BANNISTER, Martin W. 1843-1913

BANNISTER, THOMPSON, STOWE, RHODES

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The Clinton Herald, Sept. 17, 1913
Page 6

Martin W. Bannister, 300 Second avenue, aged 79 years, a resident of Clinton for thirty-nine years, died at 3:20 o'clock Wednesday morning at Agatha hospital. He was an old soldier, junior commander of General N. B. Baker post No. 88 G. A. R. of Clinton and for thirty years had been an elder in the Presbyterian church.

For the last three months, Mr. Bannister had been suffering with bladder trouble and a week ago last Tuesday he was removed to Agatha hospital and was operated on last Wednesday in the hope of saving his life, but the operation proved in vain. Funeral services are to be held Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the late residence, 300 Second avenue. Rev. E. A. Bess of the Presbyterian church is to officiate at the services and the Gen. N. B. Baker post No. 88 G. A. R. will have charge. The body is to be interred in the family lot at Springdale cemetery.

Mr. Bannister was born in Pottsdam, N. Y., August 12, 1843, and at the age of thirteen years moved with his parents to Whiteside county, Ill., where he remained until the time when he enlisted in the war, where he became corporal of Company B, 147th regiment, Illinois infantry. At the close of the war, he settled near Stanwood, Iowa, and operated a drug store there for a few years.

Thirty-nine years ago the day of death, September 17, 1874, he married and moved to Clinton and with his brother started the firm of Bannister Bros. Milling Co. For twenty-three years, until 1897, he was actively engaged in operating a flour mill in Second street. From that time he had been engaged as a traveling salesman of furniture.

Mr. Bannister was junior commander of the Gen. N. B. Baker post, No. 88, G. A. R., and was a member of the Modern Woodmen of America. For the past thirty years, he had been an elder in the Presbyterian church and was an example of the most moral and clean lived men of the day. He leaves to mourn his death his wife, Mrs. Eliza Bannister, two sons, Arthur and Ernest of Chicago, two daughters Mrs. Arthur Thompson of Stanwood and Ruth living at home, and two sisters, Mrs Elvira Stowe of Morrison, Ill, and Mrs. Mary Rhodes of New Hampshire.

The Clinton Herald, Sept. 19, 1913
Page 6

Funeral services for the late Martin W. Bannister were held Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the late residence, 300 Second avenue. Rev. E. A. Bess of the Presbyterian church officiated and G. A. R. had charge of the services, the G. A. R. ritualistic services being read at the grave. The body was removed to Sprindale cemetery for interrment in the family ??. The honorary pall bearers were members of the G. A. R., of which Mr. Bannister was junior commander, and were: George Drake, A. R. Hart, Fred Rumble, Thomas Bartow, George D. Dalrymple and A. J. Palsgrove. Mr. Bannister had been an elder of the Presbyterian church for the past thirty years and the active pall bears were elders of the church and were: George B. Phelps, E. D. Nagel, Dr. C. W. Brown, Robert M. Matteson, S. L. Shambaugh and L. L. Smullin.