Jacob Gwilliam (1855-1921)

GWILLIAM, HARDWICK, ONKEN, CHAMBERLAIN, CHAMBERLEN, HENRY

Posted By: Ken Akers (email)
Date: 9/4/2011 at 12:32:40

Audubon County Journal (IA)
Thursday, June 2, 1921, page 1
Remains of Old Pioneer
Brought to Brayton

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Jacob Gwilliam was born March
26, 1851, in Coleford, Glostershire,
England, where he spent his youth
and young manhood, marrying at
the age of twenty-five, Miss Emily
Hardwick. To this union there
was born one child, a daughter (Nellie),
who lived until she was nineteen.
It was in the year 1877 that he
came with his family to America
and settled in Audubon county
where they resided until the death
of the daughter some twenty-four
years ago, when they moved to
Des Moines which has since been
their home.

He was baptized into the fellow-
ship of the Protestant Church of
England when a child and has
maintained that relationship ever
since. He was a member of the
Red Men's Lodge of Des Moines
and also the Miners' Union, in
which organizations he found many
congenial friends who, in the time
of his last illness, were a source of
great comfort to him.

He had not been well since last
fall, but was not taken critically ill
until Sunday, May 22d, and lived
only until Wednesday, the 25th.
His age was 69 years, 2 months
and 1 day. He leaves as his sole
survivor, his wife, Emily. He is a
brother-in-law of Mrs. Onken, Mrs.
D. W. Chamberlain and Thomas
Hardwick, all of Brayton.

The funeral services were held in
the Baptist church at Brayton,
Rev. Henry of the Community
church of Exira officiating, and his
body was laid to rest by the side
of his daughter in the Oakfield
cemetery, Audubon county, Iowa.

Note: Jacob Gwilliam's obit says he was born in 1851, however his gravestone is engraved 1855. The obit states that he is buried beside his daughter, Nellie (Gwilliam) McGuire, however Jacob and Nellie's stones are located in different parts of the Oakfield cemetery.