Barber County Kansas
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The Barber County Index, December 26, 1900.
Mrs. L.E. Forney
Died: Mrs. L.E. Forney, of Cherokee, Ok., and formerly of Sharon valley, Kansas, the only surviving daughter of the Rev. Geo. Robinson, died on Dec. 13, 1900 at 7:30 p.m., after a sickness of only 14 days.
Malarial fever in a very violent form was the cause of her death. She leaves a husband, who is well known in Barber county, and three children - the youngest, a baby only fourteen days old - to mourn her departure.
The funeral was preached at the family residence near Cherokee on Friday, the 14th, to a large concourse of people who assembled to pay a last mark of respect and attest the esteem in which Mrs. Forney was held by her neighbors and the citizens of the entire community in which she lived.
The remains were interred in the Sharon cemetery. The services at the grave were conducted by Dr. W.H. Boles.
Gravestone for Elizabeth 'Bessie' (Robinson) Forney
View looking east. Sharon Cemetery, Sharon,
Barber County, Kansas.
Photo and gravestone transcription by Ed
Rucker, 17 March 2007.
At Rest
Bessie
Wife of
L. E. Forney
Died Dec. 13, 1900
Aged 33 yrs. 8 mo. 5 dys.
A tender mother and a faithful wife
FORNEY
Gravestone for Elizabeth 'Bessie' (Robinson) Forney
View looking north. Sharon Cemetery, Sharon,
Barber County, Kansas.
The white Sharon grain elevator is at right in the
background.
Photo and gravestone transcription by Ed
Rucker, 17 March 2007.
Raymond R.
Died
April 6, 1893
Aged
2 mo. & 3 ds.
Arthur C.
Died
Sept. 2, 1898
Aged
4 mo. & 2 ds.
Children of L. E. & Bessie
Forney
Little buds of love to bloom
with God above.
Gravestones for Arthur and Raymond Forney
View looking
east. Sharon Cemetery, Sharon,
Barber County, Kansas.
Photos by Ed
Rucker, 17 March 2007.
Gravestone for Reverend
George Robinson and Dorothy (Green) Robinson
Left to right: small
stone for Arthur Forney, large Elizabeth Forney stone, small stone for Raymond
Forney.
The stone for Rev. & Dorothy Robinson is behind Raymond Forney's
stone.
Annie Robinson's gravestone is at right in the photo.
View looking
east. Sharon Cemetery, Sharon,
Barber County, Kansas.
Photo by Ed
Rucker, 17 March 2007.
Obituary for Mrs. L.E. Forney
The Barber County
Index, December 26, 1900.
Obituary courtesy of Shirley
Brier.
Rev.
George Robinson and his grandson, George
Franklin Forney.
George Franklin Forney was 14 days old when his
mother, Bessie (Robinson) Forney, died.
Photo courtesy of LeAnne (Forney)
Brubaker.
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George Franklin Forney
Youngest son of Leander Edmund Forney and
Elizabeth "Bessie" (Robinson) Forney.
He was 14 days old when his mother,
Bessie (Robinson) Forney, died.
Photo courtesy of LeAnne (Forney)
Brubaker.
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Gilbert Forney, American Expeditionary Force, World War I.
Eldest son of L.E. and Elizabeth "Bessie" (Robinson) Forney
Photo courtesy
of LeAnne (Forney) Brubaker.
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The following off-site links will open in a new browser window:
Forney Surname Message Board at RootsWeb
Forney Family Genealogy Forum at GenForum
Thanks to Shirley Brier for finding, transcribing and contributing the above obituary to this web site and to Ed Rucker for the photographs!
L.E. Forney's full name was Leander Edmund Forney, according to LeAnne (Forney) Brubaker in an e-mail published on the web page for Rev. Geo. Robinson, who was LeAnne's great great grandfather.
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