Bueghly, Elias (1851-19430

BUEGHLY, MOORE, BARBER, GALLOWAY, WEATHERLY, TOLF

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Date: 8/12/2014 at 19:06:02

Times Republican
Marshalltown, IA [4-28-1943] p. 11

ELIAS BUEGHLY DIES HERE AT ADVANCED AGE
Liscomb Pioneer, Former County Supervisor, Had Active Life

Elias Bueghly, 91, former member of the board of supervisors for Marshall county and Liscomb township's oldest resident, died at 10 o'clock Wednesday morning at the Deaconess hospital where he had been a patient for the past nine days. He suffered a fall at his home about two weeks ago. Funeral arrangements will be made after word is received from relatives living at a distance. Mr. Bueghly was born Dec. 5, 1851, in Somerset county, Pennsylvania, and came to Liscomb with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. David Bueghly on Nov. 2, 1865. The family which included two other sons, Ephraim and Dan, settled on a farm which the father purchased a mile west and a quarter mile south of Liscomb the previous year. JENNINGS PUPIL Elias Bueghly attended school in Liscomb and was a pupil of the late J. B. Jennings, pioneer teacher. He later taught several terms in the rural schools of Marshall and Grundy counties before his marriage Nov. 26, 1878, to Miss Eliza Moore. They spent five years on the home farm, ten years on the farm on the edge of Liscomb now owned by George Morey and ten years on what was known as the "Dinnel farm" a mile west of Liscomb. Mr. and Mrs. Bueghly moved to their present home in Liscomb in 1905, where Mrs. Bueghly died in 1935. Surviving the father are two daughters, Mrs. Effie Barber and Mrs. Jake Galloway of Liscomb, a son, Clinton E. Bueghly of Des Moines. Three daughters, Mrs. Clarence Weatherly, Mrs. Frank Tolf and Blanche preceded their father in death. IN PUBLIC LIFE Bueghly's public career started with the office of road supervisor. He served as township assessor four years, as township trustee for a number of years and was a school director for the independent district of Liscomb for 25 years. He served on the Liscomb town council for a number of years and was mayor of the village from 1914 to 1916. He was county supervisor from 1906 to 1911 and was a candidate for representative in a three-cornered contest with G. F. Stansbery of Gilman and F. G. Gilbert of State Center, which was won by Gilbert. He was a life elder of the Liscomb Christian church.