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Walter C. and Grace Earl , 5 North 43 West


GRACE'S FAMILY
Adam Muir Scott, son of Mr. and Mrs. John G. Scott, was born in Lanarkshire, Scotland, May 3, 1846, and departed this life April 14, 1925, aged 78 years, 11 months and 11 days.
He came to Illinois in 1869 thence to Kansas in 1875 where he homesteaded his present home in Smith County.
On March 21, 1882, he was united in marriage to Estella O. Carson at Cedar, Kansas. To this union were born 11 children, 4 girls and 4 boys surviving; the other three preceding him in infancy. Those surviving are Grace L. Walcott of Holyoke, Colorado; Lillie E. Thomas of Hastings, Nebraska; Mary A. Blackburn of Glendale, California; Hugh of Kensington, Kansas; Charles of Cedar, Kansas; Eli, Marion and Edyth E. of Kirwin; Edyth E. and Marion remaining at home. Besides his wife and eight children, he leaves to mourn his loss 13 grandchildren, 3 sisters and one brother; Mrs. Agnes Engstrom of Kensington, Kansas; Mrs. Charles Duffield of Tacoma, Washington; Mrs. Mary Eddy of Woodstock, Illinois, and Andrew Scott of Kirwin, besides he leaves a host of friends.

Estella Ozora, youngest daughter of Eli and Agnes Carson, was born near Hillsboro, Ohio, on August 31, 1862, and passed away at Kensington, Kansas, on January 9, 1945, at the age of 82 years, 4 months, and 9 days.
At the age of three years, she and her parents moved to Oregon City, Missouri, where she lived and received her education. They moved to Kansas when she was a girl in her teens and she taught two terms of summer school near Lebanon, Kansas, and a term in Leasburg school southwest of Cedar.
She was united in marriage to Adam Scott on March 21, 1883, and they made their home on the place they had homesteaded. He preceded her in death April 14, 1925. Nine children were born to this union, two preceding her in death, Charles and Verlin.
After her marriage she lived on a farm southeast of Kirwin until March 20, 1944, when she fell resulting in a broken hip. She was taken to Kensington to Mrs. Simms' nursing home where she could have the best medical attention.
She was a true Christian and a member of the Methodist church since the age of 13, being baptized in the Nodaway River near Oregon City.
She was cheerful and kind, living to make others happy and could always see the good of everyone. She will be missed by all and will be held in remembrance for many years to come.
Those who survive to mourn her going are the children: Grace Walcott of Holyoke, Colorado; Eli Scott of Cedar, Kansas; Marion Scott of Kirwin, Kansas; Lillie Thomas of Hastings, Nebraska, Hugh Scott of Beatrice, Nebraska; Mary Blackburn of Glendale, California; and Edythe Claudel of Kirwin, Kansas; one brother, Charles Carson of Oregon City, Missouri; 19 grandchildren and 11 great grandchildren, a number of other relatives and many friends.
Funeral services were held at the funeral home in Kensington and interment was made in the Kirwin cemetery. The pallbearers were Jess Lee, Martin Sweat, Will Parsons, Joe Kinion, Jim Burion and Will Simms. The flower girls were Nadine Kastle, Wilda Waite, Carole Jean Scott and Marilyn Claudel.
January 18, 1945--Phillips County Review-Phillipsburg, KS

WALTER AND FRED'S FAMILY

In 1880 Osborne County, Kansas, Charles Earl is 53, Ellen L. Earl 44 Wife, Willard L. Earl 23 Son, Walter C. Earl 20 Son, Fred J. Earl 18 Son, Elton A. Earl 15 Son, Clark O. Earl 13 Son, Katie E. Earl 11 Daughter, Myrlle A. Earl 7 Daughter, and Clara M. Earl 4 Daughter.



Walter and Grace proved up 240 acres in section 7, 5N 43W in 1918, Grace cash-claiming 40 acres in section 5 and another 40 acres in section 6, both in 1918.

"Walter C. Earl was born July 26, 1879, in Osborn county, Kansas, and died on Friday, May 11, 1917 in Omaha, Nebraska. While living in Kansas, he wms married to Grace L. Scott. To them were born two children, Gertrude and Clarence who with their mother survive him. He also leaves his parents, five brothers and two sisters.
He brought his family to Colorado in 1911 and settled on a homestead in the northern part of Yuma county where their home was made at the time of his death. He was suffering from poor health and went to Omaha for a surgical operation in the hope of recovery, but soon after the operation he passed away.
The funeral services were conducted from the Methodist church in Holyoke on Monday, May 11, Rev. Russell of the Presbyterian church preaching the sermon in the absence of the Methodist pastor, and the body was buried in the Holyoke cemetery."

Walter C. Earl BIRTH 25 Jul 1879 Osborne County, Kansas, USA DEATH 11 May 1917 (aged 37) Omaha Township, Thurston County, Nebraska, USA BURIAL Holyoke Memorial Park Holyoke, Phillips County, Colorado, USA MEMORIAL ID 82875639.

Grace Earl and J. Walcott married in Phillips County on June 29, 1918.

Grace L. Walcott claimed a quarter for Stock in section 6, 5N 43W in 1925.

Grace Levoy Scott Walcott BIRTH 17 Nov 1884 Kansas, USA DEATH Sep 1966 (aged 81) Holyoke, Phillips County, Colorado, USA BURIAL Holyoke Memorial Park Holyoke, Phillips County, Colorado, USA MEMORIAL ID 82919567.

September 1931 "Virgil Irvine, 28, resident of the Alvin neighborhood, was killed instantly last Saturday evening at about 8 o'clock when the car in which he was riding plunged from the road at the Hill Top school corner, north of Wray and overturned. There were four other occupants of the car, a sport model coupe belonging to Dala Cornish, who escaped with only slight injuries. The other occupants of the car were Mr. Cornish who was driving, Clair Walker and Miss Hazel Irvine, sister of the dead youth, and Miss Anna Walker who was riding in the rumble seat of the car with Mr. Irvine.
Reports from the accident state that the car was racing with one driven by Clarence Earl. At the Hill Top corner, Earl slowed down his car to make the turn, but Cornish evidently did not know the corner was there and took it at a speed estimated to be about 40 miles per hour. He failed to make the corner and the car hit a ditch almost four feet deep, turned over on its nose, bounced so that it hurdled a three wire fence, landed on its left side, and then turned over on its right side and then on top. The two in the rumble seat of the car were thrown about twenty feet from the car.
Earl saw the accident and stopped and returned to the wreck. He discovered that Miss Walker was without serious injury, but when he examined Irvine he found blood running from the youth's nose and ears. Earl rushed the entire party to the hospital at Holyoke where it was determined that Irvine was dead from a fractured skull. The others were examined and discharged when it was found they were not seriously hurt.
Irvine has been working on his mother's farm in the sand hills. He is survived by his mother and two sisters, Hazel and Ruth.
Short funeral services were held at Holyoke Monday morning and the remains were shipped to Cambridge, Nebraska, for burial."

May 1934 " Clarence Earl and Dorothy Ellen were Sunday dinner guests at Fred Earl's. They also spent the evening at Earl's."
March 1935 "Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Earl announce the birth of a baby boy."
Clarence Edwin Earl BIRTH 6 Sep 1909 Smith County, Kansas, USA DEATH 23 Jan 1945 (aged 35) New Plymouth, Payette County, Idaho, USA BURIAL Parkview Cemetery New Plymouth, Payette County, Idaho, USA PLOT Sec 2, Row 11, Block 68, Lot 3, Space B MEMORIAL ID 15198877


Cecil Likens and Gertrude Earl married in Phillips County on APril 9, 1925.

Mable Ruth (Walcott) Carruthers died at the age of 86 on October 29, 2005 at Sunrise Assisted Living in Westminster.
Mable was born March 6, 1919 in Yuma County to Joshua and Grace (Scott) Walcott. She graduated from Holyoke High School in 1939 and married Leo Van Carruthers on June 7, 1941.
She and Van raised three children, Sandra, Vanita and Terry, and the family was active in the Methodist Church.
In 1994 Van passed away after 52 years of marriage.
Mable was preceded in death by her parents, husband Van, brothers Clarence Earl and Robert Walcott and sister Gertrude Likens.
Survivors include son Terry Carruthers; daughters Sandra Carruthers and Vanita and husband Ervin Lackey; sisters, Anabel and husband Harry Houston and Edna and husband Everett Harmon; and two grandchildren and seven great grandchildren.
Funeral services for Mable Carruthers were held Wednesday, November 2 at Holyoke United Methodist Church in Holyoke with burial following in Holyoke cemetery.

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