R. J. Gasaway (-1929)

GASAWAY, ANDERSON, CRUMP, JACOBSON

Posted By: Mark Christian
Date: 8/15/2008 at 21:27:13

THE AMES DAILY TRIBUNE AND EVENING TIMES, Ames, Story County, Iowa, Wednesday, January 9, 1929.

R. J. Gasaway, Aged Gilbert Man, Suicides

Tribune's County News Service

GILBERT, Jan. 8, - R. J. Gasaway, 90 years old, committed suicide by hanging himself in the coal shed at his home Tuesday afternoon. His body was found about 4:30 p. m. by his widow when she returned from an afternoon visit with her daughter, Mrs. James O'Bryant. He had apparently been dead for two or three hours. No reason could be assigned for the act. Mr. Gasaway had been in good health and had visited with friends about town Tuesday morning.

Funeral services will be held Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Congregational church, and will be conducted by the Rev. J. P. Himmel, pastor of the church. Burial will be in the Gilbert cemetery.

Mr. Gasaway was the last surviving Civil war veteran in this town. He was married for the fourth time two years ago, his bride being a widow 15 years his junior.

He was born in New York state, and came to Gilbert just after the Civil wawr. He is survived by one son, William Gasaway of Burnside, and five grandchildren, Miss Evelyn Gasaway, Mrs. Fred Anderson, Mrs. Blanche Crump, and Mrs. William Jacobson, all of Gilbert, and Harry Gasaway of Burnside. He leaves eight great grandchildren.