Dr. John J. Gillespie (1894)
GILLASPIE, GILLESPIE, MCKEON, TRUMBOLL
Posted By: Kent Transier
Date: 11/8/2023 at 18:04:34
The Winterset News
Winterset, Iowa
Friday, February 9, 1894
Page 8, Column 2Obituary
Died, at Scranton City, Green Co., Iowa January 26, 1894, Dr. John J. Gillaspie of typhoid fever. Dr. Gillaspie is the son of Mr. and Mrs. James Gillaspie of Crawford township, Madison county Iowa. He was born on the 15th day of March 1859 and at the time of his death was 34 years, 10 months and 11 days old.
He graduated at the King Eclectic Medical college, of Des Moines, in 1886 and since that time has been in the regular practice of his profession. He was a professor in the College from which he graduated for four or five years. He followed his profession in Des Moines until 1891 at which time he moved to Scranton where he has since remained and has been very successful in his profession and well liked by all who knew him.
About two months ago he performed a very successful operation on a young girl. The girl was given up for dead, her disease be croupal diphtheria. Dr. Gillaspie opened the wind pipe and the girl is now well and her parents bless him.
He was married to Miss Mary E. Trumboll June 29, 1887 who died the following March. He was again married on the first day of October 1889 to Miss Maggie McKeon, of Des Moines, who now survives him. He also leaves 2 children, Mary 3 years and six months and James, 20 months old.
His remains were followed suit the depot in Scranton by a large concourse of sorrowing friends and on their arrival in Des Moines was met by friends innumerable. The funeral services took place in St. Ambrose church by Rev. Father Flavin who preached a very appropriate and feeling sermon on the occasion. Remains were then taken to the Cemetery followed by a very large funeral procession and laid by the side of his first wife in the Catholic burying ground in Des Moines. May he rest in peace.
His parents are now very lonely
And mourn for the loss of their son
Yet one hope remains and one only
To meet when their race here is run.
________________________Scranton Journal
Scranton, Iowa
Thursday, February 1, 1894
Page 5, Column 2Obituary
Dr. John J. Gillespie died at his home in Scranton, Iowa, Friday, Jan. 26, 1894, at 11:50 p. m., Surrounded by his family and friends, after a brief illness, aged 34 years, 10 months and 11 days. His ailment was pronounced typhoid fever.
The deceased was born in Madison county, Iowa. He was a graduate of the Des Moines Eclectic college of physicians and surgeons. He became a member of the Jasper County Eclectic Society of Physicians and Surgeons March 17, 1886.
He was United in marriage to Miss Maggie Kune, Oct, one, 1889. He moved with his family to Scranton in the fall of 1891, and had succeeded in building up a good practice. He was a well informed practitioner. He practiced his profession both in this place and in Bayard.
He was a son of a veteran and joined H. Anderson Camp, No. 142, this place, June 11, 1892, and on the first of January, 1893, was appointed to the position of 1st Sergeant, and on June 27 the same year he was appointed division surgeon on the staff of Col. J. Owen Smith. He held both of these positions at the time of his death.
He leaves a wife and two children to mourn the loss of a kind husband and father.
He was a member of the Catholic church. His remains were taken to Des Moines for interment.
The doctor will be missed by many. He was cut down in the morning of manhood. May the consoling spirit visit the bereft ones.
________________________Transcriber's note: His gravestone has his surname as "Gillespie" as does a brother but his parent's gravestone, in the Calvary Cemetery, Jefferson Township, Warren County, has "Gillaspie".
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