Person:Samuel Ralston (5)

FUNERAL OF S. J. RALSTON.

The funeral services over the remains of the late Samuel J. Ralston, who died at his old home in Englewood, between Kansas City and Independence, Wednesday afternoon, will be held from the family residence Saturday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. The services will be conducted by Dr. Madesire. The deceased was a charter member of Independence lodge A. F. and A. M. and was also a member of Royal Arch chapter, the members of which order will have charge of the funeral. Interment will be made in the cemetery at Independence.

Samuel Ralston was well known in Jackson County. He came here in 1840 and had passed the last fifty-eight years of his life in this vicinity. He was born in Ireland, where, at that time, there was a great deal of trouble. He was sent to the United States by an uncle when he was 16 years old. Upon his arrival in North Carolina, he began to farm, and a few years later married. With the opening of the west he moved to Missouri and settled in Jackson County, two miles east of Independence.

He was the father of one child by his first wife. That child, John, is now living in St. Louis. A few years after he had settled in this county, he married Miss Mary C. Hill and eight children were the result of this union: Fedora, Sam, Annie (Mrs. Frank James), Adam, Hugh, Kate, Harry M. and Margaret.

The deceased took no part in the civil war, with the exception of the fight at Rock creek, a few miles distant from this city. In that fight, he was wounded.

Mrs. Annie James, wife of the famous ex-bandit king, Frank James, who is a daughter of the deceased, arrived at Independence last night to attend her father's funeral.

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} The Kansas City Times. (Kansas City, Missouri)
   Friday, January 6, 1899.