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[Pullan, Benjamin
Arthur “Bennie”, Jr.]
Bedford Times-Press
Thursday May 24, 1945 [p. 1]
Ben Pullan, Jr., 37, Is Fatally Injured
Benny
Pullan, Jr., 37, died at the
Municipal Hospital in Clarinda early Saturday afternoon after being injured in
a dynamiting accident near Essex that morning.
He
was injured at a drainage project near the "middle bridge" of the
Nishnabotna River, west of Essex, and taken by ambulance to Clarinda.
Pullan and his father, widely known residents of New
Market, were making drainage ditches.
A
former miner, the younger Pullan also was president of the New Market library board and was scoutmaster. Monday
he had been elected president of the newly formed New Market community club.
[Pullan, Benjamin
Arthur “Bennie”, Jr.]
Bedford Times-Press
Thursday May 31, 1945 [p. 1]
Obituary
Benjamin
Arthur Pullan, Jr. son of Ben
Pullan, Sr. and Katherine
[Mullenburg] Pullan was born May
8, 1908 at High Bridge, Iowa. His death occurred May 19, 1945 at the Clarinda
Municipal Hospital, following injuries received in a blasting accident near
Essex.
At
the age of two years he moved with his parents to New Market. His childhood was
spent in New Market attending the public schools and graduating in 1925. He
attended Junior College in Clarinda in 1925-26 and entered Iowa State College
at Ames in 1926, graduating with a Bachelor of Science Degree in civil
engineering in 1932. Following his graduation he was employed with U. S.
engineers at Peru, Nebraska and Ft. Peck, Montana.
He
was united in marriage with Ada Chamberlain of Guthrie Center in 1934. One child, Benjamin
Arthur Pullan III was born to
them.
In
1937 he and wife returned to New Market where they have made their home since
that time and he having been associated with the New Market Coal Company.
Bennie, as he was familiarly known was kind hearted,
affectionate and devoted to his family, a thoughtful son and brother, a good neighbor
and friend to those with whom he was associated.
He
was active in public affairs, was chairman of the local Red Cross chapter for
several years, president of the Library Board, scoutmaster of the local Boy
Scout Troop, a member of the town council and was recently elected president of
the local community club, which he helped to organize.
He
is survived by his wife, Mrs. Ada Pullan and son Bennie II,
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ben Pullan, Sr., two brothers, Cpl. Jack Pullan of U. S. Army Engineers at Ft. Belvoir, Va., Lieut. James Pullan, Naval Air Station, Astoria, Oregon, two sisters, Mrs. Harriette Brummett and Mrs.
Helen Anderson both of New
Market, two grandmothers, Mrs. John Mullenburg of Des Moines and Mrs. H.[annah] M. [ary
Anderson] Pullan of New Market.
Funeral
services were held May 22, 1945, at the Walker Funeral Home in Clarinda,
conducted by Rev. Richard Dieken of Clarinda.
[Pullan, Benjamin
Arthur “Ben”, Sr.]
Bedford Times-Press
Thursday August 29, 1963 p. 2
James Pullan's Father Dies
Ben
A. [rthur] Pullan, 77, formerly
of New Market, died at the Pugh nursing home in Clarinda Aug. 14 after an
illness extending over several months. He had been cared for in his home until
five days ago when he had to be taken to the nursing home.
He
was a native Iowan, being born at Angus, but came to New Market at an early age
and spent the rest of his lifetime there. He was associated with the coal
industry all of his adult life, having owned and operated mines at New Market
from 1910 to 1945, and later at Clarinda. In 1947 he helped with the founding
of the Clarinda Coal and Concrete and was associated with that business as long
as his health permitted.
He
is survived by his wife, Katherine; two sons, Jack Pullan of
Clarinda and James Pullan of
Bedford; two daughters, Mrs. Keith [Thomas] (Harryette) Brummett and Mrs. Duane (Helen) Anderson of New Market; a daughter-in-law, Adah, wife of the late Ben Pullan jr. of Kansas City; one brother, L.[awrence] W.
Pullan, Clarinda; two sisters, Mrs.
Rhoda Updike of New Market, and Mrs.
Charles (Clara) Leopold of Des
Moines; nine grandchildren and two great grandchildren.
Funeral
services were conducted from the Walker Funeral Home Aug. 16 with the Preacher
Clarence Potter of the New Market Church of Christ in charge.
Burial was in Memory
cemetery near New Market.
[Pullan, James Henry
“Jimmy”, Jr.]
Clearfield
Enterprise
Thursday September 23, 1937 p. 2
Jimmy
[James] Pullan, one of the New
Market family of Pullans—was
killed by a fall of rock in a mine near Clarinda last Thursday.
[Pullan, James Henry
“Jimmy”, Jr.]
Bedford Times-Press
Thursday September 16,
1937 [p. 1]
james
pullan jr. killed in mine
Al
Shonley, With Him, Received Minor Injuries
James
[“Jimmy”] Pullan, 32, foreman and
part owner of the Pullan coalmine at Clarinda, was killed Wednesday morning
when rock and slate fell on him in a shaft. He is a son of Mr. and Mrs.
James [Henry] Pullan of New
Market. Surviving are his wife and one child.
Al
Shonley, a miner working with Pullan, was also caught by the slide, being pinned helplessly against the
side of the mine, but he escaped with minor injuries to his ankle.
The
accident happened in a new room being opened 1200 feet from the main shaft.
Shonley yelled for help for more than an hour before other miners were
attracted to the scene of the tragedy.
Pullan was conscious and talked to his companion for
ten minutes before he died, according to Shonley. Pullan was pinned down by a 300-pound slab.
[Pullan, James Henry
“Jimmy”, Jr.]
Bedford Times-Press
September 23,
1937 p. 3
New
Market
OBITUARY
James
H. [enry] Pullan, Jr., was born
August 23, 1904 near Colfax, Jasper county, Iowa.
He
came with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. James H. [enry] Pullan, Sr. [Jessie
Viola Howes], to New Market in
1908 and grew to manhood there. He was employed in the New Market coalmines for
a number of years.
He
was married to Miss Phyllis Coleman of Hopkins, Mo., in June 1925. One child, Geraldine was born to them.
In
1929 he became associated with the Clarinda Coal Co., as part owner and was a
resident of Clarinda from that year until his death, Sept. 15, 1937, being 33
years and 23 days old.
He is survived by his
widow, Mrs. Phyllis Pullan and
daughter Geraldine; his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. James H. [enry] Pullan, Sr.; and four sisters, Mrs. Mary Hendren, Mrs. Kathryn Hendren, Miss Florence Pullan and Miss Rhoda
Pullan.
Funeral
services were held Friday afternoon at the Walker Funeral Home in Clarinda,
conducted by Rev. C. K. Shackleford of New Market.
Relatives
and friends from a distance who were present at the funeral services were Ab
Rosenbaum, Miss Hart and Edd
Lawrence of Centerville; Mr.
and Mrs. Ben Pullan of Fort Peck,
Mont.; Mr. and Mrs. Max Frank of Malvern; Carl Coleman, Mrs. John Schaley and Mrs. Ola Eubanks of Kansas City; Mrs. Paul Lewis of Correctionville, Iowa; Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Nicholson of Royal, Iowa; Mrs.
Dick Strong and Mrs. Jim
Brainger of Maryville.
[Pullan, James Henry
“Jimmy”, Jr.]
Bedford Times-Press
September 23,
1937 p. 3
VALLEY
Attend Pullan Funeral
A
number from here attended the Jimmy Pullen funeral at Clarinda Friday. Mrs. Pullen before her marriage was Miss Phyllis Coleman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Coleman of Hopkins.
[Pullan, Karl Edwin]
Bedford Times-Press
Thursday April 3, 1941 [p. 1]
Carl Pullan Dies After Long Illness
Carl
[Karl] Pullan, 19, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Ben Pullan of New
Market, died Sunday at a hospital in Des Moines after an illness of several
years.
He
was taken recently to a hospital in Council Bluffs and when an operation was
found necessary, he was taken to a specialist in Des Moines, where he underwent
the operation from which he failed to recover.
He
is survived by his parents, two sisters, Miss Harryette Pullan of New Market and Mrs. Duane Anderson [Helen] of Gravity; three brothers, Ben Pullan of New Market, Jack Pullan of Glenwood and James Pullan of Bedford.
Funeral
services were held Tuesday afternoon at the Walker Funeral Home in Clarinda.
[Pullan, John]
New Market Herald
Thursday June 12, 1930 [p. 1]
John
Pullan Dead In England
Killed in Auto
Accident Tuesday Morning of This Week.
This
community was shocked and sorely grieved Tuesday morning about ten o'clock when
word came by wireless message from Huddersfield, England, that Mr. John
Pullan, who left here on May 6th
with his wife for a summer's visit with relatives at their old home across the
ocean, had been killed that morning in an auto accident.
No
particulars are at hand as to the cause of the accident, the only information
being the wireless message, which read as follows:
“Regret John Pullan died through motor
accident Tuesday morning. News to follow." The message was received at the
Pullan Coal Co. office, being telephoned here from Council Bluffs at the end of
the wireless route.
Mr.
and Mrs. Pullan left here on May
6th, and left this country by boat on the 10th. They had been in
England only about three weeks when the accident occurred.
Mr.
Pullan is survived by his wife,
who is in England with him, three sons, James Sr. and Ben Sr. of New Market, and Lawrence of Clarinda, and two daughters, Mrs. Rhoda Updike and Mrs. Clara Leopold both of Des Moines, besides a large number of
grandchildren and great grandchildren and a large circle of friends who
sincerely mourn his sudden death. He was 71 years of age.
While
nothing definite is known at this time, it is probable that his body will be
returned to the United States for burial, but what time it will arrive is
problematical. Funeral arrangements cannot be made until definite word has been
received, but at this time it seems that it will probably be at least two
weeks. We will announce the arrangements as soon as they are made.
The
sincere sympathy of all is extended to the sorrowing ones in this time of
trouble.
[Pullan, John]
Bedford
Times-Republican
Thursday June 12, 1930 [p. 1]
NEW MARKET MAN WAS
KILLED IN ENGLAND
COAL OPERATOR AT NEW
MARKET KILLED ABROAD
JOHN PULLAN AND WIFE WERE ON VACATION FOR A FEW MONTHS.
WAS IN ENGLAND
He Has Been Prominent
in Taylor County and Southwestern Iowa Several Years.
John
Pullan, treasurer of both the New
Market and Clarinda Coal companies, was killed Tuesday morning in an auto
accident at Huddersfield, Yorkshire, England, according to a cablegram received
by relatives at New Market.
Mr.
Pullan, who had been a coal
operator in that vicinity for thirty-five years, went to England three weeks
ago with his wife on a vacation trip. Details of the accident were not made
known in the cablegram.
Besides Mrs. Pullan, he is survived by
three sons, James H. [enry], Ben A.[rthur], and Lawrence, all of New Market, and two daughters, Mrs.
Rhoda Updike and Mrs. Clara
Leopold, both of Des Moines. He
was noted for his charity work.
[Pullan, Karl Edwin]
Bedford Times-Press
Thursday April 10, 1941 p. 7
Obituary - Karl
Pullan
Karl
Edwin Pullan, youngest child of Benjamin
A. [rthur] and Katherine
[Mullenburg] Pullan, was born in
New Market June 1, 1921 and died at a hospital in Des Moines, March 30, 1941.
His
entire life was spent in New Market, entering school when five years old, and
attended regularly until ill health forced him to give up schoolwork during his
sophomore year in high school. He made an excellent record as a pupil and
examination of the school records shows that he was an honor student. He was
popular and well liked by his schoolmates and was known as a capable and
trustworthy boy by his teachers. He was talented and interested in athletics
and other school activities. Karl attended
church and Sunday school at the Christian church.
He
is survived by his parents; three brothers Ben Jr., of New Market, Jack of Glenwood and James of Bedford; two sisters, Harryette of New Market, Mrs. Duane Anderson [Helen] of Sharpsburg; three grandparents, Mrs. H. [annah] M. [ary
Anderson] Pullan of New Market
and Mr. and Mrs. John Mullenburg [Nellie Breuklander] of Des Moines.
Funeral
services were held on Tuesday afternoon, April 1 at the Walker Funeral Home in
Clarinda, conducted by Rev. Mr. Eppard.
[Pullan, Katherine
Mullenburg]
Bedford Times-Press
Thursday August 31, 1967 p. 4
Final Rites Held
August 28 for Mrs. Ben Pullan
Mrs.
Ben (Katherine) Pullan, 79, long
time New Market resident, died at the Clarinda Municipal Hospital last Saturday
after being in the hospital for nine days.
The
daughter of the late John and Nellie Breuklander Mullenburg, she was born at Pella, but most of her lifetime
has been spent in New Market. She was preceded in death by her husband in 1963
and sons Benjamin [Arthur] and Karl [Edwin]
Surviving
are her four children, Jack Pullan,
Clarinda, James Pullan,
Bedford, Mrs. Thomas (Harryette) Brummett, and Mrs. Duane (Helen) Anderson, of New Market, two brothers, Fred Mullenburg, South Bend, Ind., and Bert Mullenburg, Des Moines, and three sisters, Mrs. William
(Josephine) Perry, Webster, Wis., Mrs. Clint (Nellie) Tedrick,
Grand Rapids, Mich., and Mrs. Ray (Marie) Latch, Joplin, Mo.
Funeral
services were conducted from the Walker Funeral Home Monday, August 28, 1967,
with Preacher Glen Mitchell in charge. Burial was at Memory Cemetery near New
Market.
Mrs.
Pullan had been a resident of New
Market since 1957 and well known for the flower gardens about her home. She was
a member of the Church of Christ of New Market. Her illness was of short
duration.
[Pullan, Thelma
Marsell]
Bedford Times-Press
September 25,
1958 p. 4
Last Rites Tuesday Mrs.
Thelma Pullan
Mrs.
Thelma Pullan, 56, of New Market,
died at Municipal hospital in Clarinda, Saturday evening, September 20 after an
illness of about three years.
Funeral
services were held from the Shum Funeral Home in Bedford, Tuesday afternoon,
September 23. Rev. Colvin Caughey of the Bedford Baptist church officiated.
Burial was in Memory cemetery at New Market.
She
is survived by her daughter and husband, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Franko of Hutchinson, Kansas; her mother, Mrs. Daisy
Marsell of New Market; and three
grandchildren.
[Pullan, Thelma
Marsell]
Bedford Times-Press
Thursday October 2, 1958 p. 6
Mrs. Thelma Pullan
Thelma
Marsell, daughter of J. [ames]
B.[ird] and Daisy [Etta Jane
Hicks] Marsell, was born January
20, 1902 at New Market, Iowa and died in Municipal hospital at Clarinda,
Saturday, September 20, 1958, at the age of 56 years and eight months.
She
attended New Market High school until her senior year when she enrolled at
Clarinda High school, from which she graduated with the class of 1920. After
her graduation she attended Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa, majoring in a
two-year music course, graduating from the university in 1922.
She
was married on February 19, 1923 to Lawrence W. Pullan of New Market. To them was born one daughter, Mrs.
Margaret Franko of Hutchison,
Kansas.
In
1938, Thelma went to Chicago
to be a receptionist in the office of her cousin, Dr. Earle Pace, where she
remained for 18 years. When her health began to fail she went to Hutchison,
Kansas, and made her home with her daughter until a year ago, when she returned
to New Market to live with her mother.
She
became a member of the Baptist church in New Market early in life.
She
is survived by her mother, Mrs. Daisy Marsell of New Market; her daughter Margaret Franko; three grandsons, Jimmie, Mark and Michael
Franko; and her son-in-law, Robert
Franko. Her father preceded her
in death in 1950.
[Pullen, Albert]
North Taylor Review (Sharpsburg, Iowa)
Thursday October 19, 1916 [p. 1]
Burned With Car
Albert
Pullen, aged 69, who lived on a
farm between Blockton and Bedford on the Waubonsie trail, was killed about two
miles east of Clarinda and his body partly burned under his over turned
automobile.
Mr.
Pullen was driving home about
7:30 o'clock. In some unaccountable manner his car overturned on a piece of
good road where there is only a slight grade, and Mr. Pullen was caught underneath the machine.
Leaking
oil caught fire and a blaze of some proportion resulted. Why the car was not
totally consumed does not seem clear to the authorities.
Mrs
Brooks, wife of a farmer living not far from the scene of the accident, thought
that she heard screams sometime in the night, and arousing neighbors a search
was made by farmers who found Mr. Pullen's lifeless body under the partly consumed car.
Today
the coroner is holding an inquest. Mr. Pullen's body was not badly burned and it is thought death
may have resulted from his injuries and suffocation, one or both.
The
deceased was one of the best-known men in southwestern Iowa and was a member of
one of the most prominent and widely known families. He leaves a widow and nine
children, all grown. Burial will be in a family plot south of Clarinda. —Daily
Nonpareil.
[Pullen, Albert]
Bedford Free Press
Tuesday October 17, 1916 [p. 1]
GAY TOWNship man BURNED TO death
ABE pulleN DIES AS FORD UPSETS AND GASOLINE TANK EXPLODES
Had Been to Nebraska
City Taking Son Home—Was Making Return Trip When Accident
Happened—Body Burned to Crisp.
Abe
Pullen, a farmer residing in Gay
Township between Bedford and Blockton, was burned to death yesterday evening
when his car turned over and caught fire, on the north Waubonsie out of
Clarinda. Pullen was about 60
years old and leaves a wife and family to mourn his death.
Although
at this time the information received is not as clear as will be later on, it
seems as if Pullen had driven
his car to Nebraska City, where he had taken his son and daughter-in-law, who
had been visiting him, home. He was making the return trip when the accident
happened. From all appearances the car had overturned and in some unknown
manner the gas tank exploded, pinning Pullen under the car. The accident happened about 7
o'clock and was near a farmhouse. A woman living there saw the whole affair and
summoned help, but before anyone could arrive the car had burned considerable
with Pullen underneath.
Several
cars of people came out from Clarinda, among them being Charles Wieser, who
formerly worked at Thompson's garage, but [is] now employed at the Day &
Night garage at Clarinda. Efforts were being made to identify the owner of the
car, but he was burned to a crisp and identification was impossible. Wieser on
looking over the car happened to see several features about the Ford that made
him think of the Pullen car,
which was sold at Bedford last fall and Sheriff Morley was notified to find out
the serial number of the car sold Pullen. This was done and then it was established that the car belonged to
the Gay township man. It was known he had a son working near Clarinda and he
was called, but owing to the burned conditions of his father's body, he was
unable to identify him until he looked at his watch.
The
body was taken to Clarinda and will probably be brought to his home east of Bedford
today. The car was a total wreck; people seeing it stated that there was
nothing left but the steel frame. Even the aluminum top of the crankcase was
melted off.
[Pullen, Albert]
Bedford Free Press
Tuesday October 24, 1916 [p. 1]
EVIDENCE given at INQUEST CONCERNING death OF pullen
Following
is the evidence given before the coroner's jury, held last Tuesday morning at
Clarinda concerning the death of Albert Pullen, the Taylor county man, who burned to death
pinned beneath his car last Monday evening. The evidence gives a more detailed
account of his death than was published last week:
Mr.
Pullen has two sons and one
daughter living at Nebraska City. The father went on Friday of last week to
Nebraska City to bring the younger of the two boys home for a few days' visit.
He took him back to his home in Nebraska City Sunday and was returning to his
home near Blockton Monday when the accident happened.
According
to the testimony given by a chauffeur at the Night and Day garage at this
place, a man, without a doubt Pullen, came to the garage between four and five o'clock Monday evening and
purchased some gasoline. After he left the garage, he was lost track of, but it
is believed that when he left town he was very much intoxicated.
J.
R. Snodderly and Otis Lucas of this city, upon their return to Clarinda from
the east, Monday evening, found a drunken man in a Ford car in a ditch beside
the road that passes up the Rawlings hill. They extricated him from his
difficulty and got him started on his way.
The
next heard of him is told by Mrs. Albert Brooke, who was at her home two miles
east of Clarinda, with her children, Mr. Brooks being absent from home at the
C. W. Kelly home. Mrs. Brooks testifies she heard a peculiar noise about 7:30
o'clock in the evening and when she went out doors to find whence it came she
saw the lights of an automobile facing her house, which is on the south side of
the road. This made the automobile stand across the road, and thinking that the
occupant or occupants of the car were aiming to turn the car around, she went
back into the house. Soon she heard yelling and going to the door on the north
of the house, she heard loud cries and cursing. Thinking the car was driven by
a party of drunken men, and very frightened, she went to the rear of the house
where she could observe without being observed. The yelling went on and not
knowing what to think, but unwilling not to help a person in distress, she
telephoned her husband to come home at once. Going again to the front door, she
saw the automobile was on fire and hastened back to telephone to Ed Driftmier
who is a near neighbor. When she went again to look at the burning car, a loud
explosion was heard and the machine seemed to go up in one great burst of
flame. All was still now at the scene of the fire. Very soon after, Mr.
Driftmier and sons arrived at the Brooks farm and not long after, Mr. Brooks
and C. W. Kelly. As soon as they could get near the burning car, they found it
almost a total wreck and the body of a man which had been pinned under the
machine burned so terribly that it was a charred mass, unrecognizable.
They
found the number of the car and then telephoned to the garages in this city to
find whether or not they had seen or knew anything of its driver. The one to
which Mr. Pullen had taken his
machine for gasoline, said the car had stopped there and that its driver was
also its owner and that he lived near Bedford. Further inquiry revealed the
fact that Albert Pullen was
the owner's name and his family was summoned to recognize, if possible, the
body. From small pieces of clothing, the only remnants remaining, the man's
watch, knife, and some small pieces of money which the men at the Night and Day
garage recognized as pieces they had given him in change, the coroner's jury
believe, beyond a doubt, that the man's identity is established. That was the
chief aim of the jury.
The
inquest was held Tuesday morning at the undertaking room of Charles Oats to
which the body of the unfortunate man had been previously taken.
The
coroner's jury consisted of Roy Sherman, Curtis Hines and W. B. Breese. Their
verdict was as follows:
We
believe from the evidence submitted that the body is that of Mr. Albert
Pullen of Taylor county. We find that he came to his death by
burning while caught beneath his overturned car.
[Pullen, Albert]
Bedford Free Press
Tuesday November 7, 1916 p. 2
Obituary — Albert
Pullen
Albert
Pullen, son of John Pullen and wife, was born in Wayne County, Ind, August
28th, 1850, and departed this life October 16th, 1916.
When
a small boy, with his parents, he moved to Davenport, this state, and later to
Warren county, Ill. where he was united in marriage to Miss Margory H. White on September 15th, 1872. To this union twelve
children were born, three having preceded the father to the great beyond
— two in infancy and John sixteen
years ago at the age of 26 years. The children surviving are Allie
E.[llsworth] of New Market ; Charlie
M. [ontgomery], of Nodaway ; Jesse
C. , of Nebraska City, Neb . ; Mrs.
Cora J. [ane] Cordell of Nebraska
City, Neb.; Sylvester I., of
Duncombe; Silas L. [eonard],
of Gravity, Dovie D. [elbert],
of Nebraska City, and Tapan [Tappan Harland] and Margery who are still at home near Blockton.
In
1877, with his family, he moved to Page County, near Shambaugh, and in 1899
moved to Taylor County near Blockton where he has since resided.
In
1903 he united with the Baptist church. He was a kind and loving husband and
father and a good neighbor.
He
leaves to mourn their loss the wife, 9 children, 20 grandchildren, a brother
and a sister, besides a host of other relatives and friends. His brother, Joseph
Pullen, resides near Shambaugh
and the sister, Mrs. Alice Harding,
in Seattle, Wash.
The funeral services were
held from the Mennonite church at Shambaugh, on Wednesday, the 18th, conducted
by Rev. Field, the Baptist minister at New Market, assisted by the Mennonite
minister at Shambaugh The body was laid to rest in the Davis cemetery northeast
of Shambaugh.
[Note: The same obituary was published in the Blockton
News, October 26, 1916, p. 1]
[Pullen, Albert]
Blockton News
Thursday October 19, 1916 [p. 1]
A. Pullen Burns to Death
Albert
Pullen, who owns, and with his
family, has lived on the old H. M. Mincks farm, 3 1/2 miles north west of town for several years, was burned to
death Monday evening when his car turned over and caught fire. The scene of the
terrible accident was on the north Waubonsie trail between Clarinda and New
Market.
It
seems that Mr. Pullen had
driven to Nebraska City, Nebraska, Sunday, taking his son, Dovey, to that place and was on his return trip when
the accident which caused his death occurred. He had filled his gasoline tank
and lit his lamps at Clarinda and had reached a point about 100 yards from the
foot of the hill on the west side of the second river out of Clarinda when in
some manner the car turned over. The accident probably happened between 7 and 8
o'clock. A woman at a farmhouse nearby heard his calls for help but when she
reached a point about 100 feet away the presto or gasoline tank exploded and
she returned to the house and called for help. Before help arrived the car was badly burned with Mr.
Pullen under the wreckage.
A
number of automobile loads of people came out from Clarinda and among them was
a young garage man who had formerly worked for the garage people at Bedford who
sold the car to Mr. Pullen.
This man recognized certain marks on the car and by telephoning to Bedford for
the serial number of the engine on the Pullen car the ownership of the car was established.
Taphan
[Tappan] Pullen, a son, was
working near Clarinda and when he arrived on the scene, while unable to
identify the body as that of his father, was able to identify his watch.
Other
members of the family were called and the body was taken to the undertaking
parlors at Clarinda. The funeral services were held at Shambaugh yesterday and
interment was made in a cemetery at that place. Several from here drove to
Shambaugh to attend the funeral.
The
bereaved wife and children have the sympathy of all in this sad hour of
bereavement.
[PULLEN, ALBERT]
Blockton News (Blockton, Iowa), Thursday, October 26, 1916
Albert Pullen, son of John Pullen and wife, was born in Wayne county, Indiana, August 28th, 1850 and departed this life October 16th, 1916.
When a small boy, with his parents, he moved to Davenport, this state, and later to Warren county, Illinois, where he was united in marriage to Miss Margery H. White on September 15th, 1872. To this union twelve children were born, three having preceded their father to the great beyond—two in infancy and John sixteen years ago at the age of 26 years. The children surviving are Allie E. [llsworth] of New Market; Charlie M. [ontgomery], of Nodaway; Jessie [Jesse] C. [linton] of Nebraska City, Nebraska; Mrs. Cora J. [ane] Cordell, of Nebraska City, Nebraska; Sylvester I. of Deneumbie; Silas L., of Gravity; Dovie D. [elbert], of Nebraska City and Tapan and Margery who are still at home near Blockton.
In 1877, with his family, he moved to Page county, near Shambaugh and in 1899, moved to Taylor county near Blockton where he has since resided.
In 1903 he united with the Baptist church. He was a kind and loving husband and father and a good neighbor.
He leaves to mourn their loss the wife, 9 children, 20 grandchildren, a brother and a sister, besides a host of other relatives and friends. His brother Joseph Pullen resides near Shambaugh and the sister, Mrs. Alice Harding, in Seattle, Washington.
The funeral service[s] were held from the Mennonite church at Shambaugh on Wednesday the 18th, conducted by Rev. Field, the Baptist minister at New Market, assisted by the Mennonite minister at Shambaugh. The body was laid to rest in the Davis cemetery northeast of Shambaugh.
[Note: Illinois Statewide Marriage Index gives the marriage date as November 15, 1873.]
[Pullen, Artie J.]
Bedford Free Press
Thursday February 28, 1907 p. 5
Siam News.
Died,
Tuesday, Feb. 26, of pneumonia, Artie [J.] Pullen, the seven-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph
[Allen] Pullen [Minerva White].
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