Area Obituaries

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…

Martha Jane Barker, the youngest daughter of Reuben and Margaret Jane Barker was born May 10, 1860, in Wayne County, near Cambria, Iowa, and departed this life February 25, 1929, at her home in Delphos, Iowa, aged 68 years, nine months and 15 days. Her mother died when Mrs. Lane was three years old. She…

Edwin L. Faris was born January 4, 1879, on the old Faris farm north of Mount Ayr, Iowa and grew to manhood there. he graduated from Mount Ayr high school in 1898, taking the four year course in three years and riding from home  the first two years, a distance of four miles. The year…

Alice E. Stiles, daughter of Horace B. and Alice E. Hall, was born at Mount Ayr, Iowa, April 25, 1881, and finished her earthly career February 23, 1929, when death claimed her at Mercy Hospital in Denver, CO. This coming April would have completed for her forty-eight years of life. Mrs. Stiles grew to womanhood…

Charles Mapel, son of John W. and Amanda Mapel, was born February 16, 1887, near Maloy, Iowa and departed this life February 25, 1929, at his home in Shannon City, Iowa, aged 42 years and nine days. Mr. Mapel had been in declining health for several months and his going has cast a shadow of…

Mrs. T.S. Shay Sr., a resident of Ringgold County for 56 years, passed away Wednesday, February 27, 1929, at her home in Maloy after an illness since January first. She was born in Wilmot, WI., March 10, 1849 and was one of a family of nine children and a twin sister of Mrs. J.L. Sheil…

Emma R. Pierson, daughter of Chambers and Martha Pierson, was born June 24, 1855, at Mt. Gilead, OH., and passed away at the home of her son, Howard Lesan, February 18, 1929. Her last illness was of long duration, dating from two years ago the first of last August At the age of seven years…