Walter Preston Rhyno (1927)

BERRY, GOSHORN, GRAY, HAMILTON, KLINGENSMITH, RHYNO, TONERAY

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Date: 2/14/2011 at 08:20:49

The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, July 28, 1927
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This community was powerfully shocked on Friday afternoon by the sudden death of W. P. Rhyno, who had resided in this county for over 58 years.

Mr. Rhyno had been in his usual good health until Friday afternoon about 2:30 when he called Dr. Thompson to see him at his rooms at the Arlington hotel. His physician found him to be ailing from heart trouble induced by indigestion, prescribed some medicine and advised him to lie down. Two hours later, when his daughter, Mrs. Ernest Hamilton, called to see him it was found that he had passed away.

Mr. Rhyno came with his parents to South township in 1869. After attending school at Des Moines and Simpson college, he came to Winterset to serve as deputy treasurer under Charles F. Koehler. In 1888 he and Mr. Koehler formed a partnership in the implement business, which continued for four years. Since that time, he was engaged in the management of his farms in Douglas township.

More particulars concerning his life are given in an obituary published in another column.
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The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, July 28, 1927
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Walter Preston Rhyno was born in Abingdon, Virginia, on Good Friday, April 22nd, 1859, and died at Winterset, Ia., July 22d, 1927, aged 68 years and 3 months.

His family for three generations back were Virginians. He was the eldest son of James A. Rhyno, born in Wynville, Virginia, and Harriet E. Toneray, born at Abingdon, Virginia. When a little child, he came with his parents to Des Moines, Iowa. There a terrible calamity befell him for his mother died when he was but five years old. Placed under the guiding spirit of the Sisters of Charity for his earlier education, a Christian influence was inculcated which remained with him throughout his entire life.

With his family he moved to the eastern part of Madison county in the year of 1869. There he attended the country schools. Later he entered Simpson college. While at Indianola the field of business opportunity early appealed to him and he left school there to enter a business college. Upon completing his course the interest taken in early life in a political friend led to an appointment in one of our county offices. Here it was he met and associated with Eva Klingensmith, a charming, sweet woman of many talents, and it was she who became his wife, and the mother of his daughters. Her tragic death at Colorado Springs just ten years ago last month broke up the family home, and cast a shadow which saddened the remainder of his life.

Since 1885, Walter Rhyno resided in Winterset. Here he became actively interested in farming, and livestock and in everything pertaining thereto. His judgment in these matters was unrivalled, and his counsel much sought after.

A staunch and true loyalty for his friends, a genial personality, a warm and tender heart, and a spirit, democratic in the free sense of the word, were his dominant characteristics that will long remain within the memory of his loved ones.

Left to mourn his sudden passing are his two daughters: Mrs. Ernest C. Hamilton of Winterset and Mrs. Robert C. Goshorn of Jefferson City, Missouri; two beloved grandchildren; one brother, J. T. Rhyno, of Cincinnati, Ohio; three sisters, Mrs. Lou R. Gray of St. Charles, Mrs. Nellie Berry of Acohink, Virginia, and Miss Mercedes Rhyno of Washington, D. C., besides many nephews and nieces.

Funeral services conducted by Rev. Jackson Giddens, a former pastor of the Winterset Methodist church, on Sunday afternoon from the home of his daughter, Mrs. Ernest C. Hamilton and burial was made in the Winterset cemetery.

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