Person:James Lumley (2)

    Aged Franklin Resident Dies
   James Lumley Farmed Near Chapin For Years
   CHAPIN -- Funeral services were to be held Tuesday for James Coughlain Lumley, 88, one of Franklin counties oldest residents, who died at his home in Hampton Saturday.
   Rites were to be at the Johnson funeral home in Hampton at 2:30 p.m. with burial in the family lot of the old Chapin cemetery.
   Mr. Lumley, son of Coughlain and Fannie Lumley, was born at Nova Scotia, Canada, Feb. 14, 1857, and came to Iowa when but a small boy with his widowed mother, sisters and brothers, and located west of Chapin.
   During the most of his lifetime he was engaged in farming, except for three years at Tencup, Colo., where he was engaged in mining. He returned to this vicinity by covered wagon in 1885.
   Like many of the old settlers he helped to improve acres of timber land witnessing the growth and development of this county from tackless prairies and woods to one of the best agriculture sections of Iowa.
   He moved from his farm west of Chapin to Hampton in 1914. He was married Dec. 31, 1881, at Chapin to Alice Irene Crawford, who died 16 years ago.
   To this union were born 7 daughters and 3 sons. They were Mrs. Frances Woodward and Mrs. Grace Woodward of Mason City; Mrs. Goldie Crawford, Mrs. Iva Miller and Ray L. Lumley, all of Hampton; Mrs. Amber Froning of Chapin; Mrs. Rosa Von Epps ofRockwell and Mrs. Maude Zeiger of Sheffield. A son Gideon Lumley, died in infancy.
   Mr. Lumley was married to Mrs. Myra Brockman of Guthrie Center May 20, 1930, who with his children and 20 grandchildren survives. The deceased was a member of the Methodist church, the Masonic lodge and the Modern Woodsmen of America.
   Franklin County Recorder -- July 1945

   The family lived at Franklin county, IA in 1900, 1910 and 1920.