Commodore Perry Nuckolls (1922)

NUCKOLLS

Posted By: Pat Hochstetler (email)
Date: 9/26/2013 at 07:13:52

Earlham Echo
Earlham, Iowa
Wednesday, April 5, 1922

Those present at the funeral of Mr. Perry Nuckolls this week from a distance were the daughter, Mrs. F. M. Sergeant, of Maxwell, Colo., Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Nuckolls, Mrs. Hazel Gates and Mr. Gates, and Miss Zola Price, of Des Moines.

Commodore Perry Nuckolls was born in Bates County, Mo. March 2, 1842, and died at his home in Earlham, Iowa, April 2, 1922 at the age of eighty years and one month. When the Civil War broke out Mr. Nuckolls was a young man of nineteen. He joined the Confederate Army and gave three years of service to the Southern cause. At the age of twenty-one while he was yet a soldier in active service, he married Miss Lydia Merrell of Collins County, Texas. Mrs. Nuckolls was his steadfast companion through the fifty nine years of their married life. During the past nine years she was constantly at his bedside to help and cheer in his affliction.

After the war was over Mr. and Mrs. Nuckolls spent a year in Illinois and then moved to Iowa. After having lived in Jones County, Missouri Valley, St. Charles, and Winterset, they moved to Earlham and have made this their home ever since.

To this union were born ten children, six of whom are still living. The four who have preceded their father to their eternal home are William, Jessie, Mary Jane, and Lydia.

Mr. Nuckolls sought the Lord early in life and united with the Baptist Church. He remained a member of that institution for many years. It was not until he moved his family to Earlham that he joined the Methodist Episcopal Church. He always enjoyed religious services and bore his afflictions cheerfully and patiently.

The beginning of the end came in August 1913 when Mr. Nuckolls was seriously injured in a railroad accident which left him a permanent cripple. In August 1921 he received a stroke of paralysis which left him in a still more helpless condition. About five weeks ago he received another stroke and the end soon followed.

There remains to mourn his death his faithful and patient wife, Mrs. C. P. Nuckolls and six children, James Nuckolls of Earlham, Mrs. Georgia Sargent of Haswell, Colo., Mrs. Netty C. Price of Des Moines, Iowa, Thos. A. Nuckolls also of Des Moines, Mrs. Hannah C. Price of Moberly, Mo. and Mrs. Lucy M. Mussleman of Earlham.
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Winterset Madisonian
Wednesday, April 12, 1922
Page 2

Earlham

The funeral of Perry Knuckles was held at the Methodist church Tuesday afternoon, Rev. Alwell, the pastor having charge of the service. Mr. Knuckles was 80 years old and has been an invalid for many years. He leaves his aged wife and six children to mourn their loss.
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Transcriber’s note: Typed as printed in the Winterset Madisonian, surname is "Nuckolls".

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