Charles Raymond JAMES

JAMES, TANK, TANCK, STANLEY, BROWN, MIDDLETON, MIDLAND

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 2/10/2024 at 13:06:59

Charles Raymond James
25 June 1876 ---- 4 April 1936

Chas. R. James died at his farm home in Troy township Saturday after a ten-day siege of pneumonia. He had not been feeling well for about three weeks. About a week prior to his death, he collapsed near the barn on his farm and was carried into the house and placed in bed and a doctor summoned. He was found to have a fever of 105 and a trained nurse was placed in charge. And when his condition failed to improve, a consultation of physicians was held. But in spite of all that could be done, the ravages of the dread disease could not be stopped. Funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon and burial was in Rose Hill cemetery.

Mr. James was a very successful farm operator, a hard worker and devoted his entire time to the supervision of the some 1800 acres of land he owned, much of which was clear. He was fair and honorable in all his business dealings and his untimely passing is greatly regretted.

Obituary

Charles Raymond James, second son of George and Sarah Stanley James, was born June 25, 1876, on the homestead farm north of Hardy in Humboldt county, in which vicinity he spent his early life. At the age of 16, the year 1893, he moved with the family to the farm west of Eagle Grove. He received his education in the country schools of the neighborhood in which he lived and in the Eagle Grove high school.

In 1904 he assumed and has owned and operated continuously since the death of his father, the farm on which he lived in Troy township. Living quietly among his neighbors and friends, leaving many who will mourn with the family in his passing on Saturday, April 4, 1936, at the age of 59 years, nine months, and 10 days.

He is survived by two sisters, Mrs. Adele Brown of Hollywood, Calif., Mrs. Etta Middleton of Eagle Grove, and three brothers, Wilbert E., Walter S., and Edward M., also by two nieces, Mrs. Dorothy Tank of Renwick, Mrs. Lura Midland of Madison, Wis., and four nephews, Millard Brown and Roger, Bruce and Burdette Middleton and many other relatives and friends.

EAGLE GROVE EAGLE ---- Eagle Grove, Iowa
Thursday, April 9, 1936

source ---- Paul Wilde