Charles Gordon, Madison co, Iowa

Charles B. Gordon

GORDON, BURNS, HART, BUTLER, SCHIRM, MORRISSEY


Winterset Madisonian - April 16, 1980

Charles B. Gordon of 722 N. Fifth St., Winterset, died Saturday, April 12, at Winterset Care Center North at the age of 84. He was a lifelong resident of Winterset.

Born on Aug. 23, 1895, in Winterset, he was the son of Charles William and Anna Alice Burns Gordon. An army veteran of World War I, Mr. Gordon was united in marriage to Bronna Blanche Hart Butler on Nov. 1, 1930, in Trenton, Mo. A retired painter and paper hanger, Mr. Gordon was a member of the American Legion and attended the Baptist Church.

Among the survivors are his wife Bronna; a son, Charles O. Gordon of Winterset; a stepson, Forrest Hall Butler of St. Joseph, Mo.; a stepdaughter, Mildred Louise Schirm of Winterset; seven grandchildren; eight great-grandchildren; and a sister, Madolyn Morrissey of Winterset. He was preceded in death by his parents, a brother and two sisters.

Funeral services were held at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 15, at Collins Funeral Home with Rev. Phill Hall officiating.

Burial was at Winterset Cemetery.




Bronna Hart Gordon

GORDON, HART, OVERTON, SCHIRM, TAYLOR

Winterset Madisonian
March 14, 2001

Bronna B. Gordon, Winterset

Bronna Blanche Gordon, 97, of Winterset died of a heart ailment March 11, 2001, at Winterset Care Center North.

Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. Thursday, March 15, at Collins Oak Park Chapel in Winterset with the Rev. Bob Epperson officiating. Visitation will be held today (Wednesday March 14) from noon to 8 p.m. with the family present from 6-8 p.m. Burial will be at Winterset Cemetery.

Bronna Gordon was born June 10, 1903 in Mercer County, Mo., to Willard P. Hall and Sarah (Overton) Hart. She married Charles B. Gordon on Nov. 11, 1930 in Trenton, Mo. Bronna, a resident of Winterset for the past 71 years, had been a waitress at the Aldo Cafe, Victory Cafe and the Starlight Cafe. She also had been a clerk at the Ben Franklin store. She was a member of the First Baptist Church in Winterset.

She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, two brothers and seven sisters.

She is survived by two sons, Forrest Hall Butler (wife Dorothy) of St. Joseph, Mo., and Charles Olson Gordon (wife Jean) of Winterset; a daughter, Mildred Butler Schirm of Winterset; a sister Kanna J. Taylor of Princeton, Mo.; seven grandchildren; 15 great-grandchildren; and seven great-great-grandchildren.

Memorial contributions may be directed to the Winterset Care Center North Activity Fund or Middle River Hospice.

John M . Walton

John M. Walton

BOYD, FRY, GOWIN, WALTON

Among the well-to-do farmers of Madison township is John M. Walton, who is a native of that township, born September 18, 1876, of the marriage of Amos and Letitia (Gowin) Walton, both natives of Hendricks county, Indiana. The father was a farmer and was successfully engaged in cultivating his land until the Civil war broke out. He responded to the president's call for troops and became a member of the Seventh Indiana Volunteer Infantry, in which he served for three years, proving a courageous and loyal soldier. He was wounded five times in battle but never faltered in the performance of his duty as a defender of the Union. At the close of hostilities he returned to Indiana and about 1870 removed with his family to this county, buying land in Madison township. He devoted his energies to general farming and stock-raising upon that place until 1885, when he sold and removed to a farm south of Earlham. He continued to farm there until his demise, which occurred on the 22d of January, 1887. The family subsequently removed to Earlham and operated the hotel there for three years. His widow later married Milton Macey, who resided near Dexter and who passed away in December, 1897. In June, 1899, Mrs. Macey became the wife of 0scar K. Bales, a hardware merchant, who was then conducting a store at Dexter but in 1900 removed to Adel and is now in business there. Mrs. Bales is now sixty-nine years of age.

John M. Walton was reared and educated in this county, attending the district schools and the public schools of Earlham. He remained with his mother and stepfather until he was eighteen years of age and then began work as a farm hand. He was so occupied for five years, but at the end of that time, in connection with a brother, assumed the management of the hotel at Earlham. After one year, however, our subject went to Adair county, Iowa, and for three years rented land there. Upon his return to Madison county, he rented a farm, which he operated for two years. By the end of that time he had saved enough to enable him to purchase seventy-six acres of land on section 4, Madison township. He has since concentrated his energies upon the development of his place, the production of grain and the raising of live stock. He feeds about sixty head of cattle a year; also keeps something over one hundred head of sheep; and raises high grade hogs. He is thoroughly familiar with the principles underlying agriculture and, as he is progressive in his methods and uses up-to-date machinery, his labor is rewarded by excellent crops.

Mr. Walton was married on the 23d of January, 1900, to Miss Ella Belle Fry, a daughter of Benjamin F. and Martha J. (Boyd) Fry, natives of Virginia and Ohio respectively. Mr. Fry was a farmer by occupation and in 1867, when a young man of twenty-one years, came to Madison county. He worked as a farm hand for three years and then rented land for six years, after which he went to Adair county and purchased eighty acres. He operated that place for thirty years, or until the demise of his wife, after which he retired from active life and is now making his home with our subject. Mrs. Fry died on the 29th of August, 1901, after an eleven days illness. Mr. and Mrs. Walton have a son, Paul Otis, ten years of age.

Mr. Walton is a republican and has served as treasurer of the school board for three years, doing much in that time to further the best interests of the public schools. He is a member of the Friends church and his daily life bears witness to the sincerity of his faith. All who have had dealings with him know him to be a man of strict integrity and honor, and those who have been admitted to his close friendship entertain for him the warmest regard.

Taken from the book, “The History of Madison County, Iowa, 1915”