Area Obituaries

Elsie M. Taylor Armstrong was born August 30, 1882 in Harrison Township, Delaware County, Indiana, and departed this life February 21, 1929, at the age of 46 years, five months  and 22 days. She was the daughter of Henry H. and Lillie Minton Taylor. In 1900 she was united in marriage to Charles C. Armstrong.…

John Otto Fry, the second son of William S. and Marinda Smith Fry, was born April 5, 1852, near Jeffersonville, Clarke County, IN., and departed this life March 27, 1929 at his home in Mount Ayr, Iowa. Until the age of twenty-one, his life was spent on the home farm of his parents, where his…

Miss Lula A. Schooch was born at Blackmore in Ringgold County, Iowa January 27, 1869 and passed into the Great Beyond March 22, 1929, at seven o’clock p.m. at St. Luke’s Hospital, Aberdeen, S.D., aged 60 years, one month and 23 days. She was married to Samuel A. Taylor, September 26, 1881. To this union…

Marietta Sanders was born in Benton County, Iowa,  November 30, 1853, and passed away at her home in Mount Ayr March 27, 1929 aged 75 years, three months and 27 days. At the age of 14 years the family  moved to Adair County, where she grew to womanhood. She was united in marriage to Charles…

Miss Belle Johnston, daughter of J.W. and Margaret Ann Johnston, was born in Lotts Creek township, Ringgold County, Iowa, August 26, 1862. She died at Davenport, OK., Sunday, March 17, at seven o’clock p.m., being at the time of her death 66 years, six months and 21 days old. She came from a sturdy pioneer…

John C. Sinco, son of Henry and Jane Bennett Sinco, was born January 12, 1839, in Bloomington, IN., and departed this life March 19, 1929, at the age  of ninety years, two months and seven days. At the age of five years he moved with his parents to Iowa on a farm near Glassgo. After…

Andrew Samuel Richards, son of Andrew and Betsy Richards, was born near Barlow, Washington County, OH., November 30, 1859, and died at his home in Tingley, Iowa, March 4, 1929, aged 69 years, three months and four days. He was in broken health during the last five years, but had failed more rapidly since last…

Andrew S., son of Emily and Andrew Scott Johnson, was born in Feesburg, OH., January 31, 1845. He died at his home in Clearfield, Iowa, March 9, 1929, at the age of 84 years, one month and nine days. When he was three years of age he moved with his parents to Monroe, Iowa, where…

Alice M. Carpenter, second daughter of Orneal D. and Lucy A. Carpenter, was born in Knox County August 25, 1848 and departed this life at her home in Galesburg, IL., March 22, 1929. She was united in marriage to Charles W. Terry at Macomb, IL., in 1868. After residing in Fulton County about two years…

Helen Amelia Johnson was born in Sweden, November 16, 1877 and passed away at the Iowa Methodist Hospital in Des Moines March 20, 1929, aged 51 years, four months and 4 days. At the age of three years she came with her parents to America, locating at Keithsburg, IL., where she grew to young womanhood.…

Sam Swank, son of Jacob and Elizabeth Swank, was born November 27, 1853 and died March 7, 1929 at the age of 75 years, three months and 10 days. He was born in Mills County, Iowa, where Council Bluffs now stands, and died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Chas. Coulson, of Hatfield, MO.…

Eula E. Hampton was born at Kellerton, IA., March 27, 1899 and died at the Missouri Methodist Hospital at St. Joseph, MO., February 27, 1929, at the age of 29 years and 11 months. She was graduated from the Kellerton high school with the class of 1918. She graduated in 1919 from Witchita, KS. She…