Lynch, Anselm Harris (1824 - 1899)

LYNCH, BLANKINSHIP, HERBERT, MITCHELL, CLAWSON

Posted By: Amy Butler
Date: 8/13/2013 at 10:39:56

Atlantic Daily Telegraph
4 March 1899
Page 3

Funeral of A. H. Lynch

The funeral of A. H. Lynch was held from the First Methodist church at the corner of Poplar and Eighth streets yesterday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. The services were conducted by Rev W. M. Dudley the pastor. An appropriate hymn was sung by the choir consisting of Mrs. J. W. C. Gary soprano, Mrs. M. E. Quint alto, M. E. Quint tenor and S. Smith bass with Miss Madge Cavenaugh organist. Dr. E. S. Hill, of the First Congregational church, made a few appropriate remarks in regard to the life and character of the deceased. Rev. W. W. Ramsey, presiding elder of the Atlantic district, preached an impressive sermon which was listened to with great interest by the large congregation of friends and neighbors who were present to pay their last tribute of respect to the deceased and drop a sympathetic tear with the bereaved family, after which the remains were carried from the church by Isaac Conine, C. C. Conrad, Dr. D. Findley, J. II. Needles, S. Weaver and F. Montgomery as pallbears and the procession proceeded to the Atlantic cemetery for interment.

A. H. Lynch was born in Campbell county, Va., May 18, 1824, and died at his home in Atlantic, la., March 2, 1899, at the age of 74 years, 8 mouths and 14 days. He was married to Sarah Elizabeth Blankinship July 22, 1847. Seven children were born to them, four sons and three daughters. Richard died in young manhood. Wm. Lynch, Horace Lynch and Mariah Herbert, of Atlantic, Ava Mitchell of Clarinda, Iowa, Laura Clawson, of Council Bluffs, Iowa, and
Bert Lynch, of Oakland, Iowa, sons and daughters as well as his sister Mrs. Collins are present today. Father Lynch was the grandfather of sixteen children.

Mr. Lynch moved from Virginia to Indiana in 1851 and from there to Cass county, Iowa, in the fall of 1864. He was thus one of the pioneers of this county. He was a Christian from early childhood, uniting with the M. E. church when a boy and remaining a consistent member of the same until the end of life.

His neighbors and friends each have a good word to speak for Father Lynch. A kind and friendly neighbor and christian brother, a loving father and companion has passed from the church
militant to the church triumphant. Near the end, as through his life, his faith failed him not, but a few days before his death he told me of his trust in Jesus.

"Life's labor dope, as sinks the clay,
Light from its load the spirit flies,
While heaven and earth combine to say,
How blest the righteous when he dies,"