John Q. Burgess (1848-1913)

BURGESS, OGBURN, GIBSON, GROVE, WARRICK, HUDDLESTON, ADAMS

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 5/17/2021 at 16:53:11

From Nevada Representative June 27, 1913 (front page)

OBITUARY

J. Q. BURGESS

A telegram was received Wednesday morning by D. M. Grove from Mrs. J. Q. Burgess at Los Angeles that Mr. Burgess had died there at six o'clock Tuesday evening. This telegram is all the advice that has been locally received but in the absence of further information it is assumed that Burgess had been in more or less uncertain health for a good many years, and in recent years he and Mrs. Burgess had gone first to Texas and then to California in the interest of his recuperation. We do not think it was known here that he was materially either better or worse; but his general condition was such that his death at any time is not a matter of great surprise.

J. Q. Burgess came from Dublin, Indiana to Story county about forty years ago and located on a farm near Zearing which his father had taken up from the government many years before. He grew up and prospered with the new country, served for some years as township clerk of Lincoln township and in 1883 was nominated and elected as a dark-horse candidate for county supervisor He served for about four years in this office and then resigned to accept the stewardship of the poor farm. In this, however, he made a mistake for the health of the first Mrs. Burgess was greatly impaired by the work and worry there, and he retired from the place after a year of service. He then moved to Nevada, which continued to be his home until he went away in search of health. After removing to Nevada he served more or less on the city council, was for four years deputy auditor and then for four years county auditor, and received various other expressions of public esteem and confidence.

He was twice married but leaves no children save two step-sons, who are children of his second wife. His first wife was Alice Ogburn, who he married in Indiana and who died in Nevada after several years of invalidism. His second wife was Mrs. Etta Gibson Grove, whom he married in Nevada about a dozen years ago, and who now survives him. He had no relatives of his own that were ever known here. His stepsons, Guy and Lee Grove live near their mother in California. Mrs. Fred C. Warrick is a niece of his first wife, and Philip Gibson of Ames and sister Miss Sylvia Gibson of Nevada, are respectively nephew and niece of his second wife. His precise age is not know here now but he was around 66 or 68 years of age.

SUBMITTER'S NOTE: "Mrs. Fred Warrick" was Lillian D. Huddleston, daughter of Jonathan Huddleston and Lydia M. Ogburn. Lydia Ogburn was the sister of the first Mrs. Burgess, Alice E. Ogburn.

Phillip Everett Gibson and his sister, Sylvia May Gibson, were the children of Theodore C. Gibson and his first wife, Mary Belle Adams. Theodore was the brother of the second Mrs. Burgess, Etta Marie Gibson. In the 1900 Nevada, Story County, Iowa census, "Phil" and "Sylva" Gibson are living in the J. Q. Burgess household listed as grandchildren.