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Obituary- Reser, William H.

Obituary.
[photo caption: Wm. Henry Reser.]

William Henry Reser was born at Scott, Kentucky, Aug 6, 1837. At the age of 20 he moved to Indiana and a year later was married to Miss Agnes Reser. To this union were born 11 children. In the year 1870 they moved to Kansas, coming by way of steamboat to St. Louis and from there by way of rail to Topeka, Kansas. For three years they lived in the old Indianola hotel. Mr. Reser then took up a homestead in Pottawatomie county and lived on it until the year 1883 when the family moved to Rossville township where he purchased the farm owned by him ever since, three miles north of Rossville.

Recently the farm was rented to J.C. Reser, the youngest son, and Mr. Reser and wife moved to the residence of his son, B.F. Reser, near the Cedar Bluff Mill. It was here Sunday evening, April 26, that he was struck with paralysis and remained in an unconscious condition until death came to his release at 7:10 o’clock the following Tuesday evening.

He leaves to mourn his death, a wife and eight children – five sons, B.F., J.C., Roll, Zack and Wyatt Reser, and daughters, Mrs. Mart Nason, Mrs. Ed James and Mrs. John Shenk. Besides the immediate family are four brothers, M. Reser, Z. Reser, M.B. Reser and Wyatt Reser and three sisters, Mrs. John Sebring of Westmoreland, Mrs. Harriet Sawyer of near Eskridge, and Mrs. Sarah Sawyer of Topeka, to mourn his going away.

Mr. Reser united with the Christian church at the age of 24 and was a faithful servant of the Master until his death. The funeral services were held in the Christian church at Rossville Wednesday afternoon, April 29, conducted by the Rev. Chas. Finch of the First Christian church, Topeka. A large concourse of sympathizing friends filled the church and many beautiful floral tributes banked the casket. The interment took place in Rossville city cemetery.

Mr. Reser was a good citizen, holding the respect and esteem of a large circle of acquaintances and neighbors and his loss will be keenly felt by the community in which he lived. But he had rounded out a long life of usefulness and service and his death is but the transition of the faithful Christian to the joys of the life beyond.

[From the Rossville Reporter, 8 May 1908]

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