Word was received in Protection Thursday of the death of John Fulton, father of Kenneth H. Fulton of south of this city, at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Ethel Fulton, in Chicago, Illinois, on the previous day, Wednesday, November 19th. Mr. Fulton had been seriously sick and his son, Kenneth, had started on Wednesday, for Chicago to see his father, but he was intercepted at Wichita by the message telling him of his father's death, and he retired home to Protection Thursday evening.Mr. Fulton was one of the early settlers in this section, and in an early day owned considerable land in the Collier Flats country where he kept large numbers of cattle. For the past four years, since the death of his wife, he has made his home with his son, Kenneth and family on Lower Bluff, and only a short time ago he went to Chicago, returning with his daughter, who had been here for a visit with her father and brother.
Mr. Fulton was a man prominent in the affairs of the community when he was younger, and he was a man well respected by his wide range of friends and acquaintances. He was well past eighty-two years of age at the time of his death, and leaves beside his daughter Mrs. Ethel Fulton, and his son Kenneth, two other sons, Walter and Fred, one living in Oklahoma and the other in Nebraska.
The body will be brought to Protection for burial and will arrive here on Friday or Saturday evening. Arrangements for the funeral and interment are indefinite at the time the Post goes to press. His two sons Walter and Fred will be here to attend the funeral, but Mrs. Fulton of Chicago, will be unable to come because of other sickness in her family.
John G. Fulton was a Civil War veteran, see: Protection's Honor Roll, The Protection Post, May 30, 1918.
Sarah Elizabeth (Hamilton) FULTON, wife of John G. Fulton.
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