Iowa
Old Press
SIDNEY ARGUS - HERALD.
Sidney, Fremont co., Iowa
July 20, 1933
Long Time Citizen Dead
Ann Leonard, who for long had been known in this community as
Hattie Irwin, died Saturday at the Hamburg hospital, to which
place she was removed from her home some two weeks before. Though
a resident of Sidney for many years, the record of her life is
most incomplete. She was born near Galesburg, Illinois, December
12, 1866 and was therefore in her 77th year. She came to Sidney
in December, 1894, and on August 5 following was married to W.H.
Irwin, a Civil War veteran, who died five years following their
marriage. Since that time, Mrs. Irwin had lived alone on her
small acreage near the depot, busying herself with chickens and
garden, living thriftily and independently. Mrs. Irwin's father
was injured in a mine accident which caused his death a few years
later. Her mother brought the family to this state and she too
passed away when Mrs. Irwin was 14. She had five brothers, Henry,
Jeff, Amos, Silas and John. Amos and John preceded her in death.
Silas lives at Appleton, Missouri; Jeff in Sidney; Henry in
Hollinger, Nebraska. There are also one half-brother, Edward
Leonard; a half-sister, Mrs. Emeline Hare, a resident of Denver.
Funeral services were held from the Wildberger funeral home at
2:30 Tuesday afternoon conducted by Rev. C. W.Howard, Methodist
pastor, and interment was made in Sidney cemetery.
Thurman News
Ralph Carl, a former coach in our schools, and wife, with a party
of friends from Tarkio, Missouri, were camping on Grasshopper
Hill Saturday and calling on friends here. They were enroute to
the Century of Progress in Chicago.
[transcribed by W.F., June 2007]