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Clearfield Enterprise
Thursday January 24, 1918 p. 12
Obituary--Ida May Kilgore.
Ida May Kilgore was born in Taylor County near Lenox August 2, 1875. She passed away on January 22, 1918 at her home in Clearfield after a brief illness of but a few days, aged 42 years, 5 months, 20 days.
With but short intervals away, she has lived near Clearfield all her life.
Some years ago she took membership with the Christian Church here and her interest was here to the last.
At about the age of twenty she began work for her self and throughout all her life labored diligently, and was duly appreciated by those who came regularly to her home.
There survive her, —the parents, Mr. Taylor Kilgore and Mrs. Kilgore; two brothers, Sam of Diagonal and William J. of Des Moines; a sister, Anna, wife of Mr. Arch Davenport of Gillette, Wyoming.
Truly as the text read, "What is your life?"
Funeral services were held at the Christian Church Wednesday afternoon at 1:00 o'clock by the pastor, J. W. Johnson; interment in the Morgan Cemetery near Kent.
[Kilgore, Ida May]
Clearfield Enterprise
Thursday January 24, 1918 p. 4
Sam Kilgore and wife and Taylor Kilgore were called here Sunday by the illness of Miss Ida Kilgore. Mr. Kilgore stayed to help care for his daughter. Sam came back Tuesday bringing with him his mother, so all were here at the time of IdaÕs death. Her brother, Will, arrived later Tuesday on the evening train.
Clearfield Enterprise
Thursday October 12, 1916 [p. 1]
Sad Death of Harry Kilgore.
Thursday, Sept. 28th, Harry, the 9-year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Kilgore, who live four miles north of Diagonal, met death in a tragic manner. He had returned home from school, saddled a horse, and started after the cattle. The horse returned to the house in a short time much frightened, and with the saddle hanging. The parents immediately went to search for Harry, and soon found him. Life was extinct, his head and face were so badly mutilated as to be unrecognizable. It is thought that the horse became frightened and that the boy slipped off, catching his foot in the stirrup, and was dragged nearly half a mile.
Harry Wayne Kilgore was born on a farm near Clearfield July 18th, 1907. He was a bright little fellow, much loved by his playmates. He leaves to mourn his loss his parents, four brothers and three sisters, besides aunts, uncles, and a host of friends. Funeral services were conducted at the home Saturday, Sept. 30th, by Rev. F. A. Meade, pastor of the Knowlton Methodist church.
Clearfield Enterprise
Thursday January 24, 1918 p. 12
Sudden Death.
The three months old daughter [Margaret] of Mr. and Mrs. Guy [William] Sanders [Winifred Sarah Hannon] living near Lenox died Friday afternoon in an auto bound for home. Mrs. Sanders and baby had been visiting at the home of her parents, M. [ichael] Hannon Sr. and wife and with her brother and sister Nelle had started home. The baby was not well, but seemed better. They raised the cover occasionally from her face, finding her apparently all right, but when near the Harvey Wilson home northwest of town they thought the babe was dead and rushed into the house with her where everything possible was done to revive her, and a doctor called, but to no avail. Heart failure caused by indigestion was the cause. The parents have sympathy of all.
[Sanders, Winifred Sarah Hannon]
Bedford Times-Press
Thursday August 26, 1971 [p. 1]
Winifred Sanders Rites August 23
Funeral services for Mrs. Guy William (Winifred Sanders), 84, of Blockton, were held Monday at Sacred Heart Church in Bedford with Father Reginald Maslinski officiating. Mrs. Sanders died August 20, 1971 in Thogmartin Care and Keep Home in Bedford. Interment was at Lenox Cemetery.
She is survived by three sons, Dale in Bedford, Mack in Blockton and Bill in Norwalk.
[Sanders, Winifred Sarah Hannon]
Bedford Times-Press
Thursday September 2, 1971 p. 4
Funeral services for Mrs. Guy W. (Winifred) Sanders, 84, of Blockton were held Mon., Aug. 23, at Sacred Heart Church in Bedford with Father Reginald Maslinski officiating. Mrs. Sanders died August 20, 1971 in Thogmartin Care and Keep Home in Bedford. Interment was at Lenox Cemetery.
Winifred Sarah Sanders was born near Clearfield, January 1, 1886, the daughter, of Michael and Elizabeth Hannon. In 1895 the family moved to Clearfield where she attended school, and in 1900 they moved to Des Moines, where she took a teaching course at Drake University. Later the family moved back to Taylor County. She taught for 11 years.
In 1914 she was married to Guy W. [illiam] Sanders, of Lenox.
She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, two infant daughters, three sisters, two brothers, and a niece.
She is survived by three sons, McClellan K., Blockton, Dale B., Bedford, and Bill of Norwalk, Ia., four granddaughters; one grandson; two great grandsons; four nephews, and three nieces.
She was a kind, loving mother, and she will be sadly missed by her family and friends.
Bedford Free Press
Tuesday November 17, 1914 p. 5
H. D. Satterfield Dies
H. [enry] D. [avid] Satterfield, age 76 years, died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Katherine Roberts, at 1:48 a. m. this morning. Short, funeral services conducted by Rev. Goodsell and Rev. Cobb will be held at the home and the body will be taken to Queen City, Mo., for burial.
[Satterfield, Henry David]
Bedford Times-Republican
Thursday November 19, 1914 [p. 1]
H. D. Satterfield.
H. [enry] D. [avid] Satterfield aged 76 years, died at the home of his daughter, Dr. Katherine Roberts, Tuesday morning at 1:48 o'clock after a lingering illness. Short funeral services were held at the home Wednesday morning conducted by Rev. J. W. Goodsell and Elder William Cobb. The remains were taken to Queen City, Mo., via Gravity Wednesday, where the funeral services will be held and interment will be made.
Mrs. Satterfield [Rebecca Rose Johnson], Mrs. Roberts, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Miller and children, Mr. and Mrs. Sheldon Churchill and Miss Mabel Wintermute accompanied the remains to Queen City.
[SATTERFIELD, HENRY DAVID]
Bedford Free Press (Bedford, Iowa), Tuesday, November 24, 1914
Henry W. Satterfield – Henry W. Satterfield was born at Jasper, Ohio, November 5, 1838. Here he spent his boyhood days, enjoying the superior advantages of home and social life that characterized this part of Ohio at that time. In this same locality, only a few miles from his home, Rebecca Johnson, the woman who has been his faithful, lifelong companion, was born. They were married April 30, 1863.
In March 1875 he moved with his family to Queen City, Mo., where they resided until coming to Bedford in November 1904. Since that time he has lived at the home of his daughter, Dr. Katheryn Roberts, where he fell peacefully asleep November 16, 1914, age 76 years and 11 days.
This happy couple have been greatly blessed in their family. There have been nine children: Mrs. J. C. Patterson and Mrs. Allen Rolston of Queen City, Mo., Mrs. M. Churchill of Sheridan, Mo., Mrs. J. D. Fugate of Henry, Neb. Mrs. F. W. Miller and Dr. Katheryn Roberts of Bedford, Iowa. Three children preceded him in infancy to the home above: Charles W., Ida and Josephine.
He united with the Christian church in 1874, of which he has been a faithful and zealous member to the end. Mr. Satterfield was a man of strong religious convictions, an earnest student of the Bible and was always deeply interested in the work of the Kingdom. Every good movement and institution received his enthusiastic support. He was a man of high ideals and noble principles, whose mind dwelt continually upon the things that are good and pure and beautiful. He was a noble man whose simple and humble task in life is now finished.
A short service was held at the home in Bedford Wednesday morning at ten o'clock, conducted by Rev. Robb and Rev. Goodsell. The friends then left for Queen City, Mo., where the funeral was held at the Christian church Thursday afternoon at one o'clock.
[Note: The same obituary was published in the Bedford Times-Republican, December 3, 1914.]
[Wolverton, Zella Ruth Ford McClelland]
Bedford Times-Press
Thursday March 12, 1970 p. 3
Last Rites Here March 7 for Mrs. Wolverton
Funeral services for Mrs. James (Zella) Wolverton of Denver, Colo. formerly of Bedford, were held March 7 at Fairview Cemetery in Bedford conducted by Carl Cummings and included the Order of Eastern Star service. Rites were held at Moore Memorial Chapel March 5 In Denver with the Reverend Herbert H. Hoskins officiating. Mrs. Wolverton died March 3, 1970, in Denver.
Zella Ruth Wolverton, daughter of Samuel and Anna Ford, was born Sep. 29, 1891, at Forrest City, Mo.
She married James Wolverton on August 10, 1914 at Beatrice, Nebr. They farmed in the Hopkins, Mo. and Bedford, Iowa community until his death in July 1938.
She moved to Denver, Colo., in 1942 where she lived until her death March 3, 1970.
She is survived by one daughter, Mrs. Blanche Trumbo of Bedford, Iowa; two brothers, Clifford Ford and Joseph Ford, both of Denver, Colo., three sisters, Mrs. Genetta Nolan of Denver, Colo., Mrs. Trula Shrum, Tulsa, Okla., and Dessie Giles, Henryetta, Oklahoma, two granddaughters; four great grandchildren; other relatives and many friends.
Bedford Times-Press
Thursday March 24, 1983 p. 4
Services In Davenport For Jesse LaVerne Levi
Services were held March 11 in Davenport, Iowa with interment at Memorial Park Cemetery in Davenport for Jesse LaVerne Levi, 60. Mr. Levi died March 9 at St. Luke's Hospital in Davenport. He had been in failing health for the past seven years.
Born in Gravity, May 9, 1922, the eldest son of Albert and Pauline Morgan Levi, he grew up in Gravity and graduated from Gravity High School with the class of 1940. He attended Boyles College in Omaha, Nebr. for a time. He was a Navy veteran of World War II. In 1977, he retired as a bread salesman for Continental Bakeries, Davenport, Ia., where he had been employed for 25 years.
On January 18, 1941, he married Velma Huntington in Maryville, Mo. To this union, four children were born: Patricia, Janet, Richard Franklin, and Mary Louise.
In 1953, he married Hattie "Penny" Divis in Arkansas. To this union, four children were born: Gregory A., Marcene, Sharon and Denise.
He leaves to mourn his passing, his wife Penny, six daughters, Patricia and her husband Larry Rogers of Lenox, Janet and her husband Greg Reed of Cumberland, Mary and her husband Louis Anderson of Omaha, Nebr., Marcene and her husband Phil Wheeler of Bettendorf, Sharon and her husband Jeffery Schieberl of Bettendorf, Denise and her husband Greg Coffman of Davenport, and one son, Gregory A. Levi and his wife Jennifer of Davenport, his mother, Mrs. Pauline Levi and his brother Robert P. Levi, both of Cedar Rapids, 11 grandchildren, and many other relatives and friends.
He was preceded in death by his father, Albert Levi, in 1976 and his son, Frank, in 1981.
Blockton News
Thursday May 4, 1917 p. 4
Additional particulars in regard to the accidental death of John [W.] Norton of Lusk, Wyoming, received by his sisters, Mrs. Minnie Keenan of this place and Mrs. J. R. Stephenson of Clearfield is to the effect that he was returning alone from his ranch in his automobile when the accident happened which cost him his life. It seems that the car was going down hill at the time and from some unknown cause turned over, crushing him beneath the car. Mr. Norton had resided at Lusk for 30 years.
Bedford Times-Republican
Thursday April 26, 1917 p. 4
BLOCKTON
John Norton of Lusk, Wyo., and a brother to Mrs. Minnie Keenan of this place was killed a few days since in an auto accident.
Bedford Free Press
Wednesday May 2, 1917 [p. 1]
Former Resident Killed
John W. Norton, formerly a resident of Taylor County, residing at Blockton, was killed in an automobile accident at his home in Lusk, Wyo. when his Ford upset and pinned him beneath the wreck. His neck was broken. Mr. Norton was a relative of Frank Wisdom of Bedford and will be remembered by many residents of Blockton.
Bedford Times-Republican
Thursday May 4, 1917 [p. 1]
FORMER BLOCKTON MAN IS KILLED
JOHN W. NORTON FOUND BENEATH CAR
Accident Occurs Near Lusk, Wyoming, where he owned Oil Placer Claim.
The following item taken from the Lusk, Wyoming, paper, relates to a former well-known Blockton man, his wife being a relative of lawyer Frank Wisdom. The deceased will be remembered by most of the residents in the east part of the county.
"On last Tuesday morning, at about a quarter past five, John W. Norton left Lusk in his Ford auto to go to his oil placer claims on Buck creek; at 3 o'clock of the afternoon his lifeless form, blackened and bruised, was brought back.
Some eight miles north, and at a spot a short distance from the W. S. Johnson place and within sight of the Earl Bliss home, and on a good stretch of roadway, the car overturned and at a time when apparently going at high speed. Mr. Norton in striking the ground sustained a broken neck, and the weight of the car falling upon him, caved in his chest. The body was so far covered by the badly wrecked car that only the lower part of his legs were exposed. The accident happened at about 6 o'clock. It is concluded that while driving fast he attempted to place the car in another track and an overturn resulted.
Several cars were driven past the wreck, but none were stopped to learn anything of the extent of what had happened. At about noon, Sam Gagstetter and a helper, driving some horses, discovered the body and caused word to be sent to Coroner Boyd from, the Schroefel ranch. Shortly after, discovery was also made by one of two men whom A. A Thon was driving north. The car had passed the wreck when this man glancing back, excitedly exclaimed "Hold on! I believe I saw a man's foot sticking out." They lifted the car from off the body, and then hastened back to town and spread word of the fatality. They did not recognize whom it was that had been killed, but the probability of its being Mr. Norton grew stronger and stronger in the belief of all, and certainty followed upon arrival of the coroner.
The death of John W. Norton is an event sincerely deplored by the many who held him in high friendly esteem. He was open-minded, liberal hearted, and always firm and steady in the good will he entertained toward those whom he liked. His acquaintance was wide in this state where for so many years he had been a resident. The old-timers throughout the length and breadth of the state both knew and liked John Norton.
Deceased was born in the year of 1853 in Butler county Pennsylvania. In the days of his early manhood he came to Iowa, and where for some years he was a resident of Boone County and of Ringgold County, and it was in Taylor County, Ia., in 1878, that he was married to Miss Louisa Wisdom, who survives him. He came to Lusk in 1886, and with exception of five years passed in Dubois, Wyo., where he was engaged in ranching and stock raising, had maintained his home here."
[Fender, Malinda Ann Meadows Bowman]
Blockton News
Thursday April 26, 1917 p. 5
Obituary
Malinda A. [nn] Meadows was born in Greenbriar County, West Virginia, March 18, 1841, and departed this life at the home of her son, Wm. Bowman, in Henry County, Missouri, April 17, 1917, aged 70 years and 29 days.
She was united in marriage to Levi Bowman at Atchison, Kansas, in 1860. To this union four children were born, as follows, Wm. Bowman, of Henry County, Mo.; Daniel Bowman, of St. Clair County, Mo.; Mrs. Nettie Carter, who died about 24 years ago, and one daughter who died in infancy. Her companion died Jan. 1, 1870. She was then united in marriage to Isaac Fender in 1878 in Taylor County, this state, who still survives her.
She removed from West Virginia to Andrew County, Missouri, when two years old, thence to Taylor County, this state, in 1867, where she resided till 1900 and went to Oklahoma, and from there to Henry County, Missouri, in 1904.
She united with the Baptist church at Platteville in 1868, and later with the Baptist church at Mt. Zion.
The remains were brought to Blockton Friday morning where short services were held at the Asa Terrill home at 12:30. They were taken to Platteville where services were conducted at 3 o'clock by Challie E. Graham, pastor of the Isadora Church of Christ, and the remains laid to rest in the cemetery at that place.
We unite with the many friends in extending the bereaved ones our sympathy and wish for them that comfort and help that comes from a firm trust in the tender, loving Savior.
Bedford Times-Press
Thursday March 14, 1940 p. 5
Miss Hazel Bloom, 40, Of New Market, Dies
Miss Hazel Bloom of New Market died at the home of her sister and husband, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Morris in Bedford, Sunday, March 10, 1940. She was brought to the Morris home last week from the Methodist hospital in St. Joseph, where she had submitted to an operation several weeks previous.
Her funeral services were held at the Methodist church in New Market Tuesday afternoon, conducted by Rev. W. T. Biggerstaff of Gravity. Burial was in the Dallas cemetery.
Hazel Della Bloom, daughter of George and Hattie Bloom, was born July 7, 1899 in Page county near Shenandoah, being aged 40 years, 8 months and 3 days at the time of her death.
She moved to Taylor county when about 9 months old and had lived on the family farm in Dallas township all but four years since that time.
She was the second daughter of a family of four girls, Sylvia Bloom Novinger and Mary Edna Bloom, both deceased, and Nora Bloom Morris of Bedford. Her father, George Bloom, preceded her in death two years ago.
She leaves to mourn her loss; her mother, her sister and her nephew Boyd Novinger, whom she has mothered since early childhood and other relatives.
Hazel attended school at Glassgow in Dallas Township and was converted in the Free Methodist Church near there. Her sincere interest and love for her many friends endeared her to all who knew her. Their joys and their sorrows always came first and even her illness was of second importance to her and not mentioned to the family until about January first of this year. Before her father's death she divided her time between duties of various members of her family, always giving freely of her self and her unbounding energy.
She was a charter member of a study club made up of neighborhood girls and a member of a social club in the same neighborhood.
Taylor County Herald
Thursday March 14, 1940 [p. 1]
Rites Held for Hazel Bloom, 40
Funeral services were held Tuesday from the New Market Methodist church for Hazel [Della] Bloom, 40, daughter of Mrs. Hattie Bloom who died in Bedford Sunday morning.
Miss Bloom had been ill less than two months and was returned a week ago from the hospital to the home of her sister, Mrs. Paul Morris [Nora].
Surviving are her mother, Mrs. Hattie Bloom of New Market; a sister, Mrs. Paul Morris [Nora] of Bedford, and a nephew, Boyd Novinger also of Bedford.
Interment was in Dallas cemetery.
Bedford Times-Press
Thursday March 14, 1940 p. 5
Berniece Damewood Dies From Injuries
Miss Berniece Damewood, 35, of Gravity died in a Des Moines hospital Thursday, March 7 from injuries received in an automobile accident the week previous. She was taken to Des Moines from the scene of the accident at Norwalk, Iowa, which claimed the life of Clyde Lane, also of Gravity. Her mother, Mrs. I. [saac] M. [elville] Damewood [Margaret Alice Garrison] and also Mrs. Lane, both of Gravity, remain in a Des Moines hospital, both being in a serious condition.
The funeral services were held at the Walker & Shum Funeral Home in Bedford Sunday afternoon, March 10 conducted by Rev. Paul Crouse of Gravity. Burial was in the Gravity cemetery.
[Damewood, Bernice]
Taylor County Herald
Thursday March 14, 1940 [p. 1]
CRASH CLAIMS SECOND VICTIM
Bernice Damewood Dies Friday in Des Moines.
A motor crash March 2 north of Norwalk, Iowa Friday claimed its second victim with the death of 36-year-old Bernice Damewood.
The Gravity woman died in a Des Moines hospital of injuries she sustained when the car in which she, her mother and Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Lane were riding, crashed head on with another machine on icy pavement.
Lane died instantly. Mrs. I. [saac] M. [elville] Damewood is a patient in the Des Moines hospital, suffering shock and a skull fracture.
Funeral services were held here Sunday afternoon from the Walker and Shum Funeral Home by the Rev. Paul Crouse, pastor of the Gravity Methodist church.
She is survived by her mother, Mrs. I. [saac] M. [elville] Damewood [Margaret Alice Garrison]; three sisters, Mrs. Mattie Werner and Alice Peck, both of Des Moines, and Mrs. Coryl Lunde of Bismarck, N. D. and by a brother, Clyde [Milton] Damewood of Conway.
[DAMEWOOD, BERNICE]
Des Moines Register (Des Moines, Iowa), Saturday, March 9, 1940
Second Crash Victim Dies
Miss Bernice Damewood, about 35, Gravity, Ia., injured last Saturday in a head-on auto collision two miles north of Norwalk, Ia., died early today at Iowa Methodist hospital. Clyde B. Lane, 50, Gravity, was killed in the crash.
[Henderson, Minnie Belle Potter]
Bedford Times-Press
Thursday March 14, 1940 p. 5
Mrs Ed Henderson Of Bedford, Dies
Mrs. Ed Henderson, a resident of Taylor county her entire life, died at her home in west Bedford, Thursday, March 7, 1940 after a brief illness.
The funeral services were held at the Church of Christ at 2:30 conducted by Rev. C. Max Buck. Burial was in the Bedford cemetery.
Minnie Belle Potter, daughter of Ralph and Viana [Franks] Potter, was born March 12, 1870 at Platteville, Iowa and died just five days before she would have been 70 years old.
On Sept. 20, 1889 she was married to Edward D. [aniel] Henderson at Gravity, Rev. W. L. Dunlavy officiating. To them were born ten children. Three of these preceded their mother in death: Ralph, who died when he was 14 years of age; Ethel Douglas, in February 1923 and Grace McCoun on July 18, 1935.
She is survived by her husband; and the seven children: Olive Talkington, Nellie M. Cobb, Alice Horning and Kenneth Henderson at Bedford; Bessie Putz of Republican City, Nebr.; L. R. Henderson of Holdrege, Nebr.; Helen Carney of Alma, Nebr.; and a granddaughter whom she reared, Louise Finch of Bedford. There are also 14 grandchildren and 7 great grandchildren.
Because of her long residence in Bedford and because of her loyalty to the Church of Christ, of which she was a member since early in life, Mrs. Henderson was well known and loved. She was a good mother and a kind neighbor.
Bedford Times-Press
Thursday March 14, 1940 p. 5
Mrs. Benton Cobb, 79, Dies At Home Here
Mrs. Benton Cobb, a resident of Bedford and community for many years, died at her home in Bedford on Tuesday, March 12 after a long illness.
The funeral services were held at the Walker & Shum Funeral Home Wednesday afternoon, conducted by Leslie Cobb. Burial was in the Bedford cemetery.
Deida Ann, daughter of Done and Mary Starks, was born at Winterset, Iowa Feb. 7, 1861, being aged 79 years, 1 month and 4 days at the time of her death. Most of her life was spent in Iowa.
On August 14, 1879 she was married to Thomas B. [enton] Cobb, who survives her. To them four children were born, one of whom, Lawrence A. [lvin] passed away in 1932.
The surviving children are Dora Houck of West Plains, Mo., Hattie Trumbo of Bedford and Orville [Edgar] Cobb of Greenwich, Conn. There are also nine grandchildren and four great grandchildren.
In early life she united with the Church of Christ and for many years has held membership with the Berea congregation.
Taylor County Herald
Thursday March 14, 1940 [p. 1]
Mrs. Benton Cobb Rites Wednesday
Funeral services were held Wednesday at two o'clock from the Walker and Shum Funeral Home for Mrs. Benton Cobb, 79, who died Tuesday morning after a long illness.
Mrs. Cobb is survived by her husband; two daughters, Mrs. Clay Trumbo [Hattie] of Bedford and Mrs. Arthur Houck [Dora] of West Plains, Mo., and by one son, Orville [Edgar] Cobb of Greenwich, Conn.
The rites were conducted by Leslie Cobb. Interment was in Bedford cemetery.