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Chase County Kansas Obituaries
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McCabe, Patrick B CONCERNING PATRIC McCABE
The death of Patrick McCabe at his home near Bazaar, Monday, January 26th, removed one of the best known settlers of this county and it is with the deepest regret that his friends who were so many, note his passing.
"P. B." as he was familiarly known was born on the 24th of June, 1840, and he was 79 years, 6 months and 2 days of age at the time, of his death. He has lived a long and useful life passed his three score and ten years. He was born in New York City. At the age of 18 years he emigrated westward locating near the place of his death in 1858 at what is known as Bazaar.
At the time he came here, Kansas was, known as the great American desert. This of course did not mean a scorched and sandy waste, like the desert of Sahara, but it meant an open and for the most part uninhaibited country,
The trials and hardships these pioneers endured tried the soul of men. The great Civil War which tore the country asunder, added trials and tribulations to those sturdy pioneers' patience endurance and suffering, but their herculean effort was crowned with victory which is a recorded historical fact which will be read by all the people of Kansas until the end of time.
In 1869 he was married to Abbie Sharp who survives him together with three children, who are William, Magaret and Robert E. Lee.
In the early days of the county he served as coroner. He was an optomist and advance thinker; a great historical reader and a ready talker and lent a hand at all times for the betterment of his adopted state and home.
Another pioneer has answered taps from the already depleted ranks, No one can say that he ever wavered in his love for home and state. He built better than he knew, The situation of these early settlers developed power which would have remained dormant had not their souls been touched by the epics, of the heroic.. They had their faults and in this way were mortal but when they responded to the cry of outraged humanity their souls received the coloring of the divine and in this way were immortal,
Kansas was the great school of liberty and her pioneers the teachers. Yes the Kansas pioneers made way for liberty, they made straight the paths for today; they did their work well each working in his or her own way and these old pioneers have left their mark upon the pages of time and civilization of the age. If any errored let us throw the mantle of charity over their acts for not until we reach that better country to which we are one by one surely emigrating and in which we will be emigrants and not pioneers will the motive of all and the whole work of the pioneers of Kansas be justly esteemed.
Mr. McCabe. answered his country's call to arms Sept. 1861, in Co. B, 9th Kansas, Cavalry Volunteers. He was honorably discharged in October, 1864. Shortly after being discharged he returned to New York to attend
the funeral of his mother, After a brief visit he returned to his state of adoption, located on the farm on which he passed away.
Chase County Leader News, Cottonwood Falls, Kansas, Feb 6, 1920.
by Lorna Marvin
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