John Halley
HE LIVED EIGHTY FOUR YEARS.
John Halley died on last Saturday afternoon at the home of his son, William Halley, one mile
east of town. The immediate cause of his death was a severe fall, received just one week
previous. The funeral was held on last Sunday afternoon, at the Halley residence, Rev. Z.W.
Steele conducting the services. John Halley was born in Virginia, December 12, 1811, and
died July 27, 1895, at the age of eighty-four years. He had resided in Iowa since 1853, and
he and his aged wife have, for the past five or six years, made their home with their son,
near Manning.