Note: Have found her name spelled Dicey, Dicy, and Dicie.
The Emporia Weekly Gazette, 03 Oct 1901, Thursday
AUNT DICY ODAIR
An interesting character presided over the coffee urn at the old settlers' picnic yesterday. It was "Aunt Dicy" Odair, a colored woman, who has lived in Emporia since about '63. "Aunt Dicy" is about 80 years old and was born a slave, in Arkansas. In 1862, a company of Union soldiers, which included Captain Heritage and A. G. Proctor, an old resident, passing through Arkansas and needing a cook, they swiped "Aunt Dicy" and several more negroes. She was brought to Kansas by the soldiers and settled in Lyon county. She is now a gray-haired, big hearted, typical southern "Aunty" and delights to relate reminiscences of pioneer days.
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Emporia Gazette Saturday, June 27, 1903; page 1, column 3
"AUNT DICIE" O'DAIR DEAD
The old colored woman, “Aunt Dicie” O’Dair died this morning at her home at Fifteen avenue and West street at five o’clock. She has been suffering for some time with dropsy. She was the mother of eleven children, four of whom are dead now.
“Aunt Dicie” as Mrs. O’Dair was commonly known, has grown up with the town and with her death goes one whose place no one else can fill. Her age she did not know herself but she was nearly a hundred and was brought to Emporia straight from slavery. Her association with this town seems especially noteworthy because she was brought by a company of Emporia soldiers. Captain Heritage was captain of the company of Kansas soldiers. And they went across country to Arkansas. There they picked up “Aunt Dicie” and her husband and brought them back to Emporia as cooks for the company. They have been here ever since. Mrs. O’Dair who was a talker could tell the history of this town and the war like a book. She was a great philosopher and as long as one would listen, she used to talk on religious subjects and did it with great earnestness and sense. “Aunt Dicie” is the kind of a character one occasionally reads of in a novel of the south – a typical southern colored woman with a certain “air” in her appearance and conversation that made her unlike any other person of her race in this town.
The funeral is set for tomorrow if certain relatives reach here in time.
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Emporia Gazette, Monday, June 29, 1903, page 5, column 2
Yesterday afternoon at one o’clock the funeral of Mrs. Dicie O’Dair was held at her home on North West street. It was a question as to whether Mrs. O’Dair was a Methodist or a Church of God member as she was taken for a member of each church. Because of this both the Colored Methodist church pastor and Solomon West of the Church of God officiated at the funeral. The funeral was well attended and interment was made in Maplewood cemetery.
The Emporia Weekly Gazette, 03 Oct 1901, Thursday
AUNT DICY ODAIR
An interesting character presided over the coffee urn at the old settlers' picnic yesterday. It was "Aunt Dicy" Odair, a colored woman, who has lived in Emporia since about '63. "Aunt Dicy" is about 80 years old and was born a slave, in Arkansas. In 1862, a company of Union soldiers, which included Captain Heritage and A. G. Proctor, an old resident, passing through Arkansas and needing a cook, they swiped "Aunt Dicy" and several more negroes. She was brought to Kansas by the soldiers and settled in Lyon county. She is now a gray-haired, big hearted, typical southern "Aunty" and delights to relate reminiscences of pioneer days.
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Emporia Gazette Saturday, June 27, 1903; page 1, column 3
"AUNT DICIE" O'DAIR DEAD
The old colored woman, “Aunt Dicie” O’Dair died this morning at her home at Fifteen avenue and West street at five o’clock. She has been suffering for some time with dropsy. She was the mother of eleven children, four of whom are dead now.
“Aunt Dicie” as Mrs. O’Dair was commonly known, has grown up with the town and with her death goes one whose place no one else can fill. Her age she did not know herself but she was nearly a hundred and was brought to Emporia straight from slavery. Her association with this town seems especially noteworthy because she was brought by a company of Emporia soldiers. Captain Heritage was captain of the company of Kansas soldiers. And they went across country to Arkansas. There they picked up “Aunt Dicie” and her husband and brought them back to Emporia as cooks for the company. They have been here ever since. Mrs. O’Dair who was a talker could tell the history of this town and the war like a book. She was a great philosopher and as long as one would listen, she used to talk on religious subjects and did it with great earnestness and sense. “Aunt Dicie” is the kind of a character one occasionally reads of in a novel of the south – a typical southern colored woman with a certain “air” in her appearance and conversation that made her unlike any other person of her race in this town.
The funeral is set for tomorrow if certain relatives reach here in time.
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Emporia Gazette, Monday, June 29, 1903, page 5, column 2
Yesterday afternoon at one o’clock the funeral of Mrs. Dicie O’Dair was held at her home on North West street. It was a question as to whether Mrs. O’Dair was a Methodist or a Church of God member as she was taken for a member of each church. Because of this both the Colored Methodist church pastor and Solomon West of the Church of God officiated at the funeral. The funeral was well attended and interment was made in Maplewood cemetery.
Note: Have found her name spelled Dicey, Dicy, and Dicie.
The Emporia Weekly Gazette, 03 Oct 1901, Thursday
AUNT DICY ODAIR
An interesting character presided over the coffee urn at the old settlers' picnic yesterday. It was "Aunt Dicy" Odair, a colored woman, who has lived in Emporia since about '63. "Aunt Dicy" is about 80 years old and was born a slave, in Arkansas. In 1862, a company of Union soldiers, which included Captain Heritage and A. G. Proctor, an old resident, passing through Arkansas and needing a cook, they swiped "Aunt Dicy" and several more negroes. She was brought to Kansas by the soldiers and settled in Lyon county. She is now a gray-haired, big hearted, typical southern "Aunty" and delights to relate reminiscences of pioneer days.
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Emporia Gazette Saturday, June 27, 1903; page 1, column 3
"AUNT DICIE" O'DAIR DEAD
The old colored woman, “Aunt Dicie” O’Dair died this morning at her home at Fifteen avenue and West street at five o’clock. She has been suffering for some time with dropsy. She was the mother of eleven children, four of whom are dead now.
“Aunt Dicie” as Mrs. O’Dair was commonly known, has grown up with the town and with her death goes one whose place no one else can fill. Her age she did not know herself but she was nearly a hundred and was brought to Emporia straight from slavery. Her association with this town seems especially noteworthy because she was brought by a company of Emporia soldiers. Captain Heritage was captain of the company of Kansas soldiers. And they went across country to Arkansas. There they picked up “Aunt Dicie” and her husband and brought them back to Emporia as cooks for the company. They have been here ever since. Mrs. O’Dair who was a talker could tell the history of this town and the war like a book. She was a great philosopher and as long as one would listen, she used to talk on religious subjects and did it with great earnestness and sense. “Aunt Dicie” is the kind of a character one occasionally reads of in a novel of the south – a typical southern colored woman with a certain “air” in her appearance and conversation that made her unlike any other person of her race in this town.
The funeral is set for tomorrow if certain relatives reach here in time.
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Emporia Gazette, Monday, June 29, 1903, page 5, column 2
Yesterday afternoon at one o’clock the funeral of Mrs. Dicie O’Dair was held at her home on North West street. It was a question as to whether Mrs. O’Dair was a Methodist or a Church of God member as she was taken for a member of each church. Because of this both the Colored Methodist church pastor and Solomon West of the Church of God officiated at the funeral. The funeral was well attended and interment was made in Maplewood cemetery.
The Emporia Weekly Gazette, 03 Oct 1901, Thursday
AUNT DICY ODAIR
An interesting character presided over the coffee urn at the old settlers' picnic yesterday. It was "Aunt Dicy" Odair, a colored woman, who has lived in Emporia since about '63. "Aunt Dicy" is about 80 years old and was born a slave, in Arkansas. In 1862, a company of Union soldiers, which included Captain Heritage and A. G. Proctor, an old resident, passing through Arkansas and needing a cook, they swiped "Aunt Dicy" and several more negroes. She was brought to Kansas by the soldiers and settled in Lyon county. She is now a gray-haired, big hearted, typical southern "Aunty" and delights to relate reminiscences of pioneer days.
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Emporia Gazette Saturday, June 27, 1903; page 1, column 3
"AUNT DICIE" O'DAIR DEAD
The old colored woman, “Aunt Dicie” O’Dair died this morning at her home at Fifteen avenue and West street at five o’clock. She has been suffering for some time with dropsy. She was the mother of eleven children, four of whom are dead now.
“Aunt Dicie” as Mrs. O’Dair was commonly known, has grown up with the town and with her death goes one whose place no one else can fill. Her age she did not know herself but she was nearly a hundred and was brought to Emporia straight from slavery. Her association with this town seems especially noteworthy because she was brought by a company of Emporia soldiers. Captain Heritage was captain of the company of Kansas soldiers. And they went across country to Arkansas. There they picked up “Aunt Dicie” and her husband and brought them back to Emporia as cooks for the company. They have been here ever since. Mrs. O’Dair who was a talker could tell the history of this town and the war like a book. She was a great philosopher and as long as one would listen, she used to talk on religious subjects and did it with great earnestness and sense. “Aunt Dicie” is the kind of a character one occasionally reads of in a novel of the south – a typical southern colored woman with a certain “air” in her appearance and conversation that made her unlike any other person of her race in this town.
The funeral is set for tomorrow if certain relatives reach here in time.
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Emporia Gazette, Monday, June 29, 1903, page 5, column 2
Yesterday afternoon at one o’clock the funeral of Mrs. Dicie O’Dair was held at her home on North West street. It was a question as to whether Mrs. O’Dair was a Methodist or a Church of God member as she was taken for a member of each church. Because of this both the Colored Methodist church pastor and Solomon West of the Church of God officiated at the funeral. The funeral was well attended and interment was made in Maplewood cemetery.
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