Area Obituaries

JOHN ERWIN WILSON, SON OF MR. AND MRS. J.H. WILSON, WAS BORN NOVEMBER 27, 1885, IN ATCHESON COUNTY, MISSOURI, JUST SOUTH OF BLANCHARD, IOWA, AND PASSED AWAY JUNE 2, 1929, AT THE MISSOURI HOSPITAL IN ST. JOSEPH, MO., AGED FORTY-THREE YEARS, SIX MONTHS AND FIVE DAYS. HE HAD BEEN ILL FOR ALMOST TWO YEARS, BUT…

CLARE GEORGE ALLYN, SECOND SON OF MR. AND MRS. GEORGE S. ALLYN, WAS BORN MARCH 29, 1883, IN MOUNT AYR, IOWA, AND DEPARTED THIS LIFE IN METHODIST HOSPITAL, DES MOINES, IOWA, SUNDAY EVENING, MAY 26, 1929, AT THE AGE OF 46 YEARS, ONE MONTH AND 26 DAYS. HE IS SURVIVED BY HIS DEVOTED WIFE, HIS…

COLEMAN S. RICE, SON OF WATKINS AND NANCY RICE, WAS BORN IN MORGAN COUNTY, ILLINOIS, ON DECEMBER 13, 1857. HE WAS ONE OF A FAMILY OF ELEVEN CHILDREN. HE MOVED WITH HIS PARENTS TO A FARM IN IOWA IN 1858. THE GREATER PART OF HIS LIFE WAS SPENT ON THE FARM. ON APRIL 6, 1879,…

MINNIE GRAHAM, DAUGHTER OF SILAS AND JULIA GRAHAM, WAS BORN AUGUST 9, 1869, IN JACKSON COUNTY, OHIO, AND DEPARTED THIS LIFE MARCH 5, 1929, AT HATFIELD, MO. AGED 59 YEARS, SIX MONTHS, AND 24 DAYS. SHE MOVED WITH HER PARENTS TO MISSOURI WHILE YET A CHILD. SHE WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO ISAAC ZINN, APRIL…

LORENZO D. WORTHINGTON, SON OF BENJAMIN AND MARY WORTHINGTON, WAS BORN IN GREEN COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA, OCTOBER 23, 1844 AND AFTER FIVE DAYS OF ILLNESS DIED AT THE HOME OF HIS DAUGHTER, MRS. LILLIE DEWEESE, IN CHANUTE, KS., APRIL 26, 1929 AGED 84 YEARS, SIX MONTHS AND THREE DAYS. WHEN A YOUNG MAN HE CAME TO…

Mrs. Rachel Burke, widow of the late James H. Burke and for many years a resident of Mount Ayr until twenty-one years ago, died at her home in Long Beach, CA., April 22, 1929. The following announcement of her death is copied from the Long Beach Press-Telegram of April 23: Mrs. Rachel Ann Burke, 72,…

AGNES REBECCA MOSER, DAUGHTER OF JAMES AND LUCETTA MOSER, WAS BORN IN CLOVERDALE, PUTNAM COUNTY, INDIANA, MARCH 18, 1848 AND PASSED FROM THIS LIFE AT HER HOME IN CLEARFIELD, IOWA, APRIL 12, 1929, AGED 81 YEARS AND 24 DAYS. SHE WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE ON FEBRUARY 17, 1867, AT CLOVERDALE, IN., TO WILLIAM SHERRILL. TO…

AFTER A PROLONGED ILLNESS H. M. MILLER, 73 YEARS OF AGE AND ONE OF RINGGOLD COUNTY’S BEST KNOWN AND MOST HIGHLY RESPECTED CITIZENS, DIED AT HIS HOME IN SOUTH MOUNT AYR, THURSDAY MORNING. DEATH WAS NOT UNEXPECTED. MR. MILLER HAD BEEN IN ILL HEALTH FOR SEVERAL MONTHS, DURING WHICH TIME HE SPENT SEVERAL WEEKS AT…

WILLIAM ERNEST GRAY WAS BORN JANUARY 22, 1868 AT CHILHOWEE, JOHNSON COUNTY, MISSOURI, AND DIED AT HIS HOME IN CHICAGO, IL., APRIL 18, 1929, AT THE AGE OF 61 YEARS, TWO MONTHS AND 26 DAYS. AT THE AGE OF SEVEN HE CAME WITH HIS PARENTS TO MOUNT AYR WHERE HE GREW TO MANHOOD. AS A…

Thomas Albert Rice, son of L. J. and E.M. Rice, was born near Waverly, IL., August 4, 1855. He came with his parents to Ringgold County, Iowa, in May 1869, where he has made his home ever since. On the evening of April 7, he suffered a stroke of apoplexy from which he died April…

NANCY HOCKETT, ELDEST DAUGHTER OF JESSE AND JULIA ANN HOCKETT, WAS BORN IN SALEM, HENRY COUNTY, IOWA, JANUARY 21, 1852 AND DIED APRIL 11, 1929 AGED 77 YEARS, TWO MONTHS AND 29 DAYS. SHE WAS MARRIED TO THOMAS ARNETT IN THE YEAR 1861. TO THIS UNION ONE CHILD WAS BORN. HE DIED AT THE AGE…

Mrs. Amelia Hull Wheeler was born in New York state October 2, 1836, and died at her home in Mount Ayr, Iowa, April 13, 1929, aged 92 years, six months and 11 days. When a child she moved with her parents to Illinois, near Naperville, and later to Benton County, Iowa. When 20 years of…