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submitted by: Julia Johnson - juliajoh@usc.edu
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Bedford Times-Press Thursday September 6, 1945 p. 4 Obituary - Mrs.
Rachel Greeley Rachel
[Jane] Barnes, daughter
of Isam and Deborah [Lindamood] Barnes,
was born Jan. 5, 1855, in Iowa County, Iowa, and died at the home of
her daughter, Mrs. Fannie Weller,
August 29, 1945, aged 90 years, 8 months and 24 days. She
was married to Frank Greeley,
Dec. 22, 1875, at Marengo, Iowa.
To them, nine children were born: Millard J. [ames], who died Dec. 4, 1944; Anna Hamilton, who died Dec. 14, 1915; Ida M. [ay] Preston of San Bernardino, California; Harry, who died in infancy; John of San Bernardino; Fannie Weller of Conway; Ethelinda Hadley of Santa Monica, California; Jennie Newkirk of Blockton; and David of Burlington Junction, Mo. She also leaves one sister, Mrs. Amanda
Robbins, of Bedford. In
1882 Mr. and Mrs. Greeley came to Taylor County, locating on a farm
northwest of Gravity. In
early life she was converted and was a charter member of the Gravity
Methodist church. She was always a faithful, consistent,
Christian mother. In
1922 they moved to Burlington Junction, Mo., where they resided until
1928, when they came back to Bedford, where Mr. Greeley died Feb. 4,
1936. Besides
her sister and six children, she leaves thirty-one grandchildren and
twenty-seven great grandchildren. She
had seven grandsons, three great grandsons and two grandsons-in-law
in the service, one of whom, Lt. Alvin Hamilton, made the supreme sacrifice in January 1942 at Corregidor. It was the great joy of her life when
she heard the glad news of peace. She
was a great lover of home and sacrificed much for the welfare of her
home and family as well as any neighbor, who needed help. She was loved by all who knew her. The funeral services
were held at the Walker-Shum Funeral Home Saturday afternoon, conducted
by Rev. C. W. Proctor of Sharpsburg.
The pallbearers were grandsons: Paul Greeley, Ralph Weller,
Dale Newkirk, Dean Newkirk, Kenneth Bears
and Lt. Frank C. Hadley. Burial was in the Gravity cemetery. Attend Greeley
Rites Those
from a distance who attended the last rites for Mrs. Rachel Greeley in Bedford Saturday, included Mr. and Mrs. David
Greeley [Grace Louvada Brown], Jane and Louvada, Jack
and Donna Jean Walker,
Kenneth Bears, Sklc,
and wife of Burlington Junction, Mo.; Miss Ruby Woodyard and Mrs. Laura Hicks of Waterloo, Iowa; Lt. Frank C. Hadley of Sioux Falls, S. Dak.; Mrs. Ethelinda Hadley of Santa Monica, Calif.; Mr. and Mrs. Harold
Barchus and family of
Maloy. Bedford Times-Press Thursday April 7, 1949 [p. 1] Mrs. Grace
Clayton Dies In Omaha Mrs.
Grace [Aiton] Clayton,
a former resident of Bedford, died in Omaha Wednesday night. Mrs. Clayton was a sister of Mrs. C. [harles] O. [scar]
Dresher [Jennie Aiton],
Mrs. H. [enry] Kirk Hall [Mary Alice Aiton]
and James Aiton of
Bedford. The
body will be brought to Bedford and the funeral services will be held
at the Wetmore Funeral Home at 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon, April 10,
conducted by Rev. Gordon F. MacLean.
Burial will be in the Fairview cemetery. Bedford Times-Press Thursday May 17, 1951 p. 5 Former Resident
Dies In Washington Clarkston,
Wash. ---- Edgar M.
Parks, 76, a resident of Clarkston, Wash., since 1919,
died May 1 after a sudden heart attack.
Funeral services and burial were at Clarkston. Born
Oct. 25, 1874, in Bedford, Mr. Parks attended school here and engaged
in farming before and after his marriage to Hattie C. Burks on March 8, 1899. Mr. and Mrs. Parks went west in 1904. He
was employed as a street car motorman for several years in Clarkston,
and later was custodian of school buildings.
He retired in May 1949.
Mrs. Parks died Nov. 1, 1933. Survivors include two daughters and a son, six grandchildren and three great grandchildren. Also one sister, Mrs. Hattie [Harriet Luella] Chilcote of Bedford and one brother, C. A. Parks of Washington.
Bedford Times-Press Thursday August 31, 1939 [p. 1] Johnston Funeral Held At Blockton Funeral
services were held at the Blockton Methodist church Friday afternoon,
August 25, for Ed Bristow Johnston,
85, who died Wednesday afternoon at the home of his daughter, Mrs.
Friend Guthrie, of Clarinda. Mr. Johnston had been ill four years. Rev.
Warrior of Blockton was in charge of the services, and burial was at
Blockton. Mr. Johnston
was born at Humansville, Missouri, where he farmed most of his lifetime. He
is survived by five sons: Claude
and Will of Salem, Iowa; James
of Cody, Wyoming, Tom
of Blockton, and Charles
of Ft. Peck, Colorado, and five daughters, Dorothy Hanks of Blockton, Maggie Wake of Sheridan, Missouri, Mollie McWilliams of Cody, Wyoming, Addie Heabolim of Mitchellville, Iowa, and Mrs. Guthrie of Clarinda. |