Edmund U. Ketchum 1811-1894

KETCHUM, CURRY, WINTER

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Date: 3/25/2010 at 15:04:54

KETCHUM — In Postville. on Monday
morning, April 16th, 1894, after a
lingering illness. Edmund U. Ketchum,
aged 82 years, 3 months and 10 days.
Edmund R. Ketchman was born in the
city of New York, Dec. 31, 1811. When
about fourteen years old he moved with
his father's family to Orange county,
New York. On Feb. 17, 1834 he married
Miss Jane Curry, of Chester, same
county. Four years later they moved
to Pulaski, Hancock county, Ill., where
they resided for seven years. In 1845
they moved to northern Illinois, and
settled at Half Day, in Lake county,
where on May 6th, 1848, his wife died,
leaving him with seven children, four
sons and three daughters. In Feb..
1849, he married Mrs. Jane Winter, of
Chicago, by whom he had two children,
both daughters. In the fall of 1857 ho
came to Windsor, Fayette county, Iowa.
For the last five years he has been a
resident of this place. During his long
life he has generally enjoyed vigorous
health. On the eighty-second anniversary
of his birthday, Dec. 31. 1893, he
was taken ill, and in spite of physician's
skill and tenderest care of children and
friends he gradually failed till the
morning of April 16, when "he was not
for God took him."
Mr. Ketchum was converted when
about nineteen years old and at once
united with the Methodist Episcopal
Church. For upwards of fifty years he
has been an official member of that
church, and always felt a deep interest
in that church, daily praying for her
prosperity and rejoicing in her progress.
He died in the triumph of the
faith he had so long professed and with
which he has consoled many in the
dying hour. He leaves a widow, 9
children, 46 grand children and 8 great
grand children to mourn his loss and
cherish his memory—63 in all.

Postville Weekly Review - 21 April 1894