Hiram Hall 1827-1905

HALL, MILES, LOCKARD, FARR

Posted By: Sharon Elijah (email)
Date: 8/14/2017 at 09:08:56

9 March 1905 - The Clarence Sun

Hiram Hall was born in Fabius, Onondaga county, N. Y., June 19, 1827 and died in Anamosa, Iowa, February 28, 1905, aged 77 years, 8 months and 9 days.

He removed from the state of New York in his young manhood and located in Wayne county, Ohio. In that county he met and on Dec. 24, 1850, married Miss Mary Miles. To this union were born four children, Rev. A. W. Hall, of Syracuse, N.Y., and Mrs. L. L. Lockard, of Anamosa, Iowa, being the only survivors. Orson H., deceased in infancy, and Hiram Alfred, deceased Aug. 1, 1883, at the age of fifteen years.

About the year 1854 he removed with his wife and first born son to Iowa, and settled a short distance from the town of Miles, in Jackson county. A few years later he removed to Cedar county, locating first near Lowden, and later near Massillon, where, on Feb. 27, 1876, the wife of his youth was called to her reward. This great loss was keenly felt by him, and he seemed unable to content himself in the lonely home, from which he soon parted and removed to Clarence, about six miles distant.

In the years following he resided successively in Davis county, the city of Des Moines, and in Story county, where he married, on Oct. 3, 1882, in the city of Ames, Mrs. Eliza A. Farr, who survives him. For the past thirteen years he resided in Jasper county, in the vicinity of Newton.

A very severe spell of sickness, about three years since so seriously undermined his health, that coupled with age, with its increasing infirmities, it was deemed wise one year ago to permanently discontinue housekeeping, and after a few months spent in visiting friends and children, the aged couple came to reside in Anamosa.

The deceased possessed a genial, kindly spirit, easy of approach, and with an unusual fund of good nature, that bubbled over like a spring, simply from the action of inward forces.

He has been a member of the Christian church since early manhood, a part of the time of the Evangelical Lutheran church, but most of his life of the Methodist Episcopal church.

He did not shrink at the approach of death, though he had felt for some time that he would not recover from this illness, but bravely and with undaunted spirit met "the last enemy that shall be destroyed."

The funeral service was held in the M. E. parsonage, the home of his daughter, on Thursday at 3:00 p.m., conducted by the pastors of the Congregational, Presbyterian and Baptist churches of Anamosa.

Mrs. E. J. Wood had charge of the funeral arrangements. Very appropriate music was rendered by Miss Treman, Mrs. Ramsey and Messrs. Cook and Vaughn, with Miss Blanche L. Port as accompanist.

The pall bearers were Messrs. A. N. Denison, Israel Lace, E. Strawman, Robert Johnson, F. M. Belknap and Wm. Alspaugh.

The body was taken to the evening train and accompanied by the immediate relatives, was borne to Cedar county for interment. Mr. Simmons McLeod, of Clarence, was in charge of the arrangements there and conducted the remains to his home, where they lay until Friday afternoon. Here the son, Rev. A. W. Hall, who had been summoned by telegram from N.Y., joined the funeral cortege, and the remains were borne to Dayton chapel and deposited by the side of the wife of his youth, the Rev. Mr. Mack, pastor of the W. M. church, conducting the burial services. A goodly number of the old neighbors and friends of the family gathered at the grave and gladdened the hearts of the bereaved by their presence and sympathy.