Henry Albert England (1931)

ENGLAND, HOADLEY, ARBUCKLE, JAMICON, YOUTZ, MENDENHALL

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Winterset Madisonian, Winterset, Iowa
March 12, 1931 – page 5

Henry Albert England

Henry Albert England, oldest son of Albert and Martha England, was born May 14, 1887, near Van Meter, and departed this life at the Polyclinic hospital, Des Moines, Saturday morning, February 21, 1931, at the age of 48 years, 9 months and 8 days, after an illness of ten days. He spent most of his life in Polk and Madison counties.

On December 28, 1910, he was united in marriage to Effie May Hoadley. To this union two children were born, Gladys May and Willard Clyde, who were with their mother at the time of their father’s death.

Henry became a member of the Early Chapel Church of Christ in the fall of 1910; and always lived in the home and in the community a consistent religious life.

He leaves to mourn his loss besides his wife and two children, an invalid mother and an aged father; also four sisters and one brother. The sisters are: Mrs. Mary Arbuckle, of Udell, Mrs. Linnie Jamicon of Wallingfird, Mrs. Rachel Youtz and Mrs. Sylvesta Mendenhall of Valley Junction and one brother, James Ervin of Earlham, besides a large number of relatives and friends.
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Earlham Library Collection
February 1931

HENRY ENGLAND

Father of Two Children Is Taken in Prime of Life by Strange Malady

After an illness that lasted ten days and which defied medical skill for definite analysis, Henry A. England, 43, passed away at Polyclinic Hospital in Des Moines Saturday morning. He was well known and universally liked in this community, having worked at the Hawkeye quarry for a number years. A wife and two children survive him.

First, manifestations of the malady which later caused his death were noticed February 11th when England became ill at the quarry. He was at the pump house at the time and feeling unable to summon help shut off the water so that a fellow employe might come seeking to discover the trouble. At his home he received treatment and was removed to a Des Moines hospital the next day. From the first his temperature ran high, and attending physicians were waiting for this dangerous condition to pass before taking X-rays of the lower skull and spinal column. Spinal meningitis was suspected but this was disproved by samples of serum extracted from the spine. Pneumonia or some other chest ailment was also disproved, and the cause of death was given as paricarditis, a disease of the heart lining. However, Mr. England had suffered periodic headaches of varying intensity every three or four weeks since being struck at the base of the skull in an accident six years ago. This is believed a contributory factor, if not the direct cause of death.

Hundreds of friends attended the funeral services which were held Monday in the Earlham Church of Christ, conducted by Rev. A. J. Hastie, of Early Chapel. Interment was in Earlham Cemetery.