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Lettitia Flint (Gowin) Walton Macy Bales (1923)

ARCHER, BALES, GOWIN, MACY, POTTER, WALTON

Posted By: Mary Welty Hart
Date: 2/28/2007 at 20:05:25

Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
March 1923

Death Of MRS. O. K. BALES

Mrs. George Potter received word last Wednesday of the death of her oldest sister, Mrs. O. K. Bales, who passed away March 20th, 1923, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Harry Archer in Adel.

Funeral services were held Friday and burial made at Fairview cemetery.

Mrs. Bales had lived 54 years in Iowa and about half of this time near Winterset.
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Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, April 5, 1923
Page 7, Column 1

Neighborhood News
Earlham

An item that was omitted last week was the death of Mrs. Bales of Adel, better known to the people of Earlham as Mrs. Walton, as she was a resident of Earlham for some time many years ago. Her son, John Walton, lives just out of town and two step-children, Dr. and Mildred Bales, live here. All have the sympathy of their friends at this time.
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Earlham Echo
Earlham, Iowa
Thursday, March 29, 1923

Death of a Former Earlham Woman

An interesting bit of local history is connected with the life of Mrs. C. K. Bales, mother of John Walton, who died at Adel last week. Services at Christian church at Adel Friday afternoon and interment in Fairview Cemetery.

Amos Walton and family moved from Fairview to the ----- and ----- homestead south of Earlham in 1850 and remained there only a year before Mr. Walton’s death. Ford and Drimmie were farmers on a big scale, Englishmen who came to Madison County and plunged in land to the extent of 800 acres. Their career was ----------- while it lasted. They employed many hands, and it was nothing unusual to have fifty men at one time working.

After her husband’s death Mrs. Walton and her seven children moved to Earlham and operated the hotel, then on the site of the power house. A year later, they moved to the frame building on the site of the Windsor Hotel and conducted a hotel for three years before moving to Dexter. Mrs. Bales’ obituary follows:

Lettitia Flint Gowin was born in Hendricks county, Indiana, November 27th, 1847, and died at her home March 21st, 1923, aged 79 years, 3 months and 21 days. She was the oldest child of Mr. and Mrs. Allen Gowin. At the age of sixteen she was united in marriage to Amos Walton. Three years later she moved with her husband to Madison county, Iowa. Since that time she has lived either in Madison or Dallas county.

To this union were born seven children, five of whom are still living: Anna Sp--- of North Salem, Ind.; Allen Walton of Perry, Jno. Walton, Earlham; Hattie Archer, Adel; ----- Walton, Des Moines; Eva Lemar, and Emma Jones and the husband preceding her in death. The husband died January 3, 1887.

In 1899 she was united in marriage to O. K. Bales, of Dexter. Mr. Bales had two children who were raised by this good mother, they are Francis and Mildred Bales, of Earlham. The five children of her own with these two, and eleven grandchildren, three great grandchildren, three sisters, Mrs. Potter, Winterset, Jno. Goins, Puyalup, Wash., Mrs. Sadie McCullough, Oregon, Mrs. Ollie Bosley, Danville, Ind., with other relatives and a host of friends mourn her loss.

When a girl she became a member of the Christian church in Indiana and was baptized in the Brandywine ----.

Mrs. Bales was the oldest member of the Rebecca Lodge of Adel.

Funeral services were held Friday morning, March 23rd, at the Christian church, conducted by Rev. C. N. Bigalow. Burial was made at Fairview Cemetery, south of DeSoto.

Coordinator note: Madison County marriage records list a second marriage to Milton Macy on February 11, 1890.

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