ESTEEMED CITIZEN PASSED AWAY

J. C. WEEDE DIED AT HIS HOME ON NORTH BROADWAY SABBATH EVENING – BURIED WEDNESDAY

J. C. Weede, whose serious illness was mentioned last week passed peacefully away at his home on North Broadway, Sabbath evening, about 10 o’clock. He had been in  failing health ever since moving to this city about four years ago.  During the past month he failed very rapidly but was confined to his bed only about a week. He suffered from no organic trouble, but just seemed to grow weaker day by day, until death claimed the tired body.

The following obituary was read at the funeral services, yesterday afternoon, conducted by Rev. Freeman:

James Campbell Weede was born in Indiana county, Pennsylvania, on February 3, 1839, and departed from this life in his 86th year in Sterling, Kansas, August 10, 1924.

His father, the Rev. N. C. Weede, was a minister of the Associate Reformed and United Presbyterian churches and of Scotch-Irish and Puritan descent from an ancestry that settled in Massachusetts in 1630. His mother was Jane Campbell, of a Scottish lineage that settled in Pennsylvania in early colonial times.

When he was nine years of age, the Family removed to what was then a frontier settlement in Illinois where his father founded and was pastor of the congregations of El Mira and La Prairie. At the outbreak of the Civil War, he was a student at Monmouth college and in the fall of 1861 he enlisted for a period of three years in company F, 17th Ill. Regiment of Volunteer Infantry, the same company in which his brother Dr. N. R. Weede also served. His military service was in General McClernand’s Division in General Grant’s army of the west, where among other engagements, he participated in the capture of Fort Donelson, The Battle of Shiloh, and the Siege and capture of Vicksburg.

. . .some years in the photograph business in Monmouth, Ill. Some years later he and his brother John removed to St. Charles, Iowa, where they engaged in farming. On December 17, 1868, he was married to Isabel Turnbull in Warren county, Ill. She was a sister of Dr. Thomas B. Turnbull, who was for many years a well known U. P. pastor in Philadelphia. In a little more than a year after the marriage, his wife died on March 26, 1870. He than sold his farm near St. Charles and bought another in the north part of Madison county, Iowa. On May 23, 1878, he was married in Birmingham, Iowa, to Mary E. Ross, who still survives. To them were born nine children, right of whom are still living.

In 1900 Mr. Weede sold his farm in Iowa and removed to northern Kansas, where he bought a farm near Summerfield, Kansas, adjoining the farm of his brother, A. B. Weede.  He and his family remained there ten years but in 1910 he sold the farm and bought another near Walton in Harvey county, where he lived for another decade. In 1820 he moved his family to Sterling in order to better secure the benefits of Sterling College for his children.

Mr. Weede was one of a family of eleven children, only three of whom now survive- Mrs. Margaret Murchison, of Colorado; Mrs. Elizabeth McCullough, of Omaha, Nev.; and A. B. Weede, of Summerfield, Kansas.  One of his brothers was Dr. N. R. Weede, who died some months ago who was for many years a citizen of Sterling.

Mr. and Mrs. Weede had nine children, eight of whom are still living.  The daughters are Mrs. Howard Kilpatrick, of Hanover, Ill.; Mrs. W. H. Ross, is a missionary in India; Mamie A Weede of Wilkinsburg, Pa.; Jennie and Helen Weede, who reside in Sterling.  The sons are j. A. Weede, Supt. of schools at Englewood, Kansas; R. O. Weede, of Fallon, Nevada; and Charles R. Weede of Sterling.

Mr. Weede was a very public spirited citizen who in the days of his prime took an active interest in the affairs of his community and in the welfare of his country.  His ideals were high, his sincerity unquestioned and his integrity never challenged. He was from his boyhood a member of the Associated Reformed Presbyterian Church and then the United Presbyterian Church.  He was involved in religious work and was a member of Session in the U. P. churches in St. Charles, Iowa; North Branch, Iowa; Summerfield, Kansas; and Walton, Kansas.

Funeral services were held at the U. P. church, conducted by Rev. Freeman, assisted by Revs. Steel, Hood and Brown. Members of the G.A.R. attended the funeral in a body. Internment was made in Cottonwood Cemetery.