Individual Details
Francis Merrion "Frank" Hosier
(3 Aug 1849 - 6 Apr 1903)
1880 United States Census shows them living at 4th Ward, Independence, Buchanan Co., Iowa. Wife is Mary W. Hosier, age 33, born in Pennsylvania and child Edna C. Hosier, age 9 months born in Iowa.
On the 1885 Iowa state census of Mallory Township, Clayton Co., F. M. Hosier appears wit his wife Mary, age 38 born in Pennsylvania, and daughter Edna, age 5 born in Delaware Co., Iowa. F. M. is a farmer.
In the January 21, 1887 issue of The Manchester Press, newspaper, F. M. Hosier was on the A. F. Sutterlee farm in Coffins Grove holding a sale and was removing to Hutchinson, Kansas.
Frank Hosier (F.M.) is at the U. S. Gen Web site for Reno Co., Kansas. He is listed in their on-line South Hutchinson City Directory for 1887-1888 as Hosier, Frank, occupation carpenter, home address: Ave F between Adams and Madison St.
1900 United States Census Frank Hosier is with his brother Elwood and Elwood's wife at Honey Creek Township Delaware Co., Iowa. Frank is listed as single and occupation is carpenter.
From The Manchester Press, Manchester, Iowa, 27 August 1902, Page 1: F. M. Hosier is carrying his right hand very gingerly in a sling, as he was the victim last Thursday. He was working for the Hoag boys, on their farm near Oneida, and while ascending a ladder in the barn to go into the mow he lost his balance and fell to the floor, a distance of twelve feet, badly spraining his right wrist and obliging him to take an enforced vacation. Mr. Hosier is a strictly temperate man, never taking anything stronger than root beer or a ham sandwich, so the fall was perfectly legitimate. It deprives him of work at good wages in the busy season, however.
Obituary from Manchester Press, Thursday, April 9, 1903, page 1: F. M. Hosier Suicide. The community was startled Monday morning by the news that F. M. Hosier, who occupied the Kelly farm near the Quaker Mill, north of Manchester, had committed suicide by hanging. It seems that Mr. Hosier, who has resided in the this part of the county for several years, had of late shown decided evidence of mental derangement. He had repeatedly threatened to take his own life, and had indeed been frustrated in two attempts prior to the successful one. On one occasion he was discovered in the attempt to end his life by hanging and at another time by drowning. On Monday Mr. Hosier went to the barn for the ostensible purpose of doing some work there. Mrs. Hosier, noticing his prolonged absence, went to the barn, to find her husband hanging from one of the beams in the cow barn dead, suspended a few feet from the ground by a strap. Sheriff Fishel and Coroner Lawrence were summoned, but the case was so clearly one of suicide that no inquest was held the funeral of the unfortunate man was held from his late residence yesterday afternoon. Rev. A. W. Caul of the Baptist church officiating. Mr. Hosier was 51 years of age and a man of quiet unassuming manner and of excellent reputation in the community. That insanity prompted him to end his existence there is not the slightest doubt, and the knowledge of this fact will constrain charitable remembrance of him. He is survived by his wife and two daughters, Miss Edna Hosier of the city and Mrs. McKinney of Waterloo.
On the 1885 Iowa state census of Mallory Township, Clayton Co., F. M. Hosier appears wit his wife Mary, age 38 born in Pennsylvania, and daughter Edna, age 5 born in Delaware Co., Iowa. F. M. is a farmer.
In the January 21, 1887 issue of The Manchester Press, newspaper, F. M. Hosier was on the A. F. Sutterlee farm in Coffins Grove holding a sale and was removing to Hutchinson, Kansas.
Frank Hosier (F.M.) is at the U. S. Gen Web site for Reno Co., Kansas. He is listed in their on-line South Hutchinson City Directory for 1887-1888 as Hosier, Frank, occupation carpenter, home address: Ave F between Adams and Madison St.
1900 United States Census Frank Hosier is with his brother Elwood and Elwood's wife at Honey Creek Township Delaware Co., Iowa. Frank is listed as single and occupation is carpenter.
From The Manchester Press, Manchester, Iowa, 27 August 1902, Page 1: F. M. Hosier is carrying his right hand very gingerly in a sling, as he was the victim last Thursday. He was working for the Hoag boys, on their farm near Oneida, and while ascending a ladder in the barn to go into the mow he lost his balance and fell to the floor, a distance of twelve feet, badly spraining his right wrist and obliging him to take an enforced vacation. Mr. Hosier is a strictly temperate man, never taking anything stronger than root beer or a ham sandwich, so the fall was perfectly legitimate. It deprives him of work at good wages in the busy season, however.
Obituary from Manchester Press, Thursday, April 9, 1903, page 1: F. M. Hosier Suicide. The community was startled Monday morning by the news that F. M. Hosier, who occupied the Kelly farm near the Quaker Mill, north of Manchester, had committed suicide by hanging. It seems that Mr. Hosier, who has resided in the this part of the county for several years, had of late shown decided evidence of mental derangement. He had repeatedly threatened to take his own life, and had indeed been frustrated in two attempts prior to the successful one. On one occasion he was discovered in the attempt to end his life by hanging and at another time by drowning. On Monday Mr. Hosier went to the barn for the ostensible purpose of doing some work there. Mrs. Hosier, noticing his prolonged absence, went to the barn, to find her husband hanging from one of the beams in the cow barn dead, suspended a few feet from the ground by a strap. Sheriff Fishel and Coroner Lawrence were summoned, but the case was so clearly one of suicide that no inquest was held the funeral of the unfortunate man was held from his late residence yesterday afternoon. Rev. A. W. Caul of the Baptist church officiating. Mr. Hosier was 51 years of age and a man of quiet unassuming manner and of excellent reputation in the community. That insanity prompted him to end his existence there is not the slightest doubt, and the knowledge of this fact will constrain charitable remembrance of him. He is survived by his wife and two daughters, Miss Edna Hosier of the city and Mrs. McKinney of Waterloo.
Events
| Birth | 3 Aug 1849 | New York |  | ||
| Marriage | 23 Mar 1875 | Delaware Co., Iowa - Hattie Hollar | | ||
| Marriage | 25 Aug 1878 | Manchester, Delaware Co., Iowa - Mary W. Hendrickson | | ||
| Marriage | 8 Sep 1902 | Manchester, Delaware Co., Iowa - Mary E. McClatchy | | ||
| Death | 6 Apr 1903 | Delaware Co., Iowa | | ||
| Burial | Unknown |
Families
| Spouse | Hattie Hollar ( - 1878) |
| Spouse | Mary W. Hendrickson (1847 - 1898) |
| Child | Edna Cordel Hosier (1879 - 1918) |
| Spouse | Mary E. McClatchy (1863 - ) |
| Father | John Carlie Hosier (1823 - 1910) |
| Mother | Olive Orinde Wright (1826 - 1880) |
| Sibling | Isaac "Elwood" Jefferson Hosier (1845 - 1925) |
| Sibling | Sidney William "Will" Wright Hosier (1851 - 1929) |
| Sibling | Phebe Mable Hosier (1853 - 1853) |
| Sibling | Ida Emma Isadore Hosier (1854 - 1940) |
| Sibling | John Ansel Hosier (1855 - 1855) |
| Sibling | Martha Armitie Hosier (1857 - 1933) |
| Sibling | Charles Edward Hosier (1858 - 1900) |
| Sibling | John Wesley Hosier (1860 - 1948) |
| Sibling | Mary Alice Hosier (1862 - 1870) |
| Sibling | Ada May Hosier (1863 - 1864) |
| Sibling | Samuel Ansel Hosier (1866 - 1901) |
| Sibling | Minnie Estella Hosier (1868 - 1906) |
| Sibling | Janne Olive Hosier (1872 - 1872) |
| Sibling | A. G. Hosier (1873 - 1873) |
Endnotes
1. Abigail Farris & James Clason By Fay Morehouse Medhaug, April 1987.
2. Abigail Farris & James Clason By Fay Morehouse Medhaug, April 1987, Page 213.
3. Estella Michels, Index of Manchester Press.
4. 1880 Census Buchanan Co., Iowa.
5. Family Search.
6. Abigail Farris & James Clason By Fay Morehouse Medhaug, April 1987, Page 213.
7. Family Search.
8. Manchester Press, Obituary of F. M. Hosier (n.p: Thursday April 9, 1903, Page 1, n.d).