Watros, Clarence Jay 1864 - 1913

WATROS, BETTS

Posted By: Joy Moore (email)
Date: 5/19/2024 at 21:00:47

Source: Cresco Plain Dealer Dec. 5, 1913, P-FP, C-3

C. J. Watros Dead.
Cresco relatives have been apprised by telegram of the death, after weeks of suffering, of C. J. Watros at his home at Cogswell, N. D. The remains will be brought to Cresco and the funeral held either on Saturday or Sunday.

Source: Cresco Plain Dealer Dec. 12, 1913, P-FP, C-5

WATROS.
Clarence Jay Watros, eldest son of Gilbert and Elizabeth Watros was born in Orleans, Winneshiek county, Iowa, October 8, 1864.
Aug. 30, 1894 he married Miss Nellie A. Betts of Howard county.
Three children came to bless the home. The eldest, a son, died of typhoid fever Dec. 27, 1898, at the age of five weeks. Clara E., eleven years of age and Vera N., five years old, mourn a loving father. His wife, father, mother, two brothers and live sisters survive him.
In March 1912 he moved his family to Cogswell, N. D. While at work on his farm Aug. 20, 1913. he met with the accident that later caused his death. Immediately he was taken to Asbury Hospital, Minneapolis, where the best medical skill could be secured and an operation was performed Aug. 23, 1913. The latter part of October he was taken to his home at Cogswell where at day break, Dec. 4, 1913, he went to rest. Mr. Watros was an honest, upright man, a man of unusal ability and ambition with keen business insight, concerned only with his own affairs, with pure mind and clean life.
Dec. 5. 1913, services were held at the Methodist church at Cogswell, N.D., by Rev. Watson. Relatives and friends were at the depot at Cresco and accompanied the remains to Oak Lawn where services were conducted by Rev. Shaffer and he was laid to rest beside his son

Oak Lawn Cemetery
 

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