Burial services will be held at 2 p.m. tomorrow in the Methodist Episcopal Church at Ollie. The Rev. Johnson of Brighten, will be in charge.
Mr. Lock preceded his wife in death about two years ago. Three daughters survive, Fern, Freda, and Mrs. Gladys Bales of Sigourney.
Iradell T. Locke, son of John and Margaret Locke, was born April 5, 1870, and departed this life July 26, 1931, aged 61 years, 8 months and 21 days.
On January 22, 1894, he was united in marriage to Kate Darby, to this union was born 5 children.One daughter, Golda Carter, and an only son, Eugene, proceded him in death.
He leaves to mourn their loss, his wife, Kate Locke, and three children; Mrs. Orie Bales of Sigourney, Iowa; Mrs. Elmer Abel of Salem, Iowa; and Fern at home; 5 grandchildren and two half brothers; Charles Locke of Gravity, Iowa and Ira Locke of Creston, Iowa, and a host of friends.
Funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon from the Ollie Methodist Church, conducted by Rev. L. H. Johnson of Richland and burial was made in Rock Creek Cemetery.
John B. Lock was born in County Durham, England, June 5, 1844, and died at his home in Gravity, Iowa, October 16, 1917, aged 73 years, 4 months and 11 days.
When Mr. Lock was but a year old his parents left the old home in England, coming to America where the parents spent the remainder of their life. They moved to Packwood, Iowa in 1853, from where they were translated to the home above, leaving five children ( of which John was the eldest), one brother and three sisters. The brother died in infancy.
Mr. Lock leaves a devoted wife, Mrs. Licetta Lock; three sisters, Mrs. Jane Wolfe, Mrs. Maggie Chandler, Miss Mary Hester Lock, of Packwood, Iowa.
Mr. Lock was twice married. To the first union with Margaret Patterson Lock, three children were born. Only one survives him, Iradell T. Lock of Ollie, Iowa.
Mr. Lock was again married to Miss Licetta Blakely, on Febuary 28, 1875. To this union four children were born; Myra, deceased, and Charles B. of Gravity, Iowa; Mrs. Maggie Barnes of Ashley, Nebraska; John I. of Greeley, Colorado. Also 16 grandchildren, 9 great-grandchildren and a host of friends are left to mourn his loss.
Mr. Lock was devoted to his country. He enlisted in the service in 1861 and for four years he saw all the experiences of a soldier-in training, in battle, in long marches, in privation, in want, in imprisonment; but in all the long struggle for the right till he was mustered out in 1865.
For 37 years he lived in Gravity and vicinty, where he served well his day and generation. He was converted at a camp meeting held in Brookfield, in 1865, and united with the M.E. Church. He lived a constant, faithful life to the end. "Farewell, servant of God, well done; The battle is ended, the victory won."
Monday night a little after midnight, occured the death of John B. Lock, pioneer citizen of Gravity, Iowa, Civil War veteran and beloved friend of everyone who knew him. Uncle John, as he was familiarly known here, has been in poor health for several weeks. He has not been able to be up town at his shoe shop for some time on account of failing health. Several weeks ago he was taken to the baths at Burlington Junction, Missouri, where he took treatment three weeks. He seemed to receive some benefit from this treatment and for a time it was thought he was on the way to permanent recovery. The sciatic pains in his hips and back never received much relief and he continued to suffer severely although bravely bearing up all the time and letting no one know how severely he suffered, was ready with a smile and a joke when friends called to see him.
The end came peacefully about the midnight hour on that memorable day when Iowa voted on the prohibitory amendment to her constitution. It was the dying regret of this veteran of many battles that he could not participate in this election and do his part to write prohibition into the constitution of our state. The Saturday before his death he realized that he would be unable to come to town to vote and asked if there was not some way he could vote at home as he desired sincerely to have his part in making Iowa dry
Uncle John will be greatly missed by everyone in Gravity. There was perhaps no more familiar figure amongst us than he. His genial good nature and his own affairs won for him a place in the community that is enviable. He was intensely loyal to his country, to the church and to his friends. Personlly we can say that he was one of our most loyal friends and remained true as steel during our ten years acquaintance. He was always found on the right side of public questions and always willing to assist any worthy enterprise with money according to his ability and with a large portion of moral support. To his government he was intensely loyal. To the republican party he gave unqualified support and always rang true on every political issue that came up affecting his party. Amongst the old soldiers he maintained a high standard, and at the time of his death was commander of the organization here.
His long service in the army established for him a record that few can equal. Enlisting when a mere boy of sixteen, he was taken at once to the front and fought in some of the bloodiest battles of the war. He was captured and taken prisoner to Tyler, Texas, where he remained for ten months enduring all the untold suffering of the southern prison. He would often sit and tell us of those days in prison; days terrible, and so full of human misery that we would like to forget them. His iron constitution bore bravely up and although a mere skeleton when liberated from prison, his will was not daunted, and he came home to do his share in rebuilding the broken republic.
The funeral service is being held today at the Methodist Church, conducted by Rev. Harwood his pastor, and attended by a large concourse of friends. The body will be laid to rest in the Gravity Cemetery.
William Lock was born in County Durham, England, May 8th, 1823, died August 28, 1901 aged 78 years, 3 months and 20 days. He came to America in 1845. He first abode in Washington County, PA. from there he moved to Fairfield, Iowa March 14, 1851 then to Bluepoint, Iowa in the same year settling on the farm northeast of Packwood where he spent the rest of his life.
He was married to Mary Boag July 22, 1843, fifty-eight years of life they lived together in happy union as husband and wife. To this union were born five children. John and Benjamin of Taylor County, Iowa; Mre. Maggie Chandler of Sherman, Kansas; Mrs. Jane Wolf who resides northwest of Packwood and Hester Lock who made her home with her father. He had also 10 grandchildren and 19 great-grandchildren. All of his own children but one and the companion of his life were by his bedside when he passed away.
For a number of days before he died he was delivering loving messages to his loved ones and many friends. He desired all to praise and pray rather than weep and grieve. Father Lock enjoyed the power and joy of blessed religion experince. He was converted to God and blessedly saved about 1837 while still in England, and when he came to America he united with the M.E. Church. He joined the class at Bluepoint in 1851 and in 1861 he moved his membership to Pleasant Hill and later to Packwood. He spent 40 years of his religious life as class leader. His work was always appreciated and comforting. He delighted to visit and pray with the members of his class as well as to lead the devotions of the class. He felt his unworthiness to be, or to do, but he always did all he could which was well done. He was always true and happy and he lived in a constant atmosphere of trust, prayer, and praise. Until his health completely broke down he was always in his place in Sunday School church and class and he had a special fondness for the class meetings of the church. He was made especially happy when he saw sinners at the altar of prayer seeking pardon for their sins. Among his last words were the parting words of St. Paul, " I am now ready to be offered; the time of my departure has come; I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course; I have kept the faith."
He departed expecting his crown and air exceeding weight of glory. After a pure triumphant and useful life he died in great peace feeling "For to me to live is Christ to die in vain." The funeral was held from the residence northwest of Packwood Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock conducted by Rev. J. C. Caughlan pastor of the M.E. Church of Packwood. Interment was made in Bluepoint Cemetery. The family have the sympathy of the entire community.
The following obit is for William Lock's mother and was clipped and saved from an English newspaper. They evidently didn't waste space in England with a lot of names in the obits.
The death of Mrs. Lock of Beamish Park, at the ripe age 87 years, will be deeply felt by a large circle of relatives and friends. The deceased lady was born at Beamish in the days of the late Squire Davidson, whose love of neatness and almost parental care of his tenants she could well remember. After a long and varied life, in the course of which she lived in different parts of the country, Mrs. Lock, when a widow, went to reside with her nephew amid the beautiful scenery of her native valley, where, in a neat cheerful little cottage, the closing years of her life were spent peacefully and happily. She had outlived nearly all her generation, and had long ago lost count of her grandchildren and great-grandchildren, many of whom are in America. She was throughout her career industrious, cheerful and warm hearted; she had a wonderful memory, and her eyesight and hearing seemed little impaired by age. Even in her old age she was one of the best knitters in the district, and in everything related to housekeeping she was equally skillful. After a short illness she passed away on Friday night at the home of her son-in-law, Mr. George Smith, at Waterhouses. Her work accomplished, she had lived a useful and honourable life, and was ready for the summons. Those lines of Mrs. Barbauld's might most have been written for Mrs. Lock:___________
"Life, we've been long together Through pleasant and through cloudy weather 'Tis hard to part when friends are dear Perhaps 'twill coat a sigh, a tear Then steal away, give little warning."
Mary Boag Lock was born at Orpeth, County Durham, England March 23, 1817, and departed this life at her home near Packwood, Iowa, on October 28, 1914, being ninety-seven years, seven months and 5 days of age.
She was the eldest daughter of John and Margaret Boag and one of a family of seven, having five brothers and one sister, all of whom are deceased.
On July 22, 1843 she was united in marriage to William Lock and to this union five children were born, all of whom survive her; John B. of Gravity, Iowa; Margaret A. Chandler of Goodland, Kansas; Benjamin B. of Sherwood, North Dakota; and Jane E Wolf and Mary H. both of Packwood, Iowa.
She also leaves to mourn her loss, fifteen grandchildren, twenty-four great-grandchildren.
She, with her husband, came to the United States in 1845, landing at New York on July 4th. They settled near Pittsburg, Pennsylvannia, where they lived six years, when in 1851 they moved to Blue Point, Iowa. Later they purchased a farm two miles northeast of Packwood and here they spent their declining years. In her youth she gave her heart to the Lord and joined the Primitive Methodist Church in England and all her life which is equal to three average lives, she has been his faithful servant sometimes passing through the waters of affliction and sorrow but when the rain descended and the floods came and the winds blew and beat upon her house it fell not for it was founded upon a rock.
"Servant of God, well done! The battle's fought, the race is won, And thou art crowned at last."
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CARD OF THANKS
We desire to sincerely thank the friends and neighbors for their kindness and help during the sickness and death of our mother and grandmother, also for the beautiful floral offerings.
The Lock Family
Edna "Bessie" LOCK, 88, lifetime resident of the Packwood/Richland, Iowa area died at the Helen Hadley home. Services were Sunday 2p.m. at the Packwood Methodist Church by Gould Funeral Home of Richland, Iowa. Burial in Blue Point Cemetery. Miss Lock suffered a broken hip in a fall last April. She had been blind for many years, maintaining her own home since the death of her mother, Mary Hester Lock. She was the oldest member of the Packwood Methodist Church, attending the Woolson Friends Church in later years. She was a member of the WCTU and the Clover Leaf Club. ________________________
Notes;
Bessie's mother, Mary Hester Lock, had two children (Bessie & Frank) and was never married. She made her home with her parents, William & Mary Boag Lock.
She suffered many weeks from the dread disease of consumption, but thru all her suffering she was patient and endured with Christian fortitude her sufferings until the Master said "it was enough, come up higher."
On July 2, 1913, she married Earl Carter and to this union one son was born, Robert Dean. She and her husband were just beginning to make a home here when she was called to her home in the skies.
She was a resident of this county all her life
with the exception of three years when her parents moved out West. She taught school in the Braden District No. 6 for two terms and endured herself to all her pupils. By her gentleness and kindness, she won friends by the score, and to know her was to love her, and she will be sadly missed in the home and among her large circle of friends. The deceased professed saving faith in Christ and in her sickness it was her delight to talk about her home of the future and a few days before the end came. She was continually singing the praises of God and while the words could not be understood by those around her yet from the radiant expression of her countenance one could tell she was about ready to join the choir invisible.
She leaves to mourn her departure a father, mother, husband, and little seven month old son and three sisters, Gladys, Fern, and Freda Locke and many other friends and relatives.
An obedient daughter, a loving mother and faithful wife, has gone to her reward and to hear her Master say, "Well done thou good and faithful servant, enter thou into the joys of the Lord."
Benjamin Beadling was born in Durham, Durham County, England, Nov. 6, 1823; died at his home near Packwood, Iowa, July 9, 1909, aged 85 years, 8 months and 3 days.
When a lad thirteen years old he migrated with his family to America and settled in Pittsburg,Pa., where he grew to manhood, and on October 3, 1846, was united in marriage with Jane Boag, to which union was born one child, Margaret, who grew to womanhood, married, raised a large family and proceeded her father to the other world by eight years. His wife and daughter both died the same year, the daughter in Febuary and the wife in June of 1901.
At the time of the Cival War he heard his countries call and enlisted in the sixty-first regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, served throughout the war and was honorably discharged at its close. In 1876, he migrated to Iowa and settled on the land which he occupied at the time of his death, where he lived a quiet useful life.
More than fifty years ago he cast his lot with God's people and united with the Methodist Episcopal Church, of which he remained a faithful and consistant member to the day of his death, when God said," It is enough, come up higher." His end was peaceful and without great suffering, at least without long suffering; for he had been to Packwood the day before his death and seemed in his usual health except for occasional attacks of shortness of breath, yet those that were intimately acquainted with him saw signs of a gradual decline for some months before the end came. He spent a restless night but arose in the morning as was his wont and ate his breakfast and spent the forenoon in his customary way, being up on the couch as he was inclined and when the noon hour came he went to the table and ate his dinner, but being left alone for a few minutes his spirit slipped away while he was sitting in a chair. He was cared for in his last days, in fact for several years past, by his grandchildren, Mary and Homer Bennett, who lived with him on the home place. Besides Mary and Homer the following grandchildren mourn his death; J. B. Bennett, Mrs. T. K. Bottorff, Mrs. L. C. Ryman, all of Packwood, W. L. Bennett of Mincy,Mo., Mrs. Charles Haddick of Collinsville, Ill., and Mrs. Harve Stephenson of LaHarpe, Kansas.
Funeral services were conducted at the home Sunday afternoon at two o'clock by his pastor, Rev. J. Stanley Decker, of the M. E. Church, after which a large concourse of sorrowing friends followed the remains to the Blue Point Cemetery, where he was laid to rest to await the signal for the first and blessed resurrection. The exercises at the grave were conduted by the Odd Fellows Lodge of Richland, of which order he had long been a faithful member.
"Dear grandfather, no more we'll see
Your feeble form in semi blindness
Grope his way about the place;
But up yonder in the better land
You'll see us all with perfect vision
When we meet you face to face."
Montreville L. Chandler was born at Neilsville, Wisconsin, Sept. 18, 1851, and died at his home on the farm in Sherman County, Kansas, June 9, 1914, age 62 years, 7 months and 21 days.
He was united in marriage with Miss Margaret Lock, Jefferson County, Iowa Jan. 1, 1877. In the spring of 1887 they moved to Sherman County, Kansas where they have since resided, till the time of his departure. They were never blessed with children of their own, they were foster mother and father to Miss Mary Bellinger and Miss Maggie Lock.
He was converted and joined the United Bretheran Church about 37 years ago.
His death was most unexpected, coming as it did, very suddenly and without warning, in the early morning of June 9th.
He leaves many friends, two brothers, one sister, two foster children, and a dear wife to mourn his departure.
The funeral services were conducted at the Methodist Church, Goodland, Kansas, by the pastor, the interment will take place at Fairfield, Iowa.
All join in extending their sympathy to the stricken ones.
Residents of Loraine and vicinity were shocked and grieved to learn of the death of Mrs. Thomas J. Lock shortly after undergoing an operation at a Minneapolis hospital where she had been taking treatment.
Mabel Clara Lowler, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. I. W. Lowler, born August 24, 1892, in Taylor county, Iowa, died December 8, 1915 at the Hill-Crest Hospital in Minneapolis, Minn., at the age of 23 years, 3 months and 13 days. She came to North Dakota with her parents March 19, 1913 and was married to Thomas J. Lock at Mohall, August 18, 1913. To this union was born one daughter, Thelma, who is now 18 months of age. She leaves besides her husband and daughter, her parents, six sisters and one brother. Two brothers have proceeded her in death. To those who mourn her untimely death must be added an aged grandmother and a host of relatives and friends.
The body was brought to Loraine and funeral services were conduted by Rev. A. E. Prior, M. E. pastor at Sherwood, on Saturday at loraine M. W. A. Hall at 2 o' clock in the afternoon, and the body laid to rest in the Hurley township cemetery east of town.
Appropiate music was rendered by Mrs. Wesley Lewis, Miss Freda Van Woert, Mrs. J. B. Switzer, and Mrs. H. H. Wheeler, with Miss Lydia Gates at the piano. The services were largely attended and the many beautiful flowers that rested on the casket attested the esteem and popularity in which the departed was held by all who knew her.