Harvey Monroe HORTON

HORTON, MCVICKER, MILLER, COX, MCGUIRE, FEELEY

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 2/10/2024 at 13:06:54

Harvey Monroe Horton
23 August 1880 ---- 5 April 1926

Monroe Horton died in the hospital at Fort Dodge Monday morning following an operation for the removal of the appendix. The appendix had broken, and the doctors knew that a man in such condition could not live and so informed his relatives.

The body was brought to Eagle Grove in an ambulance and cared for at the Foil & Wilson undertaking parlor, where the funeral services will be held this (Thursday) afternoon. The mother and fatherless children have the sincere sympathy of the entire community in the hour of their great sorrow.

Obituary
(By Rev. W. G. Muhleman)

Harvey Monroe Horton was born Aug. 23, 1880 in Kentucky. When he was a small boy he moved with his parents to Missouri and from there to Oklahoma. At the age of 19 he moved to Eagle Grove, Iowa where he worked as a laborer.

On Feb. 13, 1907 married Miss Edith McVicker of Eagle Grove. They lived here till in April of 1915 when they moved to Kansas, where he served as a policeman in Baxter Springs for a while and where he also worked in the lead mines. In March of 1921 they returned to Eagle Grove where they have since lived. Six children were born to this union, Shirley, Eunice, Emily, Harvey, Russell, and Daisy Blanche. Mr. Horton was a member of the Methodist church in Baxter Springs, Kans.

Mr. Horton took sick last Wednesday. His condition was found to be critical from the start. He was taken to Fort Dodge for an operation, but he was too far gone to be helped. He passed away on Monday noon, April 5, 1926 at the age of 45 years, 8 months, and 12 days.

He is survived by his wife and the six children already mentioned and four brothers and four sisters, John of Stuart, Okla.; Elbert of Pawnee, Okla.; Henry of Albuquerque N.M.; Charles of Quinn, S. D.; Mrs. John Miller of Walla Walla, Wash.; Mrs. Mollie Cox of May, Texas; Mrs. Maggie McGuire of Pawnee, Okla.; and Mrs. Frank Feeley of Eagle Grove, Iowa.

Funeral services will be held in the Methodist church on Thursday afternoon at 2 o’clock. Services will be in charge of W. G. Muhleman. Interment will be made in Rose Hill cemetery.

EAGLE GROVE EAGLE ---- Eagle Grove, Iowa
Thursday, April 8, 1926

Source --- Paul Wilde