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James Diggs (1919)

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Posted By: Mary Welty Hart
Date: 3/20/2010 at 16:12:59

The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Wednesday, September 17, 1919

Death of JAMES DIGGS

James Diggs, a long time resident of this county, died at his home in Winterset on last Saturday at the age of 73. His sickness was of short duration having suffered from a stroke of paralysis on the 4th and other attacks following.

Funeral services and burial were held at Union Chapel (South) church and cemetery on Tuesday. Rev. J. S. Corkey conducting the services.
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The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Wednesday, October 1, 1919
Page 1

JAMES DIGGS

James Diggs was born in Shelby county, Indiana and died at his home in Winterset at the age of 73 years. On the 28th of August he suffered a light stroke of the speech and brain; on the 4th of September, a brain attack on the 6th another; from then on he gradually grew worse until the 13th when he slowly passed away at 4:15 p.m.

He was married to Jane Cooper of Indiana. They came to Iowa about thirty-seven years ago, spending all of that time here except two years which they spent in Missouri.

To this union nine children were born, three dying in infancy. He leaves to mourn his loss, a wife and six children, George, William and Robert of Winterset; Leonard of Des Moines, Mrs. Alta Handy of Spencer, Iowa, Mrs. Clara O'Hara of Elmore, Minnesota, besides fifteen grandchildren and a host of relatives and friends.

Funeral services were conducted by Rev. Corkey at the Union Chapel church on September 16th. Burial in the Union Chapel cemetery, South township.
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Coordinator's note: Although his gravestone gives year of birth as 1850, he appears in the 1850 census as 3 years old and his Iowa Death Certificate says he was born in 1846.

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