George Washington Shugart (1829-1907)

SHUGART, HUFFMAN, BUNKER, MAYO, PRYOR, BRONSON, CORCELIUS, ENYART

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 5/7/2017 at 14:01:56

From Nevada Representative July 12, 1907

OBITUARY

DEATH OF G. W. SHUGART

George Washington Shugart died at his home in this city Thursday, July 11, 1907, after a lingering illness with cancer, aged 72 years and 11 days.

The deceased was born in Pennsylvania June 30, 1829, moved in boyhood with his father's family to Princeton, Illinois, where he grew to manhood and was married December 18, 1853, to Catherine Buffman*, by whom he had five sons and three daughters four of which sons and two of the daughters are living. They remained for about eighteen years in Illinois; but in 1872 they came to Story county and settled on a farm in Grant township near the present village of Shipley. There they lived until the spring of 1855, when they removed to Nevada, and here Mrs. Shugart died in the following fall. He was married to his second wife, Mrs. Lucy Mayo* on April 25, 1886, and she with the six children before noted survive him. In the earlier '90s they lived for a year at Colfax but for the rest of the time since he first moved to Nevada this has been his home. Mr. Shugart was by occupation a veterinarian, and he was skillful in his profession. He also for many years served his community as constable; and all who had relations with him in that office know and will most cheerfully testify to his promptness and efficiency. Mr. Shugart's six surviving children are John A., of Ames; Frances, Mrs. John Pryor of Nevada; Philip R., of Clinton; Mrs. Libbie Bronson of Des Moines; Peter E. of Nevada, and William W. of Sturgis, North Dakota. The two other children both grew to maturity and were Chas., who was killed by the cars at Perry in 1890, and Mrs. Mollile Corcellus, who died on consumption in the same year. Mr. Shugart also leaves three brothers, Zachariah, of Ottawa, Kansas; Eli, of Council Bluffs; and Jacob, of Omaha; and also one sister, Mrs. Lizzie Enyart, of Council Bluffs.

Mr. Shugart was a man of forceful character; and he bore with great fortitude the long-drawn-out agony of his last illness. He had for years had a cancerous spot on his cheek, and last November, the cancer began rapidly to develop. This development ended immediately his connection with active affairs, and his condition was from that time plainly hopeless. His son Peter took him to leading hospitals but nothing could be done for him, except to make his last months as endurable as possible. His tenacity of life proved to be amazing, and though the amounts that for some time he had been able to eat had been very small, he continued to lease for three weeks after he had eaten anything at all There was, however, but one possible outcome to such a struggle with death; and the end came peacefully and as a relief at 1:45 on Thursday afternoon.

The funeral will be held Sunday afternoon at the Presbyterian church and, in the absence of the pastor of that church, will be conducted by Rev. R E. Shaw of the Methodist church.

*SUBMITTER'S NOTE: George Washington Shugart married first Catherine Ann Huffman (not Buffman.) His second wife was Lucy J. Bunker, who was previously married to Thomas R. Mayo.