GRAVES, Ezra E. 1880-1953

GRAVES, PETERSON, GOESELIN

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 4/25/2012 at 00:44:11

Aged Farmer Near
Little Cedar Dies

OSAGE, IOWA — Funeral services for Ezra Graves, 73, will be held Sunday at the Champion Funeral Home at 2 p.m. Burial will be in the Brownsville Cemetery. He died Tuesday evening at his farm home near Little Cedar.

Born on February 24, 1880, to Mr. and Mrs. Allen Graves, on a farm near Little Cedar, he spent his entire life farming in that area.

He was married to Edna Peterson in 1899 and they established their home on the farm where he died.

Survivors include a son, Glen, of Osage, a daughter, Mrs. Ora Goeselin of Milton, Oregon, and five grandchildren.

[Mason City Globe Gazette, Friday, March 6, 1953]
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The cemetery listing on IaGenWeb for Beaver Creek Cemetery shows:

Graves, Ezra E. Feb. 24, 1880 -- Mar. 3, 1953

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See photo of his headstone at Beaver Creek Cemetery, on Iowa GPP.
(Credit: K. Pike)

GPP
 

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