WILLIAM LOWRY HUTCHINSON

HUTCHINSON, CLARK, MYERS, PAUGH

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Date: 2/24/2002 at 22:15:27

Decatur County Journal
Thursday, July 22, l9l5

WILLIAM LOWRY HUTCHINSON was born in the
State of Indiana the l4th day
of December, l849. He was the second eldest
of seven children born to
ENOCH and KATHERINE HUTCHINSON, three of whom
have preceded him to the
other world. He came to Iowa with his
parents when only four years old,
the family settling in Decatur County and
there, were passed the days of
his boyhood. After his fifteenth year, his
lifetime was practically
spent in Wayne County.

MR. HUTCHINSON had been married three times.
In l879 he was united in
marriage to MISS SARAH CLARK who died in
April of l889; he was united in
marriage to MISS MARY CLARK, sister to his
first wife, in the fall of
l889, and she passed away in August of l892;
in October of l894 he was
married to MISS EMMA MYERS who survives him.

Early in life MR. HUTCHINSON suffered a
sunstroke while at work in the
field and for months he was invalided and it
was thought that this
contributed largely to the cause of his
death. All through life he had
been a great sufferer and many times his life
had been despaired of.
Early in the spring of this year MR.
HUTCHINSON's health began to
decline and slowly but surely the end
approached until the death angel
mercifully freed him from suffering on the
evening of Tuesday, July l3,
l9l5, at the age of sixty-five years, six
months and twenty-nine days.

All that medical skill and loving hands could
do was done but to no
avail. The immediate cause of death was
neuritis.

For many years MR. HUTCHINSON had been
engaged in the general
merchandise business and as a business man
had been a marked success,
enjoying the confidence and fellowship of
both his competitors and his
patrons. For a time MR. HUTCHINSON was
engaged in the mercantile
business at High Point in Decatur County, and
in which community there
are still many who remember him. More than
twenty years ago he was
converted to the Lord and as a member of the
Methodist Church gave his
life to the Master for service and in that
service he had been instant
in season and out of season, proving what is
that perfect and holy and
acceptable will of God. His last conscious
hours found him much in
prayer and praise unto his Lord and the end
found him ready, even
willing, to go and death has accomplished no
victory over him.

There are left to mourn his death the devoted
wife, one sister, MRS.
RETTA PAUGH, of Cambria, three brothers,
J.S., of Cambria; R.M., of
Linneus, Mo., and ENOCH, of Leon, besides a
great number of earnest
friends. The body was laid to rest in the
Kirby Cemetery.

A good man is gone; faulty no doubt, but
never wilfully. He will be
greatly missed. His patient, uncomplaining
spirit was an inspiration to
the many who knew and understood his physical
condition. We commend his
spirit to the same Lord who gave it and who
is able and willing to save
it even to the uttermost. The funeral
services were conducted from the
home at ten o'clock Thursday morning, in
charge of the Pastor, Rev.
Everett A. Place, assisted by Rev. E.L. Stone
of Derby. A large company
was present to pay its last respects, and the
floral tributes were
profuse and beautiful. Interment was made at
Kirby Cemetery.

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