JEREMIAH PRESCOTT 1798-1880

PRESCOTT, MILES

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Date: 3/28/2005 at 20:02:19

DIED. At the Aplington, Butler county, Iowa, April 24th 1880, of sudden congestion of the lungs, Jeremiah PRESCOTT of Hardin, Iowa, aged 82 years 3 months and 9 days. Mr. PRESCOTT was born in Brentwood, N. H. on January 15, 1798. A stepmother making home disagreeable to him, he left it at the age of fifteen, taking up his residence at the home of a sister in North Newport, Maine, where he worked until his marriage to Mary MILES on December 16, 1823, and settled on a farm, which he sold in 1836, moving into Newport village. From a visit to the west in 1841 & 2 he learned much of the states of Michigan, Indiana and Illinois, which resulted in selling his property in Newport and moving Aug. 31, 1845, his family to a new farm near Roscoe, Ill., from whence he moved to Iowa, settling upon a large farm near Hardin, Clayton county, in November 1852. This farm being mostly divided among his family, he sold the remainder in 1867 and invested the proceeds in land in Jackson county, Minn., Cresco, Iowa and finally a residence in Hardin, near his old home. Then with his wife he went to Oregon and California, visiting his children, where they spent three years in good health and the enjoyment of all the wonderful scenery of that land. Returning to Iowa, and while spending the night at Council Bluffs, he took a severe cold, which so enfeebled him as to make it difficult for him to reach the residence of his youngest daughter at Aplington, Iowa. Postmaster PRESCOTT, of this place, being apprized of his father's condition, arrived at Aplington on Saturday, A.M. about three hours before his father's death, which occurred at the termination of a violent period of coughing, at half-past 6 P.M. He experienced religion in Oct. 1831 and was always known as a humble, ernest and devoted christian, dying in the full hope of mortality.

- source: Postville Review; May 1, 1880
- submitted by Sharyl Ferrall