HENRY L. PEASE

PEASE, WEIR, FLETCHER, PEUGH

Posted By: Nancee(McMurtrey)Seifert (email)
Date: 3/14/2002 at 16:02:51

Decatur County Journal
Thursday, July 27, l9l6

HENRY L. PEASE was born in Clarke County, Illinois, September l3th, l848, and died in Leon, Iowa, July 22nd, l9l6. He was 66 years, l0 months and 8 days old. The funeral services were held at the home in Leon Sunday, July 23, at three o'clock, conducted by Rev. Moser, Pastor of the M.E. Church, assisted by Rev. Henry Esch, Pastor of the Christian Church. Interment was in the Leon Cemetery.

MR. PEASE united with the Presbyterian Church in Illinois at the age of eighteen and has been until his death a consistent member of that church. He was united in marriage to MISS NANCY WEIR in Indiana on March 24th, l869. To this union were born seven children, four boys and three girls, all of whom, with their mother, are living, and were all present to witness the last sad rites except MRS. JOSEPHINE FLETCHER, of Great Bend, Kansas, and MRS. EUGENE PEUGH, of Glidden, Iowa, who were detained on account of sickness. MR. PEASE, with his family, then consisting of his wife and two children, moved to Iowa in l877, and settled on a farm near Leon. But after several years they moved to Leon where he resided until his death. He had been in poor health for several years, but was confined to his bed but a short time.

He was an honored member of the Yeoman Lodge and also of the Homesteaders Lodge. He was a faithful husband, a loving father, and a true friend. Those who knew him best were his best friends. The writer lived as a neighbor to him for many years and can truthfully say that he was a neighbor in the true sense of the word.

Thus another old settler has gone. One by one they are passing to the great beyond and although we will miss him from our midst, we shall not sorrow as others that have no hope for we have the promise that the Lord Himself shall descend from Heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel and with the triumph of God and the dead in Christ shall rise and we shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air and shall ever be with the Lord. What a joyful meeting that will be when we can strike glad hands with the loved ones who have gone on before and join with them around the throne of Moses and of the Lamb around the throne of God through the ceaseless ages of eternity.

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