Learn, Morris 1827 - 1907

LEARN, BOWMAN, BROWNING, MILLER

Posted By: Reid R. Johnson (email)
Date: 5/19/2019 at 10:09:40

Elkader Register & Argus, Thur., 12 Dec. 1907. Garber column.

At his home in Mallory township, Thursday morning, Dec. 5th, 1907, Morris Learn quietly passed to the home from whence no traveler ever returns, at the advanced age of over four score years, from that dread disease, cancer.

Mr. Learn was a native of Pennsylvania, born in Monroe county Feb. 11th, 1827. July 6th, 1849, he married Elizabeth Bowman, who, with four children, still survive; the eldest, Rebecca, having preceded her father to the better land many years; Mrs. Hester Browning, of Lacyville, who was not able to be present; Nathan Learn, also of Lacyville, Penn., who has been with his father the past two weeks; Mrs. Laura Miller, who, with her husband, came from Bloomingdale, Mich., in time to attend the funeral, and Bradley, of East Elkport, Ia., who with his family, lived with and cared for Father Learn during his long illness.

The funeral was held at the home, Rev. Brooks officiating. No special text was used, but several favorite passages were read, among them Psalms 22 and John 14-1_ (looks like 13).

After his marriage Mr. Learn lived in Monroe county, Penn., for nine years, and then in Bradford county, Penn., 23 years, moving to Clayton county, Iowa, with his youngest son in the spring of 1892 and resided here until the time of his death.

Kindly in manner, with a voice gentle as a woman's, Father Learn stood high as a Christian character. His life so far as we have known him, might well be summed up in a few words of his own not long before his departure: "I never in my life wronged anyone, and I never wish to." He became a member of the Lutheran church before he was twenty and remained true to that faith until about a year ago, when he, with his wife, united with the United Brethren class at Mt. Harmony, near his home. While the vacant place in the home can never be filled, the influence of his life will live on n the lives of the loved ones left behind.