Duwe, George L. died 1897

DUWE, MCKOSKERY

Posted By: Reid R. Johnson (email)
Date: 1/24/2021 at 23:16:16

Elkader Register, Fri., 17 Sept. 1897. Clayton column.

At the home of his parents, at 4:30 p.m., Tuesday, occurred the death of George L. Duwe, after many months of intense suffering as a result of brights disease. Although his relatives and friends have been expecting his demise for nearly a year the shock was severe when the end came. Everything that the best medical skill could bring forth and what loving hands could do was done for him all of which were vain efforts and only prolonged his suffering. George L. was the eldest son of Wm. and Mary A. Duwe. He was born at Guttenberg July 12th, 18_4 (looks like 1864), moving to Clayton with his parents in the spring of '71. When about 15 years of age, while skating with a number of his schoolmates he sustained a severe sprain in his ankle which practically disabled him for life and depriving him of many pleasures enjoyed by young people of his age, but he bore his misfortune with great patience and fortitude, resigning himself to reading and study. When he became well enough to walk by the aid of crutches and being about 20 years of age he began the study of telegraphy in which he became very proficient. The R.R. company recognizing this and his exemplary habits gave him permanent work as operator and later appointed him station agent at Gordon's Ferry, Iowa, which position he filled with credit to himself and honor to the company until some of his friends induced him to resign that position and accept a similar one at Wheatland, N.D., for the N. P.R.R. which company also recognized him as a most trustworthy employee and regretted very much when he was obliged to resign his position owing to his illness, which steadily increased with alarming rapidity rendering an operation on his kidneys necessary as a last resort to save his life. The most skilled physicians were called and the operation proved a success to some extent but only temporarily for despite the daily treatment, the grim destroyer was slowly but surely working. In Sept. 1896 his wife accompanied him to the home of his parents, where mid hopes and despair he lingered in his suffering surrounded by loved ones till his spirit quietly took its flight. He was married April 20th, 1892, to Miss Bessie L. McKoskery, of Wheatland, N.D. One child, a son Clayton W., came to bless this union of happy hearts but the bud was plucked in its infancy and the sweet innocent proceeded its papa to that beautiful resting place beyond that dark valley where suffering and tears are unknown. A devoted son, brother, husband and friend is no more to those who had the honor of his love and friendship, but the All-Seeing eye that guards the pilgrims on this earth below knoweth that a friend and brother has been wafted home as a reward for his great suffering and endurance and who now rests beside that golden pedestal in that lodge on the high where only friendship, love and truth are known. He leaves a wife, parents, brother and sisters to mourn the loss of one will ever be kept in sacred memory by all who knew him. The funeral was conducted under the auspices of the I.O.O.F., assisted by Rev. C. A. Marshall, of McGregor, and the remains laid to rest in the Clayton cemetery, Thursday afternoon. May his eternal slumbers be unbroken.