Wesley Farmer (1885-1909)

DEAN, FARMER, GRIFFITH, PIERCE, TEMPLETON

Posted By: Eileen Reed
Date: 2/10/2024 at 13:06:44

August 8, 1885 --- January 13, 1909

Wright County Monitor
Clarion, Iowa
Wednesday, January 13, 1909

Goldfield

Wesley Farmer has been sick for several days with pneumonia. At this writing he is slightly better, his fever not being so great.

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Wright County Monitor
Clarion, Iowa
Wednesday, January 20, 1909

Goldfield

Wesley Farmer died of pneumonia Wednesday night, having been ill less than a week. The care of loving hands and hearts and the skill of physicians were unavailing in the battle for the life of this young man. Wesley was the second living son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Farmer of this place. He was born near Owlake in Humboldt county and would have been 24 years of age the 8th of August had he lived. All his life has been spent in Goldfield and vicinity, where he had won many friends by his frank, cheerful disposition. He was a member of the firm of Farmer & Son, proprietors of the Goldfield livery, and was popular as a business man. He had served as a substitute rural mall carrier on three mail routes from Goldfield and gave very faithful and efficient service. In the home and in the business and social circles of the community Wesley will be mourned and missed.

Funeral services were held at the M. E. church Saturday morning and were attended by a very large number of sorrowing relatives and friends. The floral offerings were many and beautiful.
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Mr. and Mrs. Cady Templeton of Clarion, Mrs. Pierce of Belmond and Miss Nora Dean, who is teaching near Kanawha, were all called to this place last week by the death of their relative, Wesley Farmer.
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Boone

Miss May Griffith attended the funeral of her friend, Wesley Farmer at Goldfield Saturday.

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Eagle Grove Eagle
Eagle Grove, Iowa
Thursday, January 28, 1909

Mr. and Mrs. Fred Farmer and family of Goldfield have the warm sympathy of all their friends in the death of their son and brother Wesley. He was a young man of good business ability and good character and was associated with his father in the livery business. His untimely death is keenly felt in the entire community.