Area Obituaries

MRS. GEORGE FERBER OF WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP, DIED SATURDAY MORNING, APRIL 28, AFTER A SHORT ILLNESS. SHE WAS BORN IN WOODFORD COUNTY , ILLINOIS SEPTEMBER 1872, AND WAS THE DAUGHTER OF MR. AND MRS. J.A. CARR.  IN 1880 SHE CAME WITH HER PARENTS TO RINGGOLD COUNTY AND WAS MARRIED GEORGE FERBER IN 1893.   TWO GIRLS WERE…

MRS. JOHN SHROYER DIED MONDAY NIGHT, APRIL 23 AT HER HOME IN THIS CITY AFTER A LONG AND PAINFUL ILLNESS. HER MAIDEN NAME WAS MARGARET A. STEWART AND SHE WAS BORN IN GUERNSEY COUNTY OHIO, MAY 9, 1836. HERE HER GIRLHOOD DAYS WERE SPENT AND SHE WAS MARRIED IN 1858 TO JOHN SHROYER, REMOVING SOON…

SAMUEL STEVENS WAS BORN IN CUYAHOGA COUNTY, NEW YORK IN 1811. WHEN HE WAS OF AGE HE MOVED INTO OHIO AND FROM THERE INTO ILLINOIS IN 1865. THERE HE REMAINED UNTIL INCREASING YEARS MADE IT DESIREABLE THAT HE CEASE FROM ACTIVE WORK AND IN 1878 HE MOVED TO IOWA TO BE WITH HIS SON, RALPH…

JAMES H. BRAMAN WAS BORN IN DUCHESS COUNTY, NEW YORK, OCTOBER 19, 1832, AND DIED AT HIS HOME NEAR DELPHOS APRIL 19, 1900. HE DIED THE VICTIM OF PARALYSIS, HAVING RECEIVED FIVE STROKES. HE HAS BEEN NEARLY HELPLESS FOR SIX YEARS AND ENDURED HIS PAIN WITH PATIENCE AND CHRISTIAN FORTITUDE. THE FUNERAL WAS CONDUCTED AT…

EDWIN BENNETT WAS BORN IN FREEPORT, MAINE, AUGUST 8, 1844, AND DIED AT HIS HOME IN BENTON TOWNSHIP, APRIL 6, 1900, AGED 55 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AND 28 DAYS. FOR YEARS HE HAD BEEN A SUFFERER FROM CANCER OF THE STOMACH, WHICH WAS THE CAUSE OF HIS DEATH.  MR. BENNETT WAS MARRIED MARCH 6, 1870,…

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…