Death of Gideon Underwood Dooley

Stoutsville's Oldest Citizen Joins the Great Silent Majority

Stoutsville Banner

Gideon Underwood Dooley died at his home in this place, Monday, Nov.  
14, 1892 at 12 m.  As is well known to every citizen of this community, 
he has been in feeble health for a number of years, and it was this, 
with general debility and extreme old age, that took him off.  He was 
taken ill Saturday night and grew worse until death came on Monday.  
Mr. Dooley came to Missouri in 1831, from Madison county, Kentucky, and 
except the second season after he came here, which he spent in 
Kentucky, has lived her ever since near this place.  Born in 1809, he 
was 22 years of age when he came here, and in his 84th year when he 
died, having been a resident of Missouri and Monroe County 61 years.
The funeral sermon was preached in the Missionary Baptist Church in 
this city Tuesday afternoon, by the pastor of the Stoutsville 
congregation, Rev. R. T. Colborn, after which the remains were buried 
in the private burying ground on the deceased's farm, one-half mile 
northwest of town.  An old landmark has gone the way of all the earth.  
Peace be unto his ashes and comfort to the bereaved. (Source: Paris 
Mercury dtd November 23, 1892)


Submitted by: Debra Branigan of St. Inigoes, MD