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Aug 6, 1937 - Carroll Daily - Death claimed Burket L. Hart, 92, retired carpenter and cabinet maker, at 9:20 o'clock Friday morning at the St. Anthony hospital. The direct cause of Mr. Hart's death was a broken hip, which he received in a fall at the home of his daughter, Mrs. J.N. Traner, about midnight Tuesday. Aside from impaired hearing, Mr. Hart had enjoyed good health until the last year, and had led an active life during all of that time. The past three months, however, he had failed rapidly. Last week he suffered a slight stroke and...
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Aug 6, 1937 - Carroll Daily - Death claimed Burket L. Hart, 92, retired carpenter and cabinet maker, at 9:20 o'clock Friday morning at the St. Anthony hospital. The direct cause of Mr. Hart's death was a broken hip, which he received in a fall at the home of his daughter, Mrs. J.N. Traner, about midnight Tuesday. Aside from impaired hearing, Mr. Hart had enjoyed good health until the last year, and had led an active life during all of that time. The past three months, however, he had failed rapidly. Last week he suffered a slight stroke and the supposition is that he suffered another slight stroke at the time he fell.
It is only eight years since Mr. Hart entirely retired from his trade as contractor, carpenter, and cabinet maker. In recent years he busied himself about his daughter's home and derived pleasure from working in the garden and caring for the lawn. This year was the first that he had not spaded the garden. An inveterate reader, who never used glasses, he spent much of his time reading until the past year. This was one of his favorite pastimes.
The body will be taken from the Gregory funeral home to the home of Mrs. J.N. Traner, at 608 North East street, Saturday morning. Funeral services will be held at 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon at Mrs. Traner's home, with the Rev. Claude R. Cook, minister of the Methodist church, officiating. Burial will be beside his wife in the family lot in the Carroll cemetery.
Mr. Hart, son of Mr. and Mrs. James Hart, was born in Ohio on March 22, 1845. In early boyhood he went to Indiana, where he was living at the time of his marriage to Miss Rebecca Nelson, which took place at LaGrange, Ind., on April 17, 1866. Mr. and Mrs. Hart continued to live in Indiana for four years before deciding to come west. The journey, which was a slow, hazardous one, was made in a covered wagon.
Locating on a farm near the present site of the town of Templeton, they lived there for nine years. In 1879 they came to Carroll to make their home at the corner of West First and Adams streets, the present site of the William Pietig residence. Here Mr. Hart lived until five years ago, when he went to the home of his daughter, Mrs. J.N. Traner. Mrs. Hart died Oct. 21, 1930. Mr. Hart was the builder of many of the substantial structures of Carroll.
Survivors include his daughter, Mrs. J.N. (Lillie) Traner, of Carroll, one son, Bert Hart, of Yankton, S.D., three grandchildren, eight great grandchildren and two great great grandchildren. He was one of a family of eight children, five brothers and three sisters, of whom the only survivor is a brother, Oliver Hart, of Omaha. A sister, Mrs. George Guy of Carroll, died in May, 1933, and a brother, Sam Hart, who was a Carroll architect for a long peried of time, died in California several years ago.
Mr. Hart was also preceded in death by a son, Oscar, who passed away April 13, 1934, and a daughter, Mrs. Jennie Burrington, who died about 37 years ago.
Mrs. Oscar Hart, who lives at Sioux City, is here now, and Ray Traner of Sioux City, a grandson of the deceased, will arrive Saturday morning. |
