Frederick T. Harman (1839-1913)

HARMAN, PEPPERMAN, SECOR, STONECYPHER

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 11/13/2024 at 13:59:05

From Jewell Record January 1, 1914 (page 1)

F. T. Harman Passes Away.

Fred T. Harman, one of the honored and influential residents of this community, passed peacefully away at his home northeast of Jewell Saturday, December 27th. Funeral services were held from the home Monday, Dec. 29th, at one-thirty o'clock, conducted by Rev. Martin Norstad, and the remains were interred in Evergreen cemetery.

Fred T. Harman was born June 29th, 1839 in the state of Pennsylvania where his childhood days were spent and until he attained his majority. On May 3rd, 1860 he was married to Francis Pepperman and to this union were born six children, Clyde, Elizabeth, Emma, Will, Charley and Sylvester, four of whom survive, Elizabeth having died in infancy and Charley preceding the father three years ago last May.

In 1868 Mr. Harman with his family moved to Wisconsin, returning again to his native stat in 1872, and coming to Iowa in 1876 locating in Tama County, where he continued to reside until 1979 when he moved to what is now his fine farm just north of Jewell in Hamilton County, Iowa, where he has lived ever since.

Three years ago the family celebrated the golden wedding of Mr. and Mrs. Harman at their home, all the children then living being present at the re-union, including Emma (Mrs. Secor), then living at Buffalo Center, Iowa. This daughter now lives at Selma, Alabama, and because of the distance was unable to be present at the funeral.

Besides the wife and children there still survives a brother, J. B., residing in Tama county, Iowa, and a sister, Mrs. Phoebe Stonecypher, of Buffalo Center, Iowa. The former was here with his brother just a few days before his death. The sister was unable to be here at the funeral, being herself an invalid.

Mr. Harman died at his home on the 27th day of December 1913 at the ripe old age of seventy four years, five months, and twenty-eight days, thus terminating the earthly career of a good man, in a large degree, of all the word implies, a loving, conscientious husband and father, always considering the welfare of others paramount to that of his own, a man of character, honest, upright, industrious--a good man. He will be greatly missed by his many friends in this community where he has so well performed his full measure of its progress and development.