William M. Lee, who came to Whitman County in 1872 from Walla Walla, died at his home in this city Tuesday evening [June 16, 1925], surrounded by his wife and four surviving children. He suffered an attack of pneumonia about two weeks ago and due to his advanced age of 77 years the after effects […]
Leonard R. McQueen, 79, Flat Rock, Washington Township retired farmer, died Wednesday [September 13, 1972]. Major Hospital patient since Feb. 4. Bartholomew County native, lived in the Flat Rock community most of his life. Member of the Flat Rock United Methodist Church, a 50 year member of Camon Lodge 343, F. and A.M., at Clifford,
Roseltha Vogler Yatulis, 66, Hope Route 2, died at 10 p.m. Tuesday at Bartholomew County Hospital after an illness of several years. She was a member of Hope Moravian Church. Funeral service will be conducted by the Rev. Albert Harke at 10 a.m. Friday at Norman Funeral Home in Hope, where persons may call from
William R. Zook. The life of William B. Zook had embraced a wide range of experiences and covered a period of more than forty-seven years in Western Kansas. He was one of those whose labor lent dignity and stability to unsettled and undeveloped concitions, and whose faith in the future was readily communicated to his
The Evening Republican, October 10, 1921, p. 1. Charles H. McQueen, 66 years old, a life-long resident of this county, died Saturday night at 9:30 o’clock [October 8, 1921] at his home 157 Indiana Avenue, East Columbus, of injuries received several days ago in an accident when he was thrown from his bicycle by being
Funeral services for Wayne B. McQueen, 74 years old, a retired truck driver and Army veteran of World War I, will be held at 2 p.m. Monday in Bible Church, 3745 East Pleasant Run East Parkway. Entombment will be in Washington Park East Mausoleum. A native of Columbus, Ind. and resident here 45 years, Mr.
John Wallace Howe. Few men are able to comprehend within a period of less than seventy years such a variety of experience and achievement as John Wallace Howe of Independence. He is one of the youngest vsterans of the Union army in the war between the states. Besides the part played by him as a
The Republican, January 15, 1874: On Friday, the 9th of January at 10 o’clock a.m., Colonel T. G. Lee died at his residence [January 9, 1874] in Flatrock Township, aged 74 years. His funeral was preached at the church in Clifford, Ind., by the Rev. Jacob M. Norton. The funeral was largely attended. The Colonel
Noah Perry, a prominent and well known farmer, died at his home, one mile east of Clifford, this morning at 11 o’clock [August 2, 1908]. A complication of diseases, including acute stomach trouble, was the cause of death. The late Mr. Perry was about sixty-three years old and had been a resident of the Clifford
Tragedy interrupted preparations for what would otherwise have been a pleasant family dinner Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Sardis McQueen, near Clifford, in Bartholomew county, when Mrs. Emma May Oltman, 52 years old, wife of William A. Oltman, of Jackson township in Shelby county, fell from a kitchen doorway to the hard
Funeral services for Mrs. Skinner who died yesterday [February 27, 1957] in Methodist Hospital, will be held at Creek Church near Hope. Della C. Skinner, 79 years old, 11 a.m. Saturday in Haw. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Friends may call at Moore and Kirk North East Chapel this afternoon. Mrs. Skinner, who
Born in Bartholomew County in 1849, died Friday [August 18, 1921], age 71, while visiting a daughter, Mrs. Ralph Heilman, west of Hope. She was the widow of Noah Perry of Clifford who died 13 years ago. Other surviving daughters are Mrs. Harry Sims, Mrs. Ora Hamblen, Mrs. Dorcas Fishel of Pine River, Minnesota and
Lewis A. Vogler, leading farmer and corn grower of Hawcreek Township for years, and prominently known throughout the state for his activities in civic, political and agricultural affairs of the county, passed away Monday evening at 5:20 o’clock at his home [June 4, 1928] on South Main Street. Had Mr. Vogler lived until next July
Aneta B. Vogler, 83, of the Lake View Care Center near Hope, died at 10 p.m. Monday [November 3, 1975] at the Bartholomew County Hospital, where she had been a patient for five days. She had been ill for several days. Named senior citizen of the year in 1963 by the Bartholomew County Retirement Foundation.
James R. Fisher died Thursday morning, March 1, 1894, at 4:30 o’clock, at the home of his son three miles west of Anthony. The deceased was one of our oldest and most highly respected citizens and his death is the result of a prolonged and painful sickness, having been confined to the house for more
Mrs. Ora Pearl Hammon, 79 years old, 3140 Broadway, died last night [October 27, 1951] in a nursing home following a long illness. Mrs. Hammon, a native of Hope, had lived in Indianapolis 12 years. She was a member of Tabernacle Presbyterian Church, Bethany Class of that church and was active in the church’s Red
Thomas D. B. Stucker is one of the honored citizens of Fisher, Illinois. His home has been in Champaign County for the past thirty-six years. His life deserves honor and respect ‘for two reasons: First, because of the good and honest work he has done as a private citizen, and second, as an old soldier
Ira M. Coy, 90 years old, 402 Keeley Street died at his home at 8:30 p.m., Wednesday [September 9, 1964]. He had been an Edinburg rural mail carrier for 34 years having retired in 1939. Mr. Coy was born Sept. 24, 1873, in Bartholomew County. He married in early life Vinnie McQueen and later married
The Evening Republican, October 5, 1925, p. 1. John Stoughton, 74, retired farmer and life-long resident of this county, died suddenly Saturday night [October 3, 1925] about 6:30 o’clock at his home in St. Louis Crossing, death resulting from neuralgia of the heart. Funeral services will be held at the Hawpatch Baptist Church tomorrow morning
Funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon, Sep. 16, for Ina Brownfield, 74, in the Elliott Chapel with burial in the Forest Park Cemetery. Mrs. Brownfield, the widow of the late Dr. H. W. Brownfield, was well known throughout the county, as she served Harper County as register of deed for 22 years. Mrs. Brownfield, born
