David F. Fanning (1823-1898)

FANNING

Posted By: Alan Nicholson
Date: 3/29/2014 at 20:24:45

Paullina Times, 24 Feb 1898, p. 3

Uncle Dave Fanning is lying at the point of death at the home of Hugo Ewoldt.

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Paullina Times, 10 Mar 1898, p. 3

David Fanning was adjudged insane last Saturday and taken to the state asylum at Independence last Sunday night by Deputy Sheriff Morgan. He has been ill of late and it is thought that this and business worries have turned his mind. He is an old settler here, owning a quarter section of land south of town that he had entered as government land until within a few years ago. On the application of his wife, J. L. E. Peck was appointed guardian of his estate.

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Paullina Times, 7 Apr 1898, p. 3

David F. Fanning, a pioneer settler of the county, died at the Independence hospital, this state, on March 28th, and was buried at Primghar. In speaking of his death the Primghar Bell says: "Mr. Fanning came to O'Brien county in 1870, and hence is one of the very earliest settlers. He entered a U. S. homestead on section 18, in Highland township, three miles from Primghar, and is well known in all this division of country. He passed through all the various phases of pioneer life, known to all the old settlers here. He has been a successful and honorable farmer for now 28 years, with us. He was a man of few words but his word was always the word of honor and so received by all who knew him. Of late years he has had some vexations and groundless troubles relating to a technical defect of his naturalization papers, over his land. Results proved that he need not have worried for a moment, but he could not easily brush aside such matters. This with old age coming on with some through difficulty brought on an attack upon the brain sufficient at least to cause his removal three weeks ago to the hospital at Independence, where he died."