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[Golliday, Alfred M.]
Bedford Free Press
Thursday April 23, 1908 [p. 1]
DEATH OF A PIONEER
dr. A. M. GOLLIDAY IS NO MORE.
Discovery of His Death
Made Wednesday Morning Although He Had Been Dead For Some Time
The
community was shocked Wednesday morning to learn of the death of Dr. Alfred
M. Golliday. The circumstances
and immediate cause of his death will never definitely be known as no one was
with him when he passed away.
As
every one knows, who is acquainted with the deceased, he slept either in his
drug store or in the sleeping room in the rear of the drug store. The last any
one remembers having seen him was Tuesday morning. Mr. Laird saw him in the
yard at that time. But physicians state that appearances indicate he had been
dead since Monday. No one will ever know exactly. On Monday Mr. Frantz arranged to get some paint from him for his house. Mr. Golliday told him that if
he was not up in the morning he would find it in the rear of the drug store
mixed for him. Tuesday Mr. Frantz tried the front door and found it locked.
Thinking he had probably gone to one of his farms he gave the matter no more
attention. The door remained locked all day and no one saw him later than
Tuesday forenoon as far as learned. Mr. Frantz desired to use the paint, went
to the store Wednesday morning about 8:30 and found the front door was still
locked. He went to the rear and while he found the rear door unlocked there had
been nothing done toward filling his paint [cans]. He then opened the unlocked
door of the shanty, which Mr. Golliday used as a sleeping
room during pleasant weather, and there a most gruesome sight met his eyes. Mr.
Golliday was lying on the bed cold in death. He was reclining
in a natural position with his left foot up on the low footrest of the bed and
a part of the day's issue of the Chicago Tribune lying near his lifeless hand. He had been dead
for some time judging by all the evidences at hand. There were several
ebrasions on the head and hand, which indicated that rats had been at work
during the night on the corpse. He was fully dressed except coat and vest, also
having his shoes laced. This together with the fact that the rear door of his
store and his sleeping room was unlocked, would indicate that he had lain down
on the bed apparently to rest some time during the day, and his natural
position would indicate that he passed quietly away without a struggle.
For
some time Mr. Golliday has
complained of not being well, stating to an acquaintance lately that he had
been troubled a great deal with his heart, owing to stomach trouble, and this
ailment is the probable cause of his death. The remains were taken to the home
of his sister, Mrs. E. [lizabeth] R. [uth] Hall and prepared for burial.
The
deceased was one of the most peculiar, eccentric and well-known characters in
Bedford. He was rigidly honest and high-minded. He never obtained a penny that
was not rightfully his. He was one of the best-educated men in Bedford and was
an inveterate reader with a mind that retained all he read. He was retiring and
seclusive in disposition but was always glad to visit and talk with any one who
might call on him. Living alone and within himself as he has done for so many
years, he made no one his confidante. While he owned considerable real estate
he never did any business with the banks. He spent his entire time in his
little store and never left unless to look after his real estate interests or
to take a stroll. He lived entirely within himself, asked and granted nothing.
He
was born in Indiana Dec. 13, 1830, being 77 years, 4 months and 8 days old.
When a child he moved with his parents to Vermillion county, Illinois, and
later moving to Fulton county. His father was a physician and he studied under
him for a year and then went into a drug store to learn pharmacy. He continued
his studies until 1857 and then went to Chicago and entered Rush Medical
College. After a year's study he came to Bedford and entered upon the practice
of medicine here for a year when he re-entered Rush Medical College, remaining
until he graduated with high honor in 1859. He then returned and built up a
large practice and those who knew him at an early day say his services were
always at the command of the afflicted. He bought the drug store where he died,
in 1866. The buildings are just the same now as then and no changes have been
made. He has watched the development of Bedford but has not kept up with it and
while he had his peculiarities, as we all have, not a word has ever been said
against his honor or integrity. While he owned considerable real estate, a farm
in Dallas Township, forty acres in Bedford Corporation and a number of lots, he
never signed a deed, a note or a mortgage.
He
leaves to mourn two sisters, Mrs. E. [lizabeth] R. [uth] Hall, of this city and Mrs. Bentley, whose address is not known by us. Also A. [lfred]
P. [Pearson] Hall and H. [enry]
K. [irk] Hall, nephews, and Mrs.
Alice Swain, of Council Bluffs, Mrs.
Anna Parrish and Mrs. John
Mickle, Bedford, and Mrs. G.
F. Mills, Murdo, N. D., nieces.
The
funeral will be held from the home of his sister, Mrs. Hall, at 10 o'clock tomorrow, Friday, forenoon, and
interment will be in Bedford cemetery.
[Golliday, Alfred M.]
Bedford
Times-Republican
Thursday April 23, 1908 [p. 1]
Dr. Golliday Dead
One of the Pioneers of
Bedford Suddenly Called
Dr.
Alfred M. Golliday was found dead
in his bed Wednesday morning in the building back of his office, where he
lived. For some days the doctor had not been seen, but if any remarked his
absence, no importance was attached to it, as he sometimes went to his farm and
was gone several days. Yesterday morning L. D. Frantz decided there might be
something wrong, and as the front door of the doctor's office was closed he
went around to the back door. He found the back office door unlocked and the
door of the other building open. Going in he saw the doctor laying on the bed,
dead. He was laying on his back, fully dressed, one foot thrown carelessly over
the bedpost. A Sunday paper he had been reading lay beside him, and from all
appearances he had been dead several days. Physicians were summoned who made a
careful examination, and decided that death had come from natural causes. His
hand was somewhat lacerated as was the skin on his neck, but the doctors
concluded that these wounds had probably been made by rats after death. Geo.
Campbell, the undertaker, took charge of the body under direction of the proper
officials, and removed it to the home of Mrs. Hall, sister of the deceased, where it will remain
until interment. The funeral services will be held at the residence of Mrs.
E. [lizabeth] R. [uth] Hall in
West Bedford, on Friday morning at 10 o’clock, conducted by Rev. Dudley.
Interment at Bedford cemetery.
Dr.
Golliday had lived in Bedford for
more than fifty years. He was born in Indiana December 14, 1830, but when a boy
moved with his parents to Illinois. In 1857 he went to Rush Medical College,
and soon after began the practice of medicine at Bedford. For many years he
enjoyed an extensive practice and accumulated considerable money. This by
economy has been added to until at his death he was considered a wealthy man.
Just how much he was worth no one knows, as he never confided in any one nor
discussed his business affairs.
Dr.
Golliday never married. He was a
great student and had an insatiable appetite for knowledge. He read the greater
part of his time, and while he did not shun the society of his fellow man, he
made no effort to cultivate intercourse with them, and as he grew older he
retired more and more within himself until he became practically a recluse.
In
some ways Dr. Golliday was
peculiar but his peculiarities never interfered with the rights of others. In
his dealings he was honest and honorable, and morally his life was above
reproach, and he went to meet his Maker with a clear conscience.
Bedford's Miser Dead.
The Bedford papers tell about the death of Dr. Alfred M. Golliday, which is supposed to have occurred Monday, April 20, but was not discovered until late Tuesday. With his death a massive fortune amounting to $75,000 or $80,000 is disclosed, the accumulated savings of a life time, as very little could have been realized from investments, and it tells a singular and peculiar story of the ambitions of this recluse. Dr. Golliday, is said to have been scrupulously honest and well educated, a graduate of Rush medical college and a great reader. He was a native of Indiana, born Dec. 14, 1830 and had resided in Bedford over fifty years. Besides the $37,297.54 in money found, he owned three farms and town property. Commenting on the affair the Times-Republican says:
The doctor never had much confidence in banks, and it was a matter of general rumor that he had money hid away, but even the wildest dream did not equal the reality revealed by the search. In a box under the bed where he died, in among old paper and junk was found $1800; other large sums were found in out of the way places, but the bulk of the wealth was found when an old and rusted safe that stood in the sleeping room was burst open. This safe had apparently not been opened in years. The combination was out of repair, and an ax was brought into requisition to break it open. When the door was swung bact wealth sufficient to tempt a saint was disclosed. The compartments intended for books had been boarded up, and in there was packed gold, bills and silver.
There were dozens of $2.50 gold pieces, eagles, double eagles, and coins of every kind and denomination, including more than two thousand silver dollars. Large quantities of the bills were greenbacks, of the kind in general circulation thirty or forty years ago. Much of the money was hoary with age and in many instances the bills were so closely glued together that they were separated only with the greatest difficulty. While no doubt the bulk of the money has been found it is very [article cut off] PAGE COUNTY DEMOCRAT, Clarinda, Iowa, Apr 23, 1908
Eccentric Man Dies Alone.
Dr. Golliday, a pioneer doctor of Bedford died the other day, alone and unattended in his miserable hut, alone not for want of mean to provide care for himself in his declining years, but because of his own eccentric traits of character which for years have made him a miser and a recluse. When his dead body was discovered he had been dead some days, and the rats which had been the sole sharers of his hut, during his life, were already devouring his body. Amid the squalor of this miserable dwelling the old man had spent his life hoarding up his money, and the same officers who came in and cared for his mangled remains, also found and took charge of $37,297 in gold and silver found in literally every nook and cranny of his abode. He had never married and his only surviving relatives are one sister and her two children and the children of another sister. He left no will and the property will be distributed among his heirs at law. CLARINDA HERALD, Clarinda, Iowa, Apr 24, 1908
[Golliday, Catherine
E. “Kate” Palmer]
Taylor County
Democrat
Thursday January 11, 1894 p. 4
R.
[euben] S. Palmer, postmaster at
Leonard, and family and J. [eremiah] K.[elly] Palmer and family, of Holt Township, were in attendance
at the funeral of their sister, Mrs. Katie Golliday.
[Golliday, Catherine
E. “Kate” Palmer]
Taylor County
Democrat
Thursday January 11, 1894 p. 4
Mr.
and Mrs. A. C. Rochon [Alzina Palmer]
returned to their home at St. Joseph Saturday. They were here in attendance at
the funeral of Mrs. Katie Golliday,
who was a sister of Mrs. Rochon.
[Golliday, Dicy Cline]
Bedford Free Press
Thursday March 12, 1908 p. 6
Blockton News.
"Aunt"
Dicy Goliday [Golliday] died Friday, Feb. 28th at her home in Blockton
after a short illness of less than a week. Her maiden name was Cline. She was born July 9, 1821 in Ohio. From there she
moved to Indiana where at an early age she was married to John [Wesley]
Goliday [Golliday]. To them were
born thirteen children, six boys and seven girls. They came from Missouri to
this county in 1858 and settled on a farm, which is now a part of the town. Her
husband died in 1872. At a very early age she became a member of the United
Brethren church and was a faithful, truehearted Christian the remainder of her
life. Funeral services were held at the U. B. church Sunday at 11:30 o'clock,
conducted by Rev. Jellison. Interment was made in Rose Hill cemetery where her
husband was laid to rest so many years ago. She leaves to mourn her loss her
daughters, Mrs. Wm. Goff and [Minerva] Jane Goliday, of this place; Mrs. [Ruth] Eliza Cobert
[Cabaret] and Mrs. Susie
[Susan Frances] Skinner, of
Creston and her son, Wm. Goliday,
of Des Moines, besides a number of grandchildren and other relatives among them
her nephew, E. W. Cline of
this place. Those present at the funeral from a distance were Mrs. Cabert [Cabaret] and three sons, Will, Walter and Charles and Mrs. Skinner of Creston, son, Wm. Goliday from Des Moines, grandchildren John, Charles,
Earl and Will Goliday; Mrs.
Reta Goliday and Miss Dicy
Hall, all of Benton. Deceased was
loved by all who knew her. Thus passeth away another life which has surely made
the world better for her having lived in it.
[GOLLIDAY, DICY CLINE]
Bedford Free Press (Bedford, Iowa), Thursday, March 12, 1908
Mrs. Eliza Cobert [Cabaret] and Mrs. Susie Skinner who were called here by the sickness and death of their mother, Mrs. Dicy Goliday, returned to their home at Creston Wednesday.
[Golliday, Emma
Stephenson Claybaugh]
Bedford
Times-Republican
Thursday March 21, 1907 p. 6
Word
was received here yesterday of the death of Mrs. Emma Golliday which occurred at her home in Des Moines Tuesday
night. Mrs. Golliday was the
daughter of J. [ames] A [llen] Stephenson of Blockton and she was well known in that vicinity. Her health has
been poor for a long time.
[Golliday, Emma
Stephenson Claybaugh]
Bedford Free Press
Thursday March 28, 1907 p. 5
Blockton News
Mrs.
Wm. Golliday, who died at home in
Des Moines Tuesday of last week and whose remains were brought to Blockton
Friday morning and interment made in Rose Hill cemetery, was a daughter of [James] Allen Stephenson and was reared to womanhood here. She was first
married to Frank Claybaugh and
to them were born three children. Mr. Claybaugh lost his life by a well caving in on him, some
three years ago. Later she married Mr. Golliday. She was a great sufferer from cancer and also
rheumatism, and had been unable to walk for some months previous to her death.
[Griffin, Christina
Ethlyn Athon Shockley Lambert]
Bedford Times-Press
Wednesday February 2, 1994 p. 8
CHRISTINA GRIFFIN
Funeral
services for Christina Griffin were held Tuesday, Jan. 25, 1994 at Novinger-Taylor Funeral Home with Rev.
Steve Peters officiating. Burial was at Bedford City Cemetery, Bedford, Iowa.
Christina
Ethlyn Athon, daughter of George
and Maude Clark Athon, was born
at Tarkio, Mo. on July 22,1909 and departed this life January 22, 1994 at the
Bedford Manor at the age of 86 years and six months.
She
lived in Atchison County, Mo. and grew to maturity in Tarkio, Mo. where she
graduated from the public school and attended one year of college in Tarkio.
On
December 29, 1928 she was united in marriage to Walter Shockly [Shockley] at the Presbyterian Church in Tarkio,
Mo. and they lived in Tarkio.
To
this union two children were born, George Arnold and Leila Shirleen.
In
March of 1946 Christina married George Griffin. They farmed in
the Hopkins, Mo. and the Coin and Bedford, Iowa areas until George passed away in 1983. In 1984 Christina moved to Bedford and made her home there until
she moved to the Bedford Manor.
She
was preceded in death by her parents and her husband.
Left
to cherish her memory, are her son George and his wife Jan;
daughter Shirleen Hall and her
husband Earl; grandchildren Mark,
Tiffiny and Paul Shockly; Edward Hall and his wife Pam; Janet
McManus and her husband Jim and four great grandchildren.
She
was a kind and considerate mother and grandmother and will be missed by all who
knew and loved her.
[Griffin, George
Garfield]
Bedford Times-Press
Thursday September 29,
1983 p. 9
George Griffin, 69 Last Rites Held
Last
rites were held in Bedford at Shum-Novinger Funeral Home September 20 with Rev.
Carl Cummings officiating for George Garfield Griffin, 69. Interment was at Bedford Cemetery.
Mr.
Griffin died September 18 at the
Municipal Hospital in Clarinda.
George
Garfield Griffin, son of Levi
Griffin and Nettie June Griffin,
was born at Coin, Iowa December 14, 1913. He moved with his parents to southern
Missouri when a young lad and grew to maturity in that area.
On
March 5, 1946 he was united in marriage to Christina Lambert at Maryville, Mo. and they lived in the Coin and
Westboro communities before moving to a farm just west of Bedford, in 1976,
where they have continued to reside.
He
was preceded in death by his parents.
Left
to cherish his memory are his wife, Christina of the home, four children from a prior marriage: Jane, Lewis, Roy and Robert;
two stepchildren, Shirleen Hall and her husband Earl of
Bedford, Iowa; George Shockley and his wife, Jan, of San
Diego, Calif.; three sisters: Mabel, Maude and Mary of Joplin,
Missouri and one brother, Henry,
of Madrid, Iowa, other relatives and friends.
His
family and friends will remember him as a kind and considerate loved one and he
will be sadly missed by all those who knew him.
[Hall, Elizabeth Ruth
Golliday]
Bedford Free Press
Thursday May 31, 1923 [p. 1]
Mrs. E. R. Hall Dead
Mrs.
E. [lizabeth] R. [uth Golliday] Hall, 83 years of age, died at her home here [in Bedford] about 9:15 after an illness
of several weeks. Her two children, [Henry] Kirk Hall and Mrs. [Lucinda] Mills were with her in her last illness and death. No definite funeral arrangements
have been made but it is probable that the funeral will be held tomorrow at the
home at 2:30 o’clock. Full obituary will be given next week.
[Hall, Mary Long]
Taylor County
Republican
Thursday February
7, 1884 p.
4
OBITUARY.
Death of Mrs. James
S. Hall
Mrs.
Mary Hall, wife of James S.
Hall, died at the residence of
the family in Ross township on Wednesday morning, in the forty-third year of
her age. The deceased was a daughter of Mr. W. [illiam] M. P. Long and had been an invalid for nearly twenty years,
her last illness during which she was confined to her bed having lasted for
about three months. She was a faithful and consistent member of the M. E.
church with which she united at an early age, and her long illness, during much
of the time attended with great suffering, was borne with exemplary fortitude
and resignation. She leaves a husband and one child, a daughter, now grown to
womanhood, and four brothers and three sisters to mourn her loss. The brothers
and sisters are Messrs. Lafe Long, H. [enry] P. Long, H. [iram] M. [arshall]
Long and W. [illiam] G. Long, and Mrs. M. [artin] V. [an Buren] King
[Sarah], Mrs. J. [ohn] M. [ilton] Houck [Eliza Jane], and Mrs. J. T. Johnston, all of whom reside in Taylor County.
The
funeral took place from the residence of the deceased in Ross Township today,
the services being conducted by Rev. Bradley. The attendance was very large and
the remains were interred in the Bedford cemetery and were followed to their
last resting place by a large number of mourning friends who thus testified to
the general esteem in which she was held by all who knew her.
[Harrington, Ira S.]
Bedford Free Press
Thursday February 22,
1912 [p. 1]
Old Sheriff Dead.
The
following from the Conneautville, Pa., Courier, will be of interest to the older residents of
Taylor County, as the deceased at one time was sheriff of this county:
Ira
S. Harrington died at the home of
his daughter, Mrs. Fannie Hicks,
in Sandusky, Ohio, on the 5th of February, in the 90th year of his
age. He had been bedridden for about four years. He was born at Cherry Hill,
Erie County, and was the last of a family of ten children of Matthew
Harrington. He went to Kansas
with Dr. George W. Brown's colony, which left Conneautville in 1854, but did
not settle in that state.
A
year later he went to Bedford, Iowa. He filled many important offices there,
one of them being sheriff of Taylor county. He was a veteran of the Civil war,
coming home as a lieutenant. He came back to Erie County a few years after the
war, locating at Albion. He was a commercial traveler for twenty-five years and
later, with his son, Milo J.,
engaged in the mercantile business in Albion. His health failing, he went to
Florida, and after the death of his wife, nine years ago, made his home with
his daughter, Mrs. Hicks.
Besides the daughter mentioned, he leaves a son, Milo J., of Albion, and a daughter, Mrs. Lizzie, wife of Judge W. D. Hinckley, of Warren. The remains were brought to Albion
for burial, the funeral being held at the home of his son on Friday. Deceased
was an uncle of Mrs. W. H. H. Pond,
of Springboro.
[Harris, Mary
Catherine]
Bedford Times-Press
Thursday July 19, 1945 p. 7
OBITUARY- Catherine
Harris
Mary
Catherine Harris, daughter of J.
[ohn] L. [indley] and Mrs. Susannah Lake Harris, was born in Taylor county, Iowa, near Ladoga,
Sept. 10, 1874 and died at the Broderick Nursing Home in Maryville Saturday,
July 14, where she had been a patient sufferer since March.
Miss
Harris received her education in
the rural schools, being graduated from the Bedford High School in 1894 and
from the State Teachers College at Cedar Falls in 1902. She had previously
taught in the rural schools, teaching her first term at Eagle school in Ross township,
near the community where she spent the past twenty years in the home of her
sister, Mrs. Hattie Dickerson. Mrs. Dickerson has been an
invalid the past six years and Miss Harris had patiently and tenderly cared for her during that time.
After
receiving her degree from college, Miss Harris taught in the Silverton and Canon City, Colorado
schools for fifteen years and was then employed in Washington, D. C., during
World War I. Afterward she worked in a veterans hospital at Greenville, North
Carolina, and also taught handicapped soldiers at Minneapolis, Minn., and
Fargo, North Dakota.
At
the age of fifteen she became a Christian and united with the Christian church
in Bedford, of which she remained a member until death.
She
taught the Bible class of the Maple Grove Sunday school near her home for many
years and was always willing to help in any way she could until illness in her
home prevented.
Miss
Harris always stood for the
better things in life. She was organizer of the Maple Grove Extension Club about
twenty years ago and was its president for eight years and a very ardent
worker.
She
is survived by one sister, Mrs. Hattie Dickerson of the Maple Grove community; a sister-in-law, Mrs.
Tom Harris, two nephews Homer
and Dean Harris and a niece, Mrs.
Arthur Walker, all of Lincoln,
Illinois. Her father, mother, and a brother preceded her in death many years
ago and another brother, Judge Tom Harris died in Lincoln, Illinois, in 1923.
The
funeral services were conducted at the Methodist church in Hopkins by Rev. W.
H. Hansford, Monday July 16 at 2 P. M. Burial was in the family lot in the
Bedford Cemetery.
[Hastings, Napoleon
B.]
Bedford Free Press
Thursday January 22, 1925 p. 6
Conway Items
Mr.
[Napoleon B.] Hastings, an inmate
of the county home passed away Tuesday evening, aged 96 years.
[Hastings, Napoleon
B.]
Bedford Free Press
Thursday January 22, 1925 [p. 1]
Old Mr. Hastings Dead
Mr.
[Napoleon B.] Hastings, past 97
years of age, died last Tuesday at the county home where he had been living
this winter. Mr. Hastings will
be remembered here by many, as Bedford has been his home for a good many years.
Although well advanced in years his mind was always active and he was always
ready to visit with a friend in the most intelligent manner. He had no
relatives here or close by and had always been a bachelor. Until he became too
feeble to get around much, the Frank Dunning family befriended him in his
latter years, and a little house was built for him on their lots where he lived
until taken to the county home where he could have constant care.
He
was born in Massachusetts Nov. 19, 1828, and in his younger days worked at the
photographic trade.
Funeral
services were held this forenoon at 10 o’clock at the Wetmore Funeral Home and
interment made in the Bedford cemetery.
[Hastings, Napoleon
B.]
Bedford
Times-Republican
Thursday January 22, 1925 p. 5
N. B. HASTINGS, AGED 97 YEARS, DIED TUES.
N.
[apoleon] B. Hastings, who for
many years had been a resident of this city passed away last Tuesday, aged 97
years, 2 months and 1 day. Mr. Hastings had been in good health for a man of his age until recently. He was
born in Massachusetts on Nov. 19, 1828.
Funeral
services were held this morning from the Wetmore Funeral Parlors at ten
o'clock.
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