Chase - Abbie - Putnam

From the Wamego, Kans., Agriculturalist, we clip the following relative to the death of a former well known school teacher in this county:

“Died—At the Presbyterian manse in Wamego, Sunday morning, September 22, 1895, Miss Abbie M. Chase. The deceased was born in Bainbridge, Putnam County, Indiana, August 23, 1846. Her father, Rev. Moody Chase, was a Presbyterian minister, who spent his active life and died in Indiana. Her mother, Mrs. Hannah J. Chase, is known to many of our citizens. Miss Chase was a very successful school teacher and for sixteen years consecutively taught in her native state. She was critical and exact as a scholar; as a teacher patient, firm, and successful. Though small in stature, she was always successful in governing the worst of scholars, and today men and women are in many places in honor who were pupils of Miss Chase, hence her work goes on.

Miss Chase also taught in Texas and in Kansas. Her past illness was long and exceedingly painful. It only lacked two days of being six months that she was confined to her bed, with it all she was patient.

Funeral services were held at the home of her sister, Mrs. N. D. Johnson, and were conducted by Rev. H. r. Lewis, assisted by Rev. W. L. Morris. Though an invalid since her residence in Wamego, she, by her patient, loving ways acquired many friends.”