Area Obituaries

DAVID BECK WAS BORN IN OHIO MAY 31, 1856, AND DIED IN CLARINDA, IOWA, APRIL 11, 1924, AGED 67 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AND 10 DAYS.  ON JANUARY 2, 1887, HE WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE WITH AMANDA DIKE, OF MARTINSVILLE, MO.  OF THIS UNION THERE WAS BORN ONE DAUGHTER AND ONE SON, BOTH OF WHOM SURVIVE…

MR. LEW TAYLOR WAS BORN IN VIRGINIA AND WAS 70 YEARS OF AGE AT THE TIME OF HIS DEATH.  HE CAME TO THIS VICINITY YEARS AGO AND HAD LIVED NEAR HOPEVILLE MANY YEARS AND WAS MARRIED AT THAT PLACE, AFTERWARDS MOVED TO PLEASANT TOWNSHIP, WHERE DEATH CAME MONDAY, MARCH 24, 1924, AFTER A LINGERING ILLNESS. …

NINA MARIE, LITTLE DAUGHTER O MR. AND MRS. RAY STEWARD, WAS BORN OCTOBER 9, 1923 AND DIED MARCH 25, 1924, AGED 5 MONTHS AND 16 DAYS. SHE HAD BEEN ILL FOR SIX WEEKS WITH WHOOPING COUGH AND PNEUMONIA AND THOUGH EVERYTHING WAS DONE WHICH MEDICAL SKILL AND CAREFUL NURSING COULD DO THE LITTLE LIFE WENT…

THOMAS JEFFERSON SILVERS WAS BORN AUGUST 1, 1852, IN HIGH POINT TOWNSHIP, IOWA, AND PASSED AWAY AT HIS HOME IN HUMESTON SUNDAY, MARCH 9, 1924.  HE WAS MARRIED TO MISS MINNIE A. DAVIS APRIL 24, 1874, AT MOUNT AYR, WHERE HE ALSO UNITED WITH THE CHURCH OF CHRIST. MR. SILVERS WAS WELL KNOWN THROUGHOUT DECATUR,…

JOHN WALL WAS BORN IN BEAVER COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA, OCTORER 15, 1843, AND DIED AT HIS HOME IN MOUNT AYR, IOWA, MARCH 24, 1924, AGED 80 YEARS, FIVE MONTHS AND NINE DAYS.  AT AN EARLY AGE HE MOVED WITH HIS PARENTS TO KNOXVILLE, IOWA, WHERE HE ENLISTED IN COMPANY K 3RD IOWA CAVALRY SEPTEMBER 3, 1861.…

MARY EMALINE SEEVERS WAS BORN IN MONTGOMERY COUNTY, INDIANA, MAY 20, 1856, AND PASSED AWAY AT HER HOME IN MOUNT AYR, IOWA, MARCH 12, 1924 AGED 67 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AND 22 DAYS.  ON SEPTEMBER 22, 1872, SHE WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE WITH HOSEA N. RUSK AND THE HOME WAS ESTABLISHED IN INDIANA. NINE CHILDREN…

DOLLIE E. ERVIN WAS BORN IN CLINTON COUNTY, IOWA, DECEMBER 22, 1856, AND DIED MARCH 12, 1924, AT THE HOME OF HER DAUGHTER IN ST. JOSEPH, MO., AGED 67 YEARS, 2 MONTHS AND 21 DAYS.  SHE WAS MARRIED TO AMOS W. GUSTIN MARCH 18, 1880.  SHE IS BURIED JUST FORTY-FOUR YEARS FROM THE DATE OF…

JOSHUA BREWNER JOHNSTON WAS BORN IN LEE COUNTY, ILLINOIS, APRIL 15, 1866, AND DIED AT HIS HOME IN UNION TOWNSHIP, RINGGOLD COUNTY, IOWA MARCH 7, 1924, AGED 57 YEARS, TEN MONTHS AND 22DDAYS.  WHEN HE WAS FOUR YEARS OLD HE, WITH HIS PARENTS, CAME TO RINGGOLD COUNTY AND FOR FIFTY-THREE YEARS RINGGOLD COUNTY HAS BEEN…

REX A. ATWOOD, SON OF J.E. AND HARRIETT ATWOOD, WAS BORN IN UNION COUNTY, IOWA, FEBRUARY 26, 1891, AND DIED AT THE GOVERNMENT HOSPITAL AT PALO ALTO, CALIFORNIA, FEBRUARY 12, 1924.  AT ONE YEAR OF AGE THE FAMILY MOVED TO A FARM IN LIBERTY TOWNSHIP, RINGGOLD COUNTY, IOWA WHERE HE GREW TO MANHOOD.  AT EIGHT…

HOMER F. HAMBLIN, SON OF MR. AND MRS. ISAAC HAMBLIN, WAS BORN AUGUST 16, 1899, AND DEPARTED THIS LIFE FEBRUARY 24, 1924, AGED 24 YEARS, SIX MONTHS, AND 22 DAYS. HE WAS MARRIED MARCH 28, 1923 TO MISS BERTHA PETERS OF GRANT CITY, MO.  HE LEAVES TO MOURN HIS DEATH HIS WIFE, FATHER, MOTHER, TWO…

NICHOLAS OLIVER BROWN WAS BORN IN MUSCATINE COUNTY, IOWA, JUNE 27, 1868, AND DEPARTED THIS LIFE FEBRUARY 17, 1924, AGE FIFTY-FIVE YEARS, SEVEN MONTHS AND TWENTY DAYS. AT THE AGE OF TWENTY MONTHS HE REMOVED WITH HIS PARENTS, BUZZLE G. AND AMANDA C. BROWN TO RINGGOLD COUNTY.  THE FAMILY SETTLED AT THAT TIME NEAR KELLERTON…

JOSEPH ALEXANDER SPARLING, SON OF HENRY W. AND JOANNA SPARLING, WAS BORN JULY 9, 1875, ON A FARM NORTH OF GARDEN GROVE, IOWA, AND DEPARTED THIS LIFE AT THE OLD FAMILY HOME IN GARDEN GROVE FEBRUARY 22, 1924, AGED FORTHY-EIGHT YEARS, SEVEN MONTHS AND THIRTEEN DAYS. ON DECEMBER 27, 1916, HE WAS UNITED IN HOLY…