John Steele Hickman (1861-1942)

HICKMAN, CAMPBELL, RHODES, STEPHENS, ROBISON, JENSEN

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 5/17/2021 at 16:53:12

From Nevada Evening Journal November 9, 1942 (page 4)

Funeral Services Held Here Sunday for John S. Hickman

Funeral rites for John S. Hickman 91, who died at his home 1730 Second street, Nevada, Friday afternoon at 2:30, after an illness of 10 days, were held Sunday afternoon from the Lilly funeral chapel.

The service was in charge of Rev. C. E. Lookingbill, with Mrs. Armstrong at the organ. Interment was in the Colo cemetery, the committal service in charge of the Masonic Lodge of Colo, of which the deceased was a longtime member.

Pallbearers members of that lodge were George M. Rae, H. E. Ransom, D. M. Dickenson, E. W. Martin, W. F. Bales and C. W. Yeager.

The rooms of the funeral hall were filled to capacity with relatives and old neighbors and friends of the deceased.

John S. Hickman was born in Ohio September 6, 1851, a son of George and Susan Hickman, he being the oldest of four children. The family moved to Illinois when he was a small child. His father died while in service in the civil war.

Mr. Hickman was twice married. By the first wife, Alice Campbell Hickman, he leaves a son, Frank Hickman of Portland, Ore. and a daughter, Nancy Ann Ewing of Long Beach, Calif.

He was married to Nancy Rhodes of South Macon, Illinois, on November 26, 1878. To this union were born seven children, five of them surviving. They are Harriet B. Stevens of near Colo, George Marion Hickman of near Zearing, Susie B. Robison of Nevada, Edith Jensen of Warrenburg, Mo. and John Edwin Hickman of near State Center. Mrs. Hickman died at the family home here in April, 1935.

Mr. Hickman brought his family to Story county from Illinois in 1891 and this had since been his home the past twenty-three years in Nevada. He had been engaged in farming during his entire lifetime and was active until the very last days of his long, industrious and useful life.

He leaves to mourn his passing, not only his seven children, but 14 grand children, 12 great grand children and one great great grand child, in addition to a wide circle of more distant relatives, friends and neighbors.