The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-05-27
The GRIM REAPER.
hort Sketches Of the Lives Of Per.
sons Who Have Recently
Passed Away.

/ AS IOICu - SSN
bortly afterwards, Captain John
bands Mcdowell died at his home
h Smith Centre, Kansas, April
Nth. The Smith Centre news
bapers published several columns
{ obituary. From this we pub
ish the following excerpts from
sketch of his life:
Captain Mcdowell was born in
Franklin county, Pa, August l,
iS4O, and at the age of IL years
he removed to Fulton county, and
later to Smith Centre, Kansas
where he prospered in the mer-
kantile business. In 1876 he
Eas married to Miss Cordelia A.
Miles, of Wisconsin.
/ On September l, 1861, he en-
listed for a three-year term in
Company F, 77th Pa. Volunteers.
He was taken prisoner at Chick
kmauga September 10, 1863, and
held in various southern prisons
bntil March 1865. He was mus
fered out of service July 1866.
When he was promoted to the
fank of Captain of his company,
The members presented him with
4 fine sword with the regular
Service belt. The inscription was
4 Presented to Captain John S.
Mcdowell by the members of
Company F, 77th Pennsylvania
Volunteer Infantry, as. a mark of
esteem and reward for meritor-
GUS service Ayril l, 1863" When
he was taken prisoner at Chicka-
bmauga, this sword was taken
from him, but the Captain to
whom he delivered it exchanged
addresses with him, promising to
return the sword at the end of
the war. The sword was after
wards traced through many south
|ern individuals and states; but
finally, all trace of it was lost.
|Thirty-six years later, a young
bman of Jackson, Georgia, adver-
tised the sword in New York pa
pers. The advertisement was
seen by a young lady of Kansas
who knew the Captain, and she
telegraphed the good newe to
him, and it was not long after
wards that the Captain regained
possession of this most cherished
relic.
Captain Mcdowell left the
neighborhood of Fort Littleton to
enlist in the army when he was
about twenty-one years of age.
After he had settled in the west,
he took such an active part in
the public welfare that he soon
became a leader. He served as
mayor, bank director, director of
the Kansas penitentiary, and was
one of the staunchest supporters
of the Kansas state agricultural
college that has done so much to
develop agriculture not only in
that state, but its influence has
gone out all over the great West.
His death is a loss not only to the
Immediate community in which
he lived and worked, but to the
whole state of Kansas.
JOHN M. WINTERS.
John M. Winters, one of Full
ton County's oldest and most
highly esteemed citizens, passed
away at his home in Thompson
township, Thursday, May 20,
1915, aged IS years, 2 months,
and 25 days. The funeral servi-
ceS were conducted by his pastor
Rev. Calvin l.. Funk, and inter-
ment was made in the cemetery
at the Tonoloway Baptist church,
'dSC saturday.
Mr.. Winters was married many
years ago to Annie, daughter of
Robert and Amy Bailey McClel-
Ian, who survives, together with
the following children, namely,
Effamy, widow of the late John
Douglass, of Thompson township
Miss Lura, at home; George A.,
residing in the same township;
and Maggie, wife of Luther
Hyatt, residing in West Virginia.
The deceased was a member Of
The Tonoloway Primitive Baptist
church and a most excellent chris
uan gentleman. Unassuming in