Solomon Teegarden 1817-1894

TEEGARDEN, GRANT, HAWLEY, DOLE

Posted By: Sharon Elijah (email)
Date: 7/30/2018 at 09:39:44

6 December 1894 - West Branch Times

We clip the following obituary notice from the Guthrien, Guthrie county, Ia. as the subject was once a well known citizen of this county: Died at the residence of his son, Albert Teegarden, in Starbuck, Columbia county, Washington, October 19, 1894, Mr. Solomon Teegarden.

The deceased was born in Green Co., Pennsylvania, May 28th, 1817. He died in the 78th year of his age. May 30th, 1844 in Stark county Ohio, he was united in marriage with Elizabeth Grant. To them were born four children, two sons and two daughters. One of the daughters now resides at Walla Walla, Washington; the other, Mrs. W. G. Hawley, is a resident of Bear Grove township, this county. One son, David Teegarden resides here, the other in Starbuck. His first wife died in May 1855, and in 1858 he was married in Stark county, Ohio, to Mary Dole, who died in this county, October 31, 1893. To them no children were born. Mr. Teegarden came west and located in Guthrie county, some ten or twelve years ago in the vicinity of the Nelson Post Office. Two years ago he suffered from a paralytic attack but partially recovered therefrom. He was ever a believer in divine existence and his obligation to his Creator. He read his bible to seek Divine truth and during his illness above alluded to, sought and found pardoning grace. During the latter part of the past summer he experienced an earnest desire to see his son and daughter in the west and Mr. and Mrs. Hawley accompanied him in the long journey. He reach Walla Walla and spent a few days with the daughter and was then taken over to the sons residence, a distance of some thirty miles where filling up the same number of days he had spent with the daughter, he suddenly, through heart failure, reached the end of lifes journey, dying in good hope of a blessed hereafter. In life he was a man of industrious habits and of strict integrity and lived respected by his neighbors.