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Chase County Obituaries
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Collett, Carrie E Houston
Mrs. Carrie Collett, 78 years of age and pioneer settler of Chase county died at her home at Las Animas, Colorado, yesterday following a long illness.
The body will be brought here for interment. Mrs. Collett came to Kansas with her parents in the year 1889. The long journey was made from Iowa in a wagon drawn by oxen. This county remained her home until about twelve years ago when she removed to Colorado with her daughter, Miss Lizzie Collett. Mrs. Collett's husband homesteaded the land on which Elk in the nortweat part of the county is now located.
News of Mrs. Collett's death was received in a telegram Thursday noon by her brother, C. E. Houston, of this city. Mrs. Collett had been ill for many months and had been confined to her bed for over a year. The body will arrive here Saturday noon and funeral will be held from the home of her brother, C. E. Houston at 3 o'clock Sunday afternon. Interment will be made in Prairie Grove cemetery west of this city, beside the grave of Mr. Collett who's death occurred over twenty years ago.
The many friends and old neighbors of the Colletts will be grieved to learn of her death and her passing marks the departure of one of Chase county's truly pioneer women.
Chase County Leader News, Cottonwood Falls, Kansas, Jun 05 1924
MRS. H. COLLETT DEAD! Word was received by C. E. Houston, Friday morning, telling of the death of his sister, Mrs. H. Collett of Las Animas, Colo., which occurred Thursday noon. Mrs. Collett had been in poor health for several years' and about a year ago suffered a paralytic stroke from which she never recovered.
She came to Chase county in 1859 and she and her husband homesteaded where the town of Elk now stands. She remained a resident of Chase county until about ten years ago when she moved to Colorado. Mr. Collett died in 1904.
She is survived by four children, two sons and two daughters—Mrs. Lew Umbergar and Fred Collett of Elk, Frank Collett of Kansas City, and Miss Lizzie, who lived with her mother.
The body will arrive Saturday on No. 10 and the funeral services will be held Sunday at 3 p. m. at the C. E. Houston home in Cottonwood Fails.
Chase County Leader News, Jun 06 1924
Carrie E., daughter of Gen, and Lamenda 0, Houston, was born May, 1st, 1846, at Knoxville, Tennessee, and passed away at Las Animas, Colorado, June 5th, 1924.
At the age of four she, with her parents, moved to Iowa where she resided until the spring of 1859, when she came to Chase county, Kansas, and in 1909 moved to Las Animas, Colorado.
Of a family of nine children all have preceeded her in death except one brother, Charles E. Houston, of Cottonwood Falls.
February 11th, 1866, she was married to Henry Collett, who died in December 1904, and to this union seven children were born, two having died in infancy. Mrs. Grace Hemry passed away February 27th, 1917, at her home at Gallatin, Mo. The living children are: G. F. Collett of Basehor, Kansas, Fred Collett of Marion, Mrs. Lewis Umberger of Elmdale and Miss Lizzie Collett of Las Animas, Colorado.
She was one of the early settlers, having lived in Chase county fifty years, 38 years of that time being
spent on the old homestead at Elk, where she reared her family to manhood and womanhood.
Mrs. Collett was one of the pioneer educators of Chase county, having taught for a number of years previous to her marriage in various parts of the county.
She was baptized in the Presbyterian faith in early childhood and her entire life was characterized by kindly christian deeds. She was a devoted wife and loving mother, ever mindful of others; the rich and poor alike became the object of her ministrations and she was never happier than when performing some labor of love. Surely a good woman has gone out from among us---a, useful life is ended, but her influence will live on.
Chase County Leader News, Cottonwood Falls, Kansas, Jun 10 1924.
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