Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1903-12-12
CLOSER OLD CITIZEN DEAD
DR.. ANDREW MoELREE, AGED 81
YEARS, DIES AT EDDY
WILLIE.

Eddyv1lle, Dec. 10.-Dr. Andrew
McElwee an old and highly esteemed
resident, passed peacefully away at his
in Eddyville last evening at $50
at the advanced age of 81 years, 3
months n Is days, death being due
to old age.
Born in New York.
Andrew McI1lwee was born in New
York state February "a. 1915. His
boyhood days were passed in hat state
and after ne a finished his school
he attended college. He was
married to Jane Vannwegen on jan
nary l, 1S41, and to them We're born
two sons, Franklin. who died about
in New York City. His first wife pass
ing away, he was married to Mrs. Jane
Sheffield on May 10, 1868, at New Cen
ter, New York.
In Iowa Twenty Years.
They came to Iowa in 1888 n To-
Gated at Keokuk, removing from there
to Eddyville in the fall of 1888, and
had lived here since except for about
four years spent at Waterloo. Be
sides the son in New York Mr.. Noel
wee is survived by his aged wife and
HoPsS
has made his home with the doctor
since infancy. DR.. McElwee was the
last of a family of eleven children. He
had for years followed the profession
OF medical electrlclan. For tne pass
nVe n a half years ne had peen IN
feepie health ana ior the last Ten
months a been SINKING slowly.
Mr.. McElwee was a devout member
of the Methodist Episcopal church. first
becoming connected with that organ-
lzation While IN oku
The FUNERAL VIII be held at the M.
~. cnurch FRIDAY AFTERNOON al
o'clock, with services by heV. W.. L.
lowe. the Methodist episcopal pastor,
and lnterment Will be III Hlsnland
cemetery.
-, -
EddyVilie.
Eddyville, Dec. 10.-Dted. at 1l:1O
O'Clock Friday night. December 4, 1908,
at the home Of his brother. JAS. Jor-
dan, about a mile west OF town, Quill
Ter Jordan, aged IS years, . months.
and % days. CUTLER Jordan, son OF
Benjamin and Margaret Jordan, vas
born May -, 1870, on a farm about
eight miles from Salem, Marion
ty. Illinois. He protested the Netho-
dist Episcopal faith at the Of
about Is years. His father died dur
ing the 40's. He left Illinois and came
WlIn Ills HlOlTCT anu uIOlIlCl W IoWd
in about the, year 1856, reaching Wa
pello county on Christmas day. He
had resided herenbouts continuously
since-a period of about forty-seven
years. When about twenty years of
age he received injuries to his spine
while wrestling with a companion. and
and had never enjoyed good health
after. His mother died about twenty
wears ago. and since that time he hao
made his home with his brother, Jas
Jordan. He is survived by three Other
brothers, William Of Coalfield, John
of this vicinity, and Benjamin of De:
Moines. The funeral was held at
0 o'clock Sunday with burial in Bridge
:. port cemetery by the side of his moth,
er and other relatives. The brothe
from Des Moines was not present
Death came suddenly after an illness
of about an hour.
4 Died, Thursday morning, December
8 at Q o'clock at her home at Lakonta
Ina, wife of Ira Gregg, aged o 2
fever followed by pneumonia, after al
e illness of about seven weeks. Mis-
Ina Benscoter was married to Ir
Gregg during December, 1900. She lv
a ed at Bellefontaine, Mahaska count.
during her girlhood. and during he
II married life till they removed,to La
6 konta last autumn. At the time of tn
IL removal 10 ldKOIlId, typIlOiu lew
n was raging there, and she contracte
If the disease. While on the road t
recovery she was seized with an at
tack of pneumonia and had had sev
rs eral relapses during the sever lon
n weeks Of her illness. Her father die
last April. Her death is mourned /
her mother, husband, and two sma
children, a daughter 2 years old, an
an infant son Of 2 months The fur
IS eral was held Friday afternoon at
O'Clock, with burial at her old home
B~ellefontaine. This was the secor
ef death at Lakonta during the past fe
months, the other having been d.
to typhoid fever also. The olde
VI child was also SICK with yphold i
lie Born. Friday, December S, to M
r. and Mrs. George King, of Lost Cree
t a son.
m Mrs. johnson of Coalfield died Sa