Area Obituaries

CAPTAIN HARDIN C. WOOD DIED AT HIS HOME IN THIS CITY AT 10 O’CLOCK P.M. MONDAY AFTER A SHORT ILLNESS OF PNEUMONIA.  HE WAS BORN IN JACKSONVILLLE, TN. IN 1832 WHERE HE SPENT HIS YOUTH AND YOUNG MANHOOD.  IN 1858 HE WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO MISS MARY E. RIDDLE, WHO DIED IN 1863. TO…

AMELIA PAMELY WAS BORN IN LONDON, ENGLAND, DECEMEBER 15, 1836, AND DIED AT EAGLEVILLE, MO., FEBRUARY 5, 1901.  SHE WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO THE REV. T. H. JONES AUGUST 5, 1862.  TO THIS MARRIAGE WERE BORN ELVEN CHILDREN, FOUR OF WHOM DIED IN INFANCY AND TWO AFTER REACHING YEARS OF MANHOOD. FIVE CHILDREN AND…

ROY, THE YOUNGEST SON FO MR. AND MRS. T.H. TODD OF POE TOWNSHIP, DIED AT THE HOME SUNDAY MORNING AT 9 O’CLOCK, AGED 15 YEARS.  DEATH WAS DUE TO PNEUMONIA AND HIS SICKNESS WAS OF SHORT DURATION, HE HAVING ATTENDED SCHOOL ON THE MONDAY PREVIOUS.  HE WAS A MEMBER OF THE NINETH GRADE OF THE…

MRS. J. H. BROONER, DIED MONDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1900 AT HER HOME ABOUT 6 MILES SW OF KELLERTON, AFTER AN ILLNESS OF SEVERAL WEEKS.   FLORENCE LUELLA BENSCOTER WAS BORN NOVEMBER 26, 1869 AND DIED DECEMBER 31, 1900 AGED 31 YEARS, ONE MONTH AND 5 DAYS.  SHE WAS MARRIED TO JOSEPH H. BROONER ON SEPTEMBER 10,…

MISS BELVA LOCKWOOD CULP DIED AT HER HOME IN TINGLEY AT 10:20 O’CLOCK A.M. YESTERDAY AFTER AN ILLNESS OF THREE WEEKS.  HER DEATH WAS DUE TO A COMPLICATION OF TYPHOID-MALARIA, WITH WHICH THE FAMILY HAD BEEN SUFFERING, HER SISTER MISS JENNIE, BEING A CONVALESCENT AFTER A TEN WEEKS ILLNESS.  SERIOUS COMPLICATIONS SET IN WHEN MISS…

MR. JOHN N. WALLACE, FORMERLY OF MOUNT AYR, BUT RECENTLY OF KANSAS CITY, DIED IN THAT CITY ON TUESDAY, DECEMBER 4,  AGED ABOUT 37 YEARS.  WE HAVE NOT YET LEARNED THE PARTICULARS OF HIS SICKNESS AND DEATH. INCIDENTALLY IT HAS COME TO US THAT HE HAD A SEVERE ATTACK OF GRIPPE AND THAT AN UNEXPECTED…

E.P. BENTLEY WAS BORN IN WASHINGTON COUNTY, IOWA, OCTOBER 11, 1870 AND DIED NOVEMBER 29, 1900 AT GRAINFIELD, KS, AFTER AN ILLNESS OF TEN DAYS.  HE WAS CONFINED TO HIS BED BUT TWO DAYS, DEATH RESULTING FROM MALARIAL FEVER.  THE DECEASED CAME TO RINGGOLD COUNTY WITH HIS PARENTS, MR. AND MRS. A. M. BENTLEY IN…

RALPH KEATING, SON OF MR. AND MRS. W. M. JOHNSTON, DIED AT THE HOME IN MOUNT AYR ON THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, AGED SEVEN.  HE HAD BEEN SICK BUT A SHORT TIME, DEATH BEING DUE TO PNEUMONIA. HE WAS A BRIGHT LITTLE FELLOW, APT IN HIS STUDIES, A REGULAR ATTENDANT AT SUNDAY SCHOOL AND WELL LIKED…

MRS. SARAH THRIFT, WIFE OF W.D. THIRFT OF GRANT TOWNSHIP, DIED AT HER HOME AT 10 O’CLOCK A. M. SUNDAY AFTER A PROLONGED ILLNESS.  SHE WAS BORN IN VIRGINIA IN 1832, HER MAIDEN NAME BEING SARAH DODD. SHE CAME WITH HER HUSBAND IN 1855 TO RINGGOLD COUNTY, AND SETTLED ON THEIR PRESENT FARM IN GRANT…

WILLIAM H. MILLER, THE SON OF MR. AND MRS. J. O. MILLER WAS BORN IN MONROE TOWNSHIP, RINGGOLD COUNTY, IOWA, FEBRUARY 3, 1874. HE GREW TO MANHOOD IN THE HOME WHERE HIS PARENTS NOW RESIDE. WILL WAS A SCHOLAR.  HE COMPLETED THE COMMERCIAL COURSE AT THE HUMESTON NORMAL. AFTER ATTENDING SIMPSON COLLEGE AT INDIANOLA FOR…

ELIZABETH KELLER EVERLY WAS BORN DECEMBER 9, 1824 IN GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO AND DIED AT THE HOME OF HER DAUGHTER, MRS. J. L. WOODS OF DIAGONAL MAY 25, 1900. FOR THE LAST 5 YEARS HER HEALTH HAS BEEN POOR AND FOR THE PAST TWO MONTHS SHE WAS CONFINED TO HER BED. SHE WAS MARRIED TO…

IVA TRUE LEE WAS BORN MARCH 8, 1900 AND DEPARTED THIS LIFE MAY 2, AGED 1 MONTH AND 25 DAYS. THE FUNERAL WAS CONDUCTD FROM THE FAMILY RESIDENCE BY REV. C. KNOLL. INTERMENT WAS MADE IN THE LASIMORE CEMETERY.