Karlena Warneke (Will)

People Buried Here

Epitaph

Description

Karlena

Plot information: Section 2, Lot 154, Grave 12

Burial date: 22 Jan 1916

Fred Warneke 1838 - 24 Jan 1922

Plot information: Section 2, Lot 154, Grave 11

Burial date: 26 Jan 1922

Fred and Karlena's headstones are near each other. Both have been photographed and transcribed.

Samuel

Plot information: Section 2, Lot 154, Grave 2

Burial date: 08 Jun 1925

Birth: Mercer County, Pennsylvania, USA

Death: Wichita, Sedgwick County, Kansas, USA

Headstone to the left of Samuel that is face down and buried deep enough to require major effort to upright.

Civil War

Company I.

14th Regiment

Iowa Infantry

Parents:

Samuel Chapman Mecham, Sr. (1798 - 1882)

Elizabeth nee Ball Mecham (1804 - 1855)

Wives:

Nancy Brothwell (Knox County, Illinois - 1865)

10 Children, five died young

Second wife: ? name unknown at this time, possibly Benjamine or Nancy Ann Cheeseman.

No children

Children:

James Noah Mecham (1877 - 1952)

Burial: Maple Grove Cemetery, Wichita, Sedgwick County, Kansas, USA

Plot information: Section S, Lot 260, Grave 5

Wesley (or Westly ) Grant Mecham (1885 - 1966)

27 Apr 1885 - Taylor County, Iowa - 29 Nov 1966 - Udall, Cowley County, Kansas

Burial: Star Valley Cemetery, Udall, Cowley County, Kansas, USA

Margaret Ann (born ?)

Nancy Ann (born ?)

Ace Streeter (born 1883)

Daisy Ann (born 1881)

Farmer who spent much of his life spreading the Gospel.