A TERRIBLE ACCIDENT.

Mrs. Arthur McKaig, who lives one mile and a half south-west of Bonita, was killed last Saturday afternoon about four o''clock in an extraordinary manner. A neighbor boy left a gun on the porch, leaning it against the house. Sometime later the hired girl, in scrubbing the porch, caused it to fall, the hammer striking the floor and discharging  the gun. The load of shot passed through the weather boarding and plastering, striking Mrs. McKaig, who was sitting on the floor with a six months old baby in her arms. She immediately ran out on the porch and called to her husband, and. then fell to the floor. She was carried into the house and died a few minutes later. The baby was shot through one eye and is in a very precarious condition.

 Mrs. McKaig  was the daughter of John Cosgrove, who lives two miles west of Stanley. She was born July 25th, 1886 and died March 16, 1907, in her twenty-first year. On the 21st of January, 1903, she was united in marriage to Arthur McKaig and to this union was born two children, Albert and John, who, with her husband, her parents, three sisters and two brothers, survive to mourn her early and sudden death.

The funeral services were conducted at the home on Monday morning at 11 o''clock by Rev. G. A. Edgar and the body laid in its last resting place in Olathe cemetery.

 Olathe Mirror
March 21, 1907
Page 1, Col 4

IN MEMORY OF .MRS. GERTRUDE McKAIG.

  Again we are called on to mourn the loss of an honored member of Lone Elm Grange, No. 152, Sister Gertrude McKaig, who was so suddenly and unexpectedly called from the midst of life, health, strength and friends to the Great Grange above.

The sudden demise not only proved a source of great sorrow to our grange but has cast a , pall of gloom over the entire community. On account of the unusual cause we mourn this death with a sorrow that renders our feelings almost beyond expression. On account of our fraternal associations and. principles which are so strong within the grange.

That in no place outside the home of the deceased and the immediate families will that sorrow be more intense than in Lone Elm Grange and among those members with whom she and her bereaved husband have associated for several years and we can express no more eloquent eulogy upon her life than the simple statement that she was sincere in her efforts to make the lives of those with whom she associated happier and better.

It Is our desire that these sentiments be inserted on the memorial pages of our grange record in memory and in honor of Sister McKaig, and it is only a question of time when each of our names will appear upon the memorial pages of our journal. We can only express the hope that when that time arrives it may be said of each of us as we say of those gone before, that the memory of our lives is an influence for better things to those who come after us.

We also desire to extend to Brother Arthur McKaig, the bereaved husband, and his two little motherless children our sincere sympathy and our assistance.

MRS. GEO. BLACK
MRS." ALEX KELLY
MRS. GEO. LITTLE

Olathe Mirror
May 23, 1907
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