Death of Mr. S.F. Garwood

Olathe people are again called upon to mourn the death of one of its very oldest and best liked residents, S.F. (Fisher) Garwood.

Mr. Garwood’s death occurred at the home, 114 North Water Street, on Wednesday, May twelve, 1926.

The funeral service was held Friday afternoon at 2:30, conducted by Rev. Walter A. Smith of the First Christian church. Burial was made in the Olathe cemetery.

Sylvester Fisher Garwood was born in new Lisbon, Ohio, October 7, 1847, and at the early age of 17, he enlisted form Union county, Ohio, in the 72^nd battalion, Infantry under Capt. D,S, Norvell, in Company B. This was in August 27^th, 1865.

He was a drummer boy in the 62^nd battalion in the Civil War, and later June 30, 1885, he enlisted in the volunteer militia in Kansas under Capt. S. R. Burch, where he was also the drummer.

Mr. Garwood came to Kansas by covered wagon in 1868, and on March 24, 1872, he was united in marriage to Mary A. Peck, sister of Mr. C.C. Peck and Mr. Frank Peck of Kansas City.

Surviving are his widow, two sons C. Fred Garwood, and Harry S. Garwood, a daughter, Mrs. Etta Clements, and a granddaughter, Mrs. Hazle Meahde. It will be remembered that their son, D.W. (Will) died November 23, 1923

In early days Mr. Garwood had a number of teams and hauled practically all the freight from Kansas City to Olathe, and later hauled the freight for the merchants from the Frisco and the Santa Fe. Everyone liked Fisher Garwood for his many fine qualities, not the least was a friendly and jovial spirit toward everyone. Everything was always alright with Fisher Garwood. The corners of his mouth were always turned up – never down.

A very familiar sight to Olathe people of the past few years has been Mr. Garwood with his horse and buggy, with plenty of fishing poles and other fishing equipment strapped to the side of the buggy, going to the creek. Here he spent much of his time, and it was a source of great pleasure to him, following a severe attack of rheumatism some years ago, which made it difficult for him to get about.

Nothing gave Mr. Garwood so much pleasure as to play the drums in our old fashion drum corp and always this feature of any of our big celebrations. Mr. Garwood was the last member of this drum corp.

Olathe Mirror

May 20, 1926