Iowa Old Press
Upper Des Moines Republican
Algona, Kossuth co. Iowa
June 26, 1918
TO LEAVE FRIDAY - Thirty-Eight Soldiers Entrain For Camp
Dodge on North Western - Band Will Lead Parade to Depot.
The following boys will leave Algona Friday for Camp Dodge where
they will enter the encampment:
Ambrose Becker, Whittemore;
Joe Kline, Titonka;
Wm. McClellan Dudding, Bancroft;
Bernard Paul Schluttner, Bancroft;
Willie Blome, Elmore, Minn.;
Aug. Frank Kramersmeier, Ledyhard;
Otto Sheely, Swear City;
Ernest W. L. Nintz, Elmore, Minn.;
Charlie Elbert, Whittemore;
Joseph E. Lindblom, Armstrong;
Swea Tjensfold, Armstrong;
Mathias N. Bormann, Livermore;
Walter Thompson, Ringsted;
Miller Herbert Nelson, Titonka;
Tobias Peterson, Swea City;
Charles Ray Richardson, Ledyard;
Wilson Herbert Leglar, Corwith;
George Kopfmiller, Sioux City;
Lafay Biggs, Swea City;
Joseph Lauritson, Algona;
Lyppe Wirtjes, Herman, Minnesota;
Arthur C. Gabb, Corwith;
Charles Graham, Whittemore;
John Peter Steines, Bode;p
Delbert Roy Hunt, Swea City;
Andrew Herman Dettering, Bancroft;
Helmick Weatwick, Armstrong;
George Satern, Whittemore;
Anthony P. Becker, Whittemore;
Sidney Albert Lloyd, Wesley;
Otto E. Dornsbach, Elmore, Minn.;
John H. Batton, Germania;
Edward Leigh, Irvington;
Otto Henry Boettcher, Elmore, Minn.;
Thomas Joseph O¹Donnell, Lone Rock;
Loren S. Minkler, Algona;
Peter Bormann, Livermore;
Anton C. Fehr, St. Benedict;
Following are alternates:
William Sivishert, Burt;
Peter Badj, Titonka;
Henry J. Harring, Titonka.
GOOD LADY IS GONE
Mrs. Caroline Fraser, Resident of County Since 1858 Dies Friday.
She Was Daughter of Early Pioneers Who Settle in the Irvington
Region.
(By B. F. Reed)
The Irvington cemetery, that contains the sleeping forms of so
many of the early settlers of this county, was opened again
Monday afternoon to receive the body of Mrs. Caroline Fraser, who
died suddenly Friday morning, June 21, 1918, at the home of her
daughter, Mrs. Mildred Spear, near Swea City. Feeling a distress
in her stomach when she arose in the morning, she went outside of
the home for a few moments where she could get the fresh air. The
daughter soon followed after her and in doing so found that Mrs.
Fraser was at death's door. Long before the doctor arrived, she
had passed away. With the exception of having felt in pain in her
left arm during the evening previous to her death, the family had
no warning that the death messenger was hovering near.
Mrs. Fraser was the daughter of Mrs. and Mrs. Joseph Raney, early
pioneers to the Irvington vicinity. The family was a large one
and well known throughout the county in the early days. The old
home of the Raneys was in Sherman township where Caroline, the
subject of this sketch, was born October 16, 1858. After growing
to maturity, at her home she was married to John R. Fraser,
January 29, 1880. For a short time they lived at Livermore and
then on a farm in Riverdale. Then settling down on the old Fraser
homestead in Riverdale, they lived there for thirty years. There
the husband died February 28, 1908 and there Mrs. Fraser remained
for six years thereafter before moving to Algona. Since that time
she has spent much of the time with her children. For three weeks
previous to her death, she had been staying with her daughter
near Swea City.
Mrs. Caroline Fraser was the mother of five children: Joe A.,
John H., and Mrs. Nellie Potter of Algona; Mrs. Mildred Spear,
Swea City, and Mrs. Belle Moore, Kanawha. Mrs. Fraser's parents
came to the Irvington community in 1856 and her birth was the
first one in what is now Sherman township. Her mother died in
1862 and her father remarried a year or so later. Caroline was
one the nine children of the first marriage. By the second
marriage she had 12 half brothers and sisters. Of this family of
twenty-one children, eight are dead. The surviving ones are
Walter W., Adolphus J., and Martha E. of Algona; Sheldon, Joseph,
Mrs. Mary A. Clark and George of California; Mrs. Phoebe Clark
Britt; William H., LuVerne; Charles A., Livermore; Mrs. Cora M.
Sparks, Owatonna, Robert, Bison, South Dakota, and Mrs. Lillie G.
Cairy, Sioux City.
Those neighbors who knew Mrs. Fraser the most intimately during
her long residence in the county, will testify to her many
splendid qualities in helping to make the world better for her
presence in it. She was a devoted Christian and strictly followed
the principles of the golden rule. The funeral was held from the
Methodist Church in Algona, Monday afternoon, the services being
conducted by Rev. F.G. Taylor, who came over from Spencer for the
purpose. The body, as above stated, was taken for burial to
Irvington, near where the girlhood days of Mrs. Fraser were spent
in happiness.
DIED AT ST. PAUL - Miss Margaret Conner Passed Away
Yesterday Morning - Death a Shock to Algona Friends.
Margaret, the seventeen-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. E.
Conner, passed away yesterday morning at their home in St. Paul,
was the news conveyed in a telegram received by C. O. Simpson
yesterday afternoon. This news will be a great shock to the many
friends of this family, although it has been known for some time
that she was suffering with diabetes. Only a few days ago she,
with her mother, spent a week with Algona friends, and when they
departed, Margaret was apparently improving. The funeral services
will be held in St. Paul tomorrow (Thursday.)
[transcribed by L.Z., July 2012]