Conrad McDole (1907)

BAYCORN, MACUMBER, MCDOLE

Posted By: Mary Welty Hart
Date: 3/15/2010 at 15:55:51

The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, June 27, 1907

CONRAD McDOLE

Conrad McDole, whose illness has been reported in these columns, passed away yesterday morning. Mr. McDole was the father of Nate McDole, of this place, and John McDole of Adair county. Mr. McDole was a little past 94 years of age.

Funeral services were held this afternoon and burial made in the Winterset cemetery.
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The Winterset News
Winterset, Iowa
Friday, June 28, 1907
Page 4, Column 2

Conrad McDole

Conrad McDole was born in Beaver county, Pennsylvania, January 4, 1818, and died at the home of his daughter in Winterset, June 26, 1907, aged 94 years, 5 months and 13 days.

His parents removed from Pennsylvania to Richland county, Ohio, in 1817, when he was 4 years of age, and in that new country he grew to manhood. He helped his parents turn a wilderness into a happy and pleasant home. In 1836 he was married to Miss Rebecca Baycorn, of Richland county, Ohio. Their union was blessed with seven children, four sons and three daughters. There is still one daughter, Mrs. Maggie Macumber, and all the sons, John of Orient, Iowa; Nathan and Martin, of Winterset, and Jacob who resides in Oklahoma. Some time after his marriage he moved to Indiana and lived there until 1849 when the glowing accounts of the then new state of Iowa induced him to move once more. So in 1849 he came to Polk county, where he resided until 1867, when he moved to Winterset, where he has lived ever since.

Mr. McDole has all his life been a working man, engaged in clearing land and farming. When he was in his eighties he enjoyed work such as ordinary men of sixties would consider tasks. He belonged to a class of men which, it seems, is rapidly passing away—rugged pioneers whose hearts and hands were ever ready to assist their brother men. The writer was often entertained by “Mack,” as he called him, and his reminiscences showed he was a diamond whose lustre lured the needy to his door and none ever went empty-handed away.

Mr. McDole was an exemplary citizen, ever ready to assist to the best of his ability every good and benevolent project. His allotted time has been far beyond the four score years and he has gently passed to the Great Beyond, where we hope a happy reunion now is and he is with his wife, who preceded him some years ago. Besides his five children and many friends who mourn his loss and cherish his memory, he leaves thirty-five grandchildren, thirty great-grandchildren and four great-great-grandchildren.

Funeral services were held this afternoon from the home conducted by Rev. Trueblood.
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The Madison County Reporter
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, June 27, 1907
Page 3, Column 3

Oldest Citizen Passes Away.

An obituary identical to The Winterset News version but slightly condensed was published here.

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