Submitted by
Loyd Bishop

The Funeral of Editor Hoyt.

Capt. Chars. Day, Editor McDowell of the Times-Record and the writer attended the funeral of Elbert W. Hoyt; Ponca City’s postmaster and editor of the Courier, at Ponca City Friday afternoon. The funeral services were conducted at the Presbyterian Church at 2 o’clock, the pastor Rev. W. G. Oglevee, delivering an eloquent tribute to the memory of the deceased. The church was crowded to the doors and many who came could not get into the building. The funeral was under the auspices of the A.O.U.W. lodge of which Mr. Hoyt was a member. Representatives of the press, county officers, politicians and men of note from all parts of the county attended the obsequies Burial was made in the cemetery near Ponca City, the remains being followed to their last resting place by one of the largest concourses ever witnessed in Kay county. During the funeral hour all business houses were closed and the whole town showed marked respect to the memory of the deceased.
Elbert W. Hoyt was born at Warsaw, N.Y. Nov. 29, 1866 and resided there till he was fifteen when he went to Lyons, Kansas, with his parents.
He was a newsboy at Warsaw, and finished the printers trade at Lyons. He was city editor of the Lyons Tribune at eighteen and editor and owner of that paper at twenty. He disposed of the Tribune and good will in 1893 and brought his printing office to the strip. He began the publication of the Weekly Courier in October 1893 and the Daily Courier October 4, 1897.
He leaves a wife and son, Harold, five years old, also his father, A.W. Hoyt, and brother, Frank E. both residing at Lyons, Kansas, both being present during his sickness and at the funeral.