James Hiram McClintock (1936)

MCCLINTOCK, RUSH, MONTGOMERY, MORIARTY, JUROE, HUMMEL

Posted By: Treva Patterson (email)
Date: 1/1/2008 at 14:38:12

Earlham Echo-Earlham, Iowa
1936

J. H. MCCLINTOCK IS CALLED BY DEATH

Pioneer Farmer Of Iowa and Dakota Died at Home Here Late Sunday Night

J. H. McClintock, 79, died at his home in Earlham about midnight Sunday, October 25, after a prolonged illness. Services in charge of Rev. Davis of Winterset were held at the Welch Funeral home here Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock, after which the body was taken to De Soto for burial.

OBITUARY

J. H. McClintock was born at Rossville, Iowa, Allamakee county, February 10th, 1857. Died at Earlham, Iowa, October 25th, 1936. His father was Eston McClintock and his mother Hulda Rush McClintock both of whom are buried at De Soto, Iowa. His father served in the Civil War.

From Rossville, the family moved to Jasper county residing for some years at Fairmount. There were six children, three sisters and two brothers.

James Hiram McClintock, the deceased, married Delphia Montgomery also of Fairmount, Iowa on October 5th 1884. They moved to Cherokee county, Iowa where they purchased land and built a farm home which was then prairie wilderness. So scarcely settled was that part of Iowa at that time that the young Mrs. McClintock lived there one year before meeting another white woman.

Four children were born to Mr. and Mrs. J. H. McClintock. As they became of high school age this home was sold and the family moved to De Soto, Iowa near a good high school. It was at the home near De Soto that the eldest daughter Maud died on August 11, 1909. Mr. McClintock owned farms at De Soto and Blakesburg, Iowa and later farmed extensively in the Red River Vally, North Dakota.

Through out his entire life he maintained an active interest in farming a stock raising. He delighted in growing vegetation, the prize animal life on his farms and in the great out of doors in general.

The latter years of this robust energetic and substantial personality were spent in ill health in his home at Earlham, Iowa. Here he lived unobtrusively with Mrs. McClintock in quiet seclusion and kindly citizenry of that town. He is survived by his widow, tow daughters, Mrs. C. Moriarty and Mrs. H. D. Juroe of Des Moines, Iowa, a son, R. V. McClintock of Bowesmont, North Dakota, a sister, Mrs. Chas. Hummel of De Soto, Iowa, a brother Grant McClintock of Geddes, South Dakota and several grandchildren.