R. G. HORNE 1848 - 1910

HORNE, HAMILL, CHARLES, GOWDY, MCCRORY, TURNBULL, ANDERSON, NEWCOMB, RIX, COLE, MOSELEY, COLLIER, TABER, SAGE

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 5/25/2021 at 19:04:50

The Daily Gate City
Keokuk, Iowa
13 Jun 1910

R. G. HORNE DIED
THIS MORNING

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Passing of One of Keokuk's Oldest
and Best Known Citizens Comes
as Shock to Friends of
Sorrowing Family.

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HE WAS BORN IN INDIANA

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Came to Keokuk Almost Quarter of a
Century Ago and was a
Progressive Business
Man.

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R. G. Horne, one of Keokuk's best known and highly respected citizens, died this morning at nine o'clock in Graham hospital, where for the past three weeks he has been confined on account of serious illness. Death was due to a complication of diseases from which the deceased has suffered patiently during the time of his illness. To the members of his family and many friends in Keokuk and elsewhere, the news of the passing of this prominent business man and resident, will come as a shock, as last week hopes for Mr. Horne's return to health seemed bright and his recovery was looked for by those who were with him during the time he was indisposed. Everything possible that could be, was done by the members of a loving family, whose every care was for him and his passing today is extremely sad.

Came Here in 1883
Robert Grey Horne was born March 30, 1848, on a farm in Switzerland county, Indiana. There he grew to young manhood and later attended and graduated from Monmouth college at Monmouth, Ill, in 1868. At Monmouth he spent several years in business and later returned to Indianapolis, Ind., for period of three and one-half years.

On January 20, 1875, he was united in marriage to Martha Sarah Hamill, daughter of the late Smith Hamill, his beloved wife, who survives him. Six years were spent in Monmouth after removing from Indiana, and in 1883, Mr. and Mrs. Horne moved to Keokuk to make their residence.

For the past several years Mr. Horne, who at the time of his death was president of the Mosley-Horne Starch company of this city, had been traveling representative of that firm. His splendid success in obtaining business results is well known and in progressiveness, the deceased was one of the principal factors in the up-building of a Keokuk concern which ranks among the foremost in its various details.

The deceased was a member of the Westminster Presbyterian church for many years, a christian gentleman, whose good deeds and blameless character will ever remain a monument to his name and the exemplary life he had lived. He was of the alumnus and a member of the Monmouth college fraternity, and took much interest in that school.

Born of that sturdy Scotch parentage and descended from a long and representative ancestry of that nationality, the deceased ever displayed the traits of his fathers in everyday life. A man of meaning, purpose and accomplishment, he had ever striven to make the world about him better by is presence here.

The bereaved relatives of this, one of Keokuk's foremost citizens, besides his wife, Mrs. Martha Hamill Horne, are his son, Dr. Smith Hamill Horne, of Philadelphia; daughters, Mrs. Benjamin H. Charles, of St. Louis, Mo. and Miss Marie Horne of Keokuk; two brothers, Dr. William Horne and John Horne of Mount Ayr, Iowa, and sisters, Mrs. D. W. Gowdy, of Monmouth, Ill., Mrs. T. J. McCrory, of Pittsburg, Pa., Mrs. F. B. Turnbull, of Philadelphia, Mrs. A. B. Anderson of Pawnee, Neb. and a grandson, Benjamin H. Charles, III., of St. Louis.

Funeral services for the late Robert Grey Horne will be held on Wednesday, announcement being made elsewhere in this issue.

The Daily Gate City
Keokuk, Iowa
13 Jun 1910

ROBERT GREY HORNE
LAID AT REST

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Obsequies for Departed Citizen This
Morning from Late Residence at
Half Past Ten.

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Funeral services for the late Robert Grey Horne were largely attended this morning at his late residence on Fulton street. Many of the friends and neighbors of the deceased and a large gathering of citizens were present to do his memory honor. On the bier were loving floral tributes of the many who attended and these tokens were profuse and beautiful.

Rev. E. B. Newcomb, pastor of the Westminster Presbyterian church, was in charge and interment was made in Oakland cemetery. The following gentlemen assisted as pall bearers: Geo. E. Rix, John H. Cole, William Moseley, D. A. Collier, Capt. B. C. Taber, and William N. Sage.