Reuben Lynch, 1859-1927

LYNCH

Posted By: Emmet County IAGenWeb Coordinator (email)
Date: 2/17/2009 at 07:37:29

PIONEER FARMER DIES; RESIDENT COUNTY 59 YRS.

Had Farmed in Estherville Twp. 21 years. Funeral Thursday Morning

Rube H. Lynch, one of the pioneer residents of Emmet County, passed away Saturday evening [Dec . 5, 1927] at seven thirty at the home of H. P. Oleson on South Ninth street, after a four months' illness of dropsy.

Reuben Lynch was born in Winona county, Minn., Dec. 29, 1859 and has lived in Emmet county since 1868. He was nine years old when he came to this county.

For ten years of his early life he followed the trade of a mason, then took up farming. For nine years he farmed in Twelve Mile Lake township and for twenty-one years in Estherville township. He resided on the home place until a few weeks ago when his condition made a move to Estherville vital. Nine years ago an attack of blood poisoning made the amputation of one limb necessary and since that time the home farm has been in charge of his son Arthur.

Mr. Lynch was united in marriage on November 25, 1886 to Miss Sarah Oleson of Spirit Lake. To them six children were born, two dying in infancy. The widow and four children, Mrs. Ruth Coulter of Spirit Lake, Roy of Clarksville and Wallace and Arthur of Estherville survive. There are also two brothers to mourn his passing, Frank Lynch of Hinkley, Minn., and Charles Lynch of Stratford.

Deceased was a man highly esteemed by his neighbors and beloved by a wide circle of friends. He was a member of the Modern Woodman of America lodge at Wallingford. By all these he will be sincerely mourned as well by his immediate family to whom he had been a most kind and considerate husband and father.

Funeral services will be held on Thursday morning from the Oleson home and from the Estherville Lutheran church in charge of Rev. L. A. Mathre, pastor. Interment will be made in the East Side cemetery.

All of the children are here to pay their last respects to their beloved father, and Dr. P. E. Oleson and H. P. Oleson of Chicago came for the funeral services.

Contributed by: Ruth Hackett. Source: Vindicator and Republican, Estherville, Emmet County, Iowa, December 7, 1927.