Henry Felkner Devault (1918)
DARKE, DEVAULT
Posted By: Kent Transier (email)
Date: 12/30/2011 at 09:10:35
Winterset Madisonian
Wednesday, November 06, 1918
Page 1, Column 5H. F. DEVAULT DIES AT SAVANNAH, MO.
H. F. Devault, for fifty years a resident of Jackson township died at Savannah, Mo. on Oct. 30.
A few weeks ago, Mr. Devault went to Savannah to have a cancerous growth on his hand treated. His letters home indicated that the cancer was responding to treatment and that he would be home by election day. On last Wednesday morning the family received a telegram announcing his serious illness and later in the day, a second telegram announced his death. The men in charge of the sanitarium at Savannah gave pneumonia as the cause of death, but the family are inclined to believe that his death was due to paralysis of apoplexy, and base their opinion on the testimony of other patients, who were at the sanitarium.
Mr. Devault was a veteran of the Civil War, and came here from Johnson county in 1868. He was born in Indiana in 1837. Three brothers surviving are: J. J. and C. R. Devault of this county, and Geo. Devault of Cedar Rapids. One son, C. H. and one daughter, Mrs. W. W. Darke, reside in this county, and one son C. A. Devault, resides at Sterling, Colo.
Funeral services were held at the Webster M. E. church on Sunday afternoon and burial at the Roberts cemetery, the Masonic order officiating at the grave.
__________________________Winterset Madisonian
Wednesday, November 06, 1918
Page 4, Column 3H. F. Devault
Henry Felkner Devault was born Dec. 22, 1837, in Kosciosko county, Indiana and died in Savannah, Mo., Oct. 30, 1918, aged 80 years, 10 months and 8 days. He moved to Iowa with his parents at the age of 4 years and located in Johnson county. He grew up and attended Western college, also Cornell college.
He enlisted in the Civil War, Aug. 11, 1862. He was united in marriage with Mary Francis Nicholson, 50 years ago this last September. They moved t Madison county, and have lived here ever since. They were among the. pioneers and underwent the privations and hardships of pioneers.
He was converted in 1895 and was a member of the Methodist church at Webster. He was a member of the Evening Star lodge at Winterset.
He leaves to mourn his loss, his wife and three children: Mrs. Effie Drake and Chas. H. of Madison county and Gilbert Allen of Sterling, Colo.; 14 grandchildren and three brothers, together with other relatives, friends and neighbors.
_____We wish to express our appreciation for the kindness and sympathy of friends and neighbors and the members of Evening Star lodge,, A.F. & A. M., during our recent bereavement. - Mrs. H. F. Devault and Children.
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