James A. Tomlinson

TOMLINSON, PIERSON, COOK

Posted By: John Evan Davis (email)
Date: 7/7/2013 at 20:07:32

Ottumwa Courier July 10, 1936
Tomlinson, Rail Veteran, Is Dead
Ottumwan Had Been Conductor On Milwaukee Railroad More Than Half-Century.
James A Tomlinson, 74, for 52 years a conductor on the Ottumwa division of the Milwaukee railroad, died about 3:20 AM today at the Ottumwa hospital. He had been ill for three weeks. A resident of Ottumwa for the past 30 years Tomlinson was born at Jacksonville, Illinois, to George and Anna Tomlinson. He was married to Miss Affa Pierson November 25, 1885. He was a member of the Masonic Lodge at Marion, and the Order of Railway Conductors at Ottumwa, and of the First Methodist Church at Peoria, Iowa. Surviving are five brothers Charles, Henry, George, Albert, and Samuel, all of Maxwell; and a sister, Mrs. G. B. Cook of Des Moines. Funeral services will be at 8 PM Saturday in the Reese funeral Chapel conducted by the Rev. Eugene C. Beach. Mrs. Nellie Frost will be a vocal soloist. The Funeral cortege will leave Ottumwa at 7 AM Sunday for Carlisle, Iowa, or burial will be at 10 AM in charge of the Masonic Lodge.