Henry Wagner Clemens Obituary - From the Jocelyn Faris Collection. Newspaper article appears with the permission of the Seymour Herald. Courtesy of techwriter777.
The Seymour Herald, June 10, 1920, p. 1:
"OBITUARY - Henry Wagner Clemens, son of John and Amanda Clemens, was born in Lebanon County, Penn., August 21, 1852, and died June 3, 1920, at his home in Seymour, Ia., aged 67 years, 9 months and 12 days.
He moved to Illinois in the spring of 1860 where he lived until coming to a farm near Seymour, in 1903.
He was married to Mary Elizabeth Wharton, December 31, 1873, and to this union were born five children, three of whom have died, David, Harley and Francis.
He is survived by his wife and two children, Donald E. of Seymour and Jessie A. Howes of Los Angeles, Cal.
Brother Clemens was converted in the Evangelical church at Florid, Illinois, in early boyhood. Later he became a member of the First Congregational Church of Granville, Illinois, where he held his membership until placing it in the Methodist Church in Seymour.
Besides his immediate family he leaves two sisters and one brother, and his aged mother in Chanute, Kans., with many other relatives and friends to mourn his loss.
Funeral services were conducted from the M. E. Church Sunday afternoon at 2:30 by his pastor, Rev. J. F. Bingaman. Interment in Southlawn."
The Seymour Herald, June 10, 1920, p. 1:
"OBITUARY - Henry Wagner Clemens, son of John and Amanda Clemens, was born in Lebanon County, Penn., August 21, 1852, and died June 3, 1920, at his home in Seymour, Ia., aged 67 years, 9 months and 12 days.
He moved to Illinois in the spring of 1860 where he lived until coming to a farm near Seymour, in 1903.
He was married to Mary Elizabeth Wharton, December 31, 1873, and to this union were born five children, three of whom have died, David, Harley and Francis.
He is survived by his wife and two children, Donald E. of Seymour and Jessie A. Howes of Los Angeles, Cal.
Brother Clemens was converted in the Evangelical church at Florid, Illinois, in early boyhood. Later he became a member of the First Congregational Church of Granville, Illinois, where he held his membership until placing it in the Methodist Church in Seymour.
Besides his immediate family he leaves two sisters and one brother, and his aged mother in Chanute, Kans., with many other relatives and friends to mourn his loss.
Funeral services were conducted from the M. E. Church Sunday afternoon at 2:30 by his pastor, Rev. J. F. Bingaman. Interment in Southlawn."
Henry Wagner Clemens Obituary - From the Jocelyn Faris Collection. Newspaper article appears with the permission of the Seymour Herald. Courtesy of techwriter777.
The Seymour Herald, June 10, 1920, p. 1:
"OBITUARY - Henry Wagner Clemens, son of John and Amanda Clemens, was born in Lebanon County, Penn., August 21, 1852, and died June 3, 1920, at his home in Seymour, Ia., aged 67 years, 9 months and 12 days.
He moved to Illinois in the spring of 1860 where he lived until coming to a farm near Seymour, in 1903.
He was married to Mary Elizabeth Wharton, December 31, 1873, and to this union were born five children, three of whom have died, David, Harley and Francis.
He is survived by his wife and two children, Donald E. of Seymour and Jessie A. Howes of Los Angeles, Cal.
Brother Clemens was converted in the Evangelical church at Florid, Illinois, in early boyhood. Later he became a member of the First Congregational Church of Granville, Illinois, where he held his membership until placing it in the Methodist Church in Seymour.
Besides his immediate family he leaves two sisters and one brother, and his aged mother in Chanute, Kans., with many other relatives and friends to mourn his loss.
Funeral services were conducted from the M. E. Church Sunday afternoon at 2:30 by his pastor, Rev. J. F. Bingaman. Interment in Southlawn."
The Seymour Herald, June 10, 1920, p. 1:
"OBITUARY - Henry Wagner Clemens, son of John and Amanda Clemens, was born in Lebanon County, Penn., August 21, 1852, and died June 3, 1920, at his home in Seymour, Ia., aged 67 years, 9 months and 12 days.
He moved to Illinois in the spring of 1860 where he lived until coming to a farm near Seymour, in 1903.
He was married to Mary Elizabeth Wharton, December 31, 1873, and to this union were born five children, three of whom have died, David, Harley and Francis.
He is survived by his wife and two children, Donald E. of Seymour and Jessie A. Howes of Los Angeles, Cal.
Brother Clemens was converted in the Evangelical church at Florid, Illinois, in early boyhood. Later he became a member of the First Congregational Church of Granville, Illinois, where he held his membership until placing it in the Methodist Church in Seymour.
Besides his immediate family he leaves two sisters and one brother, and his aged mother in Chanute, Kans., with many other relatives and friends to mourn his loss.
Funeral services were conducted from the M. E. Church Sunday afternoon at 2:30 by his pastor, Rev. J. F. Bingaman. Interment in Southlawn."
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