Minnie Hays – Mrs. C. C. Waters
(Source Unknown)
Death, early Saturday morning was caused by Heart Failure. Minnie Hays was born at Mt. Chestnut, Butler County, Pennsylvania, September 22, 1869 and died at her home near Black Jack, Kansas, May 22, 1926, making the span of her life fifty- six years and eight months.
She came to Kansas with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Hays, when a baby six weeks old living for some years in or near Black Jack and then at Sedgwick, Waverly, and Kingman, Kansas at which latter place she was married to C. C. Waters, October 28, 1891.
After their marriage they located on the old Waters homestead near Black Jack, which has been their home ever since. Four children came into this home, Gladys, Rolland, Eugene, and Merrill. There is also one grandchild. These with her husband two brothers, Malvern H. Hays, Preston, Kansas and Oscar C. Hays, Wichita, Kansas, and one sister, Mrs. Cora Glenn, Cushing, Oklahoma, constitute her family and immediate relatives.
She was a member of the Presbyterian church at the time of her death and had for many years been active in the church, the Sabbath school and social life of the community.
The place where we were born, the time and place where we passed from this life, together with other events of our lives are of interest to us all, but at the end of life’s journey these things and immaterial. The essential things in life of Minnie Waters, as they should be in each of our lives, the things that cause her family and friends to deeply feel their great loss, were those qualities of life and character that have born fruit in good deeds and kindly acts.
That trait, that caused her to labor with determination and success, to transmit to her family and to all those with whom she came in contact, [are] the fundamental principles of a Christian life, causing her to still live in fond remembrance in the hearts of those who knew her best.
As an inheritance, she has left to us the memory of a courageous life, of a kind, self-sacrificing wife and mother. In her last days with the signs of failing health at hand, she kept up the battle to the last.
We cannot but believe that the Master has said to her ere this, “Well done good and faithful servant, enter thou into the joys of the Lord.”
Mrs. Water’s death occurred at her home early Saturday morning. She had suffered for a number of years from leakage of the heart, and her death was caused by this trouble. She was sick but a half hour before…
