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Decatur County Journal
February 18, 1915
The sad intelligence of the death of John G. Early reached this place on Monday evening of last week, the end having come to him that day at his home in Kansas City in the 78th year of his age. He had suffered from ill health and the infirmities incidental to his advanced age for several years and was confined to his bed about six weeks prior to his death. Funeral services were held at the home in Kansas City on Wednesday forenoon and the remains were brought to Mercer Early Cemetery near his old home south of Mercer, Reverend Schooler, of Spickard, conducting the last sad rites. A large number attended and paid their respects to the memory of their old neighbor and much respected and beloved friend. During the many years of his life among them he had made friends of all, the honesty and integrity of his character, his broad charity and the goodness of his heart making him one to be respected. He was to his family and his life a blessing to the world for its example and for his having lived. He leaves a wife, four daughters and a son to mourn the loss of a kind and loving husband and father and the sympathy of a multitude of friends are extended to them in their sorrow and loss, says the Lineville Tribune.
John G. Early moved with his family from Mercer County, Missouri, to Lineville in the fall of 1881, where they resided for ten or twelve years, the deceased being engaged in the grocery business, with the exception of the last two or three years of his residence here when he was engaged in the lumber business, having disposed of his grocery stock and purchased the lumber yard belonging to the late Tom Laughlin. After conducting the lumber yard here for a year or so the stock was disposed of and together with his family the deceased moved to Leon about 1893, the deceased retired from active business pursuits and with his family moved to Independence, Missouri, where they resided for a short while and moving from there to their present home, 2615 Lockridge Avenue, Kansas City, Missouri, in 1900, where they were residing at the time of Mr. Early's death. The following obituary notice was taken from the Kansas City Daily Time of February 2nd:
John G. Early, a retired lumberman, died at his home, 2615 Lockridge Avenue, yesterday. Mr. Early was the father of T.R. Early, the proprietor of a lumber yard at Seventeenth Street and Brooklyn Avenue. He had not been actively engaged in business since coming to Kansas City in 1906. Previous to that he had been in the lumber business in Iowa. He went from there from northern Missouri. He was born in Whitely County, Kentucky, in 1837. He moved from there to Missouri in 1851.
Surviving Mr. Early , besides T.R. Early, are his wife, Mrs. Susan J. Early, and four other children, Mrs. Morthea J. Egelson, of Mercer, Missouri; Mrs. I.C. Sheets, of Yale, Iowa; and Misses Opal and Ruby Earl, of the home address. The funeral will be held from the home at 11 o'clock this morning. The Reverend Burris Jenkins will officiate. The body will be taken to Mercer, Missouri.
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