Alfred Hartman (1890)

HARTMAN

Posted By: Judy Wight Branson
Date: 7/26/2004 at 11:45:27

Newspaper Unknown
April 1890

Alfred Hartman died Sunday, March 2nd at ---p.m. at his home in Linn county, Kansas of dropsy and la grippe. Mr. Hartman was one of the early settlers of this county.

He left Iowa about seven years ago. His wife died of cancer ten or twelve years ago while he lived here. He was a brother of John Hartman of this place and at the time of death was living with his son William, with whom he had resided ever since the death of his wife.

His many friends here will learn of his death with sadness.
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The Fort Scott Weekly Tribune
Fort Scott, Kansas
Thursday, March 13, 1890
Page 2, Column 2

Hartman – On the 2nd inst. At the residence of Wm. Hartman of this city, of la grippe, Mr. Alfred Hartman, father of our new townsman, Wm. Hartman.

The funeral ceremony was conducted by Elder Dizmang at the Christian church on Monday, the remains being laid to rest in Mapleton cemetery. - Mapleton Dispatch
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Coordinator's note: The second obituary, published in Fort Scott implies that the deceased died in the town of Mapleton, Kansas.