Burleigh, W. E. -

W. E. Burleigh, who retired last spring after publishing the Tingley Vindicator for 35 years, died at his home in Tingley at 2 o'clock Friday, following a brief

illness. He was 81 years old.

Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon at the Tingley Methodist church. Mr. Burleigh is survived by his wife, one daughter, Mrs. C. W. Bosworth, and four grandchildren.

Mr. Burleigh was born on a farm near Tingley and worked in Mount Ayr before returning to Tingley to become editor of the newspaper. He sold the paper last spring and retired.

Lenox Time Table, Lenox, Iowa Thursday August 10, 1939

Davis, John Hammond -

John Hammond Davis was born April 17, 1864 in Ohio and died at York, Nebr. July 19, 1939, at the age of 93 years, 3 months and 2 days. He came to Iowa

when a small boy with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Abednego Davis, Sr. He was married to Eliza Cone, who proceeded him in death in 1934. To this union two

children were born, Minnie Pierce of Red Cloud, Nebr. and Morgan Davis of Pomona, Mo.

He lived at Holt and Hayden Grove, Ia. for many years and then moved to Nebraska where he made his home. He was a member of the Odd Fellows Lodge.

Beside his two children, he is survived by one sister, Mrs. Julia Sawvel of Shenandoah; one brother, A. C. Davis of Gravity; five nieces, Mrs. Aurora Mills of Lenox, Mrs. Ida Martin of Gravity, Mrs. Gertrude Lund of Shenandoah,

Mrs. Ida Moorland and Mrs. Winnie Peterson of Omaha and three nephews, Frank Davis of Gravity, Dorte Davis of Weslaco, Tex., and Wm. Sawvel of

Burlington Junction, Mo. Three brothers, Frank, Jefferson and Charles, and one sister, Hannah Cone preceded him in death.

His body was brought to Gravity and funeral services were held Friday afternoon. Interment was made beside his parents.

Lenox Time Table, Lenox, Iowa Thursday July 27, 1939

Estel, John Morgan -

John Morgan Estel, son of George and Martha Estel, was born in Green county, Penna., Feb. 12. 1869, and died at his home in Lenox, la., Sept. 13, 1939.

He came to Iowa with his parents when he was five years old and resided on a farm six miles east of Lenox until he grew to manhood.

He was married to Clara Newburn on Oct. 30, 1888. To them were born three children, Harry and Walter, who survive him, and Nora, who died in 1919.

Mr. Estel lived on a farm east of Lenox until 1920 when he moved to Lenox where he resided until his death.

He was a kind and loving husband and father and was a good neighbor and friend. His jolly laugh and sunny disposition will be greatly missed.

Mr. Estel is survived by his wife, two sons, Harry of Lenox and Walter of Joice, Iowa, and four grandchildren, Keith James, Robert, Reva and Ronald Estel

and one brother, Wm. Estel of Falls City, Nebr.

Funeral services were held Friday afternoon at 2:30 at the Barber Funeral home, conducted by the Rev. E. F. Hagee. Interment was made in Lenox cemetery.

Lenox Time Table, Lenox, Iowa Thursday September 21, 1939

Gaines, Chauncey Edward -

C. E. Gaines, 68, prominent Taylor county farmer and business man, was fatally injured in an automobile accident about 32 miles west of McCook, Nebr., Sunday afternoon and passed away at the McCook hospital about 3:30 Tuesday morning. He did not recover consciousness.

Mr. Gaines, accompanied by his wife and Mr. and Mrs. Earl Beaver of Anita, had left early Sunday morning for Colorado where he and Mr. Beaver intended

to buy some cattle. The accident occurred about 3:30 Sunday afternoon.

According to reports brought back by Russell Key, the accident happened when the right rear tire blew out. The car angled off across the road, which had a black top surface, and rolled over in the shallow ditch. The car rolled over twice and the doors were sprung open. Mr. Gaines was pinned beneath the car and suffered chest injuries. Mrs. Gaines received a broken nose and a number of small cuts and was badly bruised. Mrs. Beaver was bruised but Mr. Beaver escaped with only a scratch on his arm.

Mr. Gaines was taken to the hospital at McCook and word of the accident was telephoned back to Lenox. Mr. and Mrs. Russell Key and son Jim, and Mrs. Horace Fleming left that night for McCook and were with their father when

his death occurred about 3:30 Tuesday morning.

The death of Mr. Gaines has had a saddening effect on the town and county. He was a man of unusual ability and he never refused when asked to contribute

of his ability and energy to any cause. Elected to the county board of super-visors in 1934, he was serving his second term in office at the time of his death. As a member of this body he fought for a system of road building that would give the county something for the money spent and the fact that Taylor

county is getting a system of roads is largely due to his farsightedness and courage to fight for what he thought was right.

A part of his duty as a member of the board was the investigation of needy cases. There have been many times, and in all parts of the county, when,

having gone as far on relief as he could go officially he contributed from his own pocket to relieve suffering.

Mr. Gaines was a former member of the Lenox school board, was prominent in the Methodist church and Sunday School and, on July 1 became president of

the Lenox Rotary club.

Mr. Gaines is survived by his wife, three daughters, Mrs. Harold Grimes of Amarillo, Texas; Mrs. Russell Key and Mrs. Horace Fleming of Lenox, and a son, Claude, of St. Joseph, Mo.

Obituary

Chauncey Edward Gaines was born December 14, 1870, in a log cabin in Decatur county, Iowa, not far from the town of Garden Grove. He was the third

child in a family of four. When he was about three years old the family moved to Livingston county, Mo., near the town of Mooresville, and lived there seven

years. Here, he started to school.

Later the family moved to another district where there was no regular school building and he attended school for a short time in a little log cabin. In the fall of 1879, the family moved to a prairie farm in Ottawa county, Kans., near the

town of Minneapolis. Here the boy attended school for another two years in a rough stone building chinked with mud and covered with brush and dirt and

finished off with a sod chimney.

Dry weather and short crops decided the family to move back to Iowa and they made the trip in covered wagons. They stopped at Bedford for a short time and then went on to Gravity which had just started. The father was a stone mason and plasterer and in the new town he found plenty of work. Mr. Gaines attended the first school held in Gravity and when the first school house was built —a two room building—he became the janitor. For this work he drew pay of ten cents a day.

When Mr. Gaines was 16 the family moved from Gravity to a farm about five miles from Adair, in Adair county. This part of the state was still rough and

there was a lot of work to be done in clearing the land for farming.

In the story of his life, written some time ago for use in the Rotary club, Mr. Gaines recalled life on this farm in the following words:

"A considerable amount of that country was covered with scrub oak, and theatres had run through them so much that they could not make trees of any size.  That made the land very hard to clear. A lot of that kind of land was broken with large breaking plows drawn by from three to seven yoke of cattle.

When that was done you just had a good start at clearing the land. The brush and roots had to be pulled from under the furrows and hauled off. Then the land was disked, harrowed, and then worked down. Flax was considered about as good a crop as you could grow for a first crop. There were only 40

acres broken on this half section when we went there. There was not a rod of fence on the place, and the house was the worst kind of a shack. As my father

was a mechanic, and I was rather handy with tools, we made a place to live, fenced the farm and made it look like some one lived there. In spite of the hard

work, I look back at that time as one of the best of my life.  The country was new, the land was fertile, small game was plentiful. The prairie chickens

would come in droves to their parade grounds in the spring. You could hear them as soon as it was light in the morning, making those peculiar sounds that

only prairie chickens can make. Then the smell of the prairie and the spring would get into your blood, and you didn't mind the hard work."

After living on this farm for four years Mr. Gaines rented it himself and his father resumed his trade as a mason and plasterer.  It was while working this

farm that Mr. Gaines was married on Sept. 5, 1894, to Miss Viola Dutro.

Mr. Gaines spent 17 years on this farm and here three of the children were born. He left the farm and with a brother-in-law bought a hardware store in

Adair and operated this for a year before returning to the farm near Adair. Here the family lived for four years and then moved to a farm near Ottawa,

Kansas, where they lived four years. The family then returned to Adair county where they were located on a farm until 1917.

In November of 1917 Mr. Gaines came to Lenox to look after some farms owned by Baum & Gaines (a cousin) of Omaha. A great deal of this land was

later sold by the company and what was left was taken over by D. A. Baum of Omaha. He had also acquired a 160 acre farm near Omaha and in 1920 had Mr. Gaines move to this farm to improve it and get it ready for sale. This farm is now the location of Father Flannagan's home for boys.

After this farm was sold the family moved back to Lenox on to the farm where Mr. Gaines lived at the time of his death. Mr. Gaines passed away Tuesday,

August 15, at the hospital in McCook, Nebr., at the age of 68 years, 8 months and 1 day.

He is survived by his wife and four children, Mrs. Harold Grimes of Amarillo, Texas; Mrs. Russell Key and Mrs. Horace Fleming of Lenox; and a son, Claude, of St. Joseph, Mo.; a sister, Mrs. Clara Butler of Anita; and a brother, S. A. Gaines, of Hamilton, Mo.

He was a member of the Methodist church and of the Lenox Rotary club, in which organization he held the office of president.

Funeral services for C. E. Gaines will be held Thursday afternoon, August 17

at 2:80 at the Methodist church. The Rev. F. L. Shepherd of Pleasantville will have charge of the services. Interment will be made in the Lenox cemetery.

The casket will be open only before the services.

Lenox Time Table, Lenox, Iowa Thursday August 17, 1939

Gehr, Mary Elizabeth -

Mary Elizabeth Gehr, third daughter of John and Mary Gehr, was born Jan. 1, 1862 in Astoria, Ill., and died August 2, 1939 in the St. Francis hospital in Maryville, Mo., at the age of 77 years, 6 months and 22 days.

She received her education in the schools of Astoria and Peoria, Ill., and was awarded a teacher's certificate.

In March, 1883, she moved with her parents to a farm two miles west of Lenox and with the exception of a few years spent in the schools of Colorado and Washington spent the remainder of her life in Lenox. She devoted most of her life to teaching both in rural schools and the Lenox public school.

Miss Gehr is survived by two brothers, Joseph of Lenox with whom she made her home, John L. of Peoria, Ill., one sister, Mrs. Adelia Ely of Ft. Morgan, Colo.,

and a number of nieces and nephews.

Funeral services were held at the St. Patrick's church in Lenox by the Rev. Father McStay on Saturday, August 5. Burial was made by the side of her parents in the Fairview cemetery.

Lenox Time Table, Lenox, Iowa Thursday August 17, 1939

Hedges, Effie -

Word has been received by relatives of the death of Mrs. Effie Hedges, who passed away at her home in Independence, Mo. Sunday, August 6, following a

three weeks illness. Mrs. Hedges was a sister of the late Mrs. George S. Beach of Lenox.

She is survived by one sister, Mrs. Jessie Cowan. Funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon at Kansas City, Mo.

Lenox Time Table, Lenox, Iowa Thursday August 10, 1939

Huff, Karl R. -

Dr. Karl R. Huff, 58, died Wednesday evening at the hospital of his brother, Dr. L. D. Huff, at Enid, Okla. He had been there about two weeks taking treatments for an illness that had been bothering him for some time.

Mrs. Huff had been in Enid for the past week and the daughter, Virginia, had planned to go there today, Thursday. News of Dr. Huff's death reached Lenox

early Wednesday evening. 

No arrangements regarding funeral services have been made at the time this paper is printed.

Lenox Time Table, Lenox, Iowa Thursday August 24, 1939

Huff, Karl R. -

Funeral services for Dr. K. R, Huff were held Sunday afternoon at 1:30 at the United Presbyterian church, conducted by the Rev. Harry W. Orr who was

assisted by the Rev. A. L. Davidson, a former pastor of the church.

Music for the service was furnished by W. C. Lewis, Mrs. Roy Long and Mrs. A. L. Roll. Burial was made at Lineville, Iowa, his home before moving to Lenox.

Life Story

Dr. Karl R. Huff, son of John and Catherine Huff, was born on a farm near Hedrick, Iowa, August 4, 1881, and died August 23, 1939, at the age of

58 years, 19 days.

He made his home on the farm with his parents until the inspiration of a higher education and a greater service called him to leave his home and prepare for his chosen profession in the field of medicine.

He received his first two years of college training at Cedar Falls, Iowa. After teaching school for one year he entered college at Keokuk. He completed his training at Drake University and received his degree of M. D. from that school in 1910.

The same year he began the practice of medicine in partnership with Dr, Claud Colbreath at Lineville, Iowa. Dr. Colbreath his former partner, preceded him in death just one year.

In 1921 Dr. Huff moved to Lenox and practiced medicine with his brother, Dr. L. D. Huff, for six years. After his brother left Lenox, Dr. Karl, as his friends called him, continued to serve the community.

He was married in 1914 to Miss Irba Molleston of Lineville. They had one daughter, Virginia Lee.  Dr. Huff had been in failing health for some time and had taken treatment from various doctors without the desired effect.

At the time of his death he was with his brother, Dr. L. D. Huff, at Enid, Okla.

Dr. Huff was devoted to his family and the thought uppermost in his mind was their welfare.  He left nothing undone that would add to their happiness.  Such love and thoughtfulness add to the sorrow of death, but leave as a solace beautiful memories which are a blessing.

Besides his wife and daughter, Dr. Huff is survived by one brother, Dr. L. D. Huff of Enid, Okla., one sister, Mrs, Zeal Dematteis of Hedrick, Iowa; two half brothers, P. A. McMillan of St. Paul, Minn., and J. S. McMillan of Ottumwa, Iowa; and two half sisters, Mrs. Copeland of Batavia, Iowa, and Mrs. Anna Wendell of Almenia, Kansas.  Two brothers preceded him in death.

In the passing of Dr. Huff the community has lost a valuable citizen. No one can estimate the value of twenty-nine years of service in the medical profession.

Dr. Huff was not a member of any church or other organization, although in 1915, at Lineville, he made a confession of his faith.

Lenox Time Table, Lenox, Iowa Thursday August 31, 1939

Jones, Maggie Brown Lang -

Mrs. Maggie Jones, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Brown, was born August 15, 1866 at Rock Island, Ill.  and passed away July 2, 1939, at the age of 72 years,

1 month and 7 days. She grew to womanhood in Adams county, Iowa, later moving to Custer county, Nebraska. In 1885 she was united in marriage to Geo W. Lang who passed away August 3, 1903. In 1904, she married John L. Jones of Banner and Kimball county, living on their ranch for 22 years. She was left

a widow by the passing of Mr. Jones on Oct. 10, 1926. She then moved to Broken Bow, Nebraska n 1928 where she resided at the time of her death.

She is survived by one sister, Mrs. Perry Martin of Bassett, Nebraska; one brother, Albert L. Brown of Broken Bow, Nebr. and a number of other relatives including several nieces and nephews.

Mrs. Jones was a member of the Methodist church in Broken Bow. Services were held from that church Monday afternoon with the Rev. E. C. [?] officiating.  The body was brought to Lenox Tuesday for burial in the Fairview cemetery.

Lenox Time Table, Lenox, Iowa Thursday August 3, 1939

Kinser, Elmer Elsworth -

Elmer Elsworth Kinser, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Kinser, was born on a farm 5 miles east and one and one half miles north of Lenox on October 30, 1860 [1865] and passed away Saturday, July 29, 1939, at the age of 73 years, 8 months and 29 days.

On October 3, 1888, he was united in marriage at Rock Island, Ill. to Miss Nellie Campbell. To this union three children were born, two of whom, a

son, John and a daughter, Bessie, have preceded him in death. He resided on his paternal homestead until seven years after his marriage when he moved to Lenox and engaged in the barber trade. He continued this business until the time he retired a short time before his death.

He early united with the Methodist church and remained a faithful member until his death.

He is survived by his wife and one daughter, Mrs. Evelyn McAdams of Burlington, la. and one brother, Merida Kinser of Des Moines.

Funeral services were held Monday afternoon, July 31 at the Arnold Funeral Home, in charge of the Rev. F. J. Robins. Interment was made in the Morgan cemetery.

Lenox Time Table, Lenox, Iowa Thursday August 3, 1939

Richardson, Ralph -

Word was received here Monday morning of the death of Ralph Richardson, 31, at Long Beach, Calif., Friday night.  Richardson was in a traffic accident

and death resulted from a skull fracture.

Richardson was a former Lenox resident and moved from Lenox about 15 years ago with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Richardson. His father operated the pool hall here for a number of years. His body was brought to

Gilman, la. where funeral service and burial were held.

Lenox Time Table, Lenox, Iowa Thursday August 3, 1939

Sapp, Margaret Ryan -

The community was saddened last Friday to learn of the passing of Mrs. Margaret Sapp, one of the oldest and most highly respected citizens of Grove

township.  Margaret Ryan was born in Listowel, Canada, February 3, 1855, and died at her home southwest of Lenox, Sept. 8, 1939, at the age of 84 years and 7 months.

On Nov. 25, 1889, she was married to Clement Eugene Sapp, who preceded her in death on Feb. 9, 1920.

She is survived by one daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Miller, with whom she has resided for the past thirteen years. She is also survived by two grandsons, Eugene and Raymond Miller; two brothers, J. P. Ryan of Chicago, and Thomas Ryan of London, Ontario, Canada.  Neither brother was able to

attend the funeral.

Mrs. Sapp was a kind and friendly woman and will be greatly missed by her many friends and neighbors. She led a very active life and took a keen interest in the affairs of her home and community.

Funeral services were held in the St. Patrick's Catholic church in Lenox, Monday, Sept. 11, at 9:30, and were conducted by the Rev. Father Gerard of Des Moines.  Interment was made in St. Patrick's cemetery.

Lenox Time Table, Lenox, Iowa Thursday September 13, 1939

Saunders, Elmer -

Elmer Saunders, 63, a resident of the Lenox vicinity some twenty years ago, died at his home at Reinbeck Tuesday morning according to word received by relatives here. Funeral services will be held Thursday afternoon at Reinbeck. Mr. Saunders died suddenly, as he had not been ill.

He is a brother of Mrs. W. K, Crow and of Chas. Saunders of Lenox.

Lenox folks who expect to attend the funeral are Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Saunders and family, Mr. and Mrs. Earl Douglas, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Schaffroth and Mr. and Mrs. W. K. Crowe.

Lenox Time Table, Lenox, Iowa Thursday August 31, 1939

Terry, Opal Mattie Van Winkle -

Funeral services for Mrs. Bill Terry were held Tuesday afternoon at the Church of Christ, conducted by the Rev. E. F, Hagee. Mrs. Terry passed away

at the Greater Community hospital in Creston Sunday morning following a short illness.

Obituary

Opal Mattie Van Winkle, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Faye Van Winkle was born June 22, 1909, near Lenox, la. and passed away on Sept. 10 at the Greater Community hospital in Creston at the age of 30 years, 2 months and 19 days. On December 31,1926, she was united in marriage to Willie L. Terry and to this union two children were born, a daughter, Betty Louise, age thirteen and a son, Billie Dale, age 8, who with their father survive. She also leaves her mother and step-father, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Bouton of Princeville, Ill., one

sister and two brothers, an aunt, Mrs. Mattie Reed and her mother-in-law and father-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Will Terry, Sr., besides a host of other relatives and friends.

Lenox Time Table, Lenox, Iowa Thursday September 14, 1939