Silas Pritton Alderman (1850-1930)

ALDERMAN, ELLISON, WOOD, MULLEN, HUTCHINGS

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 8/19/2018 at 00:28:06

From Nevada Evening Journal December 23, 1930 (page 3)

ALDERMAN FUNERAL THIS AFTERNOON

HAD BEEN RESIDENT OF IOWA ALL OF HIS LONG LIFE

Funeral services for Silas P. Alderman, 80, Mullen settlement pioneer who died at his home 937 Ninth street, Nevada, Thursday, December 18, at 11 o'clock, after a lingering illness, were held at two today at the Evangelical church. Interment followed in the Nevada cemetery, by the side of his first wife and the mother of his children, who died January 30, 1923.

The services were in charge of Rev. Charles Pickford, former pastor and long time friend assisted by Rev. L. T. Olson and Rev. Wackerbarth, present and former pastors.

The singing was by a mixed quartette consisting of Mrs. Annabelle Danskin of LeMars, Mrs. Bertha Tallman of Des Moines, Chester Mullen of Fort Dodge and O. O. Mullen of Nevada.

The flowers were in charge of Mrs. F. D. Coughenour.

Pallbearers were old friends from the membership of the church, they being T. Tollefson, Ivan Ayers, Walter Williams, J. A. McDaniel, Lee Shickell and Fred Kahl.

The church was well-filled with relatives and old time neighbors and friends, who came to pay a final tribute of earthly respect to the man whom they had known so many years.

The following obituary of Mr. Alderman was read at the service this afternoon:

Silas P. Alderman, the son of Hezekiah B. and Rhoda H. Alderman was born at Iowaville, Iowa near Iowa City, Oct. 2, 1850, and departed this life in Nevada, Iowa Dec. 18, 1930, aged 80 years, 2 months and 16 days.

His parents came to Iowa from Ohio in 1849 locating for a short time in Iowa county, and from thence to Story county where they resided until their death. He was married to Mary Jane Ellison of Story county in the early '70's, locating in Polk county near the present site of Loring for a few years, removing later to the Mullen settlement southeast of Nevada, where he lived many years until his removal to Nevada some 23 years since.

He was the farther of four children, three of whom preceeded him in death. Bruce, whose death occurred at Marion, Iowa, Feb. 22, 1917, Edith, who passed away in Nevada, June 20, 1922; and Grover who died in Pittsburgh, Pa., last month. The mother of his children passed away January 30, 1923 at Nevada, Iowa. A few years later he was united in marriage to Mrs. Mae wood, who together with his son Floyd of Nevada, eight grand children and one great great grand child survive him. Beside these he leaves one brother, Warren W. Alderman of Port Orchard, Washington,, and two sisters, Mrs. Dora Mullen of Des Moines, and Mrs. Ollie Hutchings of Loomis, Wash., to mourn his death.

He became a Christian soon after his marriage and united with the Evangelical church and was a faithful worker in and supporter of the Summit church for years, and later of the church in Nevada. May the mantle of his devotion to Christ and the church fall upon the grandchildren and generations that may follow him.