MRS. S.A. DILLON DIES AT 83
SAID TO HAVE BEEN THE FIRST WHITE CHILD BORN IN KANSAS.
Paralysis Causes the Death of the Early Resident of Westport, Daughter of an Innkeeper, Who Had Lived Near Shawnee Mission.
Mrs. Susan A. Dillon, who is said to have been the first white child born in the territory which is now the state of Kansas, died at 4 o'clock yesterday morning at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Joseph A. Tinker, 3904 Dixon Avenue. Mrs. Dillon suffered paralysis while helping to prepare the Sunday dinner the morning of November 17.
When Dr. W.L. Campbell, 504 Olive Street, was born and put into his first clothes, it was Mrs. Dillon who carried him in to his mother and announced that it was a boy. Five weeks ago Doctor Campbell, now an elderly man, lifted Mrs. Dillon from the kitchen floor where she had fallen and carried her into the room where she died.
BORN AT A TRADING POST.
Mrs. Dillon would have been 83 years old January 12. She was born at an Indian trading post conducted by Maj. John Campbell, half a mile east of old Shawnee Mission. Her father was Daniel Yoacham, who built and for many years conducted Yoacham Tavern, Westport's first hostlery and an inn known from one end of the Santa Fe Trail to the other.
Mrs. Dillon was married in 1845, when only 15 years old. Her husband was the pioneer saddler of Westport and did a thriving business. They lived for a time in the old house now occupied by George Asbury. It was in this house that her daughter, Mrs. Tinker, was born.
Mrs. Dillon delighted in telling stories of the days when Main Street was a country road and she picked wild grapes along what is now Petticoat Lane. She was active up to the time she was stricken. She dressed dolls for the recent Westport fair and was constantly at the booth conducted by the Daughters of Old Westport, of which organization she was a member. She was also a member of the Kansas City Historical Society and the Daughters of the Confederacy.
HER SON-IN-LAW, TOO, NEAR DEATH.
Her son-in-law, Joseph A. Tinker, suffered paralysis last Monday. He is in the room adjoining the one in which Mrs. Dillon died. His death is expected momentarily. As Mrs. Tinker's time was taken up in caring for her husband, the Daughter's of Old Westport - war has made many of them expert in nursing the sick and wounded - alternated in caring for Mrs. Dillon during the five weeks of her illness.
Mrs. Dillon is survived by three grandchildren,
Theodore J. Tinker,
George C. Tinker
and Mrs. Gertrude Hilger of Texas.
Funeral services will be at the Tinker home at 10 o'clock this morning. The Upton Hays Chapter, U.D.C., of which Mrs. Dillon was a charter member, will attend. Burial will be in Forest Hill Cemetery.
Col. Alex Johnson, of Topeka, who died in Dallas, Tex., in December, 1904, was born near Turner, Kas., in 1833. He had been called the first white child born in Kansas.
Source: Kansas City Star; Kansas City, Missouri. December 23, 1912; Page Eleven. 8 Aug 2014 - dm wms (#47395868)
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Susannah was the daughter of Daniel and Rosannah (CAMPBELL) YOUCHAM, born Jan 12, 1830. She was, perhaps, the fourth white child, and second white girl born in what is now Kansas. The YOUCHAMs then lived with Subagent John CAMPBELL (cousin of Mrs. YOUCHAM). Later they ran a tavern in Westport, MO. Susan married William J. DILLON, had seven children and died in KC, MO in December 1912 at the age of 82. McCOY says YOUCHAM was employed as a farmer for Shawnee.
Source: Marriages, Births & Death in Kansas Before 1854
Midwest Historical and Genealogical Society, inc.
Organized for publication in 1966. Available in the Johnson County Library Genealogy Dept, KS. Vol. 28; #2; p. 168, added 1962. 5 Aug 2014 - Chris L (#48321875)
Siblings of Susannah Yoacham included
Archibald Campbell Yoacham Memorial 9258155
John Samuel Yoacham Memorial # 120336052
SAID TO HAVE BEEN THE FIRST WHITE CHILD BORN IN KANSAS.
Paralysis Causes the Death of the Early Resident of Westport, Daughter of an Innkeeper, Who Had Lived Near Shawnee Mission.
Mrs. Susan A. Dillon, who is said to have been the first white child born in the territory which is now the state of Kansas, died at 4 o'clock yesterday morning at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Joseph A. Tinker, 3904 Dixon Avenue. Mrs. Dillon suffered paralysis while helping to prepare the Sunday dinner the morning of November 17.
When Dr. W.L. Campbell, 504 Olive Street, was born and put into his first clothes, it was Mrs. Dillon who carried him in to his mother and announced that it was a boy. Five weeks ago Doctor Campbell, now an elderly man, lifted Mrs. Dillon from the kitchen floor where she had fallen and carried her into the room where she died.
BORN AT A TRADING POST.
Mrs. Dillon would have been 83 years old January 12. She was born at an Indian trading post conducted by Maj. John Campbell, half a mile east of old Shawnee Mission. Her father was Daniel Yoacham, who built and for many years conducted Yoacham Tavern, Westport's first hostlery and an inn known from one end of the Santa Fe Trail to the other.
Mrs. Dillon was married in 1845, when only 15 years old. Her husband was the pioneer saddler of Westport and did a thriving business. They lived for a time in the old house now occupied by George Asbury. It was in this house that her daughter, Mrs. Tinker, was born.
Mrs. Dillon delighted in telling stories of the days when Main Street was a country road and she picked wild grapes along what is now Petticoat Lane. She was active up to the time she was stricken. She dressed dolls for the recent Westport fair and was constantly at the booth conducted by the Daughters of Old Westport, of which organization she was a member. She was also a member of the Kansas City Historical Society and the Daughters of the Confederacy.
HER SON-IN-LAW, TOO, NEAR DEATH.
Her son-in-law, Joseph A. Tinker, suffered paralysis last Monday. He is in the room adjoining the one in which Mrs. Dillon died. His death is expected momentarily. As Mrs. Tinker's time was taken up in caring for her husband, the Daughter's of Old Westport - war has made many of them expert in nursing the sick and wounded - alternated in caring for Mrs. Dillon during the five weeks of her illness.
Mrs. Dillon is survived by three grandchildren,
Theodore J. Tinker,
George C. Tinker
and Mrs. Gertrude Hilger of Texas.
Funeral services will be at the Tinker home at 10 o'clock this morning. The Upton Hays Chapter, U.D.C., of which Mrs. Dillon was a charter member, will attend. Burial will be in Forest Hill Cemetery.
Col. Alex Johnson, of Topeka, who died in Dallas, Tex., in December, 1904, was born near Turner, Kas., in 1833. He had been called the first white child born in Kansas.
Source: Kansas City Star; Kansas City, Missouri. December 23, 1912; Page Eleven. 8 Aug 2014 - dm wms (#47395868)
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Susannah was the daughter of Daniel and Rosannah (CAMPBELL) YOUCHAM, born Jan 12, 1830. She was, perhaps, the fourth white child, and second white girl born in what is now Kansas. The YOUCHAMs then lived with Subagent John CAMPBELL (cousin of Mrs. YOUCHAM). Later they ran a tavern in Westport, MO. Susan married William J. DILLON, had seven children and died in KC, MO in December 1912 at the age of 82. McCOY says YOUCHAM was employed as a farmer for Shawnee.
Source: Marriages, Births & Death in Kansas Before 1854
Midwest Historical and Genealogical Society, inc.
Organized for publication in 1966. Available in the Johnson County Library Genealogy Dept, KS. Vol. 28; #2; p. 168, added 1962. 5 Aug 2014 - Chris L (#48321875)
Siblings of Susannah Yoacham included
Archibald Campbell Yoacham Memorial 9258155
John Samuel Yoacham Memorial # 120336052
MRS. S.A. DILLON DIES AT 83
SAID TO HAVE BEEN THE FIRST WHITE CHILD BORN IN KANSAS.
Paralysis Causes the Death of the Early Resident of Westport, Daughter of an Innkeeper, Who Had Lived Near Shawnee Mission.
Mrs. Susan A. Dillon, who is said to have been the first white child born in the territory which is now the state of Kansas, died at 4 o'clock yesterday morning at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Joseph A. Tinker, 3904 Dixon Avenue. Mrs. Dillon suffered paralysis while helping to prepare the Sunday dinner the morning of November 17.
When Dr. W.L. Campbell, 504 Olive Street, was born and put into his first clothes, it was Mrs. Dillon who carried him in to his mother and announced that it was a boy. Five weeks ago Doctor Campbell, now an elderly man, lifted Mrs. Dillon from the kitchen floor where she had fallen and carried her into the room where she died.
BORN AT A TRADING POST.
Mrs. Dillon would have been 83 years old January 12. She was born at an Indian trading post conducted by Maj. John Campbell, half a mile east of old Shawnee Mission. Her father was Daniel Yoacham, who built and for many years conducted Yoacham Tavern, Westport's first hostlery and an inn known from one end of the Santa Fe Trail to the other.
Mrs. Dillon was married in 1845, when only 15 years old. Her husband was the pioneer saddler of Westport and did a thriving business. They lived for a time in the old house now occupied by George Asbury. It was in this house that her daughter, Mrs. Tinker, was born.
Mrs. Dillon delighted in telling stories of the days when Main Street was a country road and she picked wild grapes along what is now Petticoat Lane. She was active up to the time she was stricken. She dressed dolls for the recent Westport fair and was constantly at the booth conducted by the Daughters of Old Westport, of which organization she was a member. She was also a member of the Kansas City Historical Society and the Daughters of the Confederacy.
HER SON-IN-LAW, TOO, NEAR DEATH.
Her son-in-law, Joseph A. Tinker, suffered paralysis last Monday. He is in the room adjoining the one in which Mrs. Dillon died. His death is expected momentarily. As Mrs. Tinker's time was taken up in caring for her husband, the Daughter's of Old Westport - war has made many of them expert in nursing the sick and wounded - alternated in caring for Mrs. Dillon during the five weeks of her illness.
Mrs. Dillon is survived by three grandchildren,
Theodore J. Tinker,
George C. Tinker
and Mrs. Gertrude Hilger of Texas.
Funeral services will be at the Tinker home at 10 o'clock this morning. The Upton Hays Chapter, U.D.C., of which Mrs. Dillon was a charter member, will attend. Burial will be in Forest Hill Cemetery.
Col. Alex Johnson, of Topeka, who died in Dallas, Tex., in December, 1904, was born near Turner, Kas., in 1833. He had been called the first white child born in Kansas.
Source: Kansas City Star; Kansas City, Missouri. December 23, 1912; Page Eleven. 8 Aug 2014 - dm wms (#47395868)
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Susannah was the daughter of Daniel and Rosannah (CAMPBELL) YOUCHAM, born Jan 12, 1830. She was, perhaps, the fourth white child, and second white girl born in what is now Kansas. The YOUCHAMs then lived with Subagent John CAMPBELL (cousin of Mrs. YOUCHAM). Later they ran a tavern in Westport, MO. Susan married William J. DILLON, had seven children and died in KC, MO in December 1912 at the age of 82. McCOY says YOUCHAM was employed as a farmer for Shawnee.
Source: Marriages, Births & Death in Kansas Before 1854
Midwest Historical and Genealogical Society, inc.
Organized for publication in 1966. Available in the Johnson County Library Genealogy Dept, KS. Vol. 28; #2; p. 168, added 1962. 5 Aug 2014 - Chris L (#48321875)
Siblings of Susannah Yoacham included
Archibald Campbell Yoacham Memorial 9258155
John Samuel Yoacham Memorial # 120336052
SAID TO HAVE BEEN THE FIRST WHITE CHILD BORN IN KANSAS.
Paralysis Causes the Death of the Early Resident of Westport, Daughter of an Innkeeper, Who Had Lived Near Shawnee Mission.
Mrs. Susan A. Dillon, who is said to have been the first white child born in the territory which is now the state of Kansas, died at 4 o'clock yesterday morning at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Joseph A. Tinker, 3904 Dixon Avenue. Mrs. Dillon suffered paralysis while helping to prepare the Sunday dinner the morning of November 17.
When Dr. W.L. Campbell, 504 Olive Street, was born and put into his first clothes, it was Mrs. Dillon who carried him in to his mother and announced that it was a boy. Five weeks ago Doctor Campbell, now an elderly man, lifted Mrs. Dillon from the kitchen floor where she had fallen and carried her into the room where she died.
BORN AT A TRADING POST.
Mrs. Dillon would have been 83 years old January 12. She was born at an Indian trading post conducted by Maj. John Campbell, half a mile east of old Shawnee Mission. Her father was Daniel Yoacham, who built and for many years conducted Yoacham Tavern, Westport's first hostlery and an inn known from one end of the Santa Fe Trail to the other.
Mrs. Dillon was married in 1845, when only 15 years old. Her husband was the pioneer saddler of Westport and did a thriving business. They lived for a time in the old house now occupied by George Asbury. It was in this house that her daughter, Mrs. Tinker, was born.
Mrs. Dillon delighted in telling stories of the days when Main Street was a country road and she picked wild grapes along what is now Petticoat Lane. She was active up to the time she was stricken. She dressed dolls for the recent Westport fair and was constantly at the booth conducted by the Daughters of Old Westport, of which organization she was a member. She was also a member of the Kansas City Historical Society and the Daughters of the Confederacy.
HER SON-IN-LAW, TOO, NEAR DEATH.
Her son-in-law, Joseph A. Tinker, suffered paralysis last Monday. He is in the room adjoining the one in which Mrs. Dillon died. His death is expected momentarily. As Mrs. Tinker's time was taken up in caring for her husband, the Daughter's of Old Westport - war has made many of them expert in nursing the sick and wounded - alternated in caring for Mrs. Dillon during the five weeks of her illness.
Mrs. Dillon is survived by three grandchildren,
Theodore J. Tinker,
George C. Tinker
and Mrs. Gertrude Hilger of Texas.
Funeral services will be at the Tinker home at 10 o'clock this morning. The Upton Hays Chapter, U.D.C., of which Mrs. Dillon was a charter member, will attend. Burial will be in Forest Hill Cemetery.
Col. Alex Johnson, of Topeka, who died in Dallas, Tex., in December, 1904, was born near Turner, Kas., in 1833. He had been called the first white child born in Kansas.
Source: Kansas City Star; Kansas City, Missouri. December 23, 1912; Page Eleven. 8 Aug 2014 - dm wms (#47395868)
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Susannah was the daughter of Daniel and Rosannah (CAMPBELL) YOUCHAM, born Jan 12, 1830. She was, perhaps, the fourth white child, and second white girl born in what is now Kansas. The YOUCHAMs then lived with Subagent John CAMPBELL (cousin of Mrs. YOUCHAM). Later they ran a tavern in Westport, MO. Susan married William J. DILLON, had seven children and died in KC, MO in December 1912 at the age of 82. McCOY says YOUCHAM was employed as a farmer for Shawnee.
Source: Marriages, Births & Death in Kansas Before 1854
Midwest Historical and Genealogical Society, inc.
Organized for publication in 1966. Available in the Johnson County Library Genealogy Dept, KS. Vol. 28; #2; p. 168, added 1962. 5 Aug 2014 - Chris L (#48321875)
Siblings of Susannah Yoacham included
Archibald Campbell Yoacham Memorial 9258155
John Samuel Yoacham Memorial # 120336052
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