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Obituary- Zickefoose, Samuel W. 1

VETERAN PEACE OFFICER
BURIED HERE SATURDAY
The body of the late S. W. Zickefoose, chief of detectives at Wichita and one of the most widely known peace officers in Kansas, who died in Wichita Tuesday morning of last week, arrived in Topeka at 4:55 o’clock Friday afternoon. Topeka police officers, mounted and afoot, formed an honorary escourt from the Santa Fe depot to the Conwell funeral home where the body lay in state unitl Saturday noon when it was brought to Rossville. The funeral service here at the Presbyterian church was short, including a prayer service conducted by Rev. G. C. Albin and a number of songs. Hesperian Lodge, A. F. & A. M., had charge of the Masonic service at the cemetery. The deceased gentleman was a member of Albert Pike lodge of Wichita.

Mr. Zickefoose was born in Richie county, West Virginia, December 4, 1867. His parents were descendants of old Dutch families, which settled in New York when it was first populated, and later moving to Virginia. When he was 2 years old, he came to Kansas with his parents and settled in Rossville where he spent his boyhood.

Early in life he left Rossville to become a peace officer, first serving as a member of the Topeka force. He also was a Santa Fe special agent and a member of the Kansas City police department. He was chief of detectives on the Kansas City police department when he resigned to become chief of police at Wichita seven years ago. Altogether, he had served 38 years as a peace officer.

In 1895 he married Miss Effie M. Lewis, of Lecompton. Besides his widow, he is survived by three children, Benjamin A. Zickefoose, who is in the navy at New London, Conn,, Miss Marguerite Zickefoose and Harry Zickefoose, both of Wichita; two brothers, W. H. Zickefoose, of Rossville and O. A. Zickefoose, Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.; and a sister, Mrs. E. J. Gustin of Maple Hill.

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