Enoch Beery 1856 - 1922

BEERY, SHORT, RAINES, MIKESELL

Posted By: A.M.W. (email)
Date: 3/12/2006 at 22:46:47

Salem Weekly News 2-16-1922

At his home, one mile west of Salem, on February 6, 1922, occurred the death of Enoch Beery, one of Henry County’s most widely known and best loved citizens.

Mr. Beery was the son of Levi L. and Margaret Short Beery and was born at the old Beery homestead near New London, Iowa on October 5, 1856. On November 22, 1883 he was married to Susan Raines also of New London. To this union three children were born, who with their mother survive. They are Levi, who is in the aerial service at San Antonio, Texas; Floyd R., living near Salem, and Mary H., at home. There are also two grandchildren, Margaret and Harold Beery.

Three sisters and three brothers preceded Mr. Beery in death, those remaining being two sisters, Mrs. Jane Beery Mikesell of Covington, Ohio and Miss Mary Beery of Mt. Pleasant. Many nieces and nephews and other relatives also mourn the loss of this good man.

The deceased was for many years a prominent stock raiser and shipper. He was deeply interested in all public movements which made for the betterment of the community in which he lived and had served two terms as a Representative in the General Assembly of Iowa. He was a member of the Masonic Lodge and of the Modern Woodmen of America, and was a director of the Henry County Farmers’ Mutual Insurance Association at the time of his death. He had previously served for a number of years as Vice-President of the Henry County Farm Bureau and was one of the men who had done so much toward the upbuilding of that institution. In all of these walks of life his loss will be keenly felt.

For about three years his health has been gradually but steadily failing. He was last away from home on Thanksgiving Day when he called at the home of a near neighbor. Since that time he has grown steadily weaker in spite of all that medical assistance and loving hands could do until the end came.

Funeral services were held in the M.E. church Wednesday at 2:00 P.M. conducted by Rev. F. E. Weston of Mt. Pleasant, assisted by Reverends Vincent and McFerran.