Lee County Genealogy
Deaths

Death Records Keokuk, Lee Co. Iowa
[Miscellaneous Records]


The following list contributed by Valarie Ward for genealogy purposes

1895-1896



Keokuk Daily Gate, May 1896.  Death of  John Herbner

Keokuk Daily Gate,  May 8, 1896.   Death of  Mrs. Mary F. Bode

Keokuk Daily Gate,  May 10, 1896.  Death of  Uncle Billy Walker

Keokuk Daily Gate,  May 18, 1896.  Death of  J. L Metz

Keokuk Daily Gate,  May 20, 1896.  Death of  Harley Hammond

Keokuk Daily Gate,  May 26, 1896.  Death of  Mrs. Julius Speigel

Keokuk Daily Gate,  May 28, 1896.  Death of  Mrs. Timothy Hurley

Keokuk Daily Gate,  April or early May 1896 .  Death of Miss Willia D. Tucker

Keokuk Daily Gate,  April or early May 1896.  Death of  A. J. Rutledge at Quincy

Keokuk Daily Gate,  April or early May 1896.  Death of  Mrs. Katherine Geiser.

Keokuk Daily Gate,  April or early May 1896 .  Death of  Patrick Cunningham

Keokuk Daily Gate,  April or early May 1896.  Death of  Lawrence McCarthy, dragged to death by a horse

Keokuk Daily Gate,  April or early May 1896.  Death of  A. S. Warwick

Keokuk Daily Gate,  April or early May 1896.  Joseph T. Jackson, drowned in the Mississippi river

Keokuk Daily Gate,  July 31?, 1895.  Edna Dunn
Edna, aged two years and one month, daughter of John and Laura Dunn, died this morning at ?:30 o’clock at the family home No 1129 Main Street of inflammation of the bowels and spasms.

Keokuk Daily Gate,  July 24, 1895
Elanor Gladys Woorater aged eight months and fourteen days, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Woorater died at the family home, seven miles west of the city this morning at 7 o’clock of cholera morbus.

Keokuk Daily Gate,  July 15, 1895.  Mrs Mary Mulligan, colored aged sixty seven years, died at 9 o’clock Saturday night at the home of her daughter
Mrs. Mary Green. No 1710 Palean street of consumption. She is survived by three daughters, Mrs Green, Mrs. Harrison, both of this city and Mrs.
Lackoy of Quincy and one sister Mrs Davis of this city

Keokuk Daily Gate.  March 6, 1943.  Mrs. J. Hamrick
Dies Last Night. Had been in poor health five years.
Mrs. John L. Hamrick , 49, a resident of Keokuk nearly all of her life, died at 11:30 o'clock last night in her home at 1718 Missouri Avenue.  Mrs. Hamrick had been in poor helath for five years, but bore her long suffering with great patience and without complaint. Her condition had become serious during the past two weeks....

Keokuk Daily Gate,  Oct 12, 1894.  Felix Young, colored, aged about fifty years died at the family home No. 1429 High street, this morning at 3 o'clock
after an illness of six weeks. He is survived by his wife. He was a member of the Knights of Tabor and also of the United Brothers of Friendship.

Keokuk Daily Gate,  Dec 10, 1890.  Ellen Kort aged seven years, four months and thirteen days, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Kort No 110 Exchange street was taken suddenly ill last Thursday at the Convent school and had to be taken home. This morning at 8:25 o'clock she died and was buried at 4 o'clock this afternoon. The burial services were conducted by Rev. Father

Keokuk Daily Gate,   Dec 4, 1870
Slaid, the ten year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Young who live near Argyle, died at 7:30 o'clock last evening, of scarlet fever after an illness of four days.
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Lee County Deaths From IaGenWeb "Iowa Old Press"   Contributed by Sharyl Ferrell

Keokuk Dispatch,   28 July 1851
West Point, Lee County, Iowa
Deaths from Cholera: 
BRAND, Erastus, DINGMAN, B., FLETCHER, Mrs. Bertha, GREEN, William, GROESBECK, David
HUNT, _____, JACKSON, Levi
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Iowa News   Cathy Joynt LaBath

Sioux Valley News, 
Correctionville, Woodbury, Iowa
January 13, 1898
Andrew Jackson Wilkinson, head of the wholesale drug house of Wilkinson & Co., of Keokuk, since 1876 died aged 61. He had been a member of the board of education for seventeen years and was founder of the public library of which he has been a director since 1863 and was president at the time of his death. He also served a term as mayor and alderman.

Paper Unknown
January 7, 1899
Dr. A.T. Weisman, an eminent German physician and pharmacist of Keokuk, passed away at his home Sunday afternoon at the age of 64 years.

Davenport Daily Leader
Davenport, Scott, Iowa
January 10, 1902
Belle Bane
Keokuk Girl's Horrible Death.

Keokuk, Jan. 10 - Miss Belle Bane of this city was burned to death while visiting friends at Ironton, Mo., Sunday. Her clothing caught from an open grate and she was terribly burned before help could be offered.

Joseph Beckardt Dead
Ft. Madison, Jan. 10- Joseph Beckert, aged 70, a well-known pioneer, dropped dead here while returning from confession.  Sister M. Rosela of the Notre Dame order of Chicago is one of his daughters.
[Transcriber note: Beckhardt and Beckert as spelled in the article and not a typo]

 


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