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- Henry Converse and wife visited their daughter, Mrs. Clara Peck in Bloomington over Sunday. They drove to that city taking with them a fine cow, worth 450, which they gave to Mrs. Peck.
The Clinton Register, Clinton, Illinois. Friday, 3 September 1897.
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- Going to Kansas
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Converse will leave Clinton Monday morning, perhaps never to return to make this their home. They will go to Hannibal, Mo., and visit their son Frank, who is an engineer on the C.B.&Q. From there they will go to Waverly, Kan., where their son Charles lives, and is a banker. He is anxious for them to make their home in that city, and they may decide to do so. Mr. Converse has lived in this county over forty years, and his many friends wish him well.
The Clinton Register, Clinton, Illinois. Friday, 3 Sepember 1897.
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- Died
Henry E. Converse died at the home of C.N. Converse, his son, at Burlington, Friday evening, January 8, 1909, after a weeks illness from paralysis. Mr. Converse had been in poor health for many months, but Monday before his death suffered an attack of paralysis, from which he never rallied.
The remains were brought to Waverly on the Santa Fe Saturday morning and were interred on the family lot in the Waverly cemetery. The funeral services were conducted at the home of C.H. McDuffie by the Waverly Masonic Lodge, Rev. E.W. Spencer of Waverly M.E. church delivering the address. After the service by Rev. Spencer, the Masons took charge of the body, and laid it to rest with the beautiful and impressive service of the fraternity and with the assistance of a large representation of members of the local lodge, warm friends of the deceased and his bereaved son. The casket was beautifully decorated with flowers, tributes of respect and esteem from the Masonic lodge of Waverly, the Farmers National Bank of Burlington, and personal friends of Waverly. The funeral address was one of the most beautiful, appropriate and impressive it has been the lot of the write to hear.
Henry E. Converse was born in Malden, Massachusetts, January 8, 1836, and his death was on his 73rd birthday. His father taught him the shoemaker trade, but disliking the work he left home and went to Chicago in 1853, where he entered the employ of the Chicago and Alton Railway, where he was a conductor for a number of years. After the war of the rebellion he settled in DeWitt county Illinois and for a few years was engaged in the occupation of farming. Later he left the farm and returned to railroading with the Illinois Central as fireman and afterwards as engineer which occupation he followed for many years.
He was united in marriage in 1859 to Miss Clara Weaver at Clinton, Illinois and they became the parents of three children, who survive both the parents, the wife and mother having passed away some eleven years ago. The children are Chas N. Converse, president of the Farms National Bank of Burlington and Vice President of the First National Bank of Ottawa; Mrs. Clark Peck of near Burlington and Frank L. Converse, a railway engineer of Shreveport, Louisiana.
The Waverly Gazette, Waverly, Kansas. Friday, 14 January 1909.
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- LKH note: In the census taken 30 June 1860, Henry Converse is a farm laborer on Solomon Weaver's farm. Three weeks later on 22 July Henry and Clarinda Weaver are married.
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