Simon Cope Stratton (1844-1930)

STRATTON, NEWKIRK, DOWNEY, GOLDEN, HEMSTOCK, BALL, PENLAND

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 5/17/2021 at 16:53:12

From Nevada Evening Journal January 31, 1930 (page 1)

PASSING OF REAL COUNTY PIONEER

SIMON C. STRATTON HAD LIVED IN STORY COUNTY SINCE EARLY IN 1854

Simin C. Stratton 86, for 76 years a resident of Story county and since [1876?] making his home on Lincoln Way in Ames, died at the home of his granddaughter, Mrs. Ralph Downey in that cit Thursday afternoon at 2:30.

The funeral will be held at the Methodist church in Ames Sunday afternoon at 2:30, after which interment will be in the Ames cemetery, by the side of his wife who died 7 years ago.

Mr. Stratton, a native of near Richmond, Indiana, where he was born February 1, 1844, came to Iowa with his parents when a lad of ten years and settled in Ballard's Grove. There he was raised to young manhood and was married to Miss Mary Ann Newkirk, January 25, 1865.

They lived on a farm until October of 1873, when they moved into Ames and located in a home on the south side of Lincoln Way and there they continued to reside until the death of the wife and until the condition of his health made it necessary for him to leave his own home that that of the care of another.

Mr. Statton had enjoyed fairly good health until last November when he was taken ill while at the home of eldest son, W. F. Stratton, in Nevada. Since that time he had been a sufferer from gall stones and various complications incident to old age.

Nine children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Stratton, one son died in infancy. The eldest daughter Mrs. Luella Golden died in California and the second daughter Mrs. Etta Hemstock died at her home a few years ago. The surviving children are W. F. Stratton of Nevada, M. N. Stratton of Portland, Oregon; Simon Stratton on the west coast; Mrs. James Ball of North Grant; Henry A. Stratton of Carroll and Mrs. Hattie Pendleton of New Market. Besides these he leaves many grandchildren and great grand children.

Mr. Stratton had been an active member of the Methodist church since in early life, and the funeral service will take place at that church, as stated, Sunday afternoon at 2:30.

In the death of Simon Stratton Story county loses one of its real pioneers--a man who had lived in the county for over three-quarters of a century and had observed the various developments of that state of Iowa and the United States longer than is the lot of the average man.