Bedford Free Press, Thursday January 1, 1903 p. 4
OBITUARY - Albert Cook Ballou was born in Chenango County, New York, December 15, 1831, and died at the home of his brother, Geo. Ballou, at Bedford, Iowa, at 5:25 p. m., December 26, 1902.
He was married to Miss Celia M. Pudney at Norwich, N. Y., February 22, 1867. To this union were born three sons and one daughter. Two of the sons, Edwin and Charles, preceded the father to the spirit world, Charles dying young and Edwin, a young married man, died a little over a year ago. Lillian Irene, the daughter, is a teacher in the deaf and dumb institute at Scranton, Pa. The remaining son, George H., of Woodberry, Ia., was present, also his sister, Mrs. Rockwell. Mr. Ballou has been afflicted for some three years. He has been with his brother in this city since last April, coming here from Oklahoma, and has received every attention possible; kind hands ministered to his every want.
The funeral exercises were conducted at the home Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock by Rev. Griffith. The body was then taken in charge by the Masons of Bedford and laid away in Bedford cemetery under the imposing rites of the order of which he was a member. The bereaved ones have the sympathy of all in the loss of a dear one.
OBITUARY - Albert Cook Ballou was born in Chenango County, New York, December 15, 1831, and died at the home of his brother, Geo. Ballou, at Bedford, Iowa, at 5:25 p. m., December 26, 1902.
He was married to Miss Celia M. Pudney at Norwich, N. Y., February 22, 1867. To this union were born three sons and one daughter. Two of the sons, Edwin and Charles, preceded the father to the spirit world, Charles dying young and Edwin, a young married man, died a little over a year ago. Lillian Irene, the daughter, is a teacher in the deaf and dumb institute at Scranton, Pa. The remaining son, George H., of Woodberry, Ia., was present, also his sister, Mrs. Rockwell. Mr. Ballou has been afflicted for some three years. He has been with his brother in this city since last April, coming here from Oklahoma, and has received every attention possible; kind hands ministered to his every want.
The funeral exercises were conducted at the home Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock by Rev. Griffith. The body was then taken in charge by the Masons of Bedford and laid away in Bedford cemetery under the imposing rites of the order of which he was a member. The bereaved ones have the sympathy of all in the loss of a dear one.
Bedford Free Press, Thursday January 1, 1903 p. 4
OBITUARY - Albert Cook Ballou was born in Chenango County, New York, December 15, 1831, and died at the home of his brother, Geo. Ballou, at Bedford, Iowa, at 5:25 p. m., December 26, 1902.
He was married to Miss Celia M. Pudney at Norwich, N. Y., February 22, 1867. To this union were born three sons and one daughter. Two of the sons, Edwin and Charles, preceded the father to the spirit world, Charles dying young and Edwin, a young married man, died a little over a year ago. Lillian Irene, the daughter, is a teacher in the deaf and dumb institute at Scranton, Pa. The remaining son, George H., of Woodberry, Ia., was present, also his sister, Mrs. Rockwell. Mr. Ballou has been afflicted for some three years. He has been with his brother in this city since last April, coming here from Oklahoma, and has received every attention possible; kind hands ministered to his every want.
The funeral exercises were conducted at the home Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock by Rev. Griffith. The body was then taken in charge by the Masons of Bedford and laid away in Bedford cemetery under the imposing rites of the order of which he was a member. The bereaved ones have the sympathy of all in the loss of a dear one.
OBITUARY - Albert Cook Ballou was born in Chenango County, New York, December 15, 1831, and died at the home of his brother, Geo. Ballou, at Bedford, Iowa, at 5:25 p. m., December 26, 1902.
He was married to Miss Celia M. Pudney at Norwich, N. Y., February 22, 1867. To this union were born three sons and one daughter. Two of the sons, Edwin and Charles, preceded the father to the spirit world, Charles dying young and Edwin, a young married man, died a little over a year ago. Lillian Irene, the daughter, is a teacher in the deaf and dumb institute at Scranton, Pa. The remaining son, George H., of Woodberry, Ia., was present, also his sister, Mrs. Rockwell. Mr. Ballou has been afflicted for some three years. He has been with his brother in this city since last April, coming here from Oklahoma, and has received every attention possible; kind hands ministered to his every want.
The funeral exercises were conducted at the home Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock by Rev. Griffith. The body was then taken in charge by the Masons of Bedford and laid away in Bedford cemetery under the imposing rites of the order of which he was a member. The bereaved ones have the sympathy of all in the loss of a dear one.
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