Burrell T. Woosley (1902)

WOOSLEY

Posted By: Linda Smith
Date: 11/8/2023 at 18:03:25

Weekly Oklahoma State Capital
Guthrie, Oklahoma
Saturday, August 23, 1902
Page 6

RESPECTED CITIZEN DIED IN IOWA
Special Dispatch to the State Capital.
Mulhall, Okla., Aug. 20

Burrell T. Woosley, who has resided in and near Mulhall for the past two years, died on the morning of August 6, 1902, at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Frank Wright at East 18th and Market Sts, Des Moines, Iowa. He was a sufferer from a complication of diseases, which affected his heart and lungs. He leaves a wife and five grown sons and daughters. He had been steadily declining in health for the past eight months, but his condition became alarming about three weeks before his death.

Burrell T. Woosley was born in Christian county, Kentucky, near Hopkinsville, on September 6, 1832, being 69 year and eleven months of age at the time of his death. In his 19th year he left Kentucky, crossed the Ohio, and located in Illinois. He located permanently later in Knox county, near Abingdon.

On July 4, 1854, he was united in marriage to Miss Missouri Butler, the faithful and devoted wife who still survives him. In 1858 Mr. and Mrs. Woosley removed from Illinois to Iowa, locating in Madison county (on the famous "Hoosier Prairie," so named because of the great number of Indiana people located there. Here they built a home, the nearest good market then being Fort Des Moines, forty miles away. Railroads were few in those days and all freighting was done by wagon.)

In October, 1864, Burrell T. Woosley enlisted in the service of his country giving a year's hard and faithful service in Company I, 15th Regiment, Iowa Infantry.

In March, 1892, he moved near to Des Moines. Here the family resided until April of the following year, when he removed his family to the city of Des Moines, himself and sons engaging in various business enterprises. In October, 1900, at the solicitation of his son who was engaged in the newspaper business at Mulhall, he removed to Oklahoma. Later he purchased a small farm a half mile north of Mulhall, which place he lived upon and improved up to the time of his serious disability.

He declined rapidly, notwithstanding the best medical treatment was secured for him. About two months ago he decided to return to Iowa, thinking the change would benefit home. After his return he grew better for a time, with the aid of the best medical skill he could secure in that city. His devoted family and loving faithful friends united efforts to do all possible fore his comfort, but the decline was steady after July 15 and he rapidly grew weaker until the sixth day of August, when he passed peacefully into the silent way.

The members of his family were assembled around his bedside during the last hour of his life, having all been summoned by telegraph a few days before. The only other relations except children, living were a sister living in Idaho and a brother and sister living in Kentucky, but owing to living at so great a distance were unable to be with him.

The remains were taken to Earlham, Madison county, Iowa for burial in the family burial lot in Worthington cemetery, where the remains of three sons were interred. Funeral services were conducted at the residence of his daughter in Des Moines and also at Worthington, both services being attended by a large number of friends. The many intimate friends of the deceased living in Oklahoma have offered freely their sympathy to the bereft family.

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