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Obituary- Weld, Hiram

PIONEER SILVER LAKE MAN PASSED AWAY IN OKLAHOMA
Hiram Weld, who was last week laid to rest near the home he had lived in for so long, was born March 19, 1855, three miles east of Silver Lake, Kansas, on the Kansas river in Shawnee county. He was a pupil in the Mission school of St. Marys, Kan., when a child and later made his home with a brother and assisted in the work of running the ferry at Silver Lake.

From Silver Lake Mr. Weld went to Alma, Kan., in Wabaunsee county where he learned the trade of plastering and later he ran a training stable for track horses. It was while a resident of Alma that he met Maggie Felden, who he married in July, 1887. To this union three children were born, all of whom are now living. They are Oliver K. Weld of Pauls Valley, Mrs. B. B. Truscott, of Los Angeles, Calif., and Mrs. F. E. Doyle of Ponca City.

Mr. Weld came to Oklahoma in 1900 and settled on the farm on which he died, located nine miles west of Maud in the community of the Wye, where he made his home continuously to the time of his death Uncle Hi. as he was lovingly called by all his neighbors, was one of the most highly respected of the farmers of the Maud-Wye district, and his long illness and death caused anxiety and regret by a large number of people.

Miss Alma Desmond of Oklahoma City, a friend of the Weld family, is a house guest at the Weld home and will remain with Mrs. Weld for a time as a companion for her in her lonely home, until she has settled business affairs so she can take a trip to visit members of her family.—Shawnee, Okla., Daily News.

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