Jesse B. Voshell

VOSHELL, SMITH, HOLROYD

Posted By: Volunteer
Date: 10/8/2006 at 20:39:47

Dubuque Telegraph-Herald, Thursday, February 8, 1923, Page nine

Jesse B. Voshell

Arlington, Ia., Feb. 8 -- Special: Jesse B. Voshell, a resident of this section for three-fourths of a century, died last week. He was born in Delaware April 27, 1824, and he was 99 years old when he died.

Mr. Voshell came to Iowa with his parents in the spring of 1848 and settled near Taylorville, Fayette county on October 30, 1852, he was married to Annaple M. Dempsey, and nine children were born to the union, three dying in infancy, another, Ellen, dying in 1909. Mrs. Voshell died in 1904.

Mr. Voshell assisted in digging the first grave in Taylorville cemetery.

Surviving are five children: John of Arlington, Mrs. Margaret Smith of Arlington, Mrs. Anna Holroyd of Lamont, Peter of Nevis, Minn., and Eneas of Volga City; thirty-eight grandchildren; thirty-nine great grandchildren, and two great, great grandchildren.