From William Cutler's History of Kansas:
CHARLES W. CLEAVER, was born in New York City, June 29, 1853. When seven years old removed to Missouri and resided in Shelby County during the war; afterwards removed to Hannibal, where he learned the art of telegraphy. He was a year in Minnesota as telegraph operator and station agent on the Northern Pacific R. R. in 1872 he came to Kansas, locating at Topeka, where he remained about eight months as assistant train dispatcher of the A. T. & S. F.; was then transferred to the Newton Station, where he held the same position for about a year and a half. In 1875 he was sent to Emporia and for some time was railroad operator and manager of the Western Union Telegraph Company's business. Since the increase of business and the establishment of an office in the business center of the town he has been manager of the business office of the Western Union Telegraph Company. Married Miss Emma Bailey, of Emporia, November 8, 1877. He is a member of Emporia Commandery. No. 8. K. T., of which he is now captain general.
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Emporia Weekly Gazette, Thursday, 28 May 1931
Funeral of Charles Cleaver
Funeral services for Charles W. Cleaver, general secretary of all the Masonic organizations in Emporia for the past 16 years, who died Tuesday at St. Mary's hospital , were held Friday afternoon at 4 o'clock at the First Congregational church. Rev. J.H.J. Rice conducted the services. A Knights Templar escort marched in the funeral procession to the church. The procession was led by the 161st Field Artillery band. The Knight Templar drill team marched in a triangle formation with the hearse in the center. Pallbearers were John D. Graham, John Lucas, John Northington, S.M. Parker, Charles G. West and Harry E. Peach. Mrs. Paul Turner, Miss Cora Edwards, Ed Lewis and Rice Brown sang. D.A. Hirschler was accompanist. Knight Templar services were conducted at the cemetery. I accordance with an old Knights Templar custom, the band played a dirge going to the services and at the grave but returning from the grave it played a regular march. Mr. Cleaver had requested that his funeral be conducted in official Knights Templar style.
Mr. Cleaver, who formerly worked as a telegraph operator for the Santa Fe and as manager of the Emporia Western Union office, had been general secretary of all the Masonic organizations in Emporia for the past 16 years.
Mr. Cleaver was born in New York City, June 29, 1853. His parents had come to America from England and his father was a farmer. With his parents, the boy traveled over many states, looking for a profitable farming location. Many of his early memories were of farm life in Wisconsin. While Charles Cleaver was still a child, the father went to Missouri, where work was plentiful, and soon sent for his family to join him. The family was living in Missouri at the time of the Civil war, and as the elder Mr. Cleaver was a union man, their lives were in constant danger. The father enlisted and returned from the war un-wounded, but with broken health. When Charles was 13 years old his father died, and the boy moved with his mother to a small Missouri town, where he found work in a brickyard.
Later he worked in a drug store in the same town and finally secured work as a messenger boy in a railway telegraph office, where a worker encouraged him to learn telegraphy. When he was 16 years old, he was sent as agent to an outpost situated in a swamp. The hours were long, and the work was hard, but the boy was paid the then magnificent salary of $90 a month, and he was satisfied with the work. Later he was promoted to the general offices of the company, but when the road failed in 1873, he drifted to Kansas, where he began his work with the Santa Fe.
In Emporia, he met Miss Emma Baily, and they were married, living at their Emporia home at 504 Union for about 55 years. When Mrs. Cleaver died about nine years ago, Mr. Cleaver moved to the Broadview hotel where he lived until he was taken to St. Mary's hospital, nine weeks ago.
Mr. Cleaver is survived by two nieces, Mrs. Ethel Colman, of Denver, Colo,, and Mrs. Walter Krall, of Roebling, New Jersey. Mrs. Cleaver was an aunt of Mrs. L.J. Buck, 612 Union.
CHARLES W. CLEAVER, was born in New York City, June 29, 1853. When seven years old removed to Missouri and resided in Shelby County during the war; afterwards removed to Hannibal, where he learned the art of telegraphy. He was a year in Minnesota as telegraph operator and station agent on the Northern Pacific R. R. in 1872 he came to Kansas, locating at Topeka, where he remained about eight months as assistant train dispatcher of the A. T. & S. F.; was then transferred to the Newton Station, where he held the same position for about a year and a half. In 1875 he was sent to Emporia and for some time was railroad operator and manager of the Western Union Telegraph Company's business. Since the increase of business and the establishment of an office in the business center of the town he has been manager of the business office of the Western Union Telegraph Company. Married Miss Emma Bailey, of Emporia, November 8, 1877. He is a member of Emporia Commandery. No. 8. K. T., of which he is now captain general.
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Emporia Weekly Gazette, Thursday, 28 May 1931
Funeral of Charles Cleaver
Funeral services for Charles W. Cleaver, general secretary of all the Masonic organizations in Emporia for the past 16 years, who died Tuesday at St. Mary's hospital , were held Friday afternoon at 4 o'clock at the First Congregational church. Rev. J.H.J. Rice conducted the services. A Knights Templar escort marched in the funeral procession to the church. The procession was led by the 161st Field Artillery band. The Knight Templar drill team marched in a triangle formation with the hearse in the center. Pallbearers were John D. Graham, John Lucas, John Northington, S.M. Parker, Charles G. West and Harry E. Peach. Mrs. Paul Turner, Miss Cora Edwards, Ed Lewis and Rice Brown sang. D.A. Hirschler was accompanist. Knight Templar services were conducted at the cemetery. I accordance with an old Knights Templar custom, the band played a dirge going to the services and at the grave but returning from the grave it played a regular march. Mr. Cleaver had requested that his funeral be conducted in official Knights Templar style.
Mr. Cleaver, who formerly worked as a telegraph operator for the Santa Fe and as manager of the Emporia Western Union office, had been general secretary of all the Masonic organizations in Emporia for the past 16 years.
Mr. Cleaver was born in New York City, June 29, 1853. His parents had come to America from England and his father was a farmer. With his parents, the boy traveled over many states, looking for a profitable farming location. Many of his early memories were of farm life in Wisconsin. While Charles Cleaver was still a child, the father went to Missouri, where work was plentiful, and soon sent for his family to join him. The family was living in Missouri at the time of the Civil war, and as the elder Mr. Cleaver was a union man, their lives were in constant danger. The father enlisted and returned from the war un-wounded, but with broken health. When Charles was 13 years old his father died, and the boy moved with his mother to a small Missouri town, where he found work in a brickyard.
Later he worked in a drug store in the same town and finally secured work as a messenger boy in a railway telegraph office, where a worker encouraged him to learn telegraphy. When he was 16 years old, he was sent as agent to an outpost situated in a swamp. The hours were long, and the work was hard, but the boy was paid the then magnificent salary of $90 a month, and he was satisfied with the work. Later he was promoted to the general offices of the company, but when the road failed in 1873, he drifted to Kansas, where he began his work with the Santa Fe.
In Emporia, he met Miss Emma Baily, and they were married, living at their Emporia home at 504 Union for about 55 years. When Mrs. Cleaver died about nine years ago, Mr. Cleaver moved to the Broadview hotel where he lived until he was taken to St. Mary's hospital, nine weeks ago.
Mr. Cleaver is survived by two nieces, Mrs. Ethel Colman, of Denver, Colo,, and Mrs. Walter Krall, of Roebling, New Jersey. Mrs. Cleaver was an aunt of Mrs. L.J. Buck, 612 Union.
From William Cutler's History of Kansas:
CHARLES W. CLEAVER, was born in New York City, June 29, 1853. When seven years old removed to Missouri and resided in Shelby County during the war; afterwards removed to Hannibal, where he learned the art of telegraphy. He was a year in Minnesota as telegraph operator and station agent on the Northern Pacific R. R. in 1872 he came to Kansas, locating at Topeka, where he remained about eight months as assistant train dispatcher of the A. T. & S. F.; was then transferred to the Newton Station, where he held the same position for about a year and a half. In 1875 he was sent to Emporia and for some time was railroad operator and manager of the Western Union Telegraph Company's business. Since the increase of business and the establishment of an office in the business center of the town he has been manager of the business office of the Western Union Telegraph Company. Married Miss Emma Bailey, of Emporia, November 8, 1877. He is a member of Emporia Commandery. No. 8. K. T., of which he is now captain general.
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Emporia Weekly Gazette, Thursday, 28 May 1931
Funeral of Charles Cleaver
Funeral services for Charles W. Cleaver, general secretary of all the Masonic organizations in Emporia for the past 16 years, who died Tuesday at St. Mary's hospital , were held Friday afternoon at 4 o'clock at the First Congregational church. Rev. J.H.J. Rice conducted the services. A Knights Templar escort marched in the funeral procession to the church. The procession was led by the 161st Field Artillery band. The Knight Templar drill team marched in a triangle formation with the hearse in the center. Pallbearers were John D. Graham, John Lucas, John Northington, S.M. Parker, Charles G. West and Harry E. Peach. Mrs. Paul Turner, Miss Cora Edwards, Ed Lewis and Rice Brown sang. D.A. Hirschler was accompanist. Knight Templar services were conducted at the cemetery. I accordance with an old Knights Templar custom, the band played a dirge going to the services and at the grave but returning from the grave it played a regular march. Mr. Cleaver had requested that his funeral be conducted in official Knights Templar style.
Mr. Cleaver, who formerly worked as a telegraph operator for the Santa Fe and as manager of the Emporia Western Union office, had been general secretary of all the Masonic organizations in Emporia for the past 16 years.
Mr. Cleaver was born in New York City, June 29, 1853. His parents had come to America from England and his father was a farmer. With his parents, the boy traveled over many states, looking for a profitable farming location. Many of his early memories were of farm life in Wisconsin. While Charles Cleaver was still a child, the father went to Missouri, where work was plentiful, and soon sent for his family to join him. The family was living in Missouri at the time of the Civil war, and as the elder Mr. Cleaver was a union man, their lives were in constant danger. The father enlisted and returned from the war un-wounded, but with broken health. When Charles was 13 years old his father died, and the boy moved with his mother to a small Missouri town, where he found work in a brickyard.
Later he worked in a drug store in the same town and finally secured work as a messenger boy in a railway telegraph office, where a worker encouraged him to learn telegraphy. When he was 16 years old, he was sent as agent to an outpost situated in a swamp. The hours were long, and the work was hard, but the boy was paid the then magnificent salary of $90 a month, and he was satisfied with the work. Later he was promoted to the general offices of the company, but when the road failed in 1873, he drifted to Kansas, where he began his work with the Santa Fe.
In Emporia, he met Miss Emma Baily, and they were married, living at their Emporia home at 504 Union for about 55 years. When Mrs. Cleaver died about nine years ago, Mr. Cleaver moved to the Broadview hotel where he lived until he was taken to St. Mary's hospital, nine weeks ago.
Mr. Cleaver is survived by two nieces, Mrs. Ethel Colman, of Denver, Colo,, and Mrs. Walter Krall, of Roebling, New Jersey. Mrs. Cleaver was an aunt of Mrs. L.J. Buck, 612 Union.
CHARLES W. CLEAVER, was born in New York City, June 29, 1853. When seven years old removed to Missouri and resided in Shelby County during the war; afterwards removed to Hannibal, where he learned the art of telegraphy. He was a year in Minnesota as telegraph operator and station agent on the Northern Pacific R. R. in 1872 he came to Kansas, locating at Topeka, where he remained about eight months as assistant train dispatcher of the A. T. & S. F.; was then transferred to the Newton Station, where he held the same position for about a year and a half. In 1875 he was sent to Emporia and for some time was railroad operator and manager of the Western Union Telegraph Company's business. Since the increase of business and the establishment of an office in the business center of the town he has been manager of the business office of the Western Union Telegraph Company. Married Miss Emma Bailey, of Emporia, November 8, 1877. He is a member of Emporia Commandery. No. 8. K. T., of which he is now captain general.
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Emporia Weekly Gazette, Thursday, 28 May 1931
Funeral of Charles Cleaver
Funeral services for Charles W. Cleaver, general secretary of all the Masonic organizations in Emporia for the past 16 years, who died Tuesday at St. Mary's hospital , were held Friday afternoon at 4 o'clock at the First Congregational church. Rev. J.H.J. Rice conducted the services. A Knights Templar escort marched in the funeral procession to the church. The procession was led by the 161st Field Artillery band. The Knight Templar drill team marched in a triangle formation with the hearse in the center. Pallbearers were John D. Graham, John Lucas, John Northington, S.M. Parker, Charles G. West and Harry E. Peach. Mrs. Paul Turner, Miss Cora Edwards, Ed Lewis and Rice Brown sang. D.A. Hirschler was accompanist. Knight Templar services were conducted at the cemetery. I accordance with an old Knights Templar custom, the band played a dirge going to the services and at the grave but returning from the grave it played a regular march. Mr. Cleaver had requested that his funeral be conducted in official Knights Templar style.
Mr. Cleaver, who formerly worked as a telegraph operator for the Santa Fe and as manager of the Emporia Western Union office, had been general secretary of all the Masonic organizations in Emporia for the past 16 years.
Mr. Cleaver was born in New York City, June 29, 1853. His parents had come to America from England and his father was a farmer. With his parents, the boy traveled over many states, looking for a profitable farming location. Many of his early memories were of farm life in Wisconsin. While Charles Cleaver was still a child, the father went to Missouri, where work was plentiful, and soon sent for his family to join him. The family was living in Missouri at the time of the Civil war, and as the elder Mr. Cleaver was a union man, their lives were in constant danger. The father enlisted and returned from the war un-wounded, but with broken health. When Charles was 13 years old his father died, and the boy moved with his mother to a small Missouri town, where he found work in a brickyard.
Later he worked in a drug store in the same town and finally secured work as a messenger boy in a railway telegraph office, where a worker encouraged him to learn telegraphy. When he was 16 years old, he was sent as agent to an outpost situated in a swamp. The hours were long, and the work was hard, but the boy was paid the then magnificent salary of $90 a month, and he was satisfied with the work. Later he was promoted to the general offices of the company, but when the road failed in 1873, he drifted to Kansas, where he began his work with the Santa Fe.
In Emporia, he met Miss Emma Baily, and they were married, living at their Emporia home at 504 Union for about 55 years. When Mrs. Cleaver died about nine years ago, Mr. Cleaver moved to the Broadview hotel where he lived until he was taken to St. Mary's hospital, nine weeks ago.
Mr. Cleaver is survived by two nieces, Mrs. Ethel Colman, of Denver, Colo,, and Mrs. Walter Krall, of Roebling, New Jersey. Mrs. Cleaver was an aunt of Mrs. L.J. Buck, 612 Union.
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