Maggert, Clarence E. 1880-1949

MAGGERT, GREEN

Posted By: Cheryl Locher Moonen (email)
Date: 3/23/2015 at 12:46:46

‘TURKEY VALLEY POET’
DIED; RITES AT ELKADER
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Elkader, Ia. Clarence Maggert, 70, widely known throughout northeast Iowa as a poet and as a used car and junk dealer, died Sunday at Beaumont Hospital in Prairie du Chein, Wis.; he had been there for treatment of a heart ailment since Thursday.

Services will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Elkader Congregational Church. The Rev. Herbert G. Kelly will officiate and burial will be in the East Side cemetery. The Oelke Funeral Home, at Elkader, is in charge of arrangements.

The ‘Turkey Valley Poet,’ as he describes himself in his published works of poetry, is survived by four sons, Earl, Claude, Lawrence, and Gail, all of Elkader. His wife died several years ago.

Dubuque Telegraph Herald 1949

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Added by S. Ferrall 3/23/15:

Funeral services for Clarence Maggert, 69, were held from the Oelke funeral home in Elkader to the Congregational Christian church Tuesday afternoon, May 10. The Rev. Herbert G. Kelly officiated. Burial was in the East Side cemetery.

Mr. Maggert died at the Beaumont hospital at Prairie du Chien, Wis., Sunday, May 8, of a heart ailment. He had been in ill health for a number of years but had been confined to the hospital only two days.

Clarence Elton Maggert was born at Cromwell, Ind., March 16, 1880, the son of Martin and Lydia Maggert. He received his education in the grade schools.

In 1901 he was married to Miss Minnie Pearl Green at Cromwell. That same year they came to Clayton county and settled in lower Pony Hollow near Elkader.

Mr. Maggert was a trader and farmer, and was the first used car dealer in Clayton county. He was also a writer of poetry and was known as the Turkey Valley poet.

~Clayton County Register, Thurs., May 12, 1949