Kneeland, Lester Clair (1890-1935)

KNEELAND, HAWK, GIPPLE, HAMLIN

Posted By: Ken Akers (email)
Date: 5/6/2012 at 21:51:27

Audubon County Journal (IA)
Thursday, Feb. 14, 1935, page 1

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Relative Local People
Buried In Minnesota

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Funeral services for Clair Knee-
land, who died Tuesday, February
5th, at his home near Truman,
Minnesota, were held Thursday af-
ternoon of last week. Burial was
in the Lewisville, Minn., cemetery.

Mr. Kneeland died as a result
of a paralytic stroke. He was
born in Shelby county on July 22,
1890, and was married to Miss
Lulu Hawk of Brayton on Octo-
ber 16, 1915.

Surviving are his widow and
nine children, seven daughters and
two sons, all at home with the ex-
ception of one daughter.

Mrs. Kneeland is a sister to Mrs.
C. D. Gipple of this place.

Note: Lula Eliza Hawk was the great grandaughter of Nathaniel Hamlin, Audubon county's first white settler.