Ellsworth Clark Culver, 1896-1919
CULVER, JONES
Posted By: Clay County IAGenWeb Coordinator (email)
Date: 7/20/2013 at 11:13:22
C.W. Culver, accompanied by his son, Rev. Harry Culver of Rockford, Iowa, left last Thursday morning for New York City to visit their son and brother, Ellsworth, who has just returned from overseas and was seriously ill. Mr. Culver sent the sad news to Dickens Saturday morning that Ellsworth had passed away. Mr. Culver has the sympathy of the entire community in this his second sad bereavement since last September.
Source: Spencer Reporter, Spencer, Clay County, Iowa; April 30, 1919.
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Dickens Marine Died Saturday
Ellsworth Culver Died from Diabetes in Naval Hospital in New York--Funeral Thursday
Ellsworth Culver, son of C.W. Culver of Dickens and brother of E. Culver of near Spencer, died Saturday, April 26, in a naval hospital in New York from diabetes which he contracted overseas. His father, C.W. Culver, and his brother H.C. Culver of Rockford, Iowa, reached his bedside a few minutes before died. Funeral services will be held at Dickens on Thursday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock, conducted by Rev. W.A. Wolcott of Hawarden, Iowa.
Deceased was born on a farm near Dickens in 1895, where he lived until he enlisted in the navy on June 4, 1917. He was sent to the Great Lakes Naval Training station and was in the hospital corps. Later he transferred to the Marines and was sent to Quantico, Virginia, for training. He went overseas in November last year, landing there the day the armistice was signed. During all the time he was in the service he was in hospital work. He returned to the States a week ago last Saturday.
Source: Spencer Reporter, Spencer, Clay County, Iowa; April 30, 1919.
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Diabetes Just After Returning from France
In the death of Ellsworth Clark Culver of Dickens, which occurred at the Naval hospital in Brooklyn, New York, last Saturday, April 26, Clay county has lost 33 loyal sons in the great world war.
Mr. Culver had been ill for about two months with diabetes, but in the frequent letters and messages which he had sent home had given no hint of the serious condition of his health, always hoping he would get better and longing to spare his father, Charles W. Culver of Dickens, who has faced so much sorrow in the death of a number of his family within the last few years. He arrived in New York from France on April 18, on the hospital ship Mercy and was taken at once to the hospital at Brooklyn. A message was sent to his father on Wednesday, April 23, stating that he was seriously ill and the father in company with his son, Harry of Rockford, Iowa, left at once for Brooklyn. They reached the hospital just ten minutes after death had claimed the young soldier. The body was prepared for shipment home at once and reached Dickens on Monday evening.
Was Born In Dickens
Ellsworth Clark Culver was born in Dickens on November 6, 1895, and spent almost his entire life in that city. He attended the public schools of Dickens and later attended Taylor university at Upland, Indiana.
He enlisted in the navy at Des Moines on June 4, 1917, and was sent at once to the Great Lakes Naval training station, where he was stationed for over a year, being a member of the hospital corps. He was then transferred to the marines and sent to Quantico, Virginia, from which place he sailed for France in November 11, the day of the signing of the armistice.
Two days after crossing the Atlantic he lost his mother, Mrs. Culver's death occurring November 13, and this sad news received while in a foreign land and among strange scenes and strange folk did much to impair his health.
Funeral Services Today
Funeral services will be held from the Methodist church at Dickens this afternoon at 1 o'clock, in charge of the Rev. W.A. Wolcott of Hawarden. Interment will be made at the cemetery at Dickens. A number of relatives of the young soldier will be in attendance at the last rites, coming from a distance to do honor to the departed dead. Besides his father, Ellsworth Culver is survived by a sister, Mrs. Stella Jones of Alberta, Canada; and four brothers, Percy, who is a missionary in China; Edward, a farmer living south of this city; Harry, who is a pastor of the M.E. church at Rockford, Iowa; and Neil, who is with his father at home.
Source: Spencer News Herald, Spencer, Clay County, Iowa; [date unknown].
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The funeral of the late Ellsworth C. Culver was largely attended last Thursday afternoon. The church was taxed to its capacity, large numbers being unable to gain admission. Rev. Wolcott of Hawarden and the Rev. Dyson conducted the service.
Source: Spencer Reporter, Spencer, Clay County, Iowa; May 7, 1919.
Interment in Dickens cemetery
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