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Charles Clinton Gillespie (1926)

GILLESPIE, GREEN, GROVE, LAWSON

Posted By: Pat Hochstetler (email)
Date: 12/28/2010 at 09:28:19

The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, January 7, 1926
Page 5

Charles Clinton Gillespie was born at Carrollton, Illinois, September 21, 1865, and died at his home 2733 East Walnut street on January 1, 1926, aged 60 years, 3 months and ten days. Mr. Gillespie came to Iowa about 43 years ago and to the city of Des Moines 33 years ago.

He was married on June 30, 1889, to Rosa Green. To this union were born four children, two of which died in infancy, one daughter, Bessie Marie Grove and one son, Harold Gillespie and six grand children and one sister, Mrs. H. Lawson, only surviving member of this family, all of Des Moines along with the widow survive him.

Mr. Gillespie spent about 23 years of his life as a meat cutter and 10 years of the time was spent as a conductor for the Des Moines City Railway company. Charlie, as every one knew him, was a genial fellow, always having a smile and some thing to say to his friends and those who knew him, a man who enjoyed the company of his friends and more than all else a man who loved his home and family. Charlie was generous to a fault and was ready and willing at all times to tender assistance wherever it was needed.

Of two things he was very proud—one was that he was a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and another that he was a member of the Klu Klux Klan both of which teach true Americanism and the fraternity of men.

During his recent illness he suffered a great deal but was patient in the extreme for fear of placing too much of a burden upon his loved ones.

In his early youth he joined the Baptist church but later drifted away from that church and only within the past year united himself with the Simpson Methodist church of which he died a very devout member. Charlie will surely be missed in the home, the neighborhood, in the lodge rooms, and on the streets and by all persons who came in contact with him because of his genial disposition.

A service in charge of the I.O.O.F. and conducted by the Rev. Mr. Kitt, were held in Des Moines Sunday afternoon and on Monday at one p.m., Rev. Kitt assisted by the ladies of the Klu Klux Klan held a service at Tidrick’s Funeral home in Winterset and interment was made in the Winterset cemetery.

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