Robert living on the boundary line of Clarke and Decatur Counties.
The flash and dull roar of a ten-inch mortar on April 12, 1861, announced to a startled world the opening of the America Civil War. Soon after the advent of the Civil War, Robert made the trip to Osceola, Iowa, where July 28, 1862, he enlisted as a private in Co. B, of the 18th Regiment of Iowa Volunteers. He was discharged on March 6, 1863 for Chronlc Bronchitis.
After is discharge Robert returned home to his family. Sometime between 1862 and 1870, Robert's brother John and sister Hannah, with John's three children, came to Decatur County where John bought 14 acres of land from James Gray and located in section 19. It is believed that Robert's mother also accompanied her two children from Lee County, Virginia.
On February 4, 1865 , Robert died at his home of Chronic Bronchitis which he had suffered from since his return from the Civil War. He was buried in the family cemetery located about 200 yards southeast of his home.
Three years later, Robert's mother Elizabeth died on March 4, 1868. She was buried in the Warrick Cemetery. The next few years passed by with little incident, and Martha continued to raise her family. Her two youngest sons Abner and Frank continued to work on the family farm and provide an income for Martha.
Sometime after the War, Martha's older sister, Margaret King, came to live with her. The two soon became inseparable. As they grew older, the two decided to have Thomas Edwards, a cabinet maker, build two coffins for them. They were hand carved and made of pure walnut. They kept them in the attic of the old cabin along with their burial clothes. When Margaret left after Martha's death, her coffin was shipped to her new residence.
Martha attended all 16 children of her son Abner and his wife, as well as most of the people in the area as she was a midwife.
She received a pension of $12.00 a month which was started in 1872 and continued until her death January 18, 1903 at the age of 91 years. Upon her death, the Osceola Sentinel of Thursday, January 22, 1903 contained this notice: "Aunt Patty" Warrick, of Doyle Township, died at her home last Sunday aged ninety-one years. Funeral services were held last Monday after which interment took place in the Warrick Cemetery; two sons, Frank and Abner, and several grandchildren survive. Mrs. Warrick was one of the early settlers of Doyle Township, having settled there in the fifties. She is said to be the last one of the early settlers of that community. Her husband died at their home about thirty-five years ago."
Note: This Warris history compiled by Clifford E. Warrick... 1980
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Roy Kent, son of Edward and Katie (Edwards) Kent, was born August 20, 1893, and died December 30, 1950. He spent most of his life on a farm in Union County near Hopeville, Iowa. He was united in marriage to Louise Moore, July 14, 1927. Although he had no children, he always enjoyed the presence of children.
Edward F. Lipsett, son of Edward E. and Addie Lipsett, the eldest of eight children, was born at Hopeville, Iowa, December 22, 1877 and died March 1, 1945 at his home three miles south of Thayer, Iowa. He grew to manhood in the vicinity of Hopeville and was united in marriage to Effie Lauffer (1880-1976) of Thayer, Iowa on February 14, 1907. To this union came three children: Leone, Selma, Edward. Mr. Lipsett was a teacher for several years in Clarke and Decatur Counties. Besides his wife and children, he leaves to mourn his passing four sisters, Mrs. Leslie Gier, Mrs. Carmen Altekruse, Mrs. Anna Clendenin, Mrs. Ruby Horsepool, and one brother, Curren Lipsett. Both are burled in Hopeville Cemetery.
Ivan Conn, son of George and Oma (Anderson) Conn was born in Union Co., Iowa and died Creston, Iowa December 19, 1959. He grew to manhood in the vicinity where he was born and engaged in farming. For the past eleven years he had lived in Afton, Iowa and was engaged in county road employment. On November 28, 1928, he was united in marriage to Opal Glazebrook and to this union eight children were born: Mrs. Doris Ashburn; Mrs. Helen Donald; Mrs. Irene Paulus; Marian; Robert, serving in the U.S. Air Force in England; Richard, also in the Air Force in Anchorage, Alaska; Maurice and Dale.Estella (Butterfleld) Musselman, daughter of Charles and Dorcas Butterfield, was born at Shelirock, Iowa, April 7, 1877 and died January 25, 1950 at Osceola, Iowa. On March 7, 1894 she was united in marriage to Marion Musselman (1867-1947) and to this union were born five children: Benjamin Charles who was b. April 18, 1897, d. Sept. 29. 1921; Clyde; Minnie (Mrs. Burton West); Marion (Mrs. Royal Havens); and Ray. Both are buried in Hopevill Cemetery.
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