Area Obituaries

Private Ralph Dyer, of Company C, 55th Engineers, was born on the 3rd day of February, 1896. He grew to manhood in this community and on the 25th day of February, 1918, he left Mount Ayr for  Camp Dodge, where he took up the duties of a private soldier. From there he was moved to…

Edith May Blauer was born May 11, 1884 near Tingley, Iowa and died April 30, 1918 at Santa Ana, CA., aged 33 years 11 months and 19 days. She lived here all her life until about three years ago when she went to Santa Ana. In 1901 she was converted and received into Tingley Methodist…

Died in Riley Township, Ringgold County, Iowa, April 17, 1874, Henry Sincoe in the 74th year of age. Father Sincoe came to this country about nineteen years of age and settled on the farm where he died April 18(?), 1874 after a long illness of about 3 months. Although his suffering was very great, he…

Following a brief illness of leakage of the heart, Edmund Q. Cass, passed away Friday morning, at his home in Shenandoah. He was a resident of Union and Ringgold Counties nearly all his life, living on a farm near Shannon City for a period of twenty years. Funeral services were held Monday afternoon at 2:30…

     Louis C. Wible was born March 17, 1849 in Mason County, IL., and died at his home in Mount Ayr, IA., March 24, 1918, aged 69 years and seven days.      He was the son of Louis and Mary J. Wible and one of a family of six children. In 1874 he came with…

     Margaret Imogene, daughter of R. J. and Margaret J. Lawhead, was born August 13, 1874, near Monmouth, IL., and died March 9, 1918 at her home in Fowler, CA. While she was still a girl her father removed with his family to Mount Ayr. Mrs. Nichol grew from her girlhood to womanhood in this…

     C.W. Baker was born near Richmond, Madison County, Kentucky, December 25, 1850, and died at his home in Delphos Sunday morning, March 24, 1918, aged 67 years, two months and twenty-nine days. He came to Martinsville, MO., near the year 1871 and came to Delphos in October, 1890. Mr. Baker was united in marriage…

     Beulah Ann Thompson was born in Lasall County, IL., December 23, 1871, and departed this life at her home March 14, 1918, age 46 years, two months and nineteen days. She moved to Ringgold County with her parents at the age of ten years and was converted and united with the United Brethren Church…

     Jennie Clark Callen was born near Allerton, Wayne County, Iowa, April 16, 1857, and died on March 3, 1918, at the age of 60 years, ten months and seventeen days. She was the fourth child born to William and Elizabeth Clark. Her parents and three sisters have preceded her to the home beyond. She…

     Louis B. Stewart was born in Warren County, IL., April 8, 1867, and died of acute diabetes at his home in Omaha, NE., February 5, 1918, aged 50 years, ten months and twenty-two days. He is survived by his wife and four children.      The funeral of the father and son was largely attended,…

     Funeral services for Frank Stewart, one of the old and highly respected citizens of Tingley Township, and his son, Louis B. Stewart, of Omaha, NE., were held from the M.E. Church in Tingley Friday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock.      Frank Stewart was born in Pennsylvania December 29, 1829, and died Wednesday, March 13, 1918,…

     Henrietta Gale McCall, daughter of Milligan McCall and Martha White McCall, was born April 3, 1855, near Flushing, OH., and died March 15, 1918,      She married December 4, 1901 to Mr. R. M. Buck and has resided continually at the home where she died after a long illness and much suffering.      Mrs.…