William Toop 1838-1893

TOOP

Posted By: Cyndi Vertrees (email)
Date: 11/6/2011 at 09:20:56

William Toop
(February 9, 1838 - December 3, 1893)

Lake City Graphic
Calhoun County, Iowa
December 7, 1893
His Sufferings Ended
Wm. Toop, of Jackson township, died last Monday, December 3, 1893, at his home of paralysis, aged 55 years, 9 months, and 24 days. Deceased was born in Winfrith, England, February 9, 1838. He came to America in 1856, and settled at DeKalb, DeKalb county, Illinois, where he made his home until the year 1882, when he moved to Iowa and settled in Jackson township, where he resided till the time of his death. He was confirmed in the Church of England when fifteen years of age, and has been firm in that faith up to the time of his death. A widow and three children, two sons and one daughter, are left to mourn his loss. Mr. Toop was striken with paralysis from the waist down, including the lower extremities, in 1884, since which time he has been a patient sufferer for nine long years. He was willing to leave the palsied tenement of clay, and often prayed for death to end his sufferings.

He was a member of DeKalb lodge, NO. 144, A. F. and A. M., and DeKalb Chapter No. 52, R. A. M., and under the Masonic ritualistic services was laid to rest at Cottonwood cemetery, the sermon being delivered by Rev. C. B. Winter.

Mr. Toop was ever an affectionate husband and father, a good citizen and neighbor. More that forty vehicles followed his remains to their last resting place, many being unable to gain entrance to the chapel during the funeral services. Expressions of sympathy from the host of friends of the deceased to the patient, loving wife and children, were expressed on every hand, attesting the universal esteem in which he was held.