Albert PAGE was born in 1883 near Blockton, Iowa. He passed away in 1975, aged 92 years. He had been at the Clearview Home and was almost blind. Albert's parents were William and Evaline (ZIKE) PAGE.

December 28, 1904 Albert married Anna Marie COOPER of Caledonia. This young couple performed farm work with and among the SHAY families. Their home was west of where the grandson, George DAILEY, now [1987] lives and was framed with tall evergreens on the south side. No building exists there now. They lived ten years as neighbors to George and Carrie WARIN.

During these ten years, five children were born: Florence Leota, Harold, Callista, Gretta, Albert M. and William Elgin. Florence, Harold and Callie went to school at Maloy. Florence was one of the first students attending in 1911-12. At the end of the ten-year period, they moved from the community to the Clearfield area.

Clarence and Florence were killed in a car accident [August of 1961] while on a pleasure trip to Kansas.

In August of 1923 Florence married Clarence DAILEY of Benton. The PAGE family then resided in Benton. The DAILEYS first son, George, was born here and later a daughter, Lucy MAUDLIN who still lives in Ringgold County, was born.

Paul Leroy DAILEY, son of George and Alverta DAILEY was born September 1945, and died August 1987 at the age of 33 years.

After Paul's death the DAILEYS moved on to his farm, the former Maurice and Maxine CARR farm. George was also employed at the Co-op lumberyard in Creston at this time after leaving the trucking business [which he had operated out of Diagonal where they lived for some time]. In 1986 he continues to work at the Co-op and he and Alverta raise horses and hogs. Their son-in-law, David LYNCH, farms the land. The DAILEYS enjoy living close to their daughter Nancy and her family.

NOTES: Albert Roy PAGE, son of William PAGE (1865-1897) and Martha Evaline (ZIKE) PAGE (1866-1901), was born near Blockton, Iowa August 18, 1883, and died at the age of 92 years in November of 1975, Diagonal. He married Anna Marie COOPER on December 28, 1904. Anna Marie (COOPER) PAGE, was born in Kansas in 1884, and died in 1934. They were interred at Benton Cemetery, Benton, Iowa.

Florence Leota (PAGE) DAILEY was born November 13, 1905, and died in August of 1961. She married on January 18, 1923 Clarence Verle DAILEY. Clarence, the son of Jackson Wallace and Lucy Jane (HOLLINGWORTH) DAILEY, was born in Rice Township of Ringgold County September 23, 1892, and died September 3, 1961. He was a World War I Veteran, serving as a Wagoner with the 49th Co. 20, Iowa. They were interred at Marshalltown Cemetery, Ringgold County, Iowa.

Maggie Callista (PAGE) KUHNS was born in Ringgold County on April 24, 1909, and died December 1, 1967.

was born in Maloy September 8, 1912, and died May 2, 2005. She was interred at Benton Cemetery, Benton.

Genevieve Carmeta (ADAMS) PAGE, daughter of Lewis and Hazel (BAKER) ADAMS, was born April 13, 1920, in Harrison County, Missouri, and died at the age of 86 years on February 9, 2007. She was interred in Benton Cemetery, Benton. She married Albert Milton PAGE on August 30, 1939.

Harold Clarence PAGE served during World War II under General PATTON with the 9th Air Corps. Harold was born August 9, 1907, and died in 1981. He married on June 27, 1930 Ruth Madge SCHLAPIA (1908-1991). They were interred at Diagonal Cemetery.

George DAILEY, son of Clarence and Florence DAILEY, married Alverta G. BRINER on May 20, 1944. Alverta G. (BRINER) DAILEY, daughter of Burl and Violet BURNER, was born on July 28, 1927, and died February 15, 2009. George celebrated his 87th birthday on August 18, 2010.

SOURCE: Maloy, Iowa Centennial History: 1887 - 1987 p. 162.

Courtesy of Mount Ayr Public Library

Transcription and Notes by Sharon R. Becker, August of 2011