Area Obituaries

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,…

Gladius Burrell Shaw, youngest child of Mr. and Mrs. Elmore Shaw of Monroe Township, was born June 1, and died June 8, aged seven days.  The funeral service was conducted from the family residence June 8, at 2 p.m. by Rev. C. Knoll, and interment was made in Kellerton Cemetery.  

WILLIAM H. BRADLEY, OF ATHENS TOWNSHIP, ONE OF THE EARLIEST SETTLERS OF RINGGOLD COUNTY, DIED AT HIS HOME LAST SATURDAY MORNING AFTER A LONG ILLNESS.  HE WAS BORN IN WASHINGTON COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA, OCTOBER 14, 1829, BEING THE ELDEST CHILD OF A FAMILY OF FOUR CHILDREN.  WHEN HE WAS FOUR YEARS OF AGE HIS PARENTS REMOVED…

MRS. W. F. MARK DIED SUNDAY EVENING AT HER HOME IN KELLERTON AFTER AN ILLNES WHICH LASTED ONLY 24 HOURS.  ON SATURDAY EVENING SHE COMPLAINED OF FEELING ILL AND SOON AFTER BECAME UNCONSCIOUS, REMAINING IN THAT CONDITION UNTIL HER DEATH.  SHE WAS 77 YEARS OF AGE AND WAS MARRIED TO REV. W. F. MARK NEARLY…

FRANK RICKER, FOUR YEAR OLD SON OF MR. AND MRS. FRANK RICKER OF WASHINTON TOWNWHIP, ACCIDENTALLY DRANK AN OUNCE OF CARBOLIC ACID ON WEDNESDAY OF LAST WEEK.  ANTIDOTES WERE PROMPTLY ADMINISTERED AND DR. H. J.C. REED OF DIAGONAL, WAS SUMMONED TO GIVE MEDICAL ATTENTION.  HE WORKED WITH HIS PATIENT FOR SEVERAL HOURS UNTIL HE SEEMED…

ALLEN RAINS, ONE OF THE OLDEST SETTLERS OF RINGGOLD COUNTY, DIED AT HIS HOME IN REDDING, THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 1901, AGED 91 YEARS.  HIS DEATH RESULTED FROM THE INFIRMITIES OF OLD AGE.  HE WAS BORN IN VIRGINIA ON NOVEMBER 11, 1809.  HIS FATHER WAS A SOLDIER UNDER GEORGE WASHINGTON AND SERVED EIGHT YEARS IN THE…

CASANDRA KEGG WAS BORN IN PENNSYLVANIA SEPTEMBER 19, 1812 AND DIED AT WANAMAKER, IOWA, MARCH 30, 1901, AGED 79 YEARS, FIVE MONTHS AND NINE DAYS.  IN THE ABSENCE OF HER PASTOR THE FUNERAL SERVICES WERE CONDUCTED BY REV. C. KNOLL.  SHE WAS MARRIED TO C. LAIRD DECEMBER 28, 1837.  AFTER BEING A WIDOW FOR FOURTEEN…