This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Bourn, Parcell, Zahner, Robinson, Teeter Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/0k.2ADE/3244 Message Board Post: Missouri Valley Times, April 22, 1909 Death of Modale Pioneer Modale, Ia., April 18 -- This city was schocked yesterday afternoon by the announcement of the sudden death of William H. Bourn Sr., one of its oldest and most respected citizens. The deceased had not been in good health for some months but had been confined to his home less than a week and only yesterday morning was reported better. Heart failure was the immediate cause of his death. Mr.Bourn was born in Lancanshire, England, August 1, 1830 coming to the United States with the parents and settling in Indiana in 1850. In 1854 he left home, coming west to Council Bluffs, where he worked several months hauling brick across the river to the present site of Omaha. In the spring of1855 he came to Harrison county and began work for T. A. Dennis, who ran a saw mill about three miles northwest of the present site of Modale and near which place he afterwards secured the land which now comprises his fine farm. In 1859 with a party he drove through to Oregon with an emigrant tra! in, it taking them some four months to make the trip one way. He returned to this county in 1860 and has been a resident of this vicinity since. Mr. Bourn, in August 1863, enlisted in Company C, Twenty-Ninth Iowa Infantry, and saw three years of very active service in the south. In 1861 he was united in marriage to Miss Rebecca Parcell, who survive him together with the following children: Will H. and Thomas T., Mrs. Nettie Zahner of Modale, Albert Bourn and Mrs. Claude Robinson, of Council Bluffs, Dr. John J. Bourn of Hannibal, Mo, and Mrs. Emma Teeter of Boise, Idaho. The funeral arrangements have not been made, awaiting the advice of the daughter in Idaho. Respectfully submitted for other researchers.