BULMAN, George W. SR 1839-1921

BULMAN, ROWE, EBNER, YOUNG, PALOR, SHEFELBINE, LEPPERT

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Date: 2/21/2011 at 09:16:58

George W. Bulman (Sr.)
George W. Bulman was the youngest son of James and Elizabeth Bulman, was born at Thedford, Cambridgeshire, England, May 10, 1839, and passed to his eternal reward Dec. 9, 1921, aged 82 years, 6 months, and 29 days.

The youngest of a large family of brothers and sisters, and having an older brother in America, when only a little lad of 12 years determined to cross the ocean and tho, young in years, made the trip in safety with his brother William in 1851.

For three years he found a good home with his brother Thomas, at Evansvillle, Ind. where he was sent to school, remaining till the fall of 1854, when in company with his brother, they set out to carve a new home for themselves in Iowa.

On Dec. 5, 1861, he was united in marriage to Ann M. Rowe. To that union were born thirteen children, Mrs. W.H. Young of Auburndale, Wi., Mrs. K.F. Ebner and Ray, Cando, N.D., Arthur of Kremlin, Mont., Mrs. Emma Palor, Osakis, Minn., John E. and Jesse, of Alberta, Canada, James of Waterville, Ia., Mrs. Allie Shefelbine, of Dorchester, and Mrs. Andrew Leppert, of Mays Prairie, at whose home after an illness of five weeks, where all the loving care possible to give was freely bestowed, the tired spirit took its flight. Three children preceded to a better world.

Those left to mourn his loss are the faithful and devoted wife, 10 children, 53 grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren.

Uncle George, as he was familiarly called, was of a particular companionable disposition, had traveled much at different times, going to the Dakotas and Canada, one journey in about 1870 being to the home of his birth, Old England, arriving just three weeks too late to see his father alive. On his return his aged mother accompanied him to America, where she passed her declining years among her children. English Bench has always been his home, or until he sold the old homestead two years ago, since which time he has made his home with his children, and was always a loved and welcome inmate.

Years back he organized the first Sabbath School, where many of us whose shadows of life are beginning to lengthen, were wont to gather in the little log school house with "Uncle George" as our teacher carefully instilling the first principles of a noble and Christian life.

Thus to live in hearts we leave behind,
Is not to die,
One by one earth's ties are broken,
As we see our love decay;
And the hopes so fondly cherished,
Brighten but to pass away.
One by one our hopes grow brighter,
As we near the shining shore
For we know across the river
Wait the loved ones, gone before.

The funeral was held Sunday, Dec. 11, at 1 p.m. from the Andrew Leppert home to the Mt. Hope church and was largely attended as Uncle George was known far and wide, the Rev. J.T. Reagan preaching a very beautiful sermon, and the home choir sang several of the favorite songs of the departed.

The pall bearers were Milton and George Shefelbine, Dewey and Jess Leppert, John Beardmore and Fred Bulman. Burial took place in the family lot in the English Bench cemetery near by his old home.

Source: Anna Young Piguet, she transcribed it from an unknown source.