The Topeka Daily Capital Obituaries

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Killed By Train.
Body Of H.B. BROWN Found on Missouri Pacific Right of Way. Atchison, Kan., March 19.(Special)--H.B. BROWN, for twenty-five years a track walker for the Missouri Pacific, was found dead on the right of way three miles south of Atchison this afternoon by officials of the road traveling in a railroad motor car. It is believed the man was struck by a train. In the motor
car were W.F. Kirk, division superintendent, of Kansas City, and J.M. Kelly, assistant, who were inspecting the division. Brown lived at Oakmills, was 58 years old and leaves a wife and daughter.

The Topeka Daily Capital
Saturday
March 20, 1920
 

Two Pioneers Die.
Atchison Loses Pair of Old Settlers by Death.
Atchison, Kan., April 6,--(Special.)--William S. CAIN, 84, a pioneer merchant here, who settled in Atchison county before Kansas was a state died today. In 1866 he was elected to the Kansas legislature after having served in the Civil war and rising to the rank of captain. Two daughters survive.

Oliver STERNER, 72, a tobacco dealer here thirty years, died today. He is survived by a widow and four children.
 

The Topeka Daily Capital
Wednesday
April 7, 1920
 

Dies After Long Illness.
Henry Hawsner, Atchison Pioneer, In One Room 17 Years. Atchison, Kan., March 23.--(Special)--After confinement in his room for the seventeen years since he closed out his wholesale grocery business in 1903, Henry HAWSNER, a resident of Atchison since 1855, died today at his home here. Physicians were unable to find a cause for his retirement to his room except an organic heart trouble. Business associates of former years say the man's action was caused because he was disheartened on account of business worry. Henry Hawsner was a native of Australia, and came to America at the age of 11 years, and to Atchison when he was 13. He was successful as a wholesale grocer and candy manufacturer, and upon his retirement was said to be worth much money. During those seventeen years he refused to go downstairs even to eat, and his wife and daughter carried his meals to him. A widow and one daughter survive.

The Topeka Daily Capital
Wednesday
March 24, 1920
 

Forty-Niner Dies.
Frank NEERMAN, Atchison, Sought Gold in California Rush. Atchison, Kan., March 19.--(Special)--Frank NEERMAN, a resident of Atchison county since 1837(?), died at his home here today. He was born in Germany and came to America a young man, working in the leather trade in New Orleans and St. Louis. He contracted gold fever in 1848 and went to California, by way of Nicaragua. He did not find gold, but made money in a small harness shop and when he came to Atchison he had money enough to buy a farm and become very wealthy. A widow and seven children survive.
 

The Topeka Daily Capital
Saturday
March 20, 1920

Kansan Dies At Sea.
Atchison, Kan., March 15.--News was received here today of the death of Martin TAPPIN, a moulder, first class, in the navy, somewhere at sea. The cause of his death was not stated. The last heard of him by Atchison relatives was in a letter written last January at Vladivostok, Siberia. He was in good health at that time. Tappin was 34 years old and is survived by a sister and two brothers.

The Topeka Daily Capital
Tuesday
March 16, 1920