Theodore F. Yetts (1847 - 1941) Alternate

YETTS

Posted By: Karen Brewer (email)
Date: 2/25/2019 at 11:19:48

The Osceola Sentinel, Osceola, Iowa
June 26, 1941, Page 1

LAST CIVIL WAR
VETERAN LAID
TO REST WED.

Services For T. F.
Yetts, 94, Held At
Hopeville; Died
Monday Eve.

The G. A. R. Flags of Osceola Post No. 173 were posted for the last time Wednesday, when Theodore F. Yetts, Clarke county's last Civil War veteran was laid to rest in the Hopeville cemetery.

Mr. Yetts died at his home at Hopeville Monday evening. He had been bedfast for two years following a hip fracture.

Services were held from the Methodist church at Hopeville at 2 o'clock with the Rev. Richard B. Smith officiating. A delegation of members from the Osceola and Murray American Legion posts attended the funeral, posted the sentry at the bier, and had charge of the final rites at the cemetery. O. B. Monroe of the Osceola post had charge of the firing squad which fired the final salute.

Mr. Yetts was born in Whitney county, Indiana, March 1847. He enlisted in the Union army when 16 and was a member of the 23rd Indiana Army Corps under General Scoffield. After the war he came to Iowa and has lived in Clarke and Union counties ever ever since.

One daughter, Alta, at home and four sons, William, Clyde, Charles and George, all of Omaha, Nebr., survive.

Pallbearers at the funeral were Loman Gilbert, Irwin German, Dell Smith, Charles Long, John Orr and Mel Musselman.

A quartette composed of Dallas Pennock, Glen Palmer, Misses Ruby Jones and Eunice Boles sang and Mrs. Etola Campbell accompanied them on the piano.