Wallace Alanson “Lant” Lockwood (1853-1935)

LOCKWOOD, PUTNAM, POTTER, BORGEN, MORRISON, STUCKE, LEWIS, NORTON, WARD

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 7/17/2021 at 15:48:34

From Nevada Evening Journal August 12, 1935 (page 3)

Memorial Service for Former Nevada Man

Memorial services for the late W. A. Locksood, 82, who died at Rio Vista, California early Thursday, will be held at Central Presbyterian church at 4:00 p. m. today, with Dr. Campbell Coyle in charge. Following the service the ashes will be placed in the family lot in the Nevada cemetery.

The ashes, accompanied by the wife, Edwina Alice Lockwood and the daughter, Mrs. Claire Morrison of Phillipsburg, N. J., arrived in the city at 1:45 this afternoon, over the Northwestern.

Wallace Alanson Lockwood, was the eldest of the four children of Edwin Wallace and Phoebe Ann Putnam-Lockwood and was born at Hillsdale, Mich., January 16, 1853. He came with his parents to Marshall county in Iowa, the same year of his birth and accompanied them to Nevada in 1871.

Educated in the grade schools of Marshalltown, he later attended a business college at Iowa City.

After coming to Nevada he engaged with his father in the milling and grain business and continued in that business connection until 1893.

Mr. Lockwood was married to Edwina Alice Potter, daughter of another pioneer Nevada family on January 23, 1878, the ceremony being performed by the late Rev. W. P. Payne, at the Potter home on Seventh street.

To this union four children were born and with the wife are left to mourn the death of the husband and father. They are Lessie Lockwood-Borgen of Nevada; Edwin P. Lockwood, not of Stockton, Calif.; Fred F. Lockwood of Danville, Illinois, and Claire Lockwood-Morrison of Phillipsburg, N. J.

The home of Mr. and Mrs. Lockwood continued in Nevada until 1915, when they moved to Portland, Oregon, where their son, E. P. Lockwood was located. They resided in Portland and California from that time until his death on August 8, 1935, at the age of 82 years, 6 months and 22 days. During those years they had made frequent trips back to visit with their daughter in Nevada, the son in Danville and the daughter in New Jersey.

Mr. Lockwood had been converted during the Evangelistic meetings of the Rev. Lowrey of Marshalltown, held in Nevada at that time became a member of Central Presbyterian church of Nevada. He was also a member of the Maccabee lodge and was for many years secretary of the local lodge of Workmen of the World.

He leaves besides his wife and four children, a brother, Clyde Lockwood of Seattle, Wash., a foster sister, Mrs. Myrtle Lockwood-Stucke of Cincinnati, Ohio, cousins Miss Alice Lewis of Des Moines, Mrs. Mary Norton and Mrs. Grace Ward of Marshalltown, and some cousins in California, besides 10 grandchildren and three great grandchildren.