Augustus Millington McHone

MCHONE

Posted By: Marcia Watkins (email)
Date: 4/20/2002 at 12:50:24

Obituary from Ames Milepost dated Nov 2, 1939

A.M. McHone

A.M. McHone, 76, longtime resident of Story County and later of the Napier neighborhood, died Tuesday of a heart attack, just four weeks after the passing of his wife, Mrs. Hannah Eastman {Eastwood}-McHone, at Iowa sanitarium in Nevada.

Augustus M. McHone was born in Poweshiek County, Iowa, Feb. 26, 1863, and came to Story County when but a small boy.

He was united in marriage to Miss Hannah Eastman {Eastwood}, at Iowa Center, July 2, 1882.
When the family came to Story County in 1865, they settled at Iowa Center and he had lived in various parts of Story County the most of his active life, but more recently the home had been at Napier.

He leaves sons Fred, Arthur and Raymond McHone, all of Ames; daughter, Mrs. John Lee and Mrs. Harold Green of Ames, Mrs. Cleo Roe of Boone, Mrs. Noble Price of Stanhope, and Mrs. Albert Pepin of Des Moines; 27 grandchildren, 7 great grandchildren and a sister Mrs. Ella McHone-Applegate of Casey.

{Newspaper made an error in his wife's last name. It should be Eastwood.}