Peter F. Poole
Leon Reporter, Leon, Iowa
Thursday, May 3l, l900
>From the St. Joseph Gazette we glean the following account of the death of PETER F. POOLE, for many years a resident of Decatur County, who for several years has made his home at Bryant, Mo. At the time of his death MR. POOLE had started to spend the summer at the home of his daughter, MRS. GEO. BLAKESLEY near Davis City. The Gazette says:
"While on his way to spend the summer with his wife and chidren at Leon, Iowa, P.F. POOLE, aged and decrepit, died suddenly on the C.B. & Q. train from Kansas City, just as it was entering the yards yesterday morning at 9:45 o'clock.
Death came quickly and no one discovered that the man had passed away until after the train had stopped at the Union Station. G.W. Atkinson, a baggageman for the Brown Transfer Company, is probably the last man who saw POOLE alive. Atkinson boarded the train at Florence and noticed that the old man acted as though he was sick. One of the passengers in the coach in passing out after the train had stopped at the station noticed that he was dead.
Coroner Richmond was notified and ordered the body taken to the Heaton Undertaking establishment where an inquest will be held some time today. The coroner is waiting to hear from some of the deceased's relatives before holding the inquest. They were notified at once but as they live in the country it is not likely that they received the message in time to reply yesterday. A message is expected early this morning, however.
POOLE had been in Bryant, Douglass County, for some time. Among other effects found on his body was a letter written by his daughter, LILLIE, and addressed to him at Bryant. The letter indicates that the family is in poor circumstances but urges the father to come home and spend the summer. He is about 70 years of age and was formerly a farmer near Leon. He was also an agent for a nursery at one time. Death was evidently the result of heart trouble.
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OBITUARY - PETER F. POOLE
PETER F. POOLE was born in Washington County, O., June 30, l839. He moved with his parents to Decatur County, Iowa, in the spring of '55 and settled in Morgan Township near Spring Valley. He was married to MARGARET E. PITMAN on March 2, l865. To this union were born six children, two sons and four daughters, viz: MRS. ORPHA BLAKESLEY, LILLIE, ALMA and GRACE. MARY and THOMAS died at the age of 4 and 2 l/2 years respectively, preceding the father to the better world.
He united with the Missionary Baptist Church at the age of fifteen years, and remained firm in the faith until death. Shortly after he came to this county, Bro. POOLE united with the New Salem Baptist Church. Some years afterward, a Baptist organization was perfected at Union School House near where Bro. POOLE lived, he was a charter member of this organization. Shortly afterward he returned his membership to New Salem. Bro. POOLE was elected to the office of Deacon in the New Salem Church in l886. He was also a faithful worker in the Sunday School. He moved with his family to Wright County, Mo., in the fall of '95. He departed this life May 23, l900; 9:45 a.m. on the C.B. & Q. passenger train No. 111, just as the train entered the station at St. Joe, Mo., while on his way home.
Funeral services were conducted May 26, by Rev. W.H. Hamilton at New Salem Church. The deceased was tenderly laid to rest in New Salem Cemetery to await the resurrection morn.
He leaves a wife and four children and one brother to mourn his departure. May God who tempers the mind to the Shorn lamb, so temper the sorrow in their hearts that they may say "He doeth all things well." Let us die the death of the righteous, let my last end be like his.
--J.T.R.
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May God's blessing attend our friends and neighbors who so kindly assisted and sympathized with us in our late bereavement.
MRS. E.M. POOLE and Children.
Copied by Cordelia Suzann
"With permission from the Leon Journal Reporter"
January 2, 2003
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