Lemuel Alexander Longfellow

Married Fonta Lee Smith March 5, 1903 and they had a daughter, Ruby born about 1909. Lived and worked in Taylor County, Iowa.

Funeral services for Lemuel A. [lexander] Longfellow, 89, long time Taylor County resident, were held September 9 at the State Street Shum-Novinger Funeral Home, conducted by Rev. J. Milton Kinney and Mr. Carl Cummings. Mr. Longfellow died September 6, 1967, at Clarinda Municipal Hospital. Interment was at Conway Cemetery, Conway.

Lemuel Longfellow, son of Mary [Josephine] Elder and Joseph [Purcell] Longfellow, was born at Muscatine, Iowa, July 19, 1878.

He was united in marriage to Fonta [Lee] Smith on March 5, 1903. To this union one daughter, Ruby Dale, was born.

He was the eldest of seven children. His parents, a sister, Lucy, and a brother, Henry, preceded him in death. He is survived by his wife; daughter; four brothers, Frank and Charley of Bedford; Joe of Perry, Iowa, Tom of Newberg, Oregon; and a host of relatives and friends.

As a young man, Lemuel joined the Conway, Iowa Methodist Church, and in his later years, after moving to Bedford, he had his membership moved to the Bedford Methodist Church.