Egbert, Rev. Paul died 1864

EGBERT

Posted By: John McCartney (email)
Date: 12/31/2007 at 19:17:27

The Rev. Paul Egbert obit
North Iowa Times, McGregor
20 Apr 1864

DIED:
At Monona, Iowa, on Monday April 18th, 1864, of general debility succeeded by palsy, PAUL EGBERT, aged 66 years.

An acquaintance of nearly 30 years with the deceased, bearing the relation of son-in-law to him for many years, on terms of the closest friendship at all times (except an occasional difference in that bane of social life, politics) the writer is perhaps as competent to detail the facts of the active life of the deceased as any one; and yet the remembrance of that intimacy of friendship, now, when our venerable father and early friend lies cold in death, paralyzes the hand and chills the heart here essaying to pay the last sad tribute to his memory. Our feelings of sorrow forbid the utterance of mere words.

PAUL EGBERT was born in New Jersey and early emigrated with his parents to Southern Ohio in the counties of Preble and Warren. Thence, in company with several brothers, he removed with his family to St. Joe County, Indiana, about 1832; thence to Monona, Iowa in 1852.

A man of active mind, strong impulses and kind heart, he was a leading man and a highly useful one wherever he settled. But we forbear using language that may seem like panegyric from the pen of a relative. He died surrounded by all his living children but one and by that far dearer form to the dying man, the loved Companion of a 45 year pilgrimage through this unfriendly world. May God temper the wind to sufferers.

[Source: Monona, Iowa, Historical Museum. Burial at Monona Cemetery. His wife's name was Eliza.]