Iowa
Old Press
The Charles City Intelligencer
Charles City, Floyd County, Iowa
August 19, 1880
Page 2, Column C
DIED.
OVERLEAS: - In this township, Saturday, August 14th, 1880, at 12
m., Mr. G. G. Overleas, aged 60 years. He leaves a large family.
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Charles City Intelligencer
Charles City, Floyd County, Iowa
August 26, 1880
Page 3, Column E
DIED.
PALMER: - At Deerfield, Chickasaw county, Wednesday, Aug. 18, at
5 o’clock, p. m., Meriba Palmer, aged 77 years and 6 months.
The deceased was a daughter of Jonathan Ripley, of Onodaga Co.,
N. Y.
WOODBURY: - At his residence in this city, Sunday, August 22d, at
8 o’clock a. m., William H Woodbury of kidney disease and
paralysis, aged 42 years. Mr. Woodbury has been gradually failing
for a couple of years past, and has been confined to the house
for several weeks. The funeral took place Monday forenoon from
his father’s residence, Rev. N. M. Clute conducting the
services.
BRADLEY: - In this city, Friday, August 20th, at 4 o’clock,
a. m., of diabetes, Teddie the eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. J. S.
Bradley, aged 6 years, 11 months and 26 days. The funeral took
place from the house Saturday afternoon and was conducted by Rev.
N. M. Clute. Teddie was one of the brightest boys of his age in
this city, and his early death leaves an aching void in the
parents’ heart, which years of mourning only can assuage. He
is now one of the immortals in heaven, not lost, but gone before.
“Suffer little children to come unto me and forbid them not,
for of such is the kingdom of heaven.”
ELLIOTT: - Friday, Aug. 13, 1880, at Yankton, Dakota, Mrs. W. P.
Elliott, aged seventy years and one month.
She was on a visit to her daughter, Mrs. C. E. Brooks, when the
dark messenger of death overtook her, but he did not find her
unprepared. Her body was brought to her home in Spring Valley,
Minn., to be buried. She
leaves a husband and five children to mourn her loss, one of them
Mrs. Joseph Butterfield, of this city.
[all above submitted by B.H., October 2003]