JOHN EARLY

EARLY, EGELSON, SHEETS

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Date: 2/14/2002 at 13:14:10

Decatur County Journal
Februry l8, l9l5

The sad intelligence of the death of JOHN G.
EARLY reached this place on
Monday evening of last week, the end having
come to him that day at his
home in Kansas City in the 78th year of his
age. He had suffered from
ill health and the infirmities incidental to
his advanced age for
several years and was confined to his bed
about six weeks prior to his
death. Funeral services were held at the
home in Kansas City on
Wednesday forenoon and the remains were
brought to Mercer Early Cemetery
near his old home south of Mercer, Rev.
Schooler, of Spickard,
conducting the last sad rites. A large
number attended and paid their
respects to the memory of their old neighbor
and much respected and
beloved friend. During the many years of his
life among them he had
made friends of all, the honesty and
integrity of his character, his
broad charity and the goodness of his heart
making him one to be
respected. He was to his family and his life
a blessing to the world
for its example and for his having lived. He
leaves a wife, four
daughters and a son to mourn the loss of a
kind and loving husband and
father and the sympathy of a multitude of
friends are extended to them
in their sorrow and loss, says the Lineville
Tribune.

JOHN G. EARLY moved with his family from
Mercer County, Missouri, to
Lineville in the fall of l88l, where they
resided for ten or twelve
years, the deceased being engaged in the
grocery business, with the
exception of the last two or three years of
his residence here when he
was engaged in the lumber business, having
disposed of his grocery stock
and purchased the lumber yard belonging to
the late Tom Laughlin. After
conducting the lumber yard here for a year or
so the stock was disposed
of and together with his family the deceased
moved to Leon, Iowa, where
he and his son, T.R. EARLY, again entered the
lumber business. After
disposing of his lumber interests at Leon
about l893, the deceased
retired from active business pursuits and
with his family moved to
Independence, Mo., where they resided for a
short while and moving from
there to their present home, 26l5 Lockridge
Avenue, Kansas City, Mo., in
l900, where they were residing at the time of
MR. EARLY's death. The
following obituary notice was taken from the
Kansas City Daily Times of
February 2nd:

JOHN G. EARLY, a retired lumberman, died at
his home, 26l5 Lockridge
Avenue, yesterday. MR. EARLY was the father
of T.R. EARLY, the
proprietor of a lumber yard at Seventeenth
Street and Brooklyn Avenue.
He had not been actively engaged in business
since coming to Kansas City
in l906. Previous to that he had been in the
lumber business in Iowa.
He went there from northern Missouri. He was
born in Whitley County,
Kentucky, in l837. He moved from there to
Missouri in l85l.

Surviving MR. EARLY, besides T.R. EARLY, are
his wife, MRS. SUSAN J.
EARLY, and four other children, MRS. MORTHEA
J. EGELSON, of Mercer, Mo.;
MRS. I.C. SHEETS, of Yale, Iowa, and MISSES
OPAL and RUBY EARLY, of the
home address. The funeral will be held from
the home at ll o'clock this
morning. The Rev. Burris Jenkins will
officiate. The body will be
taken to Mercer, Mo.

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