Area Obituaries

MRS. ELVIRA STRAWN WAS BORN IN DEARBORN COUNTY, INDIANA, MARCH 23, 1833, AND DIED AT THE HOME OF HER DAUGHTER, MRS. G.W. OLNEY, IN MIDDLE FORK TOWNSHIP, MONDAY, MARCH 26, 1900 AGED 66 YEARS, AND 3 DAYS. MRS. STRAWN HAD BEEN A RESIDENT OF RNGGOLD COUNTY SINCE 1881, COMING TO THIS COUNTY FROM WAPELLO COUNTY.…

MRS. DORA PRICE DIED AT HER HOME IN LIBERTY TOWNSHIP AT 3 O’CLOCK, AFTER AN ILLNESS OF SHORT DURATION.  FOR SEVERAL YEARS SHE WAS A RESIDENT OF MOUNT AYR, BUT MOVED TO LIBERTY TOWNSHIP ABOUT A YEAR AGO.  MISS EUDORA RODGERS WAS BORN APRIL 14, 1847, IN ILLINOIS, WHERE WHE WAS REARED TO YOUNG WOMANHOOD.…

MILBURN J. PITTMAN WAS BORN IN RINGGOLD COUNTY SEPTEMBER 8, 1873 AND DIED AT THE HOME OF HIS FATHER IN LOTTS CREEK TOWNSHIP MARCH 1, 1900. HIS DEATH WAS DUE TO CONSUMPTION. HE UNITED WITH THE EVANGELICAL CHURCH IN 1895 AND REMAINED A FAITHFUL MEMBER TO THE TIME OF HIS DEATH. A WIFE AND SON…

LEVI C. SON OF ARCHIBALD AND SUSAN MCMULLEN, WAS BORN IN CASHOCTON COUNTY OHIO, AUGUST 26, 1857 AND DIED AT THE HOME OF HIS PARENTS IN KELLERTON, IA. FEBRUARY 14, 1900. THE REMAINS WERE LAID TO REST IN THE BLACKMORE CEMETERY. HE CAME WITH HIS PARENTS TO IOWA WHEN BUT A SMALL BOY. LEVI HAS…

MARY SHUG CREVELAN WAS BORN IN NORTH HAMPTON COUNTY, PA., FEBRUARY 21, 1836, AND DIED NEAR LEE, JANUARY 31, 1900.  AGE 63 YEARS, 11 MONTHS, AND 10 DAYS. SHE WAS MARRIED TO J.W. CREVELAN IN NEW JERSEY, JULY 29, 1858. THIS UNION WAS BLESSED WITH SIX CHILDREN, THREE SONS AND THREE DAUGHERS. TWO DAUGHTERS AND…

LAURA EATON , WAS BORN NEAR REDDING, RINGGOLD COUNTY, IOWA, OCTOBER 31, 1861 AND SPENT ALL OF HER EARLIER YEARS IN THE COUNTY. FOR A LONG TIME SHE WAS A TEACHER AND THE INFLUENCE OF HER LIFE IS FELT FOR UNTOLD GOOD BY THE MANY PUPILS WHO RECEIVED INSTRUCTION FROM HER. IN 1886 SHE WAS…

C. HARRISON, AN OLD AND HIGHLY RESPECTED CITIZEN OF REDDING, DIED SUDDENLY AT 8 O’CLOCK FRIDAY MORNING IN THE STORE OF A.M. HOWARD & COMPANY OF WHICH FIRM HE WAS A MEMBER. MR. HARRISON AROSE IN THE MORNING FEELING AS WELL AS USUAL, AND AFTER HE HAD EATEN BREAKFAST, WENT DOWN TO THE STORE. HE…

SAMUEL BRUCE, SON OF HARRISON AND MARY BRUCE, WAS BORN OCTOBER 28, 1842 AT MARIETA, O. HE DIED AT HIS HOME SOUTH OF KELLERTON FEBRUARY 1, 1900 AGED 57 YEARS 3 MONTHS AND 3 DAYS. WHEN FOURTEEN YEARS OLD HE MOVED TO BOONE COUNTY, IOWA. IN 1861 HE ENLISTED IN THE U.S. SERVICE AND WAS…

JAMES A. DAVIDSON WAS BORN IN NEW YORK CITY, JULY 4, 1842 AND DIED FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2, IN THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH AT KELLERTON, WHILE ACTING AS PALL BEARER AT THE FUNERAL OF SAMUEL BRUCE. HE WAS AGED FIFTY-SEVEN YEARS, 6 MOTNHS AND 28 DAYS. AT THE AGE OF FIFTEEN YEARS HE MOVED WITH HIS PARENTS…

MRS. SHEETS, WIFE OF OUR CITIZEN, B.F. SHEETS, DIED TUESDAY NIGHT, JANUARY 23, AT 9 O’CLOCK. SHE BEGAN TO COMPLAIN OF ILL HEALTH DURING THE SUMMER AND STEADILY DECLINED UNTIL HER DEATH. WHILE HER CONDITION WAS KNOWN TO BE SERIOUS, THE END WAS NOT EXPECTED SO SOON. THE IMMEDIATE CAUSE OF DEATH WAS THE FILLING…

OBADIAH HOLMES HUFFMAN, SON OF DANIEL AND NACKEY HUFFMAN, WAS BORN IN WHAT WAS RICHLAND, BUT NOW ASHLAND COUNTY, OHIO, APRIL 1, 1832 AND DIED JANUARY 30, 1900 AT HIS LATE RESIDENCE IN DELPHOS, IOWA.  HE WAS MARRIED TO SARAH E. RIDER, OF HENRY COUNTY, IOWA, JANUARY 30, 1866. TWO SONS WERE BORN TO THEM,…

O.H. HUFFMAN WAS BORN IN ASHLAND COUNTY, OHIO, IN 1832 AND DIED AT HIS HOME IN DELPHOS, MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 29, 1900. HE HAD BEEN SICK BUT A FEW DAYS AND DEATH WAS DUE TO A GENERAL FAILING OF HIS POWERS. MR. HUFFMAN CAME TO IOWA MANY YEARS AGO LOCATING IN HENRY COUNTY, WHERE HE…