contact. For many years of her life Mrs. Dickey was practically an invalid, owing to injuries which she received in the Valeria cyclone and from which she never recovered. Although she suffered greatly at times she never complained, being sustained at all times by her strong faith in the ever-lasting arms. She passed away on the 26th of May, 1902, at the age of sixty-two years, having been born in La Grange county, Indiana, on the 25th of December, 1839.
After his marriage Mr. Whitney located on a farm which he rented near Mingo and after living there for a year he removed to another farm in Jasper county, where he also remained but one year and then rented a farm near the one where he had first lived. He remained on the latter place about eighteen months and then went to Saybrook, Illinois, and after living there about the same length of time he bought one hundred and sixty acres of land in Hardin county, Iowa, where he continued' to live for eight years. In 1899 he sold his farm and bought eighty acres in Story county, upon which he was living at the time of his death and where his widow continues to reside.
Mr. and Mrs. Whitney were the parents of six children, who are as follows: Berton Leroy, a farmer of Carroll township, this county; Carl Jason, at home; Jennie May, the wife of Roy Bell of Indian Creek township, this county; Ethel Pearl, the wife of Glen Bell, of Jasper county; and Clarence Irwin and Elsie Mary, both at home.
The family attend the Methodist Episcopal church, in which Mrs. Whitney holds membership. Mr. Whitney was a stanch supporter of the republican party, feeling its principles were best adapted to protect the rights of the majority. He never was an office seeker nor did he at any time aspire to political honors, preferring to devote his energies to the development of his private interests. He was ever a most loyal and devoted husband, generous and. affectionate father and charitable neighbor, the loss of whom was most keenly felt not only in the family circle but in the community where he had lived.
CLARENCE E. Markland.
Clarence E. Markland, one of the most extensive stock-shippers of this section of Iowa, the owner of valuable farm property in Story county and the director of the First National Bank of Nevada, was born in McLean county, Illinois, October 20, 1869. His parents, Daniel F. and Hannah (Miller) Markland, were natives of Ohio, born near Hamilton. They were reared and married in the Buckeye state and soon afterward removed westward to Illinois, being now located in Pontiac, Illinois. In their family were seven children of whom Clarence was the third in order of birth. The record is as follows : Laura, now the wife of W. E. New, of Richland