DEATH OF JAS. T. WELDEN. ~ An Undertaker Here for Nearly Thirty Years.

April 17, 1909
DEATH OF JAS. T. WELDEN.

An Undertaker Here for Nearly
Thirty Years.

James T. Welden, an undertaker in Kansas City from 1870 until 1899, died yesterday at his home in St. Joseph, Mo., where he had lived since retiring from business. Mr. Welden was born in Syracuse, N. Y., in 1831, and served through the civil war on the Mississippi river fleet. After the war he located at Sedalia, Mo., but soon left there to come to this city. He leaves a wife and two daughters. The body will be buried in Morse, Kas., tomorrow afternoon.