Herbert Forney

FORNEY

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Date: 1/26/2008 at 15:32:59

Sept. 21, 1898

A SOLDIER'S FUNERAL

Fort Madison Turns Out En Masse to the Obsequies Over Herbert Forney.

The funeral of Herbert Forney of Company G. Fiftieth Iowa, who died at Jacksonville, occurred at Fort Madison Sunday afternoon, and the whole city seemed to be attending the obsequies. The services were held in the Santa Fe Avenue Methodist church. Interment being in the Atlee Cemetery.
Long before the hour announced for the services, the church was completely filled, and when 2 O'clock arrived, the crowd surrounded the church in a dense mass, the building being merely an island in an ocean of people. After the services, the procession to the cemetery was formed with the Grand Army post and the soldiers of the present war who happen to be at the home in front, followed by the city officials, the police department, the employees of the Santa Fe road, and the fire department of the city, in the order named.
Forney was a very popular young man who was hearty and a fireman when he went to the front. He died of fever in a hospital in Jacksonville, and his father brought his body home for burial.

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