DIED:- At his home, near Sciola, Thursday May 24th, of erysipelas, Mr. Isaac Conner, aged 72 years.
       Uncle Isaac Connor was born in Ohio, in the month of November 1810. There he spent the earlier part of his life and there married.
       Enthused with the spirit of western emigration, he started , in the year 1853, for western Iowa, then an unsettled wilderness.  He began his pioneer life on the exact spot where he died, leading a comfortable, home-like life for 30 years.  Although of a rather retired disposition, still he took a great interest in politics, being a warm supporter of the Anti-Monopoly creed.
       He was held in the highest regard by all neighbors and friends, and was considered an example of upright and honest integrity.  With his death Montgomery County loses one of its oldest landmarks, one of its best farmers, and one of its truest hearted citizens.  Peace to his ashes."


 

THE Villisca Review, Villisca, Iowa, 31 May 1883

Contributor's note: Isaac Conner was one of the first county commisoners in 1861.