Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-04-03
CLAIMS AS VICTIM
FORMER WELL KNOWN RESI-
DENT OF THIS CITY.
ASHES TO BE BROUGHT
,...-. HERE FOR lNTERMENT
Word Telling Of Death Comes in TeIe-
gram From Mother to c. c. Urine
More Particulars Given in Message
to T.-R. From Thad o. Evans,
Former Business Partner.

Death came Saturday to Frank NJ
Sutton, a former weI!known resident
of this city. Word announcing Mr.
Su1;on's death cam to Cashier c. G
Urine OF ,he Marshal.town State Bank
Sunday morning in a telegram from
Mr. Suttons mother. Mrs. Harriet l.
Sutton. MIR. Sutl'n's death occurred al
2:4O Saturday morning at his home
l432 South Baltimore street, Tulsa
Okla.
Further particulars of the death
reached the Times Republican today ir
reply TO a message sent Thad u
Evans. OF Tulsa. MIR. Suttons former
business partner. Pneumonia. follow
ing an illness If about a week, was
,Ie cause Of death.
Was Native Of This City.
Mr. Sutton was a native of this city
and was ~ wears old. He was the only
son I'll the late Preston NJ. Sutton. for
mer superint endent of schools of Mar
shal}tnwn. ex-senator from this county
and w:Le.y known years ago as lead
ing lawyer Of Narsha!ltown.
Frank NJ. Sutton was IS years old,
and spent his wood and young man
hood here. He read Law and after be-
ing admitted u the Dar formed co
partnership with Thad .. Evans. doing
q general rea! estate farm loan ana
law business unGer the name OF SUIT
ton & Exams. This partnership existed
for about ten wears. and during that
time w" addit.' rs to the city were lal
cut ny the MN. The first Sutton &
Exams addition. p,atttd about 1899
goo. lies in the Fifth ward east of tn"
Ans m school. y few Years later sec
Und addition was y et:'d between Sec
cpd and Third streets on Center.
Goes to Oklahoma in 1906.
In January. 1906. M-ssrs. Sutton and
Evans went to Tulsa. Okla. where they
became established in the same line
they mad pursued here. They were IN
partners hip at Tulsa a bout four years.
when Mr. Sutton retired owing to poor
health, and the desire to get out o.
doors. Since the firm was dissolved
each Of the former partners has beer
doing a real estate and farm loan bus i
ness independent of the other.
Mr. Sutton has not been in the best
Of health following an attack OF APP
pendictis two years ago last December
Mr. Sutton had taken his wife L
Rochester. Mimi. for some surgica
work, End while a the hospital was
himself stricken and underwent an OPP
Grafton.
Formerly Owned Much Property Here
Before he left Marshalltown Mr. SUIT
ton owned a great deal of property lii
the city. He also owned a farm JUS
east Of town. He disposed of his hold
ings here, however, in order to lnVes
his money in the southwest.
Surviving Mr.. Sutton a-e his widow
and mother Mr.. Sutton's wife, prior
to her marriage on July 9. 1913. was
Mrs Kate Walters. formerly of keo-
kuk. and for some time before heI
marriage was an instructor in Iowa
State Teachers College. Cedar Falls
Mr.. Sutton's father died Nov 10. 1901
at the old Sutton home, III Eortr
Center street
Bring Ashes Here For Burial.
Funeral services for Mr.. Sutton were
! held from the home at Tulsa a moor
Sunday The VI eSdamaS Sutton left
! o'clock Sunday afternoon in chargf
| of the body for Omaha. where toda,
! the body was cremated at the Forest
Park crema tory. 1t is expected that the
! ashes will reach this city late tonigh
! or early Tuesday morning. and will %
! inferred in the family lot IN Riverside
Miss Maude Walters, of indianapolis
! end Howard l.. Walters If chicago
/ sister and brother Of Mrs. +. VI. SUIT
ton. reached the city Sunday evening
in response to kilograms announcing
their brother in-l 5 death.