George M. Bancroft (1932)

BANCROFT

Posted By: Kent Transier
Date: 11/8/2023 at 18:02:52

The Winterset News
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, April 7, 1932
Page 1, Column 7

GEORGE BANCROFT DIES IN ALABAMA

Head Of Single Tax Colony In Fairhope, Alabama, Several Years

George M. Bancroft, 82, a former resident of Madison county, died at Fairhope, Alabama, March 22. He was a member of the Single Tax colony at Fairhope, going there in 1896 from the Monroe township farm in a covered wagon. He served the colony as its president for several years and in other official capacities for twenty years.

Only a few Madison county residents will remember George Bancroft. He was the son of John Bancroft, an Englishman who came here from Indiana in 1855. During the Civil war John Bancroft, too old to serve in the army, saw to it that the soldiers widows and wives were supplied with food.

George Bancroft attended school in Winterset and was a member of the class that completed the school course in 1873 under Principal Preston. In the class were also Luther Cassiday, Thomas Cloughly, Jennie Bartlett, Effie Kemmis and Robert Goshorn. All but Cloughly went to the State university that fall or the next. Bancroft only attended two years, going back to the Monroe township farm. He was a fine man, severe, thoroughly honest in whatever he did or said.

The Fairhope people paid him a beautiful tribute at the funeral that was held in the cemetery when E. B. Gaston, a brother or nephew of J. J. Gaston of Winterset, deceased, presided. Old friends and co-workers joined in tribute to his fine life and work, declaring they had never known so good a man.

The Fairhope Couler devoted two columns to an account of his death and funeral and life.

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