Samuel Brown Magner

Samuel Brown Magner Obituary - 2
Thayer News - Thayer, Kansas - Neosho County
December 30, 1943 - Page 4

SAMUEL BROWN MAGNER

Samuel Brown Magner, son of Lanville and Anna Magner was born in Orange County, Indiana on March 31, 1871, and departed this life December 22, 1943 at the age of 72 years, 9 months and 23 days.

At the age of 12 years, he moved with his parents to Kansas, settling on a farm (cannot read the number) miles north of Galesburg later moving to a farm west of Chanute, then back to Galesburg where he and his father operated a grocery store.

He received his education in the public schools of Neosho and Wilson counties and attended college at Lawrence, Kansas.

On September 15, 1891, he was united in marriage to Miss Etta Mae Boje and to this union four children were born; Mrs. Audlene Mae Springer and Ralph Jerald Magner of Galesburg, Kansas.  Mrs. Mildred Anna Clark of Paola, Kansas and Albert Lanville Magner of Parsons, Kansas.

While a young man he united with the Baptist Church, transferring his membership to the Galesburg Christian Church on February 8, 1915, serving faithfully as an Elder, Deacon, Trustee, Teacher and Superintendent as long as his heart permitted.  He had been in failing health for several years.  Through his suffering he maintained his sunny countenance, cheery smile refreshed and uplifted those around him.  He lived with Christ as his Saviour unto the end.

He served as director of The Galesburg State Bank and chairman of the Mount Hope Cemetery Association.

He resided in the farming vicinity of Galesburg until September 3, 1923 at which time he moved to the home at Galesburg where he lived until the time of his death.

Besides the widow and four children, he is survived by 15 grandchildren, one great-grandchild, three sisters; Mrs. Minnie Rambo and Mrs. Cora Van Cleave both of Galesburg and Mrs. Lela Dunham of Stark and a host of friends to mourn his passing.

Funeral services were held Friday, December 24, 1943 at 3 o'clock at the Galesburg Christian Church with the Rev. Leo Balf officiating.  Funeral text was taken from St. John 15:1-14; and 14:1-7.  Reverend Balf sang as a solo "Will the Circle Be Unbroken?"  Rev. Balf and D.E. Womeldorff sang "Rock of Ages" and "Saved By Grace" with Mrs. W.E. Allen at the piano.

Miss Clair Trabue and Miss Cleora Clapsaddle took care of the flowers.

Honorary pallbearers were: F.E. Enlow, Harry Sappenfield, A. Austin, S.W. Shaw, W.S. Trabue and A. Hartley.  Casket Bearers were: G.W. McNaught, L. Shrum, Clair Trabue, Willard Brunenn, C.C. Duecy, W. L. Gulick.  Burial was in the Mt. Hope Cemetery.

Out of town relatives and friends who attended the funeral were; Mrs. Leliah Dunham, Oden Dunham of Stark, Mr. and Mrs. John Toomey of Chanute, the Rev. and Mrs. Fred Clark of Paola, Mr. and Mrs. Herman Simmons of Erie, Mrs. Carl Davis of Parsons, Miss Adalyn Magner, Wichita, Miss Luretta Magner of Parsons and Albert Magner, Jr. of Manhattan, Kansas.

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CARD OF THANKS

We wish to express our thanks to Reverend Balf,  to all our friends for the beautiful floral offerings, those furnishing music and all others who were so kind during the sickness and death of our husband and father--

Mrs. S.B. Magner and family

Samuel Brown Magner - My Paternal Great-Grandfather

Samuel Brown Magner Obituary - 1

The Erie Record - Erie, Kansas - Neosho County

December 31, 1943 - Page 7

Sam Magner Dies

Samuel B. Magner, a retired Galesburg farmer, died at his home December 22, 1943, after
having been bedfast only a few days, although he had been in ill health for a number of years.

The deceased came to Kansas when he was eight years old and had lived in the vicinity of
Galesburg all his life, and was well known throughout this section of the county. 

He was an uncle of Hollis Dunham of Erie with Samuel being a brother of Mr. Dunham's mother, Leila Margaret, wife of Mr. Henry Evan Dunham of Stark, Kansas.

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The Erie Record - Erie, Kansas

January 7, 1944 - Page 3

Galesburg News - Albert Magner, Jr. returned to K.S.A.C., Manhattan, Kansas Sunday after spending the holidays here with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Magner, Sr. and family.


Personal Note: Albert Magner, Jr. (my dad) was studying at the veterinary school at Kansas State University.    

Lanville Milton Magner

I do not know how the money was donated possibly the members of the Galesburg, Kansas Christian Church took up a collection for the stained glass window and plaque In Memory of Mr. & Mrs. L. M. Magner. 

Photo of the Stained Glass Window and Plaque 

Source: These two photos are the property of Burnill Clark, Son of Mildred (Magner) and Rev. Fred Clark

Lanville Milton Magner

NOTE: This photograph belongs to the Magner Family 

The Lanville Milton and Anna Mary (Taggart) Magner Family

 

 

 

 

 

 

     

 

 

 

 

Left to Right Standing: Cora Luella, Samuel Brown, Minnie F., John Edward and Lelia Margaret "Maggie" Magner

Seated: Parents - Anna Mary (Taggart) and Lanville Milton Magner

 

Lanville Milton Magner

 

Lanville and Anna Magner Children; four sons and five daughters

Daughter:  Laura Magner  (age, one month and six days)
Born: 1860 - Orleans, Indiana - Orange County
Died: January 4, 1861 - Orleans, Indiana - Orange County
Buried: Green Hill Cemetery - Orleans, Indiana - Orange County

Son:  John Edward Magner
Born: May 7, 1862 - Orleans, Indiana - Orange County
Died: December 28, 1920 - Parsons, Kansas - Labette County

Son:  Henry Magner   (age 7) 
Born: October 4, 1866 - Orleans, Indiana - Orange County
Died: 1873 - Orleans, Indiana - Orange County
Buried: Green Hill Cemetery - Orange County, Indiana

Daughter:  Minnie Florence Magner
Born: August 24, 1868 - Orleans, Indiana - Orange County
Died: January 18, 1959 - Galesburg, Kansas - Neosho County
Buried: Mount Hope Cemetery - Galesburg, Kansas - Neosho County
Husband: Herschel C. Rambo
One Son: Earle Rambo married Katie Kramer

Son:  Samuel Brown Magner
Born: March 31, 1871 -  Orleans, Indiana - Orange County
Died: December 22, 1943 - Galesburg, Kansas - Neosho County
Source: Date of Death confirmed with Death Certificate
Buried: Mount Hope Cemetery - Galesburg, Kansas - Neosho County
Wife: Etta Mae Boje (pronounced "boy")
Four Children; two sons and two daughters

Daughter:  Cora Luella Magner
Born: 1874 - Orleans, Indiana - Orange County
Died: October 1, 1956 - Parsons, Kansas - Labette County
Buried: Mount Hope Cemetery - Galesburg, Kansas - Neosho County
Married: December 30, 18??
Husband: Albert Maxcy "Max" Van Cleave
Three Sons

Daughter:  Lelia Margaret "Maggie" Magner
Born: January 1878 -  Orleans, Indiana - Orange County
Died: June 23, 1965 - Chanute, Kansas - Neosho County
Buried: Mount Moriah Cemetery - Stark, Kansas - Neosho County
Husband: Henry Evans Dunham

Daughter:  Mary E. Magner
Born:
Died:

Lanville Milton Magner

Hamilton Taggart Obituary, Anna Magner's brother

Orleans Progress Examiner - Orleans, Indiana 
February 16, 1905



IN MEMORIAM 

Hamilton Taggart was born in the county of Antrim Ireland, July 5th 1825 and died at his country home near Orleans, Indiana on February 10, 1905, aged 79 years, seven months and five days.  He was of Scottish-Irish lineage and traced his Scottish ancestry to the Northern Scotts, who centuries ago, effected permanent settlements in that part of Ireland.

Antrim is one of the most decidedly protestant counties in Ireland; and of the protestants by far the greatest proportion of Presbyterians.  It is a maritime county and has a considerable line of coast on the Atlantic Ocean.

In 1840, this fifteen-year-old lad came with his parents and in all a family of eleven to America.  They crossed the Atlantic in a sailing vessel and were six weeks making the voyage.  After some visits to relatives and acquaintances in other states, the family settled on this very farm, where for more than sixty years has dwelt, this man 'amongst men,' "who stood four square to all the winds that blew" and who was known at every farm house as an honest man.

The father and mother, John and Elizabeth, remembered only by our oldest people, are buried in the Orleans Cemetery.  Of the family who crossed the sea, there survives,  Mrs. William (Margaret) Magner, of this neighborhood and Mrs. Lanville (Anna) Magner, now residing in Galesburg, Kansas.

Mr. Taggart was married three times.  First, to Mary Ellen Magner in 1853.  Of this marriage, one child was born who survives, Emma Parker Taggart, now Mrs. D.F. Easley.  The mother, Mary died in 1856.

Mr. Taggart's second wife was Margaret McIntyre, of Lawrence County, who died about one year after the marriage.  A child was born, but died in infancy.

The third marriage of the deceased was to Margaret Marks, May 15, 1862.  To them eleven children were born.  Three died in infancy.  Of the children who grew up in this happy family, death has claimed two; Luella, October 25, 1893 and Molly L. on June 19, 1895.  On the 19th of last July the mother died and the father, as he held her hand in the last good-bye, said "You'll not be waiting for me long."  The children of this union who survive are; Nannie, John, Mattie, Robert, Samuel and Matthew.

He was for sixty years a member of the Presbyterian Church; for over forty years an elder,.  He helped to erect the present edifice and was in the forefront of every movement for the church's good.

His death marks the disintegration of a happy home.  Those who have partaken of the hospitality of this cheery household, who have sat next to the hearth when the old man talked, who have lingered long after it was time to go, and departed with a picture of incomparable home-life on their hearts, will realize what it means that the "silver cord be loosed--that the pitcher be broken at the fountain."

He left to his kindred and to this community a rich legacy.  His affable manner and manly bearing made him a welcome visitor in every home.  But his predominate trait was his rugged honesty.  Living in an age of venality, following an occupation full of temptations to care for one's self first, he not only kept his promises with scrupulous exactness, but he was fair and just in his dealings.  He handled thousands of dollars of the money of others, traded for them and was trusted by them to sell and to buy, with never a suspicion of his integrity.

He was companionable.  He often stopped at the farm house when he was neither wanted to buy nor sell, just to say "howdy do."  He was, in his years of activity, known by more people than any other man in this community.  A great number of those who knew him best, sought eagerly his advice in business matters and often asked his counsel in affairs of grave import.  Outside his family, he was the sage of a circle, who came to Uncle Hamilton with whatever needed straightening and he made it right.

To have lived in the neighborhood of this man, truly great--to have had him put his hand on our heads and speak to us kindly words, to know that he counted us of those for whom he would do a special favor, is, even in the sorrow of his death, a pleasant memory.  We can only say good-bye.  There is to him rest and peace we know--for he was the workmanship of God the noblest and the best.

Funeral services were held Sunday morning at 11 o'clock at the residence, Reverend J. Hickling, officiating.  The remains were interred in the I.O.O.F. Cemetery.

I.O.O.F. stands for The Independent Order of Odd Fellows, an organization that began in the 18th Century England for the purpose of giving aid to those in need without recognition and pursuing projects for the benefit of mankind.  This organization began in North America, with the United States and Canada in 1819.

NOTE: A very special thank you to Cathy Clark for obtaining this obituary for me!

 

Lanville Milton Magner

The Magner Farm is where three Magner generations lived, loved and laughed.  Lanville Magner first purchased this 160 acre farm and additions were made to the house over the years until it was sold in 1980 to another family.  It is located two miles east of Galesburg, Kansas and one mile south and three quarters east, on the north side of the road.

These photographs belong to the Magner Family.

 

June 2009