Lynn Burleson (1894-1918)

BURLESON, CUNDILL

Posted By: Anne Hermann (email)
Date: 1/11/2009 at 22:16:27

Jackson Sentinel
December 17, 1918

Obituary

Lynn, the second son of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence V. Burleson, was born Oct. 3, 1894, near Maquoketa and after a short illness during which everything that medical skill and hands could do, he passed away at the home of his wife’s parents on West Pleasant street on Saturday, Dec. 14, at 5:25 a.m., aged 24 years, 2 months and 11 days.

He grew to a useful young manhood on the farm and attended the country schools and later the Maquoketa high school. He was of a genial, kind disposition and had a large circle of friends. He was a progressive young farmer, ambitious to make good in some specialized line and so devoted his talents and time to building up a fine strain of stock cattle for himself and his father, with whom he had been associated for a number of years, also for the community at large. The fruits of his labors were beginning to be manifest when in a short time his youthful, energetic career and success in life was cut off to the great sorrow and disappointment of his parents, wife and friends.

He was united in marriage to Miss Charlotte Cundill of Maquoketa on Jan. 26, 1916, and this union was blessed with one son, William, who with the sorrowing bereft wife, the grief-stricken parents, two brothers, Hunter and Burton, two grandfathers and one grandmother, besides relatives and friends, survive to mourn his early passing. His earthly work is done and he has gone to his reward.

Funeral services were held from the home of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Cundill on West Pleasant street on Monday, Dec. 16, at 2 p.m. and burial in the mausoleum. The floral tributes were beautiful. Mesdames Frank Wilson and Hugo Staack, and Messrs. D. T. Bauman and Max Wright sang consolingly. Rev. D. E Boomershine, assisted by Rev. H. C. Boissier, officiated.