Clayton & Lenora
3/22/1854 -10/25/1923
Hilary S. Gaither was born in Harrisonville, Indiana, March 22, 1854, and died at his home in Bogue, Kansas October 25, 1923.
He received his early education in the State of Indiana and graduated from the Medical School of Louisville, KY. in 1878. In that same year he was married to Mary M. McCave of Trinity Springs, Indiana.. To this union were born three children, Dr. F. E. Gaither and Mrs. J. V. Barbo, both of Lenora and Mrs. A. C. Banta of Oberlin.
Dr. Gaither went home to Harrisville and opened his own practice after medical school. In his young manhood, he came to the great state of Nebraska and endured all the hardships incident to the practice of medicine in a pioneer state. In 1905 he, with his family removed to Kansas where he has since resided. Before Dr. Gaither came to Lenora, in September 1910, he was at Clayton. He has his office where Dr. Appleby did, but as soon as rooms the new Exchange bank building are finished he will have a fine suite of room there, which will be about October 1. For he past several years he has owned and operated a successful pharmacy business in Bogue.
Mary Gaither, wife of Dr. Gaither passed away June 11, 1932 at Lenora, where she went to live after death of her husband. She was born September 23, 1859 at Port Washington, Ohio. She married H. S. Gaither April 19, 1878.
Directory of Deceased American Physicians—
Cause of death- cerebral hemorrhage
Death, Oct. 29, 1923
Place Bogue Kansas
Death notice by H. W. Henderson, Jan. 7, 1925.
Practice-Allopath. State and years of license-KS. 1905, CO.-1908, MO. 1896, NE. 1891
Places and dates of practice-Clayton, 1879 –Bogue 1917.
Added by Ardie Grimes:
Dr. Hilary Gaither and his wife Mary, are both buried in Lenora South Cemetery. Their son, Dr. Faye F. Gaither is also buried there.