Bethany Republican Clopper January 9, 1924
Stephen B. Hartley was born July 25, 1845 in Green County Pa., and died December 26, 1923, at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Sadie Justice, Georgetown, Madison county, NY. after an illness of long duration. On March 26, 1874 she was united in marriage to Miss Emily Crago, of Green county, Pa. To this union were born four children. One son preceded him in infancy, one son, Elzie Hartley, now living in Lamoni, Ia., and two daughters, Mrs. Sadie Justice of Madison county, N.Y., and his youngest daughter, Elsie Hartley of Madison county NY. survive. Elsie was the one he looked to most for his constant care the last few years of his life. In 1871 he was baptized into the Baptist church, of Sugar Grove. In 1886 he left Pennsylvania and went to Malloy, Ringgold county, Iowa, where he lived until 1899, when he moved to a farm near Pawnee, Mo. In 1920 he and his daughter, Elsie , moved to New York state with his other daughter and her husband. There he remained until his death. All was done that loving hands could do, but his time had come to be called home to meet loved ones that had gone on before.
He leaves to mourn his departure, the one son, two daughters, two sisters, Adeline Seaton of Delhos, Iowa, and Elizabeth Garard, of Malloy, Iowa; also nine grandchildren of Lamoni, and a host of friends. Brief services were held at the late home on Friday, December 28th, Lewis N. Powell officiating. The family left on Saturday for Missouri, accompanying the body. The funeral sermon preached by Rev. Campbell, one of his old neighbors who knew him when a boy at Lone Rock church on Wednesday, January 2nd, at 2:00 p.m., and he was laid to rest by the side of his wife, who died in 1911 near his old home, which the family left before going to New York state. Sympathy is extended to the relatives
A precious one from us has gone,
A voice we love to hear.
A place is vacant in our home
Which never can be filled.
A FRIEND AND NEIGHBOR