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Abarr,
Robert Daniel -
Robert
Daniel, four and one half month old son of Mr. and Mrs. Ardath Abarr, passed away in Creston Saturday afternoon The parents and Dr. Abarr had
taken the baby to
specialists in hope that he could receive help, as he has never been very well,
suffering with heart trouble.
Funeral
services were held Sunday afternoon at 2:00 o'clock at the home. Rev. Browns,
pastor of the Christian church officiating in the absence of Rev. Hower of the Methodist church. Music was furnished by a girls quartet composed of Helen Barrans, Edna Bailey,
Elnora Bush and Margaret Swan. Interment was made hi Clearfield cemetery.
Lenox Time Table, Lenox, Iowa Thursday July 2,
1931
William S. Allbaugh, 40 years old, a farmer living three miles northeast
of Creston, was found dead in the barn at his home late Monday afternoon, says
the Creston News Advertiser.
Mr. Allbaugh was a world war veteran, enlisting December 12, 1917,
and being discharged April 1, 1919. He was well known among army veterans.
Mr. Allbaugh is survived by four sisters and three brothers: Mrs.
W. B. Healey, Lawton, Oklahoma; Mrs. Alban Weisshaar,
Creston, Mrs. Faith Reed, Lenox,
Mrs. Grace Godden, Cromwell, Maurice and Walter Allbaugh, both of Creston, and Lewis Allbaugh Denver.
Funeral
services will be held Friday morning at the Immaculate Conception church in
Creston at 9 o’clock.
Lenox Time Table, Lenox, Iowa Thursday June 4,
1931
Omer C.
Baldwin passed away at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Cora Campbell, on Sunday
April 26, at the age of 74 years, 6 months and 13 days. He had been in failing health for the past
year and for the last nine weeks had been bedfast. Funeral services were held at the Christian
Church Tuesday April 28 at 2:30 conducted by Rev. L. V. Freeman. Burial was in Fairview cemetery.
Obituary
Omer C.
Baldwin, son of Sophrania and Edward Baldwin, was
born October 12, 1856 at Brimfield, Illinois, where he made his home until
1880. In the spring of that year he came
to Lenox by covered wagon. With the
exception of 5 years when he lived in Adams county, he
has resided in and around Lenox.
Then
following the death of his wife, he made his home with his daughter, Mrs.
Campbell.
He ws married to Carrie L. Baker December 25, 1881 and to them
were born two children, Mrs. Cora Campbell and Ira C. Baldwin, Chickasha, Okla.
Mr. Baldwin
was patient through his suffering and was loved and respected in the community.
He is
survived by his two children, one brothers, Louis of Des Moines and one sister,
Iva of Seattle, Wash., 3 grandchildren, Leland Campbell of Seward, Nebraska and
Willard and Chester Campbell of Lenox and one great-grand-daughter, Phyllis
Campbell.
Lenox Time
Table, Lenox, Iowa, Thursday April 30, 1931
Henry Alexander Cochran, the eldest son of Thomas and Nancy
Cochran was born March 11, 1864, in Quiucey, Ill.,
and departed this life July 6, 1931, at his
home near Lenox, at the age of 67 years, 3 months and 25 days. He came to Taylor
county in November 1882 and has resided in Grove township ever since. On February 24, 1887, he was united in
marriage to Rosa A. Henry. To this union were born, three children, all of whom
were with him during his last illness.
Mr. Cochran united with the Presbyterian church when a young man and has served as elder for thirty nine years He has always
lived a consistent
Christian life and has served as superintendent and teacher of
Bible schools for a great number of years.
He is survived by his devoted wife, three children, Mrs. W. B.
Cochran, of Milan, Mo., Orson T. and William H. both of Lenox, and two
grandsons, Max
and Warren Cochran, two sisters, Mrs. Sarah Becherer of
Lenox, who was with him constantly during his illness, helping care for him,
Mrs. I. E. Richey of
Clarinda, Iowa, and one
brother, Thomas Cochran of Villisca, Iowa.
Mr. Cochran was respected and loved by all those who knew him
and was a devoted husband and father.
Through his last sickness he showed wonderful Christian
spirit of faith and patience.
On Wednesday, July 8, at 2 p. m., funeral services were conducted
in the Presbyterian, church of Sharpsburg by Rev. C. Paul Carlson of Hayfleld,
Minnesota, assisted by Rev: P. K. Holland of Sharpsburg and Rev. Freeman of Lenox. Interment
was made in the Grove Center cemetery with his six nephews serving as
pallbearers.
Those from a distance who attended the services were Mr. W. A.
Nevins and grandson of Homestead, Pa.; Mrs. Elizabeth Riggen,
Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Riggen, Mr. and Mrs. N. A Newman
of Milan, Mo., and Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Clawson of
Grand Island, Nebraska.
Lenox
Time Table, Lenox, Iowa Thursday July 9, 1921
Word has been received here [Clearfield] of the death of Mr.
C. J. Crew at his home in Central City, Nebraska Saturday. He was a brother of
James and A. J.
Crew, deceased, and often visited at the James Crew home.
Mr. Crew had been an invalid for several years. He is survived by a sister,
Mrs. Pitkin of Lamoni,
who with her daughter, went to Central City to attend the funeral.
Lenox
Time Table, Lenox, Iowa Thursday July 2, 1931
James Weldon Crouch was born in Lenox, Iowa, December 24,
1927, and died Friday evening at 7 p. m., at the hospital at Creston at the age
of 3 years,
6 months, and 2 days. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Crouch.
For the past year James and
his brother, Glen, have made their home with Wesley Crouch and family. James was stricken with infantile paralysis
about three hours before his death.
Those who survive are his parents, one brother Glen, and one
sister, Marie, as well as other relatives and friends. Short funeral services
were held at the Wesley Crouch home Saturday afternoon. Rev.
Freeman conducting the services. Interment was made in the Lenox
cemetery.
Lenox
Time Table, Lenox, Iowa Thursday July 2, 1931
Mrs. Olivia
Carter Gordon, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Carter, was born on April 17,
1864, at Henderson county, Illinois. This was her home until she moved to Iowa
with her parents in 1870. Upon coming to
Iowa, they made there home in the Blue Grove vicinity.
She united with
the Church of Christ in Des Moines while she was attending Drake
University. When she returned she transferred
her membership to the Blue Grove church of which she was an active member until
she moved to Des Moines.
She was
united in marriage to A. L. Gordon October 2, 1881, and they made their home on
a farm near Blue Grove until 1919 when they moved to Des Moines. At that time she place her membership with
the University [?] church, where she continued active in the work.
Two sons,
Earl Gordon of Lenox and J. Vernon Gordon of Chicago, were born to Mr. and Mrs.
Gordon. She was loved and respected by
all as a mother, friends and neighbor.
Mrs. Gordon
had been in failing health for some time. She passed away at her home Friday morning April 17, 1931, at the age of
67 years.
She is
survived by her husband, two sons, two brothers, D. L. Carter and Claude Carter
of Lenox and three grandchildren.
Short
funeral services were held in the home in Des Moines Saturday morning,
conducted by Rev. Medbury, who was assisted by Prof.
Kirk of Drake University, a friend and neighbor of the family. The body was then brought to Lenox where
funeral services were held at the Christian Church Sunday afternoon, conducted
by Rev. Freeman. Interment was made in
the Lenox cemetery.
Relatives
who attended the funeral from a distance were: J. A. Gordon of Kansas City,
Mo., E F. Gordon, Colorado Springs, Colo.; Mr. and Mrs. Gabe Richard of Des
Moines, Iowa, Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Chandler and Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Chandler of
Gravity, Mr. and Mrs. Kent Wallace of Gravity, Mr. and Mrs. Chancey of Malvern, Iowa, J. W. Lovitt of Shenandoah, Iowa,
Mrs. Alta Chamberlain and daughter of Des Moines, Mrs. Sadie Arthur, Mrs. G.
Wood and son and Mrs. Gibbons of Creston.
Lenox Time Table, Lenox, iowa Thursday April 23, 1931
Leander Hardin died at his home in north Clearfield Monday
afternoon after a long illness of paralysis. He was born in Clay county, Illinois, January 16, 1848, and was 83 years, 2
months, and 17 days of age at the time of his death. When he was ten years of
age, both of his parents having died, he went to live with his grandparents at
New Albany, Indiana. In 1867he came to Iowa and located
near Knoxville, Marion county. On February
12, 1871 he was married to Miss Amelia Ann Sutherland, in Marysville, Iowa, and
went immediately to Warren
county,
locating near Pella. After residing there for nine years, they came to Taylor county and lived on a farm two miles south of Clearfield.
Here they made their home for twenty-five years and their family grew to
manhood and womanhood. They were the parents of eight children, four of whom
survive. The children are Mrs. Fannie Abrahams of Ellendale, North Dakota; Sam
Hardin of Aberdeen, South Dakota; Rev. Wesley Hardin of
Guelph, North Dakota; and Grover Hardin of Des Moines. A nephew of Mrs. Hardin,
Reece
Sutherland of Cromwell, has made
his home with Mr. and Mrs. Hardin since babyhood.
They moved from the farm south of town to a farm in Ringgold county and later moved to town where they resided for
a good many years. Mr. Hardin
was a member of the Methodist church and has lived an exemplary life, known and
respected by all. Funeral services were held in the home Wednesday afternoon at
2:30, with Rev. D. I. Hower officiating. Interment
was made in Clearfield cemetery.
Lenox
Time Table, Lenox, Iowa Thursday April 16, 1931
An item from the Miami Republican published at Paola,
Kansas, tells of the death of W. Humphrey who will be remembered by many of the
older residents of Lenox as a former druggist here. The Republican says:
W. Humphrey, aged 78, oldest druggist in the state from
point of service, died unexpectedly at his home in Paola Saturday morning at
1:30 o'clock. Mr.
Humphrey had been at his store Monday and the same day he
attended to some matters at his farm. Tuesday he was not well and he remained
home, although there was nothing extremely alarming about his condition.
Shortly after 1 o'clock Saturday morning he got up and in a few minutes quietly
went into the last sleep. His daughter, Mrs. W. D. Schultz, his son, Eudell, and Mr. Shultz were with him.
Wilkinson Humphrey, son of Joseph and Margaret Gill
Humphrey, was born in Mercer county, Pa., June 22,
1853. His parents moved to Benton county, Iowa, when he was an infant and there
he received his education and farmed until he was 19 years old. February 24,1875 he was married to Miss Henrietta Baxter at Corning,
Iowa. For a time he farmed and then was in the drug business
at Lenox, Iowa. In 1878 he came
to Paola, which has been his home for 53 years. With the exception of one year has been in the drug business in Paola
from the time he located here and his store has been in the present location
for 23 years.
To Mr. and Mrs. Humphrey were born three children. A
daughter died in infancy. Lillian, wife of W. D. Schultz and Eudell J., both of Paola, survive,
the mother having died June 22, 1928. Mr. Humphrey was reared a United
Presbyterian. He was an excellent business man and prospered in his business
Funeral services were held at the home Monday afternoon and
burial was made at Paola. Among those who attended the funeral from a distance
were Mrs. Lottie Lust of Lenox and Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Cless of Des Moines,
Lenox Time Table, Lenox, Iowa Thursday April 23, 1931
Funeral
services will be held today (Thursday) for Mrs. Anna Martin at the Catholic
church at 10:30 a. m. Father Pouget will have charge
of the services and burial will be made in Fairview cemetery.
Mrs. Martin
was formerly Anna Nugent of this city. She passed away at the home of her sister,
Mrs. Katherine Barratt, at Omaha.
Lenox Time Table, Lenox, Iowa Thursday June 4,
1931
Miss Mary M.
Martin, an aunt of J. H. Barber, died Tuesday morning at 2:30 at the home of her
niece, Miss Mary Barber, at Maryville, Mo., at the age of 97
years.
Miss Martin
was established as the oldest person in the county at the time of her death. She
is survived by three nieces. Miss Mary Barber, Mrs. J. N. Geyer of Maryville,
and Mrs. C. H. Geyer of Skidmore, and two nephews, R. N. Barber of St. Joe and
J. H. Barber of Lenox.
The funeral
services were held at 5:30 Wednesday afternoon at the Price funeral home, Rev. Lane
Douglas officiating. Miss Martin is well known in
Lenox as she
has spent several summers at the J. H. Barber home.
Lenox Time Table, Lenox, Iowa Thursday July 2,
1931
Mrs. Bill
Park passed away at her home at Pomona, California, June 7th. She was an aunt of
Fred and Hattie Henderson. She and her
husband lived on
a farm
northeast of Lenox thirty years ago.
She is survived
by three daughters, Mrs. P. L. Anderson of Pomona, Cal., Mrs. Leslie Anderson of
Golden, Cal., and Mrs. Ed Standiford of Northboro, and
two sons, John
Park of Los Angeles, California, and Ralph Park of Pomona, and four
granddaughters.
Lenox Time Table, Lenox, Iowa Thursday June 25,
1931
Word was
received here Saturday of the death of Thelma Reed, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E.
J. Reed of Clarks, Nebr. Mrs. Reed will be remembered as
Jean Tuttle,
daughter of M. F. Tuttle of Lenox and Mr. Reed, a son of G. N. Reed of Omaha.
They lived west of Lenox for several years before moving to
Colorado and later to Nebraska.
Funeral
services were held at 3:30 Sunday afternoon, April 19, at the Pierce Chapel
church, and were conducted by Rev. Price. School mates acted as flower girls
and pall bearers. Among the relatives from a distance who attended the funeral
was Miss Ruth Tuttle of Lenox.
Thelma
Lucille Reed was the second daughter of Jean and Ernest J. Reed. She was born
on December 22, 1919, near Hayden, Colorado, and died at the family home near
Pierce Chapel church, Nebraska, April 17, 1931, at the age of 11 years, three
months and 25 days.
The family
moved from Hayden to Clark, Nebraska in August, 1922, where they lived until
March 1923, then moved to their present borne. She started to school and would
have completed the fifth grade at the close of this school year.
Her illness
did not appear to be serious at first but she was later taken to the St.
Francis hospital at Grand Island and a minor operation performed. A
little later a form of paralysis developed and her entire body became paralyzed.
Although everything possible was done for her she passed away after five weeks
of illness.
She is
survived by her parents, one sister, Pearl, two brothers, Clifford and George,
and two grandfathers, G. N. Reed of Omaha, and M. F. Tuttle of Lenox.
Lenox Time Table, Lenox, Iowa Thursday April 23,
1931
Mr. and Mrs.
Chauncey Reynolds received word Friday forenoon of the death of their daughter-in-
law, Mrs. Ray Reynolds, who passed away Friday
morning at 1:30 at Sheldon, Wisconsin.
Lenox Time Table, Lenox, Iowa Thursday June 18,
1931
Reynolds,
Lucy -
Lucy
Reynolds was born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, April 5, 1897, and died at the St.
Joseph hospital, Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, June 12, 1931, at the age
of 34 years,
two months and seven days.
Mrs.
Reynolds made her home near Lenox until the spring of 1921 and since that time
she had made her home at Sheldon, Wisconsin. She united with the
Church of Christ at Lenox in 1911. On December 10, 1919, she was
united in marriage to Dennis Ray Reynolds. She was a charter member of the
Church
of Christ at
Sheldon.
Mrs.
Reynolds is survived by her husband, and four children: Chrintine,
age 10 years; Dennis, 8; Dean, 6; and the baby, Don Elton, age 5 days; and also
two
brothers and three sisters. Burial was made in the Sheldon cemetery.
Lenox Time Table, Lenox, Iowa Thursday June 25,
1931
Miss Josie
Sapp, born September 1858, came with her parents from Ohio and settled on a
farm in Grove township in the year 1883. Later the
family moved
and settled in
Lenox in 1906. Never in robust health she finally had
to go to the Maryville hospital in the early part of April. Under the care of
her
physicians she improved well enough to return home in the latter part of May. Soon however
the old trouble made itself felt and she had to go back to the hospital in
Maryville on June 15th. The symptoms grew alarming and she begged to receive the
last sacraments of her church. Calm and resigned she
commended her soul to God and died early on Sunday morning of June 28, 1931.
The funeral
took place at St. Patrick's church in Maryville Mo. Father Robert E. Graham, the
pastor of the church, was celebrant. Fr. Ambrose Bucher O.S.B., chaplain of St.
Joseph's hospital, assisted in the sanctuary and Fr. Henry C. Pouget of Lenox, Iowa, presided at the organ and sang the
Requiem Mass.
Present at
the funeral mass were Mrs. Purcell Durbin and family, her niece, Mrs. J. C.
Miller and her husband of Sharpsburg, Iowa, her cousin, Mr. Dennis
Durbin of Lenox, Iowa, and a number of friends and relatives of
the Purcell family.
The remains
were taken to the St. Patrick's cemetery in Maryville, Mo., where Father Pouget conducted the last rites.
Lenox Time Table, Lenox, Iowa Thursday July 9,
1931
Mrs. H. H. Stottlemeyer, a former Lenox resident, died at her home at
Van West, Iowa, early Tuesday morning, April 28, at the age of 61 years.
Funeral
services will be held at the Christian Church at Lenox Thursday afternoon,
April 30 at 1 o’clock, and will be conducted by Rev. McCallon. Interment will be made in the Lenox cemetery.
Lenox Time
Table, Lenox, Iowa Thursday April 30, 1931
Relatives
here received word Monday of the death of Frank Sullivan of Pendleton, Oregon,
formerly an Iowa boy and brother of Lee and Grace Sullivan and also Mrs. Ed
Locke. The Sullivan family was known in this vicinity as they lived on a farm
four miles northwest of Lenox for many years.
Lenox Time Table, Lenox, Iowa Thursday April 2,
1931
Irving S.
Townsend of Clearfield died in Clarinda Tuesday May 26th, and J. R. Crew brought
the body back to his home in Clearfield where the funeral services were held in
the Christian church on Thursday morning at 10:30, Rev. P. L. Browns
officiating, after which the body was taken by his son Howard and wife to Berwick,Illinois, for burial.
Irving Townsend
was born ha Warren County Illinois, December 5, 1857 and
was 73 years 5
months and 20 days of age at his death. On December 15, 1892 he married Miss
Mina Belle Murdock and two sons were born to this union,
Edward who died in infancy, and Howard, who is living on the home
place. Mrs.
Murdock passed away in 1921. They came to Clearfield in 1900, spending the past
thirty years on a farm just east of town. Two sisters and one brother survive
him. Mrs. J. D. Wallace of Rising City, Nebraska, Mrs. Laura Haskill of
Cheyenne,
Wyoming, and Henry Townsend of Botha, Alberta, Canada
Lenox Time Table, Lenox, Iowa Thursday June 4,
1931
Raybourne Thomas of Kent hanged himself Friday in a pasture near his home. The body was
found Saturday morning and funeral services were held at Kent Monday. Mr.
Thomas was 38. Ill health was given as the cause of the deed. He is survived by
his widow, three children, his mother and a sister.
Lenox Time Table, Lenox, Iowa Thursday July 9,
1931
Mrs. Caroline Turner died at 1:30 a. m. Monday, March 16,
1931, at her home in Leroy, Ill., at the age of 72 years, 11 months and 1 day.
She had been in ill
health for several years but the attack of heart disease which caused her death lasted
only a few days.
She was born April 15, 1858, in Dawson township.
She was the daughter of Henry and Susan McClurg Reynolds.
She was married to Charles J. Turner, November 2, 1879, who preceeded her in death, October 26, 1926.
Mrs. Turner had spent her entire lifetime in DeWitt and McClean counties and had occupied her late home for the
past 29 years.
Mrs. Turner is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Lora Hadfield
at home and Mrs. Clyde Stanger of Holder, Ill. A daughter, Mrs. Ida Turner, preceeded
her in death in 1917. Three other daughters, Caroline Turner, Mrs. Paul Poindexter
and EileenTurner, were left. These three
grandchildren, together
with three other grandchildren, Mrs. Guy Ijams of Chicago,
Charles Hadfield of Holder, and Clifford Hadfield of Leroy, were all reared in
the Turner home.
Surviving also are four other grandchildren: Clyde Turner,
Eloise, Marilyn and Alma Jean, children of Mrs. Clyde Stanger. Three great
grand children, Paul,
son of Mrs. Paul Poindexter; Hazel, daughter of Clifford Hadfield; and Guy Harvey,
son of Mrs. Guy Ijams. Three brothers and two
sisters, James Reynolds
of Farmer City, Ill.; Mrs. Ida Nelson, Mrs. Sarah Bivens,
and John and Chauncey Reynolds of Lenox survive her also.
Mrs. Turner was a member of the Prairie chapel United
Brethren church.
The funeral was held Wednesday, March 18, 1931, at 2:00 p.
m., at the Methodist church, with the pastor, Rev. J. Gibson, officiating.
Burial was made in Oak Grove cemetery.
The pallbearers were: John Roberts, Charles Hostler, Rufus
Pendleton, James Phillips, Lem Roy and Gilbert
Riley. Mrs. Don Jones and Mrs. Glen
Dooley sang, with Mrs. Elmo Zellhoefer as accompanist .
Those attending the funeral from a distance were John and
Chauncey Reynolds and Charles Bivens of Lenox, Iowa,
Clyde Reynolds of Villisca and Mrs. Guy Ijams and son
of Chicago.
Lenox
Time Table, Lenox, Iowa Thursday March 26, 1931
Mrs. Donna Runyan received a message Friday of the death of Mrs.
Fannie Winder, who passed away at the home of her daughter at Lee Summit, Mo.
Mrs. Winder
has been a resident of Lenox for many years but for the past few years she has
spent the winters with her daughter at Lee Summit, but came back to Lenox for
the summers.
Lenox Time Table, Lenox, Iowa Thursday June 18,
1931
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