Jacob Tindall, 1840-1925

TINDALL, HOLMES, BJORNSTAD, COLMAN

Posted By: Clay County IAGenWeb Coordinator (email)
Date: 11/29/2011 at 19:14:31

Jacob Tindall, well known and highly respected citizen of Spencer for the past thirty years, passed away at his home, 440 East Third street, on Sunday evening, August 30, 1925, at eleven o'clock. He had been ill for one week, the cause of his death being the result of summer influenza which had developed into pleurisy. He was eighty-five years old.

Short funeral services were held held at the Otto A. Bjornstad home, 396 West Fourth street, on Tuesday afternoon at three o'clock and later at the Congregational church at three thirty. Rev. Benjamin J. Trickey, pastor of the church, officiated, and members of the Knights Templar Commandery were in charge. A.H. Avery gave the masonic service at the grave in Riverside cemetery where interment was made.

Jacob Tindall was born on April 10, 1840, at Jacksonville, Illinois, where he lived his boyhood days. When the civil war broke out he was among the twenty year old recruits who Joined the union army. At first he was in company C, 145th Illinois Infantry, and laer he was in company E, 58th Infantry. He served under General A.J. Smith in the Gulf department whose operations centered around Mobile Bay. Then in 1868 he was mustered out of Mobile with the rank of first duty sergeant.

When the war was over Mr. Tihdall went back to Jacksonville, the old home, and four years afterward he was united in marriage to Ella Matilda Holmes, who had lived with her grandparents at Jacksonville and had attended the schools there and later Jacksonville Academy. The marriage ceremony was performed on December 28, 1870, by the Reverend Mr. Heath of the Methodist church of Jacksonville. After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Tindall moved to Danville, Illinois, and later to Homer, Illinois, where Mr. Tindall was owner and manager of a drug store for a time and later went into the implement business. In 1890, Mr. and Mrs. Tindall retired from active business and four years later they moved to Spencer where they lived on East Fourth street, then on Grove street, and in 1014, they built the little bungalow on East Fourth street where they had since resided.

Mr. Tindall was a member of I.O.O.F. lodge No. 4, Jacksonville, Illinois, for more than fifty-eight years, and a member of the Masonic bodies for more than fifty years. He was also a member of the G.A.R. chapter here. He was highly respected and loved and he will be greatly missed by his relatives and host of friends.

Mr. and Mrs. Tindall became the parents of four children, two of whom, Robert Elmer and Alma Roll, died in infancy. The two daughters who survive are Mrs. Otto A. Bjornstad, West Fourth street, Spencer, and Mrs. J.C. Colman of Kunn, Idaho, who came late Sunday evening.

Source: Spencer News-Herald, Spencer, Clay County, Iowa; September 3, 1925.

Interment in Riverside cemetery
 

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