George ELWOOD

ELWOOD, JENKINS, JORDAN, ELKIN, GANNON

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 2/10/2024 at 13:06:58

July 4, 1883 --- January 5, 1946

GEO. ELWOOD FOUND DEAD NEAR HOME
Body Found By the Side Of His Residence In Goldfield Last Saturday Noon.

George Elwood, 62, was found dead by the side of his home in Goldfield last Saturday noon. He was last seen alive Friday afternoon. With the assistance of a neighbor, he had unloaded a truck load of coal on the ground outside of his home. Evidently he was shoveling the coal into his basement when he was stricken and died. The time of his death was probably late Friday afternoon as neighbors could not recall having seen lights in his home Friday evening. He had recently purchased the late George Ressinger residence in Goldfield, which he was remodeling.

Funeral services were held at the Wilson Funeral Chapel in Eagle Grove Tuesday afternoon with the Chaplain Robert Ruleman in charge. Burial was at Leland, Iowa.

Obituary
George Elwood, the son of James Thomas Elwood and May Jane Jenkins was born at Corydon, Indiana on July 4, 1883. He was the oldest of five children. He was married to Margaret Jordan on December 23, 1908 at Corydon, Ind., and to their home came eleven children. Six of the children have passed away, five of them in infancy. They came to Wright County, Iowa in 1924 after a residence at Thompson, Iowa for about 11 years. Mr. Elwood was a farmer until he came to Wright county when he became a carpenter. He built a set of buildings at Renwick, the Nervig Nursery home in Eagle Grove, assisted in the construction of three houses on NW 3rd between Lincoln and Garfield last summer and many of the comfortable homes in Eagle Grove. He was remodeling a home for himself at the time of his death. He was an Odd Fellow for 40 years and in his boyhood was a member of the United Brethren church.

He leaves to mourn his going his five children, Dallas, Stoy, and Marvel, Lois (Mrs. Percy Elkin), and Laverta [Laveta](Mrs. Morgan), three grandchildren, Morris Lynn Elkin, Darrell and Roselyn Morgan, one brother Edward Elwood of Grand Rapids, Mich., and one sister, Mrs. Mabel Gannon of Carlyle, Ind. Mrs. Elwood passed away in 1939.

He was a good father, husband, neighbor and friend. The service was held in the Wilson Chapel with Chaplain Robert Ruleman in charge of the service, and the burial was at the Forest Home Cemetery, Leland, Iowa.

Eagle Grove Eagle --- Eagle Grove, Iowa
January 10, 1946