Connell, Frank Daniel, 1856-1928

CONNELL, TRUEX, BROWN

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Date: 6/13/2021 at 20:33:36

From the Alton Democrat, March 23, 1928, Boyden news:

Dr. Brink received word Sunday [March 18] at Granville, of the death of Frank Connel[sic] of Arnolds Park from a chronic case of hernia, from which he had suffered many years. Mr. Connel was one of the early pioneers of this section and will be remembered by many still living here. Owing to the fact that some of his children are living at a great distance, no funeral arrangements had been announced at this writing (Monday).

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FindaGrave.com shows him buried in Okoboji Cemetery, Arnolds Park, with a photo of his and his wife’s joint headstone. It includes an image of this clippings from the Spirit Lake Beacon, March 22, 1918:

F. D. CONNELL OF ARNOLDS PARK DIED AT SPENCER HOSPITAL

Frank Daniel Connell was born at Janesville, Wis., Aug. 27, 1956 and passed away in the Spencer hospital, March 18, 1928, aged 72 years, 6 months and 20 days.

He came with his parents to Mason City, Iowa, when 5 years of age, and when a young man took a homestead in Sioux county, near Boyden, and with the exception of four years in Minnesota, remained there all his life until he came to Arnolds Park in 1919.

He was married to Ida Truex, Feb. 3, 1885. To this union were born five girls and six boys. Minnie, John Riley and Lillian preceded him in early childhood, while Wm. of George, Iowa, Geo. Lewis, Frank and Rouley, Mrs. Ray Butler, Dora and Mrs. Howard Mead remain to mourn his loss together with the wife. One brother, Charlie of Alexandria, and four nephews and nieces.

Mr. Connell seemed to spend his whole life at peace with both men and his God, and in the nine years of his residency at Arnolds Park won many friends who today mourn his passing as the loss of a rarely honest and good natured friend and brother.

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ADDITIONAL RESEARCH NOTES

The Boyden Reporter, which might also have contained information, is missing for this time period.

His death certificate has Frank Daniel Connell, resident of Arnolds Park, Iowa; born August 27, 1856 in Janesville, Wisconsin; parents John Connell, born in Ireland, and Cornetia Brown, born in New York, N.Y.; wife Ida May Connell; occupation farmer, retired 9 years; died in the Spencer Hospital, Spencer, Iowa, at 6 a.m. March 18, 1928 of a strangulated left inguinal hernia, duration 2 days, for which he was operated on March 17, 1928; contributory cause, “arterio sclerosis – marked”; buried at Arnolds Park.

The 1900 U.S. census shows Frank Connell living in Grant Township, Sioux County, born Aug 1855 in Wisconsin, a farmer, married 15 years; wife Ida M., born Feb 1866 in Iowa, mother of 7 children, 5 living; and children C. William (born Dec. 1885), Nora M. (born Feb. 1890), Minnie B. (born Nov. 1893), George H. (born Feb 1897), and Mary E. (born June 1899), all born in Iowa.