Iowa Old Press

Davenport Democrat and Leader
Davenport, Scott, Iowa
Sunday morning, Feb. 3, 1929

The Bishop Funeral
    Funeral services for Jacob Bishop were held at 2:30 p.m Friday at the Horrigan home for funerals. The Rev. C.W. Harrop officiated at the services at the home and at the grave in Rose Hill cemetery, Buffalo.
    Mr. and Mrs. T.E. Dyer and Miss Catherine Stormer sang "Beautiful Isle of Somewhere" and "Rock of Ages."
    Pallbearers were Rev. Wayne, Rolland, Warren and Edward Secoy and Kenneth Brann [or Braun].

Davenport Democrat and Leader
Davenport, Scott, Iowa
Monday evening, Feb. 18, 1929

MRS. MATT KNOPP AND MRS. STUBBS OF FAIRFIELD DIE.
Special to the Democrat

     Fairfield, Ia., Feb. 18 - The funeral of Mrs. Matt Knopp, Pleasant Plain, who died Friday afternoon in the Jefferson county hospital, was held this morning at 10 o'clock from St. Joseph's Catholic church in East Pleasant Plain. Burial was in the cemetery adjoining the church. Mrs. Knopp was 52 years of age and is survived by her husband and four daughters, Mrs. Leonard Greenfield of this city; Mrs. Frank Bannach and Miss Angeline Knopp, Pleasant Plain; and Miss Bernice Knopp, Des Moines; and two sons, Adam, East Pleasant Plain and Clarence of this city.

Mrs. R.E. Stubbs Dies.
    Word has been received in Fairfield of the death of Mrs. C.E. Stubbs, Feb. 6, in the Brown Palace hotel, Denver, Colo. She was 58 years of age.
    Mrs. Stubbs is survived by a son, Logan Metcalf, Los Angeles, and a sister in Chicago. Her husband who was the son of one of the oldest families in Fairfield died in 1925. She has lived a part of the time in California and a part of it in Denver since.

Davenport Democrat and Leader
Davenport, Scott, Iowa
Feb 22, 1929

MRS. MATT KNOPP'S DEATH DUE TO FALL INQUEST DECISION
    Fairfield, Ia., Feb. 22 - After a three days' inquest into the death of Mrs. Matt Knopp, Pleasant Plain, Saturday, the jury returned a verdict yesterday afternoon that death was due to injuries received from a fall which she sustained while suffering from a cerebral hemorrhage.
    Three doctors, three nurses and 13 relatives, neighbors and friends appeared before the coroner's jury. Dr. N T North, county coroner, called the inquest at the instance of the dead woman's brother, Anthony Biski, Chicago. The inquest was heard behind closed doors, only the officials and the witnesses being in attendance.
    

Submitted by C.J.L., Sep 2005