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/ Hillside Near Saf[ordville:

Cemetery Tells Community Story

Memorial Day weekend has pas-
sed for this year, and Hillside
Cemetery northeast of Saffordvil-
l e is quiet in a setting of the
beauties of our Flint Hills, a grass
coverlet neatly tended, and the
olue, blue sky above.
As our citizens are cherishing
older homes, and preserving
__ some, so are they studying
~ cemeteries as the names and dates
a- make an interesting history.
~ In March. 1885, George Barber,
• son of Hugh and Sarah Barber,
If) was a vletim of typhoid fever when
._, In his 40's. Realizing that he would
- never recover, he asked that he not
~ be burled in th-e little Quaker'
,:) cemetery east of the Toledo town-
....., site as It was alJ gumbo and "held
water like 3\dlshpan.'·
mother, a' widow and her living
children must have followed his
wishes. as this man's burial was
the flrst in Hilltop"':" as It was first
called - on a piece of Barber pas-
ture land donated for a cemetery.
The marble-faced monument.
smaller and taller than the heavy
tombstones that were popular la-
ter. was the flrst erected in the
cle who for a friend, helped dig the
grave, then shaved him and dres-:
sed the body, hurried back to see if
the digging was going well, then
cleaned himself up as he was to be
casket bearer.
During those early years, the
Civil War was not far behind them,
and those who had served and
old were now departed comrades
were recalled with music,
.-s .; speeches, and t.he decorations
the graves. .. .
Each Memorial Day morning
there was a program at the cburch _ Memorial
with t.he orators. John Madden.
. Dennis Madden. F. F. Cochran, 1 fee, iruit
andJudgeRuggleseachtakinghls
turn .. ..:..:.:-~.~.,..
After the "'s~rvite, the "Ilvlng
The' servicemen" would march to the
cemetery to place flowers on each
grave of those who died in service
for his country. Heading the pro-
cession might be the Grand Army
of the Republic, Myser Post No.
d8. The American nag was car-
ried by' Zack Campbell or William
Stone as each had been a color
bearer in the Civil War. M.
fordville, and, of course, Toledo.
These late years of the 19OO's
have erased community lines and
the old schools have all gone. one
by one. Ho~ever, family and
friendship ties are strong and
many are brought back to Hillside,
their last resting place.
Too, old friendships continue,
assisted just a bit by the Social
Concerns Committee of the Saf-
of fordville United Met.hodlst church.
Each Sunday afternoon ar1d all of
~~~I}da.Yl0}lowlng, th~!D0gern_
Day, or weekeifd,
r rather, this committee serves cof-
drink, sandwiches
(chicken Is the favorltel and
cookies to those who visit. They
are often surprised at the old
friends who are there. This year
. visitors came from all over Kan-
sas and from California, Colorado,
Georgia. Missouri and Texas .. -
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Qt'
cemetery.
decided
father's
From dates it has been
that they moved
body from the lower
the
Lj'1::5 was commander.

Amos Emerson - who had served

with the North. joined the March
and three
black soldiers - Lewis. Tabor-and

(t, cemetery to Hilltop when the stone with other veterans:'·

"'C was erected. Mrs. Barber. who After the flowers had been
\~ had been a widow since 1869. lived placed on the graves of their "de-
WoI only a few months after son parted comrades" they drove to
George's death. the Lyon-Chase County line
A grea t-great granddaughter. bridge, and cast flowers on the wa-
Mrs-. Fred Thomas of rural Dun- ters of the Cottonwood River in
lap. places flowers by this monu- memory of each one who had given
ment each Memorial Day. his life and been buried at sea.
The first purchase o£lots went to Charles Woolwine, the last of a
Barbers. Stones D.r. Conaway who large family that setlled here with
practiced In Saffordville. Linds. his parents In 1878 when he was a
Hancocks and Shellenbargers. La- baby. He left Chase county to live
ter there was a Hilltop Cemetery, in Dodge City in 1909. but each
but for many years the one name. Memorial Day he returned to visit
Hillside. has been used. the graves of his family and
During those early years graves friends. and to check new graves
were-dug by members of the fami- as long as he lived.
ly if there were enough husky boys.
At one time he sorted in his mind
but if help was needed. there were the old friends from all the little.
willing neighbors.
rural communities that were such
Friends or relatives shaved the a precious part of rural life. There
men or dressed the hair of the were friends from Buckey. Ca-
women. One person recalls an un-
naan. Plymouth. Grandview. Saf-

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THE OLD FRIENDS CEMETE~Y OF TOLEDO

Submitted by
Mrs. Helen Y. White

In submittin~ the following burial records for the Old

Friends Cemetery 6f Toledo, Mrs. White stated that·until she
made the~e cODies from the one existin~ book, th~re was only
one CODY. This cemetery is in Chase County, Toledo Townshiu
in Kansas. Mrs. White further states that Toledo is ~ot on
the maD q~y more, but it can be located by ~oing one mile to
the east of Saffordville (which i~ onlv a si~n) on S. U. ,0.
Go north on the Lake Kahola road one mile, turn east on a
graveled road and drive about one-fourt~ of a mile. The cem-
etery is on the north side of the road. The monuments are in
need of reDair and~some need to be reset. The cemetery is
mowed regularly whenever HilltoD Cemetery is mowed. The
first burial here was in 1862 and the last burial was in 1920.
The ~raves are laid out in 8 tiers, running north and
south. The west tier~s the same as tier # 1.

West Tier Second Tier

Deplina T Jones 1868 Nathan P Cove GAR 1897
Della M Osborn 1886 W Rolfe Osborn 187?
Stella M Osborn· 19~6 Elizabeth E Cope l8~1
Baby Moffitt Oscar D Cope
Susan Moffitt 1878 James H Newkirk 1867
Mary Ina Moffitt 18?9 Mary Moffitt 1908
Wm ROlfe Osborn 1A7? Phebe Moffi tt 1901~
Eli r~offitt 1872 I David Moffi tt 1882
Thomas E. Moffitt 1866 Emma ~1offitt 1865
Libbi? Moffitt 18~8 Mary Moffitt 18~1
R. A S~erman Osborn ·1868 not known
William Osborn GAR 1R9l1 " "
Hannah Osborn 1873 It "

Thomas N' Jones .IA62 Eliza A Flickenger IB6R

Jane· Jones H?~2 Flicken~er
Aar6n H Jones GAR 1871 *Ruha D Fl1ckenger 18~8
Levi T Jones 1~77 Zenow Morgan 1897 (moved)
Sarah Jane Brickell 1896 Rosa Moore l8fJ9
Eliza Mor~an 1879 Morris Moore 1870
Myrtle Perry 1893 Mary Moore 1872
E-lisha H Morgan 1868 Samuel Moore 1881
Jerusha Alberson 1873 Elizabeth Allen 1890
William C Albertson 1873 Thomas NAllen 1875
Oscar C. Albertson 1883 Ed Allen 1920
John H Moore 1888 Jeremiah L Pressna1l 1875
~~rtha Bales Pres~nall 1896
Ora Ella Brown 18A7
John B. Moore 1889
Nelley 0 Smiley 1879
Morton Garrison 1880 Mary J Smiley 1879
Charlie Garrison 181-30 David J Smiley 1879
*Stella M Murdock 1881
(Name should follow the
Flicken~er names.)

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Third Tier r ou r: '-II

Clyde R Smith 1.984 Lillie Tv'! rl.oore 1881

John J Smith lSg4 Bertie E Moore H376
Ma ttie M R e e d 18131 Joel Church ~ 1876
John Marriot 1873 Orsey McCorkle 1901
Unknown John McCorkle 1880
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Clarence Hammer 1877 Lydia Bennett 1880
Harr1son Hammer 1879
Unknown
" Isaac Inl?'JT!ire 18R1
" Angenette In~jre 1881
Fifth Tier Sixth Tier

Thomas F Hoskins 189) Franci s A Kirk

Mary M Hoskins 1884- 1'f:Ciry
A Jor:nson
John A Hosl<::ins 18RO (former wife of franci~
Lydia Hoskins 1~80 A Kirk) 18,99
James M Bailey 18~1 Frances Ingmire 1883
Jane Bailey 18~n G W Lee 1884
Bessie Moon
Sarah T Murphy 1881
Seventh Tier

Lucy May Cooner Unknown

Hattie May Camobell Elmer Golladay 1882
Infant Rena Eell Golladay 1884-
Arthur L Cooper Bertha J Campbell 1910
En f'a rrt Infant
Joel A Cooner 19(10
Henry H Pilcherv 188L!.

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Copied from the Bible Records of Ezekiel Dye

This Bible was owned by Marian Rice Rhodes of Wichita, Kansas. Ezekiel Dye
'Washer great -grandfather 'Whoserved 'inthe Civil War. His diary 'Was'Written
up by Helen Lee in the Mid'WestGenealogical Register, Vol. Xl, #1 - June 1976.
The Bible was given to Helen Lee by Marian Rhodes in May, 1976.

Eze~iel Dye was born September 11, i339. Je~ie B. Townsend was born May 20,
IJ95 and they 'Weremarried on the 26th of March, 1872. Three children 'Wereborn;
Henrietta S. Dye - 28 May, 1874. Mable Augusta Dye 31 August, 1874 and Edgar
'Clarene (Clarence) Dye 13 October, 1080.

Jennie B. Dye died June 19, 1929 - Ezekiel Dye died January 13, 194-\1'
Edgar C. Dye .
Mabel (Mable) A. Dye Rice died November 16, 1962.

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