Laforest Peck 1851-1944

PECK, GABLE, SEEGER, JURGENSEN, WELLS, MCMURRIN

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Date: 3/22/2021 at 08:02:00

28 September 1944 - The Anamosa Journal

OLIN--Funeral service was held at the Campbell Funeral Home for L. H. Peck, Monday afternoon, Rev. W. E. Strait officiating. Interment was in Olin cemetery.

Laforest Henry Peck, oldest son of H. H. and Alma Hill Peck, was born in Johnson county, Vermont, Nov. 29, 1851.

When a small child, he moved by covered wagon, with his parents, to Dekalb county, Ill., where he lived for seven years before they came to Iowa in 1864, and settled on a farm near Wyoming, where he grew to manhood. He was married to Anna E. Gable, Jan. 25, 1877, at Maquoketa. They lived at Lost Nation until the fall of 1881, when they moved to Olin, where he was in partnership with Winfield Scott in a meat market. After they sold the meat market, he owned a grocery and hardware store, and later was in the restaurant business.

Mr. and Mrs. Peck were the parents of seven children, three of whom are deceased, Dr. John Peck, George and Leroy Peck. His wife died in February, 1935, and, the following children survive, Will and Ernest Peck, Olin; Mrs. Ada Seeger, Morley; and Mrs. Esther Jurgensen, Blairstown. He is also survived by 13 grandchildren; 13 great-grandchildren; two sisters, Mrs. Lottie Wells, Olin, and Mrs. Lucie McMurrin, Anamosa. Mr. Peck was a member of the Olin Methodist church, where he held offices and taught a Sunday school class, for several years.

He died at a Cedar Rapids hospital, Friday, Sept. 22, at the age of 92.