Lincoln Harris Neiswender

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Obituary- Neiswender, L.H.

SERVICES FOR NEISWENDER AT SILVER LAKE M. E. CHURCH
Funeral services for L. H. Neiswender, representative from the 33rd district and widely known Shawnee county farmer, who died last Thursday from injuries received in a motor car accident were held at the Silver Lake Methodist church last Saturday afternoon at 2 o’clock. Burial was in the Prairie Home cemetery.

Mr. Neiswender was born on Feb. 11, 1862, near Columbus, Ohio. With his parents he moved to Kansas in 1868. His father homesteaded a farm in Shawnee county, near Silver Lake. He had lived there ever since —60 years.

He had served six terms as representative of his district—four of them in succession. He was also a representative in the special sessions of 1920, 1921 and 1928.

Mr. Neiswender was a graduate of the Kansas agricultural college, and a prominent member of the Shawnee county farm bureau. He was also master of the Pleasant Ridge Farm Grange.

Surviving him are his wife, Mrs. Alice Neiswender of the home address; one son, Raymond Neiswender of route 6; one daughter, Mrs. Vivian Paramore of Topeka; one brother Thomas Neiswender of Silver Lake, and one sister, Mrs. Lucy Peyton of North Topeka.


L. H. NEISWENDER DIES
L. H. Neiswender, state representative from this district, died early this afternoon in a Topeka hospital where he had been taken for treatment for injuries sustained in an auto accident on the evening of September 5, southeast of Silver Lake.

The friends and relatives here had high hopes of his recovery and news of his death was a shock.

Mr. Neiswender’s car collided with a car driven by William Enochs at the Grover Neiswender corner September 5. Mr. Neiswender suffered a concussion and other serious injuries His car was thrown into a ditch and badly damaged. Mrs. Neiswender was also slightly injured.