Iowa Old Press
Davenport Democrat
Davenport, Scott, Iowa
6 Feb 1905
Captain W.L. Clark Tells of Pioneer Days
Our Earliest Settlers, Who Davenport Was Names After, the County Seat Honors,
Etc.
..."Life during 1827,1828 and 1829 was vexed by many obstacles. The
first of these three years I spent in sight of Davenport, with occasional trips
across the river. I remember well when there was no white family on the Iowa
side. The next year, 1828, trade opened with the Indians across the river. A
buck came over and wanted to sell a pony. My father went to the Iowa side,
taking me with him, and bought the pony.
"Do you ask how the Indian delivered the pony to
the Illinois side? He took a rawhide lasso, tied it around the pony's neck and
the Indian paddled across the river, taking his time to do so, and the pony swam
where he could not walk. The spot of staring was about the foot of Brady street,
landing about where Eighteenth street is at Rock Island.
"In the year 1828 Hon. John W. Spencer, John
Brasher and William Carr came; and in the spring of 1829 Judge Pense and family,
Wallis Pense, Henry Wells and family, all of whom were frightened away by the
Indians and Indian traders. They all left and settled on Henderson river, four
miles northeast of the 'Lower Yellow Banks' now Oquaka, Henderson county, Ill.
"Later my father's family came and built a hewn
log house at the creek, and at the west end of your town (Andalusia), in the
fall of 1832. The logs used now form the west half of Henry Springmeier's
residence, at Buffalo, having been transported on ice (we really had ice in
those days, when the old river was unspoiled by the hands of men).
"At this time my father built, his was the only
house between that of Joshua Vandruff on Vandruff's island at the foot of Black
Hawk Tower and Erastus Dennison, at the 'Upper Yellow Bank', now New Boston,
distant about 30 to 35 miles from each other.
"The next house was built by Hackley Sams at
Sulphur Springs in the spring of 1834. Next was that of John Vanatta, during the
fall of 1834, and afterwards bought by Jonathan Buffum, and occupied by his
family. Next came the place one-half mile east of Lewis Huff, the fall of 1834.
"The same fall, 1834, Dunlap and Dan and John
Edgington came to the country and stopped some time with my father who went with
them over to look at lands north of where Edgington now is, where they located,
two remaining on the ground while John Edgington went to Qunicy on the little
steamer 'Adventurer' to enter their lands of the government.
"Later they all left for their home in Stubenville,
O.,to return in the spring with their families. My father sent by them for 500
apples trees.
"In the spring of 1835 they chartered a boat on
the Ohio river, brining with them the elder McNutt, and his son John, a
carpenter, Moses Titterington as well as Charles and two other brothers, with
their families, also Charles and Harry Everhart with their families and Adolph
Dunlap, who was a noted gunsmith. All of these proved excellent people, not a
black sheep among them.
"A little later James Robinson came, then
Parmenters settled just west of him, and here I will close this line of thought
to give you more of the history of what is now Andalusia.
"My father, Capt. B.W. Clark, entered, I think,
160 acres, part being the present town, and placed in under fence and plow.
After looking the ground all over he established 'Clark ferry,' which became the
most noted ferry above St. Louis, nearly all of the first settlers of Scott,
Muscatine, Cedar and Linn counties crossing into Black Hawk's purchase here.
"Among these we will name Edward Wright and
family, when we ferried over in 1836. I helped to do so myself. Mr. and Mrs.
Wright were the grandparents of our worthy friend and supervising secretary, R.E.
Reede, who is present tonight, and is the descendant of worthy people.
"You will see that Monmouth is 40 miles due south
and Dubuque 75 miles due north with no cross lots, and the ferry was below the
mouth of Rock river, thus saving crossing Rock river and sloughs to reach Black
Hawk's purchase.
"Father could have claimed where Davenport now is,
below what is now Harrison street, the Le Claire reservation being above that.
But why go there? Our country was more beautiful ,better timber, with coal in
sight in many of the creeks.
"We did our fencing with split rails for many
years, no pine lumber being run down the river until many years later; no wire
fencing. Thus our timber was in demand.
"Buffalo would have been the country seat of Scott
county had it not been for the trickery of the territorial legislature, in
subdividing Des Moines county, throwing Buffalo only three miles from the
Muscatine county line. My father after removing to Black Hawk's purchase in
1833, continued to run the ferry and about 1836 sold to Col. Stevenson, W.S.
Hamilton and Mr. Whiteside, of Galena, Ill. his entire interest excepting the
fraction lying in front of your town, and to lots lying where Frank Eby (I
think) built his store, across the street and east of your city hall and the
ferry franchise for $17,000. These men with others bought part of the interest
of Johan Case and J.W. Spencer and laid out the town of Stevenson, afterwards
Rock Island. They also laid out the town of Rockport, which run east up to the
Buffum creek, west nearly one-half mile below the sulphur springs, south over
the hills at least a mile from the river. They had it platted in a most gorgeous
and attractive manner. They took the map to Washington city where they sold many
thousands of dollars of town lots Daniel Webster, Henry Clark, J.C. Calhoun,
Gen. George Jones and others, none of whom ever saw the lots. Rockport died a
natural death, and after an interrupted sleep of many years, was sold for taxes
bought by Napoleon Bonapart Bufort, laid out in town lots and named Andalusia.
The younger people perhaps do not know whom the above named gentleman is, but
old citizens remember him as a citizen of Rock Island.
"Colonel Stevenson, Messrs. Hamilton and Whiteside
joined with George Davenport and laid over a very large town site, where the
town of Sears now is and called it Rock Island City, but this was neither a
financial success nor a swindle for a lack of purchasers of lots.
"Before selling his land at Andalusia, my father
gave sufficient ground for the cemetery in which the first burial was that of
Ciles Gabbert, son of Daniel Gabbert, whom my father had living there to
run the ferry.
"This by omitting many items, brings us up to the
days of Samuel Kenworthy, who came in 1841, and a little later Dr. Andrew Bowman
and many others that can tell you much better than I of more recent events.
"Before closing I am asked to state as a peculiar
feature that during a long life I have lived in the Louisiana purchase state of
Illinois, (I can almost say territory since the state is only four years older
than myself). The territory of Michigan, now state; Black Hawk's purchase, Iowa
territory and the state of Iowa, and only moved one mile. And I can add that I
have a friend who's oldest son was born in Michigan territory, second in
Wisconsin territory, third in Iowa territory, fourth in the state of Iowa, all
being born in the same log cabin. The name of my friend was 'Timber' Woods of
Burlington, Iowa.
EXPERIENCES WITH INDIANS.
Only Playmates Were Young Savages-Customs of Sacs and Foxes.
After the reading of the manuscript the speaker
supplemented it with offhand reminisces and answers to inquiries, bringing out
things that the audience particularly wished to learn about. The mention of the
name of an old resident was sufficient to bring forth experiences and anecdotes
that were highly entertaining.
Among other things the manner in which the Clark family
happened to come to Rock Island was told. It was the original intention to
settle at Fort Edwards, as the site of the present town of Warsaw was then
known. There the Clarks did stop and Captain Benjamin Clark bought an interest
in a herd of cattle which was pastured in the bottoms opposite Quincy. George
Davenport, the Indian trader, who was at that time already located at Rock
island, learned of the elder Clark and engaged him to come up the river and cut
some wild hay. The family was brought along on the trip and remained here from
that time on. The present Captain Clark remembers distinctly when his father
carried him from the gang plank of the small river steamer on which the trip was
made and placed him down on shore in the midst of a crowd of 100 Indians who had
gathered to see the boat land.
Only Indian Playmates
Of the Indians were told many interesting things. In
his boyhood Captain Clark for a number of years had no playmates but the Indian
children and with these he was on the best of terms. He learned their language
and ran, swam, fished and hunted with them. One of his closest friends was Moses
Keokuk, the chief who later attained considerable prominence when the tribe had
been removed to the Indian Territory. Late in life a correspondence was opened
with Keokuk and photographs were exchanged. The likeness of his boyhood friend
Captain Clark was prized among his most precious possessions till in a moment of
weakness he yielded to the urgent request of an enterprising newspaper man and
gave it up to have an engraving made. That was the last of it.
Another of his early friends among the Indians was one
named Messico. He and Messico were chums. In the Black Hawk war Captain Clark,
Sr., led a company of soldiers against the Sacs and Foxes and was the first to
engage them at the battle of Wisconsin Heights. While the warriors were
maneuvering to cover the retreat of their children and squaws Captain Clark shot
Messico. After the battle he approached the Indian and found that four bullets
had penetrated his body. The wounds were fatal and news of his death was one of
the saddest messages that the younger Clark ever received.
When the Clark family lived on what is now Sylvan water
in the vicinity of the Cable residence, the Sacs and Foxes in the fall before
starting out on their hunting expeditions would take their canoes around from
Rock river and filling them with stones sink them in the slough near the cabin.
This was done to hide them so that the Winnebagos, whom the captain describes as
a thieving tribe, could not find them and take them away. The canoes were
usually made of walnut logs hollowed out with fire. Occasionally a birch bark
canoe from the north was found among them.
Were Thrifty Tribe
The Sacs and Foxes were industrious, for Indians,
and unusually provident. From the Clark cabin to the mouth of Rock river was a
cultivated filed in which the squaws raised "squaws", corn beans, etc.
Until a few years ago in the unbroken pastures Captain Clark stated he could
find the hills in which the corn was planted, the ground being ridged up in
working it. When the tribe went away on a hunt greatest precautions were taken
to prevent the Winnebagos from getting the corn and beans that had been
harvested. To save this precious supply it was placed in sacks woven from the
bark of the linn or basswood tree. Then holes four or five deep were dug in the
ground, leaves were placed in the bottom and the sacks were put in. This was
then covered with more leaves, brush and grass to keep the water from reaching
the grain, then a thin layer of earth was placed on it and more leaves were
scattered, the natural appearance of the surface being artificially produced
with such nicety that the prying eyes of the Winnebagos were deceived.
"I have seen the Winnebaogs armed with muskrat,
spears long, sharp instruments of their own make that they used to prod in
muskrat houses and kill the animals, going about poking into the ground where
they thought they might find buried grain." said the captain in telling of
it. "Sometimes they would find what they were looking for and then when the
Sacs and Foxes came back they found all their trouble had been for nothing. The
method that the Indians used in keeping track of the location of their own
stores was not considered remarkable in the woodcraft of those days."
Probably the narrowest escape that Captain Clark had in
all his dealings with the Indians was purely an accident. He carries the scar to
this day, a dent in his head. He and some Indian boys were competing in jumping.
Moses Keokuk was among them and he had a heavy "squaw" hoe used in
cultivating crops. Just as young Clark jumped Keokuk was bringing down the hoe
to mark the place where he expected the white boy would land. The back of the
hoe came down on the top of the latter's head and a slight fracture of the skull
resulted.
FIRST WINTER WAS HARD ONE
Clarks Lived on Rations of Soldiers
Brought Out of Fort Through Cave
Privations were the rule the first winter the Clark
family spent here. They lived in Rock Island and George Davenport, the trader,
did not assist greatly in relieving their distress. He had hired the elder Clark
to put up hay but he had not expected that he would stay in these parts. He did
not want him here for the same reason that he did not want any other white
families to settle near him. He knew that with the coming of the whites the
Indians upon whom he depended on to add to his fortune would go. To make the
hint more pointed he refused absolutely to sell the Clarks anything to eat and
starvation stared them in the face.
Happily, they found a way out of the difficulty. This
story has been told but it will bear repeating. Captain Clark told it at
Andalusia.
In doing so he referred to the location of Black Hawk
cave that everyone has heard at one time led back under the rocky ledge near the
west end of Rock Island. This cave, the speaker stated, was not at the point of
the island, but opened out on the river at he place where the north abutment of
the Rock Island bridge now is. It extended back some distance into the island
and took a passive, though very important part in saving the Clarks from
starvation that winter.
Brought Barrel of Whisky.
Late in the fall the Black Rover, a little steamer
commanded by Captain Otis Runnells came down from a trip to Galena and tied up
for the winter, the captain making his home with the Clarks. Now Captain
Runnells had with him a barrel of whisky and there were soldiers at Fort
Armstrong. With the cave, the soldiers and the whisky introduced the average
person will have little difficulty in making a reasonably accurate guess as to
how the Clark family were saved from starvation.
The mouth of the cave was within the fort and there was
another end back somewhere among the brush of the island and the soldiers knew
all about it. As everyone is aware soldiers are furnished provisions, ordinarily
all they can eat and more, by the government. They are forbidden to dispose of
their food, of course, and guards are kept at all posts, whose duty it is to see
that forbidden articles are not carried away and that the garrison does not
leave without permission. But with the cave the proposition was easy. With
judicious husbanding by means of a round price demanded by Captain Runnells, the
soldiers had whisky all winter and the Clarks had substantial fare.
The cave is undoubtedly still there but one end is
sealed by the bridge abutment and the other, if it has not also closed by
natural means, no doubt was taken care of by some commander of the island who
realized that such a refuge was a bad thing to have so close to a government
post and closed it up.
TRIALS OF EARLY SCHOOL LIFE
Crude Structure Was Three Miles Away Through the Woods
Not the least interesting of the reminiscences told
by Captain Clark were connected with the first school that the relator attended.
That was when the family lived on the present site of Buffalo, and the school
house was three miles back through the forest in the interior. The difficulties
in the way of getting an education were so great that the youngster of those
days might consider himself fortunate if he obtained a smattering of the barest
rudiments. The particular school house referred to was of logs, about 14x14,
with clapboard roofs and with mud plastered in the cracks of the walls. Small
apertures covered with oiled paper served for windows. The floor was made of
"puncheons" or logs split with the face up and the irregularities
hewed down. The seats were puncheons with legs in them, and the desks the same
with the legs a little longer. For writing desks, more puncheons were placed on
pins that were driven into holes bored in the logs of the walls. The pupils sat
on the long seats with the "desks" on the side toward the middle of
the room and to write they merely turned about, putting their feet over on the
other side of the seats.
The big boys took turns weeks about building fires
mornings. The last think before leaving the school house in the evening one of
the boys was always sent to peer up the chimney over the fire place and be sure
that there was no fire in it, there being danger that the flue, which was built
of sticks laid crosswise and plastered with clay on the inside, might become
ignited and burn the house when it was left alone. The fire itself was carefully
covered up so it would "keep" as rekindling it was no small matter
when matches were unknown.
Pens from Owl Quills.
For pens quills taken from the wings of wild geese
were used, and Captain Clark told of one direful occasion on which the supply of
quills was exhausted. There were not tame geese and wild ones were out of
season. Something had to be done or the writing lessons would have to be given
up. So a hunt was organized on a Saturday. The big boys went out to see if they
could kill a wild turkey. But no turkey could they find, either. It seemed that
the fates were against them. Finally they ran across an owl and killed it.
Quills from its wings served the purpose till those from geese were again
obtainable.
The school teachers "boarded around," and for
money consideration they were usually paid $1 a pupil for each term. Captain
Clark's first teacher, he declared, became rich at that. The elder Clark had
saved a large sum of money to buy government land with and one day about the end
of the school term the money and the schoolmaster disappeared together. Years
after it was learned the the same spring he hand entered some 2,000 acres of
land in an interior county of the state of Iowa. He became a man of wealth and
his descendants are respected and well-to-do residents of the same community.
There was never any attempt at prosecution.
A MORMON COLONY CAME
Tried to Buy Site to Erect a Temple at Buffalo During Forties.
It is not generally known nowadays that there was an
attempt made in the latter '40's to establish a Mormon town at Buffalo. A site
was laid out and a number of that faith took up their residence there. Among
them were several of the professed "spiritual wives" of the leader,
Joseph Smith. Some of the descendants of these people are still living in the
vicinity. The greater number, however, left before 1850. Followers of the faith
made overtures to purchase the site of the present home of Captain Clark for the
erection of a temple. The owner was quite willing to sell, but was not favorably
impressed with the terms offered, which involved little of the money of the
realm and a great deal of promised spiritual reward, a commodity rather easier
to supply, no doubt, from the would-be purchaser's point of view. So the deal
fell through.
These Mormons professed to hold frequent communication
with the unseen powers and often told Captain Clark what they claimed to have
seen and heard. One one occasion, he related, and elder assured him that at a
point near a certain well-known white oak stump an angel had appeared and
offered him his choice of two boxes, one containing gold and the other
knowledge. Of course he elected to take the knowledge, and asked the captain
what he would have done under similar circumstances. "Well," answered
the captain, reflectively, after taking a rapid inventory of the others
augmented mental equipment, "it seems to me I would have at least have
split them up and taken half of each."
Davenport Democrat
Davenport, Scott, Iowa
6 Feb 1905
"BUFFALO BILL" AND HIS WIFE
Have Squared Off for Their Fight in Divorce Court
He Says She Tried to Poison Him and She Denies it But Says He Deserves It
Buffalo Bill being listed among the "heroes of
Scott county," having been born not far from Davenport, a strong interest
is felt here in the sensational divorce case in which both he and his wife are
telling things about each other. The case was to have come up for hearing in
Wyoming Tuesday, and will come up Friday, the wife having secured three more
days for preparation. A dispatch from the scene of the trial says:
Cheynne, Wyo, Feb. 15- The divorce suit of William F.
Cody ("Buffalo Bill") against Mrs. Louisa Cody was called for hearing
here yesterday. Mrs. Cody argued for a continuance on the ground that the
critical illness of her father prevented her from leaving his bedside. Cody
fought for an immediate trial, declaring he must leave at once for Paris. He
charged Mrs. Cody desired to prevent him from appearing in person to refute her
sensational charges against him.
Judge Scott strongly criticised Mrs. Cody's attorneys
for their dilatory antics and called for the introduction of testimony. This
will be begun on Friday morning the interval being allowed Mrs. Cody that she
may secure depositions. Each party will spend five days in introducing testimony
and the case will be fought to the finish.
Attempt to Poison is charged
Colonel Cody's divorce petition, sworn to on Jan. 6,
1904, at Cody, Wyo., makes the following allegations:
First-Plaintiff alleges that on the 6th day of March
1886, at St. Louis, Mo. he was married to the defendant and since that time has
conducted himself toward defendant as a good, faithful and providing husband.
Second-That plaintiff has been a resident of the state
of Wyoming for over one year last past.
Third- The plaintiff further represents to the court
that on or about the 26th day of December, 1900, defendant in the city of North
Platte, Neb., was guilty of extreme cruelty towards plaintiff in that she
threatened as many times prior to that date and did not that date threaten to
poison plaintiff.
Fourth- Plaintiff, for a second cause of action,
alleges: That the marriage relations between plaintiff and defendant are
incompatible and intolerable, for defendant, without cause or provocation on the
part of plaintiff, has at divers times driven plaintiff from the former home in
North Platte, Neb. and has at divers times refused to let plaintiff bring his
guests to the former home; and many times when plaintiff has taken his friends
and guests to said former home defendant would make it so unpleasant for him and
his guests that they were forced to leave the house. Plaintiff further says that
such indignities offered to and placed upon him by defendant has rendered the
condition of his married life unbearable and intolerable.
Fifth-Plaintiff further says that this cause of action
is not brought through collusion on the part of either plaintiff or defendant.
Therefore plaintiff prays that he may be divorced from
defendant and have such other and further relief as may be just and equitable.
Says Cody Wants Male Heir
Mrs. Cody tells a story unique among divorce court
answers. She avers that her husband's extreme desire for a male heir is inducing
him to force upon her the role of a Josephine, which she will fight to the end.
She said today.
"I know there is a young woman whom he has been
taking around the country for several years and who, I understand, is now in
Washington. Whether he expects to marry her, I do not know, but I do know that
he can't case me off in this manner. I shall fight to protect my name. He shall
not have a divorce."
Mrs. Cody is a Roman Catholic and on that account will
not ask for a divorce.
"I wouldn't do it anyway, she said. "I would
not please the people who are putting him up to this business. One of these is
his sister, whose husband runs the Wyoming ranch and lives off the colonel. She
isn't satisfied with what she is getting, and think that if she could be rid of
me she would get more. She has done her worst for years to separate us and at
last she has talked him into it.
"The charges he makes are absurd and he cannot
substantiate them. I suppose he imagined that I would let the matter go without
contest but I will not rest under such injustice. If necessary, in order to
defend myself I will tell the court of all the indignities which I have
patiently suffered for years.
Calls Poison Story Groundless
"I can't imagine how he originated that story
of attempted poisoning. There isn't the semblance of foundation for it. Moreover
he says that it occurred in North Platte. As a matter of fact, on the day he
names we were visiting in Rochester, N.Y., where our children are buried.
"Regarding the charge that I have refused to
entertain his friends, I will admit that on some occasions I have done so. But
it was always under such circumstances that would compel any self-respecting
wife to enter protest. I have always been glad to entertain his guests when they
were respectable people or behaved themselves decently. But I have at times
objected to the character of some of the person he has brought here and to the
conduct of others who were respectable as far as their reputation and standing
were concerned. Why, I have had these rooms piled with drunken men, stretched
out on the floor.
"I never protested to my husband while an orgie was in
progress, but remonstrated when he became sober."
Declares Actress Got $50,000
In all of his trips abroad Colonel Cody never has
taken his wife.
"I have often asked him to take me to
England," she said, but he always had some excuse for not doing so. He
usually could afford to take some other woman. One of his trips was pretty
expensive. It cost him $50,000 to get out of his entanglement with that
Catherine Clements, the actress.
"Will is reckless with money," she said,
"and I felt that I could best help him by nursing our investments. He
realized this himself, for whenever he turned over money to me to buy property
he said, 'you hang on to this, Louisa. We may need it some day, if I ever come
to you and ask you to mortgage it, don't you do it.'"
Under the law of Wyoming a complainant cannot be
awarded a divorce if he is guilty of the offenses charged by him. Mrs. Cody
declares she will prove her husband was cruel and was guilty of drunkenness and
statutory offenses.
EMMA PERRY IS SENTENCED
Pleaded Guilty to Being a Fence and Gets Year in Jail
Woman Was Arrested Upon Confession of Fred Pipes, Eddie Fryauf and the Ross
Boys.
Emma Perry, indicted on the charge of being a
"fence" or the receiver of stolen goods from Fred Pipes, Eddie Fryauf
and Gene and Paul Ross, thought discretion in the way of pleading guilty to the
charge, would be better than the valor of facing a jury and therefore through
her attorney, Charles T. Cooper, she asked to be allowed to make such a plea.
The court accepted it and forthwith imposed a sentence
of one year at hard labor in the county jail.
Mrs. Perry was charged with receiving money from the
Pipes, Fryauf and Ross boys, which she knew was stolen from the Greek shoe
shining parlors on Brady street in the Vogt building.
She was indicted for being a "fence" by the
November grand jury and pleaded not guilty to the charge. Because of an error in
the reading of the indictment it was quashed and the woman was again indicted on
the same charge by the present grand jury.
Her sentence is the same as that meeted out to the boys
who by their confession incriminated her.
LABORER WORTHY OF HIS HIRE
Supreme Court Awards A.H. Reupke His Wages from the Stuhr Grain Company
Word has reached the city that the Supreme court has
affirmed the decision of the District court here in the case of A.H. Reupke vs.
the D.H. Stuhr Grain company.
The plaintiff had been employed by the grain concern as
a travelling representative under a contract for a year at a fixed salary. The
defendant, however, discharged the plaintiff before the year had expired and
stopped his pay. He sued upon the contract and was awarded the full amount. Ruel
B. Cook appeared as his attorney, while Lane & Waterman looked after the
defense.
CONTINUED UNTIL THE NEXT TERM
The Case of the State vs. James Bennett Will Go Over Until April.
The trial of the case of the State vs. James Bennett, charged with grand larceny, has been continued until the next term of court which meets in April. The entry was made by Judge Bollinger at the request of the county attorney on Tuesday afternoon.
PRISONERS TO PENITENTIARY
Sheriff Takes Henry Albert, Winfield Upson and T. Burke Thither
On His Return He Will Be Accompanied by Michael Conroy Who Secures a New Trial.
Sheriff McArthur left Tuesday afternoon for Fort
Madison with three prisoners recently sentenced. These were Winfield Upson sent
up for two and one-half years on the charge of stealing a load of corn; Henry
Albert, sentenced to ten years for his attempt to murder and rob Mrs. Ada
Manuel, and Thomas Burke, given one year for stealing William Bell's wagon and
team and driving it to Moline where he sold it.
On his return Sheriff McArthur will have Michael Conroy
in charge. He has been ordered to return him to the jail here where he will be
detained until the retrial in his case is called.
ALBERTA CAMP'S CARD SOCIABLE
Will Be Held in Columbia Hall on Friday Evening of This Week.
Alberta camp No. 505, Royal Neighbors of America
will entertain at a card party and social at Columbia hall on Friday evening
Feb. 17. There will be prizes awarded and a splendid program presented. The
Royal Neighbors of all camps are invited to participate.
The following program will be presented:
Duet: Miss Jennie Mickelwright and Mr. Frank Auerochs.
Reading: Mrs. Dr. Palmer
Piano and Violin: Master Allie Sterling and Miss
Lillian Sterling.
Reading: Miss Clara Harris.
Duet: Misses Belick and Martin.
Davenport Morning Star
Davenport, Scott, Iowa
Saturday, Feb. 7, 1905
TRACHOFSKY, Mrs. Elizabeth. The funeral was held yesterday morning with
services at St. Peter's church in Buffalo at 10 o'clock and interment in the
Buffalo cemetery.
The Rev. W.L. Hannon of Buffalo celebrated requiem high mass,
pronounced the absolution ceremony, preached the funeral sermon and officiated
at the grave. The pallbearers were Theodore Kautz, Robert Nugent, Joseph
Scharter, Fred Rinnert and Peter Willi.
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