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Chase County Kansas Obituaries
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Chandler, Mary E Mrs. Mary E Chander 1838 - 1907
Mrs. Mary E Chandler aged sixty-nine years, departed this life December the 26th, 1907, at Bazaar in Chase County, Kansas. She was born May 1, 1838, at Lowell, Vermont, and was married to R H Chandler, at Athens in that state in 1860.
Her ancestors came to Boston, Mass., in 1638, and her genealogical tree shows a remarkable state of facts. I have examined it and was surprised to find that she was only XXXVI generations removed from Charlemagne and only XXXIV generations from Alfred the Great.
Mrs Chandler was the mother of six children all being born in New England. Her maiden name was Mary E Leland an old New England family that took a prominent part in the revcolution of 1776. Her children are all living except her oldest son Edwin, who departed this life on May 03, 1879. Her son Charles H Chandler is an honored citizen of Topeka, Kansas; Eugene E Chandler lives in North Alberta, Canada West; Levi L Chandler resides near Bazaar in Chase County, Kansas, and the two daughters Jessie F and Mamie E Chandler are with their father at the homne where the mother died.
Mrs Chandler was a strong character. She was a worker in the M E Church and left an influence for good in the community in which she had lived for most thirty years. She was not only a mother to her children but she was mother to all who knew her. No language can express the power and beauty and herosim and majesty of a mother's love.
It shrinks not where man fails, and over the wastes of worldly fortune sends the radiance of its quenchless fidelity like a star in heaven. We cannot help but
grieve when such loved ones leave
this earth, but it is some consolation
to know that Christ will be good to
her and that she is now at Home in
a House not made with hands. Her
kindness thawed every heart and
into a glow. I heard a little child
once say "Mother has gone to Heaven and we must weep no more".
I will never forget that remark. It
was so natural and sweet, and if a
child could say that, people of mature years can surly appreciate it to
its fullest extent.
It is true that the husband and father is now alone and in the shadow and that the sons and daughter are lonely without mother, but Bethlehem's lone star will always shine and the legacy that she led to those that she loved is worth
more than anything else in this world. She will never be forgotten by her loved ones.
I must be pardoned for writing freely about this family for I have known them for almost thirty years. I came to Chase county, Kansas, the third of March, 1879, and stopped at the Union Hotel in Cottonwood Falls. In about ten days Mr Chandler arrived here with his family from New England, I think from the state of New Hampshire. He also stopped at the Union Hotel and I was the first man in Chase county to form his acquaintence. He had come west to make a home for himself and those under his care; his children were small, but he and Mrs Chandler were full of hope for the future, fresh hopes had been born for other years.
He purchased a farm near Bazaar and moved there about the 20th of March 1879. This country was new then and while the Chandler family loved the granite hills of New England, they were happy and contented in their Kausas home. In about one week Edwin the o1dest son took sick and when the fields were green and the flower were in bloom and the atmosphere was vibrating with the songs of birds on the third of May, 1879, Edwin died. It was a sad blow. They were in a laud of strangers, but one touch of nature makes the whole world kin. Being acquainted with the family I attended the funeral. It has been a long time but I well remember that beautiful day in May when we laid him to rest. I then saw a noble father bow down in grief and a loving mother drowned in tears. The mother has now gone to dwell with Edwin and as the child said, so say I to the father and children,"Weep no more".
Mr. Chandler servedfour years in the Kansas legislature from Chase county and made for himself a name and reputation that we are all proud of and we sympathize with him in his bereavement those that, are dear to him. We must all bow to the will of the Father of all and we must worship his plan. The bow of promise is always in sight. The Mother is a memory now but it is a memory that will never fade.
Thomas Griahaw
Chase County Courant, Strong City, Kansas, Dec 26, 1907
by your Chase County Host, Lorna Marvin.
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