[Canon, Allan]
Bedford
Times-Republican
Thursday March 19, 1908 p. 4
John
Canon arrived here Monday from
Topeka, Kas., having come in response to a message telling of the death of his
father [Allan Canon]. Mr.
Canon remained until Tuesday, and
then accompanied the remains of his father to its place of interment at Perry.
[Canon, Allan]
Bedford
Times-Republican
Thursday March 19, 1908 p. 5
Answered Last Roll
Call.
Allan
Cannon [Canon] died Sunday afternoon at 2:40 o'clock at the
home of his niece, Mrs. George Hughes, in Bedford, age 79 years, 3 months and 21 days.
The
funeral was held at the Hughes home at 10 a. m., Tuesday, conducted by Rev,
Hendrickson. The body was then taken to Perry, Iowa, where it was laid beside
that of his wife in the cemetery at that place.
Mr.
Cannon [Canon] was born August 24, 1828, at Lima, Ohio, and
remained until he was nearly grown, when he went to Illinois, moving there in
1846. While there the Civil war came on, and at the first call for volunteers, Mr.
Cannon [Canon] enlisted in the Eighty-third Illinois Infantry,
in which he served with honor and distinction for three years.
After
the war he came to Iowa, settling in Taylor County in 1865. For nearly twenty
years he lived on his farm northeast of Bedford, then he sold out and went to
Perry, Iowa, where he resided until the death of his wife three years ago. He
then returned to Bedford and has since lived at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
George Hughes.
Mr.
Cannon [Canon] was the father of seven children, all being boys
but one. Three sons survive him; they are Zerve and William [Allan], of Nebraska, and John of Topeka, Kansas.
Early
in life Mr. Cannon [Canon] united with the Methodist church, and ever after
was a faithful and consistent Christian, a man whom all respected, and his life
was a long and useful one.
[Canon, Allan]
Bedford Free Press
Thursday March 19,
1908 [p. 1]
Allan Cannon Dies
Allen
Canon, the subject of this
sketch, was born in the state of Ohio August 21, 1828, and departed this life
at the home of Geo. J. Hughes in Bedford, Iowa, with whom he has made his home for over two years, March 15,
1908, at the age of 79 years, 6 months and 24 days.
He
was married to Miss Matilda [Emeline] Andrews August 10, 1848, who preceded him to the home
beyond November 5, 1904. To this union seven children were born, three of whom
are living. One daughter died about one year ago and three of the six sons born
have gone on before. Three sons remain to mourn the loss of their father. Only
one, however, was present, John Canon, of Topeka, Kas., who took the body and placed it beside the wife at
Perry, Iowa, at which place they made their home for several years. Mr.
Canon was a resident of this
county for several years but moved to Perry where they remained till the death
of his wife when he came to Bedford and since that time has made his home with
his niece, Mrs. Geo. Hughes,
who cared for him as tenderly as if he had been her own father.
The
deceased was a faithful soldier during the war of the rebellion, a private in
Co. J., 83rd Reg. Ill. Vol. serving his country faithfully and honorably,
performing the part that falls to every American citizen in the hour of the
country's peril. He loved his country and patriotically served it and honored
his flag until the end.
Many
years ago he accepted Jesus Christ and became a member of the Methodist
Protestant church but in later years identified himself with the Methodist
Episcopal church at Perry where he retained his membership until his death. His
last hours were happy and peaceful, marked by a beautiful resignation to the
will of God. It has been the privilege of the writer to visit him and talk to
him a number of times during his last sickness and each visit impressed me with
the demeanor of a quiet uncomplaining spirit of the man. May the rest that God
has in store for the faithful be his portion is my prayer. He was of a family
of nine children, five girls and four boys, all dead now save Elijah, who makes his home a part of the time with his
daughter, Mrs. Allie Parmenter of Bedford, and who was here to attend the funeral. The funeral took place at
the home of Geo. Hughes Tuesday at 10 o'clock, conducted by Geo. A. Hendrickson of the Christian
church. C.
[Double, Charles
Alburn]
Bedford
Times-Republican
Thursday May 30,
1929 [p.
1]
Charles Double
Word
was received here Saturday of the death of Chas. [Alburn] Double, a former resident of this city. Mr. Double
passed away in a hospital in Los Angeles, California. The body is being sent to
Bedford but the arrangements for the funeral are not known at the present time.
[Double, Charles
Alburn]
Bedford
Times-Republican
Thursday June 6, 1929 p. 7
Charles Alburn
Double
Charles
Alburn Double, son of Abraham
and Anna [Stuckman] Double, was
born in Ossian, Ind., Wells County, on the 21st day of January 1863, and
departed this life from his home in Los Angeles, Calif., May 25, 1929, at the
age of 66 years, 4 months and 4 days. Mr. Double was one of a family of nine children. He came to
Iowa in 1891. Ten years of his life were spent in Bedford, Ia., where he held
several offices, such as City Marshall and Street Commissioner. Mr. Double is well known in the city of Bedford, and has
many old and true friends. On Dec. 2, 1892, he was united in marriage to Mrs.
Fannie [Belle] Lambley Emmitt,
and to this union one daughter was born, Marie Double St. Clair of Charles City, Ia. Mr. Double united with the Baptist church in Bedford in the
year 1906, but since that time his membership has been taken elsewhere. Mr.
Double leaves to mourn his
departure, his only daughter, Mrs. Marie St. Clair, and two living sisters, and two brothers, who
survive him. There are also many friends and relatives who are left to mourn
his leave taking. For the past ten or fifteen years Mr. Double has been living in Los Angeles, Calif., where he
was taken sick and passed on to his maker. We are sure his many old friends of
Bedford will miss him.
[Double, Fannie Belle
Lambley Emmitt]
Bedford Times-Press
Thursday September 4,
1947 [p.
1]
Mrs. Double Succumbs From Hip Fracture
Mrs.
Fannie Double, 78, a resident of
Bedford and community for many years, died at 2 o'clock Monday afternoon,
September 1, at the Missouri Methodist Hospital in St. Joseph, where she had
been a patient about a week following injuries received in a fall.
The
funeral services were held at the Wetmore Funeral Home Wednesday afternoon,
conducted by Rev. Russell G. Nye. Burial was in the Conway cemetery, the
Rebekah lodge of Bedford giving their burial service at the grave.
Fannie
Belle Lambley, daughter of Thomas
and Amanda [Jane Miller] Lambley,
was born October 15, 1868, being aged 78 years, 10 months and 16 days at the
time of her death.
In
1874 she came with her parents to Jasper County, Iowa, and a year later moved
to Taylor County. Since 1906 she had resided in Bedford.
She
was married to John Franklin Emmitt on March 30, 1887. To them was born one child, Irvin Clinton Emmitt of Bedford. Mr. Emmitt died December 31, 1889 [1888].
She
was married to Charles Alburn Double December 2, 1892. To them was born a daughter, Marie, Mrs. W. [illiam] H. [epburn] St. Clair, of Northwood.
She
was converted and joined the Methodist church when a young woman and remained a
devoted Christian until her death. She had been a member of the Rebekah Lodge
for many years. She was a kind and affectionate mother and a loyal friend.
Mrs.
Double is survived by one son, Clint
Emmitt of the home in Bedford;
one daughter, Marie, Mrs.
W. [illiam] H. [epburn] St. Clair,
her husband and son W.[illiam] H. [epburn] St. Clair, Jr. of Northwood, Iowa. Also by one brother, J.[ames]
A. [lfred] Lambley of Conway.
[Evans, Benjamin
Franklin]
Bedford Times-Press
Thursday May 29, 1941 p. 5
B. F. Evans, 83, Dies At Lenox
B.
F. Evans, a resident of Bedford,
died at the Dr. Cash Clinic in Lenox Wednesday evening, May 21 at the age of 83
years, 11 months and 17 days. He
had been in failing health for several months but had not been considered
seriously ill until ten days prior to his death.
The
funeral services were held in Bedford at the Walker & Shum Funeral Home
Friday afternoon, conducted by Rev. Ben W. Sinderson. Burial was in the
Lexington cemetery.
Benjamin
Franklin Evans, son of John
and Violet [Hinebaugh Peterman] Evans,
was born June 7, 1857 near Hawleyville, Iowa. He spent most of his life in
Taylor County, the past eight years being spent in Bedford.
On
Sept. 2, 1891 he was married to Miss [Sarah Ann] Annie Briggs and to them eleven children were born, all of
whom with the wife survive.
The
children are Mrs. Pearl Bugg of Kansas City, Mrs. Myrtle Feese of Nodaway, Mrs. Sylvia Peterman of Shambaugh, Dewey Evans of
Sharpsburg, Mrs. Grace Gibson of Greenfield, Mrs. Hazel [Frances] Lister of Eureka, Mo., Mrs. Dimple Salter of Bedford, Cash [Edward] Evans and Mrs. Nettie [Faye] Cordell of Conway, Mrs. Crystal [Dorothy] Matheny of Blockton, and Mrs. Darlene [Iona] Madden of Spokane, Wash.
There
are also twenty-five grandchildren, one great grandson, and one sister, Mrs.
Nettie Patrick of Kansas City,
Mo. One grandson preceded him in death in February 1939.
He
united with the Adventist church in early manhood, later transferring his
membership to the Christian church at New Market. He was a kind and loving
husband and father and was always willing to sacrifice in order to help others.
[Evans, Sarah Ann
“Annie” Briggs]
Bedford Times-Press
Thursday October 5, 1950 p. 3
Mrs. Evans Dies Saturday in Clarinda
Mrs.
Ben Evans, a resident of Taylor
county her entire life, died in Clarinda Saturday, Sept. 23, after being in
failing health for several years.
Funeral
services were held at the Shum funeral home Wednesday afternoon, conducted by
Rev. Fred H. Cowles. Burial was in the Lexington cemetery.
Sarah
Ann Briggs, daughter of George
[Nelson] and Mary [Elizabeth Ceurvorst] Briggs, was born on a farm near Guss, Feb. 28, 1871
[1874], being aged 76 years, six months, 23 days at the time of her death.
She
was married Sept. 2, 1891, to Benjamin F. [ranklin] Evans and to them eleven children were born, all of
whom survive. They are: Pearl Bugg of Kansas City, Myrtle Fancher of
Los Angeles, Sylvia [Ann] Peterman of
Clarinda, Dewey Evans and Nettle
[Faye] Cordell of Sharpsburg, Grace
Gibson of Greenfield, Hazel
[Frances] Lister of Eureka, Mo., Dimple
Salter of Huntington Park, Cal., Cash
[Edward] Evans of Conway, Crystal
[Dorothy] Matheny of Lenox, Darlene
[Iona] Turner of Coleharbor, N.
D.
She
also leaves one brother, Henry Briggs, and one sister, Lucy Carey of Gravity; 32 grandchildren, 15 great grandchildren.
She
was preceded in death by her husband in 1941, two grandchildren, one great
grandchild, two brothers and two sisters.
Mrs. Evans united with the Christian church when a child.
[Note: Her gravestone gives her death date as
1874.]
[Huston, Elizabeth
Frances Gordon]
Bedford
Times-Republican
Thursday February 23,
1911 p. 8
Mrs. Elizabeth
Gordon Huston
Jefferson
Bee: ----Shortly before five
o’clock last Thursday afternoon the grim reaper claimed for his own Mrs. L.
[uther] B. [arnett] Huston, the
venerable mother of Mr. A. [bram] G. Huston. Her death, which occurred at the home of Mr.
Huston, in this city, has
occasioned general sorrow and the bereaved have the heartfelt sympathy of the
entire community.
Elizabeth
Frances Gordon was born October
21, 1825, in Harrison County, Kentucky, the daughter of James and Mary
Gordon. With her parents she
moved to Edgar County, Illinois, when she was about eight years old. In the
year 1844 [September 2nd] she was united in marriage with L.
[uther] B. [arnett] Huston at
Paris in Edgar County, Illinois. After their marriage they moved to Greene
County, Ohio. After one year’s residence at that place they removed to Miami
County, Ohio. In March, 1856, they moved back to Paris, Illinois, and resided
there until October, 1866, when came west and settled in the then new country
of Taylor County, Iowa. They resided near Bedford, the county seat, for about
three years and then moved upon what was then wild prairie twelve miles north
of Bedford. Their farm was near the present town of Sharps. On this farm they
enjoyed a happy country home for a period of about twenty-five years. In 1895
they removed to Council Bluffs. The feebleness of old age was coming on and
they desired to be near their sons D. [avid] H. and A. [bram] G. who were engaged in business in that city. After a
residence of six years in Council Bluffs they came to Jefferson in the year,
1901.
Of
the seven children born to Father and Mother Huston, four are now living, namely, Abram G., James
A., David H. and Mrs. Mary M.
Mills, wife of Mr. James Mills, of San Ysidro, California.
Funeral services were
held Sunday afternoon, February 5, at the home of her son, Mr. Abram G.
Huston, conducted by Dr. A. L.
Sarchet, who has known her for twenty-seven years and by Rev. Guy S. Davis,
pastor of the Presbyterian Church.
[Note:
Source of marriage date: Illinois
Statewide Marriage Index, 1763-1900.]
[Jarvis, Amos]
Bedford Free Press
Thursday July 18,
1895 p. 3
Amos
Jarvis, the well-known restaurant
keeper at Gravity, died at 7 a. m. Monday, July 15, 1895, at his home in the
above named place, and was buried on Tuesday, July 16.
[Jones, Daniel Gamon]
Bedford
Times-Republican
Thursday April 2, 1903 p. 3
(From Monday's DAILY)
D.
[aniel Gamon] Jones, aged 84
years, died Saturday evening at the home of his son, Taylor Jones, a short distance south of town. The funeral
occurred today at 1 o’clock, interment in the Bedford cemetery. Rev. T. J. Ream
officiated at the funeral.
[Jones, Daniel Gamon]
Bedford
Times-Republican
Thursday April 2, 1903 p. 4
Obituary.
Daniel
Gamon Jones was born Mar. 3, 1819
in Richland County, Ohio and there his boyhood days were spent.
When
a young man he moved to Porter County, Indiana and was married to Miss
Martha A. [nn] Lee, April 5,
1842.
He
was the father of seven children, all of whom are dead, except Taylor D.[avid] and Lafayette J. Jones. In the
year 1869, he with his family, moved to Iowa County Iowa where he resided for
two years. On Aug. 1, 1871 he became a citizen of Bedford, Iowa. Since the
death of his wife, which occurred Aug. 18, 1895, he resided with his sons.
While
he was always a believer in the Bible, yet he did not become a Christian until
later in life.
During
his illness he bore all his sufferings with marked fortitude and loving
patience.
He
peacefully passed away at the home of Taylor Jones, on Mar. 28, 1903, at 2:30 p. m., aged 84 years
and 25 days. C.
[Jones, Daniel Gamon]
Bedford Free Press
Thursday April 2,
1903 [p. 1]
An Aged Citizen Gone.
Daniel
G. [amon] Jones was born in
Richland County, Ohio, March 3, 1819, and died at the home of his son, Taylor
Jones, Ross Township, Taylor
county, Iowa, Saturday, March 28, 1903, at 2:30 o'clock. The funeral services
were conducted at the home Monday afternoon by Rev. T. J. Ream, after which the
body was laid to rest in the Bedford cemetery by the side of his wife, who died
August 18, 1895.
When a young man, Mr.
Jones moved to Porter County,
Indiana, and was married to Miss Martha [Ann] Lee, April 5, 1842. To this union were born seven
children, all of whom are dead except two, Lafayette J. Jones and Taylor D.[avid] Jones. In 1869 he and family moved to Iowa county, Iowa,
where he resided two years. In August 1871, he became a citizen of Bedford.
Since the death of his wife, he has resided with his sons and all the comforts
and care possible have been given him in his declining years. While always a
believer in the bible, he did not become an active and avowed Christian until
late in life and was a member of the M. E. church at the time of his death.
During his illness, he bore all his sufferings with fortitude and loving
patience until the end. His life was full of kind deeds and loving words and
his place will be missed by those left behind.
[Jones, Martha Ann
Lee]
Bedford Free Press
Thursday August 22, 1895 p. 3
MRS. MARTHA A.
JONES DEAD.
Another Pioneer Mother
Laid at Rest.
Died,
at the home of her son, T. [aylor] D. [avid] Jones, two and one-half miles south of Bedford, at 6:15
p. m., Sunday, August 18, 1895, Martha A. [nn] Jones, wife of Daniel Jones, aged 73 years 3 months and 2 days. Funeral
services were held at the residence of T. [aylor] D. [avid] Jones, at ten o'clock a. m. Tuesday, August 20, 1895,
conducted by Rev. M. C. Waddell, and interment made in the Bedford cemetery.
Mrs.
Jones had been in very feeble
health for some months but had borne her sufferings with true Christian
fortitude.
Mr.
and Mrs. Daniel Jones were among
the older of the residents of this county and their home was always the abode
of that true, informal hospitality that characterizes the early settlers of the
Great West. They were loved for their companionable domestic life; and hundreds
of hearts deeply sympathize with Uncle Daniel and his children, in the sad
bereavement that has come to them in the loss of a loving wife and a kind,
indulgent, Christian mother.
Martha
Ann Lee was born May 16, 1822 in
Wayne county, Ohio. In 1839 she moved with her parents to Porter County,
Indiana and in the same county, in 1842, was married to Daniel Gamin [Gamon]
Jones, who, with two sons survive
her. In 1871 they moved to Taylor County, and have resided here ever since.
[Jones, Taylor David]
New Market Herald
Thursday July 14,
1932 [p.
1]
Taylor
D. [avid] Jones, age 84, died at
his home in Bedford early last Saturday morning. He suffered a stroke of
paralysis Thursday afternoon from which he never rallied. Burial was made in
Fairview cemetery Tuesday afternoon.
[JONES, TAYLOR DAVID]
Bedford Times-Press, Thursday, July 14, 1932, [p. 1]
Services Held for T. D. Jones
Stroke Is Fatal to Bedford Man---Was First Death in Immediate Family
Funeral services for Taylor D. [avid] Jones, who died at his home in Bedford early Saturday morning, were held at the Methodist church Tuesday afternoon, conducted by Rev. M. R. Talley. Burial was made in the Fairview cemetery.
Mr. Jones was born in Valparaiso, Ind., Sept. 23, 1848. There he lived his life as a boy, attended school, and later the Valparaiso university. When a young man he moved to Iowa county, Iowa.
June 26, 1871, he was married to Miss Catharine Kessler at Marengo, Iowa. Soon after they came to Bedford, where they resided for seven years, then settled on a farm two miles south of town, where they made their home for thirty years.
In the year 1908, Mr. and Mrs. Jones retired from the farm and took up their residence in north Bedford, where they have since lived. They are truly an early pioneer family, having spent sixty-one years here. They also passed their sixty-first wedding anniversary just a few weeks ago.
Mr. Jones was the father of eight children, who with the wife and mother survive. They are Mrs. W. L. Dorr, Mrs. J. N. Hensley, Don C. Jones and Clarence D. Jones of Bedford; Mrs. Frank S. Perdue of Denver, Colo., Mrs. W. A. Davidson of Santa Ana, Calif., Mrs. Walter Adrian of Portland, Ore., J. Kessler Jones of Elizabeth, N. J. There are also twelve grandchildren and nine great grandchildren.
A very remarkable fact is that the Jones family has stood as a unit, unbroken by death; until the father was stricken with a stroke of paralysis Thursday afternoon. He was immediately unconscious and never rallied from that state.
He had been a member of the Methodist church for thirty-seven years.
[Mahan, Rachel John]
Taylor County
Republican
Thursday June 5,
1884 p. 4
OBITUARY
________________
Death of Mrs.
Rachel Mahan
Died,
at her residence in Clayton Township, Taylor County, Iowa, Mrs. Rachel
[John] Mahan, wife of William
Mahan, at 9 o'clock, p. m., on
Saturday, May 31st, 1884, aged 45 years, 7 months and 3 days.
The
deceased was born in Clinton County, Indiana, on the 28th of October 1838, and
removed to this county with her mother in the year 1855, where she was married
to William Mahan on the 23d of
March 1856. She united with the Baptist church at the age of sixteen and was
immersed by Eld. J. M. Smith, at her former home in Indiana. She lived a
consistent Christian woman, sustained by her faith during a life of more than
ordinary trial. During the past eighteen years she had been an invalid and much
of the time suffered a great degree of physical pain with much patient
resignation.
She
leaves a husband and son and four daughters, with many other relatives and
friends to mourn her loss, but they sorrow not as those who are without hope.
The
remains were interred in the Lexington cemetery, on Monday last, at one
o'clock. The funeral services were conducted at the house by Elder J. P. Lucas,
of the Christian church, and the last sad rites were witnessed by a large
number of mourning friends and relatives.
There
is a better land. In that pure land there shall be no wreck, no ruin, no storm,
no pain nor trouble, and no more parting.
There no tempest wakes the echo,
In the wood, on wave or hill
There the child shall meet its mother,
And the mother meet her child,
And dear families shall be gathered
That were scattered on the wild.
Friends, may we there meet and rest,
' Mid the peaceful and the blessed.
L. T. M.
[Moser, Reuben Alexander]
Taylor County
Republican
Thursday May 15, 1884 p. 4
OBITUARY.
Death of an Old
Citizen of Taylor County
Died,
at 11 o'clock p. m., Friday, the 9th inst., at his residence in this city, Reuben
A. [lexander] Moser, aged 58
years and 7 months.
Mr.
Moser was born in Northampton
County, Penna., on the 9th of October 1825, and removed to Ohio in 1839. On the
22d of February 1849, he was married to his now bereaved wife [Rebecca Ann
Raynolds], and in the spring of
1850 removed to Iowa, locating in Lucas County, where he lived until 1856, when
he came to Taylor county and here continued to reside until the time of his
death. He was a man of good natural ability and of considerable attainments,
and was highly esteemed in the community. Among other positions of trust held
by him at various times, he represented Taylor County in the legislature for
two terms at the beginning of the rebellion. He was for many years engaged in
general merchandising in Bedford and was a considerable contractor for the work
on the Creston branch of the C. B. & Q. railroad at the time it was built,
but for a number of years past ill health has compelled his retirement from
active pursuits.
The
deceased leaves a widow and five children and the other members of his family
surviving him are three brothers and a sister, Messrs. G. [eorge] A. Moser, of Ironton, Mo; O. [siah] A. [nthony] Moser, of Ottawa, Kas., and J.[ames] W. [illiam] Moser, of Conway, and Mrs. M. [ary] M. [atilda] Henkel, of Winterset.
The
funeral services took place on Sunday at one o'clock, p. m., at the residence
of the family. They were conducted by Rev. W. D. Bennett and were largely
attended. All the members of the family were present except Mr. Doris Moser, of Kansas, whom the sad intelligence did not
reach in time. The remains were taken to the Lexington cemetery for interment.
[Moser, Reuben
Alexander]
Taylor County
Republican
Thursday May 15, 1884 p. 4
—The
members of the family of R. [euben] A. Moser, deceased, desire us to most earnestly thank the
many kind friends who so freely assisted them during the days of sickness and
who condoled with them in the hour of sorrow.
[Fleming, Levi] [Moser,
Reuben Alexander]
Taylor County
Republican
Thursday May 15, 1884 p. 4
—The past two weeks
have witnessed the death of two of our oldest citizens, Elder Levi Fleming and Mr. Reuben A. [lexander] Moser. Each, in different spheres, afforded an
illustration of an active, honorable, and useful life, of patient endurance, of
heavy burdens which long continued disease imposed, of death's dark shadow
entered without fear, and of bereaved homes to which the words of Whittier
apply:
"How strange it seems, with so much gone
Of life so sweet, to still live on.”
[Moser, Ulysses Grant]
Bedford
Times-Republican
Thursday August 20,
1931 [p. 1]
Former Bedford
Business Man Dies Suddenly At His Home
U.
[lysses] G. [rant] Moser, better
known in Bedford as "Grant",
passed away at his home in Salt Lake City, Utah, last Saturday morning, according
to word received here by relatives and friends. Mr. Moser had been in failing health for several years but
his death came suddenly and unexpectedly, he having appeared better during the
past few months. Mr. Moser was
a former resident of Bedford, having succeeded his father in the grocery
business here many years ago. He was a graduate of the Bedford High School and
he married a daughter of the late John Graff, Miss Lizzie Graff, who with their son, and his family survive. Mr.
Moser has been in the Wholesale
Cigar business in Salt Lake City for many years.
[Noble, Caleb Thomas S.]
Taylor County
Democrat
Thursday May 2, 1895 p. 4
Conway Briefs.
Mr.
C. [aleb] T. [homas] S. Noble died at the home of his son-in-law, Geo. Dean, Saturday morning. The remains were taken to
Bedford for interment.
[Prickett, Thomas]
Bedford Free Press
Thursday August 22, 1895 p. 3
An Old Settler Gone
Death
is the gate of endless joy and yet we dread to enter there. Thomas Prickett died Aug. 16, at 2 o’clock a. m., at his home in
Dallas Township, of stomach trouble.
The
deceased was 74 years of age and has been a resident of Taylor County since
1856, having bought a homestead that year in Dallas Township, where he has
lived ever since. He has enjoyed the respect, confidence and esteem of his
neighbors, during his long residence in this county, which he truly deserved.
He had been a member of the Church of Christ for more than fifty years. He
leaves a wife and nine children, to mourn the loss of a kind and affectionate
husband and father.
The funeral services were
held at Dallas Center on Saturday at 11 o’clock a. m., Elder Wm. Cobb
officiating.
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