Submitted by
Loyd Bishop

The Times-Record Blackwell, Oklahoma
September 10, 1903

W. L. Pittenger Dead

W.L. Pittenger died Monday morning at Kansas City Mo., and was buried Tuesday. Mr. Pittenger was one of the early settlers of Kay County, having located on a claim on Sept. 16, 1893, the piece of land now being known as the Widick farm.
For the past two or three years he has been suffering with an ailment akin to blood poisoning, and at the time of his death he was at Kansas City under treatment.
He leaves a widow and a grown son, both of whom were present at his side at the time of his death. Mr. Pittenger carried a life insurance policy in the Fraternal Aid Association.

OBITUARY.

In the year 1850, in Kane County, Illinois, on April 24, was born to Mr. and Mrs. Abram Pittenger a son, named William LaFayette Pittenger, who with his parents moved to Chickasaw county, Iowa, in May, arriving July 11th, 1864. He was married to Flora Arnott, in Charles City, Iowa, on October 2nd, 1872. From this union was born a son, Arthur Edward Pittinger, on April 20th, 1874, in Chickasaw county, Iowa. The family moved west to Oklahoma in the spring of 1893 and he has made that his home ever since. He died on September 7th, 1903, at the home of his son in Kansas City, Mo. The remains were laid to rest in Elmwood cemetery, Kansas City. His wife, son and six brothers survive him.

A PIONEER GONE

Word was received here Tuesday of the death in Kansas City, Mo., of W.L. Pittenger, formerly a citizen of this place. Mr. Pittenger has been ailing for several years and has made several visits to Kansas City for treatment and was there for that purpose at the home of his son, A.E. Pittenger, when death claimed him Mr. Pittenger made the run into this country September 16, 1893, and located on what is now the Widick place, and after relinquishing the claim, he engaged in the grocery business in this city, until his health compelled him to retire from active business. Mr. Pittenger spent the past three or four years in a vain effort for restoration of his health. The many friends of the family here will join with us in expressing sincere regret at his demise, and extending our sympathy to the bereaved ones.