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This update is research from February, 2004:

Just recently I found a obituary for Margaret Isabelle [Wade] Meyer that finally gave me some input on her father Dr. Edward Hampton Wade, son of Margaret Elizabeth [Bagby] Wade and Dr. William David Wade. I have a family history written by Edward's neice Donna Margaret [Walker] McQueen, 1903 - 1977 [a daughter of Edward's sister Lida Margaret Wade [Walker] [Cooper], that only makes a very minor reference to Edward as apparently his mother and sister did not like his wife and lost contact with him after his marriage as they moved around the country - Kansas, Oregon, and finally California. Lida's second husband, Sylvester Burton Cooper worked for the rail road.

It also looks like he was not in good graces with his father as in 1904 his father left him only $5.00 in his will while he gave Edward's sister Lida $1000. His other three daughters from his first marriage recieved: "Mrs. Juniattia Wade Hibbard I bequeath the sum of three thousand [$3000] dollars to be paid out of the estate when settled." "The balance of my estate, Real, Personal, Money, Securitys (sic), Notes and Accounts, Bonds & Stocks of whatever kinds all I give to and bequeath to my 2 daughters E. Anna Hedgecock & Lillie May Phelps to have and to hold forever equally share & share alike so that each shall have an equal share in value." To his wife at the time of his death, "Isabell F. Wade, my residence consisting of lots No. 8, 9 & 10 in block no 17 in the old town now Village of Plymouth, County of Hancock and State of Illinois. Also to my wife to have Two [$2000] Dollars out of the estate as soon as can be settled up for a division to be made." Isabell sued over the will declairing she did not receive her rightful due of the estate of her husband. He was a wealthy man and owned large holding of stocks and had a great deal of land in several states.

- Research submitted by: Dan Dunham

Children of MARGARET BAGBY and WILLIAM WADE are:

1. EDWARD HAMPTON [DR] WADE, b. August 22, 1876 in Hancock County, Illinois; d. April 06, 1938 in Du Page County, Illinois. He married LILLIAN AGNES DAVIS, about 1905 in Augusta, Hancock County, Illinois; b. February 22, 1876, Augusta, Hancock County, Illinois; d. after 1930 Census, unknown.
2. LIDA MARGARET WADE, b. April 22, 1872, Augusta, Hancock County, Illinois; d. April 5, 1936, Wilmar, Los Angeles County, California; buried, Rose Hills Cemetery, Whittier, Los Angeles County, California; m. 1st CHARLES Marshall WALKER, July 20, 1896, St. Joseph, Buchanan County,  Missouri; b. September 16, 1871, Plattsburg, Clinton County, Missouri; d. April 15, 1904, Miltonvale, Cloud County, Kansas; buried in Plattsburg, Clinton County, Missouri, per Granddaughter of Lida Margaret Wade. Married 2nd Sylvester Burton Cooper, March 21, 1906, Scandia, Republic County, Kansas; b. March 8, 1879, Scandia, Republic County, Kansas; d. May 29, 1960, Pasadena, Los Angeles County, California.

CYNTHIA ELLEN BAGBY 5, (WILLIAM 4, ROBERT 3, WILLIAM 2, ROBERT 1) was born October 07, 1850, Hancock County, Illinois and died January 22, 1943, Long Beach, Los Angeles County, California. She married SAMUEL PIERCE OSGOOD March 14, 1867 in Hancock County, Illinois. He was born August 20, 1842 in Pike County, Illinois and died May 11, 1921, Long Beach, Los Angeles County, Illinois.


Note: Many of the details about this family are the research of Dan Dunham



Children of CYNTHIA BAGBY and SAMUEL OSGOOD are:

1. GEORGE WILLIAM OSGOOD, b. December 1868, Illinois, d. January 16, 1938, Long Beach, Los Angeles County, California; m. 1st before 1887, Unknown, b. unknown, d. unknown. One daughter, Lola, b. February 1887, in Missouri; d. unknown. Married 2nd Emma Heiderich, November 15, 1889, Cook County, Illinois; b. Augusta 10, 1879, Quincy, Adams County, Illinois; d. May 11, 1955, Los Angeles County, Illinois.
2. DR CHARLES FREDERICK OSGOOD, M.D., b. May 12, 1870, Bear Creek, Hancock County, Illinois, d. Murdered, May 2, 1916, Ogden, Weber County, Utah; buried Aultorest Memorial Park, Ogden, Weber County, Illinois; m. June 10, 1899, Tilla Rose Dale, Versailles, Morgan County, Missouri; b. January 19, 1875, Missouri; d. January 15, 1946, Jacksonville, Morgan County, Illinois; buried Aultorest Memorial Park, Ogden, Weber County, Utah.  One child, Alice D. Osgood, born about 1905, Utah.

1900 Utah Census, Morgan County, Morgan City

Series: T623  Roll: 1683   Page: 196

Enumerated June 8, 1900 by Henry B Fry

Line 57 HH 51 FM 52

Osgood, Charles F Head  W M May 1866 34 M 1 IL IL IL Physician 
R H, Tilla R  Wife, W F Jan 1875 25 M 1 0/0 MO KY KY
Anna M Boarder W F May 1876 24 S IL IL IL Music Teacher
Note:  Anna M Osgood is Charles' sister

1910 Utah Census, Weber County, Ogden, 5th Ward

Series: T624  Roll: 1611   Page: 133  

Enumerated April 15, 1910 by Thomas A Shreeve

2560 Jefferson Avenue

Line 79 HH 16 FM 16

Osgood, Charles F Head  M W 39 M 12 IL IL IL
Doctor M.D. Private Practice OA O F H
Tilla D., Wife F W 35 M 12 1/1 MO KY KY
Allys D  Dau F W 04 S UT IL MO
Nankaximoto, K Servant F JP 27 S Jap Jap Jap 1906 Servant Private Family W

"The History of Medicine in Weber County from 1852 to 1980," 1983, by Auxiliary to the Weber County Medical Society.


CHARLES FREDERICK OSGOOD, M.D.

1866-1916

C. F. Osgood was born in Quincy, Illinois in 1866 into a family of eleven children.

He received his education in Quincy and was graduated in 1897 with a Doctor of Medicine Degree from Rush Medical College in Chicago.  He practiced medicine in Chicago for one year.  Coming to Morgan, Utah in 1898 he practiced for two years, before moving to Ogden, Utah.

Dr. Osgood married Tilla Rose Dale in Versailles, Missouri in 1899.

Dr. Osgood was a surgeon and was associated in practice with Ezra Clark Rich, M.D. from 1905 to 1911.  He was a member of the original staff of the Thomas D. Dee Memorial Hospital in 1911.  He was a charter member of the El Kalah Temple of the Nobels of the Mystic Shrine.

On May 3, 1916, Dr. C. F. Osgood was shot to death in his automobile in front of the Commercial Nat'l Bank Bldg on 24th Street by Heber Burch, a husband of a patient the doctor had been treating.

From the files

Aux. To the Weber Cty. Med Assoc.

Excerpts From "The Life Story of Thomas Charles West and Margaret Eliza Felt"

Original by Amy Alice West Heiner

"About 1896 Thomas Charles drew up plans for a two story brick house. With the three older boys helping, he laid the foundation, put in rafters and joists, made adobes for the lining, etc. He bought the brick from Bishop Charles Turner of South Morgan and hired a good friend, Brigham Robinson of North Morgan, to lay the brick. He over worked during this time building the new home, along with all the other work required of him. In his run-down condition he contracted typhoid fever. Dr. C. F. Osgood from the East and newly out of training with the help of Lucy Baker, a graduate nurse, attended him. Margaret did all in her power to help him. The fever subsided, but complications set in and the doctor had to perform surgery. He died on the 25th of June 1898 at the age of forty-five. His funeral was held in the Morgan Stake House. The building was filled with relatives and friends."

Thomas D. Dee Memorial Hospital History

Chapter 2: The Formative Years

Ogden's first x-ray machine, a gift from Drs. Rich and Osgood, was received in 1913. Its usefulness was limited to detecting prominent bone fractures and large metallic foreign objects in the body. A hip joint picture required a 10-minute exposure.

Ogden Examiner, Wednesday Morning, May 3, 1916

Front Page

C.F. OSGOOD SHOT TO DEATH;

SLAYER TAKEN INTO CUSTODY

DOCTOR IN AUTO WHEN ATTACKED BY HEBER BURCH

Three Bullets Fired Enter Region of Heart, Causing Death Almost Instantly.

HIS ASSASSIN MAKES NO ATTEMPT TO ESCAPE

Special Officer Paine Grabs Him as He Walks Calmly Down the Street.

(Note:  Picture of Dr. C. F. Osgood in included with article)

With his hands place upon the steering wheel preparatory to starting for home in his automobile from the 24th Street side of the Eccles building, Dr. Charles F. Osgood, a prominent physician and surgeon of Ogden, was shot and instantly killed by Heber Burch, aged 34 years, who resides at 326 29th street, at about 5:50 o'clock yesterday afternoon.  The motive for the shooting was due to some fancied grievance.  After shooting the physician the assassin stepped back onto the sidewalk, emptied the shells from the revolver and calmly slipped it into his pocket.  He was immediately placed under arrest by Special Officer Robert Paine.  Burch was taken to the police station and locked up on the charge of murder.

The shooting had many eyewitnesses, but, the atrociousness and cowardliness of the act seemed to stun the people standing nearby, and it was not until the doctor's assassin had been led away and the doctor taken to the offices of the Utah Power & Light company, which Manager F. M Parry immediately closed to keep back the which had gathered.  Dr. Osgood was dying when lifted from the automobile.

There were a number of threats made by some of those assembled in the large crowd about going to the police station to lynch the murderer, but the wiser ones, together with the presence of a number of police officers, soon ended the talk of drastic measures.

Nevada Woman Sees Shooting

One of the principal witnesses to the shooting was Mrs. Maria R. Peterson of Ruth, Nevada, who is visiting in Ogden at 2804 Madison avenue, with her baby in the buggy standing in front of the automobile, which, was parked in front of the Denver & Rio Grande ticket office.  Mrs. Peterson was preparing to move along the street when Burch brushed past her and stepping to the side of the automobile he fired three shots into the breast of the doctor.  With nothing more than a gasp Mrs. Peterson saw the doctor fall over on his right side and the assassin, who had stopped at the west side of the machine, calmly stepped back onto the sidewalk.  Burch then broke the gun and threw out the remaining two loads and the empty shells.

Placing the revolver into his coat pocket, Burch walked west on the street until he reached the alley by the Commercial National bank, when he was taken into custody by Special Officer Robert Paine.

A.T. Walron, 541 17th street, was standing in front of the pol hall a few doors west of the scene of the shooting, and when he heard the first shot he turned and saw Burch fire the other two shots at Dr. Osgood.  He started toward the man and met him at the alley, but Officer Paine intercepted him and placed Burch under arrest.

Among the other eye-witnesses were H.G. Sheppard and Charles Harpers, two Union Pacific brakemen, who were standing in front of the Commercial National bank; James Craney, 473 22nd street; R.A. Meyes, Ed Denks, John Call, William H Hoskins, Raymond hotel, city; John Paul and a number of others whose names have been turned over to District Attorney John C. Davis.

Thought Burch Was Shooting at him.

Another witness to the shooting and one who will remember it for many years, was Errol Collins of the Ogden high school baseball team who was passing behind the Osgood automobile when Burch started to shoot.  When the first shot was fired, Collins, who was riding east on 24th street, tuned and saw the murderer with the revolver in his hand and when the other two shots came in rapid succession, Collins fell from the wheel, thinking that Burch was shooting at him.  Very pale and trembling Collins arose from the street, and it was several minutes before he could recover enough to remove away from the scene of the shooting, and it was then with a very pale and drawn face and trembling lips.

The news of the shooting was communicated to Dr. Franklin C. Osgood, a brother of the murdered man and although he was almost prostrated with grief, he took charge of the situation.  An number of members of the Masonic lodge, of which the deceased was a member, took charge of the body and turned it over to Undertaker P.F. Kirkendall.  As soon as the shooting occurred, Dr. W.E. Whalen attended dr. Osgood, but pronounced him dead when taken to the Utah Power & Light company office.

Tells Story to Police Chief.

Last evening at about 8 o'clock Burch was taken to the office of Chief of Police Browning, where he told his story in the presence of the following doctors: E. I. Rich, J. R. Morrell, R. S. Joyce, S. W. Badcon, E. R. Dumke, R. Kanzler and Le Roye Pugmire, as well as a number of officers, including Chief Browning and Detective Robert Burk and District Attorney J. C. Davis.

The murderer said his name was Heber Burch and was 34 years old.  He was born at Burch Creek and came from the family after which the district was named.  He is unmarried and has been living with his mother and father, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Burch, 326 29th street.  He said that lately he has been working on the farm of his brother, Ray Burch, about half a mile south of the city limits on the Riverdale road.  He said he went to the farm yesterday morning at 9 o'clock and stayed there until 4 o'clock in the afternoon, when he came to town, and after going to the home of his parents he secured his 32-caliber Iver Johson revolver and came to town and got off the car at 24th street and Hudson avenue and waited for Dr. Osgood to leave the building with the intention of slaying him.

When asked if he was sorry he had killed the man, Burch said: "If I had ever killed with a regret, I would never have killed him."


Designs on Doctor's Life.

To further questions Burch said he had been carrying a weapon with designs on the doctor's life for two years.  His alleged frievance was dated from 1894 in St. Louis, when Burch said Dr. Osgood performed an operation on his head and "damaged " him.  He said he had been unconscious at that time and had lived in St. Louis for some time afterward.  When asked if the scar on the top of head was caused by the operation, he would not say, nor would he say how he received the scar.  He declares that he does not smoke, or drink and has never been married.  Burch declared that he did not have many friends in Ogden, but he has worked here as a waiter, having been a member of the cooks and waiter' union.

"What have you carried a gun for?" he was asked.

"Got it to shoot with," was Burch's quick response.  He then added that all the time he was in Alamo, Idaho, where he had taken up a ranch and lived for three years, he had carried a gun.  He said he a a little trouble in Idaho, but refused to say what it was.

He said that he had never been sick in his life, but that when he was six years old he fell out of a window and was rendered unconscious for about ten minutes.  About four years ago, he said, he was shot in the hip with a 22-caliber rifle and had received treatment from Dr. Osgood.  He said again he had never met Dr. Osgood in the past four years, but knew who he was very well.

When asked whether he went into the Eccles building at all yesterday, Burch said he had not done so, but waited in front of the building.  The elevator boy of the building said that Burch had gone to the floor that Dr. Osgood's office was on and walked up and down the hall for some time.  He appeared to be very nervous and agitated.

Rae Hubenthal, the nurse in the office of Dr. Osgood, said that between the fours of 5 and 6 a strange man put his head into the door three times.  As she turned to see who it was he withdrew.

To a representative of the press who visited the Riverdale district where Burch had been working, one of the neighbors to the Burch farm said Burch had been acting strangely during the past few days.  Whether any report of the observations of the doctors as to Burch's conduct will be made at the inquest which Judge George S. Baker has called for this morning could not be learned last night.

That there will be speedy action in the case was indicted by the statement of District Attorney John C. Davis yesterday afternoon, who said that he desired to have as early hearing as possible before the many witnesses for the state leave the city.  While he was at the city jail last night the district attorney met the brothers of Burch, but made no statement as to what passed between them.  As far as could be learned the Burch brothers are very reticent and would not make any statement concerning the case.  When the information of the shooting was conveyed to Ray Burch at Riverdale he asked whether it had been the doctor or the dentist who had been shot, when informed it had been the doctor he said:  "I have nothing to say,"

The report that Dr. Osgood had received an anonymous letter a short time ago in which a threat against his life was made.  No trace of the letter had been found last night.  This phase of the case will probably be handled by the postoffice inspector should the report prove true.

Dr. Osgood's auto, No 1506, was taken away shortly after the shooting at the direction of his brother.

Charles F. Osgood was born at Quincy, Ill., 43 years ago.  He was educated in the schools of that place and then completed a course of four years in medicine.  He was in St. Louis a short time, but never practiced medicine there.  Eighteen years ago he came west and practiced at Morgan for two yars, then he moved to Ogden, which has been his home since.  He is survived by a wife, who is in a sanitarium in the east, a daughter 11 years of age, brothers Dr. Franklin C. Osgood, of Ogden and George Osgood of Idaho Falls and a sister, Mrs. C. A. Stath of Idaho Falls.  He was a charter member of Unity Lodge No. 18, F & A. M., El Monte Commandry No. 2, Ogden Chapter No. 2 El Kalah Temple of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine' B.P.O. Elks, Ogden lodge No. 719.  He was also a member of the state and county medical societies and a stockholder in a number of Ogden banks and a large realty holder.

The murder of Dr. Osgood cast a shadow of profound gloom over the city and in more than on home there were expressions of deep regret from those who have known one of the most prominent and most loved men of his profession.  Pending the arrangements for the funeral services the body was removed to the Kirkendall undertaking parlors.

Immediately after the shooting the following officers began work upon the different phase of the case: Chief of Police T. E. Browning, Sheriff T. A. Devine, Detective Captain Robert Burk, Detectives Robert Chambers, Grant Syphers, Alex Fife, and Patrolmen William Richardson, Fitzgerald and Canfield and Deputy Sheriffs Hadlock and Leatham.  The officers summoned the witnesses and gathered data for the inquest to be held today.


Ogden Examiner, Thursday Morning, May 4, 1916

Front Page

REAL MOTIVE FOR MURDER OF PHYSICIAN IS UNKNOWN

Slayer Burch Admits He Carried Gun to Kill Dr. Osgood, Police Hold Him Mentally Sound

FAMILY RECORD REVEALS EVIDENCE OF INSANITY

Guarded Utterances of Prisoner's Brothers Opens New Line of Investigation

(Note: Picture of Heber Burch included with article with title "Slayer of Dr. C. F. Osgood")

Because Dr. C. F. Osgood sat upon a board that adjudged Heber Burch's sister insane and committed her to the asylum at Provo is the only motive the police have been able to give for the committing of the most atrocious crime in the annals of the city for many years.  That Heber Burch is perfectly sane and that the murder was premeditated for more than two years is the opinion of the police, Burch was arraigned before Judge George S Harker, in the city court yesterday and the preliminary hearing set for May 16.

In his bravo and swaggering attitude Burch admitted to Captain of Detective Robert Burk yesterday that he had carried the revolver several times for the purpose killing Dr. Osgood, and he said that had he met  the doctor he would have killed him.  Burch told the officer that Dr. Osgood had committed his siter to the insane asylum.

That there is something more basic of this case than what has been brought out is shown by the guarded utterances of the brothers of the prisoner.  They refuse to talk upon the case or any phase of it.  Tuesday night at the police station on of the younger brothers started to talk with the officers and an older brother made him deter.  At the request of the brothers the preliminary hearing was continued to May 16, in order to give the brother, in San Francisco, who is an attorney, an opportunity to reach Ogden

A report was current yesterday that the defense will try to set up a plea of insanity in case, but the demeanor Tuesday evening of the prisoner before more than eight reputed physicians of the city and several police officers, according to the police, would make it very difficult to make that defense stick.

Records Show Operation Talk to Be Untrue

The report that Dr. Osgood performed an operation upon the wife of Heber Burch was circulated freely Tuesday and yesterday, but according to the brothers of Burch and the records of the county clerk's office the man was never married.

Another theory that is being investigated by the police is the report that when Dr. Osgood's residence was burglarized about the latter part of February and the burglar left without securing anything. That the burglar was Heber Burch is the opinion expressed by the officers, who said that he was looking for the doctor at that time and had planned to kill the doctor and make his escape.

The brothers of the prisoner in Ogden who have called to see him are: George, Henry, Louis, Ben, William and Samuel.  According to members of the police certain brothers have said that Heber was unbalanced.  This claim is based upon the fact that a brother, sister and cousin have been committed to the insane asylum at Provo.

The sister of Heber Burch, Laura Burch Parker, was examined by Drs. D. F. Osgood and E. P. Mills, August 26, 1907, upon the complaint of her husband, John Parker.  She was committed to the asylum and taken to the institution the next day by Barlow Wilson, at present desk sergeant at the city jail and formerly sheriff of Weber county.  She was released, but recommitted in 1909.

Ray Burch, a brother of Heber Burch, was examined November 2, 1912, by Drs. D. C. Dorn and George W. Baker and ordered committed to the asylum.  The complaint was signed by a brother, Robert M. Burch, Jr.

Eva Velinda Burch, a cousin of Heber Burch, was examined September 11, 1895, by Drs. Ezra C. Rich and H. J. Powers, and committed to the insane asylum

Ejected from Motion Picture Theatre.

Last winter Burch, created a disturbance in one of the moving picture houses, acting as a drunken man and coughing in a loud and unnatural manner and making it generally disagreeable for those around him.  He was ejected by the house management.  Friends of the family of Heber Burch in Riverdale district said they had noticed he acted peculiarly lately, but they figured he would not, do any rash act.

Rumors were again in circulation yesterday of a plan to take Burch from the jail and lynch him.  The rumor started when number of men gathered at the rear of a store in the center of one of the business blocks and discussed the case and expressed their approval of lynch law in many strong and determined terms.  It was reported last night that members of police department were looking for a man who made a remark at the corner of the Eccles building yesterday at 1 o'clock that Burch would pay the penalty for his crime, whether it was by the state law of otherwise.  The speaker said that Dr. Osgood had given him the lives of his wife and child.  The fact that the remarks were made very quietly to a couple of friends and were overheard by a street lounger, who communicated with an officer, has aroused more than passing interest in the remarks.

Trying to Locate "Black Hand" Letter.

Efforts are still being made to try and locate the "Black Hand" letter which was reported to have been sent to Dr. Osgood some weeks ago.  The fact that no report of the letter had been made to the local postal authorities by Dr. Osgood is attributed by his friends to Dr. Osgood's long rule of avoiding publicity in the case.

The deliberate manner in which the murder of Dr. Osgood was committed and the self-possessed demeanor of the murderer since caused many to hold the opinion that the man was mentally responsible when he shot the physician and that the real motive will eventually be disclosed.

Burch slept fairly well Tuesday night and continued his cool demeanor throughout the day and ate his meals with seeming good appetite.  He was photographed at 9:30 o'clock in the morning, submitting to the action willingly and appearing to be concerned about his appearance.  While the photographer was adjusting his camera the murderer adjusted his necktie and smoothed his hair, combing it back with a comb borrowed from the photographer.  In every way he seemed to be less concerned about his predicament that any on in the room.

The death of Dr. C. F. Osgood was the first in a family of eleven children, the parents also surviving him.  The parents reside at Quincy, Ill., a brother and sister in Kansas City, Mo.; one brother in Minneapolis, one in Labelle, Mo.; a brother and sister in Idaho Falls, and two sisters in Lewiston, Mo.  The Idaho sister, Mrs. C. A. Spath, with her husband and brother, arrived from Idaho Falls yesterday morning.  Mr. and Mrs. Osgood, Sr. and three of their sons left Quincy, Ill., yesterday for Ogden.

The body of Dr. Osgood will lie in state at Kirkendall's chapel Thursday afternoon ad at the Msonic temple Friday between the hours of 10 and 12:30 p.m.  If the relatives from the east arrive in time the funeral services will be held at the family residence, 2560 Jefferson avenue, Friday at 2 p.m.


Ogden Examiner, Friday, May 5, 1916

Page 7

OFFICERS TO PRESS BURCH MURDER CASE TO AN EARLY TRIAL

Dr. Osgood's Assassin in county Jail; Demeanor is Unchanged; Funeral to Be Held Today.

There were no new developments in the Osgood murder case yesterday.  The officers are now directing their efforts to the search for some motive for the crime other than that which the murderer says was the one that Dr. Osgood was a member of the board that sent his sister to the asylum

Heber Burch, the murderer of Dr. Osgood, has been transferred to the county jail. Pending his preliminary hearing on May 16.  The county and district attorney announced yesterday that no unnecessary delays would be countenanced in the case and that the same prompt dispatch would be made in this case as in that of James Burk, the cripple who killed William Maguire in the city jail on the same night as Burch murdered Dr. Osgood.

Those who have seen the assassin at the county jail and have studied his demeanor are of the opinion that he is perfectly sane and was so when he shot the doctor.  His mind is clear at all times and he remembers fully all the details of the shooting and those prior to it.  No statement has been made by any of Burch's brothers, who are waiting the arrival of the other brother, who is an attorney at San Francisco, now on his way to this city.

The funeral of Dr. Osgood will be held Sunday at 4:30 o'clock at the family residence, 2560 Jefferson avenue.  The services will be conducted by Rev. J. E. Carver.  The various branches of the Masonic lodge, the B.P.O. Elks and the members of the Weber club will attend in a body.

The members of the Weber club are requested to meet at the club at 4 o'clock.  Those who can are requested to bring their automobiles for carrying the members to the cemetery.


Research submitted by Dan Dunham

3. HARRY W. OSGOOD, b. February 27, 1882, Illinois, d. January 25, 1960, Los Angeles County, California; m. Mabel Idia Ann Carter, April 21, 1900, Hancock County, Illinois; b. April 1879, Illinois; d. unknown. Two children, Stella M Osgood, and Charles Samuel Osgood.
4. EDWARD PIERCE OSGOOD, b. July 6, 1874, Illinois; d. June 27, 1951, Los Angeles County, California; m. Leona Lay, about 1899, Missouri; b. March 12, 1880, Highland, Lewis County, Missouri; d. December 22, 1970, Los Angeles County, California.
5. ANNA MAE OSGOOD, b. May 1, 1876, Illinois, d. January 25, 1952, Los Angeles County, California; m. about 1901, WILLIAM F. YOUNG, unknown; b. August 1875, Missouri; d. between 1920 – 1930, Unknown.
6. NELLIE OSGOOD, b. November 1879, Iowa, d. after 1919, unknown.
7. JAMES B. OSGOOD, b. March 19, 1884, Gilead, Lewis County, Missouri; d. February, 1972, Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri; m. Emma E Burgner, about 1908, unknown.  One daughter, Muriel Louisa Osgood, b. October 31, 1918, Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri; d. April 9, 1998, Shawnee Mission, Johnson County, Kansas; m. Unknown Piper, unknown.
8. DR. FRANKLIN COOK OSGOOD, D.D.S. b. November 8, 1881, Quincy, Hancock County, Illinois d. April 22, 1970, Lynwood, Los Angeles County, California; m. Ella Clementine Hubenthal, October 7, 1907, Coalville, Summit County, Utah; b. July 13, 1883,  Menomonee Falls, Waukesha County, Wisconsin; d. August 11, 1980, Downey, Los Angeles County, California.

FRANKLIN C. OSGOOD, D.D.S.

Dr. Franklin C. Osgood, a prominent representative of the dental profession in Ogden, utilizing in his practice the latest scientific knowledge that investigation and research have brought to light and further known in business of the city as the vice president of the Boyd Lumber Company, was born at La Grange, Lewis county, Missouri, November 9, 1881.  His father Samuel Pierce Osgood, is a native of Illinois and a representative of one of the old families of Massachusetts that was founded in America by three brothers, James, John and Amos Osgood, who came to the new world on the Mayflower.  The ancestral line of Dr. Osgood is traced back to James Osgood.  Samuel P. Osgood, the father of our subject, is a graduate of the Chicago Conservatory of Music and devoted the years of active professional career to the teaching of music, in which he was very successful. He is now living retired, making his home at Long Beach, California.  He is a Civil war veteran, having enlisted for service in a Illinois regiment during the period of hostilities between the north and the south.  He served with the rank of first lieutenant and is now a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, thus maintaining pleasant relations with his old military comrades.  He has long been an active supporter of the republican party and was prominent in political circles in Missouri.  He is also an exemplary member of the Masonic fraternity, manifesting in his life the beneficent spirit of the craft.  He married Ella Bagby, a native of Bushell, Illinois, and of English descent.  She also survives and ten of their eleven children, seven sons and four daughters, are yet living.

Dr. Osgood, who was the seventh child of the family, pursued his early education in the public and high schools of La Grange, Missouri, and later attended La Grange College.  After leaving that institution, having determined upon the practice of dentistry as a life work, he matriculated in the Western Dental College of Kansas City, Missouri, and afterward continued his studies in the Chicago College of Dental Surgery, from which he was graduated in 1905 with the D. D. S. Degree.  He entered upon the practice of his profession at Coalville, Utah, where he remained for five months and then took a post-graduate course in the Chicago College of Dental Surgery, thus still further promoting his efficiency and skill.  Settling in Ogden, he opened an office and with the passing years his practice has steadily gown.  He is regarded as one of the prominent members of the dental profession in his part of the state and he keeps in touch with the latest improvements in dentistry and with the latest scientific investigations through his membership in the Ogden Dental Club, the Utah State Dental Society, of which he has served as secretary, and the American National Dental Association.  Aside from his professional interests he has other business affairs of importance.  He is the president of the Farmers' & Merchants' Bank at Idaho Falls, Idaho, is the president and manager of the Osgood Land & Live Stock Company, and Idaho corporation, and the vice president of the Boyd Lumber Company of Ogden, while of the Ogden Iron Works he is one of the directors.  He is a man of sound business judgment and keen sagacity and the wisdom of his investments is manifest in the excellent results which have attended his efforts along these different lines. 

Dr. Osgood occupies a prominent position in social as well as professional circles.  He is the president of the Ogden Club, of which he has also served as the secretary, and he belongs to the Weber Cub and to the Ogden Country Club.  In politics he is a stalwart republican, having given unfaltering allegiance to the principles of the party since attaining his majority.  During the period of the war, in order to do his bit, he closed his office and gave his attention to the cultivation of sixty-four hundred and eighty acres of land which he planted to wheat.  Fraternally he is a well known Mason, belonging the Unity Lodge, No. 18, A. F. & A. M. of Ogden, of which he is past high priest; El Monte Commandery, K. T.; and El Kalah Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Salt Lake City. He is also connected with the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, the Woodmen of the World and the Maccabees.  His religious faith is manifest in his membership in the First Presbyterian church and at one time he served as superintendent of its Sunday school.  He takes a keen interest in all that pertains to the material, intellectual, social and moral progress of the city and any interest that tends to uplift the individual or promote the welfare of society is sure to receive his endorsement and support.  His ideals of life are high and he utilizes every opportunity to raise himself to their level.  His professional activity is the highest expression of dental science and altogether his life has been marked by steady progress and successful achievement.

Source:  Utah Since Statehood, Volume 3 of 4, pages 192 & 193, Nobel Warrum, editor, Chicago, Illinois; Salt Lake City, UT: S. J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1919.

Note, moved from Utah to Walnut Park, Los Angeles County, California in 1921, and became proprietor of a Lumber Yard.  In 1930 Census, family is living at 2903 Walnut Street.  Personal note, my father and his first family lived two blocks away at the time of the Census.


Research submitted by Dan Dunham

9. SAMUEL EARL OSGOOD, b. May 9, 1887, Ewing, Lewis County, Missouri; d. May 30, 1850, Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota; m. EMMA KELL, about 1913, LaBelle, Lewis County, Missouri. More About SAMUEL EARL OSGOOD: Twin to ELLEN PEARL OSGOOD
10. ELLEN PEARL OSGOOD, b. May 9, 1887, Ewing, Lewis County, Missouri; d. April 18, 1975, Long Beach, Los Angeles County, California; m. William Elmer Allen, about 1908, Lewis County, Missouri; b. May 1, 1885, Missouri; d. November 19, 1977, Long Beach, Los Angeles County, California.
More About ELLEN PEARL OSGOOD: Twin to SAMUEL EARL OSGOOD – One son, Russell E Allen, b. about 1919.
11. GLADYS MARY OSGOOD, b. January 29, 1891, Lewis County, Missouri; d. October 4, 1949, Los Angeles County, California; m. about 1911, CHESTER ARTHUR SPATH, unknown; b. April 5, 1888, Lewis County, Missouri; d. August 10, 1946, Los Angeles County, California.  Three children; Artelle Spath, b. about 1912, Utah; Harriett Spath, b. about 1917, Idaho; and Carl Osgood Spath, b. March 24, 1919, Idaho; d. August 19, 1990, Lake Forest, Orange County, California.

JOHN CARROLL BAGBY 5, (WILLIAM 4, ROBERT 3, WILLIAM 2, ROBERT 1) was born July 13, 1853, and died December 6, 1889. He married Mrs. MARY A. GARNER [GREEN] October 11, 1875 in Adams County, Illinois. She was born Unknown June 1848, Illinois, and died Unknown after 1910, unknown.


Note: All of the detailed research about John Carroll Bagby, submitted by Dan Dunham.

More About JOHN CARROLL BAGBY:
Burial: Pulaski Cemetery, Hancock County, Illinois
Fact 1: Birth and Death dates taken from grave marker
Occupation: Druggist

Correspondence from Dr. H. E. Elliott, Astonia, Illinois, dated June 10, 1889, to Homer Mead, Huntsville, Illinois, "Wallace Bagby entered the Army a strong healthy man and that in it he contracted lung disease which terminated in consumption of which he died. I was the attending physician."

Both Wm. Wallace and John C. died young, in their 30s. Wallace's death was related to his illness during the Civil War -- he contracted lung disease in the Army which terminated in consumption of which he died, per Dr. H. E. Elliott in a correspondence dated June 10, 1889, to Homer Mead, Huntsville, Illinois. Wallace was only 32, about two weeks short of 33 years old. I have not yet discovered why John C. died at 36 years old.

I have a letter written by John C. to his parents in February 1886. My transcription, typed just as written, spelling, grammer and all, follows:

Letter to Mr. Wm. Bagby.
Augusta, Hancock County, Illinois.
Postmarked, Decatur, Ill, Feb 10, 10AM.
Written by John Carrol Bagby, February 9, 1886.
Handwritten letter from family papers, transcribed by Dan Dunham © 2000.

 

Decatur, ILL
February 9th, '86

Dear Father & Mother

I have been looking for a letter from you for some time but have not heard from you since we came here. We are living in the house with Mag - we rented one room from her for the present and will probably stay here until the first of next month. I have not succeeded in getting employment here yet. Mag wrote to me before I came that she would give me employment if I would come, but when I came I found she was not doing business enough to support herself. If she had a house on ground floor I could bring her enough boarders to make her some money. But she has taken a flat, where I can not get a traveling man to go up, and she only has one or two steady boarders and pays $25.00 rent per month. I am going to get her a cheaper house by the first of next month and in a better location.

There is a butcher here that wants me to go in with him. He has a nice shop and all the tools needed and says if I will put in fifty dollars and attend the selling he will do the slaughtering and delivering and divide the profits with me. It is a splendid chance to make some money if I only had the wherewith to do it.

This is a fine business town. There is 13- Rail Roads here and the Wabash R.R. Shops and lots of manufacturing of different lines of all kinds of framing implements and machinery. Decatur lies about 70 miles North east of Jacksonsville and about 30 miles from Springfield. It is on the Sangamon River. The town gets its water supply from this river. The water is as hard as well water. I think it is Lime water.

How are the folks at home, does Grand Ma keep well? I can not write anymore tonight only I must tell you about Jennie Carden getting poisoned on Prix Vomica prescribe by her Dr. and put in a glass of water and Lida gave it to her to drink after taking other medicine. I had hard work to save her life, but I knew just what it was as soon as I tasted it and I dosed her from 7 P.M. until 2 A.M. before I got her out of it. And Mollie had to give herself a worse dose yesterday morning when she got up. She felt weak and bad so she went and got both of Wyth's Elixir and Quinine Iron & Strychnine that she had been taking before we got here. She took it on an empty stomach before breakfast and she should have waited until after breakfast. It almost laid her out. I vomited her 5 times during the day before I got the strychnine out of her. She is so weak now she can hardly sit up. I told them all today that if any of them took poison again they might turn up their toes for it is no fool of a trick to counteract such medicine as that.

Write soon and address 144 Merchant Street. All send love to you.

Ever your affectionate son.

John

The people mentioned are:

Mag = Margaret Elizabeth Bagby Wade. Sister to John C. and divorced wife of Dr. William D. Wade - she was his second of four wives - she never remarried and lived until November 9, 1936.

Grand Ma = Sarah L. Thompson Waring, mother of Eliza Waring Bagby. She was born October 22, 1799 and died August 31, 1890.

Jennie Carden = Martha Jennie Carden, daughter of Sarah M Waring (sister of Eliza Waring Bagby) and James H. Carden.

Lida = Lida Margaret Wade Walker Cooper. Lida was the daughter of Margaret Elizabeth Bagby Wade and Dr. William D. Wade. Her first husband, Charles Marshall Cooper, died of Typhoid Fever on April 15, 1904, 3 1/2 months after their second child, Donna Margaret Walker McQueen was born. Lida second married Sylvester Burton Cooper on March 21, 1906.

Mollie = unknown.

John C. married Mrs. Mary A. Green, her maiden name was Garner, she was the daughter of Rev. Greenbury Garner, a Methodist Minister and Mary Jane Redman. They apparently had one daughter named Murtes Bagby. She is mentioned in the Will of William Bagby, dated 23, June, 1904 and probated in 1908-09. "Secondly: I give and devise to Murtes Bagby, daughter of my deceased son, John C. Bagby, the sum of Five Dollars ($5.00)." The final report of the executer found that she had died before the Will was written in June of 1904.  In addition, another researcher makes note of a son named Martin Bagby, although I have found no other reference to this individual.

The following research is from Dan Dunham - December, 2003 and submitted for publishing. Dan is continuing his research in an attempt to uncover all of the details concerning this information.

Morgan County Illinois Death Register that notes:

Death Records - Volume 2
Name; Bagby, John
Birth: blank
Where: IL
S/R/MS: M/W/mar
Death: 6 Dec1889
Where: J'Ville SH
Buried Hancock Co IL
Age: 35 yrs

Note: This is a match for his death date and burial location. What is new is the location for the death - Morgan County, Illinois. John is shown as still married.

"J'Ville SH" was new to me so I did some further research. In the second source I made the following discovery:

Illinois Death Index Pre-1916 (Illinois State Archives)
Vol 2, page 21
Name of Deceased: Bagby, John
Date: 12/06/1889
City: Hospital for Insane
Age: 35 YR
Sex: M
Vol: 2
Page 21
Certificate No. 3318
County: Morgan County.

It turns out that J'Ville SH is short for Jacksville State Hospital which in 1889 was know as the Illinois Central Hospital for the Insane.

Clearly this is John Carroll Bagby based on date of death, age and burial location.

I also found a note that the hospital was used for short term problems where the patient returned to the family, sever mental problems where the patient was separated from society and as a home for senile seniors. It would be intereting to find out which category (obviously not the last since he was only 36).

Update: February 22, 2004

John Carroll Bagby's Death Certificate that Ray Simmons was kind enough to obtain. As you will remember, John died at the Illinois Central Hospital for the Insane in Jacksonville, Mason County.

The infromation on the death certificate is very interesting and explains alot.

Cause: Necrotic softening of the brain - atrophy of left hemisphere very pronounced.

Complications: Hemiplegia and other attending paralytic symptoms.

Duration: 1 ½ years.

Necrotic means tissue death: the death of cells in a tissue or organ caused by disease or injury. Hemiplegia is the inability to move one side: total or partial inability to move, experienced on one side of the body, and caused by brain disease or injury.

As I commented to Ray, Maxine and Clarence, it reads to me like John had a major stroke that left him paralyzed on one side and he was in the Jacksonville Hospital because those facilities were also used like modern convalescent hospitals.

 

Dan Dunham

 

Time of death: 6:40 AM

Child of JOHN BAGBY and MARY GARNER [GREEN] is:

1. MURTES BAGBY, b. Unknown, d. Unknown

Note: John Bagby also raised the son of Mary Garner [Green] - BRUCE MELVIN GREEN, a step-son from his wife's first marriage.

BASIL AUGUSTUS BAGBY 5, (WILLIAM 4, ROBERT 3, WILLIAM 2, ROBERT 1) was born May 31, 1861, and died June 03, 1939, Centerview, Missouri [Johnson County]. He married SUSAN ARENA BAGBY February 25, 1885 in Skidmore, Missouri [Nodaway County]. She was born August 16, 1868 in Nodaway, Missouri, and died August 27, 1950 in Topeka, Kansas. Both are buried at Evergreen Cemetery, Effingham County, Kansas.


Notes for BASIL AUGUSTUS BAGBY:
Research below submitted by Dan Dunham, 1999.

Known as "Guss"

Gus Bagby drove a team of mules hitched to a sled from his home in Augustus, Illinois, to the home of the bridge at Skidmore, Missouri. A distance of 300 miles. The temperature was 15 degrees below zero and drifts so deep that the sled went over the fences in place. It was the middle of April before that snow left.

They lived near Skidmore, Missouri, until 1903 when they moved to a farm 1-1/2 miles southwest of Nortonville, Kansas. They moved back to Skidmore in 1905 where Mr. Bagby had a store for about a year.

In Septemeber, 1906, they moved to Lone Tree, Missouri, from Lone Tree they moved to Effingham, Kansas, in 1908. There they lived until 1920, when they purchased a farm one mile east of Cummings, Kansas.

They retired from farm life in March 1938, and removed to Centerville, Missouri to live with their daughter, Mary.

Obituary for Basil Augustus Bagby (May 31, 1861 - June 3, 1939)
From Monday, June 5, 1939, newspaper clipping (paper name unknown)
Transcribed by Dan Dunham from clipping supplied by Maxine Barber Ulrich

HOLD BAGBY RITES

Funeral services for B. A. Bagby were held this afternoon from the Methodist church in Cummings. Burial was in the Round Mound cemetery on the family lot.

Mr. Bagby, who died Saturday at his home in Centerview, MO. Had passed his 78th birthday just three days previously. He had been ill a week.

For many years residents of the Effingham and Cummings communities, Mr. and Mrs. Bagby retired from farm life a year ago and removed from Cummings to Centerview.

B. A. Bagby was born at Augusta, Ill. He and Mrs. Bagby, who survived him, celebrated their golden wedding anniversary at Cummings four years ago.

Surviving are also six children, Mrs. H. E. Bonnell, Nortonville, C. H. Bagby, Big Springs, Ned., J. R. Bagby, Stockton, Mrs. Herbert H. Barber, Atchison, Mrs. Ray Nye, Centerview, Mo., and Mrs. J. S. Grimes, Huron; 14 grandchildren and a great grandchild; two sisters, Mrs. Ellen Osgood, Long Beach, Calif., and Mrs. Addie Byrnes, Mt. Sterling, Ill.

The funeral was conducted by the Rev. Giessler, Nortonville. The music was furnished by a mixed quartet of the Methodist church, Nortonville.

The pallbearers were Tom Henson, George Baker, Charles Turner, Charlie Tull, Joe Cassidy and Newall Higley.

 

Child of BASIL BAGBY and SUSAN BAGBY is:

1. MINNIE MAY BAGBY, b. May 4, 1887, Missouri; d. November 1960, Atchison, Atchison County, Kansas; buried Evergreen Cemetery, Effingham County, Kansas; m. Henry E Bonnel, about 1906, unknown; b. February 16, 1882, Kansas, d. unknown; buried Effingham Cemetery, Effingham County, Kansas.
2. CHARLES HOMER BAGBY, b. November 28, 1888, Missouri; d. November 23, 1877, Big Springs, Deuel County, Nebraska; buried Big Springs Cemetery, Deuel Couty, Nebraska; m. Nellie Garman, September 15, 1909, unknown; b. August 8, 1890, Iowa; d. August 17, 1974, unknown; buried Big Springs Cemetery, Deuel County, Nebraska.
3. JAMES ROBERT BAGBY, b. November 20, 1890, Missouri; d. unknown; m. Nellie Franklin Ford, July 10, 1913, Levenworth, Atchison County, Kansas; b. about 1890, Missouri; d. unknown.
4. ADDIE ELLEN BAGBY, b. April 4, 1896, Skidmore, Nodaway County, Missouri; d. May 7, 1989, Texas City, Galveston County, Texas; buried Evergreen Cemetery, Effingham, Atchison County, Kansas; m. Herbert Hazard Barber, February 5, 1919, Leavenworth, Kansas; b. April 26, 1896,  Atchison County, Kansas; d. September 15, 1975, St. Joseph, Missouri; buried Evergreen Cemetery, Effingham, Atchison County, Kansas.
5. MARY M. BAGBY, b. July 22, 1899, Nodaway County, Missouri; d. September 251992, Holton, Jackson County, Kansas; buried Evergreen Cemetery, Effingham County, Kansas; m. Edwin Ray Nye, March 15, 1919, unknown; b. August 20, 1895, Kansas, d. December 26, 1987; buried Evergreen Cemetery, Effingham County, Kansas.
6. HELEN BAGBY, b. November 13, 1901, Nodaway County, Missouri; d. May 1982, Holton, Jackson County, Kansas; m. James Scarboro Grimes, July 1922, unknown; b. May 26, 1898, unknown; d. June 17, 1972, Holton, Jackson County, Kansas.