OBITUARY: Lyman Alfred Montgomery, 1866-1906, Mitchell County, Iowa

[Mitchell County Press March 21, 1906]




                          Lyman Alfred Montgomery

Lyman Alfred Montgomery was born in Lowell, Wisconsin, February 1st. 1866.
He died at Santa Ana, California March 9th, '06.

He came to Osage, Iowa, with his father in 1878, where he lived until 1885,
when he went to Texas to live, and in 1893 was married to Miss Susan Kate
Mercer at LaPlanta, Texas.  They came to Osage and remained until September,
1904, when they returned to Texas and lived at Herford, at which place he
was postmaster until he went with his family to Santa Ana, California, in
1902, for their health.

Last summer he had a operation for a tumor in the head, but it proved to be
a cancer.

He suffered long and patiently.  On the 26th of January his father went to
help care for him.  He leaves a wife and five children, four girls and one
boy, the oldest, being about twelve years old. Beside these, a father, A.J.
Montgomery of Osage, and a sister, Mrs. Geo. F. Stillman of Stony Point,
Canada.

He was a member of the Odd Fellows' lodge at Herford, Texas, and was buried
at Santa Ana, California, March 10th, 1906.
                                


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