Looking for information on the following Flansburg family members in WASHINGTON Co, KS in 1918.

Elk River Star News - Feb 15, 1918. "Mrs. C.A. Whipple is Dead!"
"Mrs. Alice I. Whipple, wife of Chas. A. Whipple, a prominent resident of Burns, died at her home there on Monday, Feb 11, 1918. The funeral was held yesterday afternoon from the residence at two o'clock.

Alice Isabella Flansburg was born in New York, July 4th, 1855. At the age of one year she came with her parents to Knox County, Illinois and then to Henry County where she lived until she was married to Mr. Charles A. Whipple on Dec 3, 1876. They moved to Dakota in 1892, and to Minnesota in 1897. To this union there were born six children, five boys and one girl, Walter, Daisy, Arthur, and Otho, all of Elk River, Leonard, of Buffalo, Minn and Corporal John Whipple of the 125th Field Artillery, stationed at Camp Cody, New Mexico. All of these children survive, besides the husband, two grandchildren, four sisters and one brother. Mrs. Whipple had been ill for some time with diabetes. All of the family was at her side when the final summons came including Corporal John Whipple, who had been called home from Camp Cody Saturday night to see his mother, John Flansburg, of Washington, KS, Mrs. Will Johnson of Morrowville, KS, and Miss Mallory, also of Morrowville."
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