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Ilo M Baldwin (Foley)
Services will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at Barrick and Son Funeral Home
for Mrs. Ilo M. Baldwin, 74, of 321 Robinson. She died at 3:07 a.m. today (March 8, 1984)
at Lakeview Medical Center.
The Rev. Arthur Runyan will officiate. Burial will be at Spring Hill
Cemetery. Visitation will be from 4 - 8 p.m. Friday at the funeral Home.
Born March 25, 1909, in Iroquois County, she was a daughter of James
and Lula Boyd Foley. She married Charles Baldwin July 3, 1946, in Danville. He survives.
She was a member of the St. James United Methodist Church, Danville
Chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star and White Shrine of Jeruselum. She was a past
president of Curtis G. Redden American Legion Auxiliary post 210.
Survivors include two sons, John Pierce of Yuma, Ariz. and James Pierce
of Danville; a daughter, Mrs. Margaret Ann Pierce Smith of Danville; 16 grandchildren and
14 great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by a brother and two sisters, Gean Pierce,
Harris Pierce and Shirley Pierce Brooks
(My NOTES) The Pierce's listed above: Gean(Gene), Shirley are her chidren. I am
wondering if the Harris would be her 1st husband? Submitted by DFowler
The Lawton Constitution, 19 July 1985
Lawton, Oklahoma
Betty High
Funeral for Betty Jane High, 60, of 1202 Arlington, will be at 10 a.m. Saturday in the
Ritter Dalton Chapel with Dr. Johnnie Curtsinger, pastor of Calvary Baptist Church
officiating.
Mrs. High died Thursday morning in a local hospital after a long illness.
Burial will be in Sunset Memorial Gardens under the direction of Ritter Dalton Funeral
Home.
She was born January 25, 1925, in Hoopeston, Illinois. She graduated from Covington
High School, Covington, Indiana. She came to Lawton in 1950, and lived here
since. She worked as a waitress at the Ranch House Restaurant until her health
caused her to retire. She was a member of Calvary Baptist Church.
Survivors include a daughter, Tammy High, Texas; three brothers: Frank Johnson,
Attica, Indiana; Jack Johnson, Hume, Illinois; Robert Johnson, Lampe, Missouri; two
sisters: Irene Baldwin, and Imogene Brown, both of Attica, Indiana.
Submitted by Tldewlen@aol.com
Danville Commercial News, Monday, August 15, 1938
Alfred L. Hackney
Last rites for Alfred Leonard Hackney, 68, coal miner, were at Berhalter Funeral Home at 3
p.m. Saturday with the Rev. J.M. Newsom, pastor of First Baptist Church officiating.Burial
in Springhill Cemetery.
Submitted by Tony
Danville Commercial News, Tuesday, Dec. 26, 1916 (JOHN M. HACKNEY)
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Blames Company for Foreman’s Failure to Place the Customary Flag.
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DROVE OLD MULE CARS
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A coroner’s jury severely censured the Wabash Railway because of failure to place safety flags on the track where John Hackney, a car repairman had been sent to work under a damaged car. The accident occurred Saturday morning and since that time there has been a wrangling as to who was to blame for the accident.
Some of the employees of the company say that Hackney was the unfortunate victim of his own neglect, that car repairmen are furnished with blue flags in day and blue lights at night to hang up on tracks where they are working on damaged cars. Someone failed to do this Saturday morning when Hackney crawled under a car and a switching engine coming up the track coupled onto a cut of cars and shoved the entire cut over Hackney, cutting this body into one of the most horrible looking objects ever seen in this city. Others were inclined to think that it was the duty of the foreman of the repairmen to place these flags.
No Recommendations.
The jury made no recommendations, however and it is likely that the matter will be threshed out in the courts.
The funeral of Mr. Hackney was held in the chapel of the Berhalter & (illegible) at 3 o’clock Friday afternoon and was in charge of Rev. J. E McGiffin, pastor of Grace Methodist church. The body was taken to Springhill cemetery for interment and the burial service of the Modern Woodmen was held at the grave. Members of the local camp were selected for the positions of pall bearers (sic).
John M Hackney was a native of McLean County, having been born in Bloomington, Aug 27, 1866. He was the son of John H (F) Hackney, and came to this city when a babe. His mother was formerly Miss Christina Mensor, who was the second wife of Mr. Hackney. She survives and at her home, 428 Chandler Street, the deceased had been making his home for the past few years.
The father died in 1882 (1886) when John was about sixteen years of age throwing the lad upon his own resources. He drove a team for a short time and with the establishment of the first street car line in the city under the name of the Citizen’s Street Car Railway; he was employed as a driver of one of the mule teams. His route for the greater part of his career was between the Wabash railway crossing at Main Street and Madison Square, then the terminal of the line.
Afterwards the Douglas Park extension was built to the old baseball park and he took a run on that line. With the introduction of electricity in 1890, Mr. Hackney gave up his position and went to work for the Chicago & Eastern Illinois railway as a car repairman. He worked intermittently at that and in the mines as a coal digger.
He left the Chicago & Eastern Illinois about two years ago and on Nov. 16 of the present year took employment with the Wabash railway.
Christmas Day 1900 he was united in marriage with Miss Elizabeth Smith, who with three children survive. The children are Winston, Francis and LaBerta. A brother Albert (Alfred) Hackney of this city, and a half brother “Bo” Hackney of Westville, together with the aged mother survive.
Early Resident of Rossville Dies in Chicago
A former Rossville resident, Mrs. Viola Chamberlain, 83, died in Woodlawn hospital, Chicago, Wednesday March 8, 1939.
Mrs. Chamberlain had been a resident of Chicago since 1850 and was the widow of William H. Chamberlain who died about 17 years ago.
She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. I. M. Thompson, pioneer residents of Vermilion County, and was born in Rossville, November 18, 1855. Her husband was a prominent Educator and in the 80’s was principal of the Catlin and later the Rossville High school.
Following their marriage in 1888 Mr. and Mrs. Chamberlain moved to Joliet where he was Superintendent of the school. In 1890 they moved to Chicago where he continued his work in schools.
A daughter, Minnie Chamberlain lives in Chicago. Two sisters, Mrs. Lena Bay, Attica, Ind., and Mrs. Harriett Morrow, Chicago also survive.
Funeral services were held in Chicago Friday morning and the body brought to Danville for interment in Springhill Cemetery. Short services were held at the grave at 2:30 p.m. Friday.
Mrs. Chamberlain was a school girl friend of Mrs., Margaret A. Mann.
Rossville Press, 16 Mar. 1939 Submitted by Mary
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