The News-Sentinel 1937 - Fulton County Public Library

Survivors are the widow; daughter, Mrs. Goldie OLDHAM, Logansport and two sons, George SEE of
Grass Creek and Russell SEE, of this city.
The funeral services will be held from the United Brethren church in Twelve Mile at 2 p.m. Sunday
with Rev. Russell STONEBERG in charge. Burial will be made in the cemetery at Twelve Mile.
Saturday, February 27, 1937
Mrs. Ellis REED received word this morning of the death of her only sister, Mrs. Mahaley SNYDER,
aged 91, which occurred at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Jessie LEIGHT at Kokomo. Death followed a
long illness due to complications incident to old age. The deceased’s husband was a veteran of the Civil
war. Mrs. Snyder had a number of friends in this city.
Relatives in this city have received word of the death of Mrs. Raymond TIPTON, who died in a
hospital in Chicago last Monday, following an operation. Death was due to pneumonia. Raymond TIPTON
was reared in this city and is nephew of Fred TIPTON.
Monday, March 1, 1937
Ephriam DRUDGE, aged 83, farmer of near Akron, while visiting in the home of his grandson, Walter
DRUDGE, near Claypool at 8 o’clock Sunday evening, met his death when he accidentally fell down a
cellarway.
The aged gentleman had been riding in an automobile with his grandson and wife. Mr. Drudge left the
lights on his car in such manner that they were directed on the back part of the Drudge farm home.
In the Drudge home the kitchen door and the callar door are beside each other. The aged man, not
being familiar with the home, opened the door leading to the cellar falling down the steps to the bottom, a
distance of about twenty feet.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter DRUDGE after going into their home waited for sometime for Mr. Drudge to
appear. After a reasonable time a search was instituted and the lifeless body of the aged man was found.
The coroner found that death was due to a broken neck.
The deceased who was a retired farmer had lived in the Mentone and Akron vicinities all of his life. He
was born near Mentone on September 18, 1853 and was a member of the Brethren church. His wife, who
was Martha HELSER, died twenty years ago.
Survivors are two daughters, Mrs. Foster HOFFMAN, Akron and Mrs. Otto DOUB, Silver Lake; two
sisters, Mrs. Louise FLITCRAFT, Peru and Mrs. Lon CURRY, Akron; five brothers, William [DRUDGE],
Rochester; Levi [DRUDGE], Leesburg; John [DRUDGE], Claypool; Frank [DRUDGE], Burket, and
Herman [DRUDGE] of Silver Lake; 15 grandchildren and 16 great-grandchildren.
The funeral services will be held at the South Pleasant church near Akron at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, with
Rev. Daniel YOUNG officiating. Interment will be in the South Pleasant cemetery.
Cleon R. HOLMES, aged 21, a former resident of Fulton, died at his home in Frankfort at 6 o’clock
Sunday morning after suffering an asthmatic attack which was of but twenty minutes duration.
The deceased had suffered with asthma for a number of years and had been in the west for