PLESTED, Rev. William

PLESTED

Posted By: Sharon R Becker (email)
Date: 3/29/2015 at 20:17:59

Decatur County Journal
Leon, Decatur County, Iowa

Death of Rev. PLESTED.

Rev. THOMAS WALKER has handed us a copy of the Trinidad, (Col.) Daily News, of July 1st, which contains the obituary of Rev. WM. PLESTED, who died in Trinidad on that morning from hemorrhage of the lungs. Rev. PLESTED was born in Canada Dec. 16, 1842. He early came to the states, and graduated at the Union Theological Seminary New York City, about twenty years ago, and then entered the ministry of the Congregational church. He preached for four and one-half years in the Bethany chapel, a mission supported in connection with Dr. TAYLOR’S Broadway Tabernacle. In 1877 he and his family removed to Shenandoah, Iowa, where he served a Congregational church as pastor for some months. In 1878 he joined the Des Moines conference of the M. E. church and was appointed to a charge at Leon. The following years he was assigned to Afton. In a protracted meeting which he held during the winter of 1879-1880 he preached every night for seven consecutive weeks, and as a result broke down with a nervous, prostration. He never preached again. He afterwards traveled in his own conveyance through Nebraska, Colorado and New Mexico in hopes of regaining his health. He settled in Trinidad in 1881. He died very suddenly, living less than five minutes after being attacked with the hemorrhage. He enjoyed an unusual large circle of friends who mourn his departure.

Transcription by Sara Rose Joan LeFleur