Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-02-04
ONE OF WEALTHlEST FARMERS
IN COUNTY DIES At HIS
HOME EAST OF CITY.
HAD BEEN RESIDENT OF n
COUNTY OVER SIXTY YEARS
Owned at Time Of Death 1910 Acres of
Land in This County, and Was
Worth Between s25o,o and s275, 900
Was Director Of Iowa Savings
Bank--FuneraI at LeGrand Sunday.

As a result of, his accident of Sunday
afternoon, when he slipped and fell on
| the ice, in his yard, Carver Ferguson,
one of the well-known and wealthiest
farmers in the county. died at his
home, six miles east of the city, at 2
o'clock Thursday afternoon.
! Mr.. Ferguson sustained fracture
| of the inner table of the skull at the
base of the brain. Altho unconscious
for few hours after his accident, Mr..
Ferguson rallied and felt quite him
self again on Monday. In the after
noon Monday he complained of pain
in his side, and it was found that two
ribs had been torn loose from the
cartilage of the sternum. Tuesday
eveningsat aAput%5 o'clock Mr.. Fergu-
son became ill and lapsed into un
consciousness, from which he never
rallied.
Owned Over 1000 Acres in County.
That Mr. Ferguson was one Of the
wealthiest farmers in the county is
shown by his realty holdings. At the
time of his death he owned 1,O40 acres
of land in this county, most Of it in
Marion township. near where he. lived.
His wealth is estimated at between
$25O,O00 and S275,00 He was a
director of the Iowa Savings Bank, of
this city. a-
Mr.. Ferguson had a wide acquaint-
ance thruout the county, where he had
lived for almost sixty-four years on
the same farm. He had always been a
staunch republican i'll politics. and had
been a member of the Friends church
for thirty-ive years.
, Was Native Of Indiana.
Mr.. Ferguson was a native of
Tippecanoe county, Indiana, where he
was born Jan. 1, 1S43, the fourth OF
family Of seven children of William
A. and Sarah Brunton Ferguson. The
!! family moved to this county in 1852,
when William A. Ferguson entered 200
acres of government land. including
the old homestead on which Mr.. Fer
guson lived at the time of his death.
On March 9, 1871, Mr.. Ferguson was
united in marriage with Miss Lucy s.
Taft, of Marion township. Six chill
dren were born to the union, five OF
whom survive their father with his
widow. The children are Mrs. E. H.
Collins, Of Salem Henry county; Jesse
/ Ferguson, who lives one mile north Of
| the old homestead; Erie c. Ferguson,
]! one and one quarter miles north Of
1.-The home place; Mrs. Charles Beane,
three miles northeast. and Mrs. Ray
Plummer, about two miles north Of the
home place. The child dead was the
oldest daughter Ethel, who died in
infancy Mr.. Ferguson also leaves
nine grandchildren, and a grand niece,
! Gladys Ferguson. who has made her
home with the F'ergusons for eleven
years.
l. Last Of Family.
Mr. Ferguson was the last survivor
of his fathers family. Not many years
after the family settled in Marion
township three children, Nimrod,
Jesse, and Edna, died of scarlet fever
at about the same time. John, an
other brother, died about thirty-flve
years ago; sister Lydia, who became
Mrs G. w. Silvis, died about fifteen
years ago near Green Mountain; and
another sister, Mary, who became Mrs.
John Peterson, died in this city Oct.
q, 1912.
Funeral at LeGrand Sunday.
Funeral services for Mr.. Ferguson
will be held from the Friends church
at LeGrand at $3.50 Sunday afternoon,
in charge of Rev. ]. r. Wright. The
church will be open to friends at 80.
Interment will follow in the church
cemetery.