Mary married COOK, Leland T. on 30 Jun 1935. Leland was born about 1916. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Living
2. Living
3. Living

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Buried:
Lincoln Memorial Park Cemetery

Butler married BENSON, Margaret Jane on 15 Nov 1895. Margaret was born in 1876 in Illinois, USA; died on 31 Dec 1951 in Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, USA; was buried in Portland, Multnomah, Oregon, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Buried:
Lincoln Memorial Park Cemetery

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Glasco Sun, Cloud County, Kansas, Sept. 5, 1885, page 4:
Suicided
About two o'clock Wednesday afternoon, J.D. Brassfield was discovered by his family hanging in a young cottonwood tree, about one hundred yards southeast of his house. They cut him down and one of the boys hurriedly notified the neighbors.
The last his family had seen of him was between ten and eleven o'clock in the forenoon, and had supposed he had gone to one of the neighbors.

The deceased had taken a halter and fastened it to the top of the tree about twelve feet from the ground, climbing the tree with his boots on, and then as everything was fixed satisfactory to him, took off his boots and stood them a few feet from the tree selected for his own destruction. He again climbed the tree, adjusted the noose around his neck and swung himself into eternity. The only reason for this rash step is that he was working under a temporary spell of insanity, which seemed to trouble him every fall, yet no one supposed that it would ever cause him to plan or carry out his own destruction.

John Brassfield was a good man, industrious and prosperous. A good neighbor, a loving husband, and a kind father, and to whose family the sympathy of the entire community is extended in this their darkest hour of sorrow.

Notes for JOHN D. BRASSFIELD:
"J.D. Brassfield, who used to live in Union township, but who has lived in Kansas the last three years, committed suicide at his Kansas home. He was perhaps somewhat insane. He was sent to the insane asylum when a young man, and has been troubled somewhat at times since. We are indebted to W. W. Gentry for this information." Taken from an article written in the Winterset Madisonian newspaper, dated Sept. 17, 1885.

John married MCCLELLAND, Martha A. on 15 Aug 1867 in Patterson, Madison, Iowa, USA. Martha was born on 3 Apr 1846 in Shelbyville, Shelby, Indiana, USA; died on 17 Jul 1917 in Glasco, Cloud, Kansas, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Glasco Sun, Cloud County, Kansas, July 26, 1917, page 8:
Mattie A. Brassfield
Mattie A. Brassfield was born at Shellyville, Ind., April 30, 1846. At the age of six years she moved with her parents to Madison Co., Iowa. There she grew to womanhood, and on August 15, 1867 was united in marriage to John D. Brassfield. To this union 6 children were born, four of whom are now living. The family came to Kansas and took a timber claim near Glasco in the spring of 1885 and in the fall of the same year, the husband and father departed this life, leaving all the cares of the young family to be born by the wife and mother.
For more than 32 years her home has been here; and her life among us speaks with greater eloquence than any eulogy which I might be able to pronounce.
For the past eight years she has been a great sufferer, and during the one week of her final illness at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Grace McLane of Cawker City, she calmly and faithfully awaited the end; and when the call came, she passed peacefully to her rest.
The span of life for her was 71 years, 2 months, and 17 days.
Among the immediate relatives she leaves three brothers, M.T. and T.D. McClellan of Glasco, and Benj. of Orange, Calif. Two sons, G.W. Brassfield of St. Joe, and B.R. Brassfield of Salina. Two daughters, Mrs. E.N. Ott, of Salina, and Mrs. L.A. McLane of Cawker City. Fourteen grandchildren.
At the age of 14 years, she became a member of the Christian Church; and for 57 years had been a faithful follower of the Great King.
Funeral services, conducted by Elder Park, were held at the Christian Church Thursday at 2 p.m., and interment was made in the Glasco Cemetery.

John married HILL, Sarah R. Sarah (daughter of HILL, Richard and GORDON, Elizabeth) was born on 2 Nov 1806 in North Carolina, USA; died on 22 Sep 1879 in Iowa, USA; was buried on 23 Sep 1879 in Crawford, Madison, Iowa, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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McGinnis Cemetery
Madison County, Iowa

Brassfield, Child, d. 5-2-1871, 2y
Brassfield, Sarah, b. 1806, d. 1879


Buried:
McGinnis Cemetery