[Grigsby, Charles H. “Charlie”]
Iowa South-West
Saturday August 11, 1877 p. 3
Passed Away
Charley
Grigsby, a bright and lovely
little boy of four years and two months, departed this life on Thursday last.
His youthful innocence and beauty will long be remembered by nearly everybody
in our city. The only child of Mr. and Mrs. J. [oseph] H. Grigsby, and the comfort of a blessed home, his loss to
the loving parents can only be assuaged by the happy thought that little Charley has only passed ot another home, where pain and
death shall come no more. The funeral services was largely attended at the M.
E. church in this place, yesterday.
[Hale, Edna Josephine]
Bedford Free Press
Tuesday April 27, 1915 p. 8
Edna J. Hale
Edna
Josephine Hale, daughter of Wm.
A. [sbury] and Letha [May Houck] Hale,
was born Aug. 22, 1883 [1885] in Bedford, Iowa. She passed away at her home
April 22, 1915, 6:20 p. m., age 29 years, 8 months. Funeral services were held
at the home Saturday afternoon conducted by Rev. J. W. Goodsell. Interment was
made in Fairview cemetery.
Edna has always been a Bedford girl. She went through
the public schools here, graduating with the class of 1904, and has been
associated with the social life of the young people of our community, being one
of the popular girls with both young and old because of her bright, cheerful
disposition. After graduating from the high school, she taught for a year, then
went to Cedar Falls, graduating from there in 1910. After finishing at Cedar
Falls she went to Springville, Iowa, where she had a very successful period of
teaching, having started in on her fifth year in that place. She not only would
have completed the fifth year of her work there but would also have been
entitled to a life certificate if the fatal illness had not fastened itself
upon her. She gave up her work in October, coming home, where she has been with
the loved ones who have ministered so kindly and lovingly to her during the
months of her painful illness. Edna suffered untold agonies, yet through it all she displayed an unusual amount of
courage, being cheerful and jolly and always looking upon the bright side of
her suffering. She submitted to it all with calmness and the end came
peacefully. She leaves to mourn her loss, her mother, Mrs. Letha Hale, two sisters, Alice and Caroline, one brother, Charles, and the grandfather, J. M. Houck. Her grandmother, Mrs. J. M. Houck, her father, and two sisters have preceded her to
the heavenly home. The father died March 1911, the two sisters, Olive, December 1887, and Edith in May 1892. Grandma Houck passed away in 1909.
Edna united with the Methodist Episcopal church August
6, 1899, and has always been a faithful member.
[Note:
Edna is buried in the Bedford City Cemetery, not Bedford Fairview, as stated in
the obituary.]
[Hale, Edna Josephine]
Bedford
Times-Republican
Thursday April 29, 1915 p. 5
Edna J. Hale.
Edna
J. Hale died at the home of her
mother, Mrs. Letha Hale,
Thursday, April 22. The funeral services were held at the home Saturday
afternoon conducted by Rev. J. W. Goodsell, pastor of the First Methodist
Episcopal church. Interment was made in the Bedford cemetery.
Edna
Josephine Hale was born in
Bedford, August 22, 1885. She went through the schools here, graduating from
the high school with the class of 1904. She taught four years, and then went to
the Iowa State Teachers' college at Cedar Falls, from which place she was
graduated in 1910. After finishing at Cedar Falls she went to Springville,
Iowa, where she taught in the schools, having started in on the fifth year,
when she was forced to give up her work in October on account of her physical
condition. At the end of the year she would have been entitled to a life
certificate. She leaves to mourn her death her mother, Mrs. Letha Hale, two sisters, Alice and Carolyn, one brother, Charles,
and a grandfather, J. M. Houck,
besides a host of friends. She united with the Methodist Episcopal church
August 6, 1889, and remained a faithful member.
Her
father, W. [illiam] A. [sbury] Hale,
died in March 1911, two sisters, Olive in December 1887 and Edith in May 1892. Her grandmother, Mrs. Houck, died in 1909.
[Hamilton, Charles
Wesley]
Bedford Times-Press
Thursday April 4, 1963 [p. 1]
Chas. W. HAMILTON RITES APRIL 5
Funeral
services for Charles W. [esley] Hamilton, 79 will be held Apr. 5 at 1:30 p. m. at Madison Street Shum
Novinger Funeral Home with Rev. J. Milton Kinney officiating. Mr. Hamilton died Tues. morning at Clarinda Municipal
hospital. Interment will be in Bedford cemetery.
Mr.
Hamilton moved to Taylor County
from Marion County, Ia. when he was 12. He was active on his farm and in his
orchard until 1960.
[Hamilton, Charles
Wesley]
Bedford Times-Press
Thursday April 11, 1963 p. 2
Final Rites For Chas.
Hamilton April 5
Funeral
services for Charles W. Hamilton,
longtime Taylor County resident, held April 5 in Bedford, were conducted by
Rev. J. Milton Kinney, local Methodist minister. Interment was in Bedford
cemetery, Bedford.
Included
in the services was this obituary:
Charles
Wesley Hamilton, the eldest son
of Samuel David and Julia Bible Hamilton, was born near Otley in Marion County, Iowa, Feb. 21, 1884, and
departed this life April 2, 1963, at the Clarinda Municipal hospital at the age
of 79 years, one month and 12 days.
In
1895, he moved with his parents to Taylor county, Iowa, near New Market where
he grew to manhood.
He
was converted and became a member of the Gilead church during his early years;
later transferring his membership to the Methodist church in Bedford. He lived
a true Christian life, putting others needs before his own.
On
December 27, 1904, he was united in marriage with Miss Gertrude Shannon at the farm on which they spent their entire
life, until Sept. 1962, when they went to live with their daughter and husband
where they could receive care. To this union were born two daughters, Mabel
Marie, deceased, and Ruth Mae
Blake of Bedford.
Besides
his wife and daughter he is survived by three grandchildren: Charles Blake of Keystone, Carole Akers of Clarinda, and Mary Sickels of Muscatine, and ten great grandchildren.
Others
surviving are two brothers, Robert of Clarinda and James of
Bedford, and ten nieces and nephews.
Besides
his parents and daughter he was preceded in death by one brother, David
Lyman, and two sisters, Mary
Elizabeth and Christena May.
He leaves a host of
relatives and friends.
He
was a kind and loving husband and father, a friend and neighbor.
Mr.
Hamilton served as a county
trustee and election board member and was a charter member of Taylor County
Farm Bureau.
This
lover of nature and producer of flowers and fruit operated one of the largest
apple orchards in southwest Iowa.
Here from out of town to
attend the Hamilton services
were: Mr. and Mrs.
Charles
Blake and family, Keystone, Iowa; Mr. and Mrs. Allen Akers and
family, Clarinda; Mr. and Mrs John Sickels and family, Muscatine, Iowa; Mrs. Rex Moorman and Mrs. Jethro Pont, Atlantic; Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hamilton, Clarinda; Mr. and Mrs. Truman Hardee and family, Red Oak; Mr. and Mrs. G. G. Klyn, New Sharon, Iowa; Mr. and Mrs. Wincell
Shannon, Aurora, Ill.; Mr. and
Mrs. Darrell Cunningham,
Shenandoah.
[Hamilton, David
Henry]
Taylor County
Democrat
Thursday January 10,
1895 [p. 1]
The
funeral of [David] Henry
Hamilton occurred at Bedford on
Friday Jan. 4, 1895. As some of our readers know, Mr. Hamilton died at his home in Kansas City January 2d. The
remains of the deceased arrived from Kansas City on the 12:57 train Friday and
were conveyed to the Presbyterian Church, where a large congregation had
gathered to pay their tribute of respect to the memory of one who in former years
was a respected and successful businessman in this city. The funeral discourse
by Rev. T. A. H. Wylie was listened to with marked attention by the many
friends whose regard for the deceased had not grown less during the many years
of separation.
As
stated, Mr. Hamilton was
formerly a businessman of this city. From here he removed to Creston, where his
energies were exercised in mercantile pursuits. Later, he located in Kansas
City, where he recently died. His son, Frank Hamilton of Washington, D. C., and a daughter residing in
Chicago, were present at the funeral. The pallbearers were J. W. Windsor, John
Graff, G. B. Haddock, W. E. Crum, J. S. Russell and J. W. Guthrie, all
residents of this city and old time friends of the deceased. The remains were interred
in the Bedford cemetery.
[Hamilton, Ralph V.]
Iowa South-West
Saturday August 2,
1879 p. 3
—The
funeral services of Ralph V., infant son of D. [avid] H. [enry] and E.[lizabeth] B. [enefiel] Hamilton, were held at the Presbyterian church, at 3:30 p.
m., Tuesday. Ralph died
Monday, July 28th, aged eleven months. A large circle of friends
mourn with the bereaved family.
[Harley, Ann Duluth
Borton]
Bedford
Times-Republican
Thursday January 13, 1916 [p. 1]
Mrs. Samuel Harley
Ann
D. [uluth Borton] Harley died at
her home four miles northwest of Bedford Wednesday at the age of 67 years.
Funeral services will be held Friday, conducted by Rev. J. A. Currie.
[Harley, Ann Duluth
Borton]
Bedford
Times-Republican
Thursday January 20, 1916 [p. 1]
Mrs. Anna D. Harley.
Mrs.
Samuel Harley died of pneumonia
at her home northwest of Bedford Wednesday afternoon, January 12th. Funeral
services were held at the home at 1:30 Friday afternoon, conducted by Rev. John
Currie. The music was furnished by the Baptist choir.
Mrs.
Anna D. [uluth Borton] Harley was
born in Fulton county, Ohio, September 27, 1848, and was married to Samuel
Harley January 12, 1870. Mr.
and Mrs. Harley remained in their
home county until 1878, when they came to Taylor County, settling on the farm
where they have since resided.
Ten
children have been born to them, nine of whom are still living, a daughter, Pearl, dying in infancy. The children are, S.
[amuel] J. Harley, Bert
Harley, Miss Jennie Harley of
Bedford; Mrs. LePage, Mrs. Anna B. Harley, Mrs. Edith St. Clair and Mrs. Eva Robinson of Kansas City, Mo.; Levi Harley and David Harley at home. These with her husband and 11
grandchildren survive her.
Mrs.
Harley was reared as a Quaker and
in early life was an active worker in the Quaker church, and throughout her
life cherished the faith and principles of that body of believers.
[HARLEY, ANN DULUTH BORTON]
Bedford Free Press (Bedford, Iowa), Tuesday, January 25, 1916
Mrs. Anna D. Harley – Mrs. Anna D. [uluth] Harley was born in Fulton county, Ohio, September 27, 1848. She was united in marriage with Mr. Samuel Harley, January 12, 1870.
Mr. and Mrs. Harley remained in their home county until 1878, when they came to Taylor county, settling on the farm where they have since resided.
Mrs. Harley was raised a Quaker, her father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Job Borton, being of the original Quaker stock.
In early life she was an active member of the Quaker church and always cherished the faith and principles of that body of believers.
She was a devoted mother, untiring in her labor and sacrifice for the welfare of her family. Few extended their sympathy and service to neighbors and friends more acceptably than she. Ready ever, with the cheerful word and skillful hand to nurse the sick and help the needy, she endeared herself to the community in which she lived.
Her interest to others continued to the last hours of her life, patient, smiling, complaining not, but constantly inquiring about others who were sick.
With thoughtful consideration she called her loved ones about her the day before her departure and told them she was going home.
After a short illness with la grippe, which resulted in bronchial pneumonia, she passed away January 12, 1916, on the 46th anniversary of her marriage, aged 67 years, 3 months and 15 days.
Funeral services were held at the home at 1:30, Friday afternoon, January 14th, conducted by Rev. John A. Currie, pastor of the Presbyterian church. Appropriate music was furnished by the Baptist choir. Interment was in the Bedford cemetery.
Mrs. Harley leaves to mourn her departure, the husband, four sons and five daughters, 11 grandchildren and a host of friends. One daughter, Pearl, preceded her to the other world, dying in infancy.
The children are, Levi Harley, S. [amuel] J. [ohn] Harley, David Harley, Bert Harley and Miss Jennie Harley of Bedford; Mrs. Eunice L. Page, Mrs. Anna B. Harley, Mrs. Edith St. Clair, and Mrs. Eva Robinson of Kansas City, all of whom were present at the funeral except the last named, who was dangerously ill at her home.
[Harley, David C.]
Bedford Times-Press
Thursday December 15,
1960 p. 12
David Harley Dies At Chillicothe, Mo.
David
C. Harley, a former resident of
Bedford died this week at Chillicothe, Mo. Funeral services were held there at
10:30 a.m. Wednesday, December 14 and the body was brought to Bedford Wednesday
afternoon for burial in the Bedford cemetery. David Harley was a brother of the late S. [amuel] J. Harley of Bedford.
[Harley, Pearl]
Taylor County
Republican
Thursday August 30, 1883 p. 4
—A
sad accident occurred on Monday last at the residence of Mr. Samuel Harley, about two miles and a half northwest of town.
His little daughter [Pearl],
aged about fourteen months, and just able to walk a little, was playing at a
tub in which there were a few inches of water. It by some means fell into the
tub head foremost, no one being present at the time. When discovered the little
one's face was immersed in the water and it was dead. Dr. Weidner was called
and every effort was made to resuscitate it, but in vain.
[Harley, Samuel, Sr.]
Bedford
Times-Republican
Thursday February 5,
1920 [p. 1]
SAM HARLEY, SR., KILLED.
Body Cut In Two by
Street Car at Kansas City Last Saturday.
Last
Saturday morning Samuel Harley, Jr., received a telegram from Kansas City, stating that his father had
been killed that morning by a streetcar. Mr. Harley had been making his home with his daughter in that
city for some time, and was, we understand, in the habit of going across the
street to visit with an old gentleman who was running a small grocery store.
Saturday morning as usual, he started across the street when a streetcar came
along at the rate of about 50 miles an hour. The car struck him and he fell in
the net which carried him about 50 feet when the net broke, letting his body
fall through under the car, which passed over him, cutting his body completely
in two, right in the presence of his daughter.
At
this writing we have no particulars at hand which would show who was responsible
for this horrible accident. The deceased owned and operated a farm northwest of
Bedford for many years, and is well known by many throughout the county, and
had many friends who will be shocked to hear of his tragic death. The family
have the sympathy of the entire community in their great loss.
Later—The
remains were brought to Bedford Monday night and the funeral was held Tuesday
at the home of his son, Sam Harley,
Jr., after which the remains were laid to rest beside his wife, who preceded
him about three years ago.
[Hatfield, Margaret
Anne “Midge”]
Bedford Times-Press
Wednesday June 13, 1990 p. 5
MARGARET ANNE
HATFIELD
Funeral
services for Margaret Anne Hatfield were held Friday, June 8, 1990, 2 p.m. at the Shum-Novinger Funeral Home in
Bedford. Rev. Ted DeHass conducted the services, and burial was at the Bedford
City Cemetery.
Margaret
Anne Hatfield, daughter of Robert
and Minnie Bissell Hatfield, was
born at Bedford, Iowa on June 29, 1933 and departed this life June 4, 1990 in
her home in Lincoln, Neb. at the age of 56 years, 11 months and four days.
She
lived and grew to maturity in Bedford where she attended the public school.
She
was employed by the Lincoln State Hospital (the Lincoln Regional Center) for
approximately 37 years. She was preceded in death by her parents and three
brothers: Rex, Ross, and Dale.
Left
to cherish her memory are: one brother, Clyde Hatfield of Jacksonville, Fla.; and six sisters: Rita
Porter of Adams, Neb., Roma
Colton of Des Moines, Iowa; Carol
Humphrey of College Park, Md.; Phyliss
Archibald of Omaha, Neb.; and Ruth
Dougherty and Coryl Pace of Bedford; and a multitude of nephews and nieces
and many, many friends in Lincoln, Neb.
Midge loved to travel and adored little kids. She was a
kind and considerate sister and aunt and will be missed by all who knew and
loved her.
[Hatfield, Minnie
Ethel Bissell]
Bedford Times-Press
Thursday February 16, 1978 p. 6
Last Rites Held
February 10 For Minnie Hatfield
Funeral
services for Mrs. Robert E. (Minnie Ethel) Hatfield, 85, of Bedford, held February 10 in
Shum-Novinger Funeral Home in Bedford, were conducted by Carl Cummings. Mrs.
Hatfield died in Bedford Manor
February 7, 1978. Interment was at Bedford Cemetery, Bedford.
Minnie
Ethel Bissell Hatfield, daughter
of Richard P. [ierce] and Francis [Frances Eliza] Cloud Bissell, was born at Massena, Iowa September 11, 1892.
She grew to maturity in Cass County, Iowa where she attended the public school
and Pine Grove Methodist Church.
On
September 14, 1910 she was united in marriage to Robert E. [dward] Hatfield at Atlantic, Iowa and they first lived on a farm
in Cass County, Iowa and later for 45 years in Taylor County.
Mr.
Hatfield died August 6, 1949.
To
this union eleven children were born: Rex, Ross, Ruth, Rita, Dale, Roma
[Eilene], Carol, Phyllis [June], Coryl, Clyde and Margaret. She was employed at Bedford High School as hot
lunch cook for 19 years.
She
was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, two sisters, six brothers,
and two sons, [Thomas] Rex and [Robert] Dale and one
grandson.
Left
to cherish her memory are one sister, Maude Bissell of Bedford, one sister-in-law, Gertrude Bissell of Atlantic, Iowa; two sons, [Walter] Ross of Rippey, Iowa and [Richard] Clyde of
Jacksonville, Florida; seven daughters: [Helen] Ruth Dougherty of Bedford, Rita [Maxine] Porter of Adams, Nebr.; Roma [Eilene] Colton of Des Moines; Carol [Ethel] Humphrey of College Park, Maryland; Phyllis [June]
Archibald of Omaha, Nebr.; Coryl
[Maye] Pace of Bedford; and Margaret
[Anne] Hatfield of Lincoln,
Nebr.; 34 grandchildren; 39 great grandchildren; and one great great grandson.
She
was a kind and considerate mother, sister and friend and will be missed by all
who knew and loved her.
[Hatfield, Robert
Edward]
Bedford Times-Press
Thursday August 11, 1949 [p. 1]
Former Resident Dies
In Missouri
Robert
[Edward] Hatfield, former
resident of Bedford, died suddenly of a heart attack at Rich Hill, Mo.,
Saturday, August 6 at the age of 68 years. Funeral services were held Monday,
August 8, at Butler, Mo., with burial there.
He
is survived by his wife, Mrs. Minnie Hatfield of Bedford and eleven children: Ross Hatfield of Fontanelle, Iowa; Mrs. Gail Porter and Phyllis Hatfield of Omaha; Roma Hatfield of Des Moines; Mrs. Fred Humphrey of Glenwood; Mrs. Marion Dougherty, Mrs. Wayne Pace, Rex, Dale, Clyde and
Margaret Hatfield, all of
Bedford; 14 grandchildren; four sisters and four brothers.
[Hensley, Bertha Edna
Jones]
Bedford Times-Press
Thursday July 7, 1949 [p. 1]
Hensley Rites Held Sunday Afternoon
Mrs.
Jake Hensley died at her home in
Bedford Friday afternoon, July 1, after an illness of several weeks.
The
funeral services were held at the Christian church Sunday afternoon, conducted
by Rev. Ben W. Sinderson. Burial was in the Fairview cemetery.
Bertha
Edna Jones, second daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Taylor D. [avid] Jones [Catharine Kessler], was born at Bedford, Iowa, October 19, 1874,
being aged 74 years, 8 months and 12 days at the time of her death.
Bertha
Edna Jones grew to maturity,
spent her entire adult years in this community. She was a teacher in the public
schools of Taylor County. She was married to Jacob Hensley on Christmas Eve, 1895.
Five
children, three sons and two daughters, were born to them. Those now living
include two sons: Dewey and Clay of Bedford; and two daughters, Mrs. Troy
Spencer of Bedford and Mrs.
Russell Polton of Tabor, Iowa.
Another son, Charles, died in
infancy.
Mrs.
Hensley is also survived by her
husband; three brothers; Don Jones and Clarence Jones of Bedford,
[John] Kessler Jones of West Orange, N. J.; three sisters, Mrs.
Frank Perdue of Denver, Colorado, Mrs. W. A. Davidson of Santa
Ana, California, Mrs. Walter Adrian of Portland, Oregon. An older sister, Mrs. Will Dorr, died in 1944.
Also
nine grandchildren, and nine great grandchildren survive.
[Hensley, Henry]
Bedford
Times-Republican
Thursday January 9,
1908 p. 8
Sad News.
Howard
Hensley received a message
Tuesday conveying the sad intelligence of the death of his brother Henry
Hensley, which occurred Tuesday
morning at his home in Blandinsville, Ill. The deceased was 71 years of age,
and was the only surviving brother of Mr Hensley. He had been ill only a comparatively short time,
pneumonia being the cause of his death. The funeral took place yesterday.
Mr.
Hensley left for Blandinsville
immediately upon receipt of the message and probably arrived in time for the
obsequies.
[Loucks, Freddie J.]
Bedford Argus
Thursday August 12, 1875 p. 3
died
loucks—On the 3d of August, Freddie J., son of J. [ohn] D. and Annie [Christiana
Clark] Loucks---aged 1 year, 6
months and 15 days.
An angel of peace
Gone on before,
An ambassador of love
To that beautiful shore.
With that innocent voice
As on earth used to be,
Calling papa and mama
And sister to them.
Innocent and pure,
God has taken thee home.
A rose bud from earth
In heaven to bloom.
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