Person:Elizabeth Hicks (38)

Kingman County, Kansas, 1920 census:^[3]

Fuller, Elizabeth Head 87 yrs (wid.) b. Tennessee (parents, b. Tennessee) "None"

      Minnie E. Dau 56 yrs (single) b. Iowa (parents, b. Ohio/Tennessee) "None"

Kingman - August 21st 1921

Dear children it has been some time since I wrote and I have some news that happened last week. Last Monday Mrs. Roberts died very suddenly and Friday evening Verne’s body was brought to Kingman and was buried Saturday afternoon. Mrs. Roberts had heart trouble. Had 2 spells the week before but rallied and was up and around that morning. The woman that was staying with her was stirring up a cake and Mr. R. to the store. . . . Said she would beat the jello and make some custard. The woman saw that she was about to fall and gathered her up and laid her on the sofa and she took her last breath in her arms. She was buried Wednesday. She just wore her life out. . . .

None of us saw Verne’s body but the undertaker and his son opened the casket and took a piece of silver about the size of a dollar that was wired around his neck with his name and company and number on it and scoured it off and gave it to Minnie. There was 2 of these worn by the soldier and one was taken when he was buried over there. The other left to identify him here. They said his hair looked white. The body had shrunk away in the slime in the coffin. We are all satisfied that it was his body. There was 15 or 18 soldiers that was over there. One was the one that saw him and went to him after he fell and told him get the other and help them first . . . and when he got back he was dead. These soldiers marched before the casket to the church and then out to the cemetery and stood around with their guns and fired a salute as he was covered in the grave just south by Newt’s [Isaac Newton Wymore] grave. One played a . . . piece on some kind of horn and then the . . . and the crowd drove away. There was a big crowd there and we think it went off all ok. Was beautiful but a sad sight. Has Mary got home if not is she around by Kingman and have heard no word from for 2 or 3 days. We are all as well as usual.

Write soon, with love,
Mother

1. ↑ Joan K. Weaver (Director, Kinsley Public Library, Kinsley, Kansas), in Correspondence with various other researchers.

   She came to Greene County, Indiana, as a young girl with her father, who was a Cumberland Presbyterian minister from North Carolina (and who may have been part-Cherokee).

2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3} Find A Grave.

   Elizabeth Fuller

3. ↑ ^3.0 3.1 Kingman, Kansas, United States. 1920 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration Publication T625)
   ED 103, p. 7B, dwelling/family 176/183 (701 Ave "A" West).
4.   Kingman (Kansas) Journal
   21 Dec 1921.

   "DEATH OF GRANDMA FULLER."
   
   The funeral of Grandma Fuller, whose death occurring early last Friday morning was noted in last week's Journal, was held at the home of her daughter, Mrs. M. M. Mitchell Saturday morning, with Rev. Arthur J. Aikins of the Christian church officiating. Burial was made at Walnut Hill, beside her husband, O. P. Fuller, who died in 1904, and her son Lou and wife, who were buried there in 1889.
   
   Grandma Fuller, who was one of the best known and beloved of the older citizens of the community, lived to the age of 89 after seeing her full share of joys and sorrows. She saw her companion go before her, and six of her children, three of home had lived to maturity. Yet with whatever hardship or grief came her way, she loved life and made life happy for those around her. She came to the end of her journey still smiling, as one who finishes the work of the day and lies down to pleasant dreams.