Mills County, Iowa


Register of Deaths - Book 2 (1897-1908) S
I.F.M.C. = Intitution Feeble-Minded Children - Later known at the Glenwood State Hospital-School)
Full name of deceased | Sex | Age at death | Occupation | Date of death | Marital Status | Where born | Place of Death | Cause of Death | Place of Burial |
Skaggs, Paul Raymond | M | 7m 4days | | 11/19/1897 | | Rawles Township | Township | Bowel Trouble | Malvern Cemetery |
Sherwin, Liddie Mary | F | 79y 11m 6days | None | 3/27/1897 | Widow | New York | Emerson | Enlargment of liver | Aurora Illinois |
Strond, Elvira P. | F | 79y | | 12/15/1897 | Widow | New York | Glenwood Township | Old Age | Glenwood Cemetery |
Sothern, Lenord Watson | M | 53y 7m 28days | Farmer | 8/23/1897 | Married | Iowa | Anderson | Dropsey and Heart Failure | Wheeler Grove |
Shamer, Ada May | F | 9y 4m 8days | | 2/27/1897 | Single | Ohio | Platteville | Diptheria | Martin Chapel Cemetery |
Shannon, Ray Bunker | M | 6y | | 2/20/1897 | Single | Meigs Co. Ohio | Platteville | Membranous Croup | Martin Chapel Cemetery |
Stout, Samuel Martin | M | 72y 3m 14days | Plasterer | 7/7/1897 | Married | Hardin Co. Kentucky | Glenwood City | Rupture | Glenwood Cemetery |
Shaul, Alice Priscilla | F | 34y 7m 8days | | 6/30/1897 | Married | Elkhart Co. Indiana | | Quick Consumption | Glenwood Iowa |
Shepard, Jennie | F | 20y | I.F.M.C. | 12/4/1897 | Single | | Glenwood I.F.M.C. | Tuberculosis | Glenwood I.F.M.C. Cemetery |
Sargent, Lila L. | F | 25y 2m 12days | | 6/23/1898 | Married | Mills Co. Iowa | Lyons | Consumption | Glenwood Iowa |
Shafer, D.W. | M | 30y | Merchant | 11/8/1898 | Married | West Virginia | Henderson | General Tuberculosis | Glenwood |
Stranathan, Sophia B. | F | 55y 1m 5days | Farmer | 1/7/1899 | Married | Noble Co. Ohio | Center Township | Heart Trouble | Glenwood Cemetery |
Sandiland, Iva M. | F | 11y 4m 7days | | 10/28/1898 | Single | Indian Creek Township | Indian Creek Township | Fire | Emerson |
Schaab, Adolph | M | 47y 6m 12days | Farmer | 10/5/1899 | Married | Germany | Ingraham Township | Paralysis | Silver City Cemetery |
Schermeier, Adolph | M | | | 5/1/1899 | | St. Mary | St. Mary | | St. Mary |
Shamblen, George W. | M | 44y 4days | Laborer | 7/30/1899 | Widower | Noble Co. Ohio | Glenwood Iowa | Poison Taken Himself | Glenwood Iowa |
Slack, Mary Gladys | F | 6y 6m 10days | | 9/20/1899 | | Lincoln Nebraska | Glenwood Iowa | Spinal Meningitis | Glenwood Iowa |
Standiford, Auora Daisey | F | 11m 16days | | 9/4/1899 | Single | Glenwood Iowa | Glenwood Iowa | Bowel Trouble | Glenwood Iowa |
Sayers, Lula | F | 14y 4m 8days | None | 1/17/1899 | Single | Iowa | Glenwood Iowa | Broncho Pneumonia and Measles | Blairstown Iowa |
Smith, William J.C. | M | 57y 4m 7days | Farmer | 9/15/1899 | Married | Indiana | Silver Creek Township | Cancer | Malvern Cemetery |
Smith, Lillian | F | 27y 8m 4days | School Teacher | 4/11/1899 | Single | Red Oak Iowa | Fort North Texas | Spinal Meningitis | Malvern Iowa |
Scott, Lawrence | M | 6days | | 2/4/1899 | | Malvern Iowa | Malvern Iowa | Kidney Disease | Malvern Iowa |
Simons, Eliza E. | F | 75y | | 2/12/1899 | Widow | | Malvern Iowa | Paralysis | Dexter Iowa |
Smith, Virgil Irving | M | 17y 11m | Farmer | 2/20/1900 | Single | Indian Creek Township | Indian Creek Township | Tumor | Emerson Iowa |
Styles Lewis C. | M | 11m | | 8/20/1899 | | Center | Hastings Iowa | Bowel Trouble | Hastings Cemetery |
Stockton, Samuel Jameson | M | 51y 9m 13days | Carpenter | 4/13/1899 | Married | Henderson Co. Illinois | Omaha Nebraska | Cancer | Malvern Iowa |
Starr, Cora | F | 19y 11m 29days | None | 12/12/1899 | Married | Mills Co. Iowa | Lyons Township | Confinement | Waubonsie Cemetery |
Spellman, Mildred | F | 6m 20days | None | 9/9/1899 | Single | Des Moines Iowa | Pacific Junction | Congestion Chill | Pacific City Iowa |
Snodgrass, Martha May Ellen | F | 4y 7m 21days | None | 3/7/1900 | Single | Carson Iowa | Emerson | Membranous Croup | Emerson Cemetery |
Snodgrass, John O. | M | 9y 1day | None | 3/9/1900 | Single | Emerson Iowa | Emerson | Diptheria | Emerson Cemetery |
Shultz, William Everett | M | 7y 7m 21days | None | 9/22/1900 | Single | Malvern Iowa | Hillsdale | Otitis Media Purulenta | Hillsdale |
Smith, D.F. | M | 72y 3m 10days | Farmer | 3/2/1900 | | Pennsylvania | Ingraham | Paralytic Stroke | Silver City Cemetery |
Sears, Mary Alice | F | 24y 1day | | 12/23/1900 | Married | Lucas County | Rawles | Consumption | Fairview Cemetery |
Schmidt, Millie | F | 1m 2days | Infant | 11/29/1900 | | Oak Township | Oak Township | Inflamation of Bowels | Glenwood Cemetery |
Schanks, Ewen Wilson | M | 21y 8m 17days | Harness Maker | 4/17/1900 | | Audubon Co. Iowa | Oak Township | Consumption | Glenwood Iowa |
Schoening, Claus Henry | M | 57y 9m | Farmer | 1/1/1900 | Married | Holstein Germany | Oak Township | Pleurisy | Mineola Cemetery |
Shook | M | 4days | | 8/8/1900 | Single | Anderson | Anderson | | Emerson Cemetery |
Shaw, Coraline | F | 84y 6m 3days | Farmer | 11/29/1900 | Married | Canada | Emerson Town | Heart Disease | Hastings Cemetery |
Smith, Ester F. | F | 6y 6m 4days | Farmer | 8/13/1900 | Single | Mills Co. Iowa | Hastings Iowa | Flux | Emerson Cemetery |
Stringham, Roger A. | M | 15y 8m 18days | I.F.M.C. | 4/6/1900 | | Iowa | Glenwood I.F.M.C. | Heart Failure | Stuart Iowa |
Scott, Minnie M. | F | 23y 10m 23days | I.F.M.C. | 6/3/1900 | | | Glenwood I.F.M.C. | Phthisis Pulmonalis | Glenwoot I.F.M.C. Cemetery |
Starr, Clifford | M | 6m 21days | | 3/1/1900 | Single | Hastings Iowa | Hastings Iowa | Brain Fever | Hastings Iowa |
Sowart, Alice J. | F | 15m 20days | | 9/2/1900 | | Creston Iowa | Glenwood Iowa | Spinal Meningitis | Glenwood Cemetery |
Shaul, Alexander | M | 77y 2m 11days | Farmer | 5/27/1900 | Widower | Henderson Co. | White Cloud | Old Age | Malvern Iowa |
Summers, William Gibby | M | 70y 1m 21days | Farmer | 5/16/1901 | Married | Lawrence Co. Illinois | White Cloud | Lung Fever | Malven Iowa |
Spetman, Minnie | F | 68y 3m 11days | Farmer | 7/22/1901 | Widow | Hanover Germany | Oak Township | Paralysis of Brain | Mineola Cemetery Oak Twnsp. |
Seward, John E. | M | 61y 10m 5days | Carpenter | 12/12/1901 | Married | Schuyler Co. Illinois | Malvern Iowa | Bright's Disease and Heart Trouble | Malvern Cemetery |
Shoemaker, Rex Stanley | M | 3m 4days | | 12/26/1901 | | Indian Creek Township | Indian Creek Township | Inflamation of Bowels | Clarinda Iowa |
Scott, Andrew E. | M | 21y | Shorthand and Typewriter | 8/7/1901 | Single | Hastings Iowa | Prairie Home Nebraska | Humors of the Lungs | Malvern Cemetery |
Shone, Joines? | F | 2m 1days | | 12/16/1901 | | Hastings Iowa | Hastings Iowa | Pneumonia | Hastings Cemetery |
Stout, Joshua Spencer | M | 57y | Farmer | 5/5/1901 | Married | Fulton Co. Illinois | Rawles Township | | Tabor Cemetery |
Servis, Baby | M | 21days | | 12/2/1901 | | Glenwood Iowa | Glenwood Iowa | Blood Poisoning | Glenwood Iowa |
Salyards, Sarah | F | 77y 9m 22days | Housewife | 5/6/1901 | Married | Putnam Co. Ohio | Glenwood Iowa | Old Age | Glenwood Cemetery |
Sharer, Lulu O. | F | 16y 10m | I.F.M.C. | 4/11/1901 | Single | Iowa | Glenwood I.F.M.C. | Tubercular Peritonitis | Glenwood I.F.M.C. Cemetery |
Schooler, George | M | 20y 2m 9days | I.F.M.C. | 7/18/1901 | Single | Iowa | Glenwood I.F.M.C. | Pulmonary Tuberculosis | Summerset Iowa |
Spetman, William Henry | M | 72y | Farmer | 5/26/1902 | Single | Holstein Germany | Oak Township | Infirmity | Salem German Evangelical Luthren Church Cemetery |
Schoening, John Hernry | M | 67y 3m 1days | Farmer | 4/11/1902 | Married | Holstein Germany | Oak Township | Heart Failure | Mineola Cemetery |
Saar, Margret Sophia Dorthee | F | 77y 8m 7days | Farmer | 10/15/1902 | Widow | Hanover Germany | Oak Township | | Salem German Evangelical Luthren Church Cemetery |
Schoop, Ida M. | F | 32y 3m | | 12/5/1902 | Married | | Deer Creek | Consumption | South Grove Cemetery |
Starr, Howard Jay | M | 6y 4m | | | | | Hastings Iowa | Brain Fever | Hastings |
Sandiland, James | M | 88y 6m 11days | Farmer | 6/30/1902 | Widow | Scotland | Emerson | Old Age | Emerson Cemetery |
Seegar, Betty | F | 76y 4m 23days | Farmer | 4/28/1902 | Widow | Germany | Center Township | Old Age | Hillsdale Cemetery |
Sivers, Mary A. | F | 78y 4m 22days | | | | | | | |
Stewart, Opal M. | Female | 3 y 6 m 14 d | | Dec 7, 1902 | Single | Platteville | Lyons Twp. | Congestive Stomach | Lyons Twp. |
Stout, Eliza J. | Female | 84 y 6 m 16 d | | Apr 25, 1902 | Widow | Steubenville, Jefferson, Ohio | White Cloud Twp. | Old age | Malvern |
Schumacher, Mary I. | Female | 28 y 4 m 6 d | | Jan 26, 1903 | Single | Nebraska | I. F. M. C. | Pulmonary Tuberculosis | Glenwood State Cemetery |
Stevenson, Susan | Female | 26 y 1 m 8 d | | Nov 12, 1902 | Married | Illinois | I. F. M. C. | Exhaustion | Des Moines, Ia |
Swarts, George | Male | 76 y 6 m 13 d | Farmer | June 9, 1902 | " | Penn | Silver City, Iowa | Old Age | Silver City, Iowa |
Shaw, E. W. | Male | 66 y | Jewelry | Dec 28, 1903 | Married | Canada | Hastings | Heart Disease | Hastings |
Strickler, Conrad | Male | 66 y 1 m 5 d | Lumberman | Sept 22, 1903 | Married | Pennsylvania | Emerson | Heart failure | Emerson Cemetery |
Scott, James Wesley | Male | 63 y 5 m 16 d | | Sept 21, 1903 | Single | Indiana | Silver Creek Twp. | Brights Disease | East Liberty Cemetery |
Stumpf, John Henry * | Male | 82 y 9 m 21 d | Farmer | May 26, 1903 | Married | Holstein, Germany | Oak Twp. | Paralised | Missouri |
Schoening, Detlef Claus | Male | 76 y 4 m 14 d | Farmer | July 23, 1903 | Married | Holstein, Germany | Oak Twp. | Kidney trouble | Mineola |
Smelser, Pearl Angeline | Female | 1 d | | July 11, 1903 | | Lyons Twp. | Lyons Twp. | Died in operation | Waubonsie Cemetery |
Scott, Gladys Pearl | Female | 1 y 4 m | | May 1903 | | Platteville Twp | Platteville Twp. | Typhoid fever | West Liberty Cemetery |
Sly, Mamie E. | Female | 16 y 1 m 14 d | | Nov 5, 1903 | Single | Missouri | Glenwood I. F. M. C. | Traumatic Subdural Hemorrhage | Glenwood State Cemetery |
Stone, Harriet | Female | 55 y 11m 8 d | Housewife | May 9, 1903 | Married | Lewiston, Indiana | Glenwood | Brights Disease | Glenwood Cemetery |
Suhr, Alfred | Male | 18 y 2 m 27 d | | July 7, 1903 | Single | Iowa | Glenwood I. F. M. C. | Epilepsy | Glenwood State Cemetery |
Shuffler, Arthur H. | Male | 10 y 8 m 17 d | None | May 10, 1903 | | Republic Co., Kan. | Pacific Junction, Iowa | Unknown | Pacific Junction, IA |
Sawyers, Lee Harry * | M | 9 y 11 m 24 d | None | June 21, 1904 | Single | Iowa | Glenwood, IA | Epilepsy | Defiance, IA |
Sandeman , Harry Oakley | Male | 2 y 24 d | " | | | | | | |
Sowars, Ward E. | Male | 9 | " | Febry. 12, 1904 | Single | Iowa | Anderson Twp. | Bright's Disease | Wesley Chapel |
Stone, E. A. | Male | 55 y 7 m 6 d | Brick Maker | Mar. 23, 1904 | Married | Huntsburg, Ohio | Malvern | Accident | Malvern Cemetery |
Shepardson, William Henry | Male | 80 y 4 m 28 d | Farmer | Mar. 30, 1904 | Single | Mass. | Lyons Twp. | La Grippe | Glenwood |
Smith, James Niles | Male | 70 y 6 m 2 d | Farmer | Apr. 27, 1904 | Married | Iowa | Emerson, Iowa | Gen. Woad in Uriny | Emerson Cemetery |
Surber, May | Female | 17 d | | Mar. 2, 1904 | | Rawls Twp. | Rawls Twp. | La Grippe | Hillsdale |
Steffan, Amelia | Female | 62 y 5 m 9 d | House wife | Jan. 6, 1904 | Married | Germany | Miniola, Iowa | Heart Failure | Mineola |
Scharf, Robert Casper | Male | 12 y 5 m 20 d | | Feb. 17, 1904 | Single | Iowa | Glenwood I. F. M. C. | Epilepsy | Farmersburg, Iowa |
Sniderson, Ellen A | Female | 42 y 5 m 5 d | | Feb. 29, 1904 | Single | Unknown | Glenwood I. F. M. C. | Peritonitis | Waverly, Iowa |
Schraeder, Mable | " | 15 y 1 m 24 d | | Apr. 7, 1904 | Single | Iowa | Glenwood I. F. M. C. | Epilepsy | Rudd, Iowa |
Seydell, Roxena | " | 39 y 11 m | | May 1, 1904 | Single | Iowa | Glenwood I. F. M. C. | Exhaustion from Empysema | Glenwood State Cemetery |
Schecker, Charles H | Male | 19 y 7 m 26 d | | June 3, 1904 | Single | Iowa | Glenwood I. F. M. C. | Ensifelas | Glenwood State Cemetery |
Sawyers, Hanny Lee * | Female | 9 y 10 m 24 d | | June 21, 1904 | Single | Iowa | Glenwood I. F. M. C. | Epilepsy | Defiance, Iowa |
Stone, Guy H. | Male | 22 y 8 m 15 d | Salesman | Mar 18, 1904 | Single | Davenport | Glenwood City | Scarlet Fever | Glenwood, Iowa |
Shaw, Joseph | Male | 89 y 9 m 19 d | Cooper | Mar. 10, 1904 | Widower | Claremont, New Hampshire | Deer Creek Twp | Old age & Penumonia | Hastings, IA |
Stewart, Carl | M | 3 y 10 m 7 d | | Nov. 22, 1907 | | Iowa | Platteville Twp. | Croup | Waubonsie |
Strahan, James M. | Male | 77 y 9 m 3 d | Banker | Aug. 14, 1907 | Married | Ind. | Silver Creek Twp. | Apoplexy | Malvern |
Smith, Fay | " | | Farmer | | Married | Ill. | Tabor | Tuberculosis | Tabor |
Stout | | | | Aug. 21, 1906 | Single | Iowa | Glenwood | Meningitis | Glenwood |
Shaw, May | Female | 5 m 18 d | | Sept. 18, 1906 | Single | Iowa | Lyons | Cholera Firft | Malvern |
Starr, Eva | " | 6 y | | Sept. 27, 1906 | Single | Iowa | Glenwood | Diphtheria | Glenwood |
Stenson, Daisy E. | " | 26 y 9 m 7 d | | Nov. 16, 1906 | Single | Neb. | Glenwood I. F. M. C. | Staus Epileptius | Glenwood |
Smith, Mary C. | " | 83 y 11 m 24 d | | Dec. 8, 1906 | Widow | Ohio | Deer Creek Twp. | Paralysis | Randolph |
Smith, Mary J. | " | 65 y | | Jan. 24, 1907 | Married | Ohio | Glenwood | Carcinoia | Glenwood |
Shepardson, Lucinda | F | 75 y 8 m 5 d | | Feb. 27, 1907 | Single | Mass. | Lyons | Brights Disease | Glenwwod |
Stout, Maude | F | 17 y 21 d | | Feb. 8, 1907 | " | Iowa | Glenwood I. F. M. C. | Pulm. Tuberculosis | Glenwood |
Sherefield, Edna M. | F | 15 y 2 m 21 d | School Girl | Mar. 31, 1907 | " | Iowa | Malvern | Spinal Meningitis | Malvern |
Swanson, Agusta | F | 42 y | Housewife | May 21, 1907 | Married | Sweden | Malvern | Appendicitis | Malvern |
Shoemaker, Edith | F | 27 y 7 m 24 d | IFMC | Apr. 17, 1907 | Single | Kansas | Glenwood | Phthisis Pulm | Glenwood |
Smith, Seth M. | M | 85 y | Farmer | May 28, 1907 | Widower | Ohio | Emerson | Uremia | Grant |
Stufelbein, Gottlieb | " | 73 y 21 d | | June 25, 1907 | Married | Germanu | Malvern | Val Disease of Heart | East Liberty |
Strand, Martha | F | 50 y 23 d | Housewife | June 19, 1907 | " | Ohio | Glenwood | Heart Failure | Glenwood |
Snodgrass, Earl | M | 11 m | | June 15, 1907 | Single | Iowa | Emerson | Pneumonia | |
Stattler, Juanita B. | F | 1 y 1 m 25 d | | Oct. 13, 1907 | " | Iowa | Lyons | Inf. Of Bowles | Thurman |
Said, Wm. L. | M | 66 y 9 m 18 d | Farmer | July 3, 1907 | Married | Ohio | Omaha | Brights Disease | Emerson |
Slater, Geo. E. | M | 24 y 6 m 6 d | " | Feb. 7, 1908 | Widower | Iowa | Deer Creek | Blood Poison | Imsogene |
Slater, Joseph E. | M | 10 d | | Jan. 27, 1908 | | " | " " | " | " |
Short, Emma | F | 31 y 7 m 8 d | Housewife | Dec. 26, 1907 | Married | N. J. | Malvern | Pneumonia | Malvern |
Shepard, Henry | M | | | Feb. 16, 1907 | Widower | | " | | |
Suits, Hannah M. | F | 64 y 8 m 3 d | Farmer's wife | Oct. 7, 1907 | Married | Penn | Clarinda | Paralysis | Hillsdale |
Stranathan, John | | 11 m 6 d | | Aug. 19, 1907 | Single | Iowa | Rawls | Stomach Trouble | Glenwood |
Staley, Lena | F | 15 y 6 m 5 d | | Apr. 23, 1907 | " | Kan. | Rawls | Tuberculosis | Tabor |
Snuffin, Mary E. | F | 41 y 1 m 4 d | | July 7, 1907 | Married | N. Carolina | Glenwood | Tuberculosis | Glenwood |
Strahan, James M. | M | 77 y 8 m 27 d | Banker | Aug. 14, 1907 | " | Indiana | Malvern | Apoplexy | Malvern, Ia. |
Stranathan, John L. | M | 11 m 8 d | | Aug. 19, 1907 | Single | Iowa | Rawls | Entero Colitis | Glenwood |
Sands, M. Margaret | F | 15 y 6 m 28 d | IFMC | Sept. 28, 1907 | " | Iowa | Glenwood | Epilepsy | State Cemetery |
Scott, George | M | 78 y 11 m 14 d | Retired | Sept. 30, 1907 | Widower | Ohio | Glenwod | Acute Colitis | Glenwood |
Staley, Linnie | | 16 y 7 m 5 d | | Sept. 18, 1907 | Single | Kansas | Rawls | Tuberculosis | Tabor, Ia. |
South, Pearl S. | | 20 y 1 m 11 d | | Oct. 1, 1907 | " | Iowa | Glenwood | Intestinal hemorrhage | Platsmouth |
Sargent | | 2 d | | Oct. 14, 1907 | " | Iowa | Platteville | Pneumonia | Glenwood |
Skiles, Frank H. | M | 22 y 5 m 23 d | Student | Dec. 17, 1907 | " | Minn | Glenwood | Tuberculosis | Davenport |
Slater, George E. | M | 24 y 6 m 6 d | Farmer | Feb. 7, 1908 | Married | Iowa | Imogene | Blood Poison | Imogene |
Stacy, Angie | F | 3 y 10 m 9 d | | Mar. 5, 1908 | Single | Iowa | Glenwood | Scarlatina | Glenwood |
Stacy, Woody | M | 9 y 3 m 28 d | | Mar. 4, 1908 | " | Iowa | Glenwood | Scarlatina | Glenwood |
Smith, A. A. | M | 68 y | | Apr. 15, 1908 | Widower | Canada | Glenwood | General Paresis | Glenwood |
Seigles, Myrtle May | F | 18 y 2 m 28 d | | May 9, 1908 | Single | Indiana | Glenwood | Tuberculosis | State Cemetery |
Stolz, Henry Alvis | M | 12 y 3 m 23 d | | May 22, 1908 | " | Iowa | Glenwood | Chronic Enteritis | Portsmouth |
Transcriber's Notes:* I believe that Lee Harry Sawyers (male, died June 21, 1904 of epilepsy at the I.F.M.C.) and Hanny Lee Sawyers
(female, died June 21, 1904 of epilepsy at the I.F.M.C.) are actually both intended to represent
Harry Lee Sawyers, born July 27, 1895 and died June 21, 1904. Young Harry is buried with his parents in Union Township Cemetery in Defiance, Shelby Co., IA.
Source: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Family History Library Catalog, Microfilm #1503210, item 4,
Record of deaths v.2 1898-1908
Transcribed by Marcia M. Hummel and Abigail Abeyta-Martin. A huge thank you to both of these ladies.
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