HACKNEY, Montague (1836-1917)

HACKNEY, CHAMBERS, HOUCK, FIELDER, UTTERBACK

Posted By: Kathy Weaver (email)
Date: 7/28/2018 at 15:46:46

Mills County Tribune
Glenwood, Mills County, Iowa
April 16, 1917

M.A. Hackney - - The death angel on Wednesday, April 11, at about the hour of 2 p.m. sounded taps for another of Glenwood’s pioneer citizens and G.A.R. veterans and the soul of M.A. Hackney passed to the great beyond. His years of life had gone much beyond the Psalmists allotment, but he had enjoyed many of them in mingling with his fellow man. Only during the past three years has he been deprived of daily meeting his comrades and conversing with them. These later years they have had to go to him.

M.A. Hackney was born in Jefferson City, Mo., March 4, 1836, and died in Glenwood, Ia., April 11, 1917, aged 81 years, 1 month and 7 days. He has been a resident of Glenwood for thirty-seven years, coming to Mills county in 1880. He also resided a short time in Hastings.

He was united in marriage to Miss Sophronia Chambers and to this union five children were born. Of these, three survive their father, who with the wife, are left to mourn a husband and father. The living children are William M. and Edmund S., both of Glenwood, and Martha A. Houck of Sidney. Two daughters, Mrs. Lou Fielder of Indiana, and Mrs. Eliza C. Utterback, preceded their father in death several years ago. Besides the children there are two grandchildren and two great-grandchildren and two brothers to mourn his passing.

Mr. Hackney enlisted for services in the Civil war in 1862 by becoming a member of Company E, 10th Missouri cavalry, and served the remaining of the war period. He was a good soldier and was held in loving memory by his comrades. He loved to be with his comrades and that pleasure was to him a joy that was kept long in mind.

He became a member of the Baptist church in Glenwood in 1893, and was a faithful member until death.

Funeral services were held from the home on Friday afternoon, conducted by Rev. Sneath of the Baptist church. Burial was in Glenwood cemetery.