Abel Clarkson Vail (1859-1929)

VAIL, HOAGLAND, KNAPP, STOCKING, WILSON

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

From Nevada Evening Journal February 3, 1929 (page 3)

VAIL FUNERAL IS THURSDAY AT 2:00

SERVICES AT M. E. CHURCH AND INTERMENT IN NEVADA CEMETERY

A. C. Vail Sr., 69, died at Iowa sanitarium early Tuesday morning and the funeral will be held at the Methodist church at 2 o'clock, Thursday afternoon. Interment will be in the Nevada cemetery. The services will be in charge of his pastor, Rev. L. E. Watson.

Mr. Vail had been failing for some time and on Thursday he was taken to Iowa sanitarium for an examination. It developed that an operation would be necessary immediately and that there was even little show for his life at the time.

Mr. Vail leaves his widow, Mrs. Eva Vail and their two sons, Ira Vail of near Fernald and Alfred C. Fail of Des Moines.

The family had been residents of Story county since 1902, having come out from Illinois that year and located on a farm 5 miles southwest of Zearing. It was seven years later, in 1909, that he retired from farming and moved to Nevada, where their home has been since.

He was born Abel Clarkson Vail, son of Benjamin Vail and Harriet Hoadland-Vail, at Henry, Ill., December 5, 1859 and was aged 69 years, 2 month and 7 ays at the time of his death.

January 16, 1884, he was united in marriage to Miss Eva A. Knapp, at Henry, Illinois and it was there that they lived for the 18 years of their married life and where their sons were born.

Mr. Vail became a member of the Presbyterian church in his early manhood, but after coming out to Iowa transferred his letter to the Methodist church at Johnson Grove, there being no nearly Presbyterian church. He retained his affiliation with that denomination and during his nearly twenty years of residence in Nevada has been an active member of the church, regular in his attendance at church and Sunday school and faithful in every way.

He was a man admired and respected by all who knew him, a good citizen, devoted husband and wife father and the family will receive a full measure of sympathy of the people of the community.

Besides his wife and sons, he leaves a brother Benjamin A. Vail of Sterling, Ill., and two sisters, Mrs. F. E. Stocking of Minneapolis and Mrs. T. L. Wilson of Princeton, Ill.