Richey, George

BINKERD, RICHEY

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Date: 5/17/2018 at 07:43:51

Richey, George
Mr. George Richey, formerly of this place, dropped to the floor while eating his supper in a restaurant at Parsons, Kansas, on Tuesday of last week, and when picked up was found to be dead. He was a stranger who had just arrived on an evening train, and there was nothing upon his person by which he could be identified, so arrangements were made to bury him in the pottersfield. Something about the circumstances prompted Mr. Jacob Binkerd to visit the morgue, and as soon as he saw the corpse he recognized it as his wife’s brother. Mrs. Binkerd was notified and upon visiting the undertaker’s rooms verified the identification. The body was at once embalmed and Mr. Binkerd came with it over the Rock Island, arriving here Sunday morning, and was met last Monday by Mrs. Hattie George, of Cedar Rapids, deceased’s only child who came with her little daughter, Doris, and attended the obsequies, last Tuesday afternoon, the interment being at the McKeever cemetery. Deceased as 58 years of age, and had led a roving life. At the time of his death he came from Wichita to Parsons to see his sister on business, but without announcing his visit. His death resulted from heart failure, to which the family is predisposed. He was a son of Anderson Richey, late of Poweshiek township, and was well known by our people
Source: Colfax newspaper; March 31, 1906

NOT GEORGE RICHEY
Body Buried not that of the Colfax Man as Supposed
Mrs. Henry McClanahan of Mitchellville received a letter from Mrs. Adkins of Wichita, Kansas, stating that George Richey, who was supposed to have been buried here about the 20th of March, was well and alive, and had that day returned from Oklahoma City where he had been working on the railroad.
The facts of the case are that about the 20th of March a man dropped dead in a restaurant at Carson(sic), Kansas, and Jake Binkerd, of Colfax, who was in Carsons at the time, thought he recognized him as his brother-in-law, George Richey, and brought the body to Colfax where it was buried at McKeever cemetery.
Richey was about fifty years old and left here about a year ago. He was a half-brother of Frank Richey, who recently moved to Neosho, Nev., and an uncle of Chas. Williams, living west of Colfax.
His daughters from Cedar Rapids came to the funeral and identified the corpse as their father.
Source: Colfax newspaper; June 1, 1906