The Platt-Cottrell-Smith reunion held at Wabaunsee, Kansas, Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, August 25, 26, and 27, 1917 . awn by one Chanticleer, two score and ten others joined inthe responsive service which made further slumber impossible. The rainone night drove those in from the tent to the hay mow, and some of thewomen and children who were sleeping in hay wagons under stack coverstook refuge on the floor of the big sitting room. Through it all we did nothear a cross or petulant word, and there was not a quarrel among theyoungsters, although there were so many of them. Saturday night a big
The Platt-Cottrell-Smith reunion held at Wabaunsee, Kansas, Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, August 25, 26, and 27, 1917 . awn by one Chanticleer, two score and ten others joined inthe responsive service which made further slumber impossible. The rainone night drove those in from the tent to the hay mow, and some of thewomen and children who were sleeping in hay wagons under stack coverstook refuge on the floor of the big sitting room. Through it all we did nothear a cross or petulant word, and there was not a quarrel among theyoungsters, although there were so many of them. Saturday night a big heap of drift wood and logs down by the creekbank was made into a great bonfire to greet the arrival of the autos bringingthe families of Dr. Reed and Cousins Ed and Mel from Horton and St. they rolled in there was a regular war dance. Ed Piatts hearty em-braces and osculatory performances will not soon be forgotten by any whowere either witnesses or parties to them. Sunday was a day filled with many tender memories and happy reminis-cences. The programme called for an informal service at the Old Stone. THE PLATT-COTrRELL-SMITH BUNCH WITH THEIR FAMILIES W. T. Isbell in the center between Cousins. Ernest and Martha. Church at Wabaunsfee, which our fathers had helped to organize and is the third Congregational Church ever organized in Kansas, thechurches at Lawrence and Manhattan being the only ones that preceded it inorganization. Ourfathers had done much of the actual work in connectionwith the erection of this building. The finishing lumber used in this struc-ture is of solid black walrtut/and nowadays it would be worth a small historyof this church from 1856 to the present has been one, rich in ser-vice and sacrifice. For forty years or more Uncle Amos and Aunt Marthawere faithful members and workers in this church. Both of them had chargeof Sunday School Classes until the very close of their lives. Aunt Marthasmusical talent was freely give
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