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Deceased was a respected well-to-do farmer, leaving a wife and several small children. He carried $25,000 life insurance. Funeral occurred Friday at Sprague. Benj. Austin Leonard Thos. Leonard has returned from the Willamete Valley where he was suddenly called to attend the funeral rites of his father, Benj. Austin Leonard, who passed away at the ripe old age of 86 years at the old home at Silverton, Oregon, near Salem the capital of the state. His mother died a year ago and a sister in June last. Grandma Tiythena Low Grandma Tiythena Low died at her home, in the northern part of town, Wednesday afternoon, October 4, 1905. The elderly lady has been failing from extreme old age for some time. Funeral occurs Friday afternoon. Adams County News, October 18, 1905, issue Do Honor To His Memory Nelson Henry Greene, Pioneer Merchant and Most Prominent Citizen is no More - A Long and Useful Career - Took an Honored Place in the Civic Life of This City The sudden and unexpected death of N. H. Greene about 5 o'clock Thursday afternoon, October 12, 1905, startled and shocked this community to a high degree, and records the passing of a well-known pioneer. He spent the forenoon at the Pioneer State Bank, of which moneyed institution he was the president. His only complaint on arriving at his residence, on West College Hill, was that of being a little tired. Shortly before his death he retired to the basement to replenish the furnace of the heating plant. A few moments later his neice, Mrs. Frank Stuart, and sister, Mrs. W. H. Davenny, heard groans from below, and when they reached his prostrate form, he was fast expiring and never regained consciousness. Heart failure was the immediate cause of death. The subject of this sketch was born in Pennsylvania, April 25, 1841, and was, therefore, in his 65th year. In June, 1864, he was married to Miss Lucinda P. Tuttle, who passed on ten months ago. For more than forty years they traveled along life's pathway together, happy in their devotion to each other, their children and their children's children, besides a great host of tried, trusted and much valued friends. Their gentle lives demonstrated, as the most soulful sermon could not, the immutable truths of Christianity. The good husband, the beloved father, the blameless citizen, the devout and consistent Christian gentleman has gone to join his dear ones beyond the river - gone to that bright home where sorrow never enters and where disease and death are unknown. Death is ever a tragedy; it cannot creep so slowly but that it comes as a shock. There is grief when an innocent babe is taken. Without impulse to invade the sanctity of a stricken household, it may be said that the sympathy of hundreds cluster there today. The people of this part of the state pay the tribute of saying a friend has gone. The funeral services were held Saturday afternoon, conducted by Rev. M. W. Morse, pastor of the First Congregational church of this city. Rev. John D. Jones of Dayton, Wash., former pastor here and a close friend of the family preached the funeral sermon. The funeral cortege was formed at the home on the hill with the following Masonic pall- beareres: Horace E. Hill, Fred E. Robbins, James Turner, R. P. Smith, Daniel A. Scott, and E. D. Gilson. In that quaint, handsome edifice, the First Congregational church, where he had always attendedd divine services regularly, as he lay upon the bier beside the altar, in a beautiful casket almost hidden under heaps of fragrant flowers and blossoms, the large throng of patriotic people viewed the familiar face for the last time. Sunday morning the funeral party, accompanied by many friends and members of the Masonic fraternity, conveyed the remains to Spokane, where interment was held in the family plot in Greenwood cemetery. Side by side Mr. and Mrs. N. H. Greene repose in their last long sleep that knows no waking, in that charming, secluded spot where other relatives lie buried. To Mr. and Mrs. N. H. Greene were born two children, Mr. Orr H. Greene, cashier of the Pioneer State Bank, and Mrs. Mattie E. Martin, who survive them, and who still reside in the city. Heavy and valuable property interests, both real and personal, is left by the deceased. Mr. Greene was an active Free Mason, and was a member of Ritzville Lodge No. 101, F. & A. M., which attended the funeral in a body and officiated at the grave. In life he was called to several public positions though he never sought them. He was sheriff in 1885-86; re-elected and served during the years of 1887-88. Became first mayor of the town in November, 1888, followed by being city treasurer. He declined the nomination for representative to the state legislature later. Death of Mayor Lansin Prominent Physician Expires After Lingering Illness - Resident of Ritzville for Past Eight Years. The long vigil at the bedside of Mayor J. W. Lansing was ended early last Monday morning, Oct. 16th, when at 12:15 the Angel of Death claimed his life, which had been held in the balance several days by that dread disease, rheumatism. While his death was not a surprise, yet the news always comes as a shock, and for the second time during the past week the city mourned the loss of its second good citizen, public man and benefactor. Since coming to Ritzville, eight years ago, Dr. Lansing has enjoyed a very successful and lucrative practice of his profession and has made many friends, his popularity being attested by his election to the office of mayor of Ritzville last December, taking his seat early in January. John W. Lansing was born in Ontario, Canada, July 16, 1861. His family moved to Michigan when he was 16 years of age. He was married to Minnie Belknap at Mt. Pleasant, Mich., in 1887, a daughter, Miss Lena, of this city now 14 years of age, coming of this union which was later dissolved by divorce. He took undergraduate courses in the Keokuk Medical College, Cleveland Medical College, and the University of Pennsylvania, securing a diploma from each school. He practiced a short time in several places in he east before coming to Washington. He first settled at Falls City, Wash., then at Castle Rock, coming to Ritzville in the summer of 1898. He was married to Mrs. Sarah Hamilton, January 18, 1905, in this city. He had suffered for several months with Bright's disease, which he was treating. This recently developed into rheumatism, and he rapidly grew weaker, hope for his recovery being given up some time ago. Besides his sorrowing wife and daughter he leaves four sisters and two brothers, Mrs. N. H. Cleveland, Clare, Mich.; Mrs. J. DeGeer, Clare, Mich.; Mrs. Dan Farrel, Grangeville, Idaho; Annie Lansing, Lake George, Michigan; H. S. Lansing, Boyne City, Michigan; and W. J. Lansing, county superintendent of schools of Adams county. Funeral ceremonies were conducted Wednesday afternoon under the auspices of the local orders of Odd Fellows and Knights of Pythias. The Masons and city officials attended the exercises in a body. The Congregational church was crowded as Rev. M. W. Morse, the pastor, spoke the last words over the bier, suffused in flowers. The sad procession then followed the body in the last ride to a new made grave in Spanjer's cemetery, where all that remains of the city's respected mayor, the friend of the sick and diseased, the father, brother and husband, lies on the last long sleep. That a life so full of action and ambition, at a time when it is just fulfilling the promises of early training, should be stilled forever, seems one of the harsh exigencies of this material existence. Forty-four years of age, the prime of life, surrounded by every comfort and luxury of home and wealth, is a hard time for a strong man to succumb to the inexorable decree of nature that we must all obey at some time. Joh Axtell Joh Axtell, a young man, twenty-three years of age, who came to Adams county the first of the present year, died last Wednesday in this city of typhoid fever. Since coming here he had followed farm work, owning a number of horses and wagons. He was a cousin of Claud Clark and Mrs. A. F. Rosenoff. Funeral occurred Friday afternoon, interment being made in the Sprague cemetery. Adams County News, October 24, 1905, issue Willie Le Veeney Willie Le Veeney, the young son of Wm. Le Veeney, section forman at Paha, was accidently killed last Saturday, Oct. 21, by falling out of a wagon, striking his head on the ground and bursting a blood vessel. Mrs. Adam Weber Mrs. Adam Weber died Monday, Oct., 23, 1905, at the farm, twelve miles northwest of the city. Twelve small children are left in the care of the father. Adams County News, November 29, 1905, issue Gone To Her Rest Word reached the city today of the death of Mrs. Lotta Klass, nee Miss Lotta Dorman, Tuesday, Nov. 28, from uremic poisoning, the results of an operation in a Spokane hospital. Her parents are Mr. and Mrs. Hiner Dorman, of this county. The funeral was held from the home, 733, Indiana Ave., Thursday morning at 10 o'clock conducted by Rev. James M. Allen, and the body laid to rest in Greenwood cemetery. Deceased is survived by a husband, H. F. Klass, owner of the flouring mill at Bridgeport, Wash., and by six brothers and sisters, Miss Lou Dorman and Mrs. Alice Chargois of Ritzville; Mrs. J. M. Woehr, Freese, Idaho; Jessie Dorman, of Sparks, Nevada; Ortho Dorman and Orris Dorman, of Spokane. Mrs. Klass has a wide circle of sorrowing friends in this county, having resided here most of her life, and the sympathy of all is extended the bereaved and heart broken relatives. Adams County News, December 20, 1905, issue missing Adams County News, December 27, 1905, issue Death of Edward Bauer Edward Bauer, the 13-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Bauer, died at the family home, near the Lincoln School, last Friday evening, Dec. 22, 1905, of kidney trouble. Funeral occurred Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock from the German Congregational church, the remains being interred in the Spanjer cemetery. Until a very short time ago the boy had been in attendance at the Ritzville schools.