Area Obituaries

MARGARET DICKSON WAS BORN SEPTEMBER 18, 1841, IN CRAWFORD COUNTY OHIO, AND DIED FEBRUARY 12, 1930, AT HER HOME NEAR ELLSTON, AGED 88 YEARS, FOUR MONTHS AND 24 DAYS. SHE WAS THE DAUGHTER OF GEORGE AND AGNES DICKSON AND WAS THE LAST OF A FAMILY OF NINE CHILDREN TO PASS AWAY. SHE GREW TO WOMANHOOD…

DUSKY T. CREVELING PASSED AWAY LAST EVENING AT THE HOME OF HIS PARENTS IN POE TOWNSHIP OF HEART FAILURE AFTER AN ILLNESS OF ONLY TWO DAYS DURATION. MR. CREVELING WAS BORN AT LAMONI, IOWA, NOVEMBER 25, 1891, AND CAME WITH HIS PARENTS TO THIS COUNTY ABOUT A YEAR AGO. HE WAS CALLED TO MILITARY SERVICE…

WILLIAM MILLER, SON OF KINDEL AND JENNIE MILLERWAS BORN ON JULY 25, 1873 IN WORTH COUNTY, MISSOURI, AND PASSED AWAY FEBRUARY 9, 1930, AT THE HOSPITAL AT IOWA CITY, WHERE HE HAD BEEN FOR THE PAST MONTH UNDERGOING TREATMENTS, AT THE TIME OF HIS DEATH BEING 56 YEARS, SIX MONTHS AND 15 DAYS OLD. IN…

SAMUEL FRENCH NEELY WAS BORN 61 YEARS AGO NEAR CLAYSVILLE, WASHINGTON COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA, WHERE HE GREW TO YOUNG MANHOOD, MOVING TO IOWA IN LATER YEARS, RECEIVING HIS EDUCATION, HE WENT EAST AND ENGAGED IN RAILROAD EMPLOY. HE WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO MISS LILLIE BARBER OF PLAIN GROVE, PENNSYLVANIA, DECEMBER 30, 1902. THREE DAUGHTERS WERE…

CYNTHIA MARIE ROBY, DAUGHTER OF NANCY DAVIS AND HARMON ROBY, WAS BORN AT BROWNSVILLE, INDIANA, AUGUST 31, 1848 AND PASSED AWAY IN BUFFALO, NEW YORK, FEBRUARY 3, 1930, BEING 81 YEARS, SIX MONTHS AND TWO DAYS. WHEN A CHILD THE FAMILY MOVED TO CORYDON, IOWA, WHERE THE FATHER DIED AND WAS BURIED. LATER THE FAMILY…

(part of this obituary was missing from this edition due to water damage) DONALD SPENCER PASSED AWAY IN FEBRUARY OF 1930, AT AGE 11 YEARS. HE LEAVES TO MOURN HIS ABSENCE HIS FATHER AND MOTHER, HIS SISTER MARY VIRGINIA, AGED 6; HIS GRANPARENTS, MR. AND MRS. A. L. SPENCER OF MOUNT AYR AND MR. AND…

LOUISA FOUSER, WIFE OF ALBERT H. GEIST, WAS BORN MAY 22, 1849, AT UNION TOWN, STARK COUNRY, OHIO, AND PASSED AWAY AT HER HOME IN ELLSTON, JANUARY 26, 1930 AT THE AGE OF 81 YEARS, EIGHT MONTHS AND FOUR DAYS. SISTER GEIST HAS BEEN A LONG RESIDENT OF THIS PLACE; SHE AND HER PARENTS MOVED…

MRS. MERCY S. WISWELL WAS THE DAUGHTER OF REV. W. M. AND MARY S. CALFEE.  SHE WAS BORN IN CLARK COUNTY, IOWA, FEBRUARY 7, 1861. HER MAIDEN WAS MERCY STRONG CALFEE. HER FATHER WAS PASTOR OF THE MOUNT AYR METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH WHERE HE DIED JANUARY 7, 1868. MRS. WISWELL WAS ONLY SEVEN YEARS OLD…

RUSSELL HOWARD COCHRAN, SON OF EARL AND MYRTLE COCHRAN, WAS BORN NEAR ROUNDUP, MT., ON AUGUST 4, 1917 AND DEPARTED THIS LIFE AT REDDING, IOWA, AT 7:30 A.M. MONDAY, JANUARY 20, 1930, BEING 12 YEARS, FIVE MONTHS AND 16 DAYS OLD. FROM HIS BIRTH RUSSELL HAD BEEN AN INVALID, NEVER ABLE TO WALK NOR TO…

PAULETA MARIE, DAUGHTER OF PAUL AND SYLVIA ADAMS, WAS BORN AT DIAGONAL, IOWA, DECEMBER 17 AND DIED JANUARY 21, 1930, AT THE AGE OF ONE MONTH AND FOUR DAYS. SHE LEAVES BESIDES HER PARENTS MANY RELATIVES. ONE BROTHER PRECEDED HER IN DEATH. THE FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD AT THE M.E. CHURCH IN ELLSTON WEDNESDAY AT…

MARY ELIZABETH HUNTINGTON, DAUGHTER OF SILAS AND JULIA HUNTINGTON, WAS BORN NEAR INDIANAPOLIS, IN., FEBRUARY 8, 1843. WHEN BUT A YOUNG GIRL HER PARENTS MOVED TO MONROE COUNTY, IOWA, WHERE SHE GREW TO WOMANHOOD. ON THE 14TH OF APRIL, 1863, SHE WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO M.V. ENIX. TO THIS UNION FIVE CHILDREN WERE BORN,…

LOU ANNA, DAUGHTER OF PETER AND ELIZABETH DOZE, WAS BORN MAY  30, 1868, NEAR MOUNT AYR, IOWA AND DEPARTED THIS LIFE AT HER HOME IN SHANNON CITY, IOWA, JANUARY 7, 1930, AGED 61 YEARS, SEVEN MONTHS AND SEVEN DAYS. SHE WAS MARRIED TO BEN L. CLARK DECEMBER 14, 1884. TO THIS UNION TWO SONS WERE…