Banks, Zaccheus 1822 - 1908

BANKS, PALMER, WINSOR

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Date: 12/6/2006 at 17:08:41

From the Scrapbook of Newspaper Articles by Mrs. Lillian Wheeler

DEATH OF ZACCHEUS BANKS

Another one of this community's oldest and most respected citizens, Z. Banks, passed to his reward on Thursday, April 9, 1908.

The funeral was held at the Congregational church Sunday forenoon, conducted by the pastor, Rev. T. C. Hunt, after which the remains were laid to rest in Riverside Cemetery. Following we give the obituary as read at the service:

Zaccheus Banks was born in Stanwich, Fairfield county, Connecticut, March 8, 1822, and at the age of 18 united with the Congregational Church of that place. He attended Greenwich Academy, walking five miles night and morning in getting his education, and afterward he taught for several years in the vicinity of his native place. Heeding the call of Horacd Greeley to young men to go west, he came to Jamestown, Howard county, Iowa, in 1856, selected his quarter section, a part of section 9, township 99, range 14, which has been his place of residence up to the present time.

He broke a few acres of land, built his log cabin and remained until February, 1857, when he returned east and was married to Rachel M. Palmer, March 23, 1857, at Five Corners, Genoa, Cayuga county, New York.

Returning west immediately he entered his log cabin the 11th of April, and on the next morning commenced family worship, by reading the fifth Psalm,--fify-one years ago this morning. He united with the Congregational church at its organization in 1858 and has been a faithful supporter of the same according to his ability; so regular in his attendance of the Sabbath services that a neighbor said he expected to see Mr. Banks go to church as much as he expected to see the sun shine--a worthy example. He was a kind husband and a loving father whose face we can see no more.

He leaves of near relatives to mourn his loos a wife and three children, Spencer C. Banks, Alpheus P. Banks of Round Grove and Mrs. Edith L. Winsor of Princeton, Minn., two sisters and one brother in Port Chester, New York.