Lodovica Ramage Clements (1939)
BEAN, CLEMENTS, JACOBS, RAMAGE
Posted By: Kent Transier
Date: 11/8/2023 at 18:02:57
The Winterset News
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, December 21, 1939
Page 5, Column 1County Briefs – St. Charles
The Sunday Register reports the death of L. R. Clements, 88, of Knoxville. Mr. Clements was a resident of St. Charles during the 90s. William Bean, now a resident of Harvey, Iowa, married one of his daughters.
________________________The Cainsville News
Cainsville, Missouri
Thursday, January 11, 1940
Page 1, Column 3L. R. CLEMENTS FORMER RESIDENT PASSES
L. R. Clements, former business man of this city passed away December 16th at Oskaloosa, Iowa. Many old-timers throughout this community will be saddened to know this character has passed who for a number of years was affiliated with the old Cainsville Bank and who for a number of years manufactured excelsior here.
The following are parts taken from the obituary of Mr. Clements appearing in the Knoxville, Iowa Express:
Lodovica Ramage Clements, son of John Ray Clements and Malinda Ramage Clements, was born on November 6, 1861 in Morgan county, Ohio and departed this life on December 16, 1939 at Mahaska hospital, Oskaloosa, Iowa at the advanced age of 88 years one month and ten days.
He went to Iowa with his parents in November 1855, when he was four years of age and the family settled in Jasper County near Monroe where they resided about three years. Later the family removed to a farm three miles northeast of Newton where he grew to manhood. He attended the country schools and academy at Wittenburg, la. and also an academy at Newton. Later he attended Grinnell College, Grinnell, la.
On October, 1876 he was united in marriage to Angeline Jacobs at Mt. Carroll, Ill. To this union three daughters and one son were born: Lena (who died in December 1901) Josephine Pearl and Harold. His beloved wife Angeline Clement, departed April 21, 1907
From 1877 to 1879 he was engaged in mercantile business in Newton, Iowa and later he was engaged in the furniture business for about ten years in the city of Des Moines. He was engaged in the excelsior manufacturing business at Cainsville, Missouri and at Harvey, Iowa, for about four teen years.
In 1917 he was appointed deputy clerk of the district court of Marion county and served in that capacity until 1921. He was again appointed to the same position from 1930 to 1935. He was a member of the 47th general assembly of Iowa having been elected as representative from Marion county. He had the distinction of being the oldest man to have served as a member of that body.
Funeral services were held Tuesday, Dec. 19, at 2 P.M. in the Bybee & Davis funeral home in Knoxville, conducted by Rev. Tracy assisted by Rev. Kennedy of the Methodist church. Interment in the cemetery in Newton.
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