ORLANDA SMITH STARR
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The Peoples Herald, Thursday, Jan. 14,
1915, Pg. 1
Vol. 26, No. 33
Obituary
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Orlanda Smith Starr passed from
this life at his home in Melvern, Kansas on January 3, 1915. He was born
at Clark’s field, Ohio, August 10, 1841. At the age of twenty, when his
country called for soldiers to save the union from disruption he responded to
her appeal and became a member of Company B, Third Ohio cavalry, Sept. 13, 1861.
He served as a soldier until the rebellion was crushed and every slave was free,
being discharged, April 20, 1865. After the war he was married to Mary
Elizabeth Barker, who died April 1, 1883. To this union four children were
born, three of whom survive him, viz, Allen R., William H. and May, now Mrs.
George Dillard. In 1869, Mr. Starr came to Kansas and settled on a claim
on the Sac and Fox Indian Reserve in Osage County, five miles south of Lyndon
where he as a pioneer settler established a home and made a fine farm from the
unbroken prairie sod, bearing as well his part of the upbuilding of the great
state of Kansas. Oct. 20, 1885 he married Jane Blackwell who has been a
faithful wife and mother to his children. Jan. 5, 1915 he was borne to his
last bivouac by six of his former comrades in arms. Here in his “little
green tent” in Melvern cemetery he shall rest until the sounding of the Grand
Reveille.