Area Obituaries

FRANCIS MARION CROPPER WAS BORN ON FEBRUARY 8, 1850, IN RICHLIEU, LOGAN COUNTY, KENTUCKY, AND DIED FROM INJURIES RECEIVED FROM BEING RUN OVER BY A TRUCK, AT BRUSH, COLORADO ON FEBRUARY 1, 1924, AGE SEVENTY-FOUR YEARS AND THIRTEEN DAYS. HE WAS MARRIED TO MARY FRANCES RUSH IN KENTUCKY, JULY 11, 1875, AND IN 1883 THEY…

MICHAEL STAHL, SON OF JOHN AND ELIZABETH STAHL, WAS BORN SEPTEMBER 17, 1831, IN PERRY COUNTY OHIO. HE DIED MARCH 18, 1921, AFTER A SHORT ILLNESS OF THIRTY-SIX HOURS, AT THE HOME OF HIS DAUGHTER, MRS. RANDOLPH S. BEALL IN MOUNT AYR, IA, AGED 89 YEARS, SIX MONTHS AND ONE DAY. WHEN HE REACHED MANHOOD…

AUGUSTA E. HERN, WAS BORN IN GALLA COUNTY, OHIO, SEPTEMBER 11, 1847 AND RESIDED IN HER NATIVE STATE UNTIL SHE WAS ELEVEN YEARS OF AGE, WHEN SHE CAME WITH HER PARENTS TO MISSOURI, SETTLING IN THE VICINITY OF LOTTS GROVE. THERE SHE GREW TO WOMANHOOD AND OBTAINED HER EDUCATION IN THE COUNTRY SCHOOLS. SHE WAS…

MRS. I.C. HOFFINE, WIFE OF I.C. HOFFINE, AFTER AN ILLNESS WHICH HAD CONFINED HER TO HER BED FOR MORE THAN THREE YEARS, DIED AT HER HOME IN BEACONSFIELD ON FEBRUARY 28. MRS. HOFFINE WAS BORN IN BROOKVILLE, IL., MARCH 21, 1849. AS MARY GRAHAM, HER MAIDEN NAME, SHE WAS REARED IN A DEVOUT LUTHERN HOME…

MARTHA MARIE, ELDEST DAUGHTER OF THE NINE CHILDREN OF MR. AND MRS. JOHN S. THOMAS. SHE WAS BORN ON THE 17TH OF JUNE, 1852, IN RAY COUNTY MISSOURI AND DIED ON THE 26TH OF JANUARY, 1921. AT THE TIME OF HER DEATH SHE WAS 68 YEARS, SEVEN MONTHS AND 9 DAYS OLD. IN 1875 SHE…

AFTER A BRIEF ILLNESS, MRS. J. W. MAPLE, WHO HAD BEEN IN FAILING HEALTH FOR SOME TIME, PASSED AWAY LAST SATURDAY MORNING.  THE FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD MONDAY AFTERNOON AT TWO O’CLOCK AT THE BAPTIST CHURCH IN CHARGE OF THE PASTOR OF THE DECEASED, AND LIFELONG FRIEND OF THE FAMILY. BURIAL WAS IN ROSE HILL…

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…