TILLMAN H. SCHENCK

SCHENCK, SHELTON, PICKERING, YOUNG

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Date: 3/7/2002 at 19:08:16

Decatur County Journal
Thursday, August 22, l9l8

TILLMAN H. SCHENCK was born in Rockville,
Indiana, July 7, l846, and
died at his home in Leon, Iowa, August l5,
l9l8, aged 72 years, l month
and 9 days.

In boyhood he moved with his parents to
Decatur County, Iowa, where on
July 7, l867, he married MISS MATTIE A.
SHELTON, who survives him. To
this union were born seven children, five of
whom, JESSIE A., EDGAR H.,
WILLAH, LYDIA MAY, and JENNIE, have passed on
before. The surviving
children are MRS. ETHEL PICKERING, of Leon,
and MRS. MAUDE YOUNG, of Ft.
Worth, Texas. His loss is also mourned by
eight grandchildren and seven
great grandchildren.

Throughout his long residence in Decatur
County, MR. SCHENCK has always
been a factor for good; a positive influence
for righteousness.
His upright life won for him the respect and
esteem of all who knew
him. In l885 he was elected to the office of
county auditor, which
office he filled satisfactorily for two
terms. In l89l the people again
expressed their confidence in him by electing
him to the office of
county clerk.

At the age of 2l he became a member of the
Masonic Order, and is
identified with the early history of the
Order of the Eastern Star in
Decatur County. He served both these Orders
in different capacities
during his years of long and faithful
membership.

In early life MR. SCHENCK united with the
Methodist Episcopal Church,
where he remained a faithful member until his
death. He suffered great
affliction in the early death of his
children, but his sorrows only
tended to render him more sweet-spirited,
patient, and sympathetic. His
life was gentle and the graces so marked in
him, that those who knew him
best could stand and say to all the world,
"This was a Christian."

Funeral services were held last Sunday
morning at ll o'clock at the
Methodist Church, the services being
conducted by Rev. W.M. Brooks,
Pastor of the Church, assisted by Rev. T.F.
Campbell, Pastor of the
Presbyterian Church. Interment in the Leon
Cemetery.

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