Augustus Millington McHone (1863-1939)

MCHONE, EASTMAN, LEE, GREEN, ROE, PRICE, PEPIN, APPLEGATE

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 2/3/2022 at 21:47:24

From Nevada Evening Journal October 31, 1939 (page 1)

Death Calls A. M. McHone In Heart Attack Today

A. M. McHone, 76, longtime resident of Story county and later of the Napier neighborhood, died there at 8:10 a.m. today of a heart attack, just four weeks after the passing of his wife Mrs. Hannah Eastman-McHone, at Iowa sanitarium in Nevada.

Funeral services will be held Thursday, with prayer at the home at 1 p.m., followed by the funeral service in the Napier Methodist church with Rev. J. C. Turner of that church in charge. Burial will be in the family lot in the Iowa Center cemetery.

Augustus M. McHone was born in Poweshiek county, Iowa, February 26, 1863 and came to Story county with his family when but a small boy.

He was united in marriage to Miss Hannah Eastman, at Iowa Cener, July 2, 1882.

When the family came to Story county in 1865, they settled at Iowa Center and he had lived in various part of Story county the most of his active life, but more recently the home had been in Napier.

He leaves sons Fred, Arthur and Raymond McHone, all of Ames; daughter, Mrs. John Lee and Mrs. Harold Green of Ames, Mrs. Cleo Roe of Boone, Mrs. Noble Price of Stanhope, and Mrs. Albert Pepin of Des Moines; 27 grandchildren, 7 great grandchildren and a sister Mrs. Ella McHone-Applegate of Casey.