Obituaries
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[Louisa Ellen Caskey Wells]

Times-Republican

Thursday    May 27, 1926    [p. 6]

Louisa Caskey Wells

Louisa Ellen Caskey, daughter of William and Rebecca [Gilmore] Caskey, was born in Morgan County, Ky., Feb. 21st, 1847, and died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Sarah George in Hopkins, Mo., May 21st, 1926, aged 79 years and 3 months.  She spent her girlhood days in Kentucky where she married John J. [efferson] Wells on Sept. 1st, 1861.   He preceded her in death Nov. 7, 1894.  She leaves to mourn their loss three daughters, Mrs. Sarah George, Mrs. Maggie Margason and Mrs. Belle Thompson.  Also thirteen grandchildren, Mrs. Eva Covey, Morrilton, Ark.; Mrs. Ethel Campbell, Mt. Grove, Mo.; Omer Margason, Riverside, Calif.; Arthur and Ellen Margason, Morrilton, Ark.; Laurence and Floyd Margason, Tulsa, Okla.; Paul, Claude, Doyle, Aileen, Naomi, and Wilma Thompson, Bedford, Iowa.  Eight great grandchildren, Roberta, Louise and Allen Covey, Morrilton, Ark.; Lenore, Lois, Monna Belle and Collis Fay Campbell, Mt. Grove, Mo.; Margaret Enola Margason, Riverside, Calif.  Two brothers, W. T. Caskey, San Dimas, Calif., Lee A. Caskey, Hazel Green, Ky.  Two sisters, Mrs. Angeline Wilson, Vicksburg, Mich., and Mrs. Evaline Havens, Hazel Green, Ky.  She was for a number of years a member of the Berea Church of Christ, near Bedford, later placing her membership with the Eagle Grove Church of Christ near the same place, at which place she was a member at the time of her death.  She obeyed the Gospel in early life and remained a faithful consistent Christian until death.  She was patient sufferer for 18 months and was willing to go when God saw fit to take her.

 

[Mattie Belle Webb Gartside]

Times-Republican

March 16, 1922

Mrs. W. H. Gartside, Aged 65, Dies of Pneumonia

Mrs. Mattie Belle Gartside, wife of W. [illiam] H. Gartside, a farmer southeast of town, died Monday at the home after an illness of several weeks of pneumonia.  She was 65 years, 6 months and 29 days old and beside her husband is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Goldie Mae Hoover of Bartlett [Nebraska], and two sons, Harry Glen Gartside of Chetopa [Kansas] and Merl Webb Gartside of Parsons [Kansas], and five grandchildren, Gaylord and Dale Hoover of Bartlett, Stanley and Floris Gartside of Chetopa, and Gerald Gartside of Parsons [Kansas].  Three sisters, Mrs. Charles Taylor [Nancy] of Bedford, Ia.; Mrs. Sarah Nendick of Omaha, Nebr., and Mrs. Etta Titus of Clark County, South Dakota, and a brother, William Webb of Paloma, Ill., also survive her.

The funeral was held Wednesday afternoon from the Christian church here, Rev. C. M. Thomas of Oswego, officiating and burial being at Oak Hill Cemetery.

Mattie Belle Webb was born at Bedford, Ia., July 29, 1856.  She remained with her parents until she was 27 years of age, when she was united in marriage to W. [illiam] H. Gartside, November 29, 1883.  To this union, three children were born, as mentioned above.

With her family she moved to Nebraska, where they lived until 1914, when they moved to Chetopa, buying a farm southeast of here, which had since been the home.   Mrs. Gartside had united with the Christian church at the age of 15 years and her life had been one of devotion to her religious faith and her family.  Her life also had attracted a great circle of devoted friends.----Chetopa, Kansas, Advance

Mrs. Gartside, whose death is mentioned above, was born in Bedford and was among the oldest settlers.  The family left here about 20 years ago.  They had many friends in the county who will sympathize with the bereaved husband and children in the loss of wife and mother.  Before her marriage she was known as Miss Mattie Belle Webb, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. [illiam] A. Webb, former residents of Bedford, but now residing in Illinois

[GARTSIDE, MARTHA BELLE "MATTIE" WEBB]
Chetopa Clipper (Chetopa, Kansas), Wednesday, March 1, 1922
Mattie Belle Gartside was born July 29, 1856, at Bedford, Iowa, and died February 27, 1922, at Chetopa, Kansas.
The Funeral Services were held at the Christian Church at 2 o'clock Wednesday afternoon, March 1st, '22, Rev. C. M. Thomas of Oswego, officiating. Interment at Oak Hill cemetery.

[GARTSIDE, MARTHA BELLE "MATTIE" WEBB]
Coffeyville Daily Journal (Coffeyville, Kansas), Friday, March 3, 1922
Mrs. Belle Webb Gartside, 65, died this week at her home, three miles south of Chetopa.