ROBERT G. CHANDLER

CHANDLER, LYLE, WILCOX, GRANT, BEEMAN

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Date: 1/14/2006 at 13:46:54

Jackson Sentinel
Maquoketa, Iowa
Thursday, June 11, 1908
Died.

CHANDLER---Robert G. Chandler, aged about 73 years and a pioneer resident of Jackson county, died Friday morning, June 5, 1908, shortly after 8 o'clock at the home of his nephew, Noble Wilcox, west of town, from stomach trouble and dropsy. He was born at St. Johns, Canada, and came west with his parents in 1845 locating on a farm west of Bridgeport, where his boyhood days were spent tilling the soil. When he grew to manhood he found employment clerking in a general store in Bridgeport, and was married there to Miss Matilda Lyle. The most of his life had been spent at farm vocations, and the last few years as his health failed him, he had made his home with his nephew. He was of a cheerful, kind-hearted disposition and would do anything that lay in his power to help a friend in need. Of the eleven brothers and sisters in his family, Mrs. Mary E. Grant, this city, and Mrs. Margery Beeman of Freeport, Ill., are left, besides numerous nephews and neices in this vicinity. Funeral services conducted by Rev. A. T. Foster were held from the home Saturday afternoon at 3 o'clock, and the remains laid to rest in Mt. Hope cemetery beside his parents and other relatives.