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Dodge County Minnesota |
Obituaries and Death Notices
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Dodge County Minnesota |
Peter Barnhart
Southern Minnesota Pioneer Passes Away
Peter Barnhart, father of Mrs. C. E. Lundquist, of this city, died at Wasioja, Dodge County, Minn., on Jan 19, at the ripe old age of 74 years. He came to the state in 1857 settling in Olmstead county, afterwards removing to Dodge county, where he has lived ever since. On Jan 1, 1863, he was united in marriage to the wife who survives him.
A year ago on Jan 1, while staying at the home of their daughter in this city, the aged couple celebrated their golden wedding. Besides the wife, two daughters, Mrs. Lundquist of this city, and Mrs. Odel of Grand Forks, their husbands, grand children and a host of friends, stand mourning at the grave. Mr. and Mrs. Lundquist and also Mrs. Odel attended the funeral, which was held at Wasioja last Thursday. The large attendance of old settlers, neighbors and friends at the funeral, attested the love and esteem felt by them for the departed good old pioneer. ["Warren Sheaf".(Warren, Marshall County, Minn.), January 28, 1914, - KT - Sub by FoFG]
Annie Cline
Widow of Dr. Cline Dies; Funeral Will be Held Tomorrow.
ANNIE E. CLINE, widow of the Rev. Dr. C. E. Cline, died Wednesday. She was born in Noblesville, Ind., Oct. 15, 1844, the daughter of Augustus and Rebecca Miller.
With her parents she moved from Indiana to Ohio and thence to Minnesota in 1860.
She was married to CULLEN E. CLINE at Wasioga, Minn., Sept. 23, 1863. Dr. Cline was at that time a returned Civil war soldier, having served a term of enlistment in the first call for 90 day troops and a second enlistment for two years. He afterward re-enlisted in the Second Minnesota Heavy artillery and served to the end of the war.
After the close of the war Dr. and Mrs. Cline moved to Illinois, where in 1868 he joined the Southern Illinois Methodist Episcopal conference, serving many charges in Illinois, Colorado, Minnesota and Iowa. The family moved to Portland (OR) in 1888. Dr. Cline died last July. Mrs. Cline is survived by seven children, Mrs. Annie C. Farley, Gus L. Cline, W.D. Cline, Mrs. Grace T. Johnston, Thomas D. Cline, Agnes Cline, all of Portland, and Mrs. Frances Miller of Gresham.
Funeral services will be held at 2 o'clock Friday afternoon in Finley's chapel.
[Oregon Journal, Portland, Oregon, Feb. 2, 1922 - Submitted by: D. Griffith]
Oscar Harkcom
Chehalis Man Kills Himself in Saloon.
Drinks Carbolic Acid and Dies Instantly.
Oscar Harkcom's Wife had Left Him, Taken his Two Children After a Prolong Debauch He Suicides.
Oscar Harkcom, a painter from Chehalis, Wash., committed suicide in the saloon of John Steiner on the corner of Front and Chestnut streets at 4 o'clock Tuesday afternoon. He swallowed an ounce of carbolic acid that he had bought earlier in the day in a local drug store, and in a few minutes was dead. He had been in the city for less than a week, and had been drinking heavily all of that time. When a Herald reporter investigated the circumstances of his death, it was learned that Harkcom's wife, who lives in Chehalis, had left him recently and had taken his children, one 6 and the other 2 years of age, with her. After this Harkcom began to drink heavily and came to this city where his cousin, James H. Harkcom, lives at 512 North Seventh street. He was at his cousin's house several times on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, but was always the worse for liquor; and then he disappeared, and had not been heard from until a Herald reporter gave the information of his death. At the time the suicide took place, Harkcom was sitting by the stove in Steiner's saloon, and J. T. Braber, who happened to be in the saloon at the time, saw him drink something from a small bottle and then place the bottle on the floor at his side. Immediately after he stooped forward as if to vomit, and Steiner came to his assistance, taking him to a rear room, where he propped him up against the wall. Barber, who had helped him to lift the man, then noticed a strange expression about his eyes, and, calling attention to this, found out that he was dead. The sheriff's office was notified by telephone, and Deputy Villaume was quickly on the scene. He summoned Deputy Coroner Fred Shaw, who came and examined the body, and took it to the morgue. In the pockets of the dead man were found several letters which showed that his name was Oscar Harkcom, and an address which was looked up by a Herald reporter, who found in this way the whereabouts of James H. Harkcom, the cousin of the deceased. Going to the house of James Harkcom, the reporter found him sick in bed, where he has been for the last three months with an attack of typhoid fever. Mr. Harkcom was surprised beyond measure to hear of his cousin's death, and stated that though he had been drinking heavily when at his home last, Oscar Harkcom had made no threats of committing suicide. Mr. Harkcom said that his cousin's home was originally in Melton township, Dodge county, Minn., but that for many years he and other members of the family had lived at Chehalis. Two brothers of the deceased are alive, one, William, living in Staples. Minn., and the other, Alfred, living in Hastings, Minn. A sister, Mrs. Mary Kane, whose husband was a painter, lives in Chehalis. Mr. Harkcom stated that his cousin's wife had left him only a few weeks ago, and that this had started him to drinking, and it is supposed that all his money being exhausted, and feeling that he had no more to live for, he committed the crime of self-destruction.
The reporter found at James Harkcom's house a suit case which he took and turned over to the coroner. It contained clothes and toilet articles of various kinds which showed that Harkcom was a man who was usually very careful of his personal appearance, though at the time of his death he was rudely dressed, and had not cared for his person for several days. The Harkcom family is well known in Chehalis, according to a prominent newspaper man of this city, and has been there for many years.
"The Yakima Herald",(North Yakima, W.T.), December 13, 1905 - KT - Sub by FoFG]
Mary L. Way
At Merriam Park, Friday, Sept 16, 1887, Mary L. Way, aged 30 years, beloved wife of Rev. George H. Way, associate pastor of Jackson Street and Trinity M.E. churches, of St. Paul. Interment at Clarement, Dodge County, Minn. on Monday, the 19th inst. [St. Paul Daily Globe. (Saint Paul, Minn), September 17, 1887, Page 8 - KT - Sub by FoFG]
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