Oliver Perry Gideon (1918)
BENNETT, CREASON, GIDEON, SANGER
Posted By: Kent Transier
Date: 3/28/2025 at 14:15:18
The Grand Island Independent
Grand Island, Nebraska
Tuesday, January 29, 1918
Page 5, Column 6Obituary
Oliver P. Gideon passed away Sunday afternoon, January 20, at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Fred Creason, after a short illness with pneumonia.
Oliver Perry Gideon was born in Westerville, O., September 11, 1844, and passed away at the age of 73 years 4 months and 9 days. His wife passed on to the heavenly home July 12, 1912.
Their remain to mourn his loss and reverence his memory, three sons: Otha A. Gideon, of Larkin, British Columbia; Cassius A. Gideon, of Burwell, and Henry C. Gideon of Doniphan, and two daughters, Mrs. Bertha Sanger, of Burwell, and Mrs. Anna Creason, of Doniphan, all of whom were present to minister to his wants during his illness and at the funeral service, except Otha, whom it was impossible to reach by wire to tell him of the sad news.
At his attained age of nearly 74 years, Mr. Gideon was the youngest of a family of eleven children. Five brothers and one sister have passed on before. Those remaining are Jacob Gideon of Nickolls, Ia., aged 83, and Mrs. Mary Bennett, of Winterset, Ia., aged 75.
Mr. Gideon had been a resident of Hall county for thirty years and had lived on his farm west of town since the fall of 1892, until only a few weeks ago, when he sold the farm and moved to Doniphan to make his home with his youngest daughter. To practically all people for miles around he was “Uncle Ole”.
Funeral service were conducted from the home at 11 o’clock, January 23, by Rev. F. McP. Bayles, after which the cortege proceeded to the Rosedale church near “Uncle Ole’s” old home, where the final service was held at 1 o’clock p.m., and the body laid beside that of his wife in the Rosedale cemetery.
_________________________Transcriber's note: The deceased is in the 1856 and 1873 Madison County censuses. He was married to his first wife (Mary Etta Kerrick) in Madison County in 1867. Mary Etta and 3 of their children perished in a Madison County flood in 1876.
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