George Hans Stoll (1848 - 1928)

Born 3 Jan 1848 in Canton Schaffhausen, Switzerland

Descendants

Died 22 Mar 1928 at age 80 in Kansas

Biography

While the republic of Switzerland has furnished a comparatively small number of citizens to the United States, they have been peculiarly men of worth; diligent, enterprising and trustworthy. Among this number was George H. Stoll, who first saw the light of day in the land of the snow-clad Alps. His birth occurred in Canton Schaffhausen, Switzerland, January 3, 1848, making his age 80 years, 2 months and 19 days at the time of his death, March 22, 1928. When Mr. Stoll was a lad of five years old he came across the sea with his parents and two brothers and two sisters to make a home in the new world. They first settled in Clark County, Ind., where the children enjoyed the advantages afforded by the common schools. George was the youngest of the family, and while still quite young, during the perils of the Civil War he enlisted in the regular army as a member of the Second W. S. Infantry, at Louisville, Ky. At the age of 21 he left the parental roof to seek his own fortune, coming first to Humboldt, Kansas, in 1870, where he found employment for two years. During this interval he was married July 3, 1871, to Charlotte N. Thomas, a daughter of Geo. Thomas, originally from Indiana. The young couple soon moved to the well known farm in Woodson County, which was transformed as the years went by from a raw tract of land, into a home of comfort and plenty. Here were their children born, 13 in number; Georgia, John, Albert, Fred, Clyde, Guy, Daisy Swinney, Leo, Carl, Ray, Emil, Glenn and Byrl. All save two are living and present today. Georgia died when a girl of 17, and Fred in infancy. Two years ago the faithful wife and mother was laid to rest, the last sad rites being performed by Rev. Lehman, who comes again today in this time of need. The living grandchildren are 32 in number, and these, with their grieving parents, and 3 nephews and 2 nieces in Henryville, Ind., are all who are left now to bear the immediate tie of kinship. Mr. Stoll had been in failing health for several years, and after the death of his life companion, left the home farm, preferring to maintain an abode for himself in Yates Center, near which the tradgedy of his death occurred. The latch-string at the homes of his children were always out, but he, being a man of reserve and quietude, found more comfort in being alone, where the burden of his care should need upon no one. We have but to look about us to see the rewards of his earnest toil and that of his good wife during the fullness of their lives. Their deeds are manifest in these children and grandchildren left to mourn, with habits of loyalty and thrift as their inheritance. Funeral services were conducted by B. F. Lehman at the Center Ridge Baptist church. Interment at the Oliver cemetery.

Sources

• "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MFDJ-HQG : accessed 10 November 2015), George Stoll, Leadville, Lake, Colorado, United States; citing enumeration district 75, sheet 337D, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 0091; FHL microfilm 1,254,091.

• "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MMY1-GSM : accessed 10 November 2015), Geroge H Stoll, Perry & Owl Creek Townships, Woodson, Kansas, United States; citing sheet 2A, family 14, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,240,503.

• "United States Census, 1920," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MFXR-3JJ : accessed 10 November 2015), George Stoll, Perry, Woodson, Kansas, United States; citing sheet 11B, family 67, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,820,553.

• Find A Grave Memorial# 54980007

• Biography submitted by Charlotte Lewin and researched by Kay Herman at http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~kscemete/woodson/gstoll.htm