Sterling Price Vestal 

Notes 

Sterling Price Vestal, seventy-eight years old, retired farmer 
and former deputy sheriff here, died last night at his home, 
1023 1/2 Charles Street, after an illness of six weeks. 

Mr. Vestal was born in the southern part of Buchanan County on his 
grandfather's farm. He was the youngest of eight children. He later moved 
to Dearborn to operate a hotel there and in 1911 came to St. Joseph. 
He was deputy sheriff here under Jim Hall from 1896 to 1900 and was 
head of the county detention home for six years during the World War. 

Surviving him are his wife, Mrs. Lydia C. Vestal; two sons, L. H. Vestal 
of St. Joseph and W. F. Vestal of Sheridan, Wyo; three daughters, Mrs. 
Pearl Edds and Mrs. Jewell Johnston both of St. Joseph and Mrs. J. A. Shifflett 
of St. Louis. He was a member of the Baptist Church. The 
body is at Fleeman's Funeral home.

St. Joseph Gazette (MO) Tuesday October 22, 1940