Claude Micah French (1880-1918)

FRENCH, HICKAM

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 5/17/2021 at 16:53:13

From Nevada Representative January 21, 1918 (page 1)

FUNERAL OF CLAUDE M. FRENCH

The funeral of Claude Micha French who died at the home of his father Clark French in Fernald on Friday last, was held from the home on Sunday afternoon the services being conducted by the Rev. Fred Ross Shirck of Nevada and the interment in the Murphy cemetery east of Fernald.

Mr. French who is a Fernald boy was born on November 24th, 1880 and up till a few years ago mad his home in Fernald, later taking the management of the grain and coal company at New Hampton which work he had to relinquish because of his health last summer. He was suffering from tuberculosis and made a long stay at the Oakdale Sanitarium. But this seemed to do him little good and last fall he returned to his father's home with his wife where he remained till his death on Friday morning.

Mr. French leaves a father and mother to mourn him, several brothers and sisters and his wife, there being no children, the one which blessed the union dying a few years ago.

The funeral services were largely attended and the floral offerings splendid.

OBITUARY

Claude Micah French, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. C. French was born November 24, 1880 and died January 18, 1918, age 37 years, 1 month, 25 days. The days of his boyhood and young manhood were spent with his parents on their farm in Richland township, Story county. On December 5, 1906 he was marred to Miss Hope Hickam of Spencer, Indiana and to this union one child was born, Wilford Clark who passed away December 25, 1915 at the age of 3 1/2 years. In the spring of 1910 he moved to Mason City where he was employed as yard man by the Independent Grain & Lumber Co.

Three years later he went to Hartley, Iowa as manager of the Superior Lumber and Coal Co., where he remained until October 1915 when he was obliged to resign on account of his failing health. He returned to the home of his parents on December 27 and on February 2, 1916 upon the advice of physicians he entered the Iowa Sanitarium for Tuberculosis at Oakdale where he spent five months returning home the first of July where he lived until the time of his death.

He was a member of the Hartley chapter of the Woodman of the World. He was a man much beloved and respected by those who knew him best. He leaves besides a large circle of friends, a wife, father and mother, five brothers and three sisters, Guy of Scranton, Iowa; Hugh of Redstone, Montana, Lucy now Mrs. Charles Roe of Colo, Iowa; Lee of Flaxville, Montana; Earl of Dinsdale, Iowa; Roy of Nevada and Miss Verna and Mabel at home. All of whom were present at the funeral. The sympathy of the entire community will be extended to the members of the family who deeply mourn his untimely death.