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Obituary- Stalker, Elisha 2

Ex-County Commissioner E. L. Stalker died at the residence of his daughter. Mrs. L. Houck, at Delia Tuesday, the 15th inst. He was stricken with apoplexy and lived only a short time after the stroke .... The interment will be in the Little Cross Creek cemetery. Mr. Stalker was some eighty-four or five years of age.
Source:
The Holton Recorder
January 17, 1918.

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Fred Stalker, son of Rossville, came to his bedside Saturday Mrs. M. G. Kirkpatrick of Bellville arrived Sunday.
Source:
Delia News,
January 18, 1918.

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Topeka Capital.Word has been received in Topeka of the death of E. L. Stalker, step-father of the world’s heavyweight pugilistic champion, Jess Willard, at the home of a daughter in Delia, Kan. Mr. Stalker had been for a number of years a resident of Quinton Heights.

Helping in establishing the Quinton Heights Baptist church nine or ten years ago. Long before the present heavyweight champion was born, Mr. Stalker and Jess’ father lived on adjoining farms in Adrian, a small town located on the edge of the Pottawatomie reservation. Jess’ father died a short time after the present champion was born, and when Jess was 11 years old, his mother and Mr. Stalker married. Jess and his mother then went to live on the Stalker farm. Jess was raised there and it was while there he acquired his great skill at “bronco busting” and “roping, ” which in later years meant great sums of money for him on the vaudeville stage. Mrs. Stalker died in 1908. Mr. Stalker came to Topeka many years ago, and when his step-son was battling against the big black, Jack Johnson, April 5, 1915, for the heavyweight championship of the world, (although being strongly apposed to prize fights, he nevertheless kept in close touch with the local newspaper offices, and when he learned that Jess had won by a knockout in the twenty-sixth round, it is safe to say that there was not a prouder man in Topeka. According to the information received here, Mr. Stalker died last Tuesday at the age of 86.
Source:
The Holton Recorder

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