David Houghton

HOUGHTON, RAY, HAMMA, CARSS, NOLES, BALLINGER, TRICKETT, CROSBY, HERBERT, LAMBERT

Posted By: Joy Schwarz (email)
Date: 4/15/2007 at 15:10:20

Well Known Montrose Citizen Is Dead

David Houghton, a well-known citizen and civil war veteran of Montrose, passed away at his home in that city Sunday afternoon, Dec. 23, at 4 o’clock p.m., aged 83 years and two months. Mr. Houghton’s death was due to senility. He had been ailing and practically bedfast during the past thirteen months, though he was critically ill only the past two weeks.

Deceased was born in Orange county, Maine, on Oct. 23, 1840. When a young man he came west and settled at Montrose, and was an old settler of that place. In 1862 he enlisted at Keokuk, in Co. B. 17th Iowa infantry and served until the close of the war, a period of three years. He was a prisoner in Andersonville and other confederate prisons. After the war he returned to Montrose and engaged in the barber business which he pursued until 1918, for over 50 years.

On July 11, 1866 Mr. Houghton was married to Mary Ann Ray, who survives him. The late Mrs. Chris. Hamma of Sonora was a sister. Besides his wife there are no other near relatives, except nephews and nieces, who are: David and H.H. Hamma of Sonora, Frank Hamma of Davenport, W.J. Hamma of Hamilton, Mrs. Mary Corse of Keokuk, Mrs. Lizzie Noles of Montrose, Mrs. Sadie Ballinger of Rock Island, Mrs. Nellie Trickett of Minneapolis, Mrs. Amy Crosby of Keokuk and Mrs. Ed Herbert, Hamilton.

Mr. Houghton was a man of many good qualities, and he led a quiet and upright life.

He was well known in Nauvoo.

The funeral will take place from the L.D.S. Church in Montrose Wednesday at 2:30 o’clock, Elder Geo. P. Lambert officiating.

[Note: the niece named “Mrs. Mary Corse” is a mis-spelling of the name “Mrs. Mary Carss”.]

source:
The Montrose Journal
Montrose, Lee County, Iowa
Thursday December 27, 1923
page 4