Hemmings, Charles Lyle 1913 - 1921

HEMMINGS, CRANE, SMITH, WOODMANSEE, NEWTON, SHANKS, BURSELL, GORDON

Posted By: Reid R. Johnson (email)
Date: 8/5/2013 at 21:11:55

Postville Herald, Thursday, 29 September 1921.

Charles Lyle Hemmings, son of Mr. ad Mrs. Leonard Hemmings, was born Feb. 22, 1913, at Prarie du Chien, Wis., at which place his early childhood was spent. In 1918, at the age of five years, he came with his parents to Postville, Iowa, and a year later to a farm near Postville, where the rest of his brief life was spent.

On September 8th he was suddenly taken sick with an acute attack of appendicitis; serious complications followed the operation, and in spite of all that medical aid and loving care could do he passed into that brighter and better life on September 22, 1921, aged eight years and seven months.

Lyle was a boy with a kind and lovable disposition, spreading sunshine and cheer wherever he went and will be greatly missed in the home and also by his schoolmates and teacher, who came as a body to pay a last tribute and to bid a final farewell to their beloved playmate.

Besides the heartbroken parents, he leaves to mourn his untimely departure one sister, Lula, and his aged grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hemmings of Waukon, and a host of friends, for he was dearly loved by all who knew him.

There will be a great vacancy in the home, but heaven will be more attractive for the ones who are left behind because of the transplanting of another beautiful flower into the eternal gardens in that heavenly home where all tears are wiped away.

(Submitter is not related)

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Additional information added by Connie Ellis 5/7/2017:

Charles Lyle Hemmings is buried in the I.O.O.F. Cemetery in Rossville, Iowa with his father, Robert Edwin Hemmings, who had preceded Charles in death on March 7, 1917 and with his grandfather, Charles Theodore Hemmings, a Civil War Veteran, who died on January 10, 1922. His grandmother Hemmings, Adile (Crane) Hemmings, died on July 8, 1933 in Marshalltown, Iowa and is buried at the Iowa Veterans Home Cemetery in Marshalltown. According to census reports in Allamakee County for Jefferson Township, Charles and Adile Hemmings were the parents of Calla Hemmings, Rebecca Hemmings, and Rosalie M. Hemmings, in addition to Robert Edwin Hemmings and Leonard O. Hemmings.

Bertha May Smith, daughter of Sarah Arvilla Woodmansee and Warren Freeman Smith, married Robert Edwin Hemmings on April 2, 1901 at Postville, Iowa. Lulu Mary Hemmings, the older sister of Charles Lyle, was born in 1905 in Jefferson Township, Rossville, Iowa. Lulu would marry on November 8, 1922 in Waukon, Iowa to Lewis Coleman Newton.

After Robert’s death, Bertha May would marry Robert’s brother, Leonard O. Hemmings in Clay County, Iowa on August 30, 1917. The obituary which is posted lists Leonard O. Hemmings as the father of Charles rather than step-father or uncle.

Source for the corrections: FAMILY SEARCH and FIND A GRAVE as I have been trying to do genealogy research on the Woodmansee Families who lived in Allamakee County, Iowa

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Update explanation regarding the Hemmings line from Connie Ellis 8/1/2020:

The “Calla” Hemmings in the census report is not the daughter of Charles and Adile Hemmings – it is actually Adile! Sometimes her name has appeared as Adella and Della. The surname for Rebecca Hemmings is incorrect. Her surname is Shanks. Rebecca “Becky” Shanks was the daughter of Adile and her first husband Adam Shanks. Rebecca Jane Shanks married Samuel Lewis Bursell on 22 October 1882 in Postville, Allamakee County, Iowa. She died in Clay County, South Dakota on 8 December 1946. Rosalie M. Hemmings, sister to Robert Hemmings and Leonard “Len” Hemmings married Alfred Alexander Gordon. Rosalie’s obituary is on the Allamakee co. IAGenWeb obituary board.