Claud Edward CHENOWETH

CHENOWETH, OCONNOR, VAN NIMWEGEN, LUYMES, MORGAN, PATTERSON, HUNGERFORD

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 11/1/2014 at 12:02:40

May 3, 1870 --- July 28, 1935

C. E. Chenoweth, veteran North Western railway engineer and pioneer resident of this community, passed away at the Hawarden hospital at 10 o'clock Sunday night following a lingering illness. Mr. Chenoweth had not been in good health for a number of years and had been unable to work since Dec. 23rd of last year. He had been able to be up and around, however, most of the time until a few weeks ago and entered the hospital only a couple of weeks preceding his death. He suffered intensely at times during his long illness but bore his affliction bravely and steadfastly declined to make application to be placed on the retirement list because of disability, clinging to the belief that he would recover sufficiently to enable him to resume active work.

Funeral services were held at 10 o'clock Wednesday morning at the Ross Funeral Home, conducted by Mr. Albert Potter of Sioux Falls. Interment was made in Grace Hill cemetery. Old railway associates acted as pall bearers.

Cloyd/Claud Edward Chenoweth, son of Marietta Hungerford and John L. Chenoweth, was born in Black Hawk County, Iowa, May 3, 1870, so was just past 65 years of age at the time of his death. With his parents he came to Sioux County in 1871, when he was but a year old and they settled on a homestead in Washington township, southeast of Hawarden. Some years later his father purchased a farm adjoining the city of Hawarden on the east and this farm is still owned by the Chenoweth family. Cloyd spent his youth on the farm but when a young man learned the printer's trade and for a number of years followed this vocation. He worked for a considerable length of time in the office of the old Hawarden Republican and also at times in The Independent office and in various other newspaper offices throughout this section. Forty years ago he discarded his printer's make up rule and started railroading. He entered the service of the North Western Railway Company as a fireman on the Northern Iowa division. A few years later he was promoted to engineer and continued in this capacity the remainder of his life. He held an enviable railway service record and was highly popular both with the officials of the company and his fellow employees to whom he was widely known as "Doc" Chenoweth. He made his home in Eagle Grove for many years, but for the past fifteen years or more has lived in Hawarden and during most of this time has served as engineer on the Sioux Rapids.

In June, 1898 he was united in marriage with Kittie O'Connor. They made their home in Eagle Grove until her death more than twenty years ago. Four daughters were born to them, but one daughter, Mrs. Edna Luymes died at Armour, SD in 1931. The surviving daughters are Mrs. Richard Morgan of Hawarden; Mrs. Gladys Patterson of Torrence, CA, and Miss Dorothy Chenoweth of Hawarden. On Aug. 25, 1919, he was united in marriage with Miss Marie Van Nimwegen of Alton, who with one son, William Edward, survives him. He is also survived by three brothers, Guy Chenoweth of Mt. Vernon, SD; O. H. Chenoweth of Hawarden, and Ernest Chenoweth of San Jose, CA.

Mr. Chenoweth was a man of the strictest integrity, dependable in his every relationship with his fellow man and well merited the esteem in which he was held by a wide circle of friends.

Hawarden Independent - Hawarden, Iowa
August 1, 1935