Charles Canfil
Charles Canfil was the son of Orson and Phoebe Canfil, who were among the first pioneers to settle Northeast Kansas. He was born April 1, 1860 in Haddam, Kansas and had the distinction of being the first white child born in Washington County, Kansas. He was reared and spent most of his life in the same community in which he was born. At the time of his death, he owned the land that his father settled and patented from the government.
He was married to Miss Elizabeth Sanders in 1881. She survives him and makes her home in this city. To this union were born two sons. Lloyd Earl was the eldest. He graduated from Highland Park School of Pharmacy in Des Moines, Iowa, and was practicing his profession when death called him two years before the passing of his father. The other son, Dr. A. W. Canfil is one of the honored citizens of this city.
Brother Canfil grew to manhood on the Kansas frontier surrounded with the hardships that always attend the early settlement of a new country. These same hardships temper the steel of upright manhood, hence the worth and strength of his Christian character. It was the year in which he married, 1881, that he converted while at his work and from time to his death lived a consistent Christian life. In 1887, he united with the Methodist Protestant Church and remained a faithful member of that communion until he joined the Church Triumphant.
After the death of his son, two years ago, he left his old home in Kansas, and with his faithful wife made his home in Sweetwater, Texas near his only living child. He was a man who bore his sorrows quietly and patiently yet it pierced deep into his soul. He never entirely recovered from the blow of losing his son, but he never complained.
Three weeks preceding his death, he suffered a light attack of influenza. He had practically recovered from this attack when he was stricken with an attack of heart failure on Sunday, March 5th, and passed from this earth a few minutes later. The funeral was held in the Methodist Church on March 7th by the Presiding Elder of Sweetwater District, Rev. Stewart, assisted by Rev. Doak, pastor of the Methodist Church and Rev. Jackson, pastor of the South Side Baptist Church, and was laid to rest in the Sweetwater Cemetery. He leaves to mourn his departure his wife, one son, four grandsons, three sisters and a great host of relatives and friends.
In his death, Sister Canfil has lost a true and faithful husband; his son and grandsons a father whose life has been an example of devout and consecrated manhood, his relatives and kinsman whom all honored and loved; his friends a friendship of sterling worth and humanity one of God's noblemen. As he lived, so he died. When he knew that the end had come, he lifted his hands toward heaven and said: "Blessed Jesus, come and take me."
He had taken Jesus in life and was not afraid for Jesus to take him in death.
From The Haddam Clipper-Leader, Haddam, Kansas, Thursday, March 23, 1922
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Nolan County Death Certificate
Name: Charles Canfil
Event Type: Death
Event Date: 05 Mar 1922
Event Place: Sweetwater, Nolan, Texas, United States
Cause of Death: Acute dilation of heart, contributory to influenza
Gender: Male
Marital Status: Married
Birth Date: 01 Apr 1860
Birthplace: Washington, Kansas
Father's Name: Orson Canfil
Father's Birthplace: Ill.
Mother's Name: Phoebe Meyers
Mother's Birthplace: Mo.
Occupation: Farmer
Residence: Sweetwater, Texas
Burial/Removal: Sweetwater
Date: 07 Mar 1922
Informant: Dr. A. W. Canfil, Sweetwater, Texas
Certificate Number: 9273
GS Film number: 2074543
Digital Folder Number: 005145594
Image Number: 02853
Citing this Record
"Texas Deaths, 1890-1976," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K3C8-L3G : 13 March 2018), Phoebe Meyers in entry for Charles Canfil, 05 Mar 1922; citing certificate number 9273, State Registrar Office, Austin; FHL microfilm 2,074,543.
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Charles Canfil was the son of Orson and Phoebe Canfil, who were among the first pioneers to settle Northeast Kansas. He was born April 1, 1860 in Haddam, Kansas and had the distinction of being the first white child born in Washington County, Kansas. He was reared and spent most of his life in the same community in which he was born. At the time of his death, he owned the land that his father settled and patented from the government.
He was married to Miss Elizabeth Sanders in 1881. She survives him and makes her home in this city. To this union were born two sons. Lloyd Earl was the eldest. He graduated from Highland Park School of Pharmacy in Des Moines, Iowa, and was practicing his profession when death called him two years before the passing of his father. The other son, Dr. A. W. Canfil is one of the honored citizens of this city.
Brother Canfil grew to manhood on the Kansas frontier surrounded with the hardships that always attend the early settlement of a new country. These same hardships temper the steel of upright manhood, hence the worth and strength of his Christian character. It was the year in which he married, 1881, that he converted while at his work and from time to his death lived a consistent Christian life. In 1887, he united with the Methodist Protestant Church and remained a faithful member of that communion until he joined the Church Triumphant.
After the death of his son, two years ago, he left his old home in Kansas, and with his faithful wife made his home in Sweetwater, Texas near his only living child. He was a man who bore his sorrows quietly and patiently yet it pierced deep into his soul. He never entirely recovered from the blow of losing his son, but he never complained.
Three weeks preceding his death, he suffered a light attack of influenza. He had practically recovered from this attack when he was stricken with an attack of heart failure on Sunday, March 5th, and passed from this earth a few minutes later. The funeral was held in the Methodist Church on March 7th by the Presiding Elder of Sweetwater District, Rev. Stewart, assisted by Rev. Doak, pastor of the Methodist Church and Rev. Jackson, pastor of the South Side Baptist Church, and was laid to rest in the Sweetwater Cemetery. He leaves to mourn his departure his wife, one son, four grandsons, three sisters and a great host of relatives and friends.
In his death, Sister Canfil has lost a true and faithful husband; his son and grandsons a father whose life has been an example of devout and consecrated manhood, his relatives and kinsman whom all honored and loved; his friends a friendship of sterling worth and humanity one of God's noblemen. As he lived, so he died. When he knew that the end had come, he lifted his hands toward heaven and said: "Blessed Jesus, come and take me."
He had taken Jesus in life and was not afraid for Jesus to take him in death.
From The Haddam Clipper-Leader, Haddam, Kansas, Thursday, March 23, 1922
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Nolan County Death Certificate
Name: Charles Canfil
Event Type: Death
Event Date: 05 Mar 1922
Event Place: Sweetwater, Nolan, Texas, United States
Cause of Death: Acute dilation of heart, contributory to influenza
Gender: Male
Marital Status: Married
Birth Date: 01 Apr 1860
Birthplace: Washington, Kansas
Father's Name: Orson Canfil
Father's Birthplace: Ill.
Mother's Name: Phoebe Meyers
Mother's Birthplace: Mo.
Occupation: Farmer
Residence: Sweetwater, Texas
Burial/Removal: Sweetwater
Date: 07 Mar 1922
Informant: Dr. A. W. Canfil, Sweetwater, Texas
Certificate Number: 9273
GS Film number: 2074543
Digital Folder Number: 005145594
Image Number: 02853
Citing this Record
"Texas Deaths, 1890-1976," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K3C8-L3G : 13 March 2018), Phoebe Meyers in entry for Charles Canfil, 05 Mar 1922; citing certificate number 9273, State Registrar Office, Austin; FHL microfilm 2,074,543.
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Charles Canfil
Charles Canfil was the son of Orson and Phoebe Canfil, who were among the first pioneers to settle Northeast Kansas. He was born April 1, 1860 in Haddam, Kansas and had the distinction of being the first white child born in Washington County, Kansas. He was reared and spent most of his life in the same community in which he was born. At the time of his death, he owned the land that his father settled and patented from the government.
He was married to Miss Elizabeth Sanders in 1881. She survives him and makes her home in this city. To this union were born two sons. Lloyd Earl was the eldest. He graduated from Highland Park School of Pharmacy in Des Moines, Iowa, and was practicing his profession when death called him two years before the passing of his father. The other son, Dr. A. W. Canfil is one of the honored citizens of this city.
Brother Canfil grew to manhood on the Kansas frontier surrounded with the hardships that always attend the early settlement of a new country. These same hardships temper the steel of upright manhood, hence the worth and strength of his Christian character. It was the year in which he married, 1881, that he converted while at his work and from time to his death lived a consistent Christian life. In 1887, he united with the Methodist Protestant Church and remained a faithful member of that communion until he joined the Church Triumphant.
After the death of his son, two years ago, he left his old home in Kansas, and with his faithful wife made his home in Sweetwater, Texas near his only living child. He was a man who bore his sorrows quietly and patiently yet it pierced deep into his soul. He never entirely recovered from the blow of losing his son, but he never complained.
Three weeks preceding his death, he suffered a light attack of influenza. He had practically recovered from this attack when he was stricken with an attack of heart failure on Sunday, March 5th, and passed from this earth a few minutes later. The funeral was held in the Methodist Church on March 7th by the Presiding Elder of Sweetwater District, Rev. Stewart, assisted by Rev. Doak, pastor of the Methodist Church and Rev. Jackson, pastor of the South Side Baptist Church, and was laid to rest in the Sweetwater Cemetery. He leaves to mourn his departure his wife, one son, four grandsons, three sisters and a great host of relatives and friends.
In his death, Sister Canfil has lost a true and faithful husband; his son and grandsons a father whose life has been an example of devout and consecrated manhood, his relatives and kinsman whom all honored and loved; his friends a friendship of sterling worth and humanity one of God's noblemen. As he lived, so he died. When he knew that the end had come, he lifted his hands toward heaven and said: "Blessed Jesus, come and take me."
He had taken Jesus in life and was not afraid for Jesus to take him in death.
From The Haddam Clipper-Leader, Haddam, Kansas, Thursday, March 23, 1922
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Nolan County Death Certificate
Name: Charles Canfil
Event Type: Death
Event Date: 05 Mar 1922
Event Place: Sweetwater, Nolan, Texas, United States
Cause of Death: Acute dilation of heart, contributory to influenza
Gender: Male
Marital Status: Married
Birth Date: 01 Apr 1860
Birthplace: Washington, Kansas
Father's Name: Orson Canfil
Father's Birthplace: Ill.
Mother's Name: Phoebe Meyers
Mother's Birthplace: Mo.
Occupation: Farmer
Residence: Sweetwater, Texas
Burial/Removal: Sweetwater
Date: 07 Mar 1922
Informant: Dr. A. W. Canfil, Sweetwater, Texas
Certificate Number: 9273
GS Film number: 2074543
Digital Folder Number: 005145594
Image Number: 02853
Citing this Record
"Texas Deaths, 1890-1976," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K3C8-L3G : 13 March 2018), Phoebe Meyers in entry for Charles Canfil, 05 Mar 1922; citing certificate number 9273, State Registrar Office, Austin; FHL microfilm 2,074,543.
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Charles Canfil was the son of Orson and Phoebe Canfil, who were among the first pioneers to settle Northeast Kansas. He was born April 1, 1860 in Haddam, Kansas and had the distinction of being the first white child born in Washington County, Kansas. He was reared and spent most of his life in the same community in which he was born. At the time of his death, he owned the land that his father settled and patented from the government.
He was married to Miss Elizabeth Sanders in 1881. She survives him and makes her home in this city. To this union were born two sons. Lloyd Earl was the eldest. He graduated from Highland Park School of Pharmacy in Des Moines, Iowa, and was practicing his profession when death called him two years before the passing of his father. The other son, Dr. A. W. Canfil is one of the honored citizens of this city.
Brother Canfil grew to manhood on the Kansas frontier surrounded with the hardships that always attend the early settlement of a new country. These same hardships temper the steel of upright manhood, hence the worth and strength of his Christian character. It was the year in which he married, 1881, that he converted while at his work and from time to his death lived a consistent Christian life. In 1887, he united with the Methodist Protestant Church and remained a faithful member of that communion until he joined the Church Triumphant.
After the death of his son, two years ago, he left his old home in Kansas, and with his faithful wife made his home in Sweetwater, Texas near his only living child. He was a man who bore his sorrows quietly and patiently yet it pierced deep into his soul. He never entirely recovered from the blow of losing his son, but he never complained.
Three weeks preceding his death, he suffered a light attack of influenza. He had practically recovered from this attack when he was stricken with an attack of heart failure on Sunday, March 5th, and passed from this earth a few minutes later. The funeral was held in the Methodist Church on March 7th by the Presiding Elder of Sweetwater District, Rev. Stewart, assisted by Rev. Doak, pastor of the Methodist Church and Rev. Jackson, pastor of the South Side Baptist Church, and was laid to rest in the Sweetwater Cemetery. He leaves to mourn his departure his wife, one son, four grandsons, three sisters and a great host of relatives and friends.
In his death, Sister Canfil has lost a true and faithful husband; his son and grandsons a father whose life has been an example of devout and consecrated manhood, his relatives and kinsman whom all honored and loved; his friends a friendship of sterling worth and humanity one of God's noblemen. As he lived, so he died. When he knew that the end had come, he lifted his hands toward heaven and said: "Blessed Jesus, come and take me."
He had taken Jesus in life and was not afraid for Jesus to take him in death.
From The Haddam Clipper-Leader, Haddam, Kansas, Thursday, March 23, 1922
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Nolan County Death Certificate
Name: Charles Canfil
Event Type: Death
Event Date: 05 Mar 1922
Event Place: Sweetwater, Nolan, Texas, United States
Cause of Death: Acute dilation of heart, contributory to influenza
Gender: Male
Marital Status: Married
Birth Date: 01 Apr 1860
Birthplace: Washington, Kansas
Father's Name: Orson Canfil
Father's Birthplace: Ill.
Mother's Name: Phoebe Meyers
Mother's Birthplace: Mo.
Occupation: Farmer
Residence: Sweetwater, Texas
Burial/Removal: Sweetwater
Date: 07 Mar 1922
Informant: Dr. A. W. Canfil, Sweetwater, Texas
Certificate Number: 9273
GS Film number: 2074543
Digital Folder Number: 005145594
Image Number: 02853
Citing this Record
"Texas Deaths, 1890-1976," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K3C8-L3G : 13 March 2018), Phoebe Meyers in entry for Charles Canfil, 05 Mar 1922; citing certificate number 9273, State Registrar Office, Austin; FHL microfilm 2,074,543.
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