 Charles T. Connelly was born in
the state of Indiana, November
25, 1845, where he resided until
he moved to Kansas in 1885.
He enlisted
in the 9th
Indiana Battery at the age of 17
years and served his country
gallantly until the close of the
year.
In the year of 1867 he was
married to Mary McCord.
Two children, Bert and Grace,
blessed their union. His
wife died in 1874. Two
years after her death he was
married to Sarah Alexander.
The union was also blessed with
two children, one of whom is
living, Miss Jessie.
As a teacher in our schools Mr.
Connelly was ever faithful and
efficient and enjoyed the
confidence and the esteem of his
pupils. As city marshal
he discharged his duties with
great courage, and absolute
fidelity to the best interest of
the city. He gave his life
freely in defense of the lives
and property of our citizens and
his faithfulness to duty will
ever be held in grateful
remembrance of the people of
Coffeyville.
The deepest sympathy of the
entire community goes out to the
bereaved wife and children as
they mourn the loss of a loving
and devoted husband and father.
(Coffeyville Journal of October
7, 1892)
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Charles Brown was born in
Schenectady, NY, December 26,
1832. When he was but 8 years
of age, he went to Rochester, NY
where he remained for seven
years, during which time he
completed his apprenticeship as
a shoemaker. In 1847, when only
15 years of age, he went to
California and engaged in gold
mining for about 13 years. In
1861, he returned to his native
state where he remained a short
time. His next move was to
Wayland, MI, where he married
Miss Emily L. Morley in the year
of 1868. Two years afterwards,
he moved to Grand Rapids where
he worked at his trade until the
fall of 1883, when he moved on a
farm three miles east of
Coffeyville.
He moved to this city in 1888
and opened a shoe shop, where he
remained working at his trade up
to the time of his sad and
tragic death at the hands of the Daltons on the 5th of October, 1892.
He leaves an aged widow in
dependent circumstances, who has
the heartfelt sympathy of all in
her great sorrow.
The funeral services were held
on Saturday afternoon at 3:00 at
the M.E. church and were
conducted by Rev. McDole, who
delivered a very touching and
appropriate discourse. The
deceased was a member of the
Methodist Church, an honorable,
upright, industrious citizen,
and enjoyed the confidence and
respect of his fellow men.
(Coffeyville Journal of October
7, 1892)
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 George. B. Cubine was born on
Walker’s Creek near Mechanicsburg, Virginia, August 25,
1856. His father died in 1862
leaving his widow and four small
children. At the age of 19
George came to Kansas to live
with his uncle, J.W. Cubine, of
this city.
He was married December 29,
1881, to Alice A. Keyton,
daughter of Thomas and Mary A.
Keyton. Three children have
been born to them. Jennie, born
October 26, 1882, died December
31 the same year; Charlie, born
January 9, 1885, survives;
Ethel, born September 1, 1890,
died August 27, 1891.
At the age of 16, he was
converted and became a member of
the M.E. church, South. After
he left Virginia he never had
the opportunity of uniting with
that denomination and was not a
member of any church at the time
of his death.
He had a strong faith in God,
and a veneration of all things
good. His best qualities were
best known to his immediate
friends and relatives. Warm
hearted and generous, a loving
husband and father, a true
friend and always quick to aid.
We know how impulsively he left
his work, snatched a Winchester
from its place and rushed to
help his townsmen protect their
property.
As a mechanic, his loss is
irreplaceable. He was
unsurpassed for swiftness at his
work, honest and faithful to the
interest of others. The blow
falls with crushing force on an
aged mother, a helpless invalid
brother, a married sister and
brother. In the family of his
uncle, where he made his home
for many years, there is a
bitter mourning as over a dear
son and brother. His wife and
uncle were both away from home
at the time of his death. And
this adds greatly to their
sorrow, at the loss of one whose
memory will ever be gratefully
and affectionately remembered.
(Coffeyville Journal of October
7, 1892)
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 Lucius M. Baldwin, the first to
receive a death wound at the
hands of the desperadoes, was a
typical son of Kansas.
He was born at Burlington in
1869, and was in his 23rd
year at the time of his death.
His father was an itinerant
minister of the Methodist
Episcopal Church.
For 17 years the subject of this
sketch had his home in a
Methodist parsonage.
Centropolis, Pomona, Malvern,
Neodesha, Coffeyville, Fredonia,
Americus, Grenola, Ottawa and
Blue Mound, all in Kansas, were
the charges served by this
father and his homes in the
order above named.
He attended Baker University for
one year when he was 16 years
old. During the closing days of
his father’s life the family
resided at Burlington, and after
his death they selected that
place as their home.
Something over a year prior to
his death, young Baldwin
accepted a position in the store
of Read Brothers, at
Coffeyville. The families had
been intimate during the Rev.
Baldwin’s pastorate, and he made
his home with his employers.
He was affable in spirit, active
in good works, gentle in
disposition, thereby winning for
himself friends wherever he was
known. He was a consistent
member of the church for which
his father had labored and to
the service of which he had
devoted his life. He took an
active part in the work of the
Sunday school, Epworth League
and choir.
His death at the hands of a
desperado, in a battle of right
against wrong, occasioned great
sorrow in two cities of
Burlington and Coffeyville,
where he was best known. Both
communities were grief-stricken
over the announcement of his
murder. His aged mother was
overwhelmed with grief, but she
“sorrows not as those without
hope.” Her son is “not dead,
but sleepeth.” –(From Col. D.S.
Elliott’s book, “The Last Raid
of the Daltons.”)
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