Melworth Perry Stillman, son of F. Perry and Asenath Maxson Stillman, was born at Berlin, N. Y., November 27, 1833, and died at the home of his son, Dennis, near Nortonville, Kan., January 11, 1930, in the ninety-seventh year of his age. The parents of Mr. Stillman lived at Berlin until Melworth was seventeen years of age when they removed to West Hallock, Ill., where they took up their home. It is interesting to note that the family in emigrating from New York to Illinois traveled by water all the way. After four or five years in West Hallock, Mr. Stillman came to Kansas as a pioneer, taking up a homestead near Emporia. From there he moved to Pardee, Kan., in 1857. In 1863 he bought the farm near Nortonville now occupied by his son, where he lived the remainder of his life, except for a trip to Illinois, soon after he settled there. On December 8, 1860, he married Margaret C. Saunders at Pardee. His wife preceded him in death November 12, 1915. There were three children: Ellen, who is now Mrs. William Vincent, Nortonville; Dennis, who lives on the farm on which his father settled; and Mary West, who died in December, 1907. Mr. Stillman is survived by two children, Mrs. William Vincent and Dennis Stillman; and by six grandchildren: Evelyn West, Esther Vincent, Mary Vincent, Margaret Stillman, William Vincent, Jr., and Stillman Vincent. Funeral services were held from the home on January 12, the pastor officiating, assisted by Rev. F. E. Buck. Interment was in the Nortonville cemetery. S. D. O.
