Charles Henry Sensibaugh, 1867-1909

SENSIBAUGH, YOUNG, EVERTS, MYERS

Posted By: Pat Ryan White (email)
Date: 11/20/2014 at 21:07:54

DEATH OF CHAS. SENSIBAUGH.
Passed Away Monday at His Home in Oklahoma City.

Word was received in this city today of the unexpected death at his home at Oklahoma City of Mr. Charles Sensibaugh, formerly of this city, and a nephew of Mr. W.P. Young. His death occurred Monday forenoon, but no particulars have been received here. The body will arrive here tonight and the funeral will take place from the residence of Mr. W. P. Young tomorrow afternoon at two o'clock. The interment will be in Hickory Grove cemetery beside his father, Capt. O.R. Sensibaugh and also by the side of two children. Mr. Sensibaugh leaves a wife and five children. He was in his forty second year.

["Mt. Pleasant Daily News", September 21, 1909, page 3]

IS NOW AT REST.
Chas. H. Sensibaugh Funeral Held Yesterday.

The funeral of Charles H. Sensibaugh was held on Wednesday afternoon, Sept. 22, from the home of his uncle, W.P. Young, 403 East Monroe street. His death occurred at St. Anthony's hospital, Oklahoma City, the result of typhoid fever, with which he had suffered for three weeks before death came.

Mr. Sensibaugh moved his family from Moline, Ill., to Oklahoma City two years ago this month. When taken sick, he held a position with the Otis Electrical Elevator Co. of Oklahoma City. He leaves his widow and five children -- Nellie, who is assistant cashier in the Columbia Bank & Trust Co.; Otho, employed by the same bank; Mary, Ruth and Clarence, who are in school. He leaves beside these his mother, Mrs. O.R. Sensibaugh; two sisters, Mrs. Frank Everts of Ridgeland, Miss., and Mrs. E.A. Myers of Jackson township, and one brother Dr. W.C. Sensibaugh, an evangelist, with headquarters at Chicago. Interment was at Hickory Grove cemetery, where are buried his father, Capt. O.R. Sensibaugh, a sister who died in infancy, and two children, George and Helen.

His wife and oldest daughter, Nellie, accompanied the remains to Mt. Pleasant, where they were met by his mother and brother, Dr. W.C. Sensibaugh and wife, his sisters, Mrs. Everts and Mrs. Myers not being able to attend the funeral.

Charles Henry Sensibaugh was born near Mt. Pleasant December 25, 1867. He united with the Methodist church at Wesley Chapel when fifteen years of age, and had he lived until next Christmas day, he would have been forty-two years of age.

When the pastor visited him a few hours before his death and talked with him about the future, he expressed himself in these words: "I have put myself in God's hands."

["Mt. Pleasant Daily News", September 24, 1909, page 5]