T. J. HADLEY DEAD.

On last Saturday morning T. Julian Hadley, one of the early settlers in this county and a resident of Olathe for many years, died at the Grandview sanitarium in Kansas City of paralysis. Mr. Hadley was 64 years old. He has been in poor health for several years.

His only surviving relatives are his brother, J. M. Hadley and Mrs. J. W. Lyman and Herbert S. Hadley. The remains were brought to Olathe on the Frisco at 11:30 Sunday where they were met by his old comrads and friends, and taken to the Olathe cemetery for burial.

T. J. Hadley was born in Randolph county, N. C, December 3, 1841, moved with his parents to Morgan county, Ind., in 1843 and located in Johnson county in 1855.  He enlisted in Co. "F" of the 8th Kansas Infantry in October 1861, and in 1863 was commissioned First Lieutenant of Co. "L" of the 5th Kansas cavalry and was mustered out in 1865 and located in Olathe the same year. He was elected to  the office of justice of the peace in 1867 and three years later was elected clerk of the district court. Mr. Hadley was in the newspaper business in Olathe at an early date and later in the furniture business. He was local editor of the Mirror when it was owned an published by H. A. Perkins, and he was one of the best writers the paper ever had.

Olathe Mirror
november 29, 1906
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