Weygant, Jonathan 1813 – 1889

WEYGANT, GINDLEBERGER, JOHNSTON, PARNELL, RIDER

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Date: 11/18/2014 at 13:02:45

Iowa Plain Dealer January 2, 1890

Another Old Settler Gone.

Jonathan Weygant, who was among the earliest settlers of this county, died at his home in Vernon Springs township, last Friday, at the advanced age of seventy-six years. He was born in Pennsylvania, Sept. 25th 1813, moving from there while yet a boy, with his parents to Wayne Co. Ohio, where he lived several years and married Elizabeth GIndleberger.

There was born to them four children, two boys and two girls, two of them still living, Mrs. Mary Johnston and John Weygant, who were here to kindly care for their father in his last sickness. Mr. Weygant moved from Ohio to Indiana, where he lost his wife in 1847. In 1848 he married Isabel Parnell. In this union there were four children born, one of them, Mrs. Lewis Rider of Ainsley, Nebraska, is living. Mr. Wygant{sp} lost his second wife, and very soon after, with five children moved to Howard county, Iowa, and in 1855, settled on the farm and built the house in which he lived until the dread Brights disease took him from us Dec. 27, 1889. He was very patient during his sickness and died in Jesus, having consecrated himself to God only a few months ago.

Our acquaintanc{sp} began with the deceased in 1857, and has pleasantly continued during all the intervening years. In 1859, when we commenced the publication of the PLAIN DEALER, he came forward not only with words of encouragement, but he cheerfully opened his purse yearly in payment therefor. He has been a man of good health till the last few months, his health having been so poor that he failed to cast his vote as he surely would have done for the Democratic cause, could he have come to the polls. He was a noble specimen of an upright man, who dealt justly with his fellow men, trusting all else to his God.