Lamb, John William (1843-1913)

LAMB, CHENOWETH, LEPPO, TRIPLETT, TOBIAS, JOYCE

Posted By: Carl Malone (email)
Date: 11/22/2016 at 11:22:42

The Atlantic News Telegraph
Atlantic, Iowa
December 22, 1913

PROMINENT MAN IS DEAD

J. W. Lamb, Well Known In This Community, is Claimed by Death—Was Sick Only five Days with Stoppage of the Bowels.

After a short illness with which he was stricken on last Tuesday night, J. W. Lamb passed away at one o’clock yesterday morning at his home on south Hazel street. Tuesday afternoon the deceased was apparently in the best of health and was down town. After he had returned home in the evening he was taken sick and a physician who was called in to attend him, found that he was suffering with stoppage of the bowels. He did all in his power for the suffering man and later called in a consulting physician. Both doctors did everything known to medical science to relieve him and later when his suffering became more acute the administered drugs to relieve the pain. It is thot [thought] that a cancerous growth was the cause of his sickness. All of the children were at his bedside when he passed away.

The funeral services will be held at two o’clock tomorrow afternoon at the Methodist church, with the Rev. Mr. Handy officiating. Interment will be made in the Atlantic cemetery.

John William Lamb, son of John Manson and Susanna Chenoweth Lamb, was born in Richland Co., Ohio, Jan. 4, 1854, and died at his home in Atlantic, Cass county, Iowa, Dec. 21st, 1913, aged fifty-nine years, eleven months and seventeen days. He came with his parents to Cass county, Iowa in the summer of 1856 when he was two years of age and this has been his home since that time. He was married to Miss Margaret Leppo of Richland county, O., Dec. 8, 1875. To this union six children were born: Mrs. Della Triplett of Storm Lake, Ia., Mrs. Alphronia Tobias of Anita, Ia., Mrs. May Gingery and Albert Lamb of Atlantic, Ia., and Mrs. Nellie Joyce of Marne, Ia. One daughter Myrtle, died in infancy. There are fourteen grandchildren in the family and he will be very sadly missed when they all gather at the family home and the one whom they all loved so much will be absent. He had been a member of the Methodist Episcopal church for more than thirty years. He was a pioneer of Cass county and the county was very sparsely settled when he came with his parents to Pymosa township fifty-seven years ago. He had filled many responsible positions in the church and the township in which he has lived for so many years. His death is a very sad loss to his family, the church and the many friends who have known him so well during his life here.

NOTE FROM CONTRIBUTOR: John Lamb was born January 4, 1854 and diede December 21, 1913

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