Iowa Old Press
Sioux County Herald, May 2, 1906: Hull news:
Monday afternoon the funeral of Grandma Bell was held, the remains being shipped to Farmington for final interment where her husband was buried. There are five surviving children and at the home of one of them, Mrs. B. H. Tamplin, she had passed her declining years peacefully, loved by all.
Mrs. Bell was born in 1817 and was left a widow at the age of 34 with 7 small children. There are twenty grandchildren and sixteen great grandchildren. She had been confined to bed for about four weeks and finally gave up the struggle Sunday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Tamplin went to Farmington with the remains.
Hawarden Independent, May 10, 1906: Our Neighbors:
Mrs. Elizabeth Bell of Hull died on the 22d ult. She was 89 years old and a relative of Andrew Jackson, the old Hickory of democracy.
Alton Democrat
May 26, 1906
LOCAL OCCURRENCES.
Miss Minnie Donohue died in Chicago Sunday. She had been a teacher in the Chicago schools for eleven years. The family were the pioneer residents of Plymouth and Cherokee counties where deceased was well known as a teacher. Her sister, Miss Anna, is well known in Alton and Granville. Mrs. Donohue—mother of the deceased—now resides at Remsen. Minnie was thirty-three years of age and a woman of charming personality.
WAYSIDE GLEANINGS.
Leonard Koenig—one of the pioneers of the Floyd valley died at his home twelve miles south of LeMars Wednesday, aged eighty years. He came to Plymouth county in 1869 from Baltimore and engaged in farming and became rich—owning several hundred acres of land. He was a native of Germany where he was born in 1827. He leaves a wife and large family. He was an Odd Fellow and a member of the United Evangelical Church. Mr. Koenig was for many years a member of the supervisor board and held other offices. He was a democrat in politics.
Clay Greer—a conductor on the Omaha for years and a long time resident of LeMars, died at the hospital at Rochester, Minnesota. He had been sick for some time and underwent an operation for an internal malady ten days ago. He was a son of the late N. L. Greer—one of the leading men of LeMars for many years—and a brother of Miss Kathryn Greer who taught in Sioux Center for several years. Clay Greer was about thirty-eight years old and leaves a wife. Interment took place in LeMars Wednesday.
[transcribed by LZ, Nov 2019]