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Iowa News from across the
Country
- 1898 -
Alexandria Post
News
Alexandria, Douglas Co, Minnesota
Thursday, February 10, 1898, page 5, col. 3.
MILTONA.
Mrs. Annie Gerome died Tuesday night at 11:30 o’clock,
February 1, 1898, and was laid to rest in the Carlos cemetery
Friday the 4th. Mrs. Gerome was the only daughter of Mr. Kronk,
who is living with his son in law, Mr. Peter Gerome, on the banks
of Miltona. Mrs. Gerome was born in Delide * county, Iowa,
January 13, 1848, and moved to Stillwater, this state, with her
parents in 1863. She was married there to Mr. Gerome on November
20, 1865, and two years later moved to Miltona where they have
since lived. She leaves a father, husband and nine children to
mourn her loss. She has been postmistress here for several years
and will be greatly missed by her many friends, for she was a
true wife, a loving mother, and a kind hearted neighbor,
respected by all who knew her. The grief stricken family have the
sympathy of the entire community.
Oh, mother, thy gentle voice is hushed,
Thy warm, true heart is still.
And on thy pale and peaceful face
Is resting death’s cold chill.
Thy hands are clasped upon thy breast,
We’ve kissed thy marble brow,
And in our aching hearts we know,
We have no mother now.—T.H.
CARD OF THANKS.
We wish to express our heartfelt thanks to the friends and
neighbors who so kindly assisted us in this time of grief and
sorrow.
PETER GEROME AND FAMILY.
GARRETT KRONK.
[* note: there is no county in Iowa by the name of 'Delide' - I
searched 1860 census records and located a Garrett Cronk in
Delhi, Delaware co. Iowa; but could not find Annie Cronk (Gerome)
- S.F., Iowa Old Press editor]
HUDSON.
Mr. M. D. Fredenberg, accompanied by his two sons, Deree and
Elmer, and daughter Hannah, drove to Miltona last Friday to
attend the funeral of Mrs. Peter Jerome, who was a cousin of Mrs.
Fredenberg, she being unable to attend.
[transcribed by J.W., November 2004]
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Arizona Republican
Phoenix, Arizona Territory
February 28, 1898
Des Moines, Ia., Feb. 27 -- In the senate yesterday a big
petition signed by 1,300 citizens of Clayton county against the
pardon of Wesley Elkins, the boy murderer, was presented. It was
in Clayton county that the crime was committed.
[transcribed by S.F., June 2004]
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The Sacramento
Daily Record-Union
Sacramento, California
Thursday, May 5, 1898
Died. Near this city, May 3d, Jeremiah Cahill, a member of Troop
B, the local cavalry company, died on Tuesday at the age of 22
years. He was a native of Iowa. The services will be held at the
Cathedral at 9:30 o'clock a.m. Brother of John, William H. and
Edward J. Cahill of this city, Thomas Cahill of Iowa, and Mrs.
Mary Green of Carrington, North Dakota. Friends and acquaintances
are respectfully invited to attend the funeral this (Thursday)
morning at 9:15 o'clock, from mortuary parlors of W.F. Gormley,
916 J street; thence to Cathedral, where funeral services will be
held, commencing at 9:30 o'clock. He will be buried with military
honors. Interment City Cemetery.
[transcribed by L.P., July 2010]
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The Evansville
Enterprise
Evansville, Douglas County, Minnesota
Friday, July 29, 1898
Page 1, Col. 4.
NORMANNAHEIMEN.
Peter Sampson, one of the most prominent of the pioneers of
Winneshiek county, Iowa, died recently at his home in Pleasant
township. He emigrated from Norway fifty years ago, and in 1821
[sic] located in Decorah and a few years later moved to his farm.
[transcribed by J.W., November 2005]
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Marion Daily Star
Marion, OH
August 18, 1898
Lorimor -- Frances E. Painter was born in Marion, Ohio, Feb. 16,
1845, and died at her home in Lorimer, Iowa, August 12, 1898,
aged 53 years, 5 months and 26 days. Deceased was married to
Lafayette J. Holverstott March 26, 1863, who departed this life
Nov. 8, 1877. To this union were born four children, all of whom
survive -- Luella, William H., Eva G. and Marcellus L. She united
with the Free Will Baptist church in 1871 and remained a
consistent and worthy member of the same until a few years ago,
when she removed her membership to a church near her home in
Lorimer, Iowa. She again united in marriage Sep. 23, 1886, to
Josiah Lorimor, who is left to mourn the loss of a loving and
devoted companion. Besides husband and children, there are left
five grandchildren and numerous relatives and friends to mourn
their loss. But their loss is her gain. "She being dead, yet
speaketh."
[transcribed by S.F., Sept. 2005]
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The Lake Review
Osakis, Douglas County, Minnesota
Thursday, Sept. 8, 1898
Page 1, Col. 2.
Col. Lyon Summoned Home.
Col. E. D. Lyon who came up from Dubuque to spend a few days
hunting chickens in this vicinity, was summoned home last
Saturday by a telegram announcing a deplorable accident that
resulted in the death of his little grandson, Andrew McDonald,
aged 4 years. While playing in the yard the little fellow
undertook to climb upon a large stone flower vase that stood on a
pedestal. His weight pulled the heavy vessel over and he
fell to the ground on his back, the vase striking him with all
its weight on the stomach. Death resulted from internal
injuries.
[transcribed by J.W. March 2006]
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Bismark Daily
Tribune
Bismark, North Dakota
September 29, 1898
A state bank has been organized at New Rockford with a capital of
$6,000. The officers are P.J. Hester of Emmetsburg, Iowa, pres;
Joseph Maxwell of New Rockford, vice-pres; E.R. Davidson of New
Rockford, cashier. The bank will be opened for business Oct. 15.
The bank will be called the State Bank of New
Rockford.
[transcribed by C.J.L., Jan. 2004]
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Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles, California
November 5, 1898
Licensed to Wed. Marriage licenses were issued at the County
Clerk's office yesterday to the following persons:
Harry Lewis, a native of Pennsylvania, aged 29 years, a resident
of Anaconda, Mont., and Jennie Freyer, a native of Iowa, aged 27
years, a resident of Moneta.
[transcribed by S.F., August 2012]
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New York Times
New York, New York
November 5, 1898
London, Nov. 4- Mr. Frederick B. Norman of Keokuk, Iowa, was run
over and killed yesterday evening in Holborn. The body of the
deceased is at the King's College Hospital. An inquest will be
held Monday, after which the U.S. Consul General will bury the
body, unless Mr. Norman's friends are heard from in the meantime.
[transcribed by S.Y., June 2009]
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Akron Weekly
Pioneer Press
Akron, Washington co. Colorado
November 18, 1898
Death of Grandpa Yeamans.
Died at his home in this place on Thursday morning, Nov. 17,
1898, of old age and attending infirmities, Nathan T. Yeamans, in
the 78th year of his age. The subject of this sketch was born
April 23, 1820, in the historic town of Harpers Ferry, Va., and
at the early age of eight years was brought by his parents to
Springfield, Ohio. After a few years residence here he continued
his westward course and reached Springfield, Ills., where his
home was for a number of years. While a resident of Illinois'
capitol he made the acquaintance of Mr. Lincoln, Senator Douglas
and other leading citizens of that section, and the admiration he
had for President Lincoln determined Mr. Yeamans' political life
and caused him to become an ardent republican, which principles
he carried to his grave.
In 1850 he moved to the state of Iowa, then new and undeveloped,
and in 1854 located in Marshall county, and lived to see its
county seat grow from a small community occupying three log
cabins to one of the large and prosperous cities of the state.
Here he lived for forty years. The older residents of
Marshalltown remember with pride one of its oldest landmarks,
still standing, a frame building the first erected in that city.
It was build by Mr. Yeamans and since that time has had its
various uses from a dentist's office to the publication office of
Marshalltown's first newspaper -- The Republican. Among
the first if not the very first wedding solemnized in that new
country was that which united him with the aged widow who now
shares in the grief of the stricken household.
Mr. Yeamans leaves, besides a widow, a sister older than himself,
living in Missouri, four children -- Mrs. Flanery of South Dak.,
J.E. and C.N. yeamons of Akron, and a daughter by a former
marriage, who lives in Denver, besides several grandchildren. The
deceased moved to Akron in 1894 in order that he and the mother
might be near their sons, the Messrs. Yeamans, and these
gentlemen with filial affection have made his declining years as
comfortable as was possible for mortal hands to do. His residence
here has been quiet and unobtrusinve, and thought not well
acquainted with our citizens, nor they with him, we had all
learned to respect and admire him. The funeral services will be
held to-morrow at ten o'clock a.m., from his late residence, and
will be in charge of Rev. C.C. Rarick, pastor of the M.E. Church.
[transcribed by S.F., July 2005]