Brinton Lovelace (1919)
BARTLETT, LOVELACE
Posted By: Mary Welty Hart
Date: 3/11/2012 at 13:03:58
The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Wednesday, December 25, 1919
Page 4BRINTON LOVELACE
Brinton Lovelace, son of Hiram and Harriett Lovelace, was born in Harrisburg, Pa., Nov. 24, 1841 and died at his home in Dallas, Ore., Nov. 21, 1919, lacking just three days of being 78 years of age. In the spring of 1856, he with his parents, came to Madison county and settled two miles west of Peru, where he grew to manhood.
He was well known in Madison county and army circles, having joined at the outbreak of the Civil War, the 39th Iowa Infantry, and served until the close of the war. He was married to Miss Ella Bartlett and to this union four children were born: Bert, Percy, Mayme and Guy, all but the latter, who lives in Pittsburg, being buried at Portland, Ore. Some years after his marriage, he and his family moved to Des Moines and from there to Portland, and finally to Dallas, his last home.
His first wife dying a number of years ago, he married a lady in Dallas, this wife dying just four days after his death. Funeral services were held by the Masons at Dallas, then he was taken to Portland where another service was held Nov. 24th, his 78th birthday, at his former church.
In August this year, he was sent as a delegate to the G. A. R. encampment at Columbus, Ohio. He was very active and cheerful for a man of his years, and was loved and respected by all who knew him, his friends saying he was a real gentleman of the old school.
During his residence in Dallas he was employed in the Redhead & Norton paper house. Out of a large family of brothers and sisters, only three brothers remain: Charles of Des Moines, John of Audubon, Iowa, and Clark of Colby, Kansas.
________________________Morning Oregonian
Portland, Oregon
Saturday, November 22, 1919
Page 18Lovelace – At Dallas, Or., November 20, Briton Lovelace, aged 77 years. The funeral services will be held Monday, November 24, at 3:30 o’clock P.M., at Finley’s, Montgomery at Fifth. Friends invited. Interment at Lone Fir Cemetery.
________________________Transcriber's note: Transcribed as published, first name is "Brinton". The deceased lived in Madison County, Iowa from the late 1850s until the early 1880s.
_______________________Morning Oregonian
Portland, Oregon
Monday, November 24, 1919
Page 4Obituary
DALLAS, Or., Nov. 22. – (Special) – B. Lovelace, an old soldier of the Civil War days passed away at the Dallas hospital Friday morning following an illness with heart trouble of but a few days.
Mr. Lovelace had made his home in this city for about 10 years, having come here from Portland in 1909 after his marriage to Mrs. L. N. Woods, widow of the late Dr. Woods, a pioneer physician of Polk county. He had resided in Dallas continuously ever since.
Mr. Lovelace enlisted with an Iowa regiment at the outbreak of the Civil War and served throughout the rebellion. He recently returned from the national encampment of the G.A.R. at Columbus, O., during which time he visited the only surviving member of his family, a son living in Pittsburg.
___________________Morning Oregonian
Portland, Oregon
Monday, November 24, 1919
Page 12LOVELACE – The funeral services of the late Briton Lovelace will be held today (Monday) at 3:30 o’clock P. M., at Finley’s, Montgomery at 5th. Friends invited. Interment at Lone Fir Cemetery. Deceased was a member of the Masonic lodge, Grand Army of the Republic and Woodmen of the World.
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