Compiled by: Cheryl Bell
OBITUARIES
Ezekiel Gasaway -- Ezekiel Gasaway, 173 West Main Street, an engineer in
the Galesburg, Illinois City Water Department where he had been employed
thirty-one years, died of a heart attack and kidney ailment Saturday afternoon
about 5:00 at St. Mary's Hospital. Mr. Gasaway's condition was believed to
have shown improvement but a relapse in early afternoon resulted in his death
a few hours later. Before becoming a city employee, Mr. Gasaway was a locomotive
fireman for the Santa Fe Railroad. He was born September 12, 1888 in Hickory
County, Missouri and resided at La Plata until about twenty years ago. Since
then Galesburg has been his home. Survivors are the wife, Grace, to whom
Mr. Gasaway was married at Dallas City, March 13, 1910; three children, Mrs.
Lillian Owen, Charles and James E. Gasaway, all of Galesburg, Illinois; there
are four grandchildren; two sisters and two brothers, Mrs. Anna Brown and
Mrs. Alice Barry, both of La Plata, Missouri and John Gasaway of Chillicothe,
Illinois and Bill Gasaway of Streator, Illinois. Services were held Tuesday
morning. Burial was in Memorial Park. La Plata Home Press, 22 August 1946
(Source: Obituaries Taken From the La Plata Home Press, La Plata, Missouri,
compiled by Sharon Graham Foutes, 1990)
John Samuel Gasaway -- A former La Plata resident, John Samuel Gasaway,
sixty-four, of Chillicothe, Illinois, died in the Santa Fe Hospital in Topeka,
Kansas last Wednesday. Funeral services were held Friday afternoon at 2:00
in the Wilson Funeral Home at La Plata with Rev. Clyde Miller officiating.
Burial was in the La Plata Cemetery. The son of Sam and Mary (Moore) Gasaway,
he was born at Elmer April 23, 1896. He married Aldena Thomas in Marceline
October 12, 1919 and to this marriage two daughters were born. Surviving
are his wife; one daughter, Mary Brown of Chillicothe, Illinois; one grandson,
Steven Brown, and two sisters, Alice Barry and Anna Brown, both of La Plata.
He was preceded in death by an infant daughter, his parents, one sister and
three brothers. Mr. Gasaway had lived in Illinois for the past twenty-seven
years and was a retired section foreman for the Santa Fe Railroad. He was
a member of the Methodist Church in La Plata, Masonic lodge and the Scottish
Rite Consistory of Peoria, Illinois, the American Legion Post No. 9 and No.
178 Order of the Eastern Star. Mr. Gasaway was a veteran of World War I.
Masonic services were held at the funeral home and a Legion guard served
at the Cemetery. Bearers were Dewey Williamson, Aldace Naughton, Sr., Ray
Sees, William Naughton, Lewis Fulner and Clifford Wares. La Plata Home Press,
February 16, 1961
(Source: Obituaries Taken From the La Plata Home Press, La Plata, Missouri,
compiled by Sharon Graham Foutes, 1990)
Leota Joy Gasaway -- The little five month old daughter of John and Dena
Gasaway, Leota Joy, was born at La Rose, Illinois December 8, 1929 and following
a month's illness of a complication of diseases, died in that city May 7.
Her mother and father and an eight year old sister, Mary Clara and her
grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Thomas of Marceline, Missouri, and Mrs.
Mary Gasaway of La Plata, together with other relatives and family friends,
mourn their loss. Funeral services were held in La Plata at the residence
of Jack Brown Friday afternoon, May 9, at 2:30, conducted by Rev. R.R. Watts,
pastor of the La Plata Baptist Church. Interment was made in La Plata Cemetery.
La Plata Home Press, 15 May 1930
(Source: Obituaries Taken From the La Plata Home Press, La Plata, Missouri,
compiled by Sharon Graham Foutes, 1990)
Mary E. Gasaway Dies After A Short Illness Funeral of Aged Woman Held Here
Sunday Afternoon at 2:30 Mrs. Mary Moore Gasaway passed away at the home
of her daughter, Mrs. Jack Brown, Friday evening at 7:30 after a short illness
at the age of 82. Mary Eliza Moore, daughter of Wm. and Martha Moore was
born in Macon County Feb. 9, 1856. She was united in marriage to Samuel Gasaway
in 1873. To this union were born eight children, four girls and four boys.
Her husband and three children preceded her in death: Martha E. who died
in infancy, Mrs. Viola Story and Oliver Gasaaway. She is survived by two
daughters, Mrs. Jack Brown and Mrs. George Barry of LaPlata; three sons,
Wm. of Ransom, Ill.; John of Chillicothe, Ill.; and Ezekiel of Galesburg,
Ill.; 14 grandchildren and six great grandchildren; two sisters, Katy Keyte
of Elmer and Janie Davis of Kirksville; one brother, Willie Moore of Glencoe,
Okla.; and one half brother, Dee Moore of Piedmont, Mo. The funeral was held
at the home of Mrs. Jack Brown, February 20, 1938 at 2:30 p.m., conducted
by Reverend Hudson. Interment was made in the LaPlata Cemetery.
(Source: Newspaper Unknown. Date: 18 February 1938)
Mary Gasaway -- Mrs. Mary Gasaway died at the home of her daughter, Mrs.
Jack Brown, Friday evening after a short illness at the age of eighty-two.
Mary Eliza Moore, daughter of William and Martha Moore, was born in Macon
County February 9, 1856. She was united in marriage to Samuel Gasaway in
1873. To this union were born eight children, four girls and four boys. Her
husband and three children preceded her in death, Martha E., who died in
infancy, Mrs. Viola Story and Oliver Gasaway. She is survived by two daughters,
Mrs. Jack Brown and Mrs. George Barry of La Plata; three sons, William of
Ransom, Illinois, John of Chillicothe, Illinois and Ezekiel of Galesburg,
Illinois; fourteen grandchildren and six great-grandchildren; two sisters,
Katy Keyte of Elmer and Junie Davis of Kirksville; one brother, Willie Moore
of Glencoe, Oklahoma and one half-brother, Dee Moore of Piedmont, Missouri.
Funeral services were held at the home of Mrs. Jack Brown February 20 at
2:00, conducted by Rev. Fred L. Hudson. Interment was made in the La Plata
cemetery. La Plata Home Press, 24 February 1938
(Source: Obituaries Taken From the La Plata Home Press, La Plata, Missouri,
compiled by Sharon Graham Foutes, 1990)
Oliver Gasaway -- Oliver L. Gasaway, who had been employed by the Santa Fe
Railroad on the Illinois division for the past thirty-two years, died at
the Santa Fe Hospital in Fort Madison, Iowa suddenly after being in ill health
for several months. Funeral services were held at the Community Presbyterian
Church here Tuesday afternoon at 2:30, conducted by Rev. Fred L. Hudson.
Interment was made in the La Plata Cemetery. Oliver Lafayette Gasaway, son
of Samuel and Mary Gasaway, was born July 18, 1885 in Hermitage, Missouri
and died November 8, 1936 at the A.T. & S.F. Hospital in Ft. Madison,
Iowa after a lingering illness. He was fifty-one years, three months and
twenty-three days old. On October 28, 1908, he was united in marriage to
Serepta Beck and to this union were born two sons, WIlliam Beck of Chillicothe,
Illinois and Earl Manford of La Plata. Mr. Gasaway was an employee of the
A.T. & S.F. Railroad on the Illinois division for thirty-two years. Besides
his mother and two sons he is survived by two sisters, Mrs. George Barry
and Mrs. Jack Brown of La Plata; three brothers, Ezekiel of Galesburg, William
of Ransom and John of Chillicothe. Preceding him in death were his father,
April 15, 1929 and two sisters, Mrs. James Story April 13, 1932 and Martha
E. who died in infancy. La Plata Home Press, 12 November 1936
(Source: Obituaries Taken From the La Plata Home Press, La Plata, Missouri,
compiled by Sharon Graham Foutes, 1990)
Samuel Gasaway -- Samuel Gasaway was born February 29, 1848 in Montozuma,
Indiana and died April 15, 1929 at his home in La Plata, at the age of eighty-one
years, one month and twenty-three days. On March 27, 1873, he was married
to Mary Elzie Moore in New Boston, Missouri. To this union were born eight
children of which one died in infancy. Those surviving are Mrs. George Barry,
Mrs. James Story and Mrs. Jack Bowen, all of La Plata, Ollie of Chillicothe,
Illinois, Ezekiel of Galesburg, Illinois, William of Ramon, Illinois and
John of LaRose, Illinois. At the age of eighteen he enlisted in the army
and served three years in the service of his country. After being discharged
from the service he moved with his parents to Elmer, Missouri. A few years
later he moved to La Plata where he has resided for the past twenty-seven
years. He was employed for a number of years on the Santa Fe Railroad. He
leaves to mourn his passing besides his wife and seven children, fourteen
grandchildren and a host of other relatives and friends. The beautiful floral
offerings were tokens of love and esteem by which a husband and father was
held in the hearts. The funeral services were held from the home Wednesday,
April 15, at 2:30, conducted by Rev. J.B. Walrafern, pastor of the Methodist
Church. Interment was made in the La Plata Cemetery. La Plata Home Press,
25 April 1929
(Source: Obituaries Taken From the La Plata Home Press, La Plata, Missouri,
compiled by Sharon Graham Foutes, 1990)
William Gasaway -- William Gasaway, a former La Plata resident, died in a
Joliet, Illinois hospital last Friday from post-operative complications.
He was sixty-one years of age. Gasaway was born at Hickory, Missouri, near
Elmer, June 8, 1893, the son of Samuel and Mary Moore Gasaway. On December
18, 1910, he married Claudia Grear. Seven children were born, six of whom
survive. Employed by the Santa Fe as Maintenance of Way Supervisor for forty-two
years, Gasaway lived for some time in La Plata but moved to Illinois in 1918.
He was a member of the South Methodist Church in La Plata and of the Verona
Lodge 757 A.F. & A.M. Gasaway was preceded in death by his parents, one
daughter; two brothers, Ollie and Ezekial and one sister, Mrs. Viola Story.
He is survived by his wife; six children; one brother, John of Chillicothe,
Illinois; two sisters, Mrs. Anna Brown and Mrs. Alice Barry of La Plata;
twenty grandchildren and one great-grandchild. Surviving children include
Mrs. William Sisk of Chillicothe, Illinois, Mrs. C. D. Magers of Grand Island,
Nebraska, Mrs. Harry Wallen of Hammond, Indiana, Clifton Gasaway of Detroit,
Michigan, Mrs. Robert Hammond of Wilmington, Illinois and Mrs. Donald Braghini
of Verona, Illinois. Funeral services were held here Sunday, September 5
at the Wilson Funeral Home with Rev. Harold Johnson officiating. The La Plata
Masonic Lodge conducted graveside services. Compiler's note: In the survivors,
it lists a daughter, Mrs. C. D. Magers, but in other family member obituaries,
there is a Pearl Myers listed... there is no Magers. The newspaper this was
copied from was not in the best of condition and I might have mistaken Myers
to be Magers somehow. La Plata Home Press, September 9, 1954
(Source: Obituaries Taken From the La Plata Home Press, La Plata, Missouri,
compiled by Sharon Graham Foutes, 1990)
Mrs. Elizabeth Gaunt, 74, better known as "Aunt Billie" died at her home
in Randolph County, Mo. 12 April 1928. She leaves her husband, one sister,
Mrs. T.W. Craven, one brother and three children. Funeral at Union Church
and interment in nearby cemetery.
(Source: Macon County Obituaries 1921-1933)
Henry Gibson, 81, died 24 September 1927 at his home in Cairo, Mo. Funeral
at Cairo and burial in Grand Prairie Cemetery.
(Source: Macon County Obituaries 1921-1933, by Phyllis Mears)
S.S. Greer -- S.S. Greer passed away Friday evening at the home of his daughter,
Miss Jamie Greer at Kansas City after a ten-day's illness. Funeral services
were held this afternoon at 2:30 at College Mound. Mr. Greer was 87 years
old. He leaves a wife, three sons, a daughter, and a step-daughter. Mr. Greer
has made his home in Kansas City for the past few months. He formerly lived
in College Mound. He is well known in Macon and his many friends here will
regret to hear of his death.
(Source: Daily Chronicle Herald, Monday, 26 January 1925)
Greer -- Solomon S. Greer was born in Kentucky November 27, 1837. Died January
24, 1925, at the home of his daughter, Miss Jane Greer of Kansas City, Missouri.
He was united in marriage to Elizabeth Kinkade in August 1857. To this union
was born one daughter, Mary, who died when young. After the death of his
first wife he was again united in marriage to Mary Elizabeth Whitehead in
1860. To this union was born four boys and two girls. Johnnie Greer died
when young. Mrs. Mary Ada Williams died in 1910. William Henry Greer died
February 4, 1921. Miss Janie Greer, Kansas City, Mo., R.G. Greer, College
Mound, Mo., and Elmer Greer, Moberly, Mo. still survive. After the death
of his second wife he was again united in marriage to Mrs. Elizabeth Hughes
in 1884. To this union was born two sons. One died in infancy. The other,
Carl S. Greer is in Slaton, Texas. Besides his children he leaves to mourn
their loss, 10 grandchildren, 1 great-grandchild and other relatives and
a host of friends. Bro. Greer was converted when a child and later in life
was sanctified, and lived a holy life till the Lord called him hence. Bro.
Greer was a man that was well known to the holiness people. He was always
found standing for that which was right. He was always ready to tell what
the Lord had done for him when opportunity presented itself. He was a man
of firm convictions, years ago taking his stand for the One New Testament
Church. He believed in its officers, ordinances and order and fought life's
battles along these lines. His faith was centered in Him who doeth all things
well, and has now gone to reap his reward. Bro. Greer was a man that will
be greatly missed by his companion who is left to mourn her loss with the
rest of the family, and will especially be missed by the church at College
Mound, as all will remember that as long as health permitted he was always
found at the public worship in the College Chapel. And should the camp meeting
convene at College Mound he will be greatly missed at that gathering. But
he has fought the battles and gone on before to be with all of God's redeemed.
His funeral was preached in the chapel in the presence of his sorrowing children
and congregation. The subject used was the Redemption of both soul and body,
proving that by regeneration and sanctification of the soul that it has now
gone into the presence of its Maker and that in the resurrection morning
God will call for these bodies to come forth to a resurrected and glorified
body. Then we can say, "O, grave where is thy victory, and death where is
thy sting?" Thank God for such a plan of redemption that is able to bring
us into a state of peace with our heavenly Father that will qualify us to
stand in His presences and be accounted worthy through His name to live forever
and forever, for the former things have passed away. No more sickness, sorrow
or death. May the Lord abundantly sustain and comfort his companion, children
and relatives and may they all look well to the interests of their souls,
knowing that we all shall follow shortly after him. Your humble servant.
(Source: "Church Herald and Holiness Banner", Overland Park, KS)
William Henry Greer -- William Henry Greer died yesterday at the St. Mary's
hospital in Quincy, Illinois, where he was taken several weeks ago when seriously
hurt at Mine 66 in Bevier. The body was brought here last night on Burlington
train No. 15. Funeral services will be held tomorrow at College Mound. Burial
at that place.
(Source: The Daily Chronicle-Herald, Saturday, 5 February 1921)
Wm. Henry Greer Dies at Quincy Friday -- William Henry Greer, a coal miner,
53 years old, of Macon, who was injured in a mine accident, December 30,
last, near Bevier, died in St. Mary's hospital at Quincy Friday morning.
He was taken to the hospital there the day following the accident suffering
from a broken back and internal injuries. An inquest was held by Coroner
August Stormer in the Wiskirchen undertaking establishment at noon Friday.
The verdict of the coroner's jury gave the cause of death to be the gradual
extension of paralysis to the lungs and heart caused by spinal cord injuries
suffered in an accident in Mine No. 66, Bevier, Mo., December 30th. Greer
was born in Adair County, on December 26, 1867, and is survived by his wife,
two sons, one daughter and three brothers. The body was taken to Macon for
burial Friday afternoon. Whig-Journal
(Source: The Daily Chronicle-Herald, Monday, 7 February 1921 - page 4, column
3)
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