Moses Church 1797-1872

CHURCH

Posted By: Sharon Elijah (email)
Date: 5/20/2017 at 10:07:08

1 February 1872 - The Tipton Advertiser

DIED On the 28th day of December, 1871, MOSES B. CHURCH, in the seventy-fifth year of his age.

Thus is chronicled the departure from this life of another of the very early settlers of Iowa and Cedar County. MOSES B. CHURCH was born at Amherst, Mass., June 20th, 1797. With his twin brother he entered Middlebury College, Vermont, at an early age, the brothers passing together throught the usal College course there and together studying Theology at Andover. Studies completed they were separated for the first time in life, the subject of this brief sketch becoming settled as a Congregational minister at Stafford, Conn., where he remained for a period of six years. At this time, as in the opinion of all his most intimate relations and friends, the faculties of Mr. Church were so clouded by mental disease (which culminated before his death in hopeless insanity) as to cause him to radically change his religious belief, whereupon he left the ministry and came at once to Iowa, locating in 1837 six miles south of this place, where he lived, respected and beloved in spite of his vagueries and excentricities, for thirty-two years, removing with his family to Delaware County in the fall of 1869. Possessed of an active and well cultivated mind, which was probably early overworked to a species of monomamia with sad results to himself and the cause to which his life had been devoted, yet after passing his three score and ten, his death leaves the memory of an honorable, honest and earnest man and citizen with very many who will learn of it with sorrow.