AT REST. We take the following obituary of S. T. Buckman, father of Mr. F. A. Buckman, from the Adel, Iowa, News. Mr. Buckman who left on Tuesday morning of last week, did not arrive in time to see his father before called hence. Mr. Buckman was quite well know to many of our readers having spent a couple of weeks among us last summer. Mr. Buckman's mother still continues quite low and is prostrated with grief. Died. At his home at Adel on Tuesday, Dec. 17, 1901, Mr Solon Tobias Buckman, age 78 years and 12 days. Mr. Buckman was born in Morristown, N. Y. in 1823. He was married Nov. 28, 1848 to Adelaide Machen at Janesville, Wisconsin. For a number of years they lived at and near Stoughton, Wisconsin., during a part of which time he was engaged in farming and also in mercantile business. In September 1869 he and his family came to this county locating on a farm in Colfax Township. Twenty=three years ago Mr. Buckman moved from the farm to Adel and engaged in the hardware and grocery business, remaining in it for twenty years. About two years ago he retired from business on account of advancing years and poor health. His last sickness was of only a week's duration and was the result of a number of ailments from which he had had a number of attacks before this one. For several days the end had been looked for and it came yesterday afternoon. Mr. Buckman was a member of the M. E. Church. His long life here of thirty two years had won for him the respect of all who knew him. He was a man of upright character, honest in his dealings with men, a citizen of worth to the community in which he resided. He had reached an age beyond the usual allotment of human life and his closing years had been spent in peaceful enjoyment of his home. Like a well ripened sheaf of grain he has been garnered from the fields of earth to the rest that remains to those who in faith look for another and a better country. The writer of these lines made the acquaintance of Mr. Buckman when he first came to this county, being then engaged in farming in the same township in which he located. That acquaintance had ripened through the passing years into a warm friendship and we have received from him many words of encouragement and commendation in the editorial work upon this paper. That friendship has always been highly appreciated. Mr. Buckman leaves two sisters and five brothers surviving, he being the first of the family of children to die except two brothers who died in the war. There also survive him his wife, two sons, Frank and Will and three daughters, Mrs. H. L. England of Templeton, S. D., Mrs Don Carlos of Greenfield, Mrs E. A. Daves of Adel, all of who are here except Mrs. England. The funeral services will be held at the M. E. Church tomorrow afternoon at 2:30, conducted by Rev. H. H. Barton and the Masonic fraternity. This entire community has sustained a loss in the death of Mr. Buckman and News an ardent friend.

Source: Newspaper Article, Family Records, by Della Pearl Lyndia Buckman, 1902