Area Obituaries

A SHADOW OF DEEP SORROW WAS CAST OVER THE COMMUNITY LAST THURSDAY AFTERNOON WHEN THE WORD WAS RECEIVED THAT GEORGE EIGHME, THE SEVENTEEN YEAR OLD SON OF MR. AND MRS. ALFRED EIGHME OF TINGLEY TOWNSHIP, HAD BEEN ACCIDENTALLY KILLED BY THE DISCHARGE OF A 22-CALIBRE RIFLE. GEORGE FRANKLIN EIGHME WAS BORN MAY 20, 1901, IN…

SYBIL PRATT LESAN, DAUGHTER OF CHARLES I. AND MEHITABLE S. LESAN, WAS BORN AT SEBEC, MAINE, FEBRUARY 28, 1835. IN 1852,  SOON AFTER THE DEATH OF HER MOTHER, SHE CAME WITH HER FATHER AND FAMILY TO STARK COUNTY, IL. HERE SHE WAS MARRIED JUNE 30, 1854 TO DAVID M. LESAN. IN THE SPRING OF 1855…

FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD AT THE BAPTIST CHURCH TUESDAY MORNING FOR MR. JOHN A. UNDERHILL WHO WAS FOUND DEAD IN BED SUNDAY MORNING BY HIS WIFE. MR. UNDERHILL WAS DOWN TOWN SATURDAY NIGHT VISITING WITH FRIENDS AND FEELING FINE AND THE REPORT OF HIS DEATH WAS ALMOST UNBELIEVABLE.  REV. WEBB OF THE M.E. CHURCH REVIEWED…

MARY ELVINA, DAUGHTER OF G. W. AND ABAGAIL JARRED, BOTH DECEASED, WAS BORN DECEMBER 1, 1867, IN RINGGOLD COUNTY IOWA, WHERE SHE GREW TO WOMANHOOD AND LIVED, WITH SLIGHT EXCEPTIONS, UNTIL HER DEATH. SHE WAS CONVERTED AND JOINED THE UNITED EVANGELICAL CHURCH AT RINGGOLD DURING A REVIVAL HELD IN THE SCHOOL HOUSE BY HER PASTOR,…

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…

MARY JANE POLLOCK, DAUGHTER OF MR. AND MRS. JOHN POLLOCK, WAS BORN IN OHIO ON MARCH 3, 1832 AND DIED AT HER HOME IN MOUNT AYR MARCH 23, 1919, AGED 87 YEARS AND 20 DAYS. WHEN SHE WAS FOUR YEARS OLD HER PARENTS MOVED TO WARREN COUNTY, IL., MAKING THEIR HOME NEAR MONMOUTH.  HERE MRS.…

EDITH BARNES TUCKER WAS BORN AT THE HOME OF HER GRANDFATHER, REV. S. A. ELLIOTT, IN RICE TOWNHSHIP, RINGGOLD COUNTY, IOWA, MARCH 5, 1883, WHERE SHE GREW TO WOMANHOOD.  ON JANUARY 9, 1901, SHE WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO HENRY TUCKER.  THEY MADE THEIR NEW HOME IN NEBRASKA, WHERE THEY HAVE SINCE RESIDED. TO THIS…

Paulina Jane Payne, daughter of Squire and Susan Payne, was born in Harrison County, Mo., July 10, 1859. She passed away at her home in Kellerton March 13, 1919. aged 59 years, three months and three days.  She grew to womanhood in Harrison County and was united in marriage to Welford Dennis, December 28, 1879. …

Little Wilma Goldie Lantz passed away March 12, aged one month and twelve days. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Lantz.

Mrs. Myra Reeves Ware was born in Taylor county, April 10, 1876, and died March 7, 1919, aged 42 years, ten months and twenty-nine days. She was very active in both church and Red Cross work.  She was the mother of two children, Nadine and Floyd, both dying in infancy. Her husband, father and mother…

JEREMIAH SHAY, SECOND SON OF LUKE AND JULIA SHAY, PIONEER RESIDENTS OF RINGGOLD COUNTY, WAS BORN NEAR OLDENVERY, KY., DECEMBER 15, 1850.  HE DIED AT THE HOME OF HIS SON, CHAS. SHAY, NEAR DELPHOS, MARCH 3, 1919, AGED 68 YEARS, TWO MONTHS AND EIGHTEEN DAYS. WHILE HE WAS STILL A LITTLE CHILD HIS PARENTS MOVED…

JAMES JASPER SEEVERS, SON OF DANIEL AND MARY C. SEEVERS, WAS BORN IN MONTGOMERY COUNTY, INDIANA, SEPTEMBER 21, 1850.  HE DIED AT COLORADO SPRINGS, CO., MARCH 21, 1919, AT THE AGE OF SIXTY-EIGHT YEARS, AND SEVEN MONTHS. HE COME TO IOWA IN THE FALL OF 1881. AT MOUNT AYR, IOWA, ON DECEMBER 14, 1882, HE…