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Name: WILLIAM CONWAY (JUDGE) TOOLE
Death Date: FEB/17/1909 Interment Date: FEB/17/1909 Birth Date: MAR/28/1818
Age at Death: 90 Cause of Death: OLD AGE
Location at Death:  St. Joseph, Missouri
Physical Location at Death: 809 N 4th street
Sex: M Nativity: AMERICAN Ethnicity: CAUCASIAN
Occupation:PIONEER ATTORNEY
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Child of: Dr. Daniel Winthrop Toole & Mary Elizabeth Bruner
Spouse of: Elvira Wigglesworth
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Father of: Kate Toole, America Frances Toole, Octavius Benjamin Toole, Alice Toole, William C. Toole Jr., Elizabeth Toole,, Laura Toole, Emma Toole, Edwin Toole, Alpha Wigglesworth Toole
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Brief Biography: The History of Buchanan County, Missouri, published 1881, has the following: [38] Judge W. C. Toole was born in Shelby County, Kentucky, March 28, 1818. In 1834 he moved with his father to Alton, Illinois, where he continued to reside till the year 1838, when he went to Buchanan County, Missouri. In 1841 he married in Weston, Missouri, Miss E. Wigglesworth, of Greenup County, Kentucky, by whom he has had ten children: Kittie, Dickie, Octavius, Alice, William, Lizzie, Laura, Emma, Alpha and Edwin. In 1848 Mr. Toole was admitted to the bar and began the practice of law in St. Joseph. In 1852 he was elected Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, a position which, after holding three years, he resigned. In 1856 he was appointed Register of the City of St. Joseph, and held the office uninterruptedly for nine years. In 1864 he was elected City Recorder. This office he shortly after resigned, and during the same year was elected on the Republican ticket Circuit clerk, serving in that capacity two years. In 1871 he was elected on the Liberal ticket Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, which office he continued to hold till its abolishment by the Legislature of 1875. Judge Toole first made his permanent home in St. Joseph in 1852. He has, in the years that have since elapsed, been prominently active in all public enterprises calculated to advance the interests of the city and county, and in the building of churches, school houses, and charitable institutions has ever been among the foremost to lend a helping hand. Obituary: St. Joseph Gazette, 18 Feb 1909 6 Jun 1900 Census, St. Joseph, Buchanan County, MO: William C. Toole 82, born Mar 1818, KY KY KY, retired, married for 38 years but now a widower; William [middle initial not legible] 48, born Nov 1851, MO KY KY, employed as a "collector"; schoolteacher Emma 41, born Oct 1858; Alfa W. 37, born Oct 1862, employed as a bookkeeper, married for 8 years; daughter-in-law Anne 29, born Nov 1870, MO Germany Germany; grandson Leslie E. 6, born Mar 1894, MO MO MO; granddaughter Emma 4, born Jun 1895; boarder Charles M. Morehead 58, born Apr 1842, KY KY KY, a widower employed as a railroad engineer; boarder William Willis 45, born Jan 1854, ME ME ME, railroad fireman
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Other Relatives in Plot: Emma Toole, Elvira Wigglesworth Toole, William Conway Toole Jr
Lot Owner: W C TOOLE
Lot Location: N1/2 2
Block Location: 11
Section/Range Location: 5
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Cost of Interment: $0.00 Date Paid:
 
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W.C. Toole
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Toole marker
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Obituary part one
Courtesy Of:St. Joseph Gazette Feb 1909

Obituary part two
Courtesy Of:St. Joseph Gazette Feb 1909
 

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