Area Obituaries

REECE W. ELLIOTT, SON OF A. W. AND EMMA ELLIOTT, WAS BORN IN RICE TOWNSHIP, RINGGOLD COUNTY, IOWA ON FEBRUARY 3, 1893.  HE DIED AT MOUNT AYR, IOWA, ON MARCH 13, 1919 AT THE AGE OF 26 YEARS, TWO MONTHS, AND TEN DAYS. HE SPENT HIS BOYHOOD ON THE PARENTAL FARM AND IN COUNTRY SCHOOL.…

LUCETTA CRENSHAW, DAUGHTER OF JOHN AND MARTHA CRENSHAW, WAS BORN IN HANCOCK COUNTY, IL., APRIL 27, 1846.  SHE DIED AT MOUNT AYR, IOWA, MARCH 5, 1919 AT THE AGE OF 76 YEARS, NINE MONTHS AND TEN DAYS. SHE CAME TO IOWA WITH HER PARENTS WHEN IOWA WAS YET A TERRITORY.  THEY SETTLED IN JEFFERSON COUNTY…

LAST WEEK THUESDAY, BURTON TRIMBLE WAS TAKEN ILL WITH THE INFLUENZA WHICH RAPIDLY DEVELOPED INTO PNEUMONIA, AND IN SPITE OF ALL THAT MEDICAL SKILL AND GOOD NURSING COULD DO, HE PASSED AWAY MONDAY AFTERNOON. THE FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON AT 2 O’CLOCK AT THE BAPTIST CHURCH CONDUCTED BY HIS PASTOR, REV. CHARLES G.…

JOHN T.E. SIMPSON, SON OF MR. AND MRS. AUSTIN SIMPSON WAS BORN AT MOUNT AYR, IOWA, AUGUST 8, 1881 AND DEPARTED THIS LIFE JANUARY 16, 1919, AGE 37 YEARS, FIVE MONTHS AND 8 DAYS.  HIS EARLY LIFE WAS SPENT WITH HIS PARENTS IN IOWA AND NEBRASKA.  AT THE AGE OF TWENTY-THREE HE CAME TO GREELEY…

EDNA EARL MA LOTTE KELLEY WAS BORN MARCH 13, 1887, AT EXCELSIOR SPRINGS, MO., AND PASSED AWAY AT HER HOME IN KANSAS CITY, MO., FEBRUARY 10, 1919, AGED 41 YEARS, TEN MONTHS AND EIGHTEEN DAYS. THE MOTHER PASSED AWAY WHEN EDNA WAS ABOUT A YEAR OLD AND SHE WAS TAKEN INTO THE HOME OF MR.…

MRS. J. L. QUILLIN, YOUNGEST DAUGHTER OF MR. AND MRS. A. R. SHRIMPLIN OF THIS CITY, PASSED AWAY MONDAY EVENING AT SIX O’CLOCK AT MERCY HOSPITAL IN CHICAGO. SHE HAD BEEN ILL WITH A COLD FOR A FEW DAYS AND ON SUNDAY MORNING PNEUMONIA DEVELOPED AND SHE WAS TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL AND RELATIVES NOTIFIED.…

MARY GRIFFITH O’CONNOR DIED AT HER HOME IN MALOY, IOWA, SUNDAY FEBRUARY 2, 1919, AGED 70 YEARS, EIGHT MONTHS AND FIFTEEN DAYS. SHE WAS BORN IN TULLIMORE, COUNTY KERRY IRELAND, AND WHEN FIFTEEN YEARS OF AGE EMIGRATED TO AMERICA, FIRST TO MONTREAL, CANADA, AND LATER TO CHICAGO, IL. ON OCTOBER 16, 1870, SHE WAS UNITED…

John W. Shafer, son of Watson and Elizabeth Shafer, was born near Redding, Iowa, October 21, 1883 and departed this life January 22, 1919 after a short illness of influenza and pneumonia, age 35 years, three months and one day. He was married March 11, 1908 to Miss Grace Fergerson. To this union two sons…

Addison Ray Hobbs, son of George Washington and Eliza Hobbs, was born at Marrietta, IL., November 24, 1841. He died at Mount Ayr, Iowa, January 30, 1919, at the age of seventy-seven years, two months and six days.  Mr. Hobbs spent most of his life in Illinois, about Marrietta.  He was married here to Serena…

Mary Hazel Main was born at Guss, Iowa, June 25, 1902 and was called to her heavenly home January 27, 1919, at the age of 16 years seven months and two days. With the exception of three or four months of her life was spent in Redding. She has grown to young womanhood here among…

Ethelyn Shackleton, the only daughter of Frank and Sarah Shackleton, was born December 30, 1888 and departed this life January 16, 1919, aged 31 years, seventeen days. She graduated from the high school at Eagleville, MO., and later spent one year at the state normal at Kirksville, MO. Being the only girl she was idolized…

Edith Barnes Tucker was born at the home of her grandfather, Rev. S. A. Elliott, in Rice Township, Ringgold County, Iowa. March 5th, 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…