"J. C. Negley
John Calvin Negley was born at Markelsburg, Penna, June 22, 1850, died at his home in Decatur, Iowa, December 24, 1916, after a lingering illness of over two years.
He moved with his parents to Illinois in 1865. In 1871 he was united in marriage to Mary A. Fisher, to this union were born 9 children, Charles, who died in infancy. On March 1, 1873, he moved to Iowa settling on a farm west of Decatur, where the other eight children were all born. Mrs. Cora Buckingham, Mrs. Etta Campbell, Mrs. Ruth Wells, Mrs. Cliff Lloyd, Harry, Will, Oliver and Reuben Negley, all of whom were with their father in his last sickness. Besides the children are the wife, two brothers, Cyrus [Josiah] of Eldorado, Neb., and David of Decatur, and one sister, Mrs. Will Kelley of Beaconsfield, Iowa, eighteen grandchildren, two great-grandchildren and a host of friends to mourn his departure.
Funeral services were conducted at the M. E. church Tuesday, Dec. 26, 1916, by the pastor Rev. F. H. Perkins, interment being in the Decatur cemetery."
Source: Leon Reporter, January 25, 1917, pg 3
John Calvin Negley was born at Markelsburg, Penna, June 22, 1850, died at his home in Decatur, Iowa, December 24, 1916, after a lingering illness of over two years.
He moved with his parents to Illinois in 1865. In 1871 he was united in marriage to Mary A. Fisher, to this union were born 9 children, Charles, who died in infancy. On March 1, 1873, he moved to Iowa settling on a farm west of Decatur, where the other eight children were all born. Mrs. Cora Buckingham, Mrs. Etta Campbell, Mrs. Ruth Wells, Mrs. Cliff Lloyd, Harry, Will, Oliver and Reuben Negley, all of whom were with their father in his last sickness. Besides the children are the wife, two brothers, Cyrus [Josiah] of Eldorado, Neb., and David of Decatur, and one sister, Mrs. Will Kelley of Beaconsfield, Iowa, eighteen grandchildren, two great-grandchildren and a host of friends to mourn his departure.
Funeral services were conducted at the M. E. church Tuesday, Dec. 26, 1916, by the pastor Rev. F. H. Perkins, interment being in the Decatur cemetery."
Source: Leon Reporter, January 25, 1917, pg 3
"J. C. Negley
John Calvin Negley was born at Markelsburg, Penna, June 22, 1850, died at his home in Decatur, Iowa, December 24, 1916, after a lingering illness of over two years.
He moved with his parents to Illinois in 1865. In 1871 he was united in marriage to Mary A. Fisher, to this union were born 9 children, Charles, who died in infancy. On March 1, 1873, he moved to Iowa settling on a farm west of Decatur, where the other eight children were all born. Mrs. Cora Buckingham, Mrs. Etta Campbell, Mrs. Ruth Wells, Mrs. Cliff Lloyd, Harry, Will, Oliver and Reuben Negley, all of whom were with their father in his last sickness. Besides the children are the wife, two brothers, Cyrus [Josiah] of Eldorado, Neb., and David of Decatur, and one sister, Mrs. Will Kelley of Beaconsfield, Iowa, eighteen grandchildren, two great-grandchildren and a host of friends to mourn his departure.
Funeral services were conducted at the M. E. church Tuesday, Dec. 26, 1916, by the pastor Rev. F. H. Perkins, interment being in the Decatur cemetery."
Source: Leon Reporter, January 25, 1917, pg 3
John Calvin Negley was born at Markelsburg, Penna, June 22, 1850, died at his home in Decatur, Iowa, December 24, 1916, after a lingering illness of over two years.
He moved with his parents to Illinois in 1865. In 1871 he was united in marriage to Mary A. Fisher, to this union were born 9 children, Charles, who died in infancy. On March 1, 1873, he moved to Iowa settling on a farm west of Decatur, where the other eight children were all born. Mrs. Cora Buckingham, Mrs. Etta Campbell, Mrs. Ruth Wells, Mrs. Cliff Lloyd, Harry, Will, Oliver and Reuben Negley, all of whom were with their father in his last sickness. Besides the children are the wife, two brothers, Cyrus [Josiah] of Eldorado, Neb., and David of Decatur, and one sister, Mrs. Will Kelley of Beaconsfield, Iowa, eighteen grandchildren, two great-grandchildren and a host of friends to mourn his departure.
Funeral services were conducted at the M. E. church Tuesday, Dec. 26, 1916, by the pastor Rev. F. H. Perkins, interment being in the Decatur cemetery."
Source: Leon Reporter, January 25, 1917, pg 3
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