no mousetrap she improvised a mousetrap with a saucer and a thimble.
Never breathed a purer spirit. She loved the world in which she lived. On going along a country road site would remark over and over again. "What a beautiful world." A tawny sunflower or a spirit of golden rod would attract from her admiring comment. She loved flowers and was working among them when stricken with her last illness. Her passion for those, she loved was never ending and to those who loved her, her death is a tragedy.
She died as she would have wished, in the morning, with the sunlight streaming in at the open window, with the long day ahead, full of blossoms and bird songs. And she was buried at noon in the Paola cemetery with night afar off, also as she would have wished, for darkness was her peculiar aversion. And the end came in the summer season when, also as she would have wished it, grass will cover "the scar which her decent into the earth has made," and the "carpet of the living becomes the blanket of the dead."
To her death will be a beautiful adventure because life was a beautiful adventure.
LESLIE E. WALLACE.
Burial in Paola Cemetery
Paola, Miami County, Kansas, USA
Transcribed by (Rich #46947058)
Note:
Last name variations found are Heiskill and Heiskelll
Common sources used:
www.familysearch.org
www.sos.mo.gov
www.newspapers.com
The Louisburg Herald (Louisburg, Kansas)
10 Aug 1916, Thu
Page 1
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