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Chase County Obituaries
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Patton, Nelson Monroe Wednesday, November 4, 1936--Death of N. M. Patton
N. M. Patton, former Chase County commissioner and one of the county's earliest settlers died at his home at Burns yesterday. Mr. Patton was born in Sullivan County, Indiana July 9th, 1838 and was eighty-three years of age. He emigrated to this county with his parents when a small boy.
Mr. Patton loved to tell of the early day happenings and especially well remembers an Indian raid in June of 1868 when 400 Cheyenne Indians went on the warpath in Marion county a few miles west of the Clements settlement where the Pattons lived. The Indians did not pass through this county but the "scare" was real and although only a lad of 15, Mr. Patton with the other men and boys of the settlement worked furiously to get all of the settlers to Cottonwood Falls for safety. That Indian raid wound up with a fight between the Cheyennes and a band of Kaw Indians near Council Grove.
Besides his widow, Mr. Patton is survived by three children who are Mrs W. T. Pyles of Elmdale, Ray Patton and Ed Patton of Burns Kansas.
The funeral services will be held at the Friends Church at Homestead at 2:00 o'clock Wednesday afternoon. Interment will be made in the Prairie Grove Cemetery at this city.
Mr. Patton had been ill about forty-five days and the most of that time he had been in the Axtel Hospital at Halstead. Four days prior to his death he told his family that he wished to come home and because his physicians felt that his death was very near this request was granted.
There were few men in Chase county who were more widely known or highly respected than was Mr. Patton. He was always of an optimistic nature and even in adversity he never lost his smile or his courage.
N. M. Patton Passes At Home In Burns
Former County Commissioner Is Buried Today in Prairie Grove Cemetery.
Chase County lost one of its oldest settlers and a former county commissioner Sunday when N. M. Patton died at his home in Burns following an extended illness Mr. Patton had been brought home on the Wednesday before his death from the Axtell Hospital in Newton where he had been 40 days.
Mr. Patton lived in this county over 68 years. He was born July 9, 1853, in Sullivan County, Indiana, and came here in May, 1968. He has been a voter in this county all the years since and was going to try to make arrangements to
vote again this year, if he lived. Mr. Patton took an active interest in politics all his life. He served as commissioner from the Third district from 1929 to 1933.
Funeral services will be held this (Wednesday) afternoon at the Homestead church, with the Rev. George Bond officiating, and
interment will be in Prairie Grove cemetery at Cottonwood Falls.
Surviving Mr. Patton are his wife and three children, Mrs. W. T. Pyles of Elmdale and Ed M. and C. Ray Patton of Burns.
N. M. Patton, son of John and Mary Patton, was born in Sullivan county, Indiana, July 9, 1853 and departed life November 1, 1936 at the age of 83 years, 3 months and 22 days.
He came to Chase County with his parents in a covered wagon in the spring of 1868 and settled south of Clements where he grew to manhood.
In 1876 he was united in marriage to Clara Maria Davis of Emporia who preceded him in death in 1927 and to that union were born three children.
He leaves his three children, Mrs. W. T. Pyles of Elmdale, Ed Patton and Ray Patton of Burns; Sixteen grandchildren; twenty-two great grandchildren three sisters, Mrs. Malinda Magill of California; Mrs. Anna Hawkins of Newton, Kansas and Mrs. Ida Mowman of Clements, Kansas and his wife Mrs Syrena Melson Patton of Burns. He was preceded in death by a second wife Mrs. Mary Parks Patton and four grandchildren.
He was a good father, a faithful Christian and a good friend. The pioneer is gone. In the glorious autumn when nature was putting on its
winter vesture so likened unto life in preparaton for the new life in Springtime. He, too, put on the robe of immortality and joined the unnumerable caravan journeying toward the frontier of rest. After the fullness the years had fallen like ripened fruit from his hands he folded up the scroll of his life and took up his place among the Patriarchs of Israel who unsandeled in the presence of the Lord. He has crossed through the divided waters of the river and reached the eternal Gilgal of Peace. The inheritance is his. The promise fulfilled. The altars have been tested by sacrififce and his soul rose purified by suffering, The paths of parting is keenly felt when a pioneer leaves the scenes of his former labors and passes away, and it is eminently fitting that we be laid to rest under the soil we loved so well. The hills for our temples, while we slumber in the sunshine and shadow of the valleys to await the call of that great day when all must stand in the presence of the pioneer Martyr, who suffered on the cross.
Through the generations unnumbered no man can describe the wonderful cargo of love, borne in the breaking hearts that leave ceased to beat when the call came. If we could catch even a faint gleam of the mighty forces of love that passed away the
world would be better and men would kneel and worship as they never worshiped before. The assurance we have of the happy meeting can only be understood when men and women understand each other. I would write an epitah sacred to the memory of my father I would chisel it upon the face of the silent marble. "Like a tired child, he looked into the tender face of his God and fell asleep." Rest in Peace.
Funeral services were held at the Homestead Friends Church, of which he was a member, Wednesday afternoon, conducted by Rev. George Bond with Rev. Hutsel of Burns, Methodist church assisting. Music was furnished by a male quartet of Cedar Point, composed of Clark Drinkwater, Rufus Ice, Harold Frost, and Clyde Cunningham, accompanied by Mrs. Ice, Songs that were sung at the services were "Nearer My God To Thee," "The Home Over There," and "Going Down the Valley," by the quartet, and a vocal solo "Perfect Day," by Clyde Cunningham.
Pallbearers were the grandsons of the deceased. Those who were the pallbearers were Frank Stegge of Eureka, Ralph Bumgarner of Council Grove, Nelson Pyle of Wakeenay, Thomas Pyle of Elmdale, Fred Koch of Florence, and N. Marion Patton of Burns
Chase CountyLeader News, Cottonwood Falls, Kansas. Nov 01, 1936
by your Chase County Host, Lorna Marvin.
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