(Written by Roy Seaver (grandson) Dec. 1920) JOHN GORSE John Gorse was born in Hamburg, Germany on April 8, 1845 and died on Dec. 11, 1920 five miles East of town at the home of his daughter, Mrs. I. W. Seaver, Having been bedfast for about four weeks. Death was due to a cancer. Mr. Gorse came to this country in January 1866, having been something like 13 weeks on the trip. He worked on the farm in the Eastern states, later coming West, helped build what is now the Frisco, also the Katy Railroads. John Gorse was married in Kansas City in the year 1870 to miss Elizabeth Hood. Later they lived in Eldorado, Kansas. Finally moving to a farm just across the State line in Mo, on the Nevada road, where they lived some 43 years. In the spring of 1920 they moved to Ft. Scott where his wife died on July 14, 1920. Some six or seven weeks ago he came to make his home with his daughter, Mrs. I.W.Seaver, where he resided at the time of his death. He is survived by two sons, Frank of Deerfield, Mo., and Will of Minden Mines, Mo. and three daughters, Mrs. Oma Cutler of Salina, Kans., Mrs, Emma Harris of Kansas City, Mo., and Mrs. Edith Seaver of east of Ft. Scott. Two children preceded their parents to the grave, Charlie some 13 years ago and Mrs. Mary Johnson on Jan. 4, 1920