I visited the Bazaar Cemetery in 2005
James Vance and Mehitable "Hetty" Fordyce Evans are my 2nd gr-grandparents
and the grandparents of Edward Kent Chesney, who is my grandfather.
SEE ALSO:
https://chesneymize.blogspot.com/2014/05/james-vance-evans.html
Chase County Leader
Thursday January 3, 1901
(on file in the Kansas Historical Society, Topeka, Ks)
James V. Evans died last Monday morning at the residence of his son, D.C. Evans on South Fork, the result of exposure to the severe cold of the night before.
The old gentleman was almost 91 years old and was occasionally subject to spell of mental aberration, during one of which, it is supposed, he arose from his bed during the early morning and went out into the intense cold, and being unable to return to the house, he laid down by a hay-stack and tried to protect himself from the cold by covering himself with hay.
When the boys of the family got up in the morning, one of them discovered that the grand-father's room was vacant, although his clothing was where the old gentleman had placed it on retiring the evening before.
Search was commenced at once by the family and such neighbors as could be summoned and the body was found by Call Pendergraft, near a hay-stack, frozen stiff and partly covered with hay.
He was taken to the house where everything possible was done to restore life. For awhile it looked as if the efforts would be successful. As the limbs relaxed, a slight color returned to his face and weak breathing was perceptible, but after two hours of incessant work, breathing ceased and death triumphed.
The funeral took place Tuesday. The body was buried at Bazaar by the side of his wife who died 8 years ago. The deceased was born in Pennsylvania and came to Kansas in 1878, where he settled on the farm in South Fork, on which he died.
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