Area Obituaries

PETER NICHOLAS ROBINSON WAS BORN NEAR INDIANAPOLIS, JOHNSON COUNTY, INDIANA, SEPTEMBER 13, 1858 AND DEPARTED THIS LIFE NOVEMBER 23, 1920 AT THE AGE OF 62 YEARS, 2 MONTHS AND 10 DAYS. AT THE AGE OF FIVE YEARS HIS FATHER DIED, LEAVING HIS MOTHER WITH FOUR SMALL CHILDREN. SOON AFTER SHE MOVED TO A FARM IN…

MARY ELIZABETH SHERIFF, DAUGHTER OF WILLIAM AND JANE SHERIFF WAS BORN IN LAWRENCE COUNTY, PA., MARCH 12, 1832, AND DEPARTED THIS LIFE AT THE HOME OF HER DAUGHTER, MRS. I.N. PAYTON, LIVING NORTH OF MOUNT AYR ON DECEMBER 9, 1920, AGED 88 YEARS, EIGHT MONTHS AND 27 DAYS. ON FEBRUARY 22, 1857 SHE WAS UNITED…

FRED MARTIN HOPKINS, SON OF MR. AND MRS. M.V. HOPKINS WAS BORN AT WATTERSON, IOWA, JANUARY 11, 1889 AND DIED AT WATTERSON, IOWA DECEMBER 6, 1920, AT THE AGE OF 31 YEARS, ELEVEN MONTHS AND 6 DAYS. HE WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO BERTHA MAY SMITH FEBRUARY23, 1911. THE DECEASED SPENT HIS ENTIRE LIFE NEAR…

A SHADOW OF DEEP SORROW WAS CAST OVER THE COMMUNITY MONDAY EVENING WHEN IT WAS ANNOUNCED THAT GLENN SULLIVAN HAD DIED SUDDENLY AT HIS HOME IN EAST MOUNT AYR.  MR. SULLIVAN HAD BEEN IN HIS USUAL HEALTH UP UNTIL SATURDAY WHEN HE CONTRACTED A SEVERE COLD ACCOMPANIED BY SORE THROAT. A PHYSICIAN WAS CALLED MONDAY,…

ANDREW ALBERT HUNTER WAS BORN IN EDGAR COUNTY, IL., DECEMBER 1, 1851, AND DIED AT HIS FARM FOUR MILES WEST OF SHANNON CITY, IOWA, DECEMBER 5, 1920, AGED 69 YEARS AND 5 DAYS. HE CAME WITH HIS PARENTS TO LUCAS COUNTY IN 1854 AND FROM THERE TO RINGGOLD COUNTY IN 1861, AND WITH THE EXCEPTION…

PROFOUND SORROW FILLED THE HEARTS OF THE PEOPLE OF THE COMMUNITY LAST FRIDAY MORNING WHEN  IT WAS LEARNED THAT DAVID RICKER, SR., AN AGED AND RESPECTED CITIZEN OF WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP, HAD COMMITTED SUICIDE BY HANGING. THE COUNTY CORNER, DR. SAMUEL BAILEY, WAS CALLED TO THE RICKER HOME FRIDAY MORNING WHEN THE BODY WAS FOUND HANGING…

HENRY WAS THE SECOND AND THE YOUNGEST SON OF JOHN AND MARIAH STUCK. HE WAS BORN ON THE 18TH OF FEBRUARY, 1855 NEAR SANDUSKY, SENECA COUNTY, OHIO, AND DIED ON DECEMBER 13, 1920, AT ADAIR, OK.  AT THE TIME OF HIS DEATH HE WAS 65 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AND 25 DAYS OLD. WHEN A CHILD…

ON SUNDAY MORNING OCCURRED THE DEATH OF MRS. MARGARET SPARKS WHO MADE HER HOME WITH HER DAUGHTER, MRS. I. C. HIGHTSHOE, IN RILEY TOWNSHIP. AT 6:30 SUNDAY MORNING HER GRANDSON WENT UPSTAIRS AND STARTED THE FIRE IN HIS GRANDMOTHER’S ROOM. LATER MRS. HIGHTSHOE WENT TO BUILD THE FIRE FOR HER MOTHER NOT KNOWING IT HAD…

DANIEL NELSON KELSEY WAS THE SECOND CHILD OF MR. AND MRS. WM. KELSEY.  HE WAS BORN IN LUCAS COUNTY, IOWA ON THE 8TH OF FEBRUARY, 1867 AND DIED AT HIS HOME IN MOUNT AYR AT 2 A.M. ON THE MORNING OF THE SIXTH OF DECEMBER, 1920. AT THE TIME OF HIS DEATH HE WAS 53…

MRS. SARAH BRYANT, A FORMER RESIDENT OF RINGGOLD COUNTY, DIED SUDDENLY FROM HEART FAILURE AT HER HOME IN CHICAGO TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, AGED 95 YEARS AND 12 DAYS. MRS. BRYANT WAS BORN IN ENGLAND NOVEMBER 18, 1825.  SHE CAME WITH HER HUSBAND AND NEPHEW TO RINGGOLD COUNTY IN THE EARLY SEVENTIES AND SETTLED ON A…

HENRY ADAM WARNER WAS THE SON OF ADAM AND LYDIA WARNER, PIONEERS OF MOUNT AYR. THEY CAME TO IOWA FROM OHIO IN 1856. THEIR HOME WAS ON THE NORTH SIDE OF THE SQUARE, WHERE THE TIMBY BLOCK NOW STANDS. THERE SON, HENRY, WAS BORN ON OCTOBER 14, 1861.  WITH THE EXCEPTION OF A YEAR OR…