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Obituary of Ezekiel Walton Carthage IL Pioneer Farmer
Ezekiel Walton died at his Carthage home on Wabash Avenue at 2 10 p m Thursday aged 62 Born in Hancock County he spent most of his life there and in Denver IL He owned three farms in Hancock County and hundreds of acres in Southeast Missouri He leaves a widow Julia Clark Walton two children Cleve and Mrs John Gardiner two brothers and two sisters The funeral arrangements are pending His death followed a self inflicted pistol discharge while cleaning a Colt automatic a week earlier in Denver IL Local readers receive brief personal mentions of grocery trips and visitors to Carthage during the days surrounding the death and related community notes
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Carthage
Ezekiel Walton
Wabash Avenue
Walton
Hancock
Simeon Walton
Hancock County
California
Denver
Missouri
Julia Clark
Ill
Cleve
John Gardiner
David
George
Plymouth
Rayburn
Dr. Todd
Maryville
Christian Church
Fred Johansen
Kahoka
J. Johansen
J. N. Morris
C. M. Botts
William A. Fletcher
William Jr
Kimbrough Bros
Charles S. Tyler
Ira Cronk
Warsaw
William Green
Excelsior Springs
William Haggard
Fountain’ Green
Mr. Green
Emily C. Acheson
Mason City
Iowa
William Burgner
Harley T. Burgner
Illinois Traction Company
Peoria
Charles Burgner
Frannk Ernst
B. F. Miller
Dallas City
Hal Miller
Ed. Abbott
Frances
Chicago
Minneapolis
James Conner
Colo
Sherman Lancaster
Mt. Pleasant
J. M. Johns
Erville Goodway
Ferris
Gertrude Flynn
Gladys Stowe
Fort Madison
M. Frane Harris
Fred Jacoby
Lee Troute
Appleton
Margaret Proctor
Lincoln
Neb
Ida Helfrich
A. A. Simon
Quincy
H. B. Massie
Simon
Charles Johnson
Hannibal, Mo