Harold Benjamin Connell ^{1 2 3 4 5 6}

  General Notes:

Harold Benjamin Connell was born on July 14, 1903 near Brooklyn, IA. He died on July 8, 1922. He was taken ill June 20 with acute appendicitis. Harold was taken St. Francis Hospital in Grinnell and underwent surgery. In the first 10 days his recovery was encouraging, but had to be operated on again. He only survived another day. He was removed to his home on Saturday awaiting funeral services on Sunday at the Church of the Brethren. Rev. J. Schechter, Ankeny, IA officiated and I. W. Brubaker of Prairie City assisted. He was buried in Brooklyn Memorial Cemetery, Brooklyn, IA. Services were at the Church of the Brethren. Sec. 9, Row 2. He became a member of the Church of the Brethren at age 13 and at the time of death was a member of the "Volunteers." He was planning to pursue a medical missionary. He graduated from Brooklyn High School in 1922.

(Source: Ancestry.com, http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~connell/index38.htm, Accessed 9 Feb 2014)
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  Noted events in his life were:

• He appeared on the 1910 US Census in Warren Township, Poweshiek County, IA on April 1910. ⁴

Sheet 6B, District 127, Household 106
Warren Township, Poweshiek County, Iowa
Son..Hearald Benjiman Connell..6..IA
(Living with parents.)
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• He appeared on the 1920 US Census in Warren Township, Poweshiek County, IA on January 1920. ⁵

Sheet 5A, District 139, Household 97
Warren Township, Poweshiek County, Iowa
Son..Harald Connell..16..IA
(Living with parents.)
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• He was buried on 9 July 1922 in the Brooklyn Memorial in Brooklyn, IA.

Plot: Block VIII lot 26
Find A Grave Memorial #82112159
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• His obituary was published in the Brooklyn Chronicle on 13 July 1922 in Brooklyn, IA.

⁶ Harold Benjamin Connell, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Connell, was born August 14th, 1903 in their present home, and departed this life July 8th, 1922, age 18 years, ten months and twenty-four days. He was taken sick June 20th, with what proved the next day to be a very bad case of appendicitis, and he was taken immediately to the Saint Francis hospital in Grinnell, where he underwent an operation. For the first ten days his recovery seemed to be very hopeful, but at the end of this time, a painful disturbance began in the lower back part of his abdomen and this led to another operation on Thursday morning and his condition became very serious. For a time he seemed to hold his own, but as Friday evening came it became quite evident that he was losing ground rapidly, and all that human hands could do was done to no avail and he gradually grew weaker until 12:45 AM Saturday when he entered into his final rest. As soon as arrangements could be made the body was removed to his home four miles east of Brooklyn awaiting the funeral service which took place from the Church of the Brethren at 2:30 PM, Sunday, and the body was laid to rest in the Brooklyn cemetery, Rev. J. Schechter officiating, of Ankeny, Iowa, and I. W. Brubaker, of Prairie City.

Harold was a wide awake, ambitious youth with high ideals and a large vision, balanced will and held steady by a strong Christian character. He became a Christian and united with the Church of the Brethren about seven years ago and was a member of the "Volunteers," and has cherished in his heart the hopes of pursuing such a course of preparation as to fit himself for a medical missionary, and be ready to enter that profession in some foreign field. He is also a member of the senior class of 1922 of the Brooklyn high school and is the first one to be called from their group to death. The class was present in a body at the funeral to share in the sorrows of our loss. His immediate relatives surviving him are his parents; one brother, Glenn; two sisters, Mrs. Dr. Siemens, of Calgary, Alberta, Canada; and Ina Connell, of Brooklyn and one grandparent, Mrs. Tamar Keysor. These with many distant relatives and friends remain to mourn his going. He is gone but not forgotten. He will ever live in the memory of his friends in whom there has been cast a contribution from his character. The many beautiful flowers and the presence of a vast crowd at the funeral is an index to the esteem in which the departed was held.

The following young men were selected from his companions and acted as pall bearers, Ross Connell, Ray Schechter, Cloid Lyman, Lester Breniman, Albert Uhl, and Everett Breneman.

(Source: Brooklyn Chronicle, Brooklyn, Iowa, 13 Jul 1922)
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