Looking Back – CNH

By Editor | November 29, 2022 |

25 years ago
November 26, 1997
Anna Kulp will celebrate her 100th birthday on December 5.
She was born in Golden Eagle on December 5, 1897 to Alex and Christina Willenberg Hattemar.
Anna married Sullivan Kulp on October 28, 1919.
A homemaker, wife and mother, Anna had five children, three of whom are still living.
Anna has seen in 100 years two World Wars, the Korean, Vietnam and Persian Gulf wars, and the coming of Haley’s Comet twice.
With the invention of the automobile, Anna remembers the first one to come to Calhoun and the excitement there was in watching it go by her home.
She’s seen the face of the United States as well as the world change in 100 years.
From her children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren to great-great grandchildren, we wish Ann a very happy 100th birthday.
50 years ago
November 30, 1972
Hunt’s Variety Store will hold its grand opening Friday and Saturday, Dec. 1 and 2, in the front portion of the former Roth Building on County Road in Hardin.
Mr. and Mrs. Merlin Hunt, who operate a similar store in White Hall, invite everyone to visit them on Friday and Saturday and browse around.
75 years ago
November 27, 1947
Hubbard Butler, age 61, of Pearl, committed suicide in the kitchen of his home early Sunday morning. Mr. Butler had arisen at the usual hour, lighted a lamp and had started a fire.
Some time later, his son, John, who lives nearby went over to see his father and found him suspended from a rafter in an unfinished room of his home. Help was summoned, but death had already come to Mr. Butler.
A coroner’s inquest was held at the C.C. Hanks Funeral Home in Pearl Sunday afternoon.
Mr. Butler had apparently been in excellent health and had been working at the A.T. Nelson fish market in Pearl. An exact cause for his taking his life could not be found.
Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Assembly of God Church in Pearl.
During the funeral services of Mr. Butler, his sister-in-law, Mrs. William Butler of Granite City, dropped dead.
Just as the services were ended and the family was leaving the church, Mrs. Butler collapsed.
She was carried back into the church, and Dr. J.H. Peisker of Hardin, who was in Pearl at the time visiting patients, was summoned. Upon his arrival, Dr. Peisker pronounced the woman dead.
An inquest held that evening showed she had died from natural causes. Mrs. Butler was 64 years of age. She is survived by her husband, having no children.
The C.C. Hanks Funeral Service had charge of the funeral, and this is the first time in their long experience with funerals that such an unusual incident happened.
100 years ago
November 20, 1922
M.A. Kamp dead, age 93; Was Calhoun’s oldest citizen– resided at Kampsville 59 years. Namesake of village.
Captain M.A. Kamp, President of the Bank of Calhoun County since its organization at Hardin twenty-four years ago, and Calhoun County’s oldest and one of the county’s most highly and most prominent citizens, died at his home in Kampsville, Thursday, Nov. 23, 1922, and his body was laid to rest Monday morning Nov. 27, 1922, in the cemetery at Kampsville, after funeral services were conducted in St. Anselm’s Catholic Church of that place.
Rev. Faller officiated and one of the largest crowds ever seen in Kampsville attended the funeral. Out of respect for this worthy citizen and bank official, the four banks in the county associated with one another, namely the Bank of Calhoun County of Hardin, Bank of Richwoods of Batchtown, Bank of Brussels of Brussels, and the Bank of Kampsville of Kampsville, closed their doors all day Monday, and the officials of each bank, together with a number of stockholders, attended the funeral.
Before these banks became separate and individual banks under the late state law, they were all under the supervision of the Bank of Calhoun County of Hardin, and Capt. Kamp was their President.
Gentlemen who were the first stockholders of this bank when this institution was organized twenty-four years ago, were the active pallbearers at the funeral. They were, Stuart E. Pierson of Carrollton, F.W. Perry and E.E. Williams of Hardin, O.C. Bartholomew, Chas. Sutter and Wm. Suhling of Kampsville.
Capt. Kamp, who was in his 93rd year when death overtook him, has been a resident of Kampsville for fifty-nine years, coming there in 1863 when the village was known as Farrowtown, but which was afterwards re-christened Kampsville in Capt. Kamp’s honor, the people petitioning for the change of name.
Mr. Kamp is a native of Bavaria, Germany, a son of John and Magdalena Kamp, and was born August 21, 1829. He attained to man’s estate in his native country, learning the arts of a barber and surgeon, which he followed for many years.
He received a thorough education in the German tongue and required a good knowledge of English since taking up residence in this country.
He belonged to the Bavarian Army during the Revolution of 1849. In 1853, Mr. Kamp bade adieu to the land of his birth, and taking passage at Havre, crossed the broad Atlantic and landed in New Orleans 52 days later.
He immediately went north to St. Louis and there followed surgery and the tonsorial art until the breaking out of the Civil War. He had become thoroughly imbued with the spirit of loyalty to his adopted country and in April 1861, took his place in Company D, 4th Missouri Reserve Corps, with which he was out about four months.
He was then discharged and subsequently enrolled his name in a Missouri militia regiment, becoming First Lieutenant of Company F, in which capacity he served until he resigned during the year 1863.
The same year Mr. Kamp came to Calhoun County, settling at Silver Creek Post-Office where he carried on the dual occupations of merchant and farmer, meeting with success in both lines of business.
A decade later he changed his residence to the town of which he was the Father serving as Mayor of this town, and which official position his son Joseph A. Kamp now holds.
Capt. Kamp manifested his faith in the resources of this section by entering into the various movements which promoted the growth of the community in civilization and material prosperity.
He served twelve years as county commissioner of Calhoun County, casting his vote with the Republican Party.
The wife of Mr. Kamp bore the maiden name of Elizabeth Bullier and the happy union was blessed by the birth of six children– William B., John B., Joseph A., Francis N., Katie E., and Alois.