MELDON, Charles Robert c1845-1910

MELDON

Posted By: S. Bell
Date: 5/3/2013 at 02:30:31

[Waterloo Evening Courier, Tuesday, August 23, 1910]

MELDON LAID TO REST LAST NIGHT

BODY HELD EIGHT DAYS TO HEAR FROM KIN

Quest for Them Was Vain and Life Mystery is Unsolved.

Last evening as the rays of the setting sun were gilding the sky and Hillcrest Cemetery appeared at its best, the remains of Charles Robert Meldon were laid to rest.

For eight days the body had been kept in the hope that some of his relatives could be located, but in vain. Despairing of getting word to the aged man's kin, the interment was decided upon last evening by Supt. Klingaman of the Associated Charities. A few of the friends accompanied the body to the grave and the services consisted of a prayer.

Hillcrest is a new cemetery located east of the city.

If, in the future, any word should come from the relatives, the body will be exhumed and given permanent burial where they may direct.

Thus Meldon, a blacksmith known in every village and hamlet and in most of the cities of the state, has closed his earthly career, and the mystery surrounding his existence has not been penetrated.

That he was a man of scrupulous integrity and honor is learned from the brief records which he left behind. Two diaries tell of his financial transactions. They show where he regularly paid his board bills, give an account of his income from week to week, but contain no word regarding his relatives.

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1910 United States Federal Census
Name: Charles R Meldon
Birth: abt 1845 - location
Residence: 1910 - Waterloo Ward 4, Black Hawk, Iowa