DARNELL, Thomas M. (1833-1910)

DARNELL

Posted By: Karon Velau (email)
Date: 10/6/2017 at 16:45:34

Thomas Marion Darnell
(August 11, 1833 – March 9, 1910)

Advocate Tribune, Indianola, Iowa, Thurs., Mar 17, 1910, p.3
Obituary
T. M. Darnell was born in Indiana, Aug 11, 1833, and died March 9, 1910, near Indianola, Iowa, aged seventy-six years, six months and twenty-eight days. When a child he moved with his parents to Illinois. In Feb. 1857 he was married to M. J. Strong. To this union two children were born, Chas. W. and Geo. S. Darnell, who survive him. On June 11, 1882, he was married to Mrs. S. B. Swafford of Oneida, Ill. From 1860 to 1882 he lived on a farm in Warren County, Iowa. In 1882 he moved to a farm in Madison County where he lived till 1888. Since 1888 he had live in Winterset, Iowa. He went to Seattle, Wash. to spend the winter, and while visiting at his son George’s on his way home was taken sick and died after a brief illness of only twenty-four hours. The funeral exercises were conducted from the home of Geo. S. Darnell, Friday, March 11, at 1 p.m. The interment was in the Indianola Cemetery.