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Obituary- Wasson, W.H. 2

Wasson Is Dead
Former City Commissioner Was a Kansas Pioneer.

Came to Kansas in 1853 - Settled Near Fort Scott.

Following a short illness, W.H. Wasson, 71, Kansas pioneer and member of the Topeka school board, died at his home, 1267 Clay street, at 4 o'clock Sunday afternoon.

He had been a sufferer from hay fever. Some time ago he went to Colorado for relief, but the altitude troubled him a good deal and a week ago Mrs. Wasson went to Manitou, where he had been staying, and brought Mr. Wasson home. Complications developed rapidly, which resulted fatally.

Mr. Wasson was born in McMahon county, Tenn., May 25, 1853. He came to Kansas in 1855 with his parents, who settled in Fort Scott. He was educated in the public schools, Kansas State Normal school and Zion college. In 1872, he began teaching in the public schools of Linn and Bourbon counties. This was the beginning of thirty years of most successful educational work as superintendent of public schools and a teacher of teachers in normal institutes.

Was in Railroad Work.
He was also a railroad man. From 1894 to 1896 he was city ticket agent of the Rock Island railroad in Topeka. Later he was employed as manager of the Buckeye Oil & Gas company, a position he left to enter city politics. In 1914 he was elected finance committee [ ] holding that position for six years when he retired to become a public accountant.

Mr. Wasson was married fifty-three years ago to Harriett Corden [ ] Waverly at Fort Scott on July 24, [ ]. She survives him. Besides his widow he is survived by two daughters, Mrs. W.L. Jury and Mrs. Louie O'Dell; a son, C.H. Wasson, assistant county engineer; three granddaughters, Miss Helen O'Dell, Mrs. Prudy C. Binkley and Mrs. Louie E. Holm; three grandsons, W. Harold Jury, Clyde Wasson, Jr., and William M. Wasson; two greatgrandsons, David H. Binkley and W. Delbert Holm, all of Topeka; two sisters, Mrs. Mary Feemster, Fort Scott, Kan., and Mrs. Minta Young, Stuttgart, Ark., and two brothers, G.H. Wasson, Topeka, and R.M. Wasson, California.

Mr. Wasson was a member of the Westminster Presbyterian church, Topeka consistory No. 1, Scottish Rite Masons, Topeka Commandery No. 5, Knights Templar, Siloam Lodge No. 225, A.F. & A.M.; I.O.O.F. Lodge No. 40 and the A.O.U.W.

Funeral services will be held Tuesday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock from the home, 1267 Clay street.


[From 1924]

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