ARTER, Elmore
Source: Crawfordsville Journal Review 22 Jan 1951 p 3 typed by Walt W
Newtown --- Elmore Arter, 92, second oldest resident in Newtown, died at 6 o'clock Monday morning at the home of a daughter, Mrs. Fred Coleman. Born Jan. 19, 1859, in Newtown, Mr. Arter was the son of Jesse and Jane Scott Arter, pioneer Fountain county residents. He was the last of a family of eight children. He married Daisy Duncan Oct. 14, 1898. Mrs. Arter died Jan. 29, 1940. His entire life was spent in the home he built. A teacher in the Fountain county schools 20 years, Mr. Arter also was one of Fountain county's first rural mail carriers. He also was a former elder in the Covington Presbyterian church and a former superintendent of the Presbyterian Sunday schools in Covington and Newtown. Mr. Arter, who also was a talented musician, had conducted a singing school in this community many years. He was a charter member of the Newtown band and a former member of the Covington and Danville, Ill., battalion bands. In addition, he was the oldest member of Richland lodge, F. & A. M., and a member of the Knights of Pythias 53 years. He also was a member of the Moody choir in Chicago for a number of years. In the K. of P., he served as Sir Knight. Surviving, besides the daughter at whose home he died, is another daughter, Mrs. Isabel Moore, of Covington; a son, Duncan Arter, of Los Angeles, Cal.; eight grandchildren and 15 great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be held at 2 o'clock Wednesday afternoon at the Newtown Presbyterian church, with burial at the Newtown cemetery. Rev. Dean Luginbill will officiate. Friends may pay their respects at the home of Mrs. Coleman preceding the rites.
Source: Fountain County 1950s obituaries (Covington Library collection) – hand dated 1-22-1951
Elmore Arter, 92, last survivor of a pioneer family, died at 6 o’clock Monday morning at the home of a daughter, Mrs. Fred Coleman near Newtown. He died on the farm where he was born on Jan 19, 1859 and in the house where he was married in 1898. Mr. Arter was the son of Jesse and Jane Scott Arter and was the last member of that family of eight. His wife, the former Daisy Duncan of Covington died in 1940. Surviving him beside Mrs. Coleman is another daughter, Mrs. Isabelle Moore of Covington; a son, Duncan of Los Angeles, 8 grandchildren and 15 great grandchildren. He attended the old Covington Normal School and taught for about 20 years. He also had served as rural mail carrier and lived in Covington 35 years and the remainder of his life at Newtown. Mr. Arter was a musician who had been active for many years. He was a charter member of the Newtown band, the oldest in the oldest in the state when it disbanded several years ago and also had played in the Covington band as well as in the Danville Battalion Band. He had been a member of the Moody France Choir in Chicago and had been a member of organized choirs for 65 years. He had taught a singing school 70 years ago and never ceased to be interested in music. While living in Covington, he was an elder in the Presbyterian Church and had been superintendent of the Covington and Newtown Sunday Schools. For 53 years he had been a member of the Knights of Pythias and had served as First Knight of the Pythias Sisters of Newtown. He also was the oldest member of Richland Lodge of Free & Accepted Masons. Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Presbyterian Church in Newtown with burial in the Newtown cemetery. – thanks Brenda !