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Chase County Obituaries
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Yeoman, Ernestina Henrietta Boenitz
The whole county was grieved to learn of the death of Mrs S. E. Yeoman, at Stormont Hospital in Topeka, at 8:00 o'clock Tuesday evening, December 12 1916.
Ernestina Henrietta Boenitz was born June 5 1851 at Sheboygan, Wisconsin. Her parents, Mr and Mrs. C H Boenitz came from Saxony, Germany to Wisconsin, coming to Kansas in 1859; they came to Chase county and settled on Middle creek. Twice they moved and again returned to finally settle and to make their permanet home on Diamond Creek. They went through all the hardships of the early settlers in Kansas.
Miss Boenitz was married to S. E. Yeoman at Emporia, by Probate Judge J J Buck, the 23rd of January 1873. They lived in a number of places, Emporia, Topeka, Cottonwood Falls, Elmdale, Strong City and on the farm up on Diamond Creek for many years finally settling in Strong City where they have lived for nineteen years.
Two children were born to Mr. and Mrs Yeoman, a son, Martin who died when five years old and Ada Ellnora who lives with her parents.
Mrs. Yeoman was christened into the German Lutheran Church when just a young woman and has lived a life of usefullness. The night was never too dark or weather too bad for her to go to the bedside of some sick and suffering one to minister to their wants and relieve suffering. She was a good neighbor, a faithful wife and mother and a friend to the friendless at all times. She has passed on but her good deeds will go on and on. Such lives never end, they simply pass on to a broader field. Mrs. Yeoman had not been well for years but has been failing the last six months, and especially so the past three weeks when she was taken very ill and two weeks ago she was taken to Stormont Hospital in Topeaka where all that surgical help could do was done for her, but there was no help for her here below, so after three weeks of intense suffering from cancer of the bowels she gladly went to sleep with her Savior. She leaves to miss her presence here below, her husband, Mr. S. E. Yeoman; a sister, Mrs. Mollie E. Barr and a brother, A F Boenitz, both of near Diamond Springs; one niece, Mrs. Stella Loomis, of Lost Springs; and two nephews, Carl Barr and Carl Boenitz of Diamond Springs and a number of more distant relatives.
The remains were brought home from Topeka Wednesday afternoon and the funeral was held at the German Lutheran Church Friday afternoon at 1:00 o'clock, Rev. Bucha, of the church here and Rev. Remlinger, an old paster of the family, of Olpe, conducting the services. Interment was made in the Strong City Cemetery where other members of the family are buried.
Almost everyone knew Mrs. Yeoman and her kindly deeds and will sympathize with the sorrowing ones in their bereavement.
Chase County Leader News, Cottonwood Falls, Kansas, Dec 12 1916.
by your Chase County Host, Lorna Marvin.
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