El Dorado Daily Republican
El Dorado, Kansas
Monday, July 6, 1914
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Popular Woman Drowned in Grouse Creek Saturday In Sight of Dearest Friends.
Just two days before her 68th birthday Mrs. C.W. Bonnell of Cambridge, Kansas, a former old time resident of Rosalia, and well known all over the county, was drowned in Grouse Creek near her home Saturday.
In company with her husband, her daughter, Mrs. Simpson, and grandchildren, she was one her way to spend the "Fourth" with another daughter living near them.
The creek was swollen and running swiftly from the recent rains and there was no bridge on which they could cross. As they started to ford the creek, the waters like a relentless foe, and swift as lightning, swept the wagon box from off the wheels, throwing the occupants into the raging stream. All in the wagon, according to reports, had a desperate struggle for life, but all escaped but Mrs. Bonnell. It is said that one little boy in the wagon was swept down the river for almost a mile before he got out to the bank. While those who had escaped this terrible fate looked and watched for the body of Mrs. Bonnell they looked in vain for they never saw her until an hour and half later they found her dead body about a mile down the creek.
Mrs. C.W. Bonnell for fifteen or twenty years was a resident of Rosalia township and it seemed as if she had woven herself into the hearts of every person in that community and in the county. Mrs. Bonnell had an unlimited friendship in Butler county and that the cruel waters of a swollen stream, made turbulent by heavy rains should take her sweet life, seems to those who were near and dear to her as indeed a cruel fate. To thos who knew Mrs. Bonnell intimately she was a woman of most remarkable sympathies and she had a keen sense of humor. These attributes with other accomplishments in home making endeared "home and mother" to her husband and children and made her death all the greater loss. She was a prominent church and social worker and an advocate of all that is good and noble in this life.
Miss Clara Clark was born in Leslie, Michigan, on July 6, 1846. There she was married to C.W. Bonnell on October 2, 1868. To this union were born eight children all of whom survive; Henry and Theodore Bonnell, Rosalia; George Bonnell, Winfield; Will Bonnell, Mrs. Bert Howe, Charley Bonnell, Herbert Bonnell, and Mrs. Edna Simpson, Cambridge, Kansas; two sisters, Mrs. Polly Hayworth of McPherson, Kansas, and Mrs. S.H. Marshton of Clearwater, Kansas, and one brother, Anson Clark, of McPherson, also survive.
The funeral services were held this afternoon at 3:00 o'clock from Walnut Valley chapel near Rosalia. Interment will be made in Walnut Valley cemetery.
Mrs. S.H. Marshton of Clearwater, Kansas and Boyd Marshton of El Dorado, went from here this morning to attend the funeral.
(Transcribed by Judy Mayfield) Dec. 2022
El Dorado, Kansas
Monday, July 6, 1914
page 1
Popular Woman Drowned in Grouse Creek Saturday In Sight of Dearest Friends.
Just two days before her 68th birthday Mrs. C.W. Bonnell of Cambridge, Kansas, a former old time resident of Rosalia, and well known all over the county, was drowned in Grouse Creek near her home Saturday.
In company with her husband, her daughter, Mrs. Simpson, and grandchildren, she was one her way to spend the "Fourth" with another daughter living near them.
The creek was swollen and running swiftly from the recent rains and there was no bridge on which they could cross. As they started to ford the creek, the waters like a relentless foe, and swift as lightning, swept the wagon box from off the wheels, throwing the occupants into the raging stream. All in the wagon, according to reports, had a desperate struggle for life, but all escaped but Mrs. Bonnell. It is said that one little boy in the wagon was swept down the river for almost a mile before he got out to the bank. While those who had escaped this terrible fate looked and watched for the body of Mrs. Bonnell they looked in vain for they never saw her until an hour and half later they found her dead body about a mile down the creek.
Mrs. C.W. Bonnell for fifteen or twenty years was a resident of Rosalia township and it seemed as if she had woven herself into the hearts of every person in that community and in the county. Mrs. Bonnell had an unlimited friendship in Butler county and that the cruel waters of a swollen stream, made turbulent by heavy rains should take her sweet life, seems to those who were near and dear to her as indeed a cruel fate. To thos who knew Mrs. Bonnell intimately she was a woman of most remarkable sympathies and she had a keen sense of humor. These attributes with other accomplishments in home making endeared "home and mother" to her husband and children and made her death all the greater loss. She was a prominent church and social worker and an advocate of all that is good and noble in this life.
Miss Clara Clark was born in Leslie, Michigan, on July 6, 1846. There she was married to C.W. Bonnell on October 2, 1868. To this union were born eight children all of whom survive; Henry and Theodore Bonnell, Rosalia; George Bonnell, Winfield; Will Bonnell, Mrs. Bert Howe, Charley Bonnell, Herbert Bonnell, and Mrs. Edna Simpson, Cambridge, Kansas; two sisters, Mrs. Polly Hayworth of McPherson, Kansas, and Mrs. S.H. Marshton of Clearwater, Kansas, and one brother, Anson Clark, of McPherson, also survive.
The funeral services were held this afternoon at 3:00 o'clock from Walnut Valley chapel near Rosalia. Interment will be made in Walnut Valley cemetery.
Mrs. S.H. Marshton of Clearwater, Kansas and Boyd Marshton of El Dorado, went from here this morning to attend the funeral.
(Transcribed by Judy Mayfield) Dec. 2022
El Dorado Daily Republican
El Dorado, Kansas
Monday, July 6, 1914
page 1
Popular Woman Drowned in Grouse Creek Saturday In Sight of Dearest Friends.
Just two days before her 68th birthday Mrs. C.W. Bonnell of Cambridge, Kansas, a former old time resident of Rosalia, and well known all over the county, was drowned in Grouse Creek near her home Saturday.
In company with her husband, her daughter, Mrs. Simpson, and grandchildren, she was one her way to spend the "Fourth" with another daughter living near them.
The creek was swollen and running swiftly from the recent rains and there was no bridge on which they could cross. As they started to ford the creek, the waters like a relentless foe, and swift as lightning, swept the wagon box from off the wheels, throwing the occupants into the raging stream. All in the wagon, according to reports, had a desperate struggle for life, but all escaped but Mrs. Bonnell. It is said that one little boy in the wagon was swept down the river for almost a mile before he got out to the bank. While those who had escaped this terrible fate looked and watched for the body of Mrs. Bonnell they looked in vain for they never saw her until an hour and half later they found her dead body about a mile down the creek.
Mrs. C.W. Bonnell for fifteen or twenty years was a resident of Rosalia township and it seemed as if she had woven herself into the hearts of every person in that community and in the county. Mrs. Bonnell had an unlimited friendship in Butler county and that the cruel waters of a swollen stream, made turbulent by heavy rains should take her sweet life, seems to those who were near and dear to her as indeed a cruel fate. To thos who knew Mrs. Bonnell intimately she was a woman of most remarkable sympathies and she had a keen sense of humor. These attributes with other accomplishments in home making endeared "home and mother" to her husband and children and made her death all the greater loss. She was a prominent church and social worker and an advocate of all that is good and noble in this life.
Miss Clara Clark was born in Leslie, Michigan, on July 6, 1846. There she was married to C.W. Bonnell on October 2, 1868. To this union were born eight children all of whom survive; Henry and Theodore Bonnell, Rosalia; George Bonnell, Winfield; Will Bonnell, Mrs. Bert Howe, Charley Bonnell, Herbert Bonnell, and Mrs. Edna Simpson, Cambridge, Kansas; two sisters, Mrs. Polly Hayworth of McPherson, Kansas, and Mrs. S.H. Marshton of Clearwater, Kansas, and one brother, Anson Clark, of McPherson, also survive.
The funeral services were held this afternoon at 3:00 o'clock from Walnut Valley chapel near Rosalia. Interment will be made in Walnut Valley cemetery.
Mrs. S.H. Marshton of Clearwater, Kansas and Boyd Marshton of El Dorado, went from here this morning to attend the funeral.
(Transcribed by Judy Mayfield) Dec. 2022
El Dorado, Kansas
Monday, July 6, 1914
page 1
Popular Woman Drowned in Grouse Creek Saturday In Sight of Dearest Friends.
Just two days before her 68th birthday Mrs. C.W. Bonnell of Cambridge, Kansas, a former old time resident of Rosalia, and well known all over the county, was drowned in Grouse Creek near her home Saturday.
In company with her husband, her daughter, Mrs. Simpson, and grandchildren, she was one her way to spend the "Fourth" with another daughter living near them.
The creek was swollen and running swiftly from the recent rains and there was no bridge on which they could cross. As they started to ford the creek, the waters like a relentless foe, and swift as lightning, swept the wagon box from off the wheels, throwing the occupants into the raging stream. All in the wagon, according to reports, had a desperate struggle for life, but all escaped but Mrs. Bonnell. It is said that one little boy in the wagon was swept down the river for almost a mile before he got out to the bank. While those who had escaped this terrible fate looked and watched for the body of Mrs. Bonnell they looked in vain for they never saw her until an hour and half later they found her dead body about a mile down the creek.
Mrs. C.W. Bonnell for fifteen or twenty years was a resident of Rosalia township and it seemed as if she had woven herself into the hearts of every person in that community and in the county. Mrs. Bonnell had an unlimited friendship in Butler county and that the cruel waters of a swollen stream, made turbulent by heavy rains should take her sweet life, seems to those who were near and dear to her as indeed a cruel fate. To thos who knew Mrs. Bonnell intimately she was a woman of most remarkable sympathies and she had a keen sense of humor. These attributes with other accomplishments in home making endeared "home and mother" to her husband and children and made her death all the greater loss. She was a prominent church and social worker and an advocate of all that is good and noble in this life.
Miss Clara Clark was born in Leslie, Michigan, on July 6, 1846. There she was married to C.W. Bonnell on October 2, 1868. To this union were born eight children all of whom survive; Henry and Theodore Bonnell, Rosalia; George Bonnell, Winfield; Will Bonnell, Mrs. Bert Howe, Charley Bonnell, Herbert Bonnell, and Mrs. Edna Simpson, Cambridge, Kansas; two sisters, Mrs. Polly Hayworth of McPherson, Kansas, and Mrs. S.H. Marshton of Clearwater, Kansas, and one brother, Anson Clark, of McPherson, also survive.
The funeral services were held this afternoon at 3:00 o'clock from Walnut Valley chapel near Rosalia. Interment will be made in Walnut Valley cemetery.
Mrs. S.H. Marshton of Clearwater, Kansas and Boyd Marshton of El Dorado, went from here this morning to attend the funeral.
(Transcribed by Judy Mayfield) Dec. 2022
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