Norman Inman, 1875-1952

INMAN

Posted By: Emmet County IAGenWeb Coordinator (email)
Date: 2/7/2009 at 18:58:07

Norman Inman Is Dead at 76
Found Dead by Farm Tenant

Norman Beatty Inman, pioneer Emmet County resident, died of a heart attack late Saturday night at the age of 76. He was discovered by a tenant on his farm at 11 p.m. and his physician said he had been dead for about two hours when discovered.

Mr. Inman was born July 28, 1875 in Benton county and moved with his family to Center township in Emmet county at the age of 21. He has lived in Center township ever since.

On Feb. 25,1903, he married Etta Viola Glime of Chelmsberg. The couple bought a farm a mile east of his parents' farm. He took great pride in his farm and raised 100 to 150 head of hogs and 50 to 60 cattle a year while his children were at home.

At the time of his death he was believed to have been feeding the livestock on a nearby farm run by his tenant, Edgar Higgins. They shipped hogs and cattle by the carload to Chicago.

Mr. Inman could remember Estherville when the chief mode of transportation was bicycle and often told of biking to Mason City for a Fourth of July celebration.

A fishing and hunting enthusiast, Mr. Inman accompanied other enthusiasts in Estherville to Ryan Lake in quest of fish for many years until the lake was drained.

He was a former member of the Mystic Organisation (as spelled in the newspaper article) of the World.

He is survived by Rex Inman, a son, and George Inman, a brother, of Trochu, Alberta, Can.

Funeral services will be held Tuesday at 1:30 p.m. at Sandin funeral home and at 2 p.m. at the Presbyterian Church, the Rev. Thomas G. Melton officiating.

Contributed by: Ruth Hackett. Source: Estherville Daily News, Monday, January 7, 1952, Estherville, Iowa.