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John Pickering

PICKERING

Posted By: Sharon Elijah (email)
Date: 5/18/2018 at 08:25:36

7 December 1911 - West Branch Times

Marshalltown, Iowa, Dec. 1 -- John Pickering, a member of the Soldier's Home, from Cedar Falls, was stricken with heart disease Wednesday and died within a few minutes. Pickering was 74 years old. He had served in Company E, Fifteenth Ohio Infantry. He entered the home on April 13, 1910.

J. E. Pickering will be remembered as one of the early settlers in West Branch, having moved here from Indiana in 1868. He was a carpenter by trade and helped build many of the first houses of this place. He was a member of the M.E. church of which he was an earnest worker. He with his family moved from here to Alta, Iowa, in 1878, where he held the position of postmaster for many years. While there his wife and two sons died, leaving him alone. With broken health he went to California, spending three of four years there, a great part of the time in the hospital at the Soldier's Home. He returned to Iowa abut two years ago and has been an inmate of the Soldier's Home at Marshalltown since the above date. At the time of his death he was almost totally blind from cataract of the eyes which was ready to be operated on at the time of his death.


 

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