WEBB, John Rev. 1825 - 1896

WEBB

Posted By: Joy Moore (email)
Date: 2/12/2021 at 12:50:00

Source: Decorah Republican Apr. 30, 1896 P 3 C 2

Passing of a Pioneer Missionary.
Waukon Standard:—Rev. John Webb died at Salt Lake City Saturday morning, March 23d{?}, 1896, aged 70 yours, 10 months and 11 days. But of what interest is that to Waukon? Well, in 1851 he moved to Fayette county from his native state Indiana. In 1853 all Iowa constuited[sic} one Methodist Episcopal Church Conference, and that year, forty-five years ago, he was appointed to the “Wawkon Mission,” as Waukon was then spelled, having for a colleague Joel Davis who soon gave up the work on account of ill health. His station took four weeks to make the circuit for one man, or two weeks for two. Regarding this work he wrote us six years ago :
"The first Sabbath I preached at Lansing at 10:30 a. m., at Lansing Ridge 10 miles west of the morning appointment at 5:30 p. m. The second Sabbath at Decorah at 10:30, at Freeport at 3:00 p. m., Frankville at 7:30 p. m. Third Sabbath at S. Leach’s at 10:30, at Burr Oak at 3:30 p. m., at Carter’s Mills at 7:30 p. in. Monday night at New Oregon Grove. My family being at West Union, I would call and see them and pay them a short visit and then start for Lansing, which was my next appointment. Our next annual conference met in Keokuk, and I drove from Decorah to Keokuk something over three hundred miles to attend conference. The next year I was appointed to the Garnavillo circuit, including McGregor,”
He contiuned{sic} faithful in his pastoral work until 1862 when he was elected chaplain of the Thirty-eight Iowa Infantry, returning to his church labors after his patriotic army service. In 1870 he joined the Northwest Iowa Conference and then became a Presiding Elder in North Dakota, then became connected with a Methodist paper in Kansas, returning to Iowa in 1882 and the next year became editor of the Inland Christian Advocate published in Des Moines.

Transcriber’s Note: Find a Grave shows he was born May 15, 1825 and is buried in Woodland Cemetery in Des Moines. IA; however, it shows his date of death as March 28.(Saturday was the 28th)