Ellis E. Lineweaver

LINEWEAVER, MESNER, BECK, MCCLELLAND, HARRIS, ANKROM

Posted By: Mary Welty Hart (email)
Date: 3/28/2006 at 09:05:44

Winterset Madisonian, Winterset, Iowa
Novemer 13, 1968

E. E. LINEWEAVER Dies at 90 Years

Ellis E. Lineweaver, a well known Madison county farmer for many years, died Wednesday, Nov. 6, 1968, at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Pearl McClelland in Des Moines. He was 90 years of age.

Mr. Lineweaver was a native of Noble county, Ohio, where he was born May 23, 1878, a son of George W. and Mary Mesner Lineweaver.

Mr. Lineweaver had been a resident of Madison county for 57 years, engaged in farming here during his active life. He was a member of the Worthington Methodist church, and the Modern Woodmen of America.

He was married at Greenfield in March, 1904, to Carrie W. Beck. She preceded him in death in 1953.

Surviving are a son, Louris W. Lineweavaer of near Winterset; the daughter, Mrs. Pearl McClelland of Des Moines; a grandson; two great grandchildren; a brother, Thomas Lineweaver of Chicago; and two sisters, Mrs. Emma Harris and Mrs. Pearl Ankrom of West Virginia.

Funeral services were held Friday from the Collins Funeral home in Winterset, conducted by the Rev. Ward Young. Burial was made in Worthington cemetery.