Chenoweth, Guy (Died 1938)

CHENOWETH

Posted By: Linda Ziemann, volunteer (email)
Date: 11/4/2008 at 16:28:25

LeMars Sentinel
May 17, 1938

GUY CHENOWETH TAKEN BY DEATH
Conducted Creamery at Akron In Early Days

Guy C. Chenoweth, an early day resident of this vicinity and well known to
the older residents here, passed away at his home near Mt. Vernon, S.D.,
Sunday night from heart trouble. He had been in failing health for some time
although had not been bedfast and his death came suddenly.

Says the Hawarden Independent:

Guy C. Chenoweth was 66 years old, being the third son of Mr. and Mrs. John
L. Chenoweth, pioneer settlers of Sioux county. He was born on the old
Chenoweth homestead in Washington township, southeast of Hawarden, where his
parents settled in 1871. Some years later, his father purchased a farm
adjoining the city of Hawarden on the east and this farm is still owned by
the Chenoweth family. Guy spent his youth on the farm but as a young man
started work in the old Hawarden creamery more than 40 years ago and learned
the buttermaker's trade under the supervision of Geo. A. Crowther.
Subsequently he managed a creamery at Akron and was employed in a similar
capacity for several years at various South Dakota points. Twenty-five years
or more ago he purchased a farm near Mt. Vernon, S.D., and his home has
since been at that place. He married Jennie Sargent, who survives him. He
leaves two sons, Alfred of Yankton, and Asa, and one daughter Evelyn, who is
married and resides in Minneapolis.

He was one of a family of five boys who grew up in this community, all but
one of whom preceded him in death. Earl Chenoweth passed away at Watertown,
S.D., May 11, 1929; C.E. Chenoweth died in Hawarden July 28, 1935; and O.H.
Chenoweth died here December 1, 1935. The surviving brother is the youngest
of the family, Ernest Chenoweth of San Jose, Cal.