William Hamner (1925)

CHILDERS, HAMNER

Posted By: Kent Transier (email)
Date: 1/6/2015 at 07:41:50

Winterset News
Thursday, August 27, 1925
Page 4, Column 4

William Hamner

William Hamner was born March 19, 1833, in Johnson county, Indiana, and died at his home at 265 North Cedar street, Creston, Iowa at 3:29 p. m. August 17th, 1925, at the age of eighty-seven years. He is survived by his widow, Susaner Hamner, one son, Etna Hammer, and one daughter, Mrs. Oma Childers, of Banning, California.

He came to Iowa with his parents in 1855 and settled in Madison county, where he lived nearly all his life. He lived a few years in western Iowa and Nebraska. He went to Creston in October, 1923, and living there until his death. He was married in 1867 to Susaner Childers. To this union were born seven children, five of them dying in childhood.

When a young man he crossed the plains as a guard to a government wagon train. He operated a lime kiln near Winterset in the early days and burned lime to be used in the first capitol building in Des Moines, and he hauled lime from Winterset to Des Moines, to be used in the present capitol building.

Most of his life was spent in farming and for many years he lived on small farms along Middle river, from below the Holliwell Bridge to Webster. He built houses on several of these firms and cleared them of timber brush for cultivation. He was a man who always held the love and respect of his friends and neighbors. Interment was made at Prairie Lawn cemetery near Creston August 20, 1925.

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