Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 August 1919 — DEATH CAME FRIDAY P. M. [ARTICLE]

DEATH CAME FRIDAY P. M.

H. E. Parklson, Old and Highly Respected, Enters Eternal Rest. Harvey Edward Parklson, who had been lying at the point of death for some time, passed away at the family home on Vln Rensselaer street at about 3:30 o’clock Friday afternoon from cancer of the stomach. The funeral was held at the late residence at 3:30 o’clock Monday afternoon, services being conducted by Rev. E. W. Strecker of the Methodist church, and burial made in Weston cemetery. Mr. Parklson was born on the old Parklson homestead in Barkley township, October 7, 1851. He was united in marriage to Melvina C. Moore October 7, 1875, to which union was bom three children, Dr. Wallace M. Parklson of Idaho; Attorney W. H. Parklson of Lafayette, and Mrs. Howard Mills of this city, who with the wife, four grandchildren, Ardis, Helen and Lynn Parkison and Dorothy Jane Mills, three brothers, George, James and Addison Parklson, survive him. Mr. Parklson was one of Jasper county’s imost highly respected citizens and the entire community sympathizes with the family in their bereavement.