Cornelius Tway (1843-1910)

TWAY, ALLEN, GUTHRIE

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 2/20/2017 at 19:42:19

From Nevada Representative November 29, 1910 (front page)

OBITUARY

Death of C. Tway

Cornelius Tway, long a prominent farmer and citizen of Story county, but in recent years a resident of Wapello county, died Sunday evening at his home near Dudley in the latter county. Information as the cause of his death is yet lacking; but his body accompanied by friends is expected at Nevada this afternoon by the Short Line train, and the funeral will be conducted from the Methodist church here Wednesday afternoon at two o'clock. Mr. Tway leaves a wife and five grown children, his wife being a sister of M. C. Allen of Nevada. Further obituary data will be given later.

From Nevada Representative December 2, 1910 (front page)

CORNELIUS TWAY

The funeral of the late Cornelius Tway, formerly of this county but recently of Dudley, in Wapello county, was conducted Wednesday afternoon from the Methodist church by Rev. G. W. Mullen of Des Moines, and he was buried in the Nevada cemetery. All of his family were here for the funeral, as were many old-time friends, and the officiating clergyman was a former pastor.

Mr. Tway was a native of Fayette county, Ohio, where he was born December 11, 1843, and he died near Dudley, Iowa, November 27, 1910, aged 66 years, 11 months and 16 days. He was reared in Ohio, tried to enlist there for the civil war but was refused parental permission, and was married at London, Madison county, Ohio, January 27, 1871 to Miss Sarah Margaret Allen, sister of M. C. Allen of Nevada. They lived for the next dozen years in the same vicinity, save for year and a half that were spent at Sidney, Champaign county, Illinois, where he engaged in the grocery business. During this time they lived at Midway, now Sedalia, Ohio, for a year south of Midway on a farm for two years and at London for five years, all in Madison county. Thence they moved in January, 1883 to Story county, Iowa, where they first located on a farm five miles east of Nevada. After living there for six years they moved to McCallsburg for ten and back to Nevada township for four years more.

Then they went to a farm near Macon, Missouri, for about two years, and for the last five had been on their farm near Dudley. Mr. Tway was quite a man to sell one farm and buy another, with the result that there were numerous family removals; but his trades were markedly successful, and he was a prosperous as well a representative farmer and citizen. He died at Dudley after a brief illness with acute Bright's disease.

Mr. Tway leaves a wife and five children, of whom Edward S. is the eldest, is principal of the school at Chillicothe, Wapello county, the next Della is Mrs. S. W. Guthrie of McCallsburg, and the other three, Mamie L., Florence I., and William C., are still at home. The nearest other relatives in this part of the country is his brother-in-law, M. C. Allen of Nevada. For numerous acts of kindness and consideration among their old friends in and about Nevada in their time of bereavement. Mrs. Tway and children wish to make grateful acknowledgement. All of the family excepting the one daughter that resides in this county left Thursday on their return to Dudley.