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January 6,1876 Pioneer

Born last week a boy weighing eight and a half pounds at S.V. Percival’s house.

January 6,1876 Pioneer

Married on the public highway, near Battle Creek, December 30,1875, by E.B. Baird, Mr. Joseph Ferguson and Miss Catherine M. Rathbone, all of this county.
Cupid once again did his work and one of our oldest and wealthiest   residence has taken to his heart and home a gentle maiden of sweet eighteen, and in consideration of the above fact, Mr. Ferguson gave a grand dance and supper at his residence on Friday last.  About one hundred and forty persons both old and young, enjoyed the dance.

January 13,1876 Pioneer

 A little eight and half pound girl came to Mr. and Mrs. Scott Denison of Listonville, last Monday.  This is Dan Thomas’ first grandchild.

January 27,1876 Pioneer

Born- a girl to Mr. and Mrs. Holliday of Silver Creek, January 8,1876.

January 27,1876 Pioneer

Married on the 23rd, at the residence of the bridegroom, Mr. John T. Mentnich and Miss Amelia S. Rose, of Silver Creek twp.  O. Waterman officiating.
It’s not every young man that can have his parlor decorated with a fresh rose right in the midst of winter.

February 10,1876 Pioneer

Mrs. E.B. West received news of the death of her father, living at Earlville, this state on February 5th.

February 17,1876 Pioneer

Harry Case, the boy that was taken to the Insane Asylum at Independence, from this county, died last week.

February  17,1876 Pioneer

Died on the 13th, with consumption, Mrs. Nelson Wait, of Listonville, Woodbury County.

Mrs. Wait had been failing in health for the last six months with consumption.  Her husband died with the same disease last fall.  Mrs. Wait leaves a family of four or five children, the youngest only four years old, but her many friends will see the motherless children well provided for.  The funeral services were held at the residence last Tuesday.

February 17,1876 Pioneer

 Born to Mr. and Mrs. Rev. Bailey, a daughter on the 16th.

March 2,1876 Pioneer

Charley Wright is “pa” now to a nice girl of 7 pounds, which occurred Sunday last.  It is the first time Charley was ever dad to anything in his life, and he feels too full for utterance.   His mouth for the last 48 hours has been stretched from ear to ear and he says there is nothing like this.

March 9,1876 Pioneer

Married on the 5th, at Smithland, Mr. Fletcher Bogue of Ida County and Mrs. Smith of Woodbury County.

March 9,1876 Pioneer

Married on Sunday February 27, at the residence of the bride’s father, E.B. Baird,  Mr. Charley Davis and Miss Annie Havens of Maple twp.

March 16,1876 Pioneer

Married at the home of Peter Lloyd, Mr. E.P. Smith and Miss Anna Jones, both of this county, Rev. H. Bailey officiating.

March 23,1876 Pioneer

Married on the 16th, at Willow Dale, by Rev. H. Bailey, Hon. E.B. Baird and Miss Mattie Preston, all of this county.
We join with many others in wishing them a happy and prosperous sail on the sea of matrimonial bliss.

March 23,1876 Pioneer

Mr. Smith Wait called at our office last Thursday just as we had gone to press, wearing a genuine grin, indicative of having something sweet to tell us.   We told him to our with it and he did ‘out with it’. He told us it was an eight pound girl, and made us promise that we wouldn’t say anything about it in the paper, hence we are cheated out of one birth notice this week.

April 6,1876 Pioneer

Born on Thursday, March 30, a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. O.P. Whitney.   Weight ten pounds.

April 6,1876 Pioneer

Married on March 30, 1876 by E.B. Baird, Mr. George Ferguson and Miss Mary Kephart, all of this county.
We wish for this worthy young couple a long life of undisturbed happiness and prosperity.

April 27,1876 Pioneer

Taken a Sweat-Ed. Stokes, foreman of Darnell’ls bridge men, was married to a Miss Sweat of Harlan, last week.  Ed says he was never in such a sweat before in his life.

May 1,1876 Pioneer

Married May 2,1876, at the bride’s fathers house, by Rev. G.D. Stewart, Mr. N.F. Donaldson of Ida and Miss Lizzie Little, of Omaha, NE.
Mr. and Mrs. Donaldson arrived last evening from Omaha, and will make this place their future home.  We are very much pleased to welcome this newly married couple, and consider them quite an acquisition to our society.  may their sail on the sea of matrimonial bliss be a happy one, with no storms to mar the equilibrium, and may all  their troubles be little ones.

May 11,1876 Pioneer

Andrew Preston is the happy father of a bouncing boy. 

There is no danger of the name of Edwards becoming extinct.  A nice new pair of twin girls at the house of N. Edwards testify to the same.  May the live to attend the next Centennial.

May 11,1876 Pioneer

We are grateful to announce this morning the marriage, yesterday, of Dr. N.F. Donaldson, of Glenwood, now of Ida, and Miss Lizzie Little, formerly of Council Bluffs and Omaha.  The ceremony took place at the residence of the bride’s parents in Omaha, and was performed by Dr. Little, father of the lady, assisted by Dr. Stewart of the same place.  Than this a more worthy couple would be difficult to find.   During his many years residence in western Iowa, Dr. Donaldson has ever proven himself entirely worth they high esteem in which he has been universally held, and the rare prize he has one.

May 25,1876 Pioneer

Married on Wednesday evening May 17,1876, Mr. Howard C. Henderson and Miss Nettie E. Walker, both of Cherokee.
We are grateful to the bride above for the notice.

May 25,1876 Pioneer

Died on the 21st, with remittent fever, Mr. J.H. Bennett, Corwin twp, this county.
Death, great proprietor of all has taken from our midst a man just in the bloom of life.  This death has caused a cloud of sorrow to pass over a large community of friends which cannot express the agonized feelings of those who were dear to him.
Mr. Bennett was taken suddenly ill about three weeks ago, but was not confined to his bed all the time until a few days before his death.  Last Thursday however, feeling somewhat convalescent he rode to town in a buggy to meet his mother who just arrived from Wisconsin to care for him.   From thence until death he gradually failed, notwithstanding the skillful treatment of Dr. Seeber and the kind nursing of a loving mother and wife.  A wife and two small children remain to suffer the loss of a kind husband and father.
Mr. Bennett was born in Wisconsin and married in 1872 and has been a consistent member of the M.E. Church for five years.  He came to Iowa in 1873, has always found faithful to man and God. winning for himself a friend from ever acquaintance.
The funeral service was held at the Ida School House at 2 p.m.  Rev. Hastings conducted the services.

June 1,1876 Pioneer

Died on the 28th, Emily, wife of Nathan Edwards, of Maple twp.  aged 39 years, 7 months, 27 days.
This death has caused a deep cloud of grief in a large family.  It has left a family of nine children, most of them quite small, without the much needed and tender affection of maternal care.
Mr. and Mrs. Edwards were among the oldest settlers of Ida County, having been residents here almost 20 years. They have borne together faithful to each other, the hardships of a pioneer life, only to be separated just at the brink of prosperity and happiness on earth.
A large concourse of friends and acquaintances assembled at the Willow Dale school house on Monday the 29th to participate in the funeral services, conducted by Rev. W.B. Hastings, pastor of the M.E. Church.

June 1,1876 Pioneer

(from the Greenvill, Illinois Advocate)
Died in this city, Margaret A. Evans, wife of Woodford P. Evans, aged 30 years, 2 months, 18 days. Died May 22,1876.
Margaret A. Ward (Mrs. Evans) was born in Ohio and while young removed with her parents to Iowa, where she resided until her marriage in 1866, and with the exception of about 1 year she resided elsewhere.  In 1870 she removed with her husband to the northwestern portion of the State, but sparsely settled, where many of the conveniences and luxuries of thickly settled communities were almost unknown, and many of the privations of frontier life were necessarily endured; these she bore with true wifely and Christian fortitude, winning the love and esteem of all around her newly made home, but before the rewards of her labor had been garnered on earth, disease, dread, direful, unrelenting, May 1,1875, laid hold of her with ruthless hands.  From that time to the end she was a sufferer unceasingly and without mitigation or relief from any source.  After all efforts at home had failed, she was brought by her husband to St. Louis, where the highest medical authority pronounced her incurable, after which, on the 28th day of January last, they came to the parental roof in this city, where all the care, attention and kind nursing in human power to give was given to her.  Mrs. Evans was a faithful member of the Presbyterian Church, at her Iowa home, lived the life of a Christian and died with the love of God shed abroad in her heart, peacefully and uncomplainingly.  H little angel baby in heaven awaits her; a darling boy of five summers misses her loving care; a husband’s heart is bereaved; and, a home is desolated.  May God in His wisdom and love be with them.

June 5,1876 Pioneer

Married on Saturday June 3,1876, by A.O. West J.P. Mr. M. Benedict and Miss Jane Case, all of  this county.

June 5,1876 Pioneer

At the residence of Andrew Preston in Maple twp. on Saturday June 3,1876, by Rev. W.B. Hastings, Mr. Frank Harvey and Miss Jessie Preston, all of this county.

June 15,1876 Pioneer

Married on the 7th, at the residence of H.L. Darnell, Logan, Iowa, Mr. William Marshall and Miss Lillie J. Comstock, both of Denison, the Rev. Mr. Martin officiating, he is from Magnolia.

July 27,1876 Pioneer

A baby is the cause of so much parental excitement at Jim Carne’s this week.  We are unable to learn the weight and gender as the father was so tickled over the affair he forgot to ascertain.

August 3,1876 Pioneer

Six pounds of boy at C.S. Warren’s this week.

August 31,1876 Pioneer

Married on the 23rd, at Iowa Falls, Iowa, Mr. Asa I. Davis of Ida and Miss Phoebe Roberts.

August 31,1876 Pioneer

Centennial Wonder-born to Mr. and Mrs. Jas. N. Miller, on the 19th, a seven pound girl, standard 18 carat, handsome as a pink, resembling father very much.   (Sac Sun)

August 31,1876 Pioneer

Married on the 30th, at the residence of the bride’s parents, Mr. E.W. Sargeant of Denison and Miss Ella Barr of Sterling, Illinois.

September 28,1876 Pioneer

Married at the residence of the bride’s father, September 27th, by Rev. Mr. Barr, John Thompson and Sadie Nelson of Sac.
A generous share of wedding cake made the appearance at this office for which the bride has our thanks.  We wish the young couple all happiness and may no cloud of sorrow ever darken their domestic sky.

October 8,1876 Pioneer

Married, In Cherokee on Monday September 25th, by Justice McKay officiating, Mr. Daniel Butcher and Miss Maria Bailey, both of Ida.

October 19,1876 Pioneer

Married on October 11th, by Rev. J. Fegtly, at the residence of W.H. Marshall, Mr. John V. Patterson, of Denison, and Miss Ella J. Marshall, of Prairie Home, Crawford County, Iowa.

November 16,1876 Pioneer

A new arrival at the home of J.S. Aduddle’s in Battle Creek this week.

November 23,1876 Pioneer

A baby girl at Wm. O’Meara’s this week.

November 23,1876 Pioneer

Married in Soldier twp., Crawford County, Iowa,  November 19,1876, at the residence of the groom, Mr. John Carver of that county and Miss Amanda Koker of Listonville, H.T. Jones, officiating.

November 30,1876 Pioneer

Died on the 26th, infant babe, aged 5 weeks, of Mr. and Mrs. A. Hallam.

December 21,1876 Pioneer

A ten pound male wonder was received at the residence of  Mr. and Mrs. H.P. Wilson, Monday-Dr. Seeber officiating.