Darey, Albert G. 1851 – 1907

DAREY, VAUGHN

Posted By: Joy Moore (email)
Date: 5/19/2024 at 21:00:42

Source: Twice-A-Week Plain Dealer Oct. 15, 1907, FP, C4

After several weeks of illness, A. G. Darey pased{sic} away Sunday morning at the J. A. Barrett home. The remains will be taken to Decorah on Wednesday for interment, and the funeral services will be held in that pity.

Source: Twice-A-Week Plain Dealer Oct. 18, 1907, LP, C4

OBITUARY.
ALBERT G. DAREY.
Albert G. Darey, was born in France in 1851. His father having died when he was quite young, at the age of 12 years he went to Canada in the care of his uncle, the late Professor Darey of McGill University, Montreal. After a short period at school he went to study farming with a Mr. Cochran of Compton, Quebec. At the age of 19 years he came to Iowa where he engaged in farming. In 1882 he married Sarah E. Vaughn, daughter of the late Benjamin Vaughn of Ft. Atkinson. He then engaged in the hardware business at Waucoma, Iowa, for one year when he moved to Canton, Minn., where he spent three years in the mercantile business, after which he again took up farming at Ft. Atkinson for two years. In 1888 he came to Cresco and purchased the farm at Carver’s Corners, where he carried on successfully for the last 19 years, yielding only to broken health in September when he came to Cresco where he died Oct. 13th. The remains were taken to Decorah Wednesday morning where services and buria1 took place.
Mr. Darey was known to the people of Cresco as a man of the strictest integrity and his every day life exemplified the highest type of Christian manhood.

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