Leon Reporter, Leon, Iowa
Marriage Licenses Issued
Thursday, February l0, l92l
HARRY A. SHAKESPEARE, Lamoni, 25
C. LETA STEMM, Lamoni, 24
Leon Reporter, Leon, Iowa
Thursday, October l2, l922
The Birth Record Filed with Clerk Officer for Month
of September (l922), Shows 36 Boys and only l6 Girl Babies:
CLIFFORD ELDEN SHAKESPEARE, boy, August l8,
to MR. and MRS. HARRY A. SHAKESPEARE, Fayette Township.
Leon Reporter, Leon, Iowa
Thursday, March 2, l922
WILLIAM H. ADAIR, the subject of this sketch was born near Princeton,
Mercer County, Mo., Sept. 8, l857, but his parents, JAMES and ELIZABETH (NEWLIN)
ADAIR, soon removed to where the town of Woodland, Iowa is now situated.
He was reared to manhood at this place. He spent 50 years of his life in
Decatur County, Iowa, and the adjoining county, Harrison, in Mo. After
which time he went to Ellis County, Oklahoma, where he resided ten years,
then in l9l7 to the Sinclair Oil and Gas lease, near Cleveland, Okla.,
where he lived two years as an oil field worker, then to the Sinclair
lease near Yale, Okla., where he and two sons continued to work with the
same Supt. as they began with.
But he was soon stricken with that dread disease, paralysis, which
rendered him an invalid, 26 months before death came, as a sweet release
on Sunday morning, Feb. l9, l922. He married ELLEN SHEARARD near Davis
City, Iowa, Dec. 24, l882; to this union 8 children were born; JESSE
HYRUM, dying in l898. The living are STELLA COCHRAN, who lives near
Higgins, Texas; FLORA BAILEY, Des Moines, Iowa; CHARLES R. ADAIR, of Yale;
LEO H. ADAIR, of Burk-Burnett, Texas; MRS. LUCIL SHEFFER, Keifer, Okla.;
and LYMAN W., who with his mother has cared for him continually during his
affliction. The last seven weeks of his life, his suffering was something
dreadful. And his children, the five last mentioned were near him much of
the time to render any service that loving sons and daughters could render
an afflicted father.
He was of a very genial disposition, and greatly beloved by his children.
He at one time lived a consistent Christian life as a member of the L.D.S.
Church but became careless in later years. But during his long suffering
he remembered his former covenant and many times called for those about
him to pray with him. He made many requests regarding his burial. The
funeral, etc., which was carried out to the letter by his family. His body
was laid to rest in the beautiful cemetery near Quary, Okla., in
fulfillment of his desire, the funeral being preached by Wm.
Shakespeare, a former Lamoni boy of the L.D.S. faith. The church
people and Sinclair people also showed great kindness and sympathy for the
family in their hours of watching and bereavement. The Supt. (The same as
his sons and him began with four and a half hears ago) shut down all works
except the pumping of the wells, and his men prepared the grave and he and
them attending the funeral and burial, the men acting as pall bearers. His
sufferings were so great we would not wish him back. May his soul rest in
peace.
Leon Reporter, Leon, Iowa
Marriage Licenses Issued
Thursday, January ll, l923
JAS. E. SHAKESPEARE, Lamoni, 2l
HAZEL M. DELONG, Lamoni, 22
Leon Reporter, Leon, Iowa
Marriage Licenses Issued
Thursday, November 22, l923
GLEN D. BARTH, Blythedale, Mo., 30
HELEN G. SHAKESPEARE, Lamoni, 27
Leon Reporter, Leon, Iowa
Thursday, February l2, l925
List of Births Filed For Record With Clerk McMorris in January (l925):
WAYNE GILBERT SHAKESPEARE, boy, Nov. 28, to
MR. and MRS. HENRY A. SHAKESPEARE, Fayette Township.
The Lamoni Chronicle
October 14, 1909
THOSE COMING AND THOSE GOING
W. E. and W. T. SHAKESPEARE returned from
Centerville, Monday where they had been in the interest of the Religio and
Sunday School organizations.
The Lamoni Chronicle
Lamoni, Iowa
March 10, 1904
William SHAKESPEARE and family departed for Lucas, Friday, where
they will reside. Mr. SHAKESPEARE will work in the mines at Lucas,
an occupation not new to him, he having been formerly engaged in such work
at Lucas. While he will be greatly missed by his friends and neighbors in
the vicinity of Evergreen he will be gladly welcomed back to Lucas by his
many acquaintances there.
The Independent Patriot
Lamoni, Iowa
October 26, 1893
DIED
SHAKESPEARE - At the home of its parents near Lamoni, on Tuesday
morning, October 24, 1893, Henry, infant son of William T. SHAKESPEARE
and wife. Funeral from the house on Wednesday afternoon. Services were in
charge of Elder H. A. STEBBINS.
The Chariton Leader, Chariton, Iowa
Thursday, August 31, 1905
ARTHUR SHAKESPEARE, the seventeen-year-old son of SAM
SHAKESPEARE, was drowned Tuesday afternoon in a pond on his father's
farm between three and four miles west of Lamoni. He and several
companions were bathing in the pond when he was attacked by cramps and
sank before assistance could reach him. Efforts were made at rescue, but
the body was not recovered until life was extinct. The accident occurred
about 4 o'clock.
-- Leon Reporter.
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The SHAKESPEARES formerly resided in Lucas County, at Lucas, and
for a time on a farm in Washington Township.
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