Americus Jay Page (1861-1925)

PAGE, DAY, HARRINGTON, MARTIN, ARNOLD, MCLAIN

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 8/22/2022 at 14:57:44

From Nevada Evening Journal December 30, 1925 (page 3)

FUNERAL RITES FOR JAY PAGE HELD THIS AFTERNOON

VICTIM OF TRAGIC ACCIDENT IS LAID TO REST IN NEVADA CEMETERY

Funeral services for A. J. Page, 64, who met such a tragic death here Monday afternoon, were held this afternoon at Memorial Lutheran church. Dr. C. N. Swihart officiating. Following the service at the church the body was interred in the Nevada cemetery, interment being under the ritualistic services of the Knights of Pythias lodge, of which he was a long time member.

The very sudden death of Mr. Page, tragic and sudden as it was cast cloud of sorrow over the entire community, where he had lived the entire span of his life and was so well and favorably known by all.

No other death that has occurred in the city in years has so impressed the people with the uncertainty of life and the nearness of death at all times.

Mr. Page died at Iowa Sanitarium, an hour and a half after he was fatally injured in and accident on the street but a block from his own home which he had just left. He was driving west on Avenue H when a large tree which was being felled, crashed over into the street and a large limb struck the top of the Ford sedan in which he was driving, crushing the top through and striking Mr. Page.

He was removed from the wreckage and hurried to the sanitarium where he was attended by a number of local physicians but it was realized from the start that the thread upon which his life was hanging, was destined to snap at any moment.

Mr. Page, a native of Richland township, had lived in Nevada since 1899 and his acquaintance over the county and central Iowa was very wide.

He was a man of happy disposition, made many friends and never lost an opportunity to spread a little sunshine along the paths which he tread, and his friends were numbered by his acquaintances.

The deceased was born Americus Jay Page, son of Mr. and Mrs. Christian Page, on the old Page homestead in Richland township, September 30, 1861. The first eighteen years of his life he spent upon the old home farm, then went to Valparaiso, Indiana, where he took a course in a business college.

Later he returned to the farm and there he continued to make his home until 1899 when he was elected county recorder and moved to Nevada, which had since been his home. After leaving the court house work he engaged in real estate and similar lines, as well as looking after the old homestead, which became his at the death of his father.

He served for many years upon the school board of Nevada Independent district, has been city assessor and held various positions of trust in the community.

It was in 1888 that he was united in marriage to Miss Elizabeth Day, a girl from a neighboring farm, and she, with four daughter, three grandchildren and one sister survive him. The daughters are Miss Lydia Page at home, Mrs. Blanche Harrington and Mrs. Florence Martin of Nevada, and Mrs. Myrtle Arnold of near Ames. The sister is Mrs. John McLain of Cedar Falls.

Mr. Page had been a member of Samson Lodge No. 77 Knights of Pythias for many years and knights of that lodge were in attendance at the services in a body and interment was under the ritualistic services of that order.