Rock Island County IL Archives Obituaries.....Markland, W. P. June 17, 1937
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Jackson Sentinel, June 22, 1937


    Jackson Sentinel, June 22, 1937

    Funeral Services For W. P. Markland Held Sunday

    Funeral services for William Parker Markland, 80, one of Maquoketa's oldest
residents, who passed away at his home on West Locust street Thursday afternoon
following several months illness, were held at the Harrison funeral home at 2:30
o'clock Sunday afternoon. Rev. George F. Baraslou, pastor of the Congregational
church and Rev. H. H. Dill pastor of the Methodist church officiated and members
of the I. O. O. F. lodge had charge of the committal service. Interment was made
in Mt. Hope cemetery.

    William Parker Markland was born on the prairies of Clinton county, near
Grand Mound on August 25, 1856, the son of Sylvester and Margaret Markland,
pioneer settlers who came from Indiana about 1850. His father volunteered his
services for the Union and became Captain of Company F, 26th Iowa Infantry,
dying of wounds on September 13, 1864.

    With his mother and sisters Mr. Markland remained on the farm until about
1870. In 1880 he was united in marriage to Ida J. Clutier of Maquoketa and for
ten years the couple resided on a farm. In 1890 they moved to Maquoketa where
they lived for the rest of their lives. For thirty years Mr. Markland was a
traveling salesman for a Pennsylvania road machinery company, later joining the
Sparks Nursery Company and was very successful in the sale of fruit trees and
other nursery stock. He was of jovial nature and a kind and loving husband and
father. Surviving are the son, Lyle, who for several year has resided at home, a
grandson Norman Markland of Moline, Illinois, a sister, Mrs. F. B. Bradley and
her children, Neal, and Mildred and Mrs. Blanche McAndrews, all of Silver Creek,
New York and two senior sisters, Mrs. Rose Harman of DeWitt and Mrs. Alice
Harman of Colorado Springs, Colorado.



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