TOURTILLOTT, JOHN KINGSLEY - Harvey County, Kansas | JOHN KINGSLEY TOURTILLOTT - Kansas Gravestone Photos

John Kingsley TOURTILLOTT

Greenwood Cemetery
Harvey County,
Kansas

June 1, 1862 Sublette Lee County Illinois
August, 1933 Newton Harvey CountyKansas

Kansan Monday, Aug. 14, 1933

He came with the family to Newton in the year 1876 where the family settled on a farm one and a half miles west of Newton on 12th street.
He was married to Ida E Boyd on June 21, 1887. To this union were born six daughters and a son. They are; Mrs Dot Walton of Newton; Mrs Ruby Hickerson of Newton, Mrs.Ida Virginia Weber of Salina, Mrs Mayme Bell of Cleveland, Ohio, Mrs Ellen Sutorius of Newton and Miss Marie Tourtillott and Boyd Tourtillott at home. A son died in infancy.
There are three sisters, Sarah, Lina, and Mrs Mamie Toevs, all of newton; one brother, W B Tourtillott of Topeka and nine grandchildren.
Mr and Mrs.Tourtillott operated a dairy for fifteen years on their farm west of Newton. Later they operated a hotel known as the City hotel which was destroyed in the fire of 1914. They later operated a restaurant on west Fifth street.
In 1917 Mr Tourtillott became a member of the firm of the Sutorius Baking Company. He was very active in business until 5 years ago when he became partially disabled. The past two years he had been confined to his bed most of the time.


Son of William Douglas Tourtillott & Sarah Smith Tourtillott

Husband of
Myrta Munger Tourtillott
Ida Elizabeth Boyd Tourtillott

Father of
Ruby B Tourtillott Hickerson
Ella G Tourtillott Sutorius
Marie S Tourtillott Becraft

Brother of
Sarah M Tourtillott
Lina R Tourtillott
Will R Tourtillott
John Kingsley Tourtillott
Mamie Amanda Tourtillot Toevs
Douglas Tourtillott

Contributed on 12/30/16 by jrwall046
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Submitted: 12/30/16 • Approved: 1/1/17 • Last Updated: 3/13/18 • R62105-G0-S3

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