Sunday, February 9, 2020

Genealogy Happy Dance Lets Celebrate Obituary for my Flaviouse Armenious Milsap/ Millsap







Turned on ancestry this morning and found a new leaf hint for my second great grandfather on my paternal side.
I have expanded my ancestry to give me newspapers and found the obituary of Flavious Armenous Milsap.  Yah what did I learn?  A child died in infancy, he had a stroke four days before death and he had been blind for several years.

Here is the obituary for Flavious Armenous Milsap.  If you have him in your family tree please feel free to save and print.

The St John Weekly News (St John, Kansas) Friday 29th of April 1910.

     Died at his home near Syracuse Kansas, of a paralytic stroke after an illness of four days. Deceased had been blind for several years. His death came as a surprise as he wasn't thought so bad off.  Funeral services were conducted from the Methodist church at 1 o'clock Monday afternoon by Rev Carter and remains laid away in Syracuse cemetery.
     Flavious Armenious Milsap was born in Lawrence county, Indiana November 10th 1832. Deceased moved when yet a young man with his father to Iowa where he was married to Anna Woodmansee in 1856 and lived ear DeCatur, Iowa until the year 1886 when he moved to Hamilton county Kansas. To this union eleven children were born, one died in infancy.. Five girls and five boys survive their father. Their mother died July 2nd 1904. The children living are Rachel Zon Sargent, Nebraska; Mary Ferguson Hope, Idaho; George Milsap Strafford Massachusetts; Eula Johnson Lacrosse, Kansas; Susie Pfister Great Bend, Kansas; Frank, Arthur, Carl and Ora of Syracuse, Kansas.
     Mr Milsap joined the Baptist church st St John, Kansas for several years. He always lived a good honest Christian life and was loved by all who knew him.












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