Iowa Old Press
Davenport Gazette
Davenport, Scott, Iowa
Thurs, Sep 9, 1841
Married
On the 22d August, by the Rev. J.W. Gilmore, M. Jonathan Ping, to
Miss
Susannah Robertson, daughter of Stephen Robertson, both of Des
Moines
County.
Died
In Davenport, on Monday, August 30th a child of Mrs. Beard,
teacher at the
Female Seminary in this place.
In Burlington, on 31st August, Mr. Harrison Vance. He came to
that place a
short time since and put up at the Steam Boat Hotel, where he was
taken sick
and died. He said he came from Cincinnati and that he had left a
cousin at
Terre Haute on his way out. He was decently buried by a large
number of
citizens.
At his residence, three miles from Burlington, 28th August, Mr.
Absalom
Leffler, aged 43 years. Mr. L. was one of a large family who came
to this
Territory in its first settlement.
At his residence, Ludlow Station, near Cincinnati, on Monday,
15th Aug,
James C. Ludlow, Esq.
Suicide-On Saturday evening last Mr Levi Chamberlain, residing
near the
mouth of Pine river, Muscatine County, committed suicide by
cutting his
throat with a razor, for what reason is left to conjecture.
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Davenport Gazette
Davenport, Scott, Iowa Territory
Thurs., Sep 16, 1841
Married
On Thursday, Sep 9th, by Robert Christie, Esq. Mr. Daniel N Pope
of Lee Co
to Miss Mary Hedges of Pleasant Valley. All good Whigs.
In Tameytown, Benton township, Des Moines county, on the 5th inst
by John
Burkhart Esq., Mr. Aaron R. Edgington to Miss Martha Edgington.
On the same day by John Burkhart Esq., Mr. Charles H. New to Miss
Joan
Frunk, all of Benton Township.
Died.
On Friday night , Sept. 11th, in Pleasant Valley, Mr. Leonard
Lowery.
At Bloomington, on the 1st inst. of congestive fever, Ellen,
daughter of Dr.
B.S. and Theresa L. Olds, aged 4 years 7 months and 4 days.
At Bloomington, on the 3d instant, Josephine, infant daughter of
Robert C
and Eliza Kinney.
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Davenport Gazette
Davenport, Scott, Iowa Territory
Thurs., Sep 23, 1841
Married
In Burlington, on Monday evening last, by the Rev. John
Bachelder, Mr. David
Wood, of Washington, Ky., to Miss Lucretia Stull, eldest daughter
of Hon.
Otho H.W. Stull, Secretary of this Territory.
Died.
At Bloomington, on the 12th inst. Lucius Sidney, infant son of
Irad C and
Z.M. Day. Aged 10 months and 12 days.
On Wednesday last, at the residence of her husband, two miles
east of
Bloomington, Mrs. Margaret, consort of Chas. A Warfield.
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Davenport Gazette
Davenport, Scott, Iowa Territory
Thurs., Sep 30, 1841
Married.
In this place, on last evening, by the Rev. J. Alden Woodruff,
Mr. Francis B
Evans, of Cincinnati, Ohio, to Miss Maria McKown, of Davenport,
Iowa.
On the 22inst, by the Rev. Francis A. Chenoweth, Mr. David J.
Johnson of
Colchester to Miss Alice Richardson of Muscatine county.
At Dubuque, Iowa on Wednesday 15th inst., by the Rev. Mr.
Carpenter, Mr.
Thomas Hughes, Publisher of the Bloomington Herald, to Miss
Louisa C.F.
King, of the former place.
Died.
In Davenport on Thursday evening last, the 23d inst., after a
short but
severe illness, Mrs. Sarah Ann Bonny, aged about 22 years.
At Bloomington on Sept. 23d, Joseph R. Loveless, Printer, aged 32
years, for
several years a resident of Illinois. He came to this place a few
weeks
since, in the last stage of consumption.
In Burlington, on Friday the 17th inst, of fever, Mrs. Jane
Morrison,
consort of Wm. C. Morrison, Esq. of this city.
In Burlington, on Saturday last, 11th inst, Mr. Thomas Price.
In the same city, on Friday 16th inst., Mrs. Susannah Price,
widow of the
above.
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