Thomas William Simmons (1897)

CASON, DEARDORF, SIMMONS

Posted By: Pat Hochstetler
Date: 7/25/2008 at 13:00:46

Semi Weekly Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Tuesday, January 26, 1897
Page 1

St. Charles and Roundabout.

T. W. Simmons, of this city, died at his home early on Saturday evening, after a lingering and patient illness. The remains were taken to and interred in the cemetery south of Peru, near his old home, on Sunday afternoon. He was familiarly known and respectfully called Uncle Billy, by a large circle of acquaintances. He was a resident of Madison county for many years, and was not an extreme old man, yet on account of his energy in his younger days and the great amount of hard labor he had performed, the naturally strong man became prematurely aged. His faithful wife and daughters did all that love and care and watchfulness could to make him as comfortable as possible in his last days. Other relatives, friends and neighbors spared no pains to assist the family in nursing and helping him. His immediate relatives now surviving him, and mourning in his loss are his wife, and his three daughters, Mrs. W. H. Deardorf, of East Peru, Mrs. W. T. Cason, of Paton, Iowa and and their children, and Miss Rose M. Simmons, his youngest child, at home with her mother in St. Charles.
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Winterset Reporter
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, January 28, 1897
Page 4

Uncle Billy Simmons died at his home here last Saturday evening. Mr. Simmons had been a paralytic for several years prior to his death and very seldom, if ever, left his home. He was buried in the cemetery at Peru Sunday evening.

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