Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-11-13
THOMAS LEES is
DEAD; A PIONEER
Helped Organize the Town of
Coal Valley in the Year
1857.
ELECTED TO MANY OFFICES
First Supervisor Sent From Rural
Township--Over Hall Century
Engaged lr Farming.

AhOLAdS Lees VINO SeJIISQ III ROCK
island county IN 1852, died az 1910
o'clock this morning at his home one
mile northeast of Coal Valley. he vas
in his s4th year.
Mr.. Lees was born in Lancaster
shire, England, Oct. 20, 1925. the son
of Robert and Betty Lees, also natives
CT England. His paternaI grandfather
was Thomas Lees, a farmer. Mr. Leec
was reared in the mining district Of
Worcestershire. In 1847 he married
Miss Jane Mills, and the following
year they came to America, locating
first near Pittsburg, Pa. Later they
moved to Steubenville, Ohio. They re-
L aineG there foCr yeG-o md n April,
1892, tte-- cine TO Rock island county.
LII. -ee-, fCr . bTie1 period, worked
( = t1e coal minec IN TIE vicinity O.
Goal Vclloyo and hen turned to firm
II occurring tt ploce On witch he
continued to resi- : until his Cenise.
II. Is n d. two trips to hi1 zCt-ve
country. Turin hi nrz viC't, in
1853, be received news of the deEtf
CT his wife. She died Jan. 60 in that
yer.
Filled Mary Public OmceC.
Mr.. Lees was the frs: member of
the county board to be elected from
Rural township. He was instrumental
in organizing the town CT Coal Valley,
in 1857, and always took an active in
teTost in its affairs. He filled with
credit to himself and the people near
iy every office in the gift of the public
| n his township. He was supervisor,
justice of the peace, town clerk. as
secscr and commissioner of highways.
Though an invalid for several years.
he was cheerful and hopeful to the
end, and was surrounded by the mem
bers OF his family when he pas5s6
away. He was a good neighbor, a man
OF kindly and charitable imrdlses, one
whom a friend never called upon IN
vain for a helping land.
Seven c. ndren Survive.
He was the father of 10 children,
seven CT whom survive. T. r. Lees,
long a member of the county board
and a leading merchant OF Coal Val
ley, is a son. There are % grandchil-
dren and seven great grandchildren.
There is a brother residing in Eng
ldUQ. DSCSdSGO was d hdSIGI hd6OA
and in politics a staunch democrat.
The funeral services, which will be
in charge of the Coal Valley lodge IF
Masons, will be conducted at the
home Monday morning at 10 o'clock.
Funeral Arrangements for r. h Cable.
The remains of the late r. R.
Cable, who died yesterday morning
at his Chicago residence on Sheridan
road, will arrive in Rock Island at
o'clock this evening by special train
on the Rock Island, of which road
he was for many years the executive
head. The body which will be ac-
companied by relatives and friends
will be taken at once to the Gable
home at Tenth street and Second
avenue, where funeral services will
be held tomorrow afternoon at 2
o'clock, Rev. Granville H. Sherwood
rector of Trinity parish, officiating.
The funeral arrangements are in
charge of Hon. Z. w. Hurst. The
following will act as pallbearers:
Hon. E. w. Hurst, Hugh Curtis,
Frank Mixter and P. Greenawalt of
Rock Island, H. P. Greenough of Des
Moines and George H. Crosby of Chi
cago. 1t is the wish of the family
that no flowers be sent. The inter-
ment which will be made in Chippi-
annock, will be private.
Funeral of Captain J. C. Cameron.
The funeral of Captain ]. c. Cam
eron will be held tomorrow morning
at 10 o'clock from the residence.
Sic Twenty-third street. Rev. w. S.
Marquis, pastor of Broadway Presby-
terrain church, will conduct the SER
vices. Lodge IS, 1. o. o. F., of which
deceased was a member, will meet at
the lodge hall at o'clock and march
in a body to the residence and will
accompany the body as far as Seven
teenth street and Seventh avenue.
Here cars will be boarded for Chippi-
annock cemetery. The Odd Fellows
will have charge of the service at the
/ grave. Captain Cameron was the old
est member of the lodge at the time
of his death and he was also a char
ter member of Canton Star, Lodge 8.
Funeral of Leon Bauchaert.
The funeral of Leon Bauchaert,
| 922 Railroad avenue, Moline, was
held this morning at 8 O'Clock from
the O'Malley and Bachmann under
taking parlors with services at $40
at ST. Paul's church. Father Loen
Van Stappen, pastor of the church,
conducted the services. Burial was
| in st. Mary's cemetery.
MrE. Eliza Cruys.
Mrs. Eliza Cruys died at $3.50 o'clock
last evening at the home of her daugh-
ter. Mrs Otto Bender, 1902 Fifth ave
nue. She was born in Stettin, Ger
many, Oct. 2, 1S43. Her marriage %
Carl Cruys took place Nov. 3, 1853,
in Philadelphia. They settled in Dav-
export in 1864. Five children survive,
Charles, George and Henry Cruys.
Mrs Eldridge Smith and Mrs. Otto
Bender. Funeral services will be held
at the Bender home tomorrow after
noon at o'clock, Burial VIII be il
] Oakdale cemetery Davenport