Entwisle, Caleb H. 1838 - 1918
ENTWISLE, ARTIST, BRATSBERG, OTIS
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Date: 3/20/2014 at 20:35:22
Entwisle, Caleb died 1918
Monona, Ia., August 10 - Caleb Entwisle died at his home on Page street Thursday afternoon at 4 p.m. He has lived in this vicinity for years, being one of our oldest and best known residents. His wife died a few years ago. There remain two sons and three daughters to mourn the passing of their aged father.~Dubuque Telegraph-Herald, Sunday morning edition, August 11, 1918
~He is buried in the Monona City cemetery____________________
Added by Reid R. Johnson, 11/23/2021:
Elkader Register & Argus, Thur., 15 Aug. 1918. Monona column.
Caleb H. Entwisle was born at Stockport, England, October 27th, 1838, and died at his home in Monona, Iowa, Thursday afternoon, August 08th, after an illness of a few hours, at the advanced age of 79 years, 9 months and 12 days. Death was due to apoplexy.
Mr. Entwisle came with his parents from England to America when a small boy, the family first settling in Massachusetts, later on they came west, locating near Milwaukee, and a few years later came to Iowa, taking up a homestead north of Watson, in Allamakee county (now known as the Charley Kuester farm), which was the family home for a number of years. Here the subject of this sketch grew to young manhood amid surroundings far different that the present day affords, sharing with his father and brothers in the trials and hardships of the early pioneer life known only too well to the older inhabitants of today.
On February 27th, 1865, he was united in marriage to Margaret Ellen Artist, the event taking place at the historic Fort Crawford, at Prairie du Chien, (Wis.), just before the close of the Civil War. After their marriage they took up their home on a farm at Volney, where they resided until 1893 when they moved to Monona, which has been their home since. Mrs. Entwisle passed away March 30th, 1914. Of the family born to them were six children, three sons and three daughters, one son died in early life. Those left today to mourn the loss of a most kind and affectionate father are Myrtle Bratsberg and Vern A. Entwisle, of Adrian, Minn., and Doris Otis, Orian C. and Irene L. Entwisle, of Monona. He also leaves to mourn his loss two brothers, Asa Entwisle, of Rockwell, Iowa, and Laban Entwisle, of Granada, Minn., besides six grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
Mr. Entwisle was what could be termed an ideal citizen, true and just to the country and honest and upright in all his dealings with mankind. His kind and genial disposition and straight-forward dealings brought unto him a host of friends whom he retained throughout his life. He was a lover of clean sport and outdoor life, and with his companions spent many happy days in the woods and along river banks, in pursuit of wild game. This and the comforts of home and family, of which he was especially fond, constituted the full measure of life's happiness. And today those who knew him most intimately in life mourn his loss keenly.
The funeral was conducted from the Methodist Episcopal church Saturday, August 10th, at 2:30 o'clock. Rev. Clyde E. Baker delivered the sermon. The church was decorated with numerous handsome floral tokens of sympathy. Interment was in the Monona cemetery. The pall bearers were near neighbors and close friends.
Those in attendance from out of town were Asa Entwisle, of Rockwell, Ia.; Laban Entwisle, of Granada, Minn.; Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Bratsberg, of Adrian, Minn.; Mr. and Mrs. Carpenter and son, of Gukeen, Minn.; Mrs. Geo. Lobb, of Granada, Minn.; Mrs. Shirley Woods, of Mason City, Iowa; Misses Clara and Dora Sencebaugh, of Rossville, Iowa; Colonel and Mrs. Geo. H. Otis, of White Bear Lake, Minn.; and Mr. A. L. Meiers and daughter Amy, of Postville.
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