Charles Henry Carver (1841-1932)

CARVER, COREY, SHEARER, CLEMENT, HAPHEAD, PATTERSON, WICK

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 5/17/2021 at 16:53:14

From Nevada Evening Journal December 17, 1932 (page 1)

CHARLES CARVER DIED ON CHRISTMAS

COLLINS PIONEER LAID TO REST AT COLLINS CEMETERY TODAY

Special to the Journal.
Collins, Dec. 27--Charles H. Carver, 71, pioneer of the Collins neighborhood, died at the Deaconess hospital, Marshalltown, on Christmas Cay. Death was due to pneumonia following a surgical operation a few days before.

Funeral services were held at the Collins Methodist Episcopal church this afternoon with Rev. John Adamson in charge and interment was in the Collins cemetery.

Charles H. Carver was a native of Orfordsville, Wis., where he was born October 2, 1861, a son of Archibald and Hannah Carver.

He came to Iowa with the family when he was a young man 21 years of age and they settled on a farm near Collins. This neighborhood had been his home continuously since. He was married to Marry Anna Jones March 16, 1887 and she with six children survive him. One son, Ray, died in France during the World War.

For seven years Mr. and Mrs. Carver lived on a farm near Collins, after which they moved into town where he has been engaged in various lines of business. More recently he had been associated with J. E. Hale and the threshing and shelling business.

The children, surviving with the invalid mother are William and Harry Carver, Mrs. Pearl Corey, Bessie Carver, Mrs. Ethel Shearer and Mrs. Charlotte Clement, all of in or near Collins. He also leaves three sisters, Mrs. Maggie Haphead of Broadhead, Wis., Mrs. O. D. Patterson of Battle Creek, Minn., and Mrs. C. R. Wick of Collins. There are nine grandchildren.

Interment will be in the Collins cemetery by the side of the son, Roy, whose body was brought over from France and laid to rest in the family lot in the Collins cemetery.