S. C. Ream b1870

REAM, FOSNOT, DAUGHRITY

Posted By: Volunteer: Roxanne Riggan
Date: 5/19/2012 at 18:51:59

S.C. Ream Dies At Keosauqua

City Assessor and Former Farm Union Secretary Victim of Heart Disease

Keosauqua, - Sydnor Calvin Ream, 65, died at his home here Sunday at 8:25 a.m.

He had been ill with heart trouble for several years. He was born on the Ream farm west of Pittsburg November 7, 1870 and was married to Miss Dora Fosnot November 12, 1896.

Mr. and Mrs. Ream were the parents of two children, Halsey Calvin Ream of Union, and Mary June Ream, who died in March, 1934.

Mr. Ream spent all his life on a farm until ten years ago when he moved to Keosauqua. He was public spirited, and when on the farm was church organist for seventeen years, and secretary of the Farmers Union.

Was Phone Secretary

He was also secretary of the Mutual Telephone Co. and a Sunday school treasurer for many years.

By his labor he helped organize the modern Van Buren county fair and holds certificate No. 2 for $25 given to start of the fair’s present organization.

For many years he was superintendent of ticket takers at the fair and has as a souvenir the first ticket, which he sold to his wife and took up again, marked the first ticket sold to the Van Buren county agricultural fair in 1922.

He also helped organize the Keosauqua Co-operative creamery and was Keosauqua city assessor when he died.

Funeral Tuesday

Mr. Ream is survived by his wife; one son, Halsey Calvin; three grandchildren; one sister, Mrs. C. M. Daughrity of Des Moines, and one brother, Fred Ream of Los Angeles, Calif.
Funeral services will be at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday in charge of the Rev. M.E. Hayes of the Methodist Episcopal church, his pastor. If the weather remains cold Tuesday the funeral home here.
If it is warm enough, the services will be held at the Methodist Episcopal church.
Mr. Ream’s son, Hal, and his daughter Mrs. Daughrity, were here for his death (obit a bit jumbled and ends abruptly).

Source: Van Buren Co. Genealogical Society Scrapbook A, page 375, Keosauqua Public Library; Keosauqua