Charles T. Stone (1913)

STONE, DOOLEY, LANGLEY

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Date: 6/21/2020 at 12:25:56

Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
October 1, 1913
Page 6, Column 2

Chas. T. Stone was born in Union, Stark county, Ohio, June 25, 1846 and died at Leavenworth, Kansas, Sept. 20, 1913 aged 67 years, 2 months and 25 days. He came to Penn. With his parents when he was five years old and five years later came to Minnesota. At the age of eighteen, he enlisted in the army, belonging to Co A. and M. 1st Minn. H.A., serving about one year, returning to Minnesota.

He was married to Harriett Dooley in February, 1869, and moved to Madison County, Iowa, in the fall of 1870 and to Adair county in 1897, and in 1903, moved to Dexter, where he resided until the death of his wife in 1910, when he son afterwards entered the soldiers’ home at Leavenworth, Kansas, where he has since resided.

There were no children and the only near relative living is a sister, Mrs. Emma Langley of Hoquial, Wash., who could not be present at the funeral. He was a member of the Christian church at Winterset and was a member of the G.A.R. Post at Dexter.

His body arrived here Tuesday morning, and funeral services were held from the M.E. church at two o’clock, conducted by the Rev. Leon H. Couch, pastor of the Christian church at Stuart. Interment was made in the Dexter cemetery. Members of the Wadsworth Post here, acted as pall bearers. Those from away, who attended the funeral were Christ Lartz, Adair; A. J. Dooley, Topeka, Kans.; John Dooley Atlantic; Ava and Leah Dooley, Oregon, Mo.---Dexter Sentinel