George S. Potter

POTTER, HUNTER, MCCHESNEY

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Date: 12/28/2018 at 05:02:30

Wapello Republican, August 29, 1935, page 1

George S. Potter, a well-known resident of this community passed away Saturday evening, August 24, at his home in Wapello, having reached the age of 80 years and 10 months.

George S. Potter, son of Enoch and Mary (Hunter) Potter was born near West Liberty, Iowa, October 24, 1854. His parents emigrated from Beaver, Pennsylvania in 1851, coming by boat from Pittsburgh by way of St. Louis. They located first on a farm near West Liberty, where they resided until 1855, when they made their home across the river two miles east of Wapello, where Mr. Potter grew to manhood, later purchasing the homestead where he and his family resided until they moved to Wapello a number of years ago to make their home.

On June 11, 1891, Mr. Potter was married to Miss Addie McChesney of Toolesboro, and to them three daughters were born, one dying in infancy. He is survived by his wife and two daughters, Florence and Grace, who are both instructors in the Fort Madison schools; also a brother, O. M. of Akron, Ohio, and a number of nephews and nieces.
He was a member of the United Presbyterian church at Harrison.

Mr. Potter was a man of strong mentality, a good conversationalist, and was much interested in public affairs. In the last few years he spent much of his leisure time writing poetry, which he enjoyed quoting to his friends. Mr. Potter will be missed not only by those of the older generation, but by those of all ages.

"One day I missed him on the accustomed hill
Along the heath and at his favorite tree
Another came but not beside the rill
Nor up the lawn or at the wood was he."

Funeral services were held at the home Tuesday at 2:30 p.m., and were conducted by Rev. Jesse Huddle, assisted by Dr. J. R. Fraser, who read the scripture, offered prayer and sang the twenty-third Psalm, with Miss Myrtle Davis, pianist.

The beautiful flowers were in charge of Aileen Murray, Mary Fraser, and Mary Garrett.

Many came to pay their last tribute of respect to the deceased, and lend their sympathy to the bereaved, and as the sun was descending toward the western horizon, the remains were laid to rest in the Wapello cemetery.