Area Obituaries

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…

Dennis Max Combs, youngest child of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Combs, was born at Allendale, MO., October 25, 1914 and departed this life at Mount Ayr April 20, 1919. Those who remain to mourn his early departure father, mother, two sisters and one brother. Dennis will be sadly missed by those in the home as…

Lovina Goon was born February 27, 1840, in Starke County Ohio, and died at her home in Tingley, Iowa, March 28, 1919, aged 79 years, one month and one day. She grew to womanhood in Starke and Ashland Counties, Ohio. At Davis, Richland County, on January 30, 1866, she was united in marriage to Jacob…

Word has been received by relatives of the death of William E. Armstrong, of Bakerfield, California. Mr. Armstrong was born in Liberty Township in this county May 1875, being nearly forty four years old at the time of his death which occoured March 14, 1919, caused by influenza and pneumonia. He, with his wife, went…

GEORGE WILLIAM COVERDELL WAS BORN JANUARY 22, 1887, IN WORTH COUNTY MISSOURI, AND DIED AT HIS HOME NEAR BEACONSFIELD, RINGGOLD COUNTY, IOWA, MARCH 29, 1919, AT THE AGE OF 32 YEARS, TWO MONTHS AND SEVEN DAYS. HE SPENT HIS BOYHOOD DAYS IN WORTH COUNTY, MOVING TO RINGGOLD COUNTY, WHERE HE HAS SINCE RESIDED, WHEN A…