Area Obituaries

N.C. GERMAN, SON OF MR. AND MRS. JOHN GERMAN, DIED ON FRIDAY AFTERNOON AT THE GERMAN HOUSE AFTER A LONG AND LINGERING ILLNESS.  HIS DEATH CAME AS A SEVERE SHOCK TO HIS FRIENDS, ALTHOUGH FOR A LONG TIME THEY HAVE ENTERTAINED NO HOPE OF HIS ULTIMATE RECOVERY.  HE WAS TAKEN ILL OVER A YEAR AGO…

JACK STAMPER OF GRANT TOWNSHIP WAS VICTIM OF AN ACCIDENT LAST FRIDAY WHICH RESULTED IN HIS DEATH.  HE WAS REBUILDING AN OLD CAVE AND WHILE AT WORK THE FRAME WORK WHICH WAS QUITE ROTTEN GAVE WAY AND HE WAS BURIED BENEATH THE DIRT AND RUBBISH.  IT WAS SOME TIME BEFORE HE WAS DISCOVERED AND IT…

MR. W.A. REGER, AN HONORED AND RESPECTED CITIZEN OF MOUNT AYR AND RINGGOLD COUNTY, DIED SUNDAY AT 2 O’CLOCK P.M. AT EUREKA SPRINGS, ARKANSAS, WHITHER HE HAD GONE IN QUEST OF HEALTH.  DEATH CAME IN THE FORM OF PARALYSIS.   MR. REGER WAS BORN IN WEST VIRGINIA, FEBRUARY 18, 1852, AND HAD REACHED THE AGE OF…

EDWARD STUCK, SON OF JONATHAN AND ELIZABETH STUCK, WAS BORN OCTOBER 10, 1825, IN UNION COUNTY, PA.  AND DIED AT HIS HOME IN MOUNT AYR, IA., OCTOBER 23, AGED 76 YEARS AND 13 DAYS.   HE WAS REARED ON A FARM AND RECEIVED HIS EDUCATION IN THE COMMON SCHOOLS OF THAT DAY.  WHEN HE WAS ABOUT…

THOMAS ROSS, AGED AND REVERED CITIZEN OF MOUNT AYR AND RINGGOLD COUNTY, PASSED AWAY TUESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1901.  MR. ROSS WAS ONE OF THE OLDEST RESIDENTS OF MOUNT AYR, HAVING BEEN BORN IN JEFFERSON COUNTY, OHIO, JULY 4, 1816.  HE WAS EIGHTY FIVE YEARS OLD. MR. ROSS LIVED IN ASHLAND COUNTY, OHIO UNTIL HE WAS…

HANNAH HUGHES, DAUGHTER OF THOMAS AND JANE HUGHES, WAS BORN FEBRUARY 23, 1854, IN DES MOINES COUNTY IOWA.  WITH HER PARENTS SHE REMOVED TO THEIR FARM IN LOTTS CREEK TOWNSHIP, RINGGOLD COUNTY, IOWA  IN 1855.  THERE SHE HAS LIVED EVER SINCE, AND THERE SHE DIED OCTOBER 17, 1901 AGED 47 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AND 24…

MILES GREEN DIED AT HOME NEAR KELLERTON, TUESDAY NIGHT, SEPTEMBER 10, AT 10:15 O’CLOCK, AFTER AN ILLNESS OF SEVERAL MONTHS.  HE WAS BORN MARCH 27, 1827 IN WARREN COUNTY, NEW YORK AND IN 1853 HE WAS MARRIED TO MARY DUNN OF NEW YORK.  TO THIS UNION WERE BORN SIX CHILDREN, FIVE OF WHOM ARE STILL…

LORA INEZ, YOUNGEST DAUGHTER OF MR. AND MRS. J.N. LINEBURG, DIED AT HER HOME IN THIS CITY, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, AFTER AN ILLNESS LASTING SEVERAL MONTHS.  SHE WAS BORN IN MOUNT AYR, FEBRUARY 28, 1890 AND WAS AGED 11 YEARS, FIVE MONTHS, AND 20 DAYS. DURING THE PAST SIX MONTHS SHE HAD BEEN A SUFFERER FROM…

BELLE ARMSTRONG, DAUGHTER OF MR. AND MRS. ROBERT ARMSTRONG WAS BORN OCTOBER 27, 1890 AND DIED AUGUST 9, 1901 AGED 10 YEARS AND NINE MONTHS. SHE WAS LIVING ON THE DR. BAILEY FARM IN POE TOWNSHIP, DIED FRIDAY EVENING FROM BLOOD POSIONING.  SHE WAS NEARLY ELEVEN YEARS OF AGE.  THE FUNERAL WAS CONDUCTED SUNDAY AT…

C.D. HOUSTON, A BACHELOR RESIDING WITH HIS BROTHER-IN-LAW, HENRY POTTS OF LIBERTY TOWNSHIP, DIED LAST FRIDAY EVENING FROM THE EFFECTS OF THE INTENSE HEAT OF THE DAY.  MR. HOUSTON WENT OUT INTO THE FIELD ABOUT THREE O’CLOCK IN THE AFTERNOON TO WATER THE CATTLE AND BECAME VERY MUCH HEATED WHILE ENGAGED IN THE WORK.  AFTER…

MRS. N.B. GERMAN DIED AT HER HOME IN THIS CITY SUNDAY, JUNE 30, AT 2 O’CLOCK P.M. AFTER AN ILLNESS WHICH HAD LASTED SEVEN MONTHS.  HER DEATH WAS DUE TO COMPLICATION OF DISEASES, AND DURING THE LAST FEW MONTHS OF HER SICKNESS HER SUFFERING WAS INTENSE.  SHE WAS BORN IN ST. LOUIS, MO.  JULY 5,…

MAY 31, DOROTHY MARIE, INFANT DAUGHTER OF J.O. AND ELIZABETH ROBINSON HORNE, AGED THREE MONTHS AND TWENTY-TWO DAYS PASSED AWAY.  MR. AND MRS. HORNE HAVE BEEN CALLED UPON TO PASS THROUGH A GREAT SORROW IN THE GIVING UP OF THEIR FIRST BORN.  GOD HAS TAKEN BACK THE DEAR BABY HE SO LATELY GAVE TO THEM,…