Notes for: Adolphus Luther DOLLARD
Adolphus Luther Dollard, usually known as Adolf Luther, or as referred to here as A.L., was born in Virginia, probably Frederick County in the northwest area where his father, William Henry Dollard Jr., was a farmer until they moved west to Illinois. It was at Clinton, Dewitt Co., Ill that A.L. and Wilhemina Lorenz (Lawrence) were married on the first of December, 1870 after taking out a license 5 days earlier on November 26. They were married in the Methodist Episcopal church, usually called M.E., to which A.L. would belong the rest of his long life.
Long happiness was not to be however as sometime after the birth of William Edmon on the 27th of February, 1874, his "Minnie" died. This left A.L. with 2 very small children. So in 1877, he and an older widow with 3 small children of her own were married.
Sometime in the next three years, they moved to Union Ave. in the community of Louisburg, Wea Township, Miami County, Kansas. This is about 50 miles due south of Kansas City, Kansas, so they must have been pretty up-to-date!
As with his first wife, A.L. called his wife by other than her first name. Jane was the way he always referred to her, and as Jane she is listed in the 1880 Census.
Once again, happiness was not to be as Jane also died somewhere around 1895.
Now Adolphus Luther had 8 children to contend with, even though the earliest ones were quite able to take care of themselves. To rectify this, he married another widow, Cassie Mulvaney, who also had 4 children.
A.L. seems to mostly have been a farmer throughout his life. In the 1910 census, he is a truck farmer with his own farm and home, unmortgaged, in Oxford, Wellington Co., Kansas.
Carl Dollard, his son by Jane, is married by this time to Mabel Riggs, daughter of another farmer in the area. Carl is working as a hired man for Phillip Arnold who rents a farm in Sumner County nearby.
By the time of the 1920 census, A.L. and Cassie are living on Colorado Ave. in Oxford where he is working as a sexton at a cemetery and other odd jobs because of Cassie's partial invalidism and he is caring for her as well.
However, on the second of January, 1925, A.L., now 71, suffers a paralytic stroke and dies two days later on Friday evening. He was buried in the White City Cemetery near Oxford. Cassie, a partial invalid, lives on until the 14th of November, 1942 when she is finally laid to rest next to A.L.