PARSONS, Jesse Ware 1864-1942

PARSONS, ALLERDICE, GREEN, HOWARD, LOOMIS, MURPHY, WHITE

Posted By: Richard K Thompson (email)
Date: 2/20/2010 at 16:55:33

Transcriber note: This obituary is transcribed from a obituary transcription made by Wayne R PARSONS (d.2008) who provided a substantial Parsons family genealogy collection to the Fairfield Public Library. Unfortunately, he did not specifically source the newspaper and date of publication.

Jesse Ware PARSONS and his wife Stanza Catherine ALLERDICE PARSONS (described in the obituary below by the family nickname "Kate") died in Mankato, KS and this obituary may have appeared there first, from which Wayne transcribed it. If a Jefferson County newspaper source and/or republication date can eventually be located it will be so noted.

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Jesse Ware PARSONS

Jesse Ware PARSONS was born near Fairfield in Jefferson County, Iowa, July 19, 1864 and passed away July 23, 1942 age 78 years and four days. When Jess was 10 years old his father died, and he stayed on at home helping care for his mother till he was about 24 years of age, and came to Kansas in 1888. He purchased a farm in Washington Township, on which he located.

In 1892 he was married to Kate ALLERDICE of Jefferson County, Iowa, who came to Kansas with Jesse's mother, and the wedding took place in the Hays B. WHITE home.

They lived for a time on his farm: then moved to Iowa to live on the old home farm and care for his mother, staying there while she lived. He returned again toward Kansas in 1907 and bought the Allen GREEN farm south west of Mankato, which has since been the family home.

As a man he was intensely industrious and skilled in his occupation of farming; and for many years there was no limit to his physical strength and endurance.

Six sons and a daughter were born to Mr. and Mrs. PARSONS; of whom their first son, Jerome Laval died in infancy, and all the rest survive him. Glen and Leslie in Idaho, Leo near Mankato, and Elsie as Mrs. Wilbur HOWARD, Newell in Washington, and Ray, who for years has cared for his parents and maintained the home. There are eleven grandchildren.

Mr. and Mrs. PARSONS gave all their children a high school education, and it seemed they always accorded to their parents a natural high regard and fine respect. The time for the golden wedding anniversary was near at hand and already were the children planning for its appropriate observance.

He was a good neighbor, always ready to help when there was need or call for him, a quiet respected citizen whose friends were many. In his declining years he received much comfort from his daily reading of his Bible. All his generation now are gone, save one brother, L.L. PARSONS of Montrose.

Funeral services were conducted in the Harmony Methodist Church on Saturday afternoon, with Rev. Brooks delivering the funeral sermon and Mrs. Kate Kramer and Sarah Vance as singer, and Bernice Scott at the piano.

The pallbearers were Oscar LOOMIS, Levi and Clifford MURPHY, Evart, Jesse, and Ira WHITE.

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* Transcribed for genealogy purposes. I am only extremely distantly connected to the PARSONS family of Jefferson County, Iowa. This transcription is for those PARSONS/&spousal family members who migrated elsewhere from Jefferson County, Iowa.

Jesse Ware PARSONS and his wife Stanza (and some of their immediate family) are buried at Mount Hope Cemetery, Mankato, Jewell County, KS. They each have memorials for them on Find A Grave with links to each other.

Note: Jesse's sister, Diana PARSONS, married Hays B WHITE. They also migrated from Jefferson County, Iowa to Mankato, KS. That is the background of why the marriage of Jesse and Stanza Catherine "Kate" ALLERDICE PARSONS took place at the Hays B WHITE home as described in the obituary above.