In Memoriam March 23rd

1592 Thomas Perkins buried.  He was the son of Henry Perkins.  Thomas married Alice Kebbell and they had eight children: Henry, John, Edward, Luke, William, Thomas, Isaac and Francis.

1808 Rachel Clark age 65 she was born in 1743 the daughter of James & Anne (Wood) Clark.

1925 Emily (Smith) Fitzgerald age 86 in Iola, Illinois of a cerebral hemorrhage.  She was born in Ohio 1838 the daughter of James & Elizabeth (Tewalt) Smith.  Emily married William Fitzgerald in Clay Co., IL in 1856 and they had fifteen children:  James, Mary, John, Stewart, Wakeman, David, De Lafayette, Mary, twins Laura & Flaura, Howard, Margaret, Pearl, Emily and William.  She is buried in the Iola Cemetery.

1938 John Edward Fitzgerald, son of William H. and Emily Fitzgerald was born in Clay County, Illinois, September, 2, 1859 and departed this life at his home in Iola, Illinois March 23, 1938 at the age of 78 years, 6 months and 21 days.

He was united in marriage to Louisa Francis Scott in 1879.  To this union was born thirteen children, six preceding him in death.  He leaves to mourn his departure, his wife and seven children.  Fred Fitzgerald, Bloomingon, Illinois, Esta Fitzgerald, Iola, Illinois, Mrs. Pearl Krutsinger, Louisville, Illinois, Mrs. R.B. Mitchell, Louisville, Illinois, Mrs. Hugh Holloway, Rochelle, Illinois, Mrs. Burton Gibson, Akron, Ohio and Mrs. Ray Weidner, Springfield, Illinois.  Also eighteen grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.  Three brothers and three sisters, those being S.J. Fitzgerald, Hoosier, W.F. Fitzgerald, Iola, Pearl Fitzgerald, Farina, Mrs. Louis Wolfe, Louisville, Mrs. John Woods, Flora, Mrs. Oscar Burgess, Flora, and a host of other relatives and friends.

The clock of life is wound but once, and no man has the power to tell just when the hands will stop, at late or early hour.  Now is the only time you own.  Live, love and toil with a will.  Place no faith in tomorrow, for the clock may then be still.