29 Dec 2009

Fase Selected Documents

Obituary

Abilene Daily Chronicle, Abilene, KS, [newspaper].

12 Feb 1909

Obituary.

Mrs. Katherine Face was born April 10, 1831 and died February 3, 1909, aged 77 years, 9 months and 23 days. She came with her husband from Pennsylvania to Kansas in 1876. They resided near Manchester until 1896 when they moved to Abilene where they have since lived. To this union were born six daughters and four sons, namely, Mrs. Amanda Freeman of Atchison, Lewis of Maryland, John of Abilene, Alfred of Kansas City, Mrs. Ella Faux of Pennsylvania, Mrs. Agnes Livingston of Salina, Mrs. Emma Menges of Abilene, Mrs. Laura Tolbert of Colorado, David of Salina, Mrs. Belinda Sholl deceased.
Besides the children, the aged husband, fifty-four grand-children and twenty-five great grand-children survive her.
She had been a member of the Lutheran church for many years. Although suffering from ill health for several years, yet the end came unexpectedly, after an attack of la grippe [influenza]. Mrs. Face will be missed by a wide circle of friends who extend their sympathy to the family in their bereavement.

Neighborhood News

Atchison Weekly Globe, Atchison, KS, [newspaper].

6 Jan 1910

Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Freeman, living south of town, furnished Christmas dinner for forty-two people. Nine of them were their children and twenty-one were grandchildren.

Obituary

Atchison Daily Globe, Atchison, KS, [newspaper].

23 Feb 1940

Mrs. John Freeman Dies

Mrs. John F. Freeman, 87, a Kansas pioneer woman and a resident of Atchison county 45 years, died at 1:50 o'clock this morning at her home on the Atchison Leavenworth road, just south of the city. She had been ill since Monday with a congestion of the lungs. Death was due to a heart attack.
Funeral services will be held at 1 o'clock Monday afternoon from the Sawin & Douglass chapel with the Rev. Loyal Northcott officiating. Burial will be in Oak Hill cemetery.
Amanda E. Fase, daughter of Phillip and Kathern Fase, was born January 5, 1853, in Adams county, near Hanover, Pa. She was married to John F. Freeman at Point Town [Pinetown], Pa., December 2, 1873. In August, 1877, the couple took up a homestead in Dickinson county, Kas., 30 miles from Abilene, and lived on it until coming to Atchison county in 1895.
Mrs. Freeman was the mother of 10 children. She was a member of the Christian church and a fine woman.
Surviving are her husband, who is also 87; five daughtrs [sic], Mrs. Jennie Tice, Topeka, Mrs. Grace Clark, St. Joseph, Mrs. Ada Garrison, Nyssa, Ore., Mrs. Laura Chapman, Atchison, and Mrs. Florence Barber, Riverside, Calif.; 40 grandchildren and 68 great-grandchildren.