Area Obituaries

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…

CLARISSA REBECCA, ELDEST DAUGHTER OF ALPHA T. AND MARY J. BUTLER, WAS BORN NEAR REDDING, IOWA, JUNE 17, 1887 AND DEPARTED THIS LIFE AT THE ST. CATHERINE’S HOSPITAL IN OMAHA, NE., ABOUT 3:30 SUNDAY AFTERNOON, JANUYARY 19, 1930, AGE 42 YEARS, SEVEN MONTHS AND TWO DAYS. SHE WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO ROY ADAIR AT…

WILLIAM LOWERY JACKSON, AFFECTIONATELY KNOWN TO MANY RESIDENTS OF RINGGOLD COUNTY, IOWA, AS ” UNCLE BILLY JACKSON,” WAS BORN IN ILLINOIS ON JANUARY 24, 1849 AND DEPARTED THIS LIFE AT 5:30 P.M. SATURDAY, JANUARY 11, 1930 BEING 81 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AND 18 DAYS OLD. FOR THE GREATER PART OF HIS LIFE HE WAS IN…

HARRIET AGNES DANT, SECOND CHILD IN THE FAMILY OF TWELVE CHILDREN OF ROBERT E. AND ADELINE GATES DANT, WAS BORN IN DAVIS COUNTY, INDIANA, JULY 17, 1860. IN 1881 THE FAMILY CAME TO RINGGOLD COUNTY, IOWA, AND ON FEBRUARY 7, 1883, SHE WAS MARRIED TO CASSIUS H. WHEELER, AND ESTABLISHED THEIR HOME IN MALOY, IOWA.…

M. SNEDEKER, DIED FRIDAY AFTER AN ILLNESS OF TWO YEARS DURATION AT THE HOME OF HIS SON, CLEO, NEAR CHICKASHA, OK. AT THE TIME OF HIS DEATH HE WAS 75 YEARS, SIX MONTHS AND 29 DAYS OLD. UNTIL ABOUT FOURTEEN YEARS AGO, WHEN HE MOVED TO OKLAHOMA, MR. SNEDEKER HAD MADE HIS HOME ON A…