New find on Uriah Lamon

While digging around on Newspapers.com I found an obituary I had missed for my 2nd-great-grandfather, Uriah Allen Lamon. I had not thought to look in Iowa, so this was a surprise.

Quad-City Times, 20 June 1945.

According to the obituary, Uriah had moved to the Royal Neighbor home in Davenport, Iowa in January 1943. This was less than three years after the date of the letter he wrote in May 1940 to the daughter of his niece, Daisy Lamon. It appears the Royal Neighbor home was an assisted living facility. Davenport is right across the river from Rock Island, Illinois, about 110 miles from Fort Branch, Indiana and 100 miles from Indianapolis, Indiana. It is not clear to me why he would have gone to Davenport but maybe other family was in the area. It is also odd that the clipping does not mention his other son George, who was living in Huntingburg, Indiana at the time.

The obituary says he was born in Tennessee, but I know this is incorrect, he was born in Harrison County, Indiana. It does provide a birth date (9 June 1854), which I did not have before. Just like the article mentions, I found a Findagrave entry for a Uriah Allen Lamon buried in Fairmount Cemetery in Davenport, Iowa. A photo of the headstone is below:

Source: Findagrave.

This shows that headstone for him and wife Anna Smith Lamon in Clark Cemetery in Gibson County, Indiana is not where he was actually buried.