Friend, George 1969 - 1914
FRIEND, HAYES, WEEKS, PORTEOUS, MCCULLOCH
Posted By: Joy Moore (email)
Date: 6/26/2017 at 17:19:41
Source: Cresco Plain Dealer September 4, 1914, FP, C3
Transcribed from: http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn87058075/1914-09-04/ed-1/seq-1/George Friend Meets Instant Death
A shooting accident occurred at Bonair Tuesday morning of this week, when Geo. Friend, living near there, was shot through the heart and immediately killed.
Mr. Friend has been a great man to hunt and for weeks has been awaiting the opening of the chicken season. Tuesday, Sept 1st the season opened and early in the morning he and Lem Ensley and Ensley’s two sons. Cecil and Otis, struck out back of Mr. Friend’s residence along the Milwaukee tracks. About 10 o’clock, Mr. Friend, Mr. Ensley and Otis started back for the house. Cecil Ensley was not of the party as he had been taken ill and left them early. These three were coming through one of the stubble fields belonging to the Martin place east of Mr. Friend’s. There is a lane runs along the line fence and it was while attempting to climb the fence that Mr. Friend was shot. . . .The funeral was held yesterday afternoon at the Bonair M. E. church, Rev. Meyers officiating with interment in New Oregon cemetery.
Source: Cresco Plain Dealer September 11, 1914, FP, C3
Transcribed from: http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn87058075/1914-09-11/ed-1/seq-1/George T. Friend was born Jan. 23, 1869, in Whitby, Canada. At the age of eight years he, ‘with his parents, brothers and sisters, came to New Oregon. Almost the remainder of his life was spent in Howard county. Sept. 9, 1896, deceased was united in marriage with Miss Margaret Hayes, at Cresco, Iowa. To this union were born five children: Grace, Elsie, Earl, Glenn and Gerald, who, with the wife, two brothers, James Weeks, of North Yakima, Wash , and John of Tacoma, Wash., and two sisters, Mrs. W. A. Porteous, of Tabor, Alberta, Canada, and Mrs. A. C. McCulloch, of Minneapolis, Minn., survive to mourn the departure of this devoted husband, father and brother . . .
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