Obituaries
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[Campbell, Catherine Frazier]

New Market Herald

Thursday    July 27, 1922    p. 3

Good Woman Gone

Word was received here Thursday of the death of Grandma Campbell at the home of her daughter in Rantoul, Kansas, early that morning. Grandma

Campbell was widely known in this community and loved by all. For more than thirty years she had made her home here and during these many years she was ever ready to lend a helping hand in sickness and distress. She was a Christian woman in all that the name implies. Plain of speech, despising falsehood and sham in all forms, she went through life with music in her heart and a smile on her lips, sowing good deeds along the pathway of life.

She was an untiring worker and during the late world war she gave most of her time to work for the boys in the service. A splendid knitter, she devoted most of her time to that work and while the war was on she knitted some 250 pairs of socks for the boys.

While for the past two years she had made her home with a daughter in Rantoul, Kans., she had not lost her place in the affections of the people here and the memory of her good deeds will live long in the minds of her friends in this community.

The remains were brought here Saturday and funeral services were held Monday morning at ten o'clock at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Ellen Ferguson, conducted by Rev. J. H. Hess. Interment was in Memory cemetery.

Catherine Frazier was born at Inverness, Scotland, October 11, 1835, and died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Catherine Bean, at Rantoul, Kans., July 20, 1922, where she has made her home for the past two years, aged 86 years, 9 months and 9 days.

She was married to John Campbell September 28, 1852. Mr. Campbell died January 20, 1905.

To this union 10 children were born, eight of whom are still living. William Campbell of Scotland, Roderick Campbell of Baldwin, Fla., John Campbell of Clarinda, Iowa, Mrs. Ellen Ferguson of New Market; Mrs. Jessie Chaney of

Missoula, Mont., Richard Campbell, Bedford, Ia., David Campbell, Jacksonville, Fla., and Mrs. Catherine Bean, Rantoul, Kans.

The family came to the U. S. in the year 1887, moving a few years later to New Market where she resided ever since.

In early life Mrs. Campbell confessed her faith in Christ and united with the Free Church of Scotland. Her faith in her Savior has always been evident. She always enjoyed the service at the house of God. Her home was always free to the people of God, and she loved to talk of the things eternal.

She leaves to mourn her loss five sons and three daughters, twenty-four grandchildren and twenty-seven great grandchildren.

[Campbell, Catherine Frazier]

New Market Herald

Thursday    July 27, 1922    p. 3

Mrs. Jessie Chaney of Missoula, Mont., came Sunday, having been called here by the death of her mother, Grandma Campbell [Catherine Frazier].

 [Dougherty, Alonzo William ÒLonÓ]

Bedford Times-Press

Thursday    March 14, 1935   [p. 1]

Accident Victims Buried Wednesday

Funeral services for Lon Dougherty, 43, who died Sunday March 10, 1935, were held at the Baptist church Wednesday afternoon, conducted by Rev, Clark

M. Crowell, Burial was in the Fairview cemetery.

Alonzo William Dougherty, son of James B. [uchanan] and Martha Dougherty, was born near New Market, Iowa, Oct. 20, 1891. At the age of eight years he moved with his parents to Bedford, where he spent the remainder of his life with the exception of six years spent in South Dakota. On Jan. 23, 1913, he was married to Miss Blanche Roe. To them was born one son, Orville J.

Surviving with his wife and son are his mother of Burbank, Calif., seven brothers and three sisters. They are George Dougherty and Bryan Dougherty of Bedford, John Dougherty of Hopkins, Pete Dougherty of Gravity, Gideon Dougherty of

Bayfield, Wisc., Jesse Dougherty of Clarinda, Seymour Dougherty of Burbank, Calif., Mrs. Nina Larison and Mrs. Vera Pippett of Council Bluffs, and Mrs. Florence Shinfessle of Creston.

[Wieser, Charles Edward]

Bedford Times-Press

Thursday    March 14, 1935   [p. 1]

Charles Wieser

Funeral services for Charles E. [dward] Wieser, 41, who died Monday, March 11, 1935, were held at the Baptist church Wednesday afternoon conducted by Rev. Clark

M. Crowell. Burial was in the Fairview cemetery.

He grew to manhood in Bedford, and graduated from the Bedford high school. He was married to Miss Ruth Seeger on May 27, 1915. To them were born two daughters, Kathryn E. and Mary M. [yrtle], both at home.

Surviving with the wife and two daughters are two brothers and seven sisters. They are Victor Wieser of Bedford, William A. Wieser, Mrs. Lilley Remington of San Diego, Calif., Mrs. Henry McBurney of Wheeling, West Va., Mrs. Pearl Henry of Kincaid, Kans., Mrs. Grace Buchanan of Blue Mound, Kans., Mrs. Lottie Risser of St. Louis, Mo., Mrs. Mayme Bishop of Kansas City, and Mrs. Effie Klopp of Bedford. One brother, Albert, and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Gideon Wieser, preceded him in death.

He was a member of the First Baptist church in Bedford.

[Wieser, Charles Edward]

Bedford Times-Press

Thursday    March 14, 1935    p. 5

Miss Eva Klopp, who had been visiting relatives in Kansas, arrived home this week, having been called here by the death of her uncle, Charles Wieser.

[Wieser, Charles Edward]

Bedford Times-Press

Thursday    March 14, 1935    p. 5

Those from out of town attending the funeral services for Charles Wieser Wednesday Included Grace Buchanan of Blue Mound, Kans., Mrs. Pearl Henry of Kincaid, Kans., Mrs. Lottie Risser and daughter, Edna May, of St. Louis, Mo., Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bishop of Kansas City, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Klopp of

Fairfield, and Miss Mae Seegar of Kansas City.

Wieser, Charles Edward]

Bedford Times-Press

Thursday    March 21, 1935    p. 5

Mrs. Lottie Risser, who was called to Bedford by the death of her brother, Charles [Edward] Wieser, left today for her home in St. Louis. Her daughter, Miss Edna May Risser, remained for a longer visit.

[Wieser, Charles Edward]

Bedford Times-Press

Thursday    March 21, 1935    p. 5

Mrs. Mayme Bishop of Kansas City and Mrs. Pearl Henry of Kincaid, Kans., who had been called to Bedford by the death of their brother, Charles Wieser, left this morning for their homes. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Klopp motored with them to Kansas City and will visit a couple of days.

Dougherty, Alonzo William "Lon"]                 [Wieser, Charles Edward]

Blockton News

Thursday    March 14, 1935    [p. 1]

Bedford Men Killed

A. [lonzo] W. [illiam] Dougherty, 42, and Charles [Edward] Wieser, 35, of Bedford, were killed in an automobile accident near Tekamah, Nebr., Sunday night and Claude Bohannon, 40, of Omaha, Nebr., was injured. Dougherty and Wieser left Bedford for Shenandoah after auto parts is the way the story goes, and Bohannon seems to have been with them when the car failed to make a turn in the road and struck a telephone pole near Tekamah.

[Dougherty, Alonzo William ÒLonÓ]      [Wieser, Charles Edward]

Bedford Times-Press

Thursday    March 14, 1935   [p. 1]

A. [lonzo] W. [illiam] "Lon" Dougherty was killed outright, and Charles Wieser, 41, was fatally injured in an automobile accident Sunday evening about 6:30 o'clock [a] mile and a half north of Tekamah, Nebr. Wieser died the following morning in a hospital at Tekamah.

Claude Bohannan, Omaha automobile salesman, third man in the car when it left the road [at] a sharp curve on the gravel highway, Sunday evening, escaped with slight injuries. Bohannan was held by the sheriff for investigation after being picked up a half-mile from the scene of the accident, apparently attempting to get away without becoming identified with the accident, it is reported.

Bohannan was released Monday afternoon after a verdict "unavoidable accident" had been returned.

After Car Parts

Wieser, auto mechanic at Bedford, accompanied by Dougherty, relief worker, left their home in Bedford Saturday evening, for Shenandoah, to get some car parts needed by Wieser at his garage. They intended continuing on to Omaha if parts were not obtainable closer.

As reported here, they visited Bohannan, former resident of Taylor County, in Omaha Sunday, going with him that afternoon to a farm four miles north of Tekamah, and about fifty miles north of Omaha, to visit Bohannan's sister and husband, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Hough.

Bohannan Driving?

Hough is said to have told officers that Bohannan was driving the Wieser Studebaker car when the three started back toward Omaha Sunday evening. About ten minutes later the accident happened at a sharp curve near a farmhouse.

Apparently the car, going at a high rate of speed, skidded in wet, loose gravel, to the edge of the road and getting into deep gravel, went slithering into a grove of trees. Bark knocked off several of the 10-inch trees indicated it traveled about 30 feet before striking a telephone pole, to snap it off like a stick.

Skull Crushed

Dougherty, his head crushed flat, was found back of the wreckage about thirty-five feet, dead. He had been riding in the back seat.

Wieser, his skull cracked at the base, was caught fast in the front seat by part of the instrument panel bent back around him, in the side opposite the driver's seat. He was unconscious when taken from the car and never regained consciousness after being taken to the hospital at Tekamah.  He died the following morning at 9 o'clock.

Bohannan Calls Undertaker

Bohannan appeared at a nearby farmhouse, telephoned for an undertaker at Tekamah, and then left the scene.

Early reports in the Omaha news dispatches regarding the accident indicated liquor was involved. The doctors and officers at Tekamah are reported to have stated that the Bedford men had not been drinking.

Other accidents have occurred at this corner, reported to be a death trap.

The car's top, windshield, and backs of the seats were stripped off by the impact of the car against the trees. Only a small portion just back of the steering wheel seemed to have escaped a terrific flailing from the tree trunks.

Mrs. Wieser Called

The report of the tragedy reached Bedford Sunday evening shortly after it happened. Mrs. Wieser and her two daughters, Kathryn and Mary, and their cousin, John Wieser, were taken to Tekamah that night by Bill McMullin. They returned home Monday.

Cars from the Wetmore Funeral Home brought the bodies of Wieser and Dougherty home Monday evening, and funeral services were held here Wednesday afternoon.

[Dougherty, Peter]

New Market Herald

Thursday    March 3, 1921    p.3

Pioneer Gone

Peter Dougherty, one of the oldest residents of this community passed to the great beyond Sunday morning. He had been failing for the past two years, and some two months ago underwent an operation in a Louisville, Ky., hospital, but all to no avail and after his return home he failed rapidly and the end came Sunday.

Deceased was a quiet, unassuming man, possessed of a rugged sense of honesty, and enjoyed the confidence of all who knew him. He was unmarried.

Peter Dougherty was born in East river township, Page county Iowa, November 25, 1848 and died February 27, 1921, at the home of his brother John in New Market, Iowa, aged 72 years, 3 months and 2 days.

Deceased was the fifth child of Gideon and Elizabeth [Mahan] Dougherty both deceased.

Three brothers William S [helby], Samuel and Robert, and two sisters Sarah Jane and Mrs Martha Hembree have preceded him in death.

Two brothers, John W. [ashington] of New Market and James B. [uchanan] of near Bedford, and one sister, Mrs Caroline [Matilda] Slaight near New Market, survive.

The deceased moved to his home near New Market in 1887 and lived there continuously until his death.

He was a member of New Market Lodge, Independent order of Odd Fellows. For the past 2 years he has been a sufferer from complications to which the best medical advisers were unable to bring relief.

His funeral was held at 2 p. m March 1st, from the Christian church, conducted by Rev. Roy C. Snodgrass of Clarinda, Iowa, and in charge of the Odd Fellow lodge, who had charge of the services at the grave in Memory cemetery.

He leaves many relatives to mourn his death.

[Stewart, Leroy]

New Market Herald

Thursday     January 10, 1918    p. 2

Sunday January 6th occurred the death of Leroy Stewart age 5 years, son of Mr. and Mrs. Bert Stewart living two mile southeast of Siam, his death being caused from membranous croup. Mrs. Stewart was formerly Miss Hattie Gant and was born and raised in the vicinity of the North Star neighborhood. We sincerely extend to Mr. and Mrs. Stewart our heartfelt sympathies.

[Stewart, Leroy]

New Market Herald

Thursday     January 10, 1918    p. 2

Mr. and Mrs. Sam Gant and Mr. and Mrs. Frank Gant attended the funeral of Leroy Stewart Monday.

[Fleming, Sarah Ann Blazer]

New Market Herald

Thursday     January 10, 1918    p. 2

Gravity and Vicinity

Grandma Fleming [Sarah Ann Blazer] died Thursday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Al Toler [Marietta], of near Lenox, after a lingering illness. Funeral services were held Saturday morning at 11 o'clock from Blue Grove church. Interment at Gravity cemetery.

[Damewood, Clarissa Ann Harrington]

New Market Herald

Thursday     January 10, 1918    p. 3

Mrs. N. [athan] P. Damewood who lived near Hawleyville passed away Monday at the family home. Funeral services were held at her late home Wednesday afternoon conducted by Rev. E. O. Douglass and interment was in Memory cemetery.

Clarissa Ann Harrington, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Eli Patton Harrington [Phoebe Ann Olmstead], was born February 27th 1853 in Delaware, New York.

In May 1857 she with her parents moved to Knox County, Illinois, where they lived seven years thence to Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin. After residing there one year they moved back to Knox County, Ill., where they lived until 1872. They then moved to Clarinda, Iowa where on December 28th 1876 she was united in marriage to N. [athan] P. Damewood and in 1881 they moved to the present home.

On the 27th of October 1914 she was stricken with paralysis and was patient and cheerful until the 7th of January when the end came.  She is survived by her husband, one sister, Miss Luella Harrington, who made her home with her, and one brother, Dr. James S. [amuel] Harrington of Kansas City, Mo.

[Pace, Franklin Green ÒFrankÓ]

New Market Herald

Thursday    January 17, 1918    p. 2

Franklin Green Pace is Dead

He died at Clarinda, Iowa, on the 12th day of January, [1918]. Frank Pace, as he was familiarly called, was born near French Lick Springs in Orange County, Indiana, on the 2nd day of August 1852, and was sixty-five years, five months and ten days old when he died.

He was the son of Capt. Charles W. [esley] Pace who was born in the state of Virginia and Elizabeth J. [ane] Farris who was born in the state of Indiana. His grandfather, Young Farris, was the first county clerk of Page County, Iowa.

Frank was an American and proud of his Ancestors, both his parental and Maternal Great Grand sires having been soldiers in the Revolutionary War.

Frank was a pioneer, having lived in East River Township in Page County for sixty-three years. He emigrated from Indiana, with his parents, when he was two years old. They settled within a mile of the place where Frank owned and operated a farm for many years.

Frank was a successful farmer, and helped to transform Page County from a beautiful wilderness to its present high state of cultivation.

Frank was not a loud professor, but he was a sincere and devout Christian. He was a man of good habits and clean language.

Frank had a frail body from infancy, but it was filled with that indomitable courage that enabled him to surmount difficulties in business life that would have been unsurmountable by many others of better physical development

than he.

Frank was a bachelor and in a sense lived a lonely life, having no family, he was rarely visited by any of his near relatives. Not withstanding this he carried on for

more than forty years a large and successful stock raising and farming enterprise, which he done both in doors and out doors with the aid of hired help alone.

Frank was [not?] physically strong, but he never complained and bore his misfortunes with meekness and humility, and for the last few months his sufferings were intolerable. Altho he was convinced that a great wrong had been done him physically, he expressed no malice toward those who caused his suffering, but he said like one of old "God forgive them, they knew not what they did ".

He had three brothers and four sisters, E. [dward] A. [lexander] Pace and Susannah [Arvella] Reeves of New Market, Iowa, Rose Campbell and Charles W. [esley] Pace, of Colorado, Young F. [arris] Pace, Mary N. [ervesta] Davison and Florence W. Young, deceased. Mrs Reeves, being sick, and snow-capped mountain ranges, prevented Rose and Charles from being present at the death scene.

One brother and a sympathetic nurse alone stood by the bedside of the dying man and watched and waited until his Spirit took its flight at 12:16 p. m., January

12th, 1918.

The funeral services were held at the Christian church in New Market at 1:30 p. m. on the 14th conducted by Elder Roy C. Snodgrass of Clarinda, and his body was laid to rest by the side of a sister in Beautiful Memory cemetery.

The path of the just is a shining Light.  Peace with his ashes rest.

[Parks, John]

New Market Herald

Thursday    January 17, 1918    p. 2

John Parks Called

John Parks died at 2 o'clock Sunday morning at his home five miles east of Clarinda after an illness of 3 days. Mr. Parks had been feeling better than usual previous to Thursday morning when he was stricken with apoplexy.

He is survived by his wife and five children all of whom were by his bedside when he passed away, also by a brother and sister in Illinois.

The funeral was held at the home Monday at 3 p. m., conducted by Rev. Curry of the Presbyterian church, Clarinda, assisted by Rev. Douglass of t h e M. E. church of New Market. Short services were held at Ebenezer church Tuesday at 2 p. m. and interment in Camp Creek Cemetery near Ebenezer church.

Mr. Parks was born in Ross County, Ohio, May 14, 1844, and came with his parents to McDonough County, Illinois, at the age of 10 years and grew to manhood in the vicinity of Ebenezer church.

The civil war coming on he enlisted as a volunteer and remained in the army in active service in Co. A., 48th Ill. Infantry until the close of the war. He was actively engaged in every battle in which his regiment took part, fourteen of which were the hardest battles of the war. He took part in the battles of Stone River, Chickamauga, Lookout Mountain, Missionary Ridge, etc. He was with his regiment through the Atlanta Campaign. He was at Resaca, Rocky Face, New Hope, Dallas, etc. and at Atlanta. From Atlanta his regiment was among those sent back with Gen. Thomas and he fought with them at Franklin and Nashville.

After the war he returned to McDonough County Ill. He was married Sept. 20, 1871 to Mary [McCroskey] Knowles to which union seven children were born, Lucinda and Laura Myrtle dying in childhood. He is survived by his wife, two daughters and three sons, Mary Adelaide Hushaw, Industry, Ill., Anna Gertrude Weaver, New Market, Iowa, John G. [ilbert], Ottumwa, Iowa, Edgar K. [nowles], Fargo, North Dakota, and Ross B. [urton] at home.

In 1892 he came to Iowa, remaining there until death called him. He was a member of Upton Post 248 at New Market.

In 1869 he united with the Presbyterian Church in Illinois and his faith continued. The choicest of the Christian virtues were characteristic of his life. Honesty, Industry, and Charity were intensified to the highest degree in his character. He was a good husband, a good father and a good citizen.

[Long, Perry]

New Market Herald

Thursday    December 5, 1918    p. 3

Perry Long Dead

When that word came to town Saturday night it was hard to believe it true, as only a week before he had returned from attendance at the I. O. O. F. grand lodge at Mason City in apparent good health. In fact the writer walked up town with him from the depot the day he returned and he remarked to us then that he was feeling fine, and told us of the work accomplished at the grand lodge and of the good time they had there. But in a few days after he was attacked with the flu and in spite of all that human hands could do he grew worse steadily and at about ten o'clock Saturday night he passed away.  At the time of his death the entire family were in bed with the same malady. Funeral services were held Tuesday morning in charge of the Odd Fellow lodge of New Market of which he was a prominent and valued member, and burial was in the Guss cemetery. The funeral was necessarily private because of the disease from which he died and only a delegation of the lodge members were present and a few relatives.  Because of the illness of his wife and family it was impossible for us to get his obituary at this time but we hope to get it later.

Perry Long was a prince among men and no man stood better in the estimation of the people of this community than he did, and his loss will be keenly felt by all, and especially by the membership of the Odd Fellow lodge in which he was a loyal and earnest worker. It can be truthfully said that he was truly a good man.

To the stricken wife and family the sincere sympathy of the entire community is theirs in their great affliction, and may the great All Seeing Eye cover and protect them.

[Long, Perry]

New Market Herald

Thursday    December    12, 1918    p. 2

Obituary

Perry Long, was born February 26, 1876, in Page county, Iowa, and died at his home in Taylor county, December 1, 1918, aged 42 years, 9 months and 5 days. He was married to Bertha D. Clark, February 23, 1898. To this union six children was born, Grace E., Clyde A., Clarence Lee., Maude Lucille, George Clark and Bertha Mae. Besides his wife and family he leaves to mourn his death a mother and two sisters, Mrs C. [lark] E. [dward] Coleman [Effie] of Hepburn, and Mrs. Doud Hunter [Emma Catherine] of Bedford.  He has been an Odd Fellow 9 years of his life and was prominent in the order.

[Coleman, Clark Edward]

New Market Herald

Thursday     May 27, 1920    p. 3

Mrs. Sarah Long received a telephone message Wednesday morning from Hepburn stating that her son-in-law, Clark [Edward] Coleman had been killed. The particulars of the death were very meager. This much however was learned. His car ran off a culvert between Hepburn and Villisca and overturned, pinning Mr. Coleman underneath. Mrs. Long left on the morning train for Hepburn.

[Coleman, Clark Edward]

New Market Herald

Thursday    June 3, 1920    [p. 1]

C. E. Coleman Passes Away

This community was greatly shocked on Wednesday morning May 26th, when the sad news flashed over the line, that C. [lark] E. [dward] Coleman had been killed. His automobile turned over in a deep ditch just east of the Joe Shum farm, 5 miles north and ½ miles east of Clarinda. He had five meat clubs around Hepburn, and was returning from the Burwell farm where he had butchered on Tuesday evening. Mr. Shum's saw a car coming and heard a terrible scream, and one daughter ran to look and found him in the ditch face down in about four inches of mud and water and the car on top of him. Coroner Roy E. Harmon was summoned. He met A. P. Salgren, editor of the Democrat and took him along to the scene of the accident, where they and the men present, removed the car, and found that life was extinct.

Mr. Coleman was a man who was widely known, having formerly been employed by Nelson and son in the butcher business in Clarinda.

He was a man who was a neighbor in the truest sense, always ready to lend a helping hand. Many are the testimonies we hear of his help in time of trouble.

The funeral sermon was held at the U. P. church on Friday at 2 p. m. conducted by Rev. W. F. Graham of Dunbar, Neb., who was a neighbor of Mr. Coleman while, here. Mr. Coleman was drawn to him by his noble Christian character. Many were the heart to heart talks they had while neighbors. The funeral was largely attended by neighbors and friends.

Clark E. [dward] Coleman was born April 22, 1876, near Guthrie Center, Iowa. He was married September 15, 1909, to Mrs. Effie [Long] Kight. He leaves to mourn his loss a devoted wife, step father and step mother of Omaha, Nebr., two daughters, Mrs. Grace Henry, Richland Center, Wis., and Mrs. Blanche Gochenaur, Detroit, Mich., and one step son Nelson A. [nson] Kight, Hepburn, Ia., two brothers Ernest Coleman, Washington, D. C., Fred Coleman, Kansas City, Kan.

The body was taken to Glendon, Ia., and buried beside his father and other loved ones. They had a short service at the grave by Rev. McMullen, where a very large concourse of relatives and friends had met to do him honor. The Yeoman lodge of Hepburn had charge of the funeral and furnished the music, then passed the body on to the lodge at Glendon where they performed the last sad rites.

There were many and beautiful flowers.

[Note:  His World War I draft registration card gives his birth date as April 22, 1875.]