Area Obituaries

MILLARD MCKINLEY HOLDEN, ELDEST CHILD AND ONLY SON OF JOHN C. AND PEARL FRY HOLDEN, WAS BORN IN LOTTS CREEK TOWNSHIP, RINGGOLD COUNTY, IOWA, NOVEMBER 23, 1896 AND DEPARTED THIS LIFE IN ST. IGNATIUS, MONTANA, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1924, AGED 27 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AND 7 DAYS.  THE DECEASED GREW TO MANHOOD ON THE FARM. …

MARY E. DICKERSON WAS BORN JULY 11, 1861, AT NASHVILLE, IN., AND DEPARTED THIS LIFE SEPTEMBER 28, 1924, AGED 63 YEARS, 2 MONTHS, AND 17 DAYS. IN EARLY CHILDHOOD SHE MOVED WITH HER PARENTS TO MISSOURI WHERE SHE GREW TO YOUNG WOMANHOOD.  SHE WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO V.M. KNIGHT OCTOBER 21, 1880, TO THIS…

Alden Isaac Bennett, second child of Joseph and Lydia Birdsall Bennett, was born in Otsego County, NY, December 25, 1834.  During his boyhood years the family made several overland trips by wagon to and from New York state to Knox County, Illinois.  When he reached manhood he decided to remain in Illinois and on September…

MARTHA FRENCH SNELL WAS BORN OCTOBER 24, 1855, IN CEDAR COUNTY, MISSOURI, AND DEPARTED THIS LIFE IN THE COMMUNITY HOSPITAL OF CRESTON, IA, SEPTEMBER 26, 1924, AT THE AGE OF 68 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AND 2 DAYS.  SHE LIVED IN THE COMMUNITY OF HER BIRTH UNTIL 1875 WHEN SHE WITH HER HUSBAND MOVED TO IOWA,…

Pheobe Jane Hibner was born in Richland County, OH,  April 2, 1843 and died at her home in Des Moines September 16, 1924 aged 81 years, four months and nineteen days, after a brief illness.  At the age of five years with her parents moved to Illinois and grew to womanhood in that state, was…

Adaline Hartley, daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth Hartley, was born July 13, 1837, new Carmichaels, Green County, PA at which place she grew to womanhood.  At an early age she was converted and united with the Baptist Church at that place.  She was one of a family of thirteen children, all of whom except Mrs.…

Cora Amanda Ouderkirk was born in Polk County, IA, August 22, 1869.  She came to Ringgold County with her parents when a small child.  She departed this life September 19, 1924, age 55 years and 28 days.  She was united in marriage to Josiah Dalton February 12, 1889. To this union were born two sons. …

Sally Anna Fry was born April 27, 1839 in Clark County, KY and died September 14, 1924, at the home of her niece in Ringgold County, IA., at the age of 85 years, 4 months and 18 days.  She moved to Indiana with her parents when three years old, was raised in Jefferson County, IN.,…

Charles Thompson Miller, son of James and Susan E. Miller, was born in Worth County, MO., January 25, 1863, and departed this life September 1, 1924, at  Rochester, MN., aged 61 years, seven months and six days.  When he was two years of age his parents moved to Ringgold County, IA where he grew to…

Philip Jarvis passed out of this life August 08, 1924 aged 92 years and 6 days, at the home of his son-in-law, John L. Stephens, surrounded by family, his daughter, Margaret from Nebraska and another daughter, Samantha besides a brother, Levi Jarvis, from Joplin, MO., after an illness of two months or more.  He leaves…

After an illness of several years duration, during which there was a gradual failure in strength, Samuel Robertson, one of Mount Ayr’s most highly respected citizens, passed peacefully away at 8 o’clock a.m. Sunday, August 24.  Mr. Robertson was born February 9, 1848, at Airdrie, Scotland and when nine years of age came with his…