The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1910-01-13

WELTON.--- The funeral service
for the late Elmer HI. Welton will b
held in the Union church at Wright
Tuesday. January II at 10 o'clocl
a. m. Interment will be in Fores
cemetery at Oskaloosa.
CI,ARK.-Died, of asthma. at hel
home, No. 416 North street, at 6:lt
O'Clock p. M, Saturday, January S
1910. Mrs. Harriet l. Clark, colored
wife OF Lewis Clark Funeral at 2:0t
O'Clock p. m., Tuesday, at Wesle,
Chapel.
STEWARD.-Mrs. George Steward
received a telegram today announc
| ing the death of w. w. Steward, a
former business man of Oskaloosa
Death occurred in Newport. Ken
lucky, but relatives here are without
particulars. The end must have been
sudden as Mrs. Steward had received
letter only few days ago from her
son and nothing was said at that time
Va airy HIVES. b1C itdus CO iol tio
known, been in his usual good health.
Rose Hill, Jan. 10.-Special: Mrs
Belle Jarvis died here this morning at
1880 of heart failure. The deceased
is sixty-six years of age and has re-
sided in White Oak township for
about AZ years. The last three years
of her life has been spent in Rose
Hill, where her and her husband
moved from their farm east of Ross
Hill, where she and her husband
Bruce Jarvis, who died but a few
months ago. The deceased is the
mother of DR.. Dwight Jarvis, of Rose
Hill. and of Dr. Fred Jarvis, of Oska-
Iocsa. Two daughters also survive,
Mrs. Almer James and Mrs. Fletcher
Bump of Rose Hin.
CHTCK.-Another of the pioneers
of Mahaska county has gone. Charles
NJ. Chick, residing about two miles
southeast of Oskaloosa. came to town
Monday, January 3. to attend to bust
ness affairs. While at the Golden
Eagle store he was stricken by apo
plexy with paralysis which rendered
him unconscious. He was taken to
the home of his daughter, Mrs. Will
liam Martin, No. 1890 High avenue
east, where everything was done that
kind hearts and Willing hands could
do, to alleviate his suffering and pro-
long mis- life, but to no avail. He
passed away Saturday afternoon, JAN
uary s, 1910, at one-thirty O'Clock, sur
rounded by members of his family
and friends. His age was seventy
five years. seven months and nineteen
days.
Funeral from the United Presbyter-
ian church of Oskaloosa. Wednesday.
January ~. at 2 O'Clock p. m. Inter
ment in Forest cemetery.
The deceased was born in Fayette
county, Pennsylvania, July 20. 1884, OF
William and Elizabeth Chick. The
parents moved to Tuscarawas county,
Ohio. where he lived until 1912, when
he emigrated with others to Iowa and
settled in Mhaska county on tract
of land located four miles southeast
of Oskaloosa. He made several
changes in location before he secured
the fine farm short distance out OF
Oskaloosa that he possessed at the
time of his death. Mr.. Chick is sur
vived by widow. four daughters, Mrs.
Dora Riggs of Washington state, Mrs.
Essie Martin, Mrs. Kate Bryson and
Miss Ollie Chick of Oskaloosa; three
sons, Charles A. Chick OF Des Moines,
Thomas l.. Chick of Ottumwa and
Orville Chick of Oskaloosa; a sister,
Mrs. Francis Neal OF Wapello county
and three brothers, Milton Chick OF
Onawa, William Of Lacygne, Kansas,
and Joseph OF Seattle.
Mr.. Chick was one of the few re-
OF the elder pioneers of the
county. He has been ,fffty-six years
in Mahaska, coming to the place in
the early fifties soon after the organ
ization OF the county. He was indus
SAACto 1Aiu IhCA GIL dCklfc lie. NueH
not engaged upon his farm in the ear
ly days he hauled merchandise be-
tween Keokuk and Oskaloosa and Des
Moines long before the day OF the
railroad. He had full measure OF the
experiences, hardships and the trials
of that earlier day. From 1875 to the
date OF his death he was one OF the
prominent live stock raisers and feed
srs OF the county and with him in
his business have been associated
some well known stock men OF the
period, Isaac Cox T. B. Emmert, Eli
Hawkins. ]. H. Stringfellow, G. w.
france, B. J. Snyder and others. He
vas still an active man and his death
occasions surprise and deepest regret.
me family have the sympathy OF the
entire county in their bereavement.
LUNT-Mrs. Matte Gardner Limit
was born in Wilmington, Delaware.
June 18th, 1888. and died at the home
Of her son near Rose Hill, Nov. q.
1909.
She come to Logan county, ILL.,, with
her parents in 1851, and was united
IN marriage to Henry w. Lunt, Sept.
rs. 1861.
To this union were born six chill.