George Harvey SISSON

SISSON, BARTON

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 4/4/2009 at 11:33:56

12 March 1880 -- 18 November 1956

Funeral services were held at the Methodist church here yesterday at 2 pm for George Harvey Sisson, 76, pioneer resident, who died Sunday at Memorial hospital in Cheyenne, Wyoming. Rev. Robert Markham officiated and burial was in the Pine Bluffs cemetery. He was born Mar 12, 1880 at Shellsburg, IA., and was married Apr 19, 1904, to Orrie B. Barton at her parents' home in Benton County, IA., until coming to Wyoming in 1909, when they homesteaded 11 1/2 miles south of Pine Bluffs. In 1929 they moved into town where Mr. Sisson operated a shoe and harness shop until retiring in 1950. He joined the Baptist church at the age of 20. Surviving besides his wife are seven daughters, five sons, 36 grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren. A daughter Wilma died in infancy. Pall bearers were Claude Nussbaum Sr., Ralph Shipp, Homer Higday, Henry Constable, Jake Baskins and Clyde Maxfield.

[wife was Ora (Barton) Sisson; former residents of Galt and Wall Lake Township, Wright County, Iowa]