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mnoonFriend? in thiT^mmunity were , wl Thursday afternoon of lastS t» o£ the death of ''ucle”. |e whitman at Port Dodge where1,1,(1 tec spending some time withL laughter. Mr. Whitman had been ;“.ne ir health for sometime but A den people were not aware that his nmlitio was so serious. Funeral vice| w-«*re held Saturday after-‘ at his home here being conduct-1 by‘ Kev. F. F. Robinson, pastor of el ;0Cal Methodist church and bur-al was in the Alden cemetery. Col-lins-Dunning Post of the Americanjjggion had charge of the services attll6Nathan S. Whitman wa's bom on August 11, 1847 in Wood county, Ohio where he grew to young manhood’ and at the age of seventeen enlisted in Co. C, 129th Ohio infantry and servted during the remainder of the Civil War. Deceased was married in 1870 to Mary Ida Lewis, who passed away February 22 of last year. The year following their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Whitman moved to this vicinity which has since'been■their home.Five children were bom to this union of whom four remain to mourn the death of their father, they being: Mrs. Alice Bell Wiinans and Mrs. A. C. Stover of Elgin, Illinois; Mirs. A. J. Cox of Fort Dodge' and T. W. Whitman of Iowa Falls. Besides the children there are left-to mourn his loss 19 grandchildren and a host of friends and acquaintances.“Uncle Nats”, as he was known to everyone in this locality had been a resident of Alden for fifty-nine years and was one of the charter members of Fairbanks Post, G. A. R. and had always been active in its affairs as well as being at all timies interested in the affairs of this community.This entire community join in extending its deepest sympathy to the members of the bereaved family.X
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Alden Times
Alden, Iowa, US
Thu, Aug 28, 1930
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