Wilder Brockway 1833-1906

BROCKWAY, WILSON, MCNEILL, FIELD

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Date: 12/22/2005 at 23:27:02

Obituary: Ft, Madison Weekly Democrat, Ft. Madison, Iowa; Wednesday, 28 March 1906; p. 8, column 6
BROCKWAY
At his home in Denmark, Iowa, Wednesday, March 21, 1906 at 3:20 p.m., Wilder Brockway, aged 72 years, 9 months, and 11 days. Deceased was born in Tumbull* County, Ohio, Junes 11, 1833, coming to Iowa with his parents when but four years old and had spent the greater part of his life in Lee County. He was constable of Denmark township for may years and well known in Fort Madison, where he had many friends. November 21, 1858, he was married to Miss Louisa McNeill in Marion County, Iowa, who with one son A.E. Brockway, survives him. He is also survived by one sister and two brothers, Mrs. Electa Field of West Point, Nathaniel Brockway of Des Moines, and D.M. Brockway of Denmark. Funeral took place Thursday at 2 o'clock. Interment in Denmark Cemetery.
*Should be Trumbull County