David Hawley 1833-1913

HAWLEY, BISHOP, ADAIR

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Date: 7/19/2018 at 07:52:02

16 January 1913 - West Branch Times

David Hawley, aged nearly 80 years, died at his home at this place Wednesday afternoon at 5:30 from the effects of a paralytic stroke sustained a few months ago, and heart failure. The funeral is taking place this afternoon from the Conservative Friends Meeting House at 3:00 o'clock.

Interment in the West Branch cemetery.

23 January 1913 - West Branch Times

David Hawley was born near Salem, Columbiana county, Ohio, Feb. 17, 1833 and died in West Branch, Iowa, Jan. 15, 1913, aged 79 years, 10 months and 28 days, asthmatic condition of the heart causing death.

He came with his parents to Iowa in the spring of 1855, and these 58 years of Iowa life were years of hard toil, and honest dealing with neighbor and friend.

He was married to Sarah Bishop, who preceded him to Iowa one or two years, Dec. 15, 1860, these 52 years of wedded life being years of pleasure and mutual helpfulness.

It is said that "God openeth His hand and the millions of the earth are fed." This man was a co-worker with God in producing this food, by way of tilling the soil. For years he owned a farm 3 miles northwest of West Branch. In 1891 these two people moved to West Branch and here he continued to be a toiler as a market gardner.

David Hawley was the last of a family of eight children to go into the invisible world and he lived to be older than any other member of the family.

No children were born unto this couple but they took into their home two nephews and a niece, David's sister's children. The niece died in infancy but the nephews, Finley and Charles Adair, lived and grew into manhood under their fostering care. These boys homed with them for twenty years, or near that, and by them were educated and became men of honor and prominent business men.

David was a hard working, honest citizen, a kind neighbor, a good foster father and a husband who done every duty lovingly. He had earnest religious convictions to which he was lovingly loyal. From his birth he was a member of the Conservative Quakers. Funeral services were from that church Thursday afternoon, Jan. 16, 1913, conducted by their minister, D. F. White, who used for the foundation of his remarks, "Two were in the field, one was taken and the other was left." The few relatives who are left in this world and who live in this vicinity, kind friends and neighbors lovingly followed his remains to their resting place in the West Branch cemetery.
His earth life work is done,
His eternal reward is won.

Those from a distance attending the funeral were: Rev. J. B. Metcalf of Dumont, Iowa, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Adair of North Dakota, Mr. and Mrs. Ananias Yetter of West Liberty, Iowa, Charles and Mary Macomber of Colorado were late in coming and reached West Branch after the funeral services were over.